Joe Mantegna suddenly catblock / why I like Rossi

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

There is something about Rossi that is always sweet and hilarious. Gavin de Becker said that men are worried that women would laugh at them, while women are worried that men would kill them (for laughing/rejecting them). Well Rossi had always struck me as the kind of men who wouldn't be afraid or angry at a woman who laughs at him, even if it was in bed. Is this weird? The fact that he stayed friends with his first wife have me reading Rossi less as a man who have failed three marriages, and more as a man who have moved pass three failed marriages (or mistaken match-ups) - his id is not dependent on any conduct of 'his woman'.


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Comments

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

I totally want some Rossi/Strauss h/c, like her drinking? D'awwwww.


Just listing Haley as someone closer to Rossi's era, if Rossi knew Hotch for a long time, he knew her too eh?

I like reading Rossi/Reid in the kink meme, especially the kitty ones, let me go find that link...

Golden Years (Expensive sex toys)
Here Kitty Kitty (kitty collar fic)
http://cm-kink.livejournal.com/842.html?thread=245578#t245578

Of Lavender and Peaches (hair washing h/c)
http://ansera.livejournal.com/43578.html?thread=1297978


...but outside of the kink meme, Rossi/Reid just doesn't interest me, it seem so one sided in terms of needs. With Gideon/Reid, it's interesting to me because while Gideon is the intellectual mentor, Reid was the emotional care-taker (prior to Tobias Hankel at least).

Like, Reid is a total fanboy over Rossi's books, but what does Rossi need him for? Ditto for why I don't ship Rossi/Seaver (other than squick), I can see what's in it for her, but what's in it for Rossi?

[murf1307.livejournal.com]

I see R/R as being less about mutual need, and more about an equality that can be reached between them, especially in S5 and forward. It really just seems to fit for me, and I can't exactly determine why just yet. Like, Reid is coming into his own as a character -- I can't see, say, S2 Reid tearing the Unsub's father in "The Uncanny Valley" a new one the way S5 did -- and his personality just sort of slots in really well against Rossi's. I'm not sure how else to describe it.

[nwjarvis.livejournal.com]

...I don't ship Rossi/Seaver (other than squick), I can see what's in it for her, but what's in it for Rossi?

You're kidding, right?

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

Conventionally speaking, that is pretty (though when I look at that picture, I'm primarily distracted by the question of "Oh god how old is she?"). I think both Rossi and Gideon are primarily attracted to women their age though, so Seaver's young and pretty look isn't going to be something Rossi would start a relationship for...


Like, remember that promise he made to his first wife, about looking out for each other? I think Rossi definitely wants someone who could match him as an equal. (I remember there was a kink meme prompt about Rossi taking an interest in Reid after Uncanny Valley, somebody fill it please!)

[nwjarvis.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*

OK, that reply was mostly a joke, but "what's in it for Rossi" is a Pretty Young Thing paying attention to him. And Rossi evidently has a Bureau-wide rep as a hound.

[gsyh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that reputation was why I used to feel weird about shipping Rossi with the younger members of the BAU, more than Gideon...

...but either he's changed since then or he's one of those guys who sleeps around a lot - but he actually does like everyone of them and it's not just looks.