#i've started calling them xuange in my head lksjnflsd

[touchmycoat]

HX/LCG!Anon: one thing I love about their dynamic is the contrast - HX is so alone at the end of tgcf. LQG is a lone wolf type (fights alone/ leaves the sect for a month at a time) but he is demonstrably not alone. He has the support of YYX, LMY, YQY, his other martial sibs, his disciples, etc. He's got strong ties. I imagine as HX and LQG get closer (and he reads LMY's book!!! :P), HX finds himself with more community than he expects, even beyond just the team. (cont'd)

HX/LQG contd: like, YQY and LQG go way back and is now his arms supplier, and HX finds he now gets the family and friends discount, as well as the family and friends interrogation. HX's family was taken from him and his pain and suspicion kept him isolated, but things are changing and he's not ready for it. Anyway, I have lots of FEELS. But I also really just want a honeypot to go wrong bc the mark doesn't want the aggressively flirting hunk but the quiet hottie holding up the wall, (cont2/3)

HX/LQG cont (3/3): and HX has to watch HC talk LQG through a seduction (though really since the mark's the pursuer, LQG does a lot of playing hard to get). Argh - I never expected to have so many thoughts about such an extreme rarepair, but I really love the idea of HX falling for loyal and steadfast LQG and finding a family around him as well.

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BABE YESsSSSSS fuck this ship & AU has been all I could think about lmfao. The end of The Underground Job, and we have LQG going into the mine to get a vaguely injured HX out. HX's like "for someone who says he doesn't like kids you sure adopt one every job" and LQG's like "for someone who says he doesn't care about us you sure put yourself in danger for our sake a lot." God i LOVE that, the whole thing is about the found family. LQG may be a bit socially unlubricated but he actually has such a large social circle! And all the kids all the time see him and go It's Free Brother, like how all the disciples worship Baizhan (and how Eliot has a soft spot for kids). HX's pathetically weak to that. And LQG may not even realize it, but he pings HX immediately as Someone Who Needs To Be Adopted and just steadycore goes for it.

YQY AS THE ARMS SUPPLIER. that's fucking hilarious we gotta come up with something that references him having a sword that can't be drawn. Oh my god, can YQY be the personal job that LQG brings to HX? Maybe SJ had bad connects and did some bad things but went down for a crime to clear his name. Five years later, he's finally being released from prison, and YQY has cleaned up their operation and has been waiting for him all this time. But something goes wrong though, and YQY comes to LQG for help, who in turn takes YQY to the most reliable guy he knows *~* In return, YQY becomes a recurring side character who provides them the Stuff They Need.

It's so funny 'cause they have such a range for honeypots. Most of the time it's HC, who's tantalizing in a way that's difficult for nearly all their marks to resist. But if they need to, they slide in Bingmei, who does the teary-eyed bishounen thing VERY well. SQQ is very good for the "ah I'm so clumsy, gosh I'm so embarrassed" seductions because of all his milf energy. HX avoids it when he can (which is almost always), but if a mark already likes him and he can use it, he's very much the Tall Dark and Mysterious man who can make marks melt with one almost-smile and not-mean comment.

The most wild card honeypot of them all though, of course, is LQG, 'cause the most LQG will do is "but what if I show you around the city?" and stare real intently like he's trying to convey deep feelings. But at the same time, HX also believes in the power of just whoring out his good looks—basically LQG gets the job of bumping into the mark a lot, and they keep going the same way, and the mark just keeps staring at his face and giggling and saying "oops" when they bump into his tiddies. (LBH would also be very very good at this. He can be trusted to deploy it as a maneuver on his own though.)

(Also, I had a moment today—HC isn't Sophie, he's fucking Tara. Sometimes, XL slides in and does the Sophie gigs. But the King George Job, right? XL brings them a case about an antique smuggler that requires him to use a "cover" from his past as royalty of a kingdom????)

#leverage AU #he xuan #lqg #i'm wilding out over this #i've started calling them xuange in my head lksjnflsd #you're a genius anon