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Sam Winchester | Supernatural
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March AC cleared with 3 here.
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Character Name: Parker
Canon: Leverage
Medium: TV
Character Age: 26
Canon Point: Season 3 Finale, jumping from the train as the car blows up.
Why did you choose this character?: Parker has always been my favorite character in the series. The way she deals with things, the fact that she's still growing and learning how to deal with other people is probably the most fun I've had in RP when dealing with a 'not-super-social' character. Her lack of tact and shame is fun to play with and yet, she's extremely intelligent and so it's not an awkward moment of being stuck playing the "I don't get it." person. Her skillset alone also makes her fun to put into different situations. She does need a group of people around her eventually, which is what I hope to really try to rebuild for her here in the city. Honestly, she's a character I've tried in multiple games, but the setting is always too difficult for her to break out into. I think having the freedom of an entire city and a much smaller scale as far as people to meet will really help out.
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Her canon point is right at the end of S3 where she's jumping from a train where they didn't diffuse the bomb in time. She'll think that it was a hospital probably, the whole waking up in the pod thing, but she's going to try and find her team first. Then she'll probably assume it was a scatter at the end of the mission since it went slightly sideways with the actual explosion. She'll try to adapt, possibly break into places and start collecting her things again. I think she'll be a lurker for a bit, just watching everyone else. She might reach out on the network to people, but she won't settle into anything permanent for a while - which should be interesting for me to play through.
History: http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/Parker
Personality:
Parker can be described in about a million different ways, but the only thing that won't be falling into her 'three words that describe me' is normal. In fact that's one of her few fears, is that she isn't fitting in with everyone else. Being a thief, she needs to be able to hide herself in the crowd, but due to everything else about Parker, she doesn't always pull that off.
She's a thief. Deep down, she doesn't even steal things for the actual item, but for either the value or the challenge. However, hardly anything is considered a challenge for Parker. She's been training to be a thief since she was a child, rewarded with ice cream sundaes when she passed through a laser grid. The thrill of the job is in how to get to the item. High ceilings, ventilation shafts, harnesses and wire work, huge vaults with pressure sensitive floors -- all of those things are just a part of the equation to Parker and she is usually very quick at figuring out how to solve the problem.
Parker is a visual thinker too. She needs to see something laid out, preferring to draw it out herself than to rely on computers to map it out for her, before she can figure out how to work the problem. She's also extremely good at figuring out spatial dynamics and can do most math in her head. It's something that she's just naturally good at doing.
Because she's intelligent and thinks about things differently, she doesn't always understand the more basic-everyman type comments. She's a quick learner though and even though there are a lot of things that she doesn't "get" the more she is exposed to these situations the quicker she can sort them out herself. In "The Studio Job" she wasn't sure what the "Fiddle" they were selling was. Even after she'd been told directly that the Fiddle had just walked in, timed to Eliot walking in, it took her until later in the episode to finally make the connection. Extremely pleased with her discovery, she calls out to the team, from the other room, "OH! I get it! Eliot's the fiddle!"
Fear isn't something that Parker has. In fact she's so fearless, that she's an adrenaline junkie. She creates her own riggings, harnesses and would prefer to sail over a railing down on a line than try to actually take the stairs. She's more comfortable on rooftops, high places, or in a harness hovering over a pressure sensitive floor. She doesn't take unneeded risks, because she'll make sure to plan everything out first if possible. She's no stranger to thinking on the fly though and can adjust her plan accordingly, quickly and with a pretty good result.
Another thing Parker is lacking is shame. It comes hand in hand with her lack of fear and joins alongside that lack of social knowing what is socially acceptable. She'll strip down in a room with other people, bluntly express exactly what is on her mind regardless of the reaction she'll get. In fact most times she's shocked at the reaction she gets. During "The Wedding Job" she plainly tells the bridesmaid that she's gained weight, wondering how the girl could assume that letting the dress out could mean she'd lost weight. When trying to frame a politician, she removes her dress without even being prompted, assuming that since they're dealing with a sex scandal that they'll need that sort of picture as well. Even with Hardison in the room, she just drops it to the ground, without even a second thought.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, where Parker is not so successful in execution would be her social skills. Shuffled through foster care, some of them not exactly the best of people, Parker's coping mechanisms were often categorized as extremely odd. Her fear of the dark was solved by being buried alive, which is not normal at all. She was training to be a cat burglar at age nine, a getaway driver at 11 and a car thief at 12. Because of these things, the usual things that children learn growing up - manners, how to make friends -- the usual kid things, just didn't happen for her. Even when she was training with Archie, she wasn't part of his family, but an apprentice that was kept away from that sort of life. That isolation and motivation to just succeed at her skills as a thief shaped her into the unstoppable, referred to as insane, thief that she was.
I say was because she's had over three years with a team, with a family-like environment that is helping to shape her. She has leadership from Nate and female support from Sophie, which is something she never had before. Because of this new family-like environment, she's able to take a look back at the path she took to get where she is and she can attempt to try and help out people that were in the situations she was in. In "The Stork Job" she tries to save the children in the orphanage, because she knows what it's like to just want a home and to do whatever it took to be wanted. In "The Boost Job" she recognizes 'Shorty' as being in the exact same situation that she was in when she was a kid. Where she got left behind, Parker tries to help her make a better choice than she did, and warns her to get away from the job the next day. These little choices, trying to do the right thing because that's what their team does, shows that she's grown up from the thief she was into the good person she is now.
