If the BAU were mutants ...

[beatrice_otter]

What would their powers be?

Reid almost has one already; could one count his intelligence and speed-reading as a mutant power, or would they be amped up somehow? (Maybe he just has to touch a book and he knows what it says?)

Garcia: is she into computers because she can sense electrical energy?

Is Morgan a bomb expert because he's a firestarter?

Did Seaver survive her serial killer father because she has a healing factor?

Was Prentiss such a good undercover operative because she's a chameleon?

What about JJ, Hotch, Rossi, Gideon, Kevin, Will, Strauss? Discuss.

Comments

[murf1307.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE YOU!!!!

This is amazing. I agree with all of your conclusions. For the others, here:

JJ: she's something of an empath, and she can calm people down with a few words or even a touch.

Hotch: Is intense badassery enough? Or maybe he's got the ultimate Sherlock Scan -- he sees someone and can automatically tell the most intimate details about them. Yes, that.

Rossi: Rossi has the power of persuasion. He uses it to interrogate perps (see "Masterpiece" and "...And Back" for examples).

I'm not too sure about the others though. Minor characters...*sigh*

[beatrice_otter]

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?"

[mierke.livejournal.com]

Heh, that kinda does sound like Rossi! xD

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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 : )

[beatrice_otter]

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.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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.

[beatrice_otter]

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.)

[jillianfish.livejournal.com]

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.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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