#quinn leverage

[jourke-rourke]

Leverage (2008) // Quinn moments [S01xE12, S04xE18]

[kayvsworld]

barbie poster eliot & quinn for @onyxbird! thanks for commissioning me 🩷💙

[aardvaark]

requirements for being a good hitter in the leverageverse:

have long hair (eliot, quinn, roper, mikel dayan)

share your name with a poet (t. s. eliot, percy shelley)

taunt and condescend your opponents in the middle of a possibly life-or-death fight

maybe a little bit of knowing how to fight or whatever. pretty sure the above stuff is more important tho <3

[wild-fleurs]

The last damn job discussion gives me family dinner vibes, Parker hanging out with the pseudo father/grandfather figure, Eliot & Hardison both have friends over & are annoying each other

Quinn asking ‘can I hit him’ & Eliot being like see the little brother is annoying hahaha

Nate laying down the rules is fatherly & Sophie diffusing a situation is motherly (admittedly a usual family dinner from my experience doesn’t involve the grandfather figure threatening violence against a guest but Chaos did try & hit on Parker so while that’s a brothers friend move it’s still taster/stiletto cane worthy too haha)

[vargamornight]

if eliot had stayed in the military, or even gone into private security instead of, uh, special acquisitions, warehouse 13 definitely would have recruited him. and jacob still would have been offered a position with the library. and then, because of the way that things are, they would have crossed paths attempting to retrieve the same artifact, and eliot’s warehouse partner (quinn) and jacob’s guardian (eve) would both have gotten to meet the twin. and there would be so much razzing on all sides, especially about the hair

[werewolfsmile]

re: "All I’m saying is the fact that someone isn’t talking to me about Eliot Spencer every second of every day is very unfair and borderline illegal." & tags - if you want to, can you elaborate on your werewolf!eliot ideas?? i’d like to hear about it!! if not all good tho :)

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! Yes I would love to elaborate! (buckle up because i have Thoughts)

(wow this really got away from me so uhhh .... warning for 2k of ranting about Eliot as a werewolf?? list of headcanons under the cut)

From the moment I first met Eliot Spencer, I knew he was werewolf-coded. Aside from his insanely fantastic fighting abilities and the absurd amount of punishment he can take, there are many other factors that contribute to his werewolf status.

Eliot needs a pack Our boy is out here working on his own for years and look at all the good it did him! None! He carries severe trauma from his family life because he blames himself for how it all went down and doesn't think he'll be welcomed back. Plus something probably happened during his military days or early PMC days to put him off working with others. Could have been the pain of losing people all the time, could have been something more. Either way, Eliot working on his own is a defence mechanism - but a self-destructive one.

Wolves thrive in packs - like duh, they're pack animals. As my username suggests, I'm into werewolves and, by extension, wolves. I've done research for my own werewolf novels in the past, so I know that in an average wolf pack, each pack member will have physical contact with the other pack members on the regular. Like, several times an hour! (gosh if I can find the research paper this info came from I'll link it but honestly it's been years) That's a serious level of physical contact required to keep the emotional bonds of the pack healthy!

Flick back to Eliot. He loves to fight, he loves the violence and the pain, yes. He hates the killing and the blood on his hands. He actually tries to leave the assassin world behind after he meets Toby (which is before he meets Moreau, as per early dialogue in The French Connection Job). He bonds quickly with Toby. Show Eliot a little love and care and he's yours for life! He moves onto retrieval work, then somehow ends up working for Moreau.

Now, when we see Eliot and Moreau in The Big Bang Job, Moreau says, "You work alone." Which means that Eliot had that reputation when he came to Moreau. He probably only took contracts to start off with. But he accepted job after job from Moreau and was so good that he was highly respect and it's inferred he ended up as Moreau's top bodyguard/assassin. Why the hell would Eliot end up that close to a man who brings out all the worst in him? Because Eliot's a werewolf and no matter how toxic, Moreau fulfills the need for a pack bond that he's been missing all this time.

