I Am Not Even A Little Bit Sorry For The Person I Become When Theres New Content About My Favorite Fictional

I am not even a little bit sorry for the person I become when there’s new content about my favorite fictional character.  You live by the fictional character hyperfixation, you die by the twenty plus posts I’m forcing you all to see about my Blorbo.

i love when the tumblr girlies get into a show middle aged american men like (MASH, columbo, breaking bad, supernatural to all our bewilderment, etc) but do it in a way that would make those dads go into shock requiring medical intervention

[ CME SPOILERS ]

... so! me and my buddy friend pal lover @prettyboy-reiid (who you should follow) were talking about krystall's death. and they were like "god we never DID get an answer for what killed her, did we?", and i said "WE HAVEN'T!!!", like a fool.

i hadn't done my research!

and so, after scouring tons of blogs, i finally found an interview with erica messer that tells us (almost) exactly what happened.

i found it hiding in a LOOPER article, titled "Criminal Minds : Evolution Exec Relates Rossi's Grief To Everyone's Post-COVID Lives" .

it says...

"In her interview, Erica Messer confirmed that Krystall Richards' death was the result of a cancer battle exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic."

... if david rossi had a nickel for everybody he cared about that died from cancer, he would have TWO nickels!... which isn't a lot! but it's HEARTBREAKING that is happened twice <3

and if you think that was awful, here's some more fuel to throw on that emotional fire!

"For David Rossi and Krystall Richards, COVID-19 prevented doctors from detecting her cancer early enough to intervene. "You couldn't really go to the doctor unless it was an emergency situation," Erica Messer recalled of the early days of the pandemic. "One of [Richards'] yearly exams got put off and when she finally got to the doctor, they found cancer and it was advanced and it was too little, too late." Her death traumatizes Rossi, who chooses to dissolve into his work rather than take time to heal."

... that is! that is so awful. that is soooooo awful. oh that's the worst. imagine that, mh? imagine the "she's already late stage 3, the best we can do is provide hospice care". imagine the parallels to carolynn. imagine "no one lives forever, david", like it's coming straight out of carolynn's mouth and NOT the woman he was sure he'd have forever with.

now penelope's "ever since krystall's diagnosis..." makes sense, huh? </3

seems like a good time to talk about this

so i was watching some criminal minds clips on youtube (as you do), and i sort of went down a rabbit hole after watching a clip from "reckoner". season 5, episode 3? you know the one!

basically the main plot is hitman murders, but the Fun Side Plot is the fact that the ENTIRE CASE centers around rossi's mysterious past! which is wonderful for me. because we literally get nothing when it comes to this guy. idc if you like rossi or not, i wanna know what this mfs childhood was like!!! what made him Like That.

SO. in the process of going through transcripts, i find this dialogue near the end of the episode. rossi and hotch are talking on the jet, and rossi says this :

"... I should have married her [Emma], though. When I left the Marines, I was recruited by the Bureau.. spent a few years on the streets... got involved with starting the BAU... and before I knew it, a lifetime had gone by."

... there are So many things in that single paragraph i wanna explore.? but for the sake of getting my main point across, i'll stick to the biggest thing.

............ hey David Rossi! What Do You Mean You "spent a few years on the streets" 🤨?

Okay but

that scene in cm where hotch pulls Rossi into the other room bc Rossi was being unprofessional and when hotch closed the door behind him he kissed rossi