Criminal Minds CRACK
Dec. 30th, 2008 10:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uberniftacularSo Kirsten came over last night and we watched Criminal Minds. And there was hilarity. Which turned into a serious AU crack!fic idea. And required the use of the Shenanigans icon.
The general idea: the Criminal Minds team is totally like a family. So. What if they really were a family? A foster family, at least.
What we've got here is a general background of what they'd be like in high school. The assumption here is that they go to a small enough school that 7th and 8th grade is included with the high school, so that JJ is in the same school building as the rest of them.
The Criminal Minds Family High School Alternate Universe
Hotch:
- Mom! A.k.a. Mama Bear.
- totally a soccer mom – drives a van
- bakes cookies while wearing a pink frilly apron and oven mitts
- gardens while wearing pink floral gardening gloves, during which he kneels on a pink gardening mat (doesn’t want to get those suits dirty) – mat and gloves were a Mother’s Day gift from Garcia
- wears flannel pajamas that look like a suit (seriously. He just can’t be without those suits.)
- the disciplinarian parent
- irons the kids’ clothes on the plane
Gideon
- real Dad
- walked out on the family. Reid was the only one he told, making the other kids really not pleased with him.
Rossi
- stepdad by arranged marriage. The marriage was arranged by Yente Robot Bitch Queen, a.k.a. Section Chief Erin Strauss.
- started off with absolutely HORRIBLE fashion sense, but now that Hotch dresses him, he looks a lot better
- the kids didn’t like him at first (the expected resentment because he’s replacing Real Dad), but they’re starting to get used to him.
- an emotionally absent parent
Elle
- the oldest sister, she’s off at college, and doesn’t call or write.
- highly independent
- now that she’s out of the foster system, she just doesn’t bother contacting the family anymore
Morgan
- a senior, the captain of the football team. Plays whatever position allows him to tackle people A LOT.
- very popular; has a string of girlfriends who never stick around long.
- the most well-dressed family member
- is totally embarrassed by the fact that his 12-year-old brother is graduating with him, and gets better grades than him too.
- SQUIGGLY EYEBROWS!
- Garcia is his favorite sibling
- shares a room with Reid
- protective of all his siblings, Reid and Garcia most of all, but tries to pretend he isn’t
- is going to college on a football scholarship
Prentiss
- a junior
- the most closed-off of the siblings
- a member of the book club (favorite author: Vonnegut)
- has a small group of friends, but isn’t super popular
- independent
- is a good student, gets all A’s
Garcia
- freshman
- gamer geek – member of the computer club, also hangs out with the theater kids
- gets picked on a little, but can generally take care of it herself, because she’s got the Power of Snark
- will NOT let Mom dress her, no matter how much Mom tries
- shares a room with JJ; her room is the shiny happy side, full of fluffy stuff and glow-in-the-dark things
- keeps a journal with a fuzzy pink cover
- is a decent student – gets mostly A’s and B’s, though she gets the occasional C (which Hotch is NEVER pleased about)
- everyone in school knows who she is
- JJ and Morgan are her best friends
JJ
- 8th grade
- on the soccer team
- the whole family goes to her games – she pretends she’s embarrassed, but secretly she’s pleased
- her side of the room is generally organized – has her soccer trophies and other awards on display (partially because she wants them up, and partially because Hotch is a Proud Mommy)
- an A-B student
- popular. VERY good with people – she’s the nice popular kid, the one that tries to get the snotty popular ones to not pick on people
- plays oboe, but will probably drop band when she gets into high school
- member of the middle school student government
- not really a big reader
Reid
- 12-year-old high school senior, the baby of the family
- wears a lot of the family’s hand-me-down clothes. When he does go shopping, Hotch lets him pick out his own clothes…and then stares in horror. o.O
- wears footie pajamas and sleeps with a teddy bear. It just sits on his pillow, honest!
- his side of the room is covered in piles of books, and he totally flips out if Morgan messes up the book piles
- gets picked on a lot, though Morgan tries to protect him a lot of the time
- has very few friends outside of the family. He has a lot of study buddies, though most of them are actually just using him for his brain.
