Leverage RP discussion

>Main Characters:

Eliot Spencer------MOD
Parker:
Alec Hardison:
Sophie Devereaux-----Anastacia
Nate Ford:



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Name: Eliot Spencer

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Nickname: Hitter

Talent: Eliot Spencer, called "The Hitter," is the team's highly skilled martial artist, weapons expert, and self-described "retrieval expert." A former black ops soldier, his role in cons is often to play supporting roles while protecting the team, often leading him into hand-to-hand combat that draws on his martial arts skills. Eliot was once a hitman for crime financier Damien Moreau, and he has a long history as being an almost legendary assassin, hired gun and bodyguard, then a retrieval specialist. Despite being a skilled marksman, Elliot has an intense dislike for firearms and uses them only when no other options are available to him. While merely presumed as the muscleman, he demonstrates a subtle intelligence in conversation, often taking advantage of the underestimations of others and later in the series performing as a grifter along with Sophie. In contrast to the other characters, Eliot prefers to keep his romantic life private, as well as much of his background, which includes some very dark deeds of which he refuses to speak. Over the course of the series, he displays an extraordinary talent for cooking, and later takes charge of the kitchen of the microbrewery in Portland where the team has set up headquarters, despite clashes with Hardison on the subject of food.

Languages He Speaks: Hebrew, Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English

Languages he Understands: Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, German, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, English,

Appearance:

Face Claim: Christian Kane

Crush: Parker

Family: Unknown

Friends: Alec Hardison, Nate Ford, Sophie Devereaux,

Children: Max (Adopted Son), Katie-Beth (Daughter with Aimee)

Other: He's a horseman






Name: Max Donaheau-Spencer

Age: 8

Gender: Male

Nickname: Bud, Buddy, Sport,

Talent: Hiding,

Appearance:

Crush: None

Family: Eliot (Adoptive Father)

Friends: Open

Children: N/A

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Name: Katrina Elizabeth Martin-Spencer

Age: 10

Gender: Female

Nickname: Baby Girl, Katie-Beth,

Talent: Fighting, Horseback Riding

Appearance: her eyes are light blue

Face Claim: Jodelle Ferland

Languages She Speaks: Hebrew, Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean,

Languages She Understands: Hebrew, Farsi, Arabic, German, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean,

Crush: None

Family: Eliot Spencer (Birth Father), Aimee Martin (Birth Mother)

Friends: Open

Children: N/A

Other:

For Anastacia

Name: Sophie Devereaux

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Nickname: Grifter,

Talent (s): Grifting, Pickpocket, Counterfeiting, Inside Man, often posing as inside roles in various long cons., Neuro-linguistic Programming, She can hold her own in fights, and overcame assassin Miranda Miles in a cat fight., High knowledge of history, culture and art objects., High Speed Driving, which she learned from a taxi driver in Istanbul. Speaks Multiple Languages, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Hebrew, Italian

Appearance:

Face Claim: Gina Bellman

Crush: Nate Ford

Family: The Team,

Friends: The Team, Nate, Eliot, Alec Hardison, Parker,

Children: N/A

Other:

For Anastacia

Name: Parker

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Nickname: Thief

Talent: Parker is a gifted thief, deft at security circumvention and picking both locks and pockets. She's a formidable opponent in hand-to-hand combat due to her excellent upper body strength and acrobatics. She displays a very high level of spatial intelligence that appears to aid her in everything from thieving, to drawing, to maneuvering vehicles at high speeds.

Appearance:

Face Claim: Beth Riesgraf

Crush: Eliot Spencer

Family: The Team

Friends: The Team

Children: None

History: Parker had a hard life, being put into the foster system at a very young age. As such, she was sent regularly to different foster homes, which meant that she rarely had any time to interact with other children her age. When she was nine or ten, Parker began her life as a thief. Her foster father always stole her toys from her and said "You need to become a better thief." She blew up his house most likely because she didn't receive adequate living standards wherever she had been living at that point, and attempted to steal in order to get what she wanted or needed. At some point Parker taught her younger brother, Nick, how to ride a bike. However, shortly afterward he was in a car crash on his bicycle and died, causing Parker immense guilt and grief that she kept within herself. Before she was twelve, she was a getaway driver. Some time after that she met a boy called Kelly in foster care, and he taught her how to boost cars. They worked together as a team until they boosted a bait car. He escaped the police, leaving Parker to serve 6 months in juvie. In 1998, Archie Leach caught her attempting to pick his pocket on the street, trying to steal his wallet. He saw her potential and decided to train her as his apprentice thief, ultimately helping her to become very skilled in all sorts of thievery. She mentioned her first grab was in Philippines, stealing from Imelda Marcos in the Malacañang Palace.

