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June 29, 1013: Elsewhere in Tall Oaks, Ada Wong has found Simmons’ lab, where she confirms the information Carla had originally given her. Now knowing she has a doppelganger running around, she decides she must find her and put an end to her charade. As she is leaving, she comes across Leon and Helena, right as it becomes apparent that Deborah had been infected with the C virus, and she mutates. The trio manages to defeat her, but ultimately she dies after falling off a cliff– Helena had tried to catch her, but, seeing her sister was gone and only a monster remained, she was forced to let her go. Helena explains that Derek Simmons, a national security advisor and presidential aide, kidnapped her and Deborah and forced her to help him conduct the outbreak that has just taken place to save Deborah’s life. Ada gives them some information regarding Simmons’ connection to The Family, and then departs.
#Game: RE6#Character: Leon Kennedy#Character: Helena Harper#Character: Ada Wong#Character: Deborah Harper#Character: Derek Simmons#(mention)#Character: Carla Radames#(2nd mention)#Organizations: The Family#(3rd mention)#Infections: C virus#resident evil#re6#leon kennedy#helena harper#ada wong
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inspired by this post -> here
#i wasn’t sure about elle#but if she were to partake in a holiday i think it would be Halloween thanks to Reid#also was thinking about putting JJ Kate and Luke on Christmas as well as V-Day#criminal minds#criminal minds fandom#cm fandom#cm#criminal minds characters#criminal minds memes#spencer reid#penelope garcia#emily prentiss#elle greenaway#jennifer jareau#kate callahan#alex blake#david rossi#aaron hotchner#derek morgan#luke alvez#matt simmons#jason gideon
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i have more,,, pls do u y’all want to see more
edit: part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8
#jennifer jareau#aaron hotchner#kate callahan#matt simmons#emily prentiss#derek morgan#elle greenaway#spencer reid#penelope garcia#criminal minds#text post#yes i have reid favoritism#what abt it?#i have some of the other characters in the other set i made#and then i made a third set just for my fav duos#also why is Reid always finding himself in situations??#like he’s always got something going on#he’s tired#give someone else a situation for once @writers#reds edits tag
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she's a 10, but she'll drop everything to watch a criminal minds episode that she's already seen hundreds of times before
#criminal minds#criminal minds memes#criminal minds quotes#cm#spencer reid#aaron hotchner#emily prentiss#derek morgan#penelope garcia#jennifer jereau#david rossi#luke alvez#matt simmons#tara lewis#fandom#memes#text post#txt#she's a 10#comfort character#comfort show#comfort people#matthew gray gubler#the bau#bau team#female hysteria#girlblogging#coquette#incorrect criminal minds quotes#incorrect criminal minds
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Happy 19th birthday to Criminal Minds!
Thank you for literally saving my life
#criminal minds#cm#bau#spencer reid#comfort character#comfort characters#comfort show#my favorite show#elle greenaway#jason gideon#aaron hotchner#derek morgan#penelope garcia#jennifer jareau#emily prentiss#matt simmons#luke alvez#tara lewis#david rossi
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Twitter Criminal Minds fans villainising Luke and Morgan for a misogynistic comment that they made once whilst actively ignoring all of the times they (especially Morgan) have been used by the team for their skin colour is an example of white feminism btw.
You can criticise their actions but actively villainising them whilst ignoring all of the bad things your favourite white characters have done is not the move and it’s not a good look. This is about two posts I saw where one person laughed and said no one on the team cared about Luke and only Emily and then another person called Morgan the worst character (in a show full of serial killers is insane btw).
#I am gonna tag every character just cos it’s not the people in the luke and morgan tags doing this#criminal minds#spencer reid#emily prentiss#derek morgan#jennifer jareau#jj#aaron hotchner#david rossi#luke alvez#penelope garcia#tara lewis#alex blake#kate callahan#matt simmons#jason gideon#jordan todd#ashley seaver
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modern artist i think the bau members listen too
rossi: noah kahan
hotch: hozier
morgan: the weeknd
elle: kali uchis
spencer: the 1975
garcia: billie eilish
jj: sza
emily: victoria monét
blake: taylor swift
kate: doja cat
tara: H.E.R.
luke: j. cole
matt: shawn mendes
also! the evolution era girls listen to chappel roan together, casually.
