If the BAU were mutants ...

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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.

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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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Some good points, thanks!