She's getting better at dealing with social situations too. She doesn't understand all the social situations she's in, or the emotions that they bring up in her, but she is trying to adapt. Which, thankfully, is something she's good at. In "The Double Blind Job" when Hardison bonds with the female client, spending more time with her, Parker becomes jealous of that connection. She doesn't directly understand that it is jealousy, nor does she understand why she's jealous, not really. However, through the course of the episode, she learns that she has to confront the feelings and decide what to do with them. She starts to explain it to Hardison, but that sort of open trust that admitting that she wants that sort of relationship isn't something she's prepared for and she backs down at the last moment.
In some cases, Parker has the same adaptation technique that Sophie does. Sophie is a horrible actress on stage, but on the job she's flawless. Parker, while she's not perfect on the job, there is a certain level of grace and adaptive behavior that she can rely on. In "The Studio Job" she twirls and spins with grace and elegance through the room, lifting tickets and barely being noticed, but in "The Reunion Job" when Hardison asks her for a dance, she barely moves (granted, she's on a harness, but she could've actually danced, instead of being turned around on the wire by Hardison). In "The Juror #6 Job" she's put into a group peer setting and has to deal with being able to convince everyone to side with her. It takes her some time, but she becomes "Alice" and actually makes a few friends.
Parker is a very unique person. She has an interesting point of view on things, even if at often times that perspective isn't one that anyone else wants to hear. It's the blunt thing again. She is learning though and being exposed to more situations that she can plainly see as 'wrong' only pushes her harder and faster toward ensuring that they do the right thing, her included.
First Person Sample:
(this starts as a text message, but goes into phone call, and then into in person)
http://eldorado-rpg.livejournal.com/36670.html?thread=1440318#t1440318
Third Person Sample:
http://eldorado-rpg.livejournal.com/30554.html
Player Journal:
Player Age:
Current Characters:
Sam Winchester | Supernatural
Caroline Forbes | Vampire Diaries, the (TV)
Peter Burke | White Collar
March AC cleared with 3 here.
April AC cleared with 3 here.
May AC cleared with 3 here.
Character Name: Parker
Canon: Leverage
Medium: TV
Character Age: 26
Canon Point: Season 3 Finale, jumping from the train as the car blows up.
Why did you choose this character?: Parker has always been my favorite character in the series. The way she deals with things, the fact that she's still growing and learning how to deal with other people is probably the most fun I've had in RP when dealing with a 'not-super-social' character. Her lack of tact and shame is fun to play with and yet, she's extremely intelligent and so it's not an awkward moment of being stuck playing the "I don't get it." person. Her skillset alone also makes her fun to put into different situations. She does need a group of people around her eventually, which is what I hope to really try to rebuild for her here in the city. Honestly, she's a character I've tried in multiple games, but the setting is always too difficult for her to break out into. I think having the freedom of an entire city and a much smaller scale as far as people to meet will really help out.
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: Her canon point is right at the end of S3 where she's jumping from a train where they didn't diffuse the bomb in time. She'll think that it was a hospital probably, the whole waking up in the pod thing, but she's going to try and find her team first. Then she'll probably assume it was a scatter at the end of the mission since it went slightly sideways with the actual explosion. She'll try to adapt, possibly break into places and start collecting her things again. I think she'll be a lurker for a bit, just watching everyone else. She might reach out on the network to people, but she won't settle into anything permanent for a while - which should be interesting for me to play through.
History: http://leverage.wikia.com/wiki/Parker
Personality:
Parker can be described in about a million different ways, but the only thing that won't be falling into her 'three words that describe me' is normal. In fact that's one of her few fears, is that she isn't fitting in with everyone else. Being a thief, she needs to be able to hide herself in the crowd, but due to everything else about Parker, she doesn't always pull that off.
She's a thief. Deep down, she doesn't even steal things for the actual item, but for either the value or the challenge. However, hardly anything is considered a challenge for Parker. She's been training to be a thief since she was a child, rewarded with ice cream sundaes when she passed through a laser grid. The thrill of the job is in how to get to the item. High ceilings, ventilation shafts, harnesses and wire work, huge vaults with pressure sensitive floors -- all of those things are just a part of the equation to Parker and she is usually very quick at figuring out how to solve the problem.
Parker is a visual thinker too. She needs to see something laid out, preferring to draw it out herself than to rely on computers to map it out for her, before she can figure out how to work the problem. She's also extremely good at figuring out spatial dynamics and can do most math in her head. It's something that she's just naturally good at doing.
Because she's intelligent and thinks about things differently, she doesn't always understand the more basic-everyman type comments. She's a quick learner though and even though there are a lot of things that she doesn't "get" the more she is exposed to these situations the quicker she can sort them out herself. In "The Studio Job" she wasn't sure what the "Fiddle" they were selling was. Even after she'd been told directly that the Fiddle had just walked in, timed to Eliot walking in, it took her until later in the episode to finally make the connection. Extremely pleased with her discovery, she calls out to the team, from the other room, "OH! I get it! Eliot's the fiddle!"
Fear isn't something that Parker has. In fact she's so fearless, that she's an adrenaline junkie. She creates her own riggings, harnesses and would prefer to sail over a railing down on a line than try to actually take the stairs. She's more comfortable on rooftops, high places, or in a harness hovering over a pressure sensitive floor. She doesn't take unneeded risks, because she'll make sure to plan everything out first if possible. She's no stranger to thinking on the fly though and can adjust her plan accordingly, quickly and with a pretty good result.