#gideon doesn’t listen to modern music bc he’s dead#this is probably inaccurate#idc#criminal minds#criminal minds characters as#david rossi#aaron hotchner#derek morgan#spencer reid#elle greenaway#jennifer jereau#emily prentiss#penelope garcia#alex blake#kate callahan#tara lewis#luke alvez#matt simmons#criminal minds headcanons
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masterwords halloween party
Welcome to my Halloween party!
From October 1st - 31st, I'd like to challenge you to create something with October/Halloween vibes. Anything from a bucket full of sweet treats to roll around in to a total bloodbath. The catch?
It has to be Criminal Minds.
You can write fic (any ship, gen, self-insert, world-building, AU, meta, headcanons, crossovers...whatever you want to craft with words), create art or moodboards or playlists or whatever your heart desires. I want to keep it simple and easy to participate, just have fun.
If you're interested, read below the cut for a list of prompts you're welcome to use, details and a few simple rules!
🎃 Tricks:
As if the case isn't grisly enough, now the hotel might be haunted.
Alternatively: The BAU is haunted
Anderson? There hasn't been an Anderson here in thirty years.
Childhood fear exposed
New fear unlocked
A near death experience acquaints a character with the Grim Reaper
Unsub AU
Back from the dead
Spooky campfire stories
Horror movie AU
Vampire AU
Zombie Apocalypse
The team plays with a Ouija board
"That isn't fake blood."
Power goes out during a thunderstorm
Someone's costume triggers Character A and Character B helps
The entire BAU ends up in a murder castle ala H.H. Holmes
🍭 Treats:
Taking the kids trick or treating
Office Halloween party
Pumpkin Patch/Corn Maze/Hay Ride
Cozy backyard bonfire
Haunted House/Carnival/County Fair/Spook Show date night
Characters make their relationship public with couples costumes
Operation: make Derek Morgan like Halloween
Character A is hurt/sick and has to skip Halloween. Character B brings Halloween to them.
Masquerade Ball
Character A surprises Character B with a sexy costume
The team is traveling on Halloween and makes the best of it
Scary movie night at Reid's place
Pumpkin carving contest
Doing yard work is unexpectedly fun when you have piles of leaves to jump into
Two people show up to a work party in the same costume
Character A relentlessly tries to scare Character B.
I have a bunch more prompts, so if you don't see something here but want something a little more specific you can send me an ask and I'll try to help you out. You do not have to use any of these to participate or ask permission to use them. Just take them or don't, totally up to you. I'd love to help you brainstorm so feel free to reach out! (You are welcome to combine these with Whumptober, Kinktober, etc. Double up! Triple! Quadruple!)
Please note: This is a challenge for you to do the creating, not a list of items to request of me. (I will be participating though.)
👻 Rules:
Must be Criminal Minds. Any character or ship, gen, self-insert, OC...whatever, but it has to be CM. This includes the main show, Suspect Behavior, Beyond Borders and Criminal Minds: Evolution.
Explicit sex/smut is allowed but you must be 18 or older. I will not add your fic to the masterlist or interact at all if there isn't clear indication that you are 18+.
Please warn/tag appropriately
No ship shaming, kink shaming, character hate etc please. This is a Halloween party, it's bound to get dark but let's not be mean!
Please tag me in your creation so I can add it to the masterlist and share it with everyone! (You can post here or send an AO3/other app link, up to you!)
Happy Haunting!
