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While I don't miss Nate himself, he was an absolute bastard a lot of the time, I do miss the delicious darkness he brought to the series.

"God killed you, I just made sure it stuck"

No one in Redemption carries the same demonic vibes Nate sometimes would.

Not to invoke Muppet's Christmas Carol but the line

"your future is a horror story written by your crimes"

that really described how Nate went after some of the marks.

i love that nate is meant to be the Normal Guy in the leverage team bc he wasn’t a thief, but what we know of nate’s past tells us he was a guy who:

had weird tense post-work drinks with his rival on rooftops

was frenemies with sterling

dropped out of seminary school... to become an insurance claims investigator

but still stayed friends with at least one person who actually completed seminary and became a priest

has a masters degree in statistics. which is not necessary for insurance investigation (not like it’s unhelpful of course, but it’s very much not a job requirement). it’s also clearly not necessary for being a priest, so idk why he has that exactly. just did a masters in statistics for fun

would love to receive a secret button camera as a gift. to the point his wife would buy him one as a birthday present.

is the first person you’d suspect of faking a miracle

caught the eye of world-class grifter sophie devereaux, long before he had any inclination of becoming a thief too

seemed more shocked and taken aback by being called a wanker than by being SHOT

Leverage wrote the book on found family.

Request by @quietstorm-thundathighs

And don’t forget, that Jimmy Ford’s last words were, “Don’t forget that Jimmy Ford loves you, Son.” Jimmy Ford’s was a very dangerous man. His son is considerably more so.

He knew exactly what would happen when he set that gun down by the edge and walked away. And that’s his method. He lets human nature determine the harm that happens. He may trick, beguile, and bedevil his victims. But in the end he lets them land the fetal blow to themselves.

Leverage meme ≡ quotes [5/5] → from Nathan Ford

My name is Nathan Ford. And I… am a thief. 

i like how leverage throws in random details that are never elaborated on. hardison gets himself a front row seat at the oscars each year, but we only see that in a single throwaway flashback. parker broke a guy's fingers for touching her and it wasn't even a plot point, it was just one in a series of memories of stabbings and so forth. eliot continually knows extremely specific information which implies some extremely specific scenarios he's been in. the more we find out about sophie's backstory, the more questions it raises about what the hell is wrong with her. and the more we find out about nate's backstory, the more questions it raises about what the hell is wrong with him.

i wanna know what was going on at IYS back in pre-leverage days when nate was working there, because the 2 employees we get to know are james "hid in a trunk for five days" sterling and nathan "became a robin hood-esque mastermind thief" ford. is this just their standard employee - does the job ad ask for people who enjoy hijinks and have "become a trickster god" in their five year plan? or were all nate and sterling’s coworkers watching them in utter confusion? like HR is getting complaints about them, starting discussions with "look we have a problem with your whole homoerotic rivalry thing but it’s NOT because of the homoerotic part, okay? we decorate for pride month. and i don’t care about the ‘allusion to the high noon standoff trope of cowboy/western movies’, you can’t just be blocking off the hallways to have a dramatic conversation. you stacked chairs in front of the emergency exit door to keep the corridor clear. that’s a fire safety hazard."

Re: the leverage tipping "discourse", here's my thoughts on the characters' tipping behavior--

Nate: tips 15%

Sophie: tips well as herself but if her persona for a con wouldn't she doesn't

Eliot: always tips well and leaves a note sometimes

Parker: 50/50 if she remembers to tip, but when she does she will leave a vaguely suspicious roll of cash. She gets better at remembering as she gets more exposure to the service industry

Hardison: my man doesn't tip *in cash*. He doesn't have a wallet, and his phone is plenty to let him divert company funds into giving the employees a raise. It's the age of the geek, baby, and that means ensuring a living wage long-term and making up for the assholes who inevitably won't tip at all. He's still gonna rile up Nate and Eliot given the opportunity though