fyi im putting it out there that this is an anti-archie blog. like good on parker for finding family in the man which was ultimately acknowledged by him, but nate was right for yelling at archie. don’t matter how odd you think a kid is, you don’t use that as an excuse to train yourself a sidekick in your secret life of crime.
#appreciating that it’s archie hate hours on my dash#very little in leverage is more unsettling to me than his scorn at the notion of bringing parker home#coupled with parker’s bit about ‘your REAL family’#like what were you telling the already traumatised pre-teen archie. what were you saying to her#i know eliot has a very strict not murdering people policy#but i do think he should’ve got to push archie off that building and had it not count#leverage @yoyomarules
YES THIS EXACTLY. that anti-authoritarian parker calls him sir, that he uses desserts to train her (and she still adores chocolate and sweets to a near obsessive degree), that the dynamic is tweaked but still hierarchical for his second appearance, that she clearly still thinks that the foster system made her broken in the stork job and that she has clear self-worth issues from that which if your semi-adoptive “father” thinks you don’t fit anywhere (HISSES) that makes sense… LIKE. FUCK. THAT. OLD. MAN. (derogatory).
HM I mean two men manipulating and honing people like tools for their own self-serving ends only at least the beloved main character Moreau did that to wasn’t a literal fucking child!
Listen.
If you don’t think that the Team put Archie on a watch list once they knew about him, you are delusional.
Hardison may have stayed out of it noticeably, but Nate, Sophie and Elliot all had conversations ranging from subtle to shovel. And Hardison had one helpful tech support session in Archie’s civilian life that wasn’t terrifying until three hours later.
No one approved.
But - Parker loves Archie, and believes that he was what she needed, and perhaps for a little bit that was true. But he didn’t need to stay on that path.