#also her og partner... thats richie from the bear.. i blew up when i saw him

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Yoooo, when do you think Sameen started regressing and how did Root get involved/find out? So excited there's another poi agere truther out here

regressor!sameen shaw and carer!root/samantha groves headcanons

hh me too, I'm rewatching the whole show rn,, and I'm almost done. readmore/break bc my god can I yap.. be warned lol

anyway, she probably started after her og teammate died. she most likely repressed it as it wasn't a 'useful' feeling. (I think she uses her personality disorder during work. anger to fuel adrenaline. etc.)

when the gang came together and root started taking sameen on missions, they spent more time talking, whether a steak out to gather information, or sameen is playing undercover with root's witty banter, tech support, and affectionate teasing, their relationship felt more comfortable. some sort of normalcy in their constant state of 'save the next person'

sameen is definitely more talkative, shooting back at root with silly responses, rambling on abt certain guns and how they work, yadda yadda. (root could listen to hours of her pretty girl talkin.) shaw was probably a bit more giggly as she took the tag off a new collar for bear. the boys being out on a joint number root comes over, offering bear her hand and sameen slowly puts her hand out to hold.. it's minimal and gentle. initating contact herself, but she allows herself this to satiate the yelling in her head that wants to have some sort of connection whether emotional or physical.

shaw let herself be vulnerable around root bc she trusted her. root started picking up on things that looked off. (plus, root played a psychiatrist for a while huh) I think she put 2 and 2 together, maybe nudging sameen that she knows and accepts her but won't go farther without her explicit say so.

sameen involuntarily regressed more after getting kidnapped by Samaritan, she didn't outwardly show it but they probably saw smth on her brain scans.

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