You said you had some original MacGyver fic recs? 👀
I have a few! There are definitely not enough though. I'm in such desperate need for original MacGyver fanfics. Here are some I've enjoyed:
The Hermit, a MacGyver story By: judybear236 Summary: When our favorite troubleshooter is injured, who is this suspicious man who comes to his aid? Is he to be trusted?
Second Chance By: Lauren.MacFan Summary: Missing scene from "The Stringer". . . Mac has a restless night after being released from the hospital.
MacGyver-Style Napping by: GriffinStone Summary: Chaos tends to follow MacGyver wherever he goes. With the nonstop action, he sometimes has to get a little creative about how he gets his rest.
Breaking Point By: MacsBluegirl Summary: Original MacGyver - How much pressure is needed to tear a friendship apart - and what does it take to restore it? Takes place soon after "The Wasteland" - Be warned of some serious MacWhump, especially in the first chapters. I already published this story at the MacGyveronline library and the RDA-forum - this is a slightly revised version - only minor changes though
Sudden Silence By: Dana Knight (DanaKnight_memorial), DanaKnight_memorial Summary: MacGyver is deafened in an explosion. He has to figure out who's responsible and why, and stay alive. Is his deafness temporary or permanent?
Ive decided that my favorite thing about the original macgyver is most of his misadventures were "this is my one day off and somehow I ended up dismantling a terrorist agency/busting a corruption/breaking a scheme somehow in some way" and not, i don't know, government sanctioned missions at his government operative job
I freely admit this is a totally random fic prompt that came to mind and wouldn’t leave. Someone on the team (not Mac since he’s already gotten the falsely accused of terrorism shirt) gets into deep trouble, like accused of treason or something trouble and they have literally no evidence otherwise so they ended up jailbreaking them and going on the lam. This is the resulting conversation as they flee in a “borrowed” mini-van from the early 2000s. Bonus points if it’s eggplant colored and they had to toss like three car seats in the back.
Also Jack never left and Russ and Desi are still around because I think it would be amusing to see them interact with each other....and codex still happened I guess, oh and they are all hopeless nerds...
(Also featuring a ridiculous amount of fourth wall breaking and pop culture references.) Anyways...
“We are not going to be the Leverage team” Mac says, half resigned, and half amused.
“Dude, we are so Leverage!” repeats Bozer with far too much enthusiasm for someone recently involved in a jailbreak and laundry list of felonies.
“We are on the run,” points out Riley, “and you bet I can out Hardison anyone I want to.”
“True Riles,” Mac concedes, “But we’re not thieves, and this is not going to be a hi-tech rehash of Robin Hood.”
“You know who else was always insisting that Leverage weren’t thieves?” Bozer taunts.
Mac laughs for the first time in days, “Oh no, I am not going to be the Nate Ford in whatever this is, there is nobody like me in that show at all. Granted Riley is our Hardison, and somehow we ended up with twin Spencers.”
Desi and Jack shoot him identical startled looks.
“I am not Elliot Spencer.”
“Spencer, really?”
“What exactly are you lot discussing now?” Russ grumbles the backseat.
“Oh, Taylor is definitely Nate Ford” adds Desi, “He’s got the mind-tricks and everything.”
“Besides, he technically owns Phoenix” adds Mac, “So I guess Bozer and Mattie get to be Sophie and Parker…”
“Oh, it’s on Blondie,” Matty says laughing, “Who exactly are you then?”
“Nightwing to our Teen Titans,” laughs Riley, with a sideways wink at Bozer, “People do call you Boy Wonder an awful lot.”
“Murdoc calls me that…” mutters Mac unhappily, “and anyways I don’t look anything like Nightwing.”
“Whatever you say blue-eyes” and Desi smiles.
“If we’re going with superheroes, he’s Cap obviously,” argues Jack with a grin.
“Oh?” asks Matty.
“Well, itty bitty blond soldier boy? That’s not ringing any bells?”
“Mad scientist addition of Robin Hood” votes Bozer.
“Et tu Boze?” Mac quotes faux-mournfully, “It’s not like there are a lot of good mad scientist archetypes.”
“Well, there’s always Dr. Bishop from Fringe…” continues Bozer, “He’s not a bad mad scientist exactly.”
“He experimented on kids!” Mac says, scandalized into speaking rather louder than he had intended, “and he was insane and missing parts of his brain. Definitely not!”
“Oh, Mac is definitely more Peter Bishop…” says Russ thoughtlessly, “missing father, MIT dropout, reckless and doesn’t carry a gun, engineering skills…abandonment issues, crazy family that wants to destroy stuff…”
He trails off having finally noticed the glare that Matty is leveling at him.
“Well, I happen to know that I was not kidnapped from another universe,” Mac says with forced laughter after an awkward silence.
“Are you sure you’re not from another universe?” Jack asks, “cuz sometimes I wonder…”
“Imagine that,” laughs Riley, “Another Mac, another Jack…”
“What would alt-Mac be like I wonder?” asks Jack, “What do you’ll think?
“Longer hair, he can cook and he actually works at a think-tank…” volunteers Bozer.
“Ooo...kay, that was very specific and very quick?” Mac shoots him a suspicious glance.
“Don’t you guys spend time considering alternate realties?” asks Bozer with studied innocence, “I’ve also considered Sliders-style evil Mac, like Mac with Home Alone levels of evil traps in his lair and he’s really good at making bombs...”
“He’s already good at that Bozer...” says Russ dryly and another awkward silence ensues before Riley clears her throat.
“Well I think alt-Jack is probably a fly-by-night pilot who bums living space off of alt-Mac,” Riley says crisply with a smirk at Jack.
“Ouch” says a voice that sounds suspiciously like Bozer, except that he is rather obviously eating a chip by the time that Jack turns to glare at him.
Mac send her a greatful smile, he’d rather not think of evil versions of himself just yet, no matter what ancient tv show Bozer has been watching.
okay but in the original macgyver, he’s literally so affectionate and a natural with kids. then i started thinking…
…his dad passed away when he was like 10, and his grandpa up and ditched their family, so he probably didn’t have too much of a father figure (as least as far as i know in my watching). so he sees these kids, most of them in situations where he highlights their ablilties (which can get cheesy, but was probably exciting for kids in the 80s).
and i’ll bet he takes these kids under his wings because he sees himself in them, and he would have given just about anything to have someone who cared about him and told him how special and important he was. and darn it, another kid wasn’t going to wonder if they were worth it if he was around to help it
Season 1 Ep 6: only solidifies my utter and complete distaste for ants. However episodes like these make this show all the more worth it. You don’t need a guy with a gun to make a TV show great sometimes a little threat from nature can be just as interesting. Bottom line I Love this Show and Hate ants! 🐜🐜🐜🐜