#criminal minds#aaron hotchner#derek morgan#spencer reid#david rossi#emily prentiss#jj jareau#jason gideon#penelope garcia#tara lewis#matt simmons#luke alvez#kate callahan#alex blake#cmhalloween2023#fanfiction#please i never tag this many characters in anything#bau team
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C R I M I N A L M I N D S ‘ S F A V A L B U M S
JJ first coz that’s my girl - Stick Season (We’ll all be here forever) by Noah Kahan
��� the getting out of a small town i hav so many regrets vibes
• THE SONG CALL UR MOM its jj
• it hurts to listen to but she won’t stop she needs a piece of home to cling to even if it’s not hers
Emily coz that’s my girls girl - Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers
• she had never known peace since
• moon song as jemily double ouch
• special mention to funeral in relation to matthew she genuinely cant listen to it. she made the mistake of trying once on the jet and she will never again.
hotch i love him - Wasteland, Baby by Hozier
• hotch loves like it hurts bc it does. all of his love hurts him. but he still loves bc that’s js who he is and hozier is perfect for that i think
• wasteland, baby especially i think in reference to haley. its a hard listen but one he loves he thinks it honours her in a way.
• its perfect
spenecer my habib - Carrie and Lowell by Sufjan Stevens
• i think it’s just peaceful enough but not mind numbing that he can focus on it as well as fall asleep if he needs to
• fourth of july especially for everyone he’s ever lost is a double ouch all these acts of service to try and bring someone back bc he struggles to grasp the fact that when a person is gone, there’s nothing left to do.
morgan - not exactly an album but Tupac’s Greatest Hits is on contant rotation in his little headset thingy (so cute omg)
• all of tupac is like especially upbeat with values and ideals and deep real world reflections and he DIGS it
• especially likes Keep your Head up it reminds him of his mom and ehy he joined the fbi - he wants to help the underdog
• (morgan was DEVASTATED with the tupac beef with biggy)
penelope my girl - the rise and fall of a midwest princess by chappell roan
• she assigns them all their individual songs from the album but she is the avatar.
• she cannot do sad music so this shit is her JAMM
• femininomenon or however u spell it is a personal favourite. HOT TO GO is second
• also shes sapphic even if she only dates men in the show so she EXTRA GETS IT
tara my baby who deserved better is 100% Planet Her by Doja
• Ain’t Shit? her jam she knows all the jams
• woman is one of her favourites.
• her and rebecca sing kiss me more in the shower
luke - definitely tyler but i’m struggling between Flower Boy and IGOR
• he has that kind of i am happy to be loving u kind of vibe even if he knows the world is messed up. he so severely fucks with tyler and the whole rap genre be loved finding references he previously missed he thinks he’s a genius (he’s right)
alex blake - songs by adrienne lenker
• she stumbled across it one day and while it wasn’t the usual stuff she listened to she gave it a chance
• she never turned back
• she likes the retro feel and half return makes her FEEL like nothing else can
• shes complicated okay? not a lot just forever for her son? ouch
kate - SOS by sza
• this one’s hard bc she’s a hard core “feel things? no thank u. let’s rock!”
• i think good days is so special to her in a really quiet way
• j think kill bill makes her laugh really hard
jordan todd i never hated u - good girl gone bad: reloaded by rihanna
• she was so special to me. a wow on the team pre-2010. this was history. either way
• breakin dishes bc she is so happy at counter terrorism but watching emily fight men will always do it for her (they were sapphics ur honour)
• shes a club girly. dont stop the music, umbrella she was living for that shit
elle cutie patootie - Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Ray
• its hers i can’t
• shes so lana guys “hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me” ????? it’s HERS
• “how to disappear” pls be so serious
jason gideon papa extraordinaire - Tapestry by Carole King
• he misses the 70s gang (so do i (i wasn’t born))
• Home Again makes him cry. he can’t explain it. hee never has to.
• so far away after he left the bau - his heart was basically empty but he couldn’t fill it with any more darkness he had to go. it hurt him so bad guys he literally died from it
matt simmons - anything from my little pony
• i’m sorry guys he recognises they’re killer tracks
• also his 8 million kids he watches it like three times a day
• unironically listens to battle of the bands
• kristy hates him for it.