Fast forward to Eliot meeting the rest of the Leverage team. One job only - my ass. He saves Hardison's life after Hardison brought a gun to their little meeting - and we all know how Eliot feels about guns.

Wolves are designed to live and operate in packs. Eliot says it's one job only but is bonding with them all from the get-go. Werewolf trait confirmed.

Eliot needs physical touch Now, I know what you're thinking. Eliot canonically avoids physical contact with the team. He refuses hugs, especially from Hardison, growls at Parker poking his bruises (don't get me started on the growls), and shoves people (ahem Parker) out of his personal space. So why would he do all this if he needs physical touch??

Because he's one gigantic ball of angst and self-loathing and guilt.

Eliot doesn't think he deserves forgiveness or love or family, etc. That is a whole other rant, but he denies himself the physical contact he needs with others as a way of punishing himself.

However, as the series progresses, we see him become more comfortable with physical contact! He hugs Hardison several times, he doesn't move away from Parker, etc. Why? Because he's bonded with this team (ahem pack) and there's only so much he can suppress his instincts. The more time he spends with them, the more naturally the contact flows.

Eliot needs to protect others Whenever we get a scene of the team walking as a group, where is Eliot positioned 90% of the time?? That's right, at the back of the group. He lets the others walk in pairs and falls back to bring up the rear. He's keeping them all in his line of sight and constantly scanning for threats ahead, along with protecting the team from any rear attacks. It makes sense for him to do this given his military background, but it also makes sense for a werewolf to do this.

He's the only werewolf in the team. His instincts revolve around keeping the pack safe and protected, so he does that in the best way he knows how.

Not to mention how feral gets over kids!!

Wolf life is all about the pack and the family structure. Pups are integral to the pack's survival and future. Eliot doesn't have kids of his own. But that doesn't stop his instincts from blaring every time he interacts with a kid, be it on the con or off. He takes time out every time to help that kid in an attempt to calm the raging storm of instincts inside his body.

Eliot needs to feed others It's another werewolf instinct that rears its head when they're in the safety of their headquarters (ahem den). Protecting the team/pack from physical threats is just one aspect of taking care of them. Feeding them is the other major one.

None of these idiots can cook to save their lives - except Nate, but he's also drowning his liver 90% of the time, so Eliot has to compensate for that, too. The team can't operate at full capacity if they're not consuming good nutrition. So Eliot makes sure to feed them.

His humanity recognises that these are independent people - coworkers - and he can't control every meal of every day. But he can cook for them, once a week or once a job, which is just enough to satisfy his instincts that he's doing his part to care for them. Plus they love his cooking, and the praise he gets from it is an unexpected but pleasant bonus.

Eliot and team sports/kitchens This ties in with my first point about Eliot needing a pack, but all the times we see Eliot go super hard and get absorbed in the role he's playing are when he's on a team sport or he's in the kitchen. Both of these fulfill super important instincts for him - being in a team/pack and providing food for others.

Think about The Tap-Out Job. Eliot's playing a fighter but he's not pretending to be on a team. He doesn't get over-invested in the role. But what about when he's a baseball player? A hockey player? He falls into those roles hard because he's working with another team again, and this little werewolf is built for that environment. Same in The French Connection: the kitchen becomes his den, the students are his pack mates, and he goes hard at investing in them and protecting them. Never mind the personal aspect of Toby.

Same for episodes like The Fairy Godparents Job when we get a scene of Eliot teaching a bunch of girls self-defence. Team setting + protecting kids = happy werewolf instincts.

