Saw a Criminal Minds gifset and suddenly started thinking about canon vs. fanon JJ.
TL; DR: Fanon JJ is the facade canon JJ puts on to hide trauma.
(This discusses JJ's sister, so content warning for suicide)
The obvious starting point for understanding JJ's characterization is her sister's suicide. That's a traumatic event for anyone, and even more so for an eleven year old child. So it's quite understandable that JJ decides she will do whatever she can to avoid experiencing hurt like that again.
In episode 3.17, JJ tells Will about their relationship, "I didn't want to tell anyone because the minute I do it becomes real, and when it becomes real, people get hurt, and I've always run from getting hurt. Always."
But JJ didn't only lose her sister.
In episode 14.12, JJ's mom admits, "I got so caught up in all my troubles that I forgot there was another little girl under my roof who had just lost her sister. You needed me, and I wasn't there."
At eleven years old, JJ was a traumatized child without a support system. So she learned to rely on herself. Other people were just avenues for hurt, and she decided that wasn't worth it.
All of which leads to this confession from JJ in the season 14 finale: "There are only four people I trust in this world."
My three non-negotiables are Will, Hotch, and Emily. The fourth is between Reid and Garcia, but I lean towards the former given Garcia's penchant for invading people's privacy.
Even if anyone disagrees with that list, there's not a lot of room for choice. At any given time, the BAU usually has seven members, and given the amount of turnover they've had, JJ hasn't learned to trust most of them.
Do they know that? They probably know her facade masks trauma, but I doubt they know the extent of it. There's a reason that episode starts with the team playing poker, and JJ showing Reid he doesn't know her as well as he thinks he does.
So let's talk about that facade. In contrast to Reid, who wears his trauma on his sleeve, JJ buries hers as deeply as she can. She takes care of the people around her, and while it's not disingenuous, it's part of a prettily painted reinforced fortress wall that says, "hey, look at me, such a put-together person that doesn't have problems of my own, so I can help with yours."
And it does the job because it has fandom fooled too.
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I'm just spit balling here.
The form to change Lucy Frostblades dieity was file "on her behalf" by Kipperlily. I think Lucy turned in the documents afterword to rescind it. Because Kipperlily couldn't persuade/influence Lucy she was killed. Or Lucy really was going to change Gods but a bunch of Ruvina followers were killed and she became one of the last of her clerics. And maybe that's why she was so sad because her family had died(it really could just have been depression tho). 🤷🏾♀️
The soul gem Lydia Barkrock has in her chest is fractured. So I believe Bakur is also fractured. There are other pieces of his soul around completing his plan to rez his Master. I also think that some pieces of himself are acting independently in this endeavor and that's how the mall situation happened. It tried to rez its Master using a God of a similar domain and in the Astral plane(the birth place of the gods).
I think that the Temple of the Earth Defiant was for this deceased god.(This thought feels really crazy.)
The Rat grinders are planning to use Kristen as a sacrifice in the gym to rez the dead god. Or kill/use Bucky to gain access to Helio's domain(office) to revive the god.
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in Das Tor zur Hölle haben sie ein gerahmtes Bild von Bibis alter Zuhälterschleuder (a.k.a. Pontiac Firebird) im Büro hängen 😂
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