#criminal minds#jennifer jareau#emily prentiss#spencer reid#derek morgan#aaron hotchner#matt simmons#luke alvez#criminal minds headcanons#music is important#this is based purely off of my own interpretations of these characters#sorry if this makes no sense
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My very strong feelings about every main BAU member: Gideon: OG grandpa, he just wanted to watch his birds Elle: girlboss, she did nothing wrong JJ: I love her sm I want to kiss her on the lips Tara: Shes nice :) step mom vibes Alvez: Hes nice, but he's not Morgan Strauss: ehhhhhhhhhh mixed feelings Cruz: ..... who? Hotch: THE Dilf Morgan: Him <3 also my mom's fav character Emily: She shouldve been a lesbian and the network is a coward for not allowing her to be. Rossi: Rich Grandpa, also do you think he and Gideon explored each others bodies? Reid: He has never done anything wrong also I want to do unholy things to him. I kin him. Seaver: She was fine Blake: She gave me lesbian vibes so I was dissapointed Kate: MADDIE BUCKLEY????? Walker: He deserved better Matt: Pretty boy Garcia: I would lay down my life for her, I love her with all my being, she is what everyone should aspire to be, women in stem <3
In conclusion, I love this show and I want them all to be a big happy family.
#emily prentiss#spencer reid#criminal minds#david rossi#aaron hotchner#derek morgan#penelope garcia#jennifer jareau#kate callahan#matt simmons#luke alvez#tara lewis#criminal minds characters#jason gideon#alex blake#elle greenaway#ashley seaver#stephen walker#mateo cruz#erin strauss#bau#behavioural analysis unit#maddie buckley#911 fox#911 maddie
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Hello!!If you were part of the writers on criminal minds,what would you have done differently when it came to the romantic relationships of it all and whats your opinion on some of the ships?Which would you erase and which are your favorites?I'm willing to read as much details and analysis you are willing to give on this lmao😂I loved the analysis on Reids sexual evolution season by season and am really curious on what you think on the ships like Reid and JJ,Reid Lila,Reid and Maeve,Reid and Elle😂Personally I would have created a diffrent character as a love interest for him all together.
This is practically an essay so I'm just going to apologise in advance of this. I'm not going to say I'd change much because the end product we got is my favorite show for a reason but yes, here is me talking about all the romantic relationships I can think of in CM and my opinions on them!
(Spoilers for season 1-15 of CM, CME, and season 8 of NCIS - yeah that's how long this post is).
Reid Ships
I think Reid ships are the ones most people have issues with in Criminal Minds so I'm going to start here with personal headcanons and my personal highlights. It's going to become clear that my biggest pet peeve in CM is when the writers want to give the characters a love interest and then just gender-bend their personalities, so let's start with Maeve and Spencer.
I've already talked at length in other posts about how I think the Maeve/ Zugzwang plotline wasn't my favorite. It was some amazing acting from MGG and Beth Reisgraf, but personally, I think it suffered from "serialized cop drama" plot line status. This show airs week after week with another case to solve in 45 minutes and they don't have the time or the format to pause through moments that in a standard drama would be very impactful.
To go on a slight tangent, that is partially why the relationships between the main cast are usually the only ones developed very well over extended arcs (I'll return to this when I talk about Jeid).
So, when you're trying to have an emotionally resonant moment, and you only have a handful of cold opens and one full episode to do it, you're going to have to make the characters motivations, personalities and back stories mesh in a way that makes you think: "holy shit they're perfect together."
Maeve and Spencer aren't that. I hate to use this term, but Maeve is like a manic pixie dream girl for Spencer? She's written as if she's too good to be true, which is why we're supposed to feel so sad when she dies. But they also tried to make her a complex character and didn't have the time to really do it, which is why we're given a back story that makes no fucking sense (as Spencer's DOCTOR no less) and some hints that she probably doesn't feel the same way as Spencer does for her (fiancé she never told him about etc.)
When Spencer's character starts evolving in later seasons to being more than just a genius, but a genius with trauma, they pull a similar stunt with Cat Adams/ Max
The show runner Erica Messer did mention that the Maeve plotline was always designed to be a three act plot: she's introduced, Spencer is in love with her, she dies. But, in my opinion, we didn't get enough of an introduction to her for me to feel really all that bad about it? They banked a lot on the audiences attachment to Reid, so when you feel bad about Maeve's death it's all about Reid - why do bad things keep happening to HIM, I wonder how HE will get through it - when she is the one who was just murdered. Those kind of dynamics always kind of throw me in romantic relationships.
I'm going to be clear, I do not ship Cat Adams and Reid either and I have pretty much no opinion on Max other than that if she were real I'd probably avoid her (teachers who hate teaching and blame the kids are weird! And I'm a teacher so I can say that I think lol).
Cat Adams is girl-Reid if he had a villain arc. She's 100% again there to push Reid's character development, and she's used as an action rather than a character. Max is the same. In season 15, with the entire team at a crossroads, they have to allow Reid two outs: one villain arc where he gives into his lust for Cat Adams, and one happy ending where he gets to start something with someone who is totally normal and a way out of the BAU the way Savannah was for Morgan. But it can't be as easy for Reid, and that's why we're left with the Cat/Max dilemma because he is really attracted to Cat, despite the fact that she was threatening to end the lives of members of Max's family.
By the end of the show, Reid had been actively on the team the most out of all the cast members (bar Penelope, but she wasn't out on cases first hand, so there's not as much emotional baggage there for her). He can't have an easy exit, so I kind of view this "love triangle" bullshit as a metaphor for Spencer choosing a normal life vs a continuation with the BAU.
Which is why I think that if CME continues, I think we're unlikely to see or hear from Max, because that means he's picked the BAU.
Okay now, not to sound like a broken record but, Jeid:
Before Truth or Dare, there is one single suggestion of Jeid being a possibility and it's a suggestion, from Gideon of all people, in season 1. It is CRAZY to me that after thirteen seasons they just decided to develop that one plotline again because jesus CHRIST.
My main problem with Jeid is that, actually, I think it had a lot of potential. Like I said, serialized dramas only have time to develop relationships between their main cast members, which is why we end up with a pseudo-found-family vibe no matter who happens to be on the team at any given point. A lot of similar dramas go down the route of coworker/ team mate relationships (think Ziva and DiNozzo in NCIS or Mulder and Scully in The X Files).
There was absolutely the potential for an opposites attract relationship with Jeid, but I think the minute they abandoned that after that small dialogue we got something WAY FUCKING BETTER. Their friendship is entirely underrated, Spencer regularly babysits her kid, she comforts him after Emily "dies," enough for them to have arguments about it after the fact. Your honor they are SIBLINGS. That is UNCLE SPENCER. Not your future step-dad.
When they decided to commit to JJ and Will, they should've stuck to it, and as a big fan of the Season 7 finale + Hit and Run it is very shitty seeing them trying to retcon both of these characters amazing developments and growth over 14 seasons and have them regress to shit tier versions of their Season 1 selves.
"But Kacie, there must be some Spencer relationships you like," I hear you ask. And there ARE:
Lila Archer is a great foil for Spencer. She has a happy, glamorous life until their paths cross, and then we can assume from dialogue in season 6 that she continues having a pretty fucking glamorous life after everything goes down. I don't think Spencer works best with characters that are traumatised or overly smart the way he is, because he needs something to return to after the cases that switch off that part of him, to help him forget the horrifying shit he sees on the job.
So Lila Archer was kind of a great love interest.
Another one that I'm so annoyed they didn't explore more is Austin. She's the bartender in the Season 4 Episode "52 Pickup" that is charmed by Spencer's card tricks. She is never mentioned again, but they had a great chemistry, she was quick on her feet and managed to spot the unsub first, and she was a really great foil for Spencer as well; it was a street smarts/ book smarts kind of dynamic. If they'd carried that character forward and had her reappear a few times, it could've been a great romantic plot.
I will just quickly note that the reason we most likely didn't see many romantic plots for Reid was because Matthew Gray Gubler didn't like the idea of giving him a romantic plotline, stating that there were so many more interesting things to do with the character - and he's right!
I'm a fanfiction writer, and the allure of characters like Spencer Reid is they are mostly romantic clean slates - you can write whatever you want for them within reason without having to disregard canon relationships. This is why similarly, Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Venom, and young "Marauders" fanfictions are pretty popular here imo too - canon compliance isn't disregarded, the reader is just written in. So I don't think I'd change a thing for Spencer to be honest (apart from maybe not kill Maeve off and give her the actual villain arc, but I say that so regularly I'm beginning to sound like a broken record).
