#ship: leverage ot3

[leverageficrecs]

Leverage Fic Rec:

everything he needs by AppleJuiz on AO3

Summary (from the author):

This is how Parker knows she’s in love: because any other time she’s ever wanted something, she’s just taken it, but she doesn’t want to take Hardison, hoard him for herself when she doesn’t know how to love him right. She wants him to be happy. She wants to be what he deserves but if she can’t be, since she can’t be, she’ll… she’ll have to make sure he’s happy anyway.

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Parker doesn’t know how to be in love with Hardison. She tries to get Eliot to do it for her.

Why I recommend it: One of my favourite Leverage fics ever! I highly recommend it. It feels incredibly true to Parker’s voice and it is wonderfully well-written. It’s a beautiful impression of Parker in the midst of her arc (season 4), trying to figure out love, emotions, relationships, and how to do "the right thing".

[faerieriddle]

There’s something very profound about Eliot “I refuse to verbally address my feelings or the elephant in the room” Spencer saying “until my dying day.” Like, a man who can’t and won’t talk about his past admitting he can’t see a future without Hardison and Parker in it.

[ot3showdown]

MAY THE BEST OT3 WIN!!!

[bestqprshipbracket]

Best Polyamorous Ship Round 5

[echoeyee]

god i forgot how flirty eliot and hardison are in the pilot like babe what is THIS

[angelwiththeblue-box]

me omw to make everything i hear about them

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taglist: @blueskiesandstarrynights @depressedtransguy @thedragonemperess @thedrowningpoetofdionysus @someguyiguess @genuine-possum (lemme know if you want to be added or removed)

[leverage-ot3]

no one:

me: let’s check the vibe of the leverage facebook group

(blurred out my name for privacy)

at first people passed the vibe check with heart/care reacts, thumbs up… and then the boomers came

a lot of people settled on it’s some configuration of parker/eliot or hardison/eliot give off sibling vibes and hardison is dating parker, but a fair amount of folks said they would accept or would like the ot3. one based guy was like ‘if it drives the story then power to them’. someone else just commented ‘till my dying day’, another said ‘I mean… they already measured his head for the robot bodies’. someone else said they like brother sister eliot and parker but queerplatonic with parker and hardison dating is still good to them.

and then there was one woman who basically said if you don’t want honest answers you shouldn’t ask the questions and then said eliot is a good friend/brother to them and love does not need to be romantic or sexual to be strong (girlie what do you think queerplatonic means 😭💀)

also JUST got this gem (and am going to report them)

edit with my response:

last edit: she was kicked out of the group after 💀

[crimeronan]

i actually DO think that polyamory fic and non-canon ship fic (ESPECIALLY rarepair fic) tends to be higher quality than mainstream canon gay fic. this has been my experience regardless of how complex and nuanced the canon gays actually are. i think it's because 1) canon gays are more popular, and 2) canon gays are easier to write, because you don't have to really transform the source material.

i don't mean this in an elitist way, either. i'm saying this because some of my best writing advice to people who want to get better at characterization is to explore non-canon non-mainstream pairings (or polyships). you'll find yourself asking questions like: what would make this work? what would make it different from the main gay ship? how would these two interact similarly and differently to how they do in the canon?

it's really good for broadening your understanding of character dynamics and how they change in different circumstances.

similarly -- if you're feeling burnt-out on fic in a fandom, and you've been mostly reading mainstream ship fic.... look for rarepairs. even of pairings you don't ship yourself / can't really see together! you'll get a much broader and more transformative look at the canon elements in your fandom. you may end up hating an author's takes on various rarepairs, but at least it'll be INTERESTING, you know??

[happygirl2oo2]

Hardison (left) and Parker (right) definitely have at least one selfie that looks just like this picture and you can't change my mind 🤷‍♀️

Is Eliot the one in place of the kid in the back? maybe... 😌

[leverageficrecs]

Leverage Fic Rec:

The Principle of Least Action by newt426 on AO3

Summary (from the author):

After having a meltdown in front of the team, Parker is worried that she is "too much" for them. Hardison and Eliot make sure she knows that this isn't true.

Why I recommend it: I adored the portrayal of Parker’s POV and found the story very tender and comforting. I love when fics explicitly portray her autism and her experience of being autistic, as this fic does.

[aardvaark]

parker’s just not the sort of person to ask for favours unless she’s in way over her head - in fact when she asks for help on the juror #6 job, sophie points out how rare that is - but with hardison, she asks for random little things, can he bring her back some pastries? could he tell her if she’s saying this slang right? will he make it snow? (she has great faith in his abilities, possibly too great lol). i love that. she’s never been able to depend on someone, she’s had to be independent as possible for so long, but finally she gets to rest a little. to have faith that someone else is looking out for her. they’re so sweet

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

[ot3showdown]

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Best Polyamorous Ship Group 3 Round 2

[blueskiesandstarrynights]

concept- a leverage pushing daisies au

Eliot Spencer is a pie maker with a secret- with a single touch he can bring dead things back to life. But it comes with rules: the second touch means permanent death, and if he doesn't rekill them in a minute, another life in the area is taken, as a form of balance, a life for a life. He learned these rules through an unfortunate bout of trial and error as a kid.

His gift was exploited by many people over many years, after all, a mercenary who can bring people back and rekill them with a single touch has incredible power over their opponent. Rumors of his abilities in both fighting and death are spread like wildfire, though nothing is said for certain, leaving his ability a secret for the most part.

When he finally finds an opportunity to defect, he settles down and opens a pie shop and only uses his ability to ripen any old or rotten fruit.

Things had fallen into a peaceful routine until one day he wasn't careful and accidentally brought back and rekilled a min in front of one Nate Ford and Sophie Deveraux. The two spend their time conning and taking down the rich and powerful, or more accurately, whichever of the rich and powerful they can take down with only two people. So with that, they offer for him to join him, opening an opportunity for more and bigger cons, and in spite of everything, he agrees.

Things fall into a steady rhythm for the three of them until one day they attempt to con an exploitive funeral director couple and find two recently deceased individuals under his care that wouldn't be under normal circumstances.

Eliot heads in and intends to revive them for only a minute but he's so entranced by the two who supposedly fell off a building after a parachuting accident gone wrong but were instead shoved off before they could put on the proper equipment that he forgets to rekill them, and the married funeral directors drop dead. Nate and Sophie rush in to the room to find Parker and Hardison, he learned thier names are, are still awake. Eliot feels immensely guilty if only because there was an equal chance Nate or Sophie could've been taken instead of the funeral directors.

thus Hardison and Parker follow eliot home and a series of conning and pining ensue as he cannot touch them or they will once again die

[trinity-trouble]

i have polls :D