#mikel dayan

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 2x7 - "The Two Live Crew Job"

[my-beloved-lakes]

Leverage + text post: favorite side character addition

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

The fight that never was.

Leverage S02E07 The Two Live Crew Job.

[amazzyblaze]

"The Two Live Crew Job" doodles

[uss-genderprise]

where my mikel/eliot shippers at

[sheepinawolfsfur]

When I say hitter sandwich I mean I want to be flattened between these two like a pancake. I stumble out of this (not by choice) and Hardison asks me why I'm two-dimensional

[irritablegallowglass]

Eliot Spencer in Every Episode - The Two Live Crew Job (S02E07)

Bonus: Look it's for Science. Honest😏

[erodingsinner]

actually can Mikel Dayan come back to kick Eliot's ass in Redemption S3. Can she come back please @ John Rogers you got Keith David and Levar Burton on your show I'm sure you can get her !!!

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Just to confirm for people, they did kiss.

he's fighting a beautiful buff lady. her shirt gets ripped and she's left in her slutty little tank top. "come on," you think. "why is the woman always wearing sexier things than her male counterparts." but fear not. now HE takes off his shirt and he's left in HIS slutty little tank top. equality. and then they kiss

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 2x7 - "The Two Live Crew Job"

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"I can top that."

Leverage S02E07 The Two Live Crew Job.

[united-under-skyfall]

leverage is so fucking funny. man manages to find the most mentally ill and neurodivergent group of thieves on the market + an even more mentally ill guy whose literal job description was trying to chase all of them, and forces them into a found family speed-run by trying to blow them all up. they lowkey stage a full fucking country wide coup and are like eh 🤷 just another wednesday. this might be a fun place to vacation tho i guess. sophie shows up to her own funeral twice. they're so good at convincing people of their shit that they make a guy's body start reacting to an illness he doesn't have because it isn't real. go completely out on a limb and basically hand this one guy a new password for his computer so they can get into it and he goes with it. parker and hardison have straight up just "fake it 'till you make it"d into the fbi without even attempting to cover their tracks beyond just These Two Guys. half their clients never asked to be their clients and don't know they're their clients, and the other half are random people who find them who fuckin knows how, meanwhile no government agency can track them down without selling their soul to sterling. they make a point to have a dramatic scene w a Big Bad Shadowy Government Guy who doesn't actually get caught or brought to justice or anything telling them he's going to hunt them all down, and in any other show this would probably earn at least a minor arc later on but he literally never shows up again. an entire season finale hinged on a cake and a bunch of clams. they accidentally made eliot a celebrity not once, not twice, but three times. parker blew up her foster parents' house when she was like. nine. and it's hardly a footnote. hardison is just casually an artistic prodigy but it's only ever brought up for the most background of background gags. eliot's biggest beef with parker and hardison for like two and a half seasons is that they won't stop making weird food with lasers and refuse to realize they can't make a decent beer to save their lives. sophie's immediate response to being shot is to call her shooter a wanker. there's a character who has literally killed a man with a mop and they had the audacity to only put her in one episode.

[2glassesofchianti]

No one asked but I think the secret to making the enemies-to-lovers trip work is respect. They can loath each other, but they have to loath each other as equals. Like “sorry but no one else is allowed to murder this man but me” + “it’s an honor and privilege to despise you.”

[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

[faorism]

what if we've been wrong about eliot being the kinda guy who thinks don't shit where you eat logic of not dating your crew? eliot has consistently been shown he is willing to sleep with folks close to the con: kaye lynn (the studio job), mikel dayan, maria shipp, tabatha delavega (the low low price job), and lupe the hot "nun." he expresses attraction to tara and (obliquely in s1) arguably sophie. the only reason he stops flirting with maggie is because she's nates ex and bro code. then theres paul orozco. (shelley is a gay but they were incompatible so just a friend.) and obviously he had his toxic epic whirlwind that was life with moreau, the definition of squatting down in one's dining room.

imo a person who would use that phrase earnestly wouldn't get this close to people involved with their work (kaye lynn is a very damning example since they made out in the middle of the job). like, not to the extent of rejecting parker and hardison on just that premise? maybe you can argue that after something like moreau (and yes, yall, im not giving the option for no m/e here), that wrecked his comfort around True Crew versus the Person Of The Week

(tbh i think out of the three, if hardison had been older, maybeeeee he would have some reservations. but there's nothing canon to say that; i just think any queer person who is in a dnd group or WoW guild would learn to pause over messing with dynamics)

thoughts?

[thebiballerina]

Not sure what happens after that. I feel like Quinn would still be a little fond of them, even if their values don't work for him and he is confident it was the right decision not to stick with the team.

I do like the idea that he can proceed to be the found family equivalent of an extended relative that just shows up sometimes. A similar distance to the team as Maggie has, only he is less polite about it and definitely does not call ahead.

Maybe he keeps breaking into their base, eating their food, and saying it is his "finder's fee" for getting them Eliot. He gets more insufferable about it as Eliot bonds with the team. Eliot can't even say much, because he is intimately aware Quinn is right, and he does owe him this life he has now; he deals with this by being really grumpy about it.

Maybe Quinn affects other parts of canon, maybe he doesn't. Maybe he helps out when he gets wind of something big going down.

Maybe Sterling doesn't know about his one-job beginning with the team, and still tries to hire him like in canon? Not sure if Quinn refuses and passes on a tip (in which case, we can always advocate for Mikel to show up), or if he accepts and sabotages or throws the job somehow, or if he accepts and tries to pull a "no hard feelings" because mildly fond wasn't enough to not be curious about a rematch with Eliot.

Leverage AU where Dubenich hires Quinn for the first job, and he agrees with everyone on wanting revenge for the betrayal, then just goes off on his own and kills the man. Dubenich is dead now.