- was very close to Gideon, though was also one of the first of the kids to accept Rossi
- needs cuddles, but has personal space issues
- visits Diana (his birth!mom, who’s committed because she has schizophrenia) somewhat regularly, though he doesn’t really want to go (but won’t admit it to the family)
- sometimes acts kinda recklessly, because he looks up to Morgan and the parents and wants to be like them.
- in the family, he’s closest to his sisters, especially JJ. They tell him all their secrets, and he lets them braid his hair (at which point Morgan takes pictures and laughs hysterically)
- wears his emotions on his sleeve
- member of the chess club – and rocks at it because Gideon taught him to play
- is probably going to be valedictorian of the senior class, at which point he’ll probably make a very long and rambling speech that will greatly embarrass Morgan
A note here: All the kids (with the possible exception of JJ) have parent issues in canon anyway. Case in point:
Elle's dad died when she was a kid. He was in the military or something.
Morgan's dad died in the line of duty when he was young.
Prentiss has serious Mommy Issues.
Garcia's parents died in a car crash when she was 18.
Reid. Oh, Reid. His mom is schizophrenic. And there are serious Daddy Issues...his real dad walked out on them when he was 10. And then Gideon (read: new!Dad) walked out too.
Kirsten, my dear co-writer and fellow insane person, I believe we need to dialogue on some stuff about this. For example:
If they're in high school, what year does that make this? Like...1982?
What kind of music do they all listen to? Reid definitely listens to jazz (it's canon! In one of the books he was listening to Miles Davis. Which was a little freaky when I was reading it...because I was listening to the same Miles Davis album as he was. Weird.), but what do the rest of them listen to?
I can see some of them reading magazines. This observation was made when I was shelving magazines at work tonight...and I had to wonder, does Hotch read "Better Homes & Gardens"? Or possibly "Ladies' Home Journal"?
And we were kinda close on the whole...ages of the characters thing. Actors' ages:
Elle: 37
Morgan: 38
Prentiss: 39
Garcia: 36
JJ: 30
Reid: 28
So, there's a bit of a gap, and Prentiss is actually older than Morgan and Elle is younger, but in general we guessed pretty well. Ish. We were right about JJ and Reid, anyway. And we knew that Elle and Morgan and Prentiss were close in age. And that Garcia is in the middle.
...The rambling caused by having had only 3 hours of sleep should end now, I think.
Oh! And dialogue on whatever else you can think of.
The general idea: the Criminal Minds team is totally like a family. So. What if they really were a family? A foster family, at least.
What we've got here is a general background of what they'd be like in high school. The assumption here is that they go to a small enough school that 7th and 8th grade is included with the high school, so that JJ is in the same school building as the rest of them.
The Criminal Minds Family High School Alternate Universe
Hotch:
- Mom! A.k.a. Mama Bear.
- totally a soccer mom – drives a van
- bakes cookies while wearing a pink frilly apron and oven mitts
- gardens while wearing pink floral gardening gloves, during which he kneels on a pink gardening mat (doesn’t want to get those suits dirty) – mat and gloves were a Mother’s Day gift from Garcia
- wears flannel pajamas that look like a suit (seriously. He just can’t be without those suits.)
- the disciplinarian parent
- irons the kids’ clothes on the plane
Gideon
- real Dad
- walked out on the family. Reid was the only one he told, making the other kids really not pleased with him.
Rossi
- stepdad by arranged marriage. The marriage was arranged by Yente Robot Bitch Queen, a.k.a. Section Chief Erin Strauss.
- started off with absolutely HORRIBLE fashion sense, but now that Hotch dresses him, he looks a lot better
- the kids didn’t like him at first (the expected resentment because he’s replacing Real Dad), but they’re starting to get used to him.
- an emotionally absent parent
Elle
- the oldest sister, she’s off at college, and doesn’t call or write.
- highly independent
- now that she’s out of the foster system, she just doesn’t bother contacting the family anymore
Morgan
- a senior, the captain of the football team. Plays whatever position allows him to tackle people A LOT.
- very popular; has a string of girlfriends who never stick around long.
- the most well-dressed family member
- is totally embarrassed by the fact that his 12-year-old brother is graduating with him, and gets better grades than him too.
- SQUIGGLY EYEBROWS!
- Garcia is his favorite sibling
- shares a room with Reid
- protective of all his siblings, Reid and Garcia most of all, but tries to pretend he isn’t
- is going to college on a football scholarship
Prentiss
- a junior
- the most closed-off of the siblings
- a member of the book club (favorite author: Vonnegut)
- has a small group of friends, but isn’t super popular
- independent
- is a good student, gets all A’s
Garcia
- freshman
- gamer geek – member of the computer club, also hangs out with the theater kids
- gets picked on a little, but can generally take care of it herself, because she’s got the Power of Snark
- will NOT let Mom dress her, no matter how much Mom tries
- shares a room with JJ; her room is the shiny happy side, full of fluffy stuff and glow-in-the-dark things
- keeps a journal with a fuzzy pink cover
- is a decent student – gets mostly A’s and B’s, though she gets the occasional C (which Hotch is NEVER pleased about)
- everyone in school knows who she is
- JJ and Morgan are her best friends
JJ
- 8th grade
- on the soccer team
- the whole family goes to her games – she pretends she’s embarrassed, but secretly she’s pleased
- her side of the room is generally organized – has her soccer trophies and other awards on display (partially because she wants them up, and partially because Hotch is a Proud Mommy)
- an A-B student
- popular. VERY good with people – she’s the nice popular kid, the one that tries to get the snotty popular ones to not pick on people
- plays oboe, but will probably drop band when she gets into high school
- member of the middle school student government
- not really a big reader
Reid
- 12-year-old high school senior, the baby of the family
- wears a lot of the family’s hand-me-down clothes. When he does go shopping, Hotch lets him pick out his own clothes…and then stares in horror. o.O
- wears footie pajamas and sleeps with a teddy bear. It just sits on his pillow, honest!
- his side of the room is covered in piles of books, and he totally flips out if Morgan messes up the book piles
- gets picked on a lot, though Morgan tries to protect him a lot of the time
- has very few friends outside of the family. He has a lot of study buddies, though most of them are actually just using him for his brain.
- was very close to Gideon, though was also one of the first of the kids to accept Rossi
- needs cuddles, but has personal space issues
- visits Diana (his birth!mom, who’s committed because she has schizophrenia) somewhat regularly, though he doesn’t really want to go (but won’t admit it to the family)
- sometimes acts kinda recklessly, because he looks up to Morgan and the parents and wants to be like them.
- in the family, he’s closest to his sisters, especially JJ. They tell him all their secrets, and he lets them braid his hair (at which point Morgan takes pictures and laughs hysterically)
- wears his emotions on his sleeve
- member of the chess club – and rocks at it because Gideon taught him to play
- is probably going to be valedictorian of the senior class, at which point he’ll probably make a very long and rambling speech that will greatly embarrass Morgan
A note here: All the kids (with the possible exception of JJ) have parent issues in canon anyway. Case in point:
Elle's dad died when she was a kid. He was in the military or something.
Morgan's dad died in the line of duty when he was young.
Prentiss has serious Mommy Issues.
Garcia's parents died in a car crash when she was 18.
Reid. Oh, Reid. His mom is schizophrenic. And there are serious Daddy Issues...his real dad walked out on them when he was 10. And then Gideon (read: new!Dad) walked out too.
Kirsten, my dear co-writer and fellow insane person, I believe we need to dialogue on some stuff about this. For example:
If they're in high school, what year does that make this? Like...1982?
What kind of music do they all listen to? Reid definitely listens to jazz (it's canon! In one of the books he was listening to Miles Davis. Which was a little freaky when I was reading it...because I was listening to the same Miles Davis album as he was. Weird.), but what do the rest of them listen to?
I can see some of them reading magazines. This observation was made when I was shelving magazines at work tonight...and I had to wonder, does Hotch read "Better Homes & Gardens"? Or possibly "Ladies' Home Journal"?
And we were kinda close on the whole...ages of the characters thing. Actors' ages:
Elle: 37
Morgan: 38
Prentiss: 39
Garcia: 36
JJ: 30
Reid: 28
So, there's a bit of a gap, and Prentiss is actually older than Morgan and Elle is younger, but in general we guessed pretty well. Ish. We were right about JJ and Reid, anyway. And we knew that Elle and Morgan and Prentiss were close in age. And that Garcia is in the middle.
