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I'd call badassery a superpower, but not necessarily a mutant power. If that makes sense? It's more a character trait than a mutation. I could go with empathy for JJ. Rossi, I'm not so sure about.

I wonder if any of them might have non-job related mutant powers, too. Like, maybe Rossi can talk to animals, and it drives him nuts because sometimes it gives him important clues that he sometimes can't use, because what is he supposed to say, "a little bird told me?"

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Heh, that kinda does sound like Rossi! xD

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I love the idea of Rossi having the power of persuasion. He can take any conversation and turn it his way and next thing the Unsub is saying something he shouldnt because Rossi eased him right into it.

It would work well on women too, which Rossi would love : )

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It would work well on women too, which Rossi would love : )

Erm, that would bring up some really skeevy consent issues. I do not want to believe that any of our BAU members would mind-whammy anyone to make them sexually receptive. That is the sort of thing the unsubs would do.

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Oh boy, I didnt mean it that way. I just meant Rossi would know which women he should hit on and which not in a matter of moments. I could see him working a bar or a book reading.

Kind of like the episode of The Dead Zone where Johnny and Bruce went to a wedding and Bruce asked him to touch certain women to find out if they would be great dates for him or horrid dates. It was hysterical. I wasnt thinking skeevy, I was more thinking of comedy.

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Okay, yeah, I can see that. Sorry for the misunderstanding, but the leap from what it sounded like to what you actually meant wasn't obvious, particularly since I've never seen an ep of The Dead Zone. (Actually, I have no clue even what it's about, so.)

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I could see him working a bar or a book reading.
I think every woman at one of his book readings would love to be hit on by him. lol.

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Not even Rossi could get 100%, but definitely 98.7% ; )

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I think Erin would have a power similar to Storm but she would be able to create natural disasters, earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes and such. I can just see her standing in the middle of an F3 funnel, why dont ask me.

I think Gideon might have a power like in the Dead Zone where he can touch something and see what happened or could happen if he doesnt stop it in time. It would go with his brooding nature of carrying the burden of stopping bad things from happening. Also, in a twist, it doesnt happen when he touches everything and he has no control over when it will or wont.

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Oooh, I don't much care for Gideon but that would be the perfect power for him, and I would love to read a story about that!

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I love Gideon...I wouldnt mind reading that fic either.

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Join us!!!

Guess what, I just found out that Mandy Patinkin was the guy who voiced Hugh, in the future Lisa's Wedding episode, the stuffy sensitive Brit she almost married!

Soooo jealous.

As is, I think Gideon has a very creative mind like Reid's, not an eidetic memory (which Reid also have), but a graphical imagination that helps him put the pieces in front of him together into a whole picture, an engineer's mind like Nikola Tesla.

In engineering, people like Gideon and Reid can see a piece, a problem, and imagine up a solution. For the BAU, Gideon sees a picture of a victim and his mind fills out the details of the person she might have been, the way Reid's mind supplied what the victims must have felt before they died in "Fear and Loathing" with his own remembered feelings from when he was being victimized by Tobias.

It's really bad for them in the long run.

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Oh, I am so there. I wasnt sure if you guys were still active but I am a tried and true Gideon fangirl : )

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I agree with the power for Strauss. She herself seems like a force of nature and even though she's a bitch she's always vaguely pleasant about it. She wields her position and power as a weapon but we've never actually seen her get pissed. And I for one would hate to.

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You know I think in addition she should be able to stop these disasters as well as start them.

She wields her position and power as a weapon but we've never actually seen her get pissed. And I for one would hate to.
--YES. This is a perfect sentence. I'm a *HUGE* Strauss fan and am very excited to see some Season 7 expansion of her character.

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The guy who closes up because he's been oversensitized by bad crazy, but Dead Zone works even better.

Would make No Way Out II even /more/ agonizing, since Frank got Sarah's blood all over Gideon's room.

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Actually, he could be both....couldnt he? If anyone would have two powers, it would be Jason.

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He's awesome like that.

This has so much potential for whump!Gideon, and AU. A combo of the two would means that Gideon would have to conduct himself very very carefully at the crime scene.

On the other hand, I could see an AU where Frank got his hands on Gideon, but sparing him when Gideon passes out the dissection table from the memories alone (because Frank needs his vics conscious), and being totally BSOD by the time the BAU arrives to unstrap him from it.

...and he would definitely hate hospitals.

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Dammit...I guess now I should really get working on the X-Men: First Class crossover I was working on...a very very long time ago.

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I have very little to add, except to say that it's very cool to find out other people wonder about this stuff too.

Although, I always thought it would be cool if Morgan could generate and manipulate force fields. He seems to like tackling things (people, doors, the occasional ambulance), this way he could hit harder than Tyson and plain charge through walls. :)

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Heh. Yeah, okay, I can see that.

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I really like the idea of Emily as a shape shifter. She can change into things with a simple touch, but only for short periods of time and its a very draining experience.

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Penelope Garcia loves to talk and give nicknames so much, I think her speciality would be super sociality, languages, computer codes are a language eh? She's an excellent programmer (but not as good as Reid in mechanics). She got in trouble a lot as a little girl because she was such a social butterfly, but fortunately for her, the good people remember where she was, where she was supposed to be, so bad people never manage to walk off with her.

Derek Morgan is really hard to kill, he's not super strong (although he is very strong because he's in shape), but he doesn't bruise easily. This is part of how he survived the rough treatment of the abusive Carl Buford...one time, Buford lost control and would have killed Morgan, just like how he later killed the other boys, if it weren't for the fact that Morgan was hard to kill. Morgan has a lot of survivor's guilt about this.

Spencer Reid is mildly telepathic, and he got it from his mother. That's why he's getting migraines, too many violent fingerprints. Diana Reid was a good professor who loved to socialize, in a campus with thousands of students with their confused thoughts... Spencer coops better because he's more reclusive, and when it gets too much, he holes up at Gideon's cabinet to pick his own thoughts out again. Part of why Reid is so multi-discipline is that he grew up influenced by many many personalities - he did the reading, it's his intellect, but during the formative years of his personality...the message board of his mind was open to all.

JJ is a very nice girl, but if you don't watch yourself around her, if you don't have a disciplined mind (for example, the masses), she can talk you into anything. Unfortunately the majority of unsubs have twisted, but strong personalities, so it doesn't work on them.

Emily Prentiss blends in everywhere. Her greatest fear is that she will become like her mother the diplomat - to lose her own sense of self. Sometimes she forgets she's doing it, picking up accents, mannerisms, body memory that she shouldn't have, blending right into the scene. On duty, even tightly knitted cults don't question what Emily is doing there - she blends in.

Will is very normal, but he's immune to psychological tempering, him and his father found that out when a Pied Piper type of of unsub tried to lure him when he was a kid... (His body language during "Jones" was really defensive, the way he wrapped his arms around himself in the police station.).

Jason Gideon can put together whole stories from broken lines. Puzzles was his hobby since he was a toddler. His intuitive logic can deduce where things belong, how they relate. He can see a mother lovingly packing her child's lunchbox, before the lunchbox and only the lunchbox was recovered bloodstained in the woods. He can see the unsub's father speaking the words the unsub speaks now, see the cigarette going down onto the face where the almost invisible scar is now, feel the burn and the recoil in the shaking limbs.

Aaron Hotchner fought back when his father's blows followed him onto the ground. He crushed his father's wrist - and he wasn't even half his father's size. His mother was the one who stayed with his father and returned to him each night, there was nothing Aaron could do about that, but baby Sean, he shadowed his brother from cradle to grade school. His father left them alone, and then his father died, and Sean doesn't remember.
He remembers the sound of pain that Haley made when he pinned her down for a kiss, prom night. Haley likes to jump his back when they are alone, wrap her arms around his neck and her legs around her waist. Haley likes to drag him by the hand, through to their bedroom, through the mall, to dinner with their mutual friends, and she ask why he couldn't be more spontaneous.
When a case is really bad, Hotch doesn't go home for hours, and sometimes he sleeps in separate rooms - he's too afraid of himself.

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Ooh, this is fascinating! I digs both into their backstories and adds to the pain and angst, too.

Re: Reid -- this, definitely. And think of this -- that probably helped the Dilaudid to get 'hold of him, since it's an opiate and slows the mind. In theory, it could act as a dampener to his telepathy, allowing him to avoid the memories and thoughts that aren't always his. Yesssss.

I also love the way you put it for Em. I have a similar sort of thing, but of course less blatant. I blend in easily, as long as I don't talk much. I even kind of had a minor breakdown over the trait earlier this fall when I wondered what parts of my personality were actually mine, and not just mannerisms and traits were gleaned from the outside world. I totally see where you're going with this.

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...and I wrote that on the spot, it's just, wow. Some I had to think, like JJ, but it's fast, influencing people is her job, and then Will's just the counterpoint, they can be in love because he's immune, so there is no consent issues.

The Reid one was obvi, the hearing voices thing, and yeah, it would make sense how his mom went more crazy - if you work in a small office, you have a few friends, the majority of your hours is spend warding off a few familiar voices, maybe you'll have to run through crowds...but Diana's job would mean that she's on a campus, with young people trying to figure out a new identity for themselves! Lit students too!

Aaron has always strike me as someone afraid of his own strength.

I like superpowers that are subtle, JJ and Emily is definitely my favourite. I don't think Hotch needs to be able to punch through steel walls for his power to significantly influence his character - that he grew up with a father that beat children (those vulnerable to his greater strength) and that he can hurt someone if he's not careful, is enough for Hotch to raise himself with super self-control, which to me, is why Hotch is so awesome and so scary powerful, his self-control.

