What does your character think of mine?

[fairyblue]

We haven't had one of these in a long time, and anything written here can totally be used for filling out/updating CR charts!
1) Post your characters
2) Hit other people asking what their characters think of yours!
3) ????
4) PROFIT!

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Streamlining this into one reply...

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Yay, Reid is part of The Team. :3 That can be the source of some awkwardness for him since he's extremely aware of the fact that Gordon, Coop, and Albert have all been working together for years, and he isn't certain about his place in that dynamic beyond 'also there's this other agent'. He feels a little like he has to prove himself capable all over again, although luckily, neither Gordon, Coop, nor Albert have ever dismissed him based on his age or youthful appearance so far, so he at least doesn't feel like he needs to work to get them to listen to something he has to say.

And luckily, Carmen's plan has been working so far. Simultaneously encouraging his nerdiness and giving him a topic to practice social interaction and flirting with is actually a really effective way of building his confidence and giving him some experience to work with if a different person approaches him. And he hasn't even noticed her doing it! Congrats, Carmen. You're awesome. (And also, I'd love to play out a few of her 'let's help you work through your issues' schemes, because Reid has a lot of issues he won't address.)

[worktodo]

CLEARLY MORE TEAM FBI POWWOWS ARE NEEDED. (also I am actually writing up a Thanksgiving log right now so hopefully we can all hit that for team bonding shenanigans aplenty.) The part I like is that he actually does fit really well into the existing team dynamic — Albert had previously been occupying the sort of "smart guy" niche, but Reid's actually a really nice balance of Albert and Coop, all quirky insightful profiler while still being a wealth of facts. He makes an excellent addition to the existing team. o/

Yes, see, she's awesome like that. And if she were in the know about his trust issues, she'd probably point out that in a way, she's a completely safe outlet in terms of the trust thing because there's no uncertainty — he should already know not to trust her for reasons having nothing to do with his social awkwardness and everything to do with her being a wanted criminal. Which seems like weird logic (LOL, CARMEN LOGIC IS SO WEIRD ALWAYS), but it does effectively take the question of trust entirely off the table and gives him a solid answer, which in its own way is safer and breeds less hesitance than not knowing. And if that works to set him at ease, well. Problem solved. :|b

(Granted, she's of the opinion that she's completely trustworthy, but for the sake of facilitating the plan, she's willing to point out the other side of it.)

HAHAHAHA OH GOD YOU JUST SAID THE MAGIC WORDS. Reid, you in danger, son. You pick an issue you want her to drag out and I am on it, you have no idea. Possibly through hilarious thieving shenanigans, but one way or another IT WILL HAPPEN.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I think bonding shenanigans will be great. :3 Albert and Reid rushing around the kitchen, everyone drinking wine and/or scotch, everyone trying to make sure that Mio and the Viking kids don't drink any wine and/or scotch, so on and so forth IT'LL BE AWESOME. And also Amanda will try bugging Albert when Reid isn't looking because she's mature like that.

I think that would be a pretty good argument. If Reid knows he can't trust someone, he doesn't have to worry about whether or not he should allow them to get close. That hasn't quite occurred to him yet, although even when it does, he'll still probably end up trusting her with time. Yes, she's a thief and a wanted criminal, but she has morals and she's careful about not getting innocent people hurt. In his eyes, that's still pretty good.

Oh god, where to start? You can take your pick, if you like: issues letting people close to him, abandonment complex, issues admitting that he's hurt or affected by something, constant lingering fear of being schizophrenic and Johto being a massive psychotic break, issues admitting to his need to numb extraordinary pain and thus his continued cravings for Dilaudid, issues standing up for himself if someone is beating him and only him down, issues about second-guessing himself and blaming himself for various deaths, traumas, (and in one case, the survival) of and to people even if he couldn't always help it, his lack of confidence, etc. etc. etc. etc. Kid's a mess and obviously the best way to deal with that is with a really determined thief plus SHENANIGANS.

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And all of these are excellent issues. The ones Carmen is probably most likely to latch onto are the abandonment complex (which she'll notice probably because she's the one used to leaving at the drop of a hat), the confidence stuff, and possibly the issues letting people close to him — though that one, she might leave alone because she can understand wanting to hold people at arm's length on a personal level. The confidence one would probably be the easiest for her to handle, but I have to believe she'll inadvertently end up hitting a lot of them anyway, if only because she's dealing with similar issues herself in her own ways, and it might end up being a sort of "look, if I can do it, you can too" kind of scenario. I'll keep tabs on what topics seem to come up when they talk and work on having her poke at them as the situation warrants, okay? C: