It's time for a MEME

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Crowning Moment of Awesome Meme

Everyone has done something awesome in their lives, whether it was being a total badass and saving the world or just talking down a schoolyard bully, and apparently, someone recorded that awesome moment (or wrote it down or made a comic about it or what have you). Now that awesome moment has been posted everywhere, and characters get to react.

Rules!

1. Find an instance of your character being awesome in canon.
2. Post links to videos, embed pictures, copy and paste passages, so on and so forth, as many as you like. People can pick and choose what they react to, or react to all of it.
3. Please include trigger warnings if they're needed and don't put more than one large picture (or two small ones) in a single post, and instead link if you want to add more.
4. Tag around and let's get this party started!

Comments

[nasa_dreams]

Well, he's got ghost powers like me, not to mention he's really rich and covers his tracks well.

But, it's fine now. He got banished to space.

[remainingtwin]

[Mio hopes she grows up to be as cool as you, Spencer.]

I think I'll always bet on you if a fight happens. [There's something about 'difficulty differentiating between what is inanimate, dead, or alive' that reminds her of a certain dollmaker and his daughter and the living doll she had to fight once.]

What happened? Why were you looking for her?

[remainingtwin]

I don't even know what to talk about. [There's a pause and she reaches out to curl her fingers around his sleeve again, clinging to him that way until she's sure it's okay to go in for a hug.]

It didn't miss much, but... It didn't show having to hide in the hollow tree graveyard for a while, or being attacked in the tunnels. Or... [She swallows hard] ...Seeing Itsuki hang himself.

Those videos don't even show the worst of it, to be honest. [except for having to kill her sister, that's about as bad as it can ever get, but that goes without saying.]

[remainingtwin]

Ib... [She trails off, feeling kind of guilty] You shouldn't have to see things like that...

But, I'll be okay. Eventually, I hope.

[red_roses]

I don't know if I could do something like that....even for Garry.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[That has got to be a first.

He lets out a soft laugh.] Thanks for the vote of confidence, but I hope your idea of winning a fight is talking the other side down.

Well, we were brought in on a case where bodies of very petite women were dressed like dolls and then left carefully in places that represented childhood and innocence, like a merry-go-round or a playground. Each of them had been being given a cocktail of drugs intended to paralyze them, and their brains shut down after two months of paralyzation. We realized that death wasn't actually her aim--it was just to replace a set of dolls that her father had given her and then taken away again. With her brain damage, she felt like she needed the dolls to function, and she didn't understand the moral ramifications of using people to replace them. We got her by--

[And then like magic, another video!]

...That.

[exeggutorhead]

[Lots of things, Danny, lots of things.]

Oh please, like I owe some kid an explanation.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[When he feels her fingers at his sleeve, he puts his hand on her back between the shoulder blades, since he's picked up that that's a cue for a desire for contact. If she wants more affection, he's alright with her initiating it.]

Well, you could talk about anything, really. You could start with what disturbs you most if you need to get it off your chest, or the least of it to work into the difficult parts, or even just starting at the beginning and talking about it linearly.

[Also, he's a little suspicious of your relationship with your twin because Mayu says some things that seems to imply more than sisterly attachment, but he's not touching that at the moment because you should probably deal with her death before you deal with that.]

[exeggutorhead]

[SORRY MIO HE'S ACTUALLY KIND OF AWFUL 8( ]

[He's frowning defensively, arms crossed.]

Hey, it's not like I ever claimed I was a good person.

[exeggutorhead]

[Okay wow Mio no wonder you were freaking out so bad when you showed up.]

Damn, kid, you come from a screwed up world.

[What is tact even. BUT HE'S NOT REALLY SURE WHAT ELSE TO SAY.]

[remainingtwin]

[She flinches a little and rubs at the butterfly mark on her neck] ...Yeah, I guess so. It didn't seem so bad, until then....

[remainingtwin]

But-- Don't you feel sorry at all? [COME ON, MAN. 8((]

[remainingtwin]

[She's quiet for a long moment. She told him about the ritual part at least, so it's not like there's not much else to reveal. Since he picked up on her cue (as she sort of suspected he would, and how strange and interesting it is to think about that they've reached a level of understanding like that), she slides her arms around his waist and hides her face against him.

Her voice is slightly muffled, but still decipherable] When we were little, I got too far ahead of Mayu and she fell from the mountain path. [In the flashback something might've seemed a little--off. Hadn't Mayu been a little too far from the edge to just fall? Unless she's purposefully moved...

Mio, however, is none the wiser to that] It was all my fault, if I hadn't gotten ahead of her... I promised I wouldn't leave her alone after that, and I took care of her. She depended on me for everything and I never left her side. But I kept losing her in the village. I'd save her, and then I'd turn around and she'd be gone. It's like I couldn't win at all.

