"We’ve Been Providing Military Advisors, Internationally, For Over Forty Years."

so, there's this leverage fic, what we owe each other by @trivalentlinks. (it's one of my favorites. eliot/quinn with a solid dash of moreau. highly recommend. but i digress.) and in this fic, there's a running thing about these tunnels under paris. quinn introduces eliot to them and makes him promise not to use them for crime, and then moreau happens, and, well, it's a whole thing.

and then in the first episode of redemption s3, what do we get? the paris catacombs. and I know that the catacombs are not quite the same as the tunnels from the fic, but I still can't help but wonder what it would be like for that eliot to end up in the tunnels again in the context of l:r 20+ years later. there's just. so much potential there. these ponderings are built firmly on the foundations of a 60k au fic and as such will not go anywhere but i'm just hoping someone else may have read this fic too and understand where my mind went.

"Neal plays the tycoon to lure in his victims, and then cons them out of thousands of dollars."

Leverage Redemption S03E06 The Swipe Right Job.

Leverage: Redemption (2021-present) The One Man’s Trash Job (S02E02)

hitter; hacker; grifter; thief; fixer; maker; mastermind

LEVERAGE CREW MEME ↳ @usergif back to cool event: challenge #2 — color

Extremely messy doodle (even for me) but this fic about Circe (I don’t think the author’s on Tumblr so I can’t tag them!) is currently rent-free in my head, and the bit about one of the nymphs getting stuck on the roof was such a funny image that I had to draw it. Poor thing was probably there for hours before Circe found her — so, you know, she’s probably learned a valuable lesson about not climbing on roofs.

Anyway, go read maybe showing one act of kindness leads to kinder souls down the road, it’s such a brilliant exploration of Circe’s character.

Okay, I'm thinking about the Murderbot TV show again, and how I would adapt it, and we're going to be robbed if we get anything less than a cold open to a scene of some obviously cheezy space drama, maybe an Overdramatic Human Woman In Green Facepaint overdramatically sobbing as she confronts a Generic Action Hero like "It's...it's your baby!!!" *cue three different angles of Generic Action Hero's shocked and surprised face* Generic Action Hero opens her mouth to respond, but we don't hear her voice, because her words are drowned out by a sudden roaring sound coming from offscreen. The audience gets jump scared by lashing tentacles that seem to whip across the screen, in front of the window where we were watching the space drama, and the camera zooms out until you see that the window was floating in front of MB's face, as MB stands on the edge of a crater and the survey team pokes around down below. A giant, tentacled space monster is emerging down below, the survey team is screaming, Overse is getting picked up and tossed into the air, on a trajectory heading straight for the monster's gaping jaws...

Everything slows down. The sound mutes. MB swears and launches itself towards the monster. The camera shakes and warnings blare and flash across the screen, but we don't see much of the action, because the camera swings in to focus on the floating window where the space drama (Sanctuary Moon. It's Sanctuary Moon) keeps playing, on mute, while Murderbot's voiceover delivers the line: "I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites..."

okay you know what other random crossover I've been chewing on? leverage x six of crows.

the parallels between Parker and Inej - both in that they have the same skill set of climbing and acrobatics and so on, but also how they're both healing from being used. and how they both have been known to stab creeps. I could see Parker taking Inej under her wing the way she kind of adopted Josie.

Kaz and Nate together could mastermind so hard. but then also... how would the crew, especially Eliot, look at this kid who's so much harder than he should be at that age? what would Nate think of this literal teenager who can mastermind on the same level as him?

Eliot would also see himself in Matthias. being loyal to your country with everything you've got until you're not. the guilt. questioning the beliefs you grew up with. feeling like you've become a monster.

Nina meeting Sophie. they're both so very good at pretending to be other people. Nina learning tricks from Sophie... or can you imagine Sophie if she had tailoring in her arsenal...

Jesper & Wylan mirror Hardison as the heart of the team, so to speak. they'd bond over fabrication and chemistry and caring about people who have been through some shit. also the combined adhd energy of Jesper and Hardison could probably wipe out an entire city.

and then can you imagine both teams on a heist together??

I love Eliot’s hair so much, because it’s so unpractical for his line of work. A buzz cut would be so much better, no hair in your face, nothing for an opponent to grab onto. I strongly believe that Moreau had rules around hair, much like the military and that it was one of the first choices Eliot made after breaking free. That it means a lot to him. Like the first time his hair has grown too long after he leaves, he goes to cut it again and he’s standing in front of the mirror and he suddenly realizes he doesn’t want to, then that he doesn’t have to. Maybe standing in front of that mirror happens earlier and makes him realize he doesn’t want to do any of this anymore.

ATTENTION

If you see this you are OBLIGATED to reblog w/ the song currently stuck in your head :)

TEASER: Go To War | Leverage Team Vid

I haven't worked on my music videos in ages, but I've been thinking about this one lately. So here, have a lil teaser of a project that will come to fruition one day!

Song: Go To War by Nothing More

Edit: almost forgot the youtube link. Click here!