#Archie Leach

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I think soooooo much about how Archie only took on a real father role for Parker when she didn't need him anymore. When she was a child who actually needed a safe and loving, or at least stable, adult in her life, he treated her like a dog who had to be kept chained up in the backyard.

But when she was all grown up, with an actual family who loved her as she was and doing the work to help her heal and trust them, Archie reached out to be her actual father, when she didn't actually need him and he didn't have to risk anything.

The fact that she VALIDATED him treating her like that just breaks my heart. She deserved so much better.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

RIP Richard Chamberlain

March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025

[scotchiegirl]

Tossing around a Leverage au where Leverage Inc. is just a little bit more... legitimate.

Hardison's good at what he does, after all. He's the best, and he regularly makes covers just a little bit too good. It takes a few months before the others realize that not only have they got unbreakable aliases, they have clean original personas. There's suddenly no illegal history attached to Eliot Spencer's name, he's a security consultant. Sophie Deveraux is an acknowledged art aficionado and collector. Parker Leverage is the granddaughter and heir of Harlan Leverage III, stepping into her own. Nathan Ford is current CEO of the consulting company after proving himself by aiding in the arrest and trial of Victor Dubenich. And Alec Hardison? Well, he's tech support. No illegal hacking required.

Nate has the luck of the devil and an angel on both shoulders, things just come up roses for him, no matter what he lays his hands on. Nine months into running Leverage Consulting, he's approached by the FBI. There's something they can't quite get at, and sources pinned Nathan Ford and his team at the home of the Mascones before their fall. Taggert and McSweeten are good at their jobs for a change and notified their handlers of the strange group of people that helped them while claiming to be FBI. Nathan Ford is offered a deal. Work with the FBI with immunity and a blind eye turned to the alternate sources of revenue coming in. Leverage Inc. will remain completely under his control, but as consultants doing occasional work for the FBI. Nathan agrees on one condition: the FBI also turns a blind eye to anything weird that happens with Blackwell at IYS. Terms are set and agreed upon.

Leverage Inc. is now legitimate thieves. Taggert and McSweeten are their liaisons in the company and join them on occasional heists. As things go on, more thieves get a taste of helping without having to be afraid of being caught. Tara joins as a consultant to the consulting company. Quinn resists but eventually calls in Eliot's favor to say he was working with Leverage to get him out of a tough legal spot. Cha0s hisses like a feral cat and refuses to go anywhere near respectability. Archie gets to tell his family about his "secret past" working with the government and Parker gets to meet her adoptive siblings. They don't understand each other but Parker teaches her nieces and nephews to pick locks and helps them sneak out of the house without being noticed.

When Nate steps down he officially passes on CEO status to Parker, as is her right as heir. There's an intern section where kids with promise get to train under mentors to make more teams for continuing the good work of helping people, one case at a time.

(It's just a thought, and it came to me while thinking about how Nate and Sophie's wedding would look as a corporate event for Leverage Inc. and just... yeah. No thoughts just vibes right now but if anyone wants to take it and run with it/write with it, just let me know. Also I do understand that this would fundamentally change Leverage as we know it, I just wanted to get this out there as a sandbox au idea. Just What If, I don't actually think this is how Leverage should have been done.)

[independent-fics]

Like Father(s), Like Daughter

Leverage (2008-2012)

2x13 The Future Job

4x18 The Last Dam Job

3x13 The Morning After Job

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 3x3 - "The Inside Job"

[leverage-ot3]

the inside job is so real bc nate and eliot meet archie and they are on the absolute same page that it is on SIGHT with him

literally the only reason he didn’t end up with like broken knees in a damp, dark back alley somewhere is because they know that despite parker’s messed up relationship with him, it would make her sad

parker being sad is not allowed if they can help it

so instead, when parker is off doing her occasional solo heist for fun, the rest of the team plots his demise if he ever hurts parker again

💖 love is stored in planning bodily harm of those that hurt the people you love 💖

(post inspired by someone reblogging my parker-archie fucked up relationship post)

[weepingfireflies]

"Of course, I couldn't take Parker home with me and raise her like a normal child. She wouldn't fit in with my normal family." Killing this man with hammers 🔨🔨🔨🔨

[faorism]

inspired by marvel fandoms's treament of howard stark, i propose the ao3 tag Archie Leach's A+ Mentoring for anyone addressing how shitty of a "father" figure he is to parker. srsly fuck that old man (derogatory).

[thieves-never-say-die]

There are a lot of bad parental figures to go around in Leverage, but I want to know who you consider The Worst

This could be the person you think was objectively the worst one at parenting, or the one you have the most fun tearing apart, or the one you just can’t stop thinking of because they sucked

(please put your reasoning in the notes I'm curious(

[leverageclips]

The Great Leverage Popularity Contest

Remember that this is a popularity poll! Vote for your favorite character regardless of why, just follow your heart!

[inthemoodforsomepretzels]

“i wouldn’t fit in with the real family”

“you didn’t need it anyway. you went out and found your own” SHUT UP SHUT UP

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Those guys weren't with you?" "Don't be ridiculous. They're here to make sure I get the job done. I'm their hostage. Barely got away from them long enough to call you."

Leverage S03E03 The Inside Job.

[amazzyblaze]

Thinking about an alternate version of "The Last Dam Job" where Archie kinda sorta murders Chaos with his stiletto blade cane and blows the whole job

[insanity-keeps-things-fun]

You know what I'd love to see? I'd love to see an episode of leverage redeption, where one of Archie's kids or grandkids make an appearance. To find out that Parker's maintained a relationship with Archie's family, that she's recognised as part of that family. Partly because I want Parker to have as much family as possible; and partly because I want it to be shown that Archie was wrong. That if given a chance, they would have demonstrated the love and support she deserved in all her (traumatised autistic) Parker glory.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Archie may have been a shitty father figure to Parker, but you can't deny his influence...

4x18 - "The Last Dam Job"

2x1 - "The Beantown Bailout Job"

2x9 - "The Lost Heir Job"

3x2 - "The Reunion Job"

3x13 - "The Morning After Job"

3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"

1x9 - "The Stork Job"

[leverage-ot3]

parker in the inside job is so real to me

parker, who has had a very complicated relationship with the concept of ‘family’, who blew up her abusive foster parent’s house, who bounced around the foster system before ultimately making a run for it

who was caught pick pocketing a world-renowned thief and taken in under his wing where he molded her into the best thief that ever existed, where he then ‘released her into the world’

archie took her in, yes, but he didn’t really take her in. he kept her at arm’s length, letting her live in empty warehouses and learning how to pick locks and beat security systems instead of going to school or learning what familial love was

he raised her, but only barely

and leverage did a great job of adding subtleties to her to have her come off as neurodivergent, most likely autistic. she was never what society would deem as ‘normal’, especially back then. and then archie tells nate to his face that she would never fit in, not anywhere

(and nate is mad. eliot is mad. rightfully so.)

parker is different from most people, thinks differently and acts differently. but that’s not wrong, and not her fault. but archie couldn’t see past that and take her in as she truly was, not when he had an ‘actual’ family at home. she wouldn’t fit in and that was something he wasn’t willing to risk, try or explain

and then archie calls parker asking for her thoughts on the steranko situation and she doesn’t even hesitate because his family is on the line. his real family. and he’s her father in a way no one had ever been before and looked after her in the only way she knew how and that meant something to her and she couldn’t have something like that happen to him

not on her watch