This seemed deceptively easy at first, because Thief and Hitter translate pretty straightforwardly (as do Mastermind and Grifter, as do a lot of their backstories*, come to think of it…), but what about Hacker?
Then I realized that Hardison is a navigator. He has all the trade routes memorized, he knows ocean currents like the back of his hand, he can direct the crew to seasonal and local shortcuts that sink unwary pursuers… he even knows the best ways to survive the kind of storms that make most pirates need brown pants, per the classic joke.
Side note: marine insurance has been a Thing for basically as long as there has been oceanic trade. I picture Nate as, like, the Leverage analogue to Norrington from PotC.
Nothing gives me more joy than to imagine Sophie trying to teach Miss “I pretended to be a boy until I was nineteen” Parker how to get around in those elaborate dresses with ruffles and boning and lacing… and how frustrating it is for both of them until Parker realizes just how much stuff she can hide under those skirts.
Eliot can’t swim, never having been on a ship for longer than it took to get on, beat the tar out of whoever was between him and his objective, and then get off again. Nobody knows this at first, but Parker figures it out, and she and Hardison teach him in secret after a lot of grumbling and cajoling. A LOT.
Nate doesn’t say “let’s go steal an island” anymore because they’ve done it so often. The intense glee in his voice when he got to say “let’s go steal the Flying Dutchman,” however, is wholly unprecedented.
The trio can still settle down running a bar/pub, but this one’s a five minute stroll from a tropical beach. 😀
Leverage OT3 + pirate AU
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