Another thing Parker is lacking is shame. It comes hand in hand with her lack of fear and joins alongside that lack of social knowing what is socially acceptable. She'll strip down in a room with other people, bluntly express exactly what is on her mind regardless of the reaction she'll get. In fact most times she's shocked at the reaction she gets. During "The Wedding Job" she plainly tells the bridesmaid that she's gained weight, wondering how the girl could assume that letting the dress out could mean she'd lost weight. When trying to frame a politician, she removes her dress without even being prompted, assuming that since they're dealing with a sex scandal that they'll need that sort of picture as well. Even with Hardison in the room, she just drops it to the ground, without even a second thought.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, where Parker is not so successful in execution would be her social skills. Shuffled through foster care, some of them not exactly the best of people, Parker's coping mechanisms were often categorized as extremely odd. Her fear of the dark was solved by being buried alive, which is not normal at all. She was training to be a cat burglar at age nine, a getaway driver at 11 and a car thief at 12. Because of these things, the usual things that children learn growing up - manners, how to make friends -- the usual kid things, just didn't happen for her. Even when she was training with Archie, she wasn't part of his family, but an apprentice that was kept away from that sort of life. That isolation and motivation to just succeed at her skills as a thief shaped her into the unstoppable, referred to as insane, thief that she was.
I say was because she's had over three years with a team, with a family-like environment that is helping to shape her. She has leadership from Nate and female support from Sophie, which is something she never had before. Because of this new family-like environment, she's able to take a look back at the path she took to get where she is and she can attempt to try and help out people that were in the situations she was in. In "The Stork Job" she tries to save the children in the orphanage, because she knows what it's like to just want a home and to do whatever it took to be wanted. In "The Boost Job" she recognizes 'Shorty' as being in the exact same situation that she was in when she was a kid. Where she got left behind, Parker tries to help her make a better choice than she did, and warns her to get away from the job the next day. These little choices, trying to do the right thing because that's what their team does, shows that she's grown up from the thief she was into the good person she is now.
She's getting better at dealing with social situations too. She doesn't understand all the social situations she's in, or the emotions that they bring up in her, but she is trying to adapt. Which, thankfully, is something she's good at. In "The Double Blind Job" when Hardison bonds with the female client, spending more time with her, Parker becomes jealous of that connection. She doesn't directly understand that it is jealousy, nor does she understand why she's jealous, not really. However, through the course of the episode, she learns that she has to confront the feelings and decide what to do with them. She starts to explain it to Hardison, but that sort of open trust that admitting that she wants that sort of relationship isn't something she's prepared for and she backs down at the last moment.
In some cases, Parker has the same adaptation technique that Sophie does. Sophie is a horrible actress on stage, but on the job she's flawless. Parker, while she's not perfect on the job, there is a certain level of grace and adaptive behavior that she can rely on. In "The Studio Job" she twirls and spins with grace and elegance through the room, lifting tickets and barely being noticed, but in "The Reunion Job" when Hardison asks her for a dance, she barely moves (granted, she's on a harness, but she could've actually danced, instead of being turned around on the wire by Hardison). In "The Juror #6 Job" she's put into a group peer setting and has to deal with being able to convince everyone to side with her. It takes her some time, but she becomes "Alice" and actually makes a few friends.
Parker is a very unique person. She has an interesting point of view on things, even if at often times that perspective isn't one that anyone else wants to hear. It's the blunt thing again. She is learning though and being exposed to more situations that she can plainly see as 'wrong' only pushes her harder and faster toward ensuring that they do the right thing, her included.
First Person Sample:
(this starts as a text message, but goes into phone call, and then into in person)
http://eldorado-rpg.livejournal.com/36670.html?thread=1440318#t1440318
Third Person Sample:
http://eldorado-rpg.livejournal.com/30554.html
[archive] from iFMagazine
Sep. 20th, 2008 03:48 pmAcademy Award winner Timothy Hutton always brings something special to TNT’s hit drama series LEVERAGE. As Nate Ford, not only does he amaze with acting prowess, but he’s got a talent for creating a variety of interesting characters for the popular cons featured on the show.
On the show, Ford is the Mastermind of a group of thieves who help the helpless take down corporate scum and other high-level baddies who can't be taken out through proper legal channels. The team also consists of The Grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), The Hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), The Thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and The Hacker Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge).
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we bring our loyal readers the 10 things you need to know about Nate Ford (The Mastermind) that will help you going into the new season.
1) He’s the Mastermind. When it comes to putting together the capers in LEVERAGE, all of the others in his crew turn to Nate for the idea – well that is if he isn’t too drunk to pull it off. Luckily, they don’t always do everything he says and Sophie, for one, frequently tends to go off the reservation when it comes to Nate’s plans. However, Nate’s crazy, "never-think-it-will-work" cons usually end up working … unless his arch-nemesis Jim Sterling (Mark Sheppard) is in involved.
2) He’s a team player. Nate is more than willing to take one for the team regardless of what is happening or how dangerous or perilous the costs. He has grown attached to his crew and considers them his new family. And like a member of a family, he is more than willing to protect them in any way he can. So much so that he ends up taking one of the team by getting arrested at the end of Season Two.
3) He’s a drunk. When Nate’s son died, he didn’t take it well. He became an alcoholic. Now, some would say this just made him a better man when it comes to pulling off a con, but for his team, it has caused nothing but trouble. He doesn’t think right, he pulls risky moves and is altogether a danger to whatever caper they try to pull off. He got sober during the first season but fell off the wagon in the second during a con when an Irish thug threatened the bar in which they work out of and had to drink in order to convince him of his intentions (even if they were false). Nate’s drinking continued throughout Season Two and we’ll see where they take this plotline in Season Three. Maybe he sobered up in jail?