Also I'll just quickly mention Elle because you mentioned her - outside of fanfiction there are literally zero hints (imo) of a thing between Elle and Reid lmao there's more of a case to be made for Elle and Morgan, but for some reason, writers and fans alike don't like committing to giving Morgan more than simply platonic connections. THEY SHOULD!! THE MAN IS SEXY AS HELL!!!!!!! GIVE ME A MORGAN WHO IS REGULARLY FUCKING!
Hotchner Ships
Speaking of characters that have a long time where they are single! Aaron Hotchner is another fandom favorite to write self-insert fanfiction for, because of the gap between Haley Hotchner's death in 100, and the introduction of Beth in season 7.
In general, I like the way Hotch's relationships play out on screen. Let's start with Haley:
You can tell that the writers really enjoyed the dynamic between work Hotch and home Hotch, because they played on it so much across the four first seasons. The very first time he is introduced he's in his bedroom picking out baby names with his childhood sweetheart, so any further scenes of him being more stern or serious are always in contrast with that introduction. It's a cold open to his character that immediately let's you know that there is more going on in his world than just the BAU, and he is the only member of the season one team that has that.
Then, they really LOVE taking that shit away from him. I'm not going to go into detail here about how fucking wack the time line is for Criminal Minds, but it is stupid and that's important here because:
I think Haley's reasons for divorcing Hotch are stupid.
She says that she married a man who was a prosecutor, not a man that was an FBI Profiler but realistically by the time of their divorce, he'd been in the BAU like 10 years. They rely more on the audiences sense of time (we're two years in, so they've all been on the team two years etc) to push this character motivation off. And for a while it makes sense that they were separated, until the events of 100. But also: in sickness and in health, for better and for worse, you literally signed up for whatever the FUCK happened, that's what a marriage vow IS.
Now I'm a sucker for the angst of 100,but would it not have felt 10x more emotionally disgusting if Hotch and Haley were talking about reuniting? If they had never celebrated in the first place, and had just finished working through their marital issues when Foyet comes back into their lives and Haley has to be whisked away again? Yes. Yes it would.
There's an episode in season 9 that really pisses me off, and it's the one that Hotch passes out from an old tear in his Foyet stab wounds and he goes into surgery and talks with Haley and Foyet in heaven while watching the rest of his life after the events of 100 on a cinema screen. It's cliché and also has no pay-off because it doesn't change the way he views his relationships after that, and it's not like he's at a crossroads at that point, so it means nothing to the audience except as a remembrance of an issue and an episode so far in the past that it feels like flogging a dead horse. They do this twice, btw, and this is the more successful use of this plot (the first time they do it to Elle in Season 1/2 during the events of The Wicker King - she talks to the father we didn't even know was dead, who died decades ago in an unrelated time. Not to keep bringing NCIS up, but I think the only time I've seen it done well is whenever Gibbs kept seeing Mike Franks in the diner scenes). They do not out enough effort into these plots to achieve the emotional resonance they are aiming for in my personal opinion.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think this could've been the beginning of the era where Gibson was having a lot of issues with the cast, because it just felt like they didn't want to use him in the on-location shoots for a while lmao. Anyway, all that to say, Haley should've stayed dead, and not come back as a stupid phantom.
After the dust has settled on Haley and Hotchner though, we get Hotchner and Beth:
This is going to be a short note, because I actually really like the relationship between these two characters. They have the very slow cold-open build up that Maeve and Spencer get, but there's a lot more and a lot less to Beth's character that makes the dynamic between them really enjoyable to watch.
We're once again treated to the out-of-work Hotchner that had been missing since Season 4 (his in between scenes with Jack are cute but there's always the tragedy hanging over them). Beth is running a marathon in honor of her dad, Hotch is doing something similar for the FBI Triathalon, they train together the tension builds, they start dating. Now obviously it wasn't the purpose or aim of this character introduction to build to tragedy, and I think they just genuinely wanted to show a happy Hotchner again, but its still a valid criticism of the weird voyeuristic Maeve build-up that they literally succeeded a more sympathetic and audience engaging late minor-recurring-character EARLIER THAN THE MAEVE ARC.
