The Tragedy Is Man

Numair: WE NEED AN ADULT!

Daine: Numair, you’re an adult!

Bucky: Thanks?

Natasha: It would look even better around Steve’s waist

Steve: …

Bonus:

Not Parker stealing Sophie's coat so that she'll stay home with the fam just for today.

Not Eliot with his little tray of gourmet food so casually presented.

Eliot just loves to cook, Sophie, watchutalkinbout.

Cosseting? The very idea! They're so confused and offended.

Oh, and Harry, you know, we don't know his whole life.

Maybe he likes hunting down old and obscure British dramas! Maybe it's a hobby of his! Who knows?

Why so suspicious, Sophie?

What, these guys? With these faces?

They've never been weird, ever, in their lives.

This is normal, Sophie.

Like, on the one hand, if the display settings in his email program get changed slightly, he dumps his computer in Hardison’s lap stating his email is “broken” and demands Hardison fix it, without attempting even the most basic troubleshooting. Software updates that change the interface layout result in months of grumbling and asking Hardison where they hid the ___ option this time. On the other hand, when one of Hardison’s magical hacker flash drives encounters a minor hurdle Hardison didn’t expect, Eliot just opens a command line interface and starts tapping away hunt-and-peck style. Whoever they’re working with nervously asks if he’s sure he knows what he’s doing and maybe they should wait for Hardison, and Eliot just says “What? I’ve been dating a hacker for 8 years! This is what Hardison does!” And sure enough, it is. He’s not fast, but he actually does know his way around a command line and knows enough of Hardison’s basic hacking techniques to fix minor hiccups on the fly.

- picks up information specific to the fields his partners work in

- retains and mentally catalogs information that might apply to his “field”

- despite all of his grousing gets some very pure joy out of Hardison’s tech tricks

I’m not a programmer and barely use command line interfaces, but given that it’s interoperable on multiple OSs, it’s relatively “clean”, it doesn’t make you navigate through different menus and dropdowns or use a small cursor…

Hardison: That’s just you an’ your big punchy hands

Eliot: You tellin’ me there’s another reason it’s called a “cursor”?

And it relies on memorization and clear instructions - things we know Eliot excels at.