Forced Honesty Meme

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Forced Honesty Meme


1) Post with your character, including name and series in the header.
2) Reply to other people asking questions ICly.
3) That character is forced to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
4) Insert 'the truth will set you free' joke here.

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SHE LIKE YOU, BRO

[doitrockapella]

Like I said. Entirely too entertaining.

[That's okay, she's got enough self-esteem for three people. Possibly four, depending on how scrupulously you divide it.]

If you content yourself with living out your life as a number on a test result or a library of facts, you're sidelining yourself from everything else you could be. It would be a disservice to the achievements of the greatest men in history to confine them to any one category of their pursuits — limiting da Vinci to a great painter or Franklin to a great diplomat. I don't see any reason to constrain you, either.

HE DOESN'T GET IT. B|

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I...

[He bites his lip. He does not know what to do with this. He knows what to do with insults, but he doesn't know what to do with compliments.]

Well, I wouldn't consider myself constrained. I dabble in a lot of different disciplines when I'm not working at the BAU. [Fwoosh. Right over his head. Still defining himself with intellectual pursuits for the most part.]

for someone so smart he can be p. oblivious

[doitrockapella]

[Let's try this a different way, then. Sometimes learning needs to take many paths to finally sink in.]

What do you like to do, Dr. Reid?

He maintains that he's a genius, not a people person :|

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[He blinks owlishly.] Well... a lot of different things. I like my job. I like reading. I like doing research in various fields, like mental health, mathematics, chemistry, engineering, an so on. I like magic, playing the piano, card games, teaching and taking care of my godson... Things like that.

[Oh, right, has he mentioned he has a godson?]

Practice makes perfect. B)

[doitrockapella]

[Ooo, a godson. This is definitely worth probing into, and she does so with new, unmistakable interest.]

Tell me about your godson. When you set out to teach him something, is it because, as a genius, you're clearly the most qualified person for the job?

What if he doesn't want to practice? :<

[leftinbasketforfbi]

Henry. His name is Henry. [Reid smiles. He's alright with discussing Henry with Carmen, and it's pretty damn clear that he loves his godson dearly.] I don't teach him because I'd be best at it; I teach him because I like to do it and he likes to learn. Even if he can't understand a lot of what I try to teach him, since he's only two years old.

[Beat.]

...Three, actually. His birthday was November 12th.

Then she will mercilessly inflict the flirts upon him anyway.

[doitrockapella]

Having said that, would you like to reexamine the question of what I could possibly like about you, if not that you're smart?

[She's had kids like that, too. Never her own, naturally, but the ones who chase her. There's no denying she does it for the fun, but there's a certain sort of pleasure in watching them keep up with her and learn from doing it, too.]

He's a lucky boy, to have you in his life. Is he reading yet?

...You know, that doesn't sound too bad

[leftinbasketforfbi]

...I like to teach? [It's something they have in common.

He smiles proudly, crossing his arms over his chest.] Starting to. He's the only child in his daycare who can read along during story time. [Reid, JJ, Will, and Garcia all obsessively reading to him probably helped.]

FLIRTATIOUS BARRAGE

[doitrockapella]

And I like to learn.

[There, see, now he's opening up. Excellent.]

When does he get his first Holmes novel?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

[Your plan is working, Carmen. Only an entire reworking of his self-image to go.]

I was thinking his fourth birthday. He'll probably want me to read it to him, but I plan on making him try to solve the mystery himself. [Yes, he has put thought into this. Because he is that into the idea of helping raise his godson. (You should have seen him when Henry was still a baby. So much cooing to be had. SO MUCH COOING.)] He's smart enough to.

[doitrockapella]

[MISSION: ACCEPTED.]

I'd recommend starting with A Scandal in Bohemia. But it might endear him more to the good Mr. Holmes if you pick one where the detective comes out ahead in the end. A Study in Scarlet would be the logical choice, but not if you want him to have enough clues in the narrative to solve the mystery himself. The Copper Beeches, possibly.

[leftinbasketforfbi]

I'll keep all that in mind. I'll probably talk to his parents before I choose and make sure they're comfortable with him reading whatever I'm thinking of. They can be a little careful about what they expose him to sometimes, since they're both in law enforcement. [Protect the child's innocence as long as possible, and protect him from the darkness you see every day. Reid can understand that.]

[doitrockapella]

Coworkers of yours, I presume?

[leftinbasketforfbi]

His mother, JJ, has been my teammate for eight years. His father, Will, used to be in the New Orleans police department, but then he moved to DC to live with JJ and Henry, so he currently works in the local police department. You'd probably like him, actually. He's a detective.

[doitrockapella]

I do have more criteria for likeability than just "a detective", you know.