2008

When Parker was a fully grown adult, she was recruited by Victor Dubenich, along with Nathan Ford, Alec Hardison, and Eliot Spencer, to steal "back" intellectual property which he claimed had been stolen from him. However, things turned around when they discovered that he was taking them for himself, and the intellectual property had never belonged to him. Nate then asked Sophie Devereaux to come and help them in a con in which they would turn on their former client. Later after Nate had become an alcoholic, Sophie set up a con in order for him to get revenge on I.Y.S. Insurance, and more specifically Ian Blackpoole. However the plan failed when Jim "James" Sterling got involved, which resulted in Parker's capture. Sophie then retrieved Parker, and Hardison destroyed the group's own headquarters, as part of a plan to disappear. The team then decided to lie low for six months.[6] However, even sooner than that, Parker met up with the rest of the group in an attempt to steal two David statues from the previous con. The plan worked out well; they pretended to take the Two Davids, forcing that exhibit to be shut down, when in reality they took everything else in that gallery. Then, they returned everything they'd taken -- after Nate made Sterling agree to get rid of Blackpoole and Blackpoole's policy that I.Y.S. wouldn't pay out on insurance under any conditions. The leverage team then split up once more, in attempt to lie low.

2009

Six months later, the team all met up when Sophie invited them all to see her performance of The Sound of Music, and later went to the bar beneath Nate's apartment. There, Parker admitted that she was not particularly enjoying her new life as an honest person, and had stolen the Hope Diamond, but had put it back. Shortly afterward, Nate was almost murdered, and the crew agreed to help a client. After successfully jailing a corrupt banker, Parker and the others set up Leverage headquarters in Nate's new apartment, and opened up for business. Shortly afterward, Sophie takes a leave of absence from the team, leaving Tara Cole to take over for her as the grifter of the group. Parker and the others don't initially trust Tara, because she originally lied to them about her identity. However as time moves along they welcome her into the group, and Tara even begins coaching Parker on her grifting like Sophie did. Everything comes to a close, though, when Nate recruits the team to help him take down corrupted Mayor, Brad Culpepper III. The team soon discovers that it is not Culpepper who is in charge of this crime, but Tony Kadjic, who's working with the mayor and using the fact that he reports intelligence to the FBI as cover. The scam with Kadjic goes bad, and not even when Sophie intervenes does it help. The team defeats Kadjic, but is cornered by the FBI and Sterling, Nate then takes the fall for his group, saying he'll go to jail if his group is set free, and declares himself a thief.

2010

After Nate's arrest, Parker and the rest of the group teamed up in order to try and come up with a plan in order to bust him out, which they did. After Sophie failed to get Nate enthusiastic about the plan, Nate found the group a client within the prison walls. As it turned out the prison's warden was corrupt, and the team came up with a plan to take him down and break Nate out at the same time. After their plan succeeded, the team set up Leverage again. However their escape was not without harm, in the process of it they'd attracted the attention of a woman who said she wanted the Leverage team to take down an extremely corrupt man, Damien Moreau, and gave them a deadline. She said if they didn't do it, she'd send Nate back to jail.

Personality: Parker seems to be constantly testing her skills, as she can instinctively case any building she sees. She also has the skills to make herself appear and disappear from locked rooms at will. As a thief, Parker uses little equipment other than a self-modified harness, (this harness has resulted in excellent upper body strength), and a taser. She has a soft spot for children and recognizes that her early life has changed her and doesn't want other children to be like her, but still can go out of her way to save children who she feels need her help. Parker's weakness is her social skills. Socially inept to a point, she either under- or over-compensates her emotional responses. But she has been working on this with Sophie. Since trust doesn't come easily to her, she has varied relationships with the team. While she trusts Eliot, Nate and Sophie, she is closest to Hardison, whom she is dating. She has stated that she's most afraid of letting down the people she cares about. Parker is the team's wild card, since no one knows what she'll do. She has proven at times to have a ruthless, sadistic streak or to be slightly psychopathic. (e.g. she grinned as she watched Eliot beat up Sterling, she smiled while choking Tara.) Parker's only motivation appears to be money. She steals, not for property, or assets, but for cash. She has a rather unconventional relationship with cash, and has the ability to tell the difference between counterfeit and legitimate money by scrutinizing, touching, and even smelling it. It goes as far as her Christmas wish seems to have been a large wad of non-sequentially numbered cash, which she received from Nate and Sophie. However, Eliot is teaching her to have passion for more things in life, since Parker saw how much Eliot liked cooking.

Other: She knows Eliot is hiding something but she doesn't know what it could be.