I'll shut up now, but yeah, I like Hotch and Beth.
Penelope Ships
This post is getting ridiculously long, so much so that I'm even contemplating adding a fucking word count, but let's continue and dive in to my next issue.
Penelope's romantic life is used as a punch-line for the first 11 seasons and I HATE it.
There is no easy short to say this, but I despise Kevin. He is stupid, and a joke, and I hate him and I am SO HAPPY that she dumped him. They made her really pathetic about him for a few episodes, and then he kept fucking coming back too which was even worse.
Kevin is literally male Garcia but with all the worst attributes. He's clingy, and needy, and he may be smart but in a very "incel" way. In my opinion, Kevin is less a fully fledged character and more a joke line/ convenient plot point for when they need more tech analyst work. The best moment in the Kevin/Penelope arc is during the The Gathering, where she really lays into him and tells him off for being jealous of her ukelele instructor AFTER THEY'D BROKEN UP.
Penelope deserved so much better than what they gave her romantically in these seasons. First, her date tried to kill her, her boyfriend was a joke, etc. She never gets the serious romantic plotline that her other teammates do (Hotch/Haley, Spencer/Maeve, Derek/Savannah, JJ/Will, Emily/being a big old lesbian etc). Penelope is really great levity for the rest of the cast because she is happy and she is positive and she is unapologetic in her positivity. It's annoying that they don't let her be more than that in the romantic relationships they give he during these seasons.
Then Luke Alvez is introduced and there is some hope! Galvez truther's please, rise they are so adorable.
Anyone involved in the writing of CME - what the hell was that? Now I haven't seen it myself, to be completely fair, but I know enough to ask the question - really what the HELL was that?
Tl;dr Penelope's sexuality and romantic relationships should not be used as punchlines.
The Aversion to Homosexuality
This is just a general note, but the writers originally did plan to have Emily Prentiss be gay - amazing, great, it's a completely different time now, please let her have a gay awakening soon. It was obviously scrapped early in, but there's a lot of subtext that can be interpreted in that way.
They did commit with Tara, and she gets a gf in CME, so I want to see some Temily in the future if we do get more CM seasons.
So just so you know, everytime I mention Emily flirting with someone in my fic, assume it's a woman if you aren't already, lmao.
(They did also talk about making Reid bisexual as well, which would've also been great, but again, I don't think we're ever getting any more romantic plotlines from Reid).
Other Characters
Here's just a rating and short mention for all the other character couples I can think of in Criminal Minds, because this is already thesis length lmao:
Morgan + Savannah - 8.5/10, no notes, really just the gender bent love interest but done right.
Alex Blake + Husband - 7/10, solid couple, very much enjoyed when they started bringing in the people in established relationships again lmao.
Kate Callahan + Husband - 5/10, same as above but I wasn't as attached to her character rip.
Matt + Kirsty - 10/10 really no notes, I too would be called a breeder if I managed to lock that man down, damn.
Rossi + His 3 Ex-Wives - Make total sense for his character, very enjoyable to me, love that he has a nice moment with most of them again throughout the series, not going to rate it lol.
Rossi + Strauss - 3.5/10 - Last ditch attempt to make Strauss a sympathetic character, but I felt more attached to her growth after being called out by Derek rather than the effect that her death had on Rossi.
Gideon + the friend of his who is murdered by that Frank guy at the end of season 2 - stupid, worst way to go out, made no sense for the character, but I know Mandy Patinkin wanted OUT and honestly, anything for you Inigo Montoya.
Why I think Criminal Minds is Better Without Romance
Generally, I really do agree with Matthew Gray Gubler when he said that there were more interesting things to explore with these characters than their romantic attachments. It does frustrate me to no end that they focused on some of them more than others, and that post Henry, most of JJ's big moments are tied to motherhood and being a mother/ wife, but that change in her character is still amazing and leads her to a lot of growth (not mentioning Truth or Dare again, sorry it doesn't exist at this point in the post)(also I didn't have much time to mention Will and JJ, but I do love them).
Their best moments are the ones we get of them together as a team, saving people and putting away murderers for life, it's a perfect Found Family!!!
