I love that Hardison’s very obvious feelings for Parker are accompanied by unwavering patience.
Like, I think back to him referring to Parker’s “sexiness” to Nate in the SECOND EPISODE of the series and how he says “just between us”, like he’s not going to shower her with adoration and sweet nothings at almost every turn between them, I think about how he tells her that he likes how she turned out when she’s crying her eyes out, broken, knowing she’s different and weird and possibly even a lost cause at this point, I think about how from the moment he met her, he was already interested and how her quirks – while sometimes frustrating – never pushed/scared him away, I think about how he spends three seasons being a major leg and arm and lung in her growing support system and when she finally DOES tell him that she’s been having “feelings [for pretzels]”, he just smiles even though his heart is probably in his throat at this overwhelming progress they’ve made and he sits down and tells her kindly, lovingly, that they’re there when she’s ready to have them.
He will always be there when she is ready for him.
Tag: parker
I love this scene. Eliot’s hug is such a bro “off to work honey, see you at dinner” and he just does it automatically
Thoughts on the Ladies of Leverage
You’ve got Sophie, whose answer to the “Madonna/Whore Complex” seems to be “who says you have to pick one?” (Okay, I’m being facetious, but still – Femme Fatale Team Mom.)
And then there’s Parker, who kind of nopes out of gendered tropes altogether. She even manages to be a pretty young neurodivergent-as-hell woman in modern genre fiction without being a manic pixie dream girl or an Ophelia-waif.
It’s not just that both Eliot and Parker know exactly what the other is thinking (tho I love it because Parker is not the most sympathetic person but she always seems to know what Nate and Eliot are thinking because the three of them are the ones who more easily jump into each other’s ruthless wavelenght and know what the other is up to without having to talk about it and it’s perfect? gun, trigger and bullet.) but the fact that this OT3 works as the most perfectly intertwined unit and both Eliot and Parker know that if that doesn’t work they’re probably going to die so they just nod at each other and do what they have to do because that’s what makes them them, but they’re not who they used to be either (“we change together”) so she kisses Hardison first even if she doesn’t believe in luck, and Eliot allows himself looking at them one last time before letting Parker go and save the world (in this show the girls are the ones who ultimately save the day while the boys cover their back and are ridiculously affected by them! BEAUTIFUL) while he does his thing wich is protecting them with his life until the last moment. Is there a way to get Leverage feelings out of one’s system?
No, you can never get leverage feelings out of your system
Why would you want to?
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