I don't think Gideon so much expects the world to change, as he expects it to be a certain way, if that makes sense.
You know how there are some unsubs (most actually) who are driven by sexual fantasy?
I can't see Gideon being one of those guys, if he snaps, and I can very easily see him snap the way I couldn't see Rossi snap, he'll be that Mercy Killer guy who kills to preserve innocence, like in nebula99's Angels: fanfiction.net/s/3331405/1/Angels Gideon would do that because 1. Gideon is driven by the desire to protect 2. Gidoen is driven by the belief that there is no one else who could protect him or what he loves (beliefs that are hardly baseless, but welll...).
Rossi in the same situation wouldn't have done that, because Rossi is, as his ex-wife have noted, not the type of guy who could kill (take power), AND Rossi is all about autonomy. I read both Gideon and Hotch as the rare kind of sexist who don't have a misogynist bone in their body, but they do put women (especially the women in their personal life) on a pedestals. Rossi, in a subversion of the Italian Macho Male stereotype, doesn't do that.
...but back to fantasy, while Gideon is not the kind of creeper who is driven by sexual fantasy, because Gideon is not a very sexual person, there is a fantasy he's driven by, in spite of knowing otherwise: happy endings. He doesn't expect the world to change, whether, he compartmentize the horrors he sees and maintain a delusion that the world is a better than it is - typical of people who have experienced great trauma as children.
Word Smith I Ain't (other than purple posy porn), oldwickedsongs puts it way better than I ever could:
Title "Lonely Ghosts” Author oldwickedsongs Characters Dave Rossi, with a cameo by Jason Gideon and mentions of the team. Rating PG Word Count 1,302 Summary A character study of the hunter and watcher: in which we find triumphs are never without reminders, and just because someone is gone doesn’t mean they’re erased.
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Date: Dec. 28th, 2011 04:20 am (UTC)You know how there are some unsubs (most actually) who are driven by sexual fantasy?
I can't see Gideon being one of those guys, if he snaps, and I can very easily see him snap the way I couldn't see Rossi snap, he'll be that Mercy Killer guy who kills to preserve innocence, like in nebula99's Angels:
fanfiction.net/s/3331405/1/Angels
Gideon would do that because
1. Gideon is driven by the desire to protect
2. Gidoen is driven by the belief that there is no one else who could protect him or what he loves (beliefs that are hardly baseless, but welll...).
Rossi in the same situation wouldn't have done that, because Rossi is, as his ex-wife have noted, not the type of guy who could kill (take power), AND Rossi is all about autonomy. I read both Gideon and Hotch as the rare kind of sexist who don't have a misogynist bone in their body, but they do put women (especially the women in their personal life) on a pedestals. Rossi, in a subversion of the Italian Macho Male stereotype, doesn't do that.
...but back to fantasy, while Gideon is not the kind of creeper who is driven by sexual fantasy, because Gideon is not a very sexual person, there is a fantasy he's driven by, in spite of knowing otherwise: happy endings. He doesn't expect the world to change, whether, he compartmentize the horrors he sees and maintain a delusion that the world is a better than it is - typical of people who have experienced great trauma as children.
Word Smith I Ain't (other than purple posy porn), oldwickedsongs puts it way better than I ever could:
Title "Lonely Ghosts”
Author oldwickedsongs
Characters Dave Rossi, with a cameo by Jason Gideon and mentions of the team.
Rating PG
Word Count 1,302
Summary A character study of the hunter and watcher: in which we find triumphs are never without reminders, and just because someone is gone doesn’t mean they’re erased.
http://oldwickedsongs.livejournal.com/3212.html