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[polyhistor]

Characters: Spencer Reid and open.
Date: From April 5th-14th.
Location: Various locations in Keeliai and Atam.
Situation: Reid does SCIENCE!! And other things. There will be some specific threadstarters and some general ones.
Warnings/Ratings: Excessive tldr?
Other: prose or actionspam are both fine by me. Also if you could fill out my permissions post that would be awesome. Reid is a behavioural analyst with the FBI and he tends to use body language and linguistic cues to 'profile' other characters. Obviously this is an ability that tends towards 'hugely infomoddy' so I like to keep things above the board whenever possible.

Comments

[polyhistor]

What's in Guatemala?

[The question is distantly curious. There's no pressure to it, the sort of query that's easily deflected without causing offense.]

[angermanaging]

Nothing. That's why I was there.

[There's a wry self-consciousness to it. Right now would be a natural time to admit that he's a fugitive from the U.S. government, but he doesn't. He realizes he has no reason to hide it here, but it still makes him feel too unsafe and jittery to say out loud. He has to edge into it.]

I've been trying not to be found for a long time.

[polyhistor]

[There's a story there. Some piece of the puzzle he's missing, and if Reid were anything like Hotch he'd have actively tried to figure it out by now.

But Reid was a genius before he was a profiler. And there's a certain sense of... solidarity in his tentative (professional) relationship with Bruce that outranks his occupational habits. He doesn't pry.]

Any luck?

[angermanaging]

[It's mostly the fact that he isn't prying that gets him this much.]

Honestly... no. [There's a note of self-conscious tiredness here.] Sometimes I can go a few months, but I'm learning that you can't run from yourself. Something about your shadow always being there.

[This is true, and provides the convenient excuse of him not having to reveal that he's a fugitive. It also lets him try to play it off lightly, not let the conversation turn too serious. Bruce has so few casually positive interactions that he's trying not to completely kill this one.]

[polyhistor]

[Quietly,]

You have to be in the light for shadows to exist at all. But I understand.

[Being socially awkward doesn't mean not knowing when to change the subject, though, so he continues,]

Do you mind if I ask where you studied specifically?

[angermanaging]

[His instinctual response to that is some other philosophical sounding counter-argument, but he's more than happy to move on and ignore the darker side of his thoughts.]

You mean martial arts? [Since there's a lot of things he's studied.] Most recently it was Brazil, but I spent some time in rural China before that. It's good for meditation, too-- originally how I fell into it.