...The rambling caused by having had only 3 hours of sleep should end now, I think.
Oh! And dialogue on whatever else you can think of.
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Date: 2008-12-31 11:35 pm (UTC)High school: well, we can either set it in an actual time frame that would make sense to their adult ages in the show, or we can just set it in modern times and be done with it. It IS crack, after all. (Although, the idea of them having 80s hair is hysterical.) What is your preference, as I apparently have none?
Music: oh dear god, that will require research and careful thinking. Depends on what time frame we end up setting it in, I think. (Reid got his love of jazz from Gideon [we know Gideon listened to it, anyway] and it soothes his Daddy!Issues soul to listen to jazz. He does genuinely love it, but I feel that kid!Reid would have heard it first from Gideon.) I think Morgan would probably listen to whatever was popular at the time (damn, we need to find out what is on that iPod he's always listening to in the show) but also have some particular favorite groups/singers which may not be the popular ones. More on music at a later reply post.
Magazines: Oh, Hotch DEFINITELY is a Better Homes and Gardens man. I can also see him surreptitiously reading a child-rearing magazine, because DEAR GOD, have you seen his kids? Who the hell is supposed to know how to manage them? I see Rossi reading some uberly pretentious journal of some sort, on what topic I do not know. Gideon had a subscription to a bird watching magazine. They still get the magazine at the house, and no one reads it, but they keep them. Just in case. Morgan buys himself Sports Illustrated now and then, but he's not necessarily a regular reader. Garcia got a year-long subscription to one of those computer-geeky magazines for Christmas from the family. They kind of regret it, seeing as she's taken apart the home computer four times now (well, she's not going to experiment on HER baby, is she? That's what the crappy old computer is for. Never mind the fact that Hotch keeps telling her it's not crappy or old, they got it just a year ago. The fact of the matter is, the computer world as moved ON in a year, and they're not keeping up, and therefore, it is free game for home repairs.)
(Oh. That might save the What Year Is It? issue- when the fuck were personal computers that weren't the size of barns around?)
(As for their real ages, pssh. They TOTALLY act the birth order we came up with for them.)
(That's all for now, must go downstairs and chill with mum.)
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Date: 2009-01-01 01:01 am (UTC)1980s hair. Oh god. I'm sure Garcia's hair was HUGE. I dunno if we wanna do 1980s or modern...maybe we'll figure that out after we dialogue some more. Could probably go either way though, I'm not terribly picky.
...my god. We need to find someone who's good with Photoshop to do fanart for us. Because...80s hair. Reid in footie pajamas with a teddy bear (easy as pie, as there are scenes from season 4 where Reid is sleeping. And have you noticed how every time he sleeps on the plane he kinda wraps his arms around himself? TOTALLY missing his teddy bear. I know that's how I sleep when I don't have my armful of stuffed creatures). Hotch in a pink frilly apron.
Music-wise, the one thing I'd forgotten to put in the main post is that I'm SURE Garcia listens to hippie music. For reference, "Let's Get Together" by the Youngbloods. "Lyrics". And similar stuff. She definitely appreciates music from the 1960s. And JJ probably listens to pop. As for Morgan, I think I need to check out the books again, I think one of them mentions what he listens to, maybe. Maybe someone on the internet knows?
According to Wikipedia, "Throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s, computers were developed for household use, offering personal productivity, programming and games." So...personal computers were around by the time they would've been in high school.
We were pretty good with their ages, honestly. Reid and JJ are right, and that's good enough for me!
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Date: 2009-01-03 04:09 am (UTC)And over the past couple days I thought of something that might be interesting to explore in fanfic, though in the mostly-canon universe instead of our crack!universe. Cuz I was thinking...what if Gideon actually HAD killed himself? It would be interesting to do something with the team's reactions to it. I totally see Reid going back to the dilaudid...dunno exactly how everyone else would react though. But then again, I don't think I'd be all that great at trying to write a fic like this anyway...being that I'm a lot better at fluff and happiness than I am at angst and stuff like that. You're much better at the whole...broken characters...thing than I am.
