#pardicer

Hardison is attracted to people who can manhandle him

Eliot is a wolf down to his soul

Parker knows about this without having to be told

Parker considers Eliot part of her and Hardison's relationship

I am of course squeeing along with everyone else on the "me and you and hardison" front but for me specifically? "Because it's fun and I wanted you to have fun" is incredibly validating given the whole 'for joy' arc I wrote last season.

Animal Souls Parker: A History

Parker makes sense, I swear she does. Parker makes sense to me, at least.

either the pardicer series extrapolated the dynamic behind this exchange from The Scared Stiff Job with astounding accuracy or I have actually gone off the deep end (possible).

Picture me in front of a tack board covered with screenshots and red string screaming about how I always knew Parker could see inside Eliot's soul and that Eliot is, in fact, a wolf, and that he has been helping her come to terms with hunger and mess and mortality.

The "Aldis Hodge is busy" plot point in rs2: omg VERY cool I cannot wait to write about this

Eliot: What do you want to know? Names? Dates? Locations? (softly) You want to know what food was on their breath? Their eyes – what color their eyes were? You want to know the last words they spoke? You want to know which ones deserved it. Or, better yet, the ones that didn't? Do you want to know which ones begged? Do you know why I remember these things? Interrogator: I don't know. Eliot: You don't know? 'Cause I can't forget. So there's nothing you can do, no punishment you can hand out that's worse than what I live with every day. So, to answer your question, no. No, I haven't counted. I don't need to.

Then consider this exchange with Sophie from The Lonely Hearts Job:

Sophie: And you’re one to laugh. You don’t even bother to learn their names. They’re just waitress, nurse, stewardess. Eliot: First of all, it’s flight attendant, all right? They don’t like being called stewardess. And, second, I know their names.

Now consider this line a couple chapters back in my WIP that's been stuck in my head:

He knows from experience that a little of that will always stay with him, even if he leaves now and never sees her again. He'll always remember her face like this, and that radiant smile, too. He's good with faces, and sometimes he thinks he collects the faces that give him warm feelings to help counterbalance the other ones.

Writing that line made me realize the exchange in The Lonely Hearts Job can almost be read as a callback to The Experimental Job and I am having feelings about it.