[red_roses]

But...you're not much older than me...

[nasa_dreams]

Dude! You punched my friend through the chest!!!!!

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Reid keeps his hand between her shoulder blades and wraps his other arm around her shoulders, keeping her secure against him. To be honest, he actually was pretty suspicious about that fall, and Mayu seems to be a pretty manipulative person, but once again, not touching that yet.]

Mio. You were a little girl. It's normal for children to fight siblings that are close in age, let alone run in front of each other when they're excited about something. Her fall wasn't your fault.

[He looks down at the crown of her head, his eyes soft.] And neither was losing her in the village. From what I saw, you were doing your best. No one could ask you to do more than that.

[remainingtwin]

[THe corner of her mouth twitches in a smile] Are you saying you couldn't take someone down in a fistfight? [Sorry Reid but the idea of you fist-fighting someone is kind of hilarious.

She listens--and watches--in a quiet awe. It sounds absolutely crazy, she can't even wrap her head around it, not really. Even after her experiences in the dollmaker's house-- but that had been entirely different too.] What makes people do things like that? Where does the...the flip come from? Most people wouldn't react like that. [It's both fascinating and disturbing.] Even someone who went through the same thing might not react the same way...

[remainingtwin]

My best wasn't good enough. [It's a matter-of-fact mumble and she frowns.] I always told myself, 'if only I was there holding her hand...'

[She sighs] I guess it doesn't matter now. When we got to the village I thought everything would be fine. THat we'd just find a phone and call our uncle and leave, but--

[There are two other short videos. The high-pitched laughter of the girl in the bloodstained kimono makes her shiver] ...But it wasn't going to be that easy.

((OOC: Warning for the second clip as it shows Mio and Mayu sharing a vision which includes, among other things, the brief image of twins being hanged, jumping images, and a woman being strangled.))

[leftinbasketforfbi]

In a gunfight, I could, but definitely not in a fistfight. [Seriously. Look at him. He's a pipe cleaner with eyes and noodle arms.]

It's different for everyone, but in Samantha's case, it was brain damage. Her mother died, and her father likely began sexually abusing her around then. [You might notice a little sharpening in his eyes and a growing edge in his voice. No. He does not like Arthur Malcolm, or anyone like him.] In order to keep her quiet, he submitted her to electroshock therapy, which while a perfectly legitimate treatment for certain mental illnesses in adults, will permanently damage the brain of an adolescent. Her prefrontal cortex, the part of our brain in charge of executive function. Her ability to differentiate among conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, predict outcomes from certain behaviors, and moderate her social behavior were all irreparably damaged.

Her father gave her dolls as gifts, and since she didn't have friends, she was being thoroughly traumatized, and her prefrontal cortex was damaged, she became attached to those dolls in a way that most people never do--she attached part of herself to them, and they became an integral part of her identity.

Now, this would be okay--for a relative definition of 'okay'--if she could always have her dolls nearby, but her father took her dolls away. People like her, called 'Collectors', react violently, sometimes even psychotically, to their collections being threatened, and when hers was taken, she had to find a surrogate. With the damage to her brain, humans seemed like acceptable surrogates.

[If you ask for an explanation, you will get an explanation. Hopefully, you managed to pay attention to all that.]

[roemance]

MURDER MURDER MURDER MURDER

Yeah def crowning moment for sures.

Oh wait once he was on seahorsedad


and shot a whale


yeah i dont really have much more than that

[remainingtwin]

[She listens and...sort of gets it, through the technical babble. It's probably one of those things that comes with living with Reid all the time now. She can't think of anything to say, however, so she just settles with a] Oh.

This is why I like you, Spencer. You don't talk to me like I'm a kid. [Most adults would've dumbed it down immediately or tried to skirt around the sexual abuse part of it. She's glad he doesn't do that.]

But is she going to be okay now? They can't fix that, can they? Her brain I mean.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Reid doesn't like these videos. :<

He's kind of glad he's holding her, even if he doesn't quite know how to deal with their contact yet. It makes him feel like he's doing something.]

It's... you know, Survivor's Guilt is very common in survivors of disasters and trauma, especially if a close friend or family member died.

You went above and beyond what most people would have been able to do. I don't think you realize that, but maybe you will some day.

[comeatmibro]

Miyuki's Crowning Moment of Awesome™ was effectively this: she went up against a team of nationally-ranked middle school tennis players in someone else's defense. She got her ass handed to her, but she refused to give up.

She's ultimately saved by the guy she's trying to protect, who was (fucking finally) inspired to action by her courage and determination.

AND THEN HE LEFT WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE.

[kyoukashotennis]

[...]

Wow.

[comeatmibro]

[ Give her a minute while she decides whether to preen or be embarrassed.

...

Okay, decision made. ]

Heh. It was no big deal, really. I could've taken on a hundred of 'em!