So, werewolf headcanons? I have a lot of different origin theories but the main one I like for Eliot is:

he became a werewolf either for a covert military op, or was bitten by Moreau (choose your own angst flavour)

if it was for the military, they were trying to engineer supersoldiers and he was deemed a failure; he has werewolf instincts all the time but only has enhanced strength, healing, etc on full moons

if it was bitten by Moreau, there's a psychic-style bond linking them, which is why he was so loyal to Moreau for so long, and also why he is so reluctant to go after Moreau

(wow this is too different theories already and i said this was my 'main one' whoops)

Eliot can only shift easily on the full moon; shifting outside of a full moon can only be caused by extreme stress and is ridiculously painful

he suffers an insanely high prey drive all the time and is so strict about his control because he doesn't actually wanna rip out the throat of Random Guard #3

he used to chain himself up for full moons so he didn't hurt anyone, but since the team found out about him, Hardison and Parker have taken it upon themselves to 'puppy-sit' him every full moon

this involves no chains but an obscene amount of dog chew toys. Eliot is never impressed. He also never chases or chews the toys. The video evidence Hardison has was obviously doctored.

Hardison and Parker found out the truth when a con went sideways and Eliot was trapped in a room with them during the full moon

he was terrified he was going to kill them - or worse, bite them - but his instincts recognised them as pack so instead he just tried to wrestle with them all night

Hardison had a major freak out when he discovered Eliot was a werewolf - it's one thing to be obsessed with sci-fi/fantasy, it's another thing entirely to see your best friend transform before your eyes

Parker was not even remotely phased, being all like, "pfft of course werewolves are real, I thought you knew that Hardison, you talk about your elves and orcs all the time!"

"Woman that is completely different and you know it!"

"What else do you think is fake? The tooth fairy?? Ha!"

Eliot is Done With Their Shenanigans

Parker only ever refers to Eliot as Sparky when he's in his wolf form

Sophie didn't actually know about werewolves before the reveal but she pretends that she did

Nate knew about werewolves before Eliot, he just chooses to pretend that they're Not A Thing

werewolves generally don't make good hitters, because the constant exposure to violence ramps up their hunting instincts aka they find it hard not to kill

of course, this doesn't matter if you're someone like Moreau who specifically wants killing machines and thus turns his top hitters into werewolves, to ensure loyalty and enhance his strength

the only other werewolf hitter not under Moreau's control that Eliot knows is Quinn, who most certainly did not pull his werewolf strength punches when they tousled in The First David Job

Quinn doesn't have a pack (werewolf or otherwise) and genuinely doesn't seem phased by this, which pisses off Eliot to no end

however, after they work together in The Last Dam Job, Quinn deems himself Eliot's Best Werewolf Bud and keeps popping up randomly to hang out on full moons, etc

Parker and Hardison are a bit weirded out (and a little jealous) of Quinn's attention initially, but soon get over that when they discover that two werewolves on a full moon absolutely play for hours like 6 month old puppies - especially with the tug rope

Eliot is Extremely Susceptible to belly rubs even in his human form, which is half the reason he pushes people out of his personal space a lot - his reputation would never survive anyone finding out

of course the entire team figures it out and take to ambushing him with belly rubs whenever he's being stubborn or annoying

belly rubs are also the only way he will relax enough when he's injured so they can treat his wounds

despite the incessant dog jokes, the ever-growing pile of dog toys, and the bowls labelled with "Sparky" and cartoon bone symbols ... Eliot absolutely adores the pack he's found himself in and wouldn't change them for the world

One of these days I will sit down and write a thousand fics for werewolf!Eliot! Till then, I'll just keep churning out the headcanons ;)

[fredlikesrats]

i should be less predictable, but every time i'm reading a fic and Eliot calls Quinn 'huckleberry', well of course i can't control my face. and i do a little clap.

[kiss-marry-kill-polls]

"put the pic of him in handcuffs. it'll blow their minds. he's like a critter. a creature. blonde and gorgeous. he comes with a free ponytail for tugging"

[faorism]

a leverage rarepair gifted to @icestar663 for the @leverage-secret-santa-exchange 2023! also available on ao3

[wolves-in-the-world]

With the aim of joyful and indiscriminate celebration, may I present all the Mr Quinn (Leverage) artworks I'm aware of, collected by @darkfinch and myself!