That's all I've got for now...besides the email I sent you with the link to the youtube that's got season 4 on it. Speaking of which, if you want to see Reid and Morgan acting like kids...watch 4x11. It's entertaining. And Morgan refers to Reid as "kid" repeatedly...has he always done that and I'm horribly unobservant, or is this new? I'm not sure if I'm just losing my mind or what.
Must dialogue more. Because dialogue is good.
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Date: 2009-01-03 06:16 pm (UTC)Also, I see jazz as sort of a family music. I can see everyone appreciating jazz (though probably have different favorite artists), and it being just about the only music they can consistently agree upon.
As for your other fic idea- ooo, shiny idea! If I find time, I may just have to experiment with that. I do love me some angst.
(I got your e-mail with the links to season 4- THANK YOU! I've already seen the first two eps of season 4, thanks to crazy torrenting skillz, and I have the third just waiting for me, but now I can watch the rest! And OMG THEY BLEW UP MOM!)
(Morgan refers to Reid as "kid" upon occasion- usually just once or twice an episode, though.)
What do Hotch, Rossi, and Gideon do for a living? Since this is an AU, I can't see them at the BAU, because of the crazy hours, and no foster care system would let five kids live in a house where the parents aren't around frequently. I have no clue what Rossi would do, but Hotch is probably a lawyer, and I can see Gideon as a professor of criminal psychology. What do you think?
That's all for right now, I'm packing to go back to school tomorrow. I'll comment back on your comment the first chance I get (later this evening, maybe.)
(My mum loves Criminal Minds. I've been making her watch it. Last night we watched "Lucky", the one with the cannibal guy dishing out his soup? She felt all sick and quesy afterwards, it was delightful.)
(Though, admittedly, after that episode I am seriously considering becoming a vegetarian.)
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Date: 2009-01-03 09:33 pm (UTC)Holy crap I just had a thought about Morgan...he probably steals JJ's Jackson Five album and listens to it in secret. But definitely won't admit it if anybody asks him. Other than that, though, I really have NO idea what he listens to. I need to look into that. Or something.
Yes to jazz being family music. I somehow think Rossi probably doesn't enjoy it as much as the rest of them do, though. And speaking of Rossi...they probably don't refer to him as "dad," do they? Cuz Gideon was Dad, so I'm assuming Rossi is just Dave to them.
Glad you like the other fic idea...I figured you'd probably be a LOT better at it than I would, that's why I mentioned it. You agree that Reid would end up back on the drugs? Because he said that watching that kid get shot almost sent him back to it...so I imagine that being the one to DISCOVER Gideon dead in his cabin would definitely send him over the edge.
(You're welcome...I was watching episode 11 last night and realized "holy crap I need to send this to Kirsten like I said I would!" And yes. They blew up Mom...how very rude of them! I need to go back and watch the earlier eps of this season at some point.)
(I couldn't remember about the "kid" thing. I know he does it at least twice in episode 11, possibly more...I wasn't counting, but I know it was at least twice.)
Hotch is definitely a lawyer, and I can totally see Gideon as a professor. I do wonder what Rossi does...besides hunt, anyway (speaking of hunting...he has a dog in canon, does he have a dog in our universe? And how insane would things get throwing a dog into the mix of kids? XD ). Rawr, must think about what Rossi does.
Something I've been thinking about though...if Hotch and Gideon are the parents...are they actually gay, or is this a marriage of convenience because they were like...good friends who thought it was a good idea to foster some kids or something? Random thought, possibly not something that needs to be addressed immediately.
Another thought I had was in regards to Haley and Jack, because they're kinda like important characters in the series. Obviously Hotch isn't married to Haley...but then I remembered, Hotch has a brother. So maybe Haley and Jack are Hotch's sister-in-law and nephew? That way we don't have to just completely ignore them.
There has been much thinking lately, apparently, as I just remembered another thought. If this actually ends up turning into a fic, it should totally start out with somebody shouting, "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!" Because that would be entertaining.
Happy packing. I'll be online on and off all day today, might even catch you on messenger later on if you happen to be on. Though comment conversations are good too, make it much easier to keep track of what we said.
(Glad your mum likes CM too...it's good stuff, spread the joy! Lucky was icky though. I was queasy too. But not so much considering being a vegetarian, as I enjoy my bacon too much, lol.)