If you like that kind of stuff too, you should check out Demo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demo_(comics)) by Brian Wood & Becky Cloonan, about young people dealing with their powers. It ranges from a girl who can induce earthquake when she goes off her meds, to a soldier who NEVER missed a shot, to a young man who simply never forget anything that was said to him ever. The superpowers were all a /part/ of the stories, the earthquake one was about a girl's volatile relationship with her mother, her self control over her own condition versus meds, and the love of the boy she ran away with. The second one was about the choice of what to do with what you can do. The third was a love story, the boy never forget anything said to him, ever, and at the end of a volatile relationship, he will still and will always remember, the "I love you".

As for your problem, eh, I wouldn't worry about it, I turned my brain into twists trying to figure out what made me, me, it's fun to wonder about, but I wouldn't worry about it. You aren't doing any of the Macdonald Triads eh? No? You are fine.

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"Integrity of Identity" (When Emily was 'dead')

It was hard to remember that Emily is alive, somewhere, and that all of them just needed to hold on, until it was safe for her to come back.

It was hard for most of them, to think that Emily was dead.

It was hard for all of them.

Spencer cries, most nights, at her house, for weeks.

...but JJ couldn't tell him that Emily was alive. They could risk Emily if Spencer were to be compromised, they couldn't risk Spencer if his lack of dangerous intel was anything but sincere.

She couldn't even tell him to feel better. Just tell him and have him feel better.

No matter how much she wanted to.

Then there were the days when JJ wondered how close was the death of Emily Prentiss, to becoming the truth. Deep covered and with no grounding mission other than hide, will Emily remember that she's Emily? Will the person who forgot Emily want to recover her? Or would the Emily of the BAU become as lost to the ethers as whoever she was before?

Edited Date: Feb. 15th, 2012 12:39 pm (UTC)

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I like the idea of Rossi being the Only 'Normal' one, or at least the one with something completely harmless - and none-angsty.

When Rossi first got on scene, and even when Emily was cut (it was actually then), that someone made the comment that Rossi doesn't do anything. Okay, he doesn't kick down doors or super sherlock or anything, but he's integral to the health of the team, his touch is more subtle. He's the only one that doesn't have the with great power, there is angst...and the team needs him as an anchor, for perspective.

I haven't seen most of the Rossi eps yet, but my favourite moment so far, was when JJ's stand in wonder if she can do the job, after the highway killer's family was discovered dead (Or after he devolved and shot more people), and Rossi sincerely reassures her that it's /okay/ if BAU isn't what she excel at after all.

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Hotch is a werewolf. I know that's not an X-Men superpower, but it makes too much sense: his emphasis on family and hunting as a pack, staying faithful to Haley even after she'd left him (I do not want to hear anything about wolves in captivity being promiscuous and therefore wolves in the wild don't mate for life -- human interference is a significant variable), the way he couldn't stop hunting when Haley asked, and even his own fear of his dark side. Hotch also avoids the woods whenever he can -- if there's an option to be in town, he takes it -- which would make sense if it "calls" his lupine half. Also (and I'm sure this had more to do with fanservice than intentional plotline, but it happened so I'm going with it) right after Haley left Emily's necklines plummeted, which dovetails nicely with the "allure" mythos that a werewolf emits pheremones that do exactly what the power says, particularly when the werewolf isn't getting laid regularly. Werewolves also have incredible healing powers, which would explain why Hotch was pretty much fine after getting blown up in "Mayhem" (among other exaples of Hotch taking beatings that would down other men), and why his hearing loss has mysteriously disappeared. If Foyet was were as well -- thus explaining why he could be the equal of Hotch in a fight -- it would also explain Foyet's facination with Hotch, and why he would try to kill Hotch's mate to "free him up" for a new pack (not realizing, of course, that Hotch's pack is his team). The idea of werewolf!Hotch also explains why he literally could not leave the team for Haley -- mate and pack are of equal priority for a wolf, and in a wolf's mind are one in the same, not that the very human Haley would understand that.

As far as the type of shifting, I could go either way. If it's the traditional full-moon-equals-monster shift, Hotch would obviously take something to prevent the change (colloidal silver, old-schol, diazepam cocktail, new-school) while retaining the wolf-like traits. If we're going Sanctuary-style (I refuse to cite Twilight as a reference), then he'd refuse to shift in order to avoid ending up in a lab somewhere, or on the mutant/Abnormal black market.

Yeah, that was a lot of extrapolotion with implied rather than cited examples, but I'm trying to keep this to one comment. Sorry! If I lost you, lemme know and I'll fill in.

And Garcia is totally a technopath. There's no way she could pull off the often-technologically-impossible (there is no one medical database with everyone's everything, and what databases there are are heavily protected, for example) she does otherwise.

I could actually see Prentiss as the Badass Normal, though if she must be a mutant, then chamelon does make the most sense.

DragonLady

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