4) He’s a former insurance fraud investigator. Nate once did things on the up and up. In fact, prior to the death of his son, he fought against the very people that he joined forces with in the first episode of LEVERAGE. This has led to numerous confrontations with insurance companies all over the place and given him his arch-nemesis in Sterling (a former insurance investigator himself turned INTERPOL agent who would be viewed as the good guy in any other real-world situation). Sterling has been a thorn in the side of the LEVERAGE crew for the past two seasons and chances are we’ll see him once again in Season Three.
5) He’s from Boston. While LEVERAGE is filmed in Portland, Or., in the world of the show, everything since Season Two mostly centers around the Boston area (although the crew frequently travels to other locations and even international regions). No doubt that we will continue to find the crew here and working from the bar that they have frequented as their headquarters of initial operations.
6) Nate’s father is still alive. At some point, this is going to be a major plot point and character development for Nate. We know literally nothing about his father other than the few mentions of him here and there throughout Season Two. Obviously, this is something that the writers and creators of the series are keeping in their back pocket for a major turning point. Will we see him in Season Three? Will he come to the aid of Nate when he’s in jail? We'll have to wait and see.
7) He loves Sophie. Nate and Sophie have a history, the extent of which we don’t fully know, but there has always been some sort of sexual tension between the two from the very first time they saw each other again. We know that at some point, Nate busted Sophie for her grifting, but we aren’t sure if he let her go or something else happened that brought them close together. But after denying it himself numerous times, when Sophie left the team to “find herself”, Nate definitely missed her. Very much so and in numerous episodes we see him cooing for her and eventually expressing his feeling for her. Season Two ended with a kiss and a slap between the two - something that they will have to reconcile during the course of Season Three.
8) He’s in jail. Because of being a team player, the first episode of Season Three finds Nate in prison after getting arrested at the end of Season Two in order to protect the other four members of his crew. He did this as a sacrifice because he didn’t want anyone getting in trouble for the things they did – even if most of it involves them scamming and swindling people who really deserve it. No doubt as Season Three begins, we will see more of this and what happened during his jail time as well as its affect on him and his relationship with the crew moving forward. Will they try to break him out? Will he have served his time? Will he want to get back in the game right away? We’ll have to wait to see.
9) He thought he was the good guy. Before getting involved with the other members of the LEVERAGE crew, Nate, as mentioned before, was on the other side, busting criminals and those taking advantage of others. Sure, he takes advantage of others now, but usually they are true criminals and deserve everything they get. The interesting thing here is that Nate is the one and not the other four that straddles the line between doing what’s right and just doing what’s right to get the job done. Numerous times, he’s been willing to leave someone to squalor or not save a number of orphan kids because it would mean going out of their way beyond the call of the con. It took the other members of the crew to actually realize they had to do these things or what they were doing wasn’t enough.
10) But, he's now accepted he's a thief. While he spent two seasons convincing himself he was on the right side of the law and that he was indeed the good guy, that thin line has slowly eroded away. At one point, he thought he was above his LEVERAGE crew, but by the end of Season Two, he had to come to terms that he was a common thief, just like them. Even if he's there to help the helpless get revenge on all sorts of icky bad guys, he still breaks the law to get the job done. His acceptance of who he is now, especially that he's doing time in prison (and, with all that Catholic guilt penance that's no doubt swirling around in his head), this should be a major part of how he continues to evolve throughout Season Three.
On the show, Ford is the Mastermind of a group of thieves who help the helpless take down corporate scum and other high-level baddies who can't be taken out through proper legal channels. The team also consists of The Grifter Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman), The Hitter Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane), The Thief Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and The Hacker Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge).
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we bring our loyal readers the 10 things you need to know about Nate Ford (The Mastermind) that will help you going into the new season.
1) He’s the Mastermind. When it comes to putting together the capers in LEVERAGE, all of the others in his crew turn to Nate for the idea – well that is if he isn’t too drunk to pull it off. Luckily, they don’t always do everything he says and Sophie, for one, frequently tends to go off the reservation when it comes to Nate’s plans. However, Nate’s crazy, "never-think-it-will-work" cons usually end up working … unless his arch-nemesis Jim Sterling (Mark Sheppard) is in involved.
2) He’s a team player. Nate is more than willing to take one for the team regardless of what is happening or how dangerous or perilous the costs. He has grown attached to his crew and considers them his new family. And like a member of a family, he is more than willing to protect them in any way he can. So much so that he ends up taking one of the team by getting arrested at the end of Season Two.
3) He’s a drunk. When Nate’s son died, he didn’t take it well. He became an alcoholic. Now, some would say this just made him a better man when it comes to pulling off a con, but for his team, it has caused nothing but trouble. He doesn’t think right, he pulls risky moves and is altogether a danger to whatever caper they try to pull off. He got sober during the first season but fell off the wagon in the second during a con when an Irish thug threatened the bar in which they work out of and had to drink in order to convince him of his intentions (even if they were false). Nate’s drinking continued throughout Season Two and we’ll see where they take this plotline in Season Three. Maybe he sobered up in jail?
4) He’s a former insurance fraud investigator. Nate once did things on the up and up. In fact, prior to the death of his son, he fought against the very people that he joined forces with in the first episode of LEVERAGE. This has led to numerous confrontations with insurance companies all over the place and given him his arch-nemesis in Sterling (a former insurance investigator himself turned INTERPOL agent who would be viewed as the good guy in any other real-world situation). Sterling has been a thorn in the side of the LEVERAGE crew for the past two seasons and chances are we’ll see him once again in Season Three.