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:17 pm (UTC)As for Morgan, he needs to trust people on the actual show so we can get details out of him. Grr. Yes to Jackson 5, though. And JJ goes looking for her tape/record/whatever the hell they had in the eighties, and can't find it, and even though Morgan is trying to keep it a secret, JJ knows it's him who keeps taking it, so she barges into his bedroom and loudly demands her Jackson 5 tape back. He is, of course, mortified.
Having now looked at 80s bands, I can see him listening to Queen, U2, Aerosmith- oo, Stevie Wonder. Ha! The Clash! Whatever is popular. The Cure, Bon Jovi... now I'm just naming 80s artists because I'm blanking.
Yeah, Rossi is ok with jazz, but it wouldn't be his first choice. He'll listen to it if only because there are six of them and one of him, and the odds just don't work out in his favor.
I see them alternating between Dave and Rossi, if only because I can't really see any of them going by their first names all that often. Too ingrained in me from the show. Dave when happy with him, Rossi when pissed?
(I agree that Reid would go back to the drugs, but I think an intervention would happen a lot more quickly. Because, while they all knew about his drug use because of Henkel, that was something they figured he would be able to pull himself out of, because he's Reid, and he's the Energizer Bunny, and because Gideon was watching out for him. With that support system, um, DEAD, I think Hotch would be a lot less willing to just allow it to continue in silence. And Prentiss, being Prentiss, would keep pushing and pushing and pushing until something broke anyway, so yeah.)
Rossi... well, outside of the BAU, he's an author, right? So maybe he writes those crappy mystery novels that aren't really good, but people buy them anyway, and he gets enough money from that to be a stay-at-home-step-dad. And to afford monogrammed shirts and expensive jewelry and ugly ass shirts. (Oh God, his DOG. What are we going to do about the damned dog? I can't imagine JJ liking dogs all that much [because I view some things in canon as potential crossover events, with some slight tweakings] and being real nervous around them, especially a high-strung hunting dog.)
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:17 pm (UTC)Y'know, even though I'm a slasher, and even though Hotch and Gideon really ARE Mom and Dad, I still can't bend my brain enough to make them a sexual couple. (And I can bend my brain to make ANYONE a gay couple.) I see them as really good friends, and they were both single (actually, I can see Hotch being divorced still, so maybe that's where we fit Haley and Jack in? More on that later.) and they wanted kids, and in one of those weird fits of logic that aren't actually logical at all, they decided to get married and take care of foster kids, because Hotch knows the system from being a prosecutor, and Gideon knows the system from being a professor-profiler and seeing way too many broken homes, and they figure they can at least provide a better home than a serial killers.
On Haley and Jack- as I mentioned earlier, I can see Hotch being divorced like in canon, but it being a slightly more amicable divorce. And Jack gets to come visit once a month, maybe some more, and the kids get a little insecure about those visits because, well, Jack is his biological son, and they're not related to Hotch at all, and... fill in insecure feelings *here*. But your idea is good too, I can see it both ways.
Oh yes. That is the perfect opening. It will be. (Though, not all of the stories may happen in order, because I can't write sequentially. As a warning. You might have to write the first one. I'll probably end up writing Hotch's funeral or something... :D)
(Dammit, I'm supposed to be packing!)
(Mum loves CM so much that she made me watch it with her instead of packing. We're almost done with the third season! [Although, admittedly, we didn't watch the first season together, and I kinda skipped five episodes of the second season and three of the third...])
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Date: 2009-01-04 12:29 am (UTC)Speaking of Gideon...he's old enough, maybe he was a profiler for a while and then left the Bureau to become a professor instead? Perhaps? I dunno, I'm just throwing out every single random thought that comes into my head at this point.
I can see that working, the Haley and Jack issue. And that would leave open some fun options for insecurity and stuff. How old would Jack be in relation to the kids? I guess I haven't thought this much into it yet, but did Gideon and Hotch take in the kids when they were very young (like...3 or 4), making Jack around the same age as Morgan, or were the kids older when they were taken in, so Jack would be around the same age as the younger kids?
I liked the idea of that opening. The next question then would be who's calling for Mom? Obviously they got in a fight or something...I guess I see JJ being the most likely one to be calling for Mom, dunno why though.
