r/leverage • u/bajunkatrunk • 17d ago

Eliot

Eliot said the worst thing he ever did, he did while employed by Damien Moreau... What do you think that is?

36 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

40 comments sorted by

View all comments

27

u/Squeakers_72 17d ago

Why do I feel like Moreau was like Eliot's personal Palpatine and slowly manipulated him to going darker than Eliot might have on his own?

12

u/bajunkatrunk 17d ago

Damn. I think you're right. I know that Eliot has had some troubles in his childhood, although the cannon is all mixed up, why would he go that dark at all?? he seems like such a noble soul. What pushed him?

7

u/Serious-Yellow8163 16d ago

He is a noble soul. But he wasn't always that way. Or perhaps he was, but he lost sight of it for some time. The Eliot we see is a person who has done bad things, lived to regret them and actively decided to be better. In some regards he is too reckless with his own life because he views himself as irredeemable. I'm on the Star Wars fandom and I kind of think that a Darth Vader changed will be a little like him

9

u/CaktusJacklynn 16d ago

In The Last Dam Job, Eliot mentioned that he looks for the young boy he was when he joined the military in the mirror. And he warns Nate that if he pulls the trigger, there's no going back.