[to Parker]There's something wrong with you.

Mm hmm, mm hmm, I ate the damn sandwich. I ate the damn sandwich fo sho. Boy can cook, he can throw down. If he wasn't gonna beat my ass, I'd go thank him.

[robynpaints]

Tumblr shall see her first <3

[beautifulscreaminglady]

[lordsfromelsewhere]

*cough cough* everyone go watch leverage

more: parker / eliot / hardison / other art

clean version if you care

[caitvisbian]

sobbing this is so good, I miss parker

[hopefulqueer]

Whatever sort of weird intellectual and/or sexual tension there's supposed to be between Nate and the Italian is seriously undercut by the fact that 90% of the time they are on screen together they are just passing file folders back and forth menacingly

[gnar-slabdash]

what are you talking about, the file folders are an essential part of the sexual tension

[weprovide-leverage]

The Experimental Job sets up so many plot points that never get mentioned again but they leave open ended it bugs me on re-watch

[weprovide-leverage]

Brian from I.T.? No, he is not a team player

[leveragecentral]

every leverage dynamic ⮎ eliot spencer & parker

what did you do? don't ask me that, parker. because if you ask me, i'm gonna tell you. so please don't ask me.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage S04E13 The Girls Night Out Job.

[bob-belcher]

Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison in Leverage (2008—2012)

[gnar-slabdash]

Okay which one of you made a post years ago about how Nate looks cold in the intro shots and so you’ve dubbed him Cold Nate to go along with Old Nate. Because I shit you not ever since then I have thought “lol there’s Cold Nate” every single goddamn time I see it.

[gnar-slabdash]

If I may propose an addition to this crew: Gold Nate?

[leveragecentral]

Leverage 5.10, "The Frame-up Job"

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch of Eliot, Parker and Hardison from Leverage. Eliot is lying unconscious in a pool of blood with various wounds visible over his body. Hardison is crouching beside him, holding his phone in one hand and the other resting on Eliot's shoulder, looking up and forward. Parker is in front of them both, standing up and holding a stun gun straight ahead. End ID]

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Leverage art commission from Daisy via Ko-Fi.

I really hope that you like it (but if not, please do say and I will do something different). Thank you for the request! <3 <3 <3

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[winterinhimring]

Everyone misunderstands what makes Nate so scary. What makes Nate scary is not that he might snap and kill someone. What makes Nate scary is that if he wants you to die, you will die, and you will do it to yourself. You will walk onto the platform and put your head into the noose and pull the lever, and you could turn around and stop at any time but you won't, because he's calculated everything and he knows exactly what will make you want to do all of that. He'll never pull the trigger because he'll never need to.

[gnar-slabdash]

#chaotic good or lawful evil

Oh god this could start a war. This must be why Cortex Plus (the Leverage rpg’s system) doesn’t have an alignment mechanic

[azurewyvern]

The dnd alignment system, typically, is about whether you have a personal code/set of rules that you follow- not how organized you are! Nate, I would argue, has essentially no code- he frequently needs the team to hold him back or rein him in, and especially at the beginning the only reason he does the whole leverage thing is because the team asked him to. Nate is not Lawful- he’s also probably not Chaotic, since he doesn’t seem to have a particular problem with stricter moral rules (cough Catholicism). So. He’s Neutral on the chaos/order spectrum. Now for good and evil. These are typically more vibes based, but again typically the actual definition is about selfishness/selflessness of the goals (chaos/order is about methods, good/evil is about goals). What is Nate’s goal? Well…. Revenge, mostly. The catharsis of causing harm to people he sees as like those who harmed him. Yeah he restricts his supervillainy to those we the audience don’t like, but both his motivations and his methods ARE supervillain ones. Revenge is a selfish motivation! So: Nate is not chaotic good or lawful evil. He is Neutral Evil, but balanced out by a party of mostly Good members (Parker and Hardison are Chaotic, Sophie is Neutral, and Eliot is somewhere between Neutral and Lawful).

[gnar-slabdash]

Justice or order. One day, you are going to have to make that choice.

Doesn’t that line suggest he DOES have a problem with order?

[filibusterphil]

This is very interesting. I don’t know that I disagree with the points made, but there is an assumption that leaves out who he targets in focusing on one why. Yes revenge and catharsis are a big part of it. But, he targets the big guys that hurt the little guys. There is a moral code in there that he imparts on some of the younger members of his team, but you’re right that he frankly is the person most likely to try and break that as it suits him in the middle of the game. Neutral evil is a little tricky because it feels like it’s not quite accounting for how he points the weapon that they are. He does target those who have committed a wrong and often brings them down through their own moral failing. In many ways it’s giving Catholic paladin ass, but almost always flirting with the oathbreaker line. Or perhaps frequently crossing it and then trying to come back. What matters more, the stated motivation and the outcomes, or your deeper motivations and the steps along the way?

Maybe what I feel is missing here is his public alignment that he kind of clings to? His alignment to the people he helps is usually somewhere between chaotic good and chaotic neutral, and that’s something he does try and maintain with the end result of his actions. But over time by being around him constantly and seeing/performing the steps in between, his team sees more, and I could see that neutral evil. It’s balanced out by his need to have a good end goal, regardless of his own personal alignment, and what he’s willing to do to get there. And the folks they take down also see another side, to a lot of them he’s honestly somewhere on the chaotic evil spectrum. He is the weapon, along with his team, to try and rebalance the good-evil scale, so that the people he sees as good, regular folks don’t have to dirty their hands and break their alignment. He is a lapsed Catholic alcoholic selfish prick for most of the show, but he tries to do overall good for their clients (and hurt the big bad guys to feed that angry part of himself).

[gnar-slabdash]

Okay so is your alignment supposed to be defined by your inner state or by your outward impact? Basically, does DnD believe Batman or not?

[gnar-slabdash]

Here's the Leverage ttrpg book pdf on dropbox

[gnar-slabdash]

@dreamondelphinus , @the anon in my inbox, @anyone else just now hearing about the rpg

[weprovide-leverage]

Need fanart of Nate playing the trumpet

[aceoflights]

anyone ever asks me what my favourite leverage moment is, it's this

[allsonargent]

Christian Kane and Aldis Hodge as Eliot Spencer & Alec Hardison in LEVERAGE (2008—2012)