(Ha, that's awesome. Which eps did you skip? And have you gotten the chance to watch the last 3 episodes of season 3 yet?)
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Date: 2009-01-06 03:04 am (UTC)Ok, yeah, I definitely see Hotch crashing at Gideon's place when he and Haley split. Y'know, they met through the justice system (or, rather, "justice" system), became friends, and who is going to deny their friend a couch when they're going through a divorce? And it just so happened to work out. I can see them getting really smashed one night after a case/court thing goes really bad, and they start waxing poetic (or as poetic as drunks can get) about children, and how much they like kids, and how much the foster system sucks, and it just evolves into, "let's be heterosexual-life-partners-and-parents."
Ooo, yeah! Gideon is a profiler until they get the first foster kid and then, so he can be home more often, he switches to being a professor and consultant from time to time. Because the cases were getting to him ANYWAY, he was losing objectivity, so why not pull out a little early? That way, when he eventually leaves, it still makes sense. Maybe he consulted on a really bad case? Or- OMG, what if he consulted on the Frank cases, and instead of going after Sarah, Frank goes after Gideon's family?
(I did mention that I think some things in canon should transfer over into AU world- more on that later.)
Hmm. When did the kids come... well, they probably got whoever is the most well-adjusted first, at a fairly young age. And then the others came in sporadically. Who's the most well-adjusted? JJ? Then Jack would probably be around the same age as JJ, if only because I can imagine Hotch wanting a kid that sort of paralleled the one he can't see as often. What are your thoughts on the ordering?
Calling for Mom- either JJ or Reid, since they're the youngest and the most likely to bring in Mom to settle the fights.
(I have plowed through season 3 and am working on season 4 right now. Mum skipped the back portion of season 2, after Revelations, and the first two eps of season 3.)
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Date: 2009-01-07 01:54 am (UTC)Hahaha, yeah, I can totally see them getting smashed and making a decision like that. And wouldn't THAT be a fun scene to write.
Not sure about the Frank thing. It would make sense that a bad consulting case would make Gideon leave though. But not sure about Frank. Though I think that's more a personal bias issue than anything else...Frank was icky. (Well, not that the other unsubs weren't, but...I dunno.)
JJ probably is the most well-adjusted. Not only that, she's blonde like Jack, so...really parallel, huh? And maybe Morgan was next? I somehow see him maybe getting bounced around the system for a bit before ending up with Hotch and Gideon. That might be an explanation for some of his trust issues too. Hm, maybe he and Garcia came in together? Maybe? I'll have to think on that one too. Thinking maybe JJ was 3 or 4 when she came in, then Morgan and Garcia the next year (putting them around 9 and 6, respectively...putting Morgan old enough to have been bounced around the system for a year or two and have pretty deep-seated trust issues from it). So then we'd still need to figure out Elle, Reid, and Prentiss...but does that seem reasonable to you?
Heh, yeah, definitely either JJ or Reid. Maybe Morgan messed with Reid's books one too many times? I dunno.
(Enjoying season 4 so far? I need to go back and watch the season again, I've forgotten most of the episodes by now. But episode 11 was freaking AWESOME. Just so you know.)
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Date: 2009-01-04 12:13 am (UTC)I just realized that I'm a moron...I think they would've been in high school in the early 1990s. But...it'd be more fun to write it in the 80s, yes?
The Criminal Minds Wiki says nothing about Morgan's music preferences. I have this vague idea that maybe they mentioned it in the books somewhere, but I don't actually own the books so I can't check. I can so see an embarrassed 18-year-old Morgan trying to get 14-year-old JJ to be quiet...oh man. So many entertaining mental images come out of this.
Stevie Wonder, definitely. Bon Jovi, yes. Um...crap, I hardly know any 80s bands. Not off the top of my head anyway. ...Ha, internet radio is playing Aerosmith right now. Maybe it's a sign?
Not only is Rossi outnumbered, but I think he probably doesn't argue too much about the jazz thing because he doesn't want to disrupt things too much. He's having a tough enough time getting the kids to accept him in the first place, may as well not make any more waves.
