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

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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.

[beatrice_otter]

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!

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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

re: Gideon

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

ssa_gideon

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.

Re: Gideon

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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

[jillianfish.livejournal.com]

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.

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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.

I thought that Gideon would obviously be an Empath

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: I thought that Gideon would obviously be an Empath

[mcgarrygirl78.livejournal.com]

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

Re: I thought that Gideon would obviously be an Empath

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

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.