Name: Josie Doyle

Age: 15

Gender: Female

Nickname: Thief/Hitter

Talent: Stealing Cars, Fighting, Getting the Job Done

Appearance:

Face Claim: Malese Jow

Crush: Open

Family: The Doyles, (Irish Mafia)

Friends: Open

Children: N/A

Other: She's an old friend of Eliot's

Name: MacKenzie Malikov
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Nickname: Kenzi, Kenz
Talent: Theft, tricking people, pickpocking
Appearance: http://8tracks.imgix.net/i/000/716/56...
Face Claim: Ksenia Solo
Crush: Open
Family: Step father (Jackson) Mother (Galina) Half sister (Sadie)
Friends: Open
Children: Corbin (Son, unborn)
Other: Is pregnant and she speaks fluent Russian.

Name: Corbin Malikov
Age: 3
Gender: Male
Nickname:
Talent: Will be the same as his mom
Appearance:

Face Claim: Connor Corum
Crush: Open
Family: Kenzi (Mother)
Friends: Open
Children: None
Other:

Name: Maria Lucille Toretto

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Nickname: Lucille, Lucy, Mia

Talent: Anything to do with Pregnancy, Doctoring, Street Racing,

Appearance:

Face Claim: Jordana Brewster

Crush: Open

Family: Dominic Anthony Toretto (Brother), Jack (Son)

Friends: Letty, Leon, Vince, Jesse,

Children: Jack (Son)

Other: When Not in the Hospital she's a talented Street racer, who goes by Mia.

Name: Tamsin
Age: Looks around 25
Gender: Female
Nickname: Tam, Tam-Tam
Talent: Fighting, Theft, Manipulating people
Appearance:
Face Claim: Rachel Skarsten
Crush: Open
Family: None that she considers family
Friends: Kenzi
Children: Hailie and Hanna
Other: Works as a Bounty Hunter and Mercenary

Name: Hailie
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Nickname: Hails, Hail
Talent: Dancing, Gymnastics
Appearance: (The girl in pink)
Face Claim: Unknown
Crush: Open
Family: Tamsin (Mother) Hanna (Identical twin sister, 4)
Friends: Open
Children: None
Other:

Name: Hanna
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Nickname: Han, Anna
Talent: Tai-chi, Ballet
Appearance: (The girl in blue)
Face Claim: Unknown
Crush: Open
Family: Tamsin (Mother) Hailie (Identical twin sister, 4)
Friends: Open
Children: None
Other:

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Name: Faith Lehane
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Nickname: Fai, Firecracker,
Talent: Has Mastered all forms of Martial arts,
Appearance:
Face Claim: Eliza Dushku
Crush: Robin Wood
Family: Steven Lehane (Brother), George Lehane (Father, Incarcerated), Eliot (Half Brother, Doesn't know), Katie-Beth (Niece, Doesn't Know), Max (Nephew, Doesn't Know)
Friends: Open
Children: Open
Other: Her Boyfriend was Conned and then screwed over

Name: Dakota
Age: 6
Gender: Female
Nickname: None
Talent: Stealing, Acrobatics,
Appearance:
Face Claim: Dakota Fanning
Crush: none
Family: Parker
Friends: none
Children: none
Other:

Name: Willa Monday

Age: 17

Gender: Female

Nickname: none

Talent: Stealing, Running, Climbing, Parkour, Jumping, Minor hacking, and technology in general, Pick-pocketing, Never forgets a face (can't pick the pocket of the same person twice), Lip reading


Appearance:

Face Claim: Maddie Hasson

Crush: Timo Proud

Family: Unknown (Her clan of Gypsies)

Friends: the gypsies, Timo

Children: no

History: Headstrong and independent Willa Monday was bred and raised to be a criminal by an extended family of gypsies, but is now on probation under Leo’s protection. She’s confused in Leo’s faith in her and tries to get used to the fact these two guys seem to want nothing more from her than to set her on the straight-and-narrow. Along these lines, Willa works at The Ends of the Earth Bar where Leo and Walter on occasion use her hard-gained skills in their own work efforts.

Personality: Willa is a headstrong and independent character, bred and raised to be a criminal by her extended gypsy family. She's brave, sarcastic, brazen, and sometimes downright mean. She's also very smart, as she has a knack for technology, and gets Walter's way of thinking to a point. She’s confused in Leo’s faith in her and tries to get used to Walter and Leo apparently wanting nothing more from her than to set her on the straight-and-narrow. Seeing as she lets them more and more, shows she has a very good heart and wants to be a better person.

Other: betrothed to Timo Proud

Anastacia

Name: Timo Rowan Proud
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Nickname: Gypsy Boy
Talent: Stealing, Running, Climbing, Parkour, Jumping, Minor hacking, and technology in general, Pick-pocketing, Never forgets a face (can't pick the pocket of the same person twice),
Appearance:
Face Claim: Toby Hemingway
Crush: Willa Monday, Formerly Magdelena Ruiz
Family: Unknown (His Clan of Gypsies)
Friends: The Gypsies, Willa
Children: No
Other: Betrothed to Willa Monday