I'm stuck on the whole last names thing too. But I somehow don't see the kids calling each other by their last names...that's a bit too British private school, y'know. But I can see them, especially the older kids, referring to Rossi by his last name when they're mad at him or whatever. Because he's not REALLY their dad, so they don't feel that bad about just using his last name.
(Yes. Please continue along this line...I don't have anything else particularly relevant to add right now, lol.)
Would Rossi write crappy mystery novels, or would he be a true crime author? I can see either, really. Maybe he does both? I dunno, I suppose I can see him writing. Can't really think of anything else anyway. But thank goodness Hotch dresses him now...because really. Just because you have money does NOT give you the right to wear godawful clothes like that. And UGLY expensive jewelry too.
(Maybe he brings the dog the first time he meets the family and JJ has a minor freakout, so he gives the dog to a friend or something? I don't see her liking dogs too much...and honestly, I don't think Reid would like big dogs much either. Not entirely sure why. He just seems more like a cat and/or small dog person. So maybe Rossi has someone else keep the dog and only takes the dog out when he goes hunting or somthing.)
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Date: 2009-01-06 03:10 am (UTC)Yeah, I know nothing about 80s music, I had to google search it. I've never even heard of half of the "most popular 80s bands". Ah well. That's probably a good thing.
*snort* I can see Rossi becoming so desperate to get the kids to like him that he resorts to trying to buy their affection. Books and games and new clothes and whatever. (Ha, maybe that's where some of their shitty fashion sense comes in- once Hotch sees the first batch of new clothes, he puts his foot down.)
Yeah, they wouldn't refer to each other by last names, but still, AWKWARD. Gonna be weird to write, "Derek said," instead of Morgan. Weird... *cringe*
Yeah, true crime would be good. Give him a reason to know stuff about profilers and such.
(I like the dog stuff, it works for me. Rossi can keep the dog with another friend who lives near his regular hunting area... oh man, can you see him trying to bring the kids along on a hunting trip in order to "bond"?)
In reference to my other comment- I really do think we should bring some canonical events over into the AUverse. Some things CLEARLY wouldn't work (you cannot torture twelve-year-old Reid and make him a drug addict, for instance, 'cause, y'know, no), but others could work in much better, such as the suggested Frank thing. What canonical events would you like to see incorporated into the story?
Also, how much of the kids backstory are we keeping, and how are we getting them away from their parents and into the foster care system? Reid's easy, as he probably should have been a foster kid once his dad left. But Prentiss? Her mom's an AMBASSADOR, that's not gonna be an easy sell. What do you think?
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Date: 2009-01-07 02:21 am (UTC)I bet I'd probably recognize more of the bands, just because I've been listening to a lot of classic rock radio lately.
Ooh, man...Guns N Roses. Love.
Oh god, Rossi dressing the kids. That's frightening. But yeah, he might try to buy their affections.
Speaking of the kids' fashion sense...I was thinking earlier today that, though Reid's fashion sense is bad as an adult...it was probably worse when he was younger. As in, I can see him wearing bowties to school. Eek.
First names. Weird.
I can see Rossi writing both true crime and mystery books. Like he started with true crime and then decided to write mystery novels after that because he *thought* that writing true crime made him an expert on everything related to crime stuff.
(uh-oh, bonding by taking the kids hunting. I somehow don't see that working out so well. Garcia doesn't believe in guns, after all. She'd spend the whole time petting the dog instead of paying attention to what Rossi is doing.)
No torture of little!Reid. That's not right. Probably not with the pregnant!JJ either, because, again, no. Do we want to include NAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWLINS at all? As a transfer student or something? We don't have to, but it's a possibility. Um...other canon stuff. Cripes. I dunno.
Backstory, also um. Reid's easy. Garcia too, actually...in canon her parents died in a car accident, might as well just keep that. Prentiss with the ambassador mom...um...maybe Ambassador-lady goes to do ambassador-like things somewhere dangerous and dies? And...dunno about Prentiss's dad...nobody seems to know anything at all about him in the show anyway. I really have no idea what to do about JJ. Child of a teen mom and given up for adoption? I really don't want to kill off EVERYONE'S parents. Morgan's dad died in canon, don't know what to do about his mom. Same with Elle, actually.