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makoyiTitle: like you know i am better than the worst thing i ever did
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Fandom: Leverage
Genre: Character Study
Pairing: Eliot/Hardison/Parker
Length: Short (1,744 Words)
Warnings: Dark (theme of death, heroic self-sacrifice)
Author's Summary:
“I’m goin’ to die for them,” he says to Sophie, before he ever says it to Nate, and it is not a simple statement of fact but a barebones confession, the helpless bleeding of a wound that he was too smart to not know had been made but he’d been putting pressure of for years, hoping that with spit and a prayer that he could make it heal, but he never could, isn’t sure that the stitches that could close that wound have even been invented.
“Yes,” she says, “And how long have you known that?”
Review:
This fic is an Eliot character study - the ship is very background so don't read for that (or decide not to read because of it). I think Eliot Spencer is an awesome character - if you subscribe to the Sorting Hat's view of humanity, Eliot embodies a lot of qualities of the ideal hero according to Hufflepuff which is really interesting and more rare than any of the other house hero types - I'd personally like to see more of the Hufflepuff hero. This fic is a bit of a deconstruction of the hero archetype though - taking those hero traits and pushing them down the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism (towards the latter) which makes for a very dark fic but an interesting one.
like you know i am better than the worst thing i ever did (on AO3)
Author:
Fandom: Leverage
Genre: Character Study
Pairing: Eliot/Hardison/Parker
Length: Short (1,744 Words)
Warnings: Dark (theme of death, heroic self-sacrifice)
Author's Summary:
“I’m goin’ to die for them,” he says to Sophie, before he ever says it to Nate, and it is not a simple statement of fact but a barebones confession, the helpless bleeding of a wound that he was too smart to not know had been made but he’d been putting pressure of for years, hoping that with spit and a prayer that he could make it heal, but he never could, isn’t sure that the stitches that could close that wound have even been invented.
“Yes,” she says, “And how long have you known that?”
Review:
This fic is an Eliot character study - the ship is very background so don't read for that (or decide not to read because of it). I think Eliot Spencer is an awesome character - if you subscribe to the Sorting Hat's view of humanity, Eliot embodies a lot of qualities of the ideal hero according to Hufflepuff which is really interesting and more rare than any of the other house hero types - I'd personally like to see more of the Hufflepuff hero. This fic is a bit of a deconstruction of the hero archetype though - taking those hero traits and pushing them down the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism (towards the latter) which makes for a very dark fic but an interesting one.
like you know i am better than the worst thing i ever did (on AO3)