TW SEXUAL ABUSE (the Theories Around Reid, And Morgan's Canonical Trauma)

TW SEXUAL ABUSE (the theories around reid, and morgan's canonical trauma)

so. i generally understand/agree with the hc/theory that william reid was sexually abusive. for me whether or not i headcanon it varies depending on what im writing/crafting in my head, but if you asked for a yes/no answer as it applies to canon, i would say yes. there is some compelling canon evidence (the first half of the hypnosis scene is especially compelling), and it's not like people are pulling it out of thin air. at certain points (again, especially the first half of the hypnosis scene) 4x7 is actively trying to make you think that, even if it doesn't confirm it/tries to discard the idea at the end.

but i have an issue with how it's sometimes written/talked about. and i think sometimes people need to examine why they're so obsessed with theorizing that a white character is a csa victim while ignoring the Black character in the same show who canonically is.

sometimes i want people to ask themselves if they headcanon reid as having csa trauma because there's canon evidence, or because they can't woobify the Black guy so they transplant his trauma onto their favourite white boy.

again—i dont have an issue with people writing or headcanoning reid as having been sexually abused. it's not coming from nowhere. what i have an issue with is the people who ignore morgan in the process. ask yourself why.

morgan/reid survivor solidarity fics have my whole heart, though. give me more of that.

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re one of ur last posts - what are ur nonbinary elle and spencer hcs?? :))

AH i actually dont have that many so a lot of these literally just came into my head. also i'm very sorry this mostly became "elle helping spencer realise he's nonbinary" headcanons, i'll have to think more about elle :((

this one is not my headcanon. i tried to find whose it is but for the life of me i cannot track it down, so if anyone knows please tell me so i can link them: they share a wardrobe. the only one who remembers which clothes initially belonged to which person is spencer, for obvious reasons.

elle has her shit figured out pre-canon but isn't doing anything about it because it's 2005. spencer does not have his shit figured out until after he gets with elle

well. he has it a little figured out. he knows there's something to figure out, he knows he isn't a cis man, but he's just like. i have way too much going on in my life already to think about that so i will ignore it <3 because that's worked out so well for him

pre-figuring his shit out, spencer is constantly (and largely unintentionally) mixing "menswear" and "womenswear". i really struggle to see a version of spencer where he and diana didn't experience serious financial issues after william left, and even as an adult, high-quality private psychiatric care like diana's is expensive. so, the majority of his clothes are thrifted (yes, i know about the $500 cardigans in later seasons. gifts from rossi <3) and he doesn't really care what section of goodwill he finds them in. so he's constantly wearing, like. a men's shirt under a women's cardigan over men's pants held up with a women's belt. post-figuring his shit out, this becomes intentional and he starts blatantly mixing styles. the kind of thing that gets him stopped in public by someone going "hey you know that's a women's...?" and he goes "yep! :D"

by contrast, elle, while she largely has things figured out, does not present the way she wants to for safety reasons. spencer helps her gradually feel more comfortable presenting the way she wants while she helps him figure out his gender stuff

as for reid's gender stuff, i think for a long time he's really overly fixated on labelling himself. the closest any label comes is bigender but that doesn't feel quite right and he has a lot of unnecessary angst about it. (not projecting at all shut up). eventually he's venting to elle one day about how he feels this and this and this about his gender and if he was to describe it he would describe it like this but he just can't figure it out. and then elle gets genuinely confused because it sounds to her like he very much has figured it out. it takes a long time for him to understand and accept that there isn't a magic word that will describe all parts of him, and he may never find one. and that's fine

elle does spencer's makeup. he looks in the mirror and cries.

penelope is the first person they come out to and she is DELIGHTED to have other trans people on the team. one more and they outnumber the cis people...

morgan is next. spencer says "we're nonbinary" and morgan says "is this like a 'we're pregnant' situation or are you actually talking about both of you" and elle hits him in the head. spencer immediately feels many times less anxious than he did before. i love u morgan

morgan asks spencer in private if he wants him to stop calling him pretty boy. spencer tells him to please never stop. calling him "pretty", an adjective usually used to describe women, paired with "boy" makes him very happy. with this in mind, morgan starts calling elle "handsome girl". elle pretends to be nonchalant about it, but it makes her really happy.

they never tell gideon. spencer can't handle the thought of him reacting badly. (gideon was under the impression that spencer was just closeted this whole time. oops!)

like i said, spencer REALLY likes being described as masculine and feminine in the same breath. when elle first introduces him to her friends, she says "this is spencer, she's my boyfriend" and spencer runs away to stim in private. elle's friends are very confused.

Nothing will be funnier that that little scene in Memoriam where the rest of the team were trying really hard to see the bright side on William as an "father" by pointing out how he had been stalking Spencer for a while and for his response to be "Oh. He googled me. That fixes it all :)" and storms out to sull somewhere.

Like the intention was SWEET but my brothers and sisters in Christ what did you think was going to happen lmao

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