5) He’s from Boston. While LEVERAGE is filmed in Portland, Or., in the world of the show, everything since Season Two mostly centers around the Boston area (although the crew frequently travels to other locations and even international regions). No doubt that we will continue to find the crew here and working from the bar that they have frequented as their headquarters of initial operations.
6) Nate’s father is still alive. At some point, this is going to be a major plot point and character development for Nate. We know literally nothing about his father other than the few mentions of him here and there throughout Season Two. Obviously, this is something that the writers and creators of the series are keeping in their back pocket for a major turning point. Will we see him in Season Three? Will he come to the aid of Nate when he’s in jail? We'll have to wait and see.
7) He loves Sophie. Nate and Sophie have a history, the extent of which we don’t fully know, but there has always been some sort of sexual tension between the two from the very first time they saw each other again. We know that at some point, Nate busted Sophie for her grifting, but we aren’t sure if he let her go or something else happened that brought them close together. But after denying it himself numerous times, when Sophie left the team to “find herself”, Nate definitely missed her. Very much so and in numerous episodes we see him cooing for her and eventually expressing his feeling for her. Season Two ended with a kiss and a slap between the two - something that they will have to reconcile during the course of Season Three.
8) He’s in jail. Because of being a team player, the first episode of Season Three finds Nate in prison after getting arrested at the end of Season Two in order to protect the other four members of his crew. He did this as a sacrifice because he didn’t want anyone getting in trouble for the things they did – even if most of it involves them scamming and swindling people who really deserve it. No doubt as Season Three begins, we will see more of this and what happened during his jail time as well as its affect on him and his relationship with the crew moving forward. Will they try to break him out? Will he have served his time? Will he want to get back in the game right away? We’ll have to wait to see.
9) He thought he was the good guy. Before getting involved with the other members of the LEVERAGE crew, Nate, as mentioned before, was on the other side, busting criminals and those taking advantage of others. Sure, he takes advantage of others now, but usually they are true criminals and deserve everything they get. The interesting thing here is that Nate is the one and not the other four that straddles the line between doing what’s right and just doing what’s right to get the job done. Numerous times, he’s been willing to leave someone to squalor or not save a number of orphan kids because it would mean going out of their way beyond the call of the con. It took the other members of the crew to actually realize they had to do these things or what they were doing wasn’t enough.
10) But, he's now accepted he's a thief. While he spent two seasons convincing himself he was on the right side of the law and that he was indeed the good guy, that thin line has slowly eroded away. At one point, he thought he was above his LEVERAGE crew, but by the end of Season Two, he had to come to terms that he was a common thief, just like them. Even if he's there to help the helpless get revenge on all sorts of icky bad guys, he still breaks the law to get the job done. His acceptance of who he is now, especially that he's doing time in prison (and, with all that Catholic guilt penance that's no doubt swirling around in his head), this should be a major part of how he continues to evolve throughout Season Three.
[archive] from iFMagazine
Sep. 20th, 2008 03:48 pmGina Bellman’s character of Sophie Devereaux on LEVERAGE is one of the biggest enigma’s stuffed into a mystery and wrapped in a puzzle. As a grifter, she’s been so many different characters that we may not even know if her personality is her own any more or just a sampling of all the people she’s played over the years in order to pull off a con. That’s what makes her perfect for the Leverage crew because she is damn good at what she does.
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we offer up the 10 things you need to know about Sophie Devereaux (The Grifter) that will remind fans (and those just jumping into the series) of where the show's been and where it's going.
1) She’s the grifter. Sophie has a number of talents, but above all else she excels at playing someone she is not. From a Southern Belle to a German to someone from France, Italy, New Zealand or even as far as Nigeria. Pretty much every episode she’s in, you can count on Sophie to have some sort of a special accent that appeals to the job at hand. The cool thing too about Sophie is that she knows many or most of these languages and can fluently speak them to cover her tracks.
2) She’s a horrible actor. Now, I’m not talking about the acting she does while on a con. She’s freaking amazing when she does that and has serious skills when it comes to pulling off the job. However, Sophie has ambitions to be an actress and star in film and stage. There’s only one problem. She sucks as an actor. No matter what it is, she just can’t seem to pull off acting when it comes to something outside of a con. This has led to many hilarious moments on LEVERAGE throughout the first two seasons. Now that she is back full time with the crew, hopefully we’ll see more of these moments.
3) She left the team to discover herself. Sophie left in Season Two in order to find herself after a number of revealing episodes happened that focused on her own past and her place in the world now that she is one of the good guys. Sophie only appeared in the second half of Season Two as a shoulder to cry on for the other members of the crew or to offer advice to the crew in whatever job they were pulling off. It wasn’t until the end of Season Two when she returned to get the crew out of a jam. What did she do all this time away from the team? Did she really discover herself? Will we learn any words of wisdom and will she come back a different person? We will have to wait and see.
4) Her past is a mystery. More so than the rest of the team, we know pretty much nothing about Sophie other than she has had a laundry list of names over the years, had at least one run-in with Nate (Timothy Hutton) prior to them forming the team and at the beginning of Season Two, she had a boyfriend who didn’t know her real name or anything really about her (more on this below). Sophie is extremely guarded. She keeps her secrets so close to the vest that no one really has a clue as to where she came from or why she does what she does (unlike some of the others such as Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Eliot (Christian Kane)). Will we learn more about her this season?
