Fic: Faceless

[lmx_v3point3]

Fic: Faceless

Author: LMX
Fandom: Leverage
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Warnings: Big Bang Job fallout for Eliot
Spoilers: Big Bang Job (3.15)

Comments

[sheryden]

Nice take on this sequence! I especially like that you've given some focus to Chapman, because the relationship (for want of a better word) between him and Eliot fascinated me. Nice job!

[lmx_v3point3]

Thanks. :D I know everyone else is going to be writing this moment, and MoonChild wrote me something super awesome for Christmas which made me think about Chapman a lot more. :D Thought I'd get a jump on it.

[lmx_v3point3]

That'd be this fic in case you don't come across it yourself ;)

[scout_lover]

Ooh, I love this! (And I inspired you? Go me!) Fantastic take on that scene, on Eliot's thought processes, and his confrontation with Chapman.

I think what I loved most about everything we learned about Eliot in BBJ was the sense that he walked away from his past life not because he'd lost a step or gotten soft, but because he was just so. damned. good at it. And you did a great job with that here.

[lmx_v3point3]

I think Eliot's desire to keep up a reputation probably exeeded his desire to *be* that reputation.

I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D

[zaphael_firefly]

Okay, officially one of my fave Leverage fics. :)

Most people shy away from the subject that you chose, battle fatigue, blood lust whatever you want to call it you wrote about it beautifully and so true to the point.
I loved how you described that battle and the feeling of invincibility that Eliot must have felt, along with the floating along with the combat addiction the need for more and more. And the shame that Eliot feels because he knows what he does and is isn't acceptable isn't right.
This was just painful and beautiful.

[lmx_v3point3]

I think a lot of Eliot's self-hatred when it comes to what he did back then stems from the fact that he did like it, and he was good at it and at the time nothing else mattered.
I'm really glad this spoke to you, thank you very much for the review.

[zaphael_firefly]

Yeah, I think you're absolutely right, Eliot wouldn't try to distance the team from his past if he didn't hate himself for the things he did and liked doing.

I like how you hinted at really terrible things in this story, but never gave more than a whisper, just enough to let the reader draw their own conclusions.

I liked how you brought everything together but let his past remain faded and unclear, murky and violent.

I can't tell you how much I liked this story and thought what the hey, I should review.
Keep up the great work.

[lmx_v3point3]

Can I recommend to you (in the 'if you enjoyed this' theme) Out of Context, by Katiekins (http://katiekins22.livejournal.com/6069.html)?

*goes back to the 'great work' with a puffed up ego*