There's this fun bit of attention to detail In The Last Dam Job when they're discussing how to get Dubenich:
This isn't quite the full gif but what it is is that Sophie says that Dubenich is going to know every friend, every person that they would be expected to go to for help. And Nate looks at Eliot and goes "we find someone who is not a friend" to Sophie and Parker "someone who is not in the game" to Hardison "someone we do not trust." And that's exactly what happens.
Eliot recruits Quinn who we last saw trying to kick the shit out of Eliot:
Parker recruits Archie who is retired:
Sophie recruits Maggie who is the token honest friend in this heist show:
And Hardison recruits Chaos who they all hate for trying to kill Sophie:
I've prepped all of Eliot's season 1 outfits and dear god there's a lot of blue. There's 92 outfits, of which I'd say more than half are predominantly blue (including that blue/grey he's so fond of). Other than blue/grey colors, his other outfits are pretty much black/white, tan/brown and grey/green. It's a very limited palette, I want to play dress-up and try out other colors on him!
Besides the one red shirt in the pilot where I don't think they'd settled on a look for him yet, the one other time he wears a color (red/pink) out of his palette, it's because it's not his shirt. (Is he wearing someone else's shirt every time he wears red? Eliot/Quinn shippers, please enjoy this theory.)
I've been sitting on this au for a while, it's unfinished, so only a handful of paragraphs.
The Two-Horse Job
I’m taking liberties with Canon and Eliot’s back story.
Willie Martin had two children, and Aimee was not Eliot’s high school sweetheart.
(I repeatedly listened to Dasha’s Austin song on repeat while thinking about this, and it shows.)
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Eliot was a few days shy of turning 18, while Quinn had turned 17 a few months back; they were up on the roof of Quinn’s house looking up at the stars, Quinn talking about the constellations with his head in Eliot’s lap.
Quinn had just finished telling the story of Ursa Major, his voice filled with wonder, when Eliot kissed him. It was a kiss that spoke of desperation, of a thirst that could only be quenched by Quinn. The angle was awkward: Eliot hunched over while Quinn arched his back up into the kiss, unaware of Eliot’s internal struggle. Had Quinn known what was going to happen next, he would have done more.
Eliot was gone the next day, taking only the bare essentials and getting on the first bus out of town, leaving everyone in his life behind without a second glance. Quinn kept the promise ring Eliot gave him all through his senior year, a symbol of their love and commitment, waiting for Eliot to come back. After graduation, he wore the ring on a chain around his neck as a reminder not to let anyone get that close again.
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Quinn never thought he’d return home, but Aimee called him one night on the burner phone he left her, her voice trembling with tears as she spoke about the horses and how Dad was in way over his head, and she didn’t know what to do.
So Quinn, transformed by a decade of life's trials, dropped everything and returned to Kentucky. Aimee almost didn’t recognize him at first, this stranger standing at her doorstep; his hair was longer and pulled back into a neat, low ponytail. He was wearing a suit that fit him perfectly, and he had a nasty bruise on his cheek, but Aimee would recognize her brother anywhere.
“Look at you,” Aimee says, hugging him tightly. “All grown up,”
“Ten years will do that to a person,” Quinn teases, unwilling to let go of his sister.