5) We don’t know her real name. Sophie Devereaux is not her real name. She won’t tell anyone either. Not even her boyfriend that she had early in Season Two. She has her guard up at all times and was unwilling to share even her newly-adopted family in the Leverage crew what it is. Of course, heading into Season Three, everyone on the team now knows her real name except Nate. Will he find out? We'll have to wait and see.
6) She dresses to impress. Sophie takes care of herself. She takes obvious pride in her appearance with clothes that cost a’plenty and an addiction to high-cost shoes. Obviously, having such an expansive and amazing wardrobe costs a lot of money. And with her having bought numerous vacation homes, she had to get this money somewhere. Is this why she turned to a life of crime? Is this why she goes after stealing priceless artwork because she wants to keep an appearance of being high-brow even in the criminal world? Maybe we’ll find out.
7) The new Sophie. Before she left to “discover herself,” the old Sophie “died” in the “The Two Live Crew Job”. They used a con to have Sophie killed off in order to pull off the job. But for Sophie it was more than symbolic, it was her chance at a fresh start. She was tired of the lies and cons that have perpetuated her entire life, culminating in her boyfriend dumping her for not telling her the truth or anything about herself. That ended up being a blessing in disguise as it opened Sophie up like never before and we had a number of episodes where Sophie began to embrace her new life as one of the good guys. Thus, burying herself was a way for her to become this new person we saw in the earlier episodes of Season Two before she left. What Sophie will come back to the team in Season Three?
8) She has associates in grifting. When Sophie took a break from the team in order to “discover herself” she sent some help along so that the crew wouldn’t be minus a grifter. That was Tara (Jeri Ryan) who filled in for Sophie on the back half of Season Two. Tara did a great job in filling in and brought a similar, but different dynamic to the team. But is there a network of grifters out there just waiting for jobs? Where did the relationship between Tara and Sophie begin and why are they happy to help each other out – especially when it involves not gaining any money? Hopefully Tara will make a return appearance in Season Three and we’ll get some answers.
9) Sophie has feelings for Nate. But how far or deep do these feelings go we aren’t clear. We know that Nate is in love with Sophie – almost saying the "L" word to her in the finale of Season Two. And while we know that Sophie has similar feelings for Nate, we aren’t sure if they are real or genuine. We assume so, but with not knowing everything about Sophie as we should, it is hard to tell whether she is playing him or what she wants is a true relationship. Presumably, their relationship should grow in an interesting direction in Season Three as Nate is in prison and Sophie is back with the team. Plus, there was a kiss and slap during the Season Two finale between them - and the ramifications (and dealing with that moment) will linger throughout Season Three.
10) She's the Mother of Leverage 'Family'. If Nate is the de facto Father of the team, Sophie is the mother hen and everyone looks up to her for advice. Even when she was gone, the team knew, when Nate was out of control or impossible to talk to, they could get Sophie on the phone and work out their "issues." As Season Three begins, Nate (the father) has been in prison, and the mother has taken over the crew. How that plays out? Find out Sunday night on TNT.
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we offer up the 10 things you need to know about Sophie Devereaux (The Grifter) that will remind fans (and those just jumping into the series) of where the show's been and where it's going.
1) She’s the grifter. Sophie has a number of talents, but above all else she excels at playing someone she is not. From a Southern Belle to a German to someone from France, Italy, New Zealand or even as far as Nigeria. Pretty much every episode she’s in, you can count on Sophie to have some sort of a special accent that appeals to the job at hand. The cool thing too about Sophie is that she knows many or most of these languages and can fluently speak them to cover her tracks.
2) She’s a horrible actor. Now, I’m not talking about the acting she does while on a con. She’s freaking amazing when she does that and has serious skills when it comes to pulling off the job. However, Sophie has ambitions to be an actress and star in film and stage. There’s only one problem. She sucks as an actor. No matter what it is, she just can’t seem to pull off acting when it comes to something outside of a con. This has led to many hilarious moments on LEVERAGE throughout the first two seasons. Now that she is back full time with the crew, hopefully we’ll see more of these moments.
3) She left the team to discover herself. Sophie left in Season Two in order to find herself after a number of revealing episodes happened that focused on her own past and her place in the world now that she is one of the good guys. Sophie only appeared in the second half of Season Two as a shoulder to cry on for the other members of the crew or to offer advice to the crew in whatever job they were pulling off. It wasn’t until the end of Season Two when she returned to get the crew out of a jam. What did she do all this time away from the team? Did she really discover herself? Will we learn any words of wisdom and will she come back a different person? We will have to wait and see.
4) Her past is a mystery. More so than the rest of the team, we know pretty much nothing about Sophie other than she has had a laundry list of names over the years, had at least one run-in with Nate (Timothy Hutton) prior to them forming the team and at the beginning of Season Two, she had a boyfriend who didn’t know her real name or anything really about her (more on this below). Sophie is extremely guarded. She keeps her secrets so close to the vest that no one really has a clue as to where she came from or why she does what she does (unlike some of the others such as Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Eliot (Christian Kane)). Will we learn more about her this season?
5) We don’t know her real name. Sophie Devereaux is not her real name. She won’t tell anyone either. Not even her boyfriend that she had early in Season Two. She has her guard up at all times and was unwilling to share even her newly-adopted family in the Leverage crew what it is. Of course, heading into Season Three, everyone on the team now knows her real name except Nate. Will he find out? We'll have to wait and see.
