Dec 07, 2011 21:53
Okay. I confess. Hotch is absolutely my favorite character; the one I bleed for and cry for and spend way too much time thinking about.
But there's so much juice, there, so much hidden and hinted at, and it's all damn fascinating!
Like Hotch's dad and the question whether he abused wee!Hotch or not.
My take on it is that he did, and here's where it gets interesting. The show gives two causes of death for 'dad'. A heart-attack, and cancer. So what if there wasn't one dad, but two?
Hear me out, here. What if Aaron's birth-dad was the one abusing him? And his mom didn't do anything (at least from wee!Hotch's POV) to stop him. Assuming that Aaron and Sean has the same dad (although, really, they don't look very much alike, but I suppose one could take after the dad and one the mom), what if, not long after Sean was born, mom took him and Aaron and left abusive!dad.
She got remarried, and new!dad was the lawyer, who died of cancer. And abusive!dad died of a heart-attack. IMHO, this could explain a lot of things WRT Aaron, Sean and the canon inconsistensies.
Also - entirely non-CM-related. Thank god for my kitten. There's nothing quite like an insistently purring cat when you're having a panic-attack for no discernable reason.
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