Ideally this would in fact be everything (except for one that the artist took down, because it seems fair to respect that), but I came to the fandom late and haven't paid much attention this past year, so it's gonna be missing things. Feel free to add them on if you know them!

Arranged alphabetically by artist, and with my apologies for the descriptions:

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Besuited bastard man drinking a cup of tea by @buttercookie-art

Quinn taking a nap on Eliot by @buttercookie-art

Three pieces for the Last Dam Job plane ride by @buttercookie-art, with one of them - Quinn napping on Eliot's shoulder - also posted seperately

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Sleepy morning curly hair hitters by @creepyspytruck

Small Quinn learning from his Uncle Rabbit (darkfinch's OC) by @creepyspytruck

Quinn trapping Eliot while they spar, based on a trivalentlinks fic, by @creepyspytruck

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Weird little man in a thrift store frilly shirt by @faorism

Tidings of a peaceful day (Quinn/McSweeten) [on Ao3] by @faorism

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If Mr Quinn was the sniper in The Rundown Job by @kayvsdoodles

Fixing a then-notable lack of Quinn fanart by @kayvsdoodles

Special guy in a party hat by @kayvsdoodles

Small Quinn reading a novel by @kayvsdoodles

Sitting on Eliot to keep him from injuring himself further by @kayvsdoodles

Mr Quinn versus Eliot's weird roommate in sweatpants (featuring tattoos) by @kayvsdoodles

Just a guy doing classic guy things (he's here to drink tea and work his job and he's just about finished his tea) by @kayvsdoodles

Doodles of a guy by @kayvsdoodles

Bastard gets a haircut by @kayvsdoodles

Two squishy baby faces and a tired old guy (a small Quinn and darkfinch's OCs Masha and Rabbit) by @kayvsdoodles

Eliot does everything & He's just Quinn by @kayvsdoodles & Beverage boys in the same style

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Mr Quinn supporting a bloody and bleeding Eliot by @lemissingmask

Last Dam Job AU (angst warning), with Quinn and Eliot and Sophie by @lemissingmask

First aid and Eliot whump, four pieces inpired by a fic, by @lemissingmask

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Eliot never told anyone about Moreau... sober by @party-gilmore

Weekend at Eliot's (corpse warning) by @party-gilmore

Mr Quinntacles by @party-gilmore

Leverage S04E18 - The Last Dam Job ENG SUB (7/8) 240p by @party-gilmore

Cozy Quinn in his Leverage International team sweater by @party-gilmore

90's anime Quinn face by @party-gilmore

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"Don't" (that's it, that's the ship) by @starling-dust

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Quinn and Eliot, security knife sketch by @trivalentlinks

Mr Quinn and Pancake the cat by @trivalentlinks

Trap your hitter to keep him from finding more trouble by @trivalentlinks

Eliot braiding Quinn's hair by @trivalentlinks

Norway Christmas scene (nsfw) from a divineprojectzero Quinn/Eliot fic, by @trivalentlinks

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That's forty artworks, and an incredible treasure. My thanks to the artists, commissioners, encouragers, and enjoyers all!

[are-they-t4t]

Eliot Spencer (trans man) + Mr. Quinn (he/him nonbinary) [Leverage]

No propaganda

[leverage-ot3]

Reblogging with more additions because this fandom is hilarious (copy-pasting because I'm on my computer and it makes me twitch when I reblog the same post 5 times in a row)

#jvn would be so happy with his hair#I wanna see what havoc karamo would wreak#because either he makes everyone cry OR he gets eliot to admit he's been in a throuple for 10+ years without actively admitting it#even to himself#also wanna see him and antoni either be bffs or get into a shouting match over something stupid#side plot where Hardison spends the entire time trying to stay one step ahead of Bobby and his team so they don't find all the crime stuff#like they sent them to a random safe house and then Parker was like: oh the one I stored all the gold?#and Eliot is like dammit hardison what if they find all the hidden knives

tags via @innytoes

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Sterling's daughter sees the episode.