6) She dresses to impress. Sophie takes care of herself. She takes obvious pride in her appearance with clothes that cost a’plenty and an addiction to high-cost shoes. Obviously, having such an expansive and amazing wardrobe costs a lot of money. And with her having bought numerous vacation homes, she had to get this money somewhere. Is this why she turned to a life of crime? Is this why she goes after stealing priceless artwork because she wants to keep an appearance of being high-brow even in the criminal world? Maybe we’ll find out.
7) The new Sophie. Before she left to “discover herself,” the old Sophie “died” in the “The Two Live Crew Job”. They used a con to have Sophie killed off in order to pull off the job. But for Sophie it was more than symbolic, it was her chance at a fresh start. She was tired of the lies and cons that have perpetuated her entire life, culminating in her boyfriend dumping her for not telling her the truth or anything about herself. That ended up being a blessing in disguise as it opened Sophie up like never before and we had a number of episodes where Sophie began to embrace her new life as one of the good guys. Thus, burying herself was a way for her to become this new person we saw in the earlier episodes of Season Two before she left. What Sophie will come back to the team in Season Three?
8) She has associates in grifting. When Sophie took a break from the team in order to “discover herself” she sent some help along so that the crew wouldn’t be minus a grifter. That was Tara (Jeri Ryan) who filled in for Sophie on the back half of Season Two. Tara did a great job in filling in and brought a similar, but different dynamic to the team. But is there a network of grifters out there just waiting for jobs? Where did the relationship between Tara and Sophie begin and why are they happy to help each other out – especially when it involves not gaining any money? Hopefully Tara will make a return appearance in Season Three and we’ll get some answers.
9) Sophie has feelings for Nate. But how far or deep do these feelings go we aren’t clear. We know that Nate is in love with Sophie – almost saying the "L" word to her in the finale of Season Two. And while we know that Sophie has similar feelings for Nate, we aren’t sure if they are real or genuine. We assume so, but with not knowing everything about Sophie as we should, it is hard to tell whether she is playing him or what she wants is a true relationship. Presumably, their relationship should grow in an interesting direction in Season Three as Nate is in prison and Sophie is back with the team. Plus, there was a kiss and slap during the Season Two finale between them - and the ramifications (and dealing with that moment) will linger throughout Season Three.
10) She's the Mother of Leverage 'Family'. If Nate is the de facto Father of the team, Sophie is the mother hen and everyone looks up to her for advice. Even when she was gone, the team knew, when Nate was out of control or impossible to talk to, they could get Sophie on the phone and work out their "issues." As Season Three begins, Nate (the father) has been in prison, and the mother has taken over the crew. How that plays out? Find out Sunday night on TNT.
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Sep. 20th, 2008 03:47 pmBeth Riesgraf’s character on LEVERAGE, Parker, is the kooky one of the bunch. Filled with nonsensical quips and meaningless factoids about nothing, Parker is comedy relief for the show that relies on her to usually dangle from rooftops or crawl through vents in order to snake a famous art piece or get into a heavily guarded area.
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we offer up the 10 things you need to know about Parker (The Thief) that will remind fans (and those just jumping into the series) of where the show's been and where it's going.
1) She’s the thief. If you need someone in a tight spot, Parker is the one to do it. Need someone to dive off a building without any fear? She’s your woman. Need a safe cracked? Parker has a great ear for hearing the clicks without the need of any special devices. She is her own special device having honed her skills over the years. Whatever it takes, Parker is the person you call on for the most dangerous and deadly feats.
2) She’s crazy. You have to be in order to rappel down buildings, ride a zip line, crawl through crazy spaces and do all sorts of other crazy sh** to pull off a con. Nate even said this much in the first episode of Season One when he went about trying to establish a team. Of course, this is in good fun for the show and it brings many hilarious moments usually during tension situations. This goes hand in hand with Parker being an adrenaline junkie who is obsessed with money.
3) She’s a mystery. Much like Sophie (Gina Bellman), Parker is an enigma. We don’t know a lot about her in terms of the cons she’s pulled or the reasons for pulling the cons in the first place. We do know a little about her past and her fear of horses through some wild, brief flashbacks but beyond that she’s pretty much a mystery on every other front. We don’t know her real age either although Hardison (Aldis Hodge) has tried to guess. Hopefully, we will get to see more of these hilarious flashbacks in Season Three and learn more about her.
4) We don’t know her first name. Much like Sophie again, we don’t know Parker’s first name. Everyone just calls her by her last name Parker and that’s fine with her. She isn’t willing to give up the info nor does she give it out willingly. Although no one has really worked on her to get it. Technically, we don’t know if Parker is even her last name.
5) She’s socially awkward. Parker has a hard time fitting in with normal society. She can’t function within social groups and blabbers on about random stuff when pressed to do so. She also seems to be unable to tell white lies when needed. This is perhaps the one area where Parker is fearful in her life. No fear of heights or being in a tight space, but being able to pass herself off as a normal person? That’s a real challenge.
6) She’s wanted in nine countries. What did Parker do that has her on the run and banned from these countries? This is part of her past we know so little about. She also had one of her foster parents die in an explosion. What really caused the explosion? Was it, in fact, Parker who did the deed or something more normal? We do know this has had a lasting impact on her as this has made her especially empathetic to foster children and orphans during the show.
7) She has a deep affection for a stuffed bunny. In the flashbacks we have seen, Parker has had a stuffed bunny with her. We don’t know why she cares so much for this bunny and what significance it holds for her or if she even still owns the stuffed animal. What we do know is that when she was a child it was obviously important.
