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Leverage + Marvel? Leverage in the Marvel universe kinda thing?

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Hardison has a rule that he will never, ever hack into any Stark Industries servers. He’s heard enough horror stories, thank you kindly. The only person who he knows of who ever got anywhere is this person with the handle J.A.R.V.I.S., but  he doesn’t know if that’s a rumour or not.

Nate knows every piece of art in the Stark-Potts collection and what it’s worth. He has retrieved at least four pieces. Pepper knows him by name. When he loses his job and Sterling takes over, Tony is like: why can’t we have the other one back? He’s an alcoholic? SO? I HAVE A BAR. HE CAN DRINK HERE. I DON’T LIKE THIS NEW ONE PEP.

Special agents Thomas and Hagen get assigned to SHIELD as FBI liaisons. SHIELD totally knows Parker and Hardison aren’t really FBI, but they know about Leverage and are like: eh, it’s fine, just keep them away from any alien stuff and don’t let them steal anything. 

(Also, I’m not saying Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past but Melinda May and Eliot may have had a fling in the past.)

Sophie once dated Tony Stark for a weekend. She wasn’t even trying to con him, she just saw an opportunity while conning someone else and was like: you only live once. She won’t tell anyone if she slept with him or not, just smiles mysteriously and says ‘he was a perfect gentleman… until I asked him not to be’. It drives Nate insane. (What she means is they went to get greasy burgers at an all-night diner after a gala, in their fancy clothes.)

Parker likes watching videos of Black Widow and seeing if she can replicate her moves. Eliot may have been a Very Willing Test Subject for the Death By Thighs move.

There is also a week where she decides she wants to be like Hawkeye. Nate has to ban sucker darts and toy bows before Eliot murders her. Or Sophie. Or Nate himself. Hardison is immune and probably builds her a sucker dart compound bow with laser guide.

Nate has Complicated Feelings about Captain America being back because Sam used to love the comics and he’s not sure if this guy is the real deal and will live up to the hero his son worshipped. 

Nate gets over himself pretty quickly when he sees Steve Rogers cuss out a Fox reporter who tried to stop him on the street to get him to condemn vaccines and universal health care. They watch the 25 minute lecture-rant at least three times as a team. Nate thinks he’d like to buy Captain America a drink.

Nobody mention the similarities between Eliot Spencer and Bucky Barnes, it will not end well. 

Especially when one time, Captain America and his buddy The Falcon showed up because they got a tip Bucky was ‘working at a brewpub in Portland’ and Eliot had to let him down that sorry, he was the only long-haired murderfaced assassin at this pub. He offered them dinner on the house and very manfully made it all the way to the back of the kitchen before doing a little freak out fanboy dance because he shook Captain America’s hand, Hardison, oh my god I’m going to feed him so much chili.

They have to distract Parker from trying to steal Sam’s wings. And make her give back Steve’s wallet. Twice.

The week Wakanda made itself known to the world is the week Hardison lost the ability to speak in anything other than high pitched squeaks of delight and awe. (Hardison literally faints when his online gaming buddy shows up at the brewpub like: what up, Hardison, guess who’s actually the princess of Wakanda and has a badass invisible ship.)

Watching the Roshomon Job…

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And while I fully support the headcanon that Hardison and Parker were just f*cking with Sophie about her accent because their boyfriend was (since we know that all of them are very familiar with English accents for jobs), I just realized why Eliot, Mr. “It’s a Very Distinctive [EVERYTHING]”, made Sophie a Cockney floozy in his story.

It’s because of Nate.

Eliot is definitely a charmer, and Nate’s fully aware of that.  But Eliot respects Nate and his boundaries.  Remember the look on Eliot’s face when he realized in The First David Job that the girl he was flirting with was Maggie, Nate’s wife?  He was visibly flustered.  And everyone in the group knows that Nate and Sophie are involved (in a complicated relationship, but together, nonetheless).  Nate was calm about Sophie flirting with “Dr. Abernathy” because it was some random guy she flirted with once as part of her cover and never saw again.  Then, suddenly Dr. Abernathy became the same guy that they’ve been working with for three years– the younger, more charming guy that’s arguably more stable.  Yeah…that’s awkward.

So what does Eliot do?  He turns Sophie’s part on its ear.  Instead of flirtatious banter with a socialite (which it no doubt was), he alters his memory to make Sophie come on strong with a ridiculous accent.  The whole story is to put Nate at ease, because while it’s obviously not what happened, Eliot’s putting visible space between himself and Sophie, both then and now.

Now, obviously his partners did not catch on to what the hell was going on.  All Hardison saw was Eliot (and then Sophie) mocking each other’s accents, and who wouldn’t want in on that?  So he goes with Lord of the Rings, because hell yeah!  And since they probably were flirting (and Hardison was a horny nineteen-year old geek), he ups the sexual tension between them at the party to mess with them both.  Parker, meanwhile, has no idea what’s going on in the present, but I doubt she was actually paying any attention to what anyone was saying at the party– she was playing the part of The Scenery.  But if everyone else is making Sophie sound ridiculous, she wants in, too.  

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dumbledorably:

black panther au where everything is the same but instead of martin freeman it’s alec hardison pretending to be cia for a con

Alec “I wish I’d played more flight simulators” Hardison trying to shoot down the other planes in Shuri’s simulator and freaking out about it.

The rest of the team getting worried when he disappears and when they find out that Killmonger has taken over Wakanda they team up with T’Challa and are like “let’s go steal a throne.”

Hardison doing the Wakanda Forever salute ❤

(ideally I’d watch the movie ten more times because my memory is garbage except for memes, but oh well.)

1. Nakia can tell there’s something off about this “CIA agent” right away. Something about the way he looks at T’Challa. CIA has a very distinctive look toward him. This guy is something else. She doesn’t tell the others, though; he’s not going to get the artifact, no matter who he is.

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So another thing that I adore about Leverage. Each character duo understands each other in a way I don’t think they do with anyone else. They each have a very specific dynamic. Sophie and Eliot. Eliot and Parker. Parker and Hardison. Eliot and Nate. Nate and Sophie. They each have very unique life experiences but each pair has a perspective that syncs up sometimes. And everyone gets scenes together to show that off. Sophie and Eliot in the Tap Out Job. Eliot and Parker in The Long Way Down Job. Parker and Hardison in too many to name. Eliot and Nate in Season 4 et al. For every scene that the crew spends talking about how they don’t understand each other, there’s a scene showing that there’s always someone who does understand that very specific feeling or action. Instead of them all sharing a similar dynamic because they all have similar perspectives, sometimes they don’t. Hardison loves Parker, and supports her, and understands parts of her no one else does. But Parker and Eliot also understand parts of each other that Hardison never will. And that’s realistic. And that’s just one example. Each duo has that. And it makes for beautiful, unique interactions