Half of Eliot's exes see the episode.

In prison, the Butcher of Kiev sees the episode.

Quinn gets nominated for the next season and is pretty sure he knows who did it.

In an even prisonier prison, Colin Mockery Mason sees the episode and after the other inmates watch him spend the entire time screaming and freaking out, figure out how to make it play at random wherever he is, because he has that kind of effect on people.

response from @digitaldiscipline

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THIS!!! PLEASE THIS!!! Because all I can see in my head is Eliot’s persona being the most fucking INSANE basket case the guys have ever seen, which of course leads to chaos, but we also see the actual Eliot poke through in the randomest fucking places because he just. Forgets/gets frustrated. Which knocks the Fab 5 WILDLY off kilter. I would also LOVE to see JVN try to convince that man to cut his hair. Imagine Antoni trying to teach this man how to cook. Eliot walks into this thinking he’s gonna never see these people after whatever con he and the crew are pulling then walks out with 5 new best friends a la Hurley after having the most INTENSE identity crisis.

……I may or may not write something, thank you OP for opening my eyes to the possibilities

response from @kyogre20

Look, the new season of Queer Eye is in New Orleans. Leverage: Redemption is based in New Orleans. Where's my "the crew needs to pull a heist without being spotted in the background of a Queer Eye episode" fic?

(Convo w/ sister:

"Eliot's most recent persona gets nominated!"

"Hardison nominates Eliot as a prank?"

"Breanna nominates Eliot as a prank!"

"Harry nominates Eliot sincerely and everyone else goes along with it as a prank.")

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x18- "The Last Dam Job"

[wild-fleurs]

My wish list for Leverage Redemption as I haven’t seen it yet (I’m up to The Toy Job so pretty soon)

Anything I don’t get in Redemption season 1 & 2 I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the new season 3

See Hurley & Peggy again (even if the show doesn’t explicitly state they’re together co raising her cats & Pedro & possibly married I will still believe it because I love them!)

Trevor from Hot Potato job as a teen con artist or running Leverage Jr hahaha

An episode in honour of the actor who played Archie - maybe the team have to help his daughter somehow

Quinn back for an episode at some point

Sterling back for an episode - each season if possible but without Nate maybe he doesn’t work as much as a character so at least once

Maggie seen (are she & Sophie BFFs? I hope so) I could have sworn she was a once a season character but she’s not so that’s surprising

Tara mention or return for an episode

Parker uses Alice White as an alias again

Zachary (Sophie’s reoccurring student) returns or possibly as he promised her wins an Oscar & thanks her & refers to his Oscar as a Devereaux

Liam the Cautious Mobster back

Agent McSweeten back & Parker as Agent Hagen can’t believe I forgot him

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: Leverage

Sample Size: 6,966 stories

Source: AO3

[thebiballerina]

I keep a bubble wand in my purse. This post was made for me specifically, I think. Bubbles are amazing and should be encouraged at all times. Adulthood is just the state of being able to purchase as much bubble-related paraphernalia as one likes.

Also, hitters probably know how to judge wind speed and direction for less savory purposes. They should get the chance to apply that to having fun instead. And targeting bubble trajectories at each other (and eventually the rest of the team).

cracky quinn thought that I don't remember if i've shared before: quinn going out for a smoke break while hanging out with eliot and/or the team,

except eliot knows that quinn doesnt smoke, and he also doesn't trust quinn yet, so he follows quinn to see what he's actually up to,

and finds quinn blowing bubbles with a little bubble wand

(he had never blown bubbles before but recently did a job at a wedding with guests blowing bubbles at the end during the send-off and he found it fascinating, so now he's making up for lost bubble-blowing time)

(also quinn offers eliot his own little vial of bubble liquid in the exact same way someone would offer a cigarette)