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

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Excellent, she's learning. If she comes to understand 90% of what he says all the time, then he has done his job as a teacher well.]

Well, I understand what it's like for adults to disregard you for your age. That, and it'd be strange to treat you like a child when you're really not. [Even though he was smarter than any of the adults around him, they all dismissed him as a kid and dumbed things down immensely. And, well, she's really not a child. Not anymore.]

She's... well, actually, she's doing pretty well, considering. No, her brain will never be repaired, but she's now in a state facility. She was originally in a maximum security state hospital, but I and that man I was with--SSA David Rossi--pushed for a more thorough evaluation of her mental state, and now she's in minimum security. She's allowed to keep her dolls, some local businesses farm out seamstress work to her, and overall, I think she's happier now than she was before. I visit her sometimes, just to check on her, and she's usually smiling and carrying around her dolls.

[She's actually one of those unsubs that have stuck in his mind over the years, but partially because she's actually a success story, for once. It's not every day that you save the victims, incarcerate a pedophile, and put a mentally ill woman in a place where she can thrive and safely interact with others.]

[red_roses]

Oh! So that's a mobile suit!

[captainash]

...Ah, yes, it is...

[Please don't realize he killed someone. Please, please don't realize he killed someone.]

[red_roses]

....Was that man captured, then? He was on the opposing side....right?

[captainash]

...The Federation has put a lot of effort into capturing Vagans. We know very little about them, so every source of information counts.

[remainingtwin]

[There's not much to like in Mio's time in the village. Unfortunately. 8(

She says nothing for a moment before giving a soft sigh] I just wanted to save my sister. It wasn't anything special.

[Where was she in her story...] We couldn't leave the village and the sun never rose. The whole week we were there... There was no sun, and no food. I didn't even notice because I was in too much of a panic; coming here was...strange after that.

We were so close to leaving when she got grabbed. I could've left without her. [Okay no she couldn't have. She wouldn't be able to live with herself.]

[remainingtwin]

I know. [That's the weird part about it.] But I went through something different too.

Really, I think you're much stronger than I am.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Reid listens quietly. He figures there will be a clear signal when she's finished with her story, and right now, he feels like the best he can really do is listen quietly and let her get it off of her chest.

...Although that does explain why she always wants to see the sun rise.]

[remainingtwin]

[Mio smiles a little, both at his admission that he wouldn't disregard her because of her age, and for hearing how well the woman's doing.] That's good. I'm happy for her.

Not all the stories end that well though, do they. [Though the longer she spends around Reid the more interested she's becoming in this profiling thing herself. Too bad she's pretty sure Japan doesn't have anything like the BAU.]

[remainingtwin]

[She's quiet a moment longer] I don't know. I ended up running around the whole village, learning about the people and... fighting them, in some cases. Some of them were grown men and women, and some were... were children.

[And fighting the children was always the worse. Even though they were ghosts she was still, more or less, killing them.]

Itsuki was the only one who didn't want to kill me. He was locked in the storehouse, but there was a window I'd talk to him through and he'd give me advice or cam me down. [Pause] When I found the key to the storeroom, I needed his help one more time, and I thought I could let him go.

I guess deep down I knew he had to be dead already, but... When I opened the doors and saw his body there... I thought I'd feel more. I was so drained I couldn't even react much. [She pulls away some too look up at him, worried] That's not normal, right?

[red_roses]

I'm...not though....I couldn't even figure out what Mary was on my own.

[red_roses]

I see....[She has her suspicions, still.] So he ejected, like a pilot in a fighter jet, right?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Oh God, Reid has a protege. God help us all.

His smile fades a little bit, but not completely. After so long in the business, he's seen a lot, and he's learned how to face it all without being bogged down completely.]

No. No, they don't. Usually, there's a higher body count, and many more lives are ruined. Unsubs commit suicide, victims die or are raped or mutilated, cases go unsolved, and there's really nothing we can do besides do our best to make sure there aren't any more victims. Sometimes, our best isn't good enough and people get hurt, and we have to live with that. [Believe him. He can recite the name of each and every person he has failed to save.

At the same time, he can recite the name of each and every person he has saved.]

But even though it's hard, I really can't imagine doing anything else.

[remainingtwin]

[She will be the very best, like no one ever waaass]

Because you're still doing your best and making a difference. [Mio hesitates a moment and fidgets a little]

Can you teach me more? About profiling, and things like that? [This request will come up in-game eventually too. Some day.]

[captainash]

...That's how it works, yes. And since their cockpits are in the suits' heads, it's really easy for them to escape.

[It's just that they never do.]

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Reid's eyes are soft, but he averts them, once again his thoughts distracting him from putting in the effort for eye contact.] Mio... there's no standard reaction to trauma or grief. It's... well, even just talking from personal experience, it's very common to stop feeling things you would normally feel if you're in an extreme situation like that. It's a coping mechanism--your mind is protecting itself from completely breaking down by putting aside how you feel for later.

[Wait eye contact that's a thing he should be doing

He'll quickly make it again.]

Now that you're in a less stressful environment, it'll probably start filtering to the surface so you can deal with it now that you're not fighting for your life.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[To catch them is her real test, to jail them is her caaauuuuse]

Profiling? [He arches an eyebrow, but then he smiles. Well, he guesses she's already prepared to deal with the heavy stuff she'd hear about.] Sure, if you want me to. But I should probably warn you, that once you get used to doing it, it's not something you can really turn off.

[red_roses]

O-Okay. He had a space suit on, so he was okay then, right?

[captainash]

Don't worry. Those spacesuits are very resistant, and they're made for spending some time in space in a pinch.

[red_roses]

Okay, I believe you.

[kyoukashotennis]

[It would have been surprising if she'd been embarrassed.]

I doubt Shishigaku even has that many players. That'd be what, half of Hyoutei?

[But more importantly.] You're really strong, aren't you? Both at tennis and at mental-strength.

[captainash]

You'd better. Those things saved my life more than once.

[red_roses]

Okay...

[captainash]

...Besides, that guy's brother is a good friend of mine. It'd be pretty rude to hurt him, right?

[red_roses]

Uh-huh....