8) She has an attachment to Hardison. Romantically isn’t the right word, but the two are clearly attracted to each other since the beginning. Probably more from Hardison’s point of view than Parker’s. But Parker has been more open and willing to have genuine conversations with Hardison more so than any other member of the crew (although she did open up to Sophie a few times when she was on her break). The two have kissed and shared a few moments, but for Parker it seemed to be more of part of the con than anything else. Hardison has tried to push the relationship further with subtle attempts at dates and getting her to reveal parts about her past but so far it hasn’t moved beyond a hands-off friendship. So far. Maybe this will develop further in Season Three?
9) She’s obsessed with money. Maybe Parker links money with happiness, because with money she was finally able to be free of whatever it was that she was trapped in during her childhood and thus leading to her having a better life. One thing is certain, before signing on to Nate’s crew, she was a thief for the thrill and because it allowed her to have money. Since then, her monetary desires have subsided a bit but not by that much.
10) She says what's on her mind. Granted, what's usually on her mind can some times sound a little strange when it comes out of her mouth. She is though, like an innocent child - which goes back to her social awkwardness. She's never experienced the normal touchstones most people have had in their lives, which is why so many things still fascinate her (we learn early on in Season Three that she never went to high school). Not having those filters though, is what makes her so endearing. She may know the ins and outs of thievery, but she's still learning what it is to a functioning person within a dysfunctional family (her team) and that's why she's so easily to love at every little thing she does.
With LEVERAGE beginning its third season with a two-hour event on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT on TNT, we offer up the 10 things you need to know about Parker (The Thief) that will remind fans (and those just jumping into the series) of where the show's been and where it's going.
1) She’s the thief. If you need someone in a tight spot, Parker is the one to do it. Need someone to dive off a building without any fear? She’s your woman. Need a safe cracked? Parker has a great ear for hearing the clicks without the need of any special devices. She is her own special device having honed her skills over the years. Whatever it takes, Parker is the person you call on for the most dangerous and deadly feats.
2) She’s crazy. You have to be in order to rappel down buildings, ride a zip line, crawl through crazy spaces and do all sorts of other crazy sh** to pull off a con. Nate even said this much in the first episode of Season One when he went about trying to establish a team. Of course, this is in good fun for the show and it brings many hilarious moments usually during tension situations. This goes hand in hand with Parker being an adrenaline junkie who is obsessed with money.
3) She’s a mystery. Much like Sophie (Gina Bellman), Parker is an enigma. We don’t know a lot about her in terms of the cons she’s pulled or the reasons for pulling the cons in the first place. We do know a little about her past and her fear of horses through some wild, brief flashbacks but beyond that she’s pretty much a mystery on every other front. We don’t know her real age either although Hardison (Aldis Hodge) has tried to guess. Hopefully, we will get to see more of these hilarious flashbacks in Season Three and learn more about her.
4) We don’t know her first name. Much like Sophie again, we don’t know Parker’s first name. Everyone just calls her by her last name Parker and that’s fine with her. She isn’t willing to give up the info nor does she give it out willingly. Although no one has really worked on her to get it. Technically, we don’t know if Parker is even her last name.
5) She’s socially awkward. Parker has a hard time fitting in with normal society. She can’t function within social groups and blabbers on about random stuff when pressed to do so. She also seems to be unable to tell white lies when needed. This is perhaps the one area where Parker is fearful in her life. No fear of heights or being in a tight space, but being able to pass herself off as a normal person? That’s a real challenge.
6) She’s wanted in nine countries. What did Parker do that has her on the run and banned from these countries? This is part of her past we know so little about. She also had one of her foster parents die in an explosion. What really caused the explosion? Was it, in fact, Parker who did the deed or something more normal? We do know this has had a lasting impact on her as this has made her especially empathetic to foster children and orphans during the show.
7) She has a deep affection for a stuffed bunny. In the flashbacks we have seen, Parker has had a stuffed bunny with her. We don’t know why she cares so much for this bunny and what significance it holds for her or if she even still owns the stuffed animal. What we do know is that when she was a child it was obviously important.
8) She has an attachment to Hardison. Romantically isn’t the right word, but the two are clearly attracted to each other since the beginning. Probably more from Hardison’s point of view than Parker’s. But Parker has been more open and willing to have genuine conversations with Hardison more so than any other member of the crew (although she did open up to Sophie a few times when she was on her break). The two have kissed and shared a few moments, but for Parker it seemed to be more of part of the con than anything else. Hardison has tried to push the relationship further with subtle attempts at dates and getting her to reveal parts about her past but so far it hasn’t moved beyond a hands-off friendship. So far. Maybe this will develop further in Season Three?
9) She’s obsessed with money. Maybe Parker links money with happiness, because with money she was finally able to be free of whatever it was that she was trapped in during her childhood and thus leading to her having a better life. One thing is certain, before signing on to Nate’s crew, she was a thief for the thrill and because it allowed her to have money. Since then, her monetary desires have subsided a bit but not by that much.
10) She says what's on her mind. Granted, what's usually on her mind can some times sound a little strange when it comes out of her mouth. She is though, like an innocent child - which goes back to her social awkwardness. She's never experienced the normal touchstones most people have had in their lives, which is why so many things still fascinate her (we learn early on in Season Three that she never went to high school). Not having those filters though, is what makes her so endearing. She may know the ins and outs of thievery, but she's still learning what it is to a functioning person within a dysfunctional family (her team) and that's why she's so easily to love at every little thing she does.
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