#but i am neurodivergent and sometimes resonate with parker and i'm rewatching the inside job and UGH IT HITS

[leverage-ot3]

parker in the inside job is so real to me

parker, who has had a very complicated relationship with the concept of ‘family’, who blew up her abusive foster parent’s house, who bounced around the foster system before ultimately making a run for it

who was caught pick pocketing a world-renowned thief and taken in under his wing where he molded her into the best thief that ever existed, where he then ‘released her into the world’

archie took her in, yes, but he didn’t really take her in. he kept her at arm’s length, letting her live in empty warehouses and learning how to pick locks and beat security systems instead of going to school or learning what familial love was

he raised her, but only barely

and leverage did a great job of adding subtleties to her to have her come off as neurodivergent, most likely autistic. she was never what society would deem as ‘normal’, especially back then. and then archie tells nate to his face that she would never fit in, not anywhere

(and nate is mad. eliot is mad. rightfully so.)

parker is different from most people, thinks differently and acts differently. but that’s not wrong, and not her fault. but archie couldn’t see past that and take her in as she truly was, not when he had an ‘actual’ family at home. she wouldn’t fit in and that was something he wasn’t willing to risk, try or explain

and then archie calls parker asking for her thoughts on the steranko situation and she doesn’t even hesitate because his family is on the line. his real family. and he’s her father in a way no one had ever been before and looked after her in the only way she knew how and that meant something to her and she couldn’t have something like that happen to him

not on her watch

#i'm not autistic so please tell me if any of this comes off as tone-deaf or anything like that #but i am neurodivergent and sometimes resonate with parker and i'm rewatching the inside job and UGH IT HITS #something about being seen as 'other' and being kept at arms length because of that. never really being accepted only used for talent #that makes me extremely emotional #and pause the episode for 20 minutes to think out and write this post #this post is alternatively known as an archie-critical post #i will tolerate him for parker's sake in the same way nate does but that does NOT mean i like him #the inside job #leverage #leverage season 3 #parker #parker meta #archie leach #meta #episode analysis #my meta #autistic parker #neurodivergent headcanons #neurodivergent #mine