Also, no more romance = Spencer Reid can be mine. In conclusion, I am delusional. Thank you for reading this far.
#reiderreplies#reiderthoughts#spencer reid#criminal minds#aaron hotchner#penelope garcia#derek morgan#tara lewis#emily prentiss#jennifer jareau#alex blake#matt simmons#maeve donovan#cat adams#david rossi#Lila Archer#Bro I talk about so many fucking characters in this post#I'm sorry#The tags are a bit stupid#But I guess they're all relevant?#elle greenaway
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June 30, 2013: Meanwhile, Leon and Helena have arrived over Lanshiang, but there is a C virus outbreak aboard their plane, causing it to crash. Leon and Helena, the only survivors, encounter Sherry and Jake, who saw the plane going down and came to investigate. Leon reveals the truth of the Tall Oaks outbreak to Sherry, who is hesitant to believe him. Jake threatens Leon in Sherry’s defense, but Sherry explains that Leon once saved her life, during the Raccoon City outbreak. She decides to trust his word over Simmons’, and she tells him where he can find Simmons. Before they can make a plan, they are attacked by the Ustanak, which is still pursuing Sherry and Jake. They are separated from Leon and Helena in the ensuing fight, and agree to meet up later once the situation has been dealt with.
#Game: RE6#Character: Leon Kennedy#Character: Helena Harper#Character: Sherry Birkin#Character: Jake Muller#Character: Derek Simmons#(mention)#Big Monster: Ustanak#Infections: Enhanced C virus#resident evil#re6#leon kennedy#helena harper#sherry birkin#jake muller
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*Blows him up with my mind* This guy Simmons 😒 Decided to give him a design, since I plan to do some re6 related art so might as well. He was the bane of my existence while I was playing leon’s route but it was so fun just beating him up lmao. I actually ended up really liking the design I gave him, even though I absolutely despise him 😭 If Simmons has no haters, I am dead
Headcanon: His infected forms are at a smaller scale compared to in the games. Like his T-Rex form is instead a crocodile or monitor lizard. His bug form is still just a giant fly though lol
#derek simmons#derek c simmons#resident evil#my art#catified#design#catified design#catified resident evil#his design did not need to come out this good im upset 😭#i would try to say more about him but i would just end up going on rant on how much i hate him lmaoo#but yeah here he is i guess#simmons you will never be my favorite character 🤺#i did think his mutated forms were interesting though-#that’s it tho-#anyway back to the re7 designs lol
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#criminal minds#bau family#criminal minds edit#israeli war crimes#adam rodriguez#spencer reid#aaron hotchner#bau team#david rossi#derek morgan#emily prentiss#jason gideon#luke alvez x reader#luke alvez imagine#luke alvez#roxy alvez#alvez#elle greenaway#bau!reader#penelope garcia#garvez#couple#imagine#character portrayal#jennifer jareau#aj cook#matt simmons
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I propose a toast to all the BAU agents who left.
#criminal minds#cm#bau#spencer reid#agent reid#comfort character#dr. spencer reid#comfort show#aaron hotchner#elle greenaway#jason gideon#ashley seaver#alex blake#kate callahan#derek morgan#stephen walker#matt simmons#comfort
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My opinions on Criminal Minds characters as someone who understands that characters have nuance and aren’t just black and white
Hotch: adore him
Rossi: adore him
Gideon: disagree with his decision to bring Spencer to the field but adore him
Reid: adore him
Elle: adore her
Morgan: adore him
Emily: adore her
JJ: adore her
Seaver: (despite what people think) adore her
Callahan: adore her
Todd: adore her (no one can ever make me hate you bestie)
Blake: adore her
Garcia: adore her (huge crush on her)
Alvez: adore him
Simmons: adore him
Lewis: adore her
#criminal minds#I do have critical thinking btw#they allow me to see that each character is human#with human actions and human emotions#all of them do bad things but no one on this list is bad#hotch#aaron hotchner#david rossi#jason gideon#spencer reid#elle greenaway#derek morgan#emily prentiss#jennifer jareau#jj#ashley seaver#kate callahan#jordan todd#alex blake#penelope garcia#luke alvez#matt simmons#tara lewis
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