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Tracing lives we should remember
And the world that used to be:
The Player
User Name/Nick:Sarah
User LJ: wiccagirl24
AIM/IM: sarah1818
E-mail: psychosarah (at) comcast (dot) net
Other Characters: N/A
The Character
Character Name: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau
Character Journal: likemy_role
Canon: Criminal Minds
Age: 32
From When?: Between episodes one and two of the sixth season. She’s received a job offer from the Department of Defense, but not wanting to leave the BAU she simply ignores it. In canon this leads to the decision being taken out of her hands, her transfer arranged by Erin Strauss. Perhaps if she had been more proactive...
Abilities/Powers: An athlete from a young age, JJ’s in very good physical form. More then a decade of competitive soccer means she runs very fast, and can run for quite a length of time. She has some hand to hand combat training. She’s more proficient at shooting, though, then fighting. Her marksmanship is excellent, as the now-deceased Jason Battle (aka James Baylor) could attest to if he wasn’t, you know, deceased. She shot him in the head through a glass door while he held a hostage. It’s her ability to relate to people, though, that is her strongest ability. She is the one most likely to get a reluctant victim to open up. She listens to the team, the local cops, the parents, letting them vent, offering reassurances and soothing the way for the work to continue. She’s the one who soothes relations between her team and the local cops, the media, the bureaucrats.
Power Limitations: JJ doesn’t have any special powers. She does, however, have an almost two year old son that is the light of her life. Upon her arrival a fae, meaning to help, supresses her memories of Henry, which may return at a later point in time.
Inventory
Wearing:
1 light blue button-down shirt, mid length sleeves
1 pair dark grey slacks
1 light grey cardigan
1 pair black shoes\1 pair black socks
1 bra/pantie set, dark blue and black lace
1 watch on her right wrist
1 gold necklace with heart charm
1 topaz ring on the right hand ring finger
Carrying:
1 Glock 26, fully loaded (11 rounds)
1 spare magazine (10 rounds)
1 hip holster, black
1 messenger bag containing:
- 2 pads legal paper
- assorted pens and pencils
- 3 breakfast bars
- 1 smartphone
- FBI ID and badge
- 1 8-count box of crayons
- 2 magazines (one Oprah, one Rachel Ray 30 minute meals)
- a spare pair of socks
- 5 casefiles
- gum
- 1 nano i-pod and earbud headphones
- 1 wallet (containing $87 and a few dollars in coins, a checkbook, credit cards, DC driver’s license, pictures of her sister (deceased) her brother and his family, her and her father, the team, her and Garcia, and her with Will and Henry)
For a visual reference look here
Personality:
“You do what it takes to protect your family.” That’s JJ’s answer after Penelope mourns the fact that her friend had to kill a man. JJ, though visibly shaken, said she didn’t even blink. Battle had shot, and almost killed, Penelope and two more family members, Hotch and Rossi, were in danger. Family is the most important thing to JJ. Perhaps it’s because she lost her sister at a young age, or perhaps it always would have been true, but JJ’s main focus is on taking care of her family.
Garcia and Reid she seems to view as younger siblings. As Reid points out she’s the only one who calls him Spence, an affectionate nick name. She’s the one, too, that arranges for there to be cake for Reid’s birthday, and an embarrassing hat, because he never had birthday parties as a kid. She hugs him when he needs reassurance, and when he’s kidnapped she’s guilty, scared, and visibly shaken. She respects and even teases him about his intelligence, but unlike many who seem to see only that she sees the whole person. She teases Garcia about her conspiracies, worries about her, and makes her Henry’s godparent, along with Reid. They go shopping together, go to bars, confide in each other. Though she takes care of all of her team, Garcia and Reid are the ones she is the most protective of.
Family is the team, and it’s Will and Henry, but it’s more then that. When asked by the mother of a missing teen, before she had Henry, if she was a mother JJ said no, but that they (the team) look at all the children they search of as their own. Every one they save is part of her family. She agonizes over the case files, and it’s the ones she doesn’t chose that haunt her more then anything else in her life, with the possible exception of her sister’s death. It’s especially cases that involve young women, missing or dead, that she finds hardest to deal with.
Losing a member of her family, be it her team, her son, or her father, and making the wrong choice about which cases to focus on are JJ’s greatest fears. She also has a phobia about the woods, with seeming no logical reason behind it despite the tall tale she once told Morgan. For the most part, however, JJ is a positive person. She is composed, able to handle press conferences and reporters without a problem. When a serial killer tries to come onto her during an interview she is able to coolly tell him that he isn’t her friend, and he can call her Jennifer, not JJ. She is warm, offering hug to team members and victims, holding hands with grieving parents, drinking imaginary tea with half-orphaned little girls.
JJ is the heart of the BAU team, the ‘glue that holds them together’ according to Garcia. On a practical level she is the one that decides where the team goes most of the time, arranges for the plane to be ready, for hotels, liaisons with the local law enforcement. On a less visible but equally important way she finds ways to build up her team when the cases make them question themselves. When Prentis worries about an orphaned girl JJ says that she found the aunt, and she seems very nice, though someday she believes Emily will be a good mother. When Rossi wonders if his books do more harm then good after a girl who attended one of his readings is killed JJ tells him about attending one of his readings and how the experience brought her to the FBI. When the whole team has a bad case while she’s on maternity leave she shows up at the office when they’re expected to return, hoping that seeing her sweet innocent son will remind them of the good side of things.
Hotch remarks once that JJ would make a good profiler. She reads people, understands them. When a police officer seems reluctant to show Hotch files she plays the helpless ‘help me impress my boss’ card, winking over her shoulder as she’s lead to the files. When a young girl has trouble talking about being kidnapped and forced to kill a friend she finds a common bond, soccer and living in a small town, and gets her to open up. She works seamlessly with the team, knowing what they’re looking for, helping to limit suspect pools and find clues. Hotch suggests she take the classes, mostly a formality since she’s already an equal member of the team. She shakes her head. She likes her role, and doesn’t want to change it. She doesn’t want to change jobs, either. Money is not important. Making a difference and being with her family is what she needs.
History:
Jennifer ‘JJ’ Jareau was born in a town in Pennsylvania ‘so small it didn’t have a bowling alley.’ She was the youngest of three children and the second girl, looking up to both of her siblings but especially her sister Alice. Her childhood was typical of a girl raised in a small town; school and Girl Scouts, camping trips and slumber parties with friends. She started playing soccer at a young age, at first on a rec level but when she got older that would change.
When JJ was eleven her sister came into her bedroom one rainy Sunday afternoon, gifting her little sister with her favorite necklace and telling her that ‘no matter what happened’ she would always love JJ. The necklace was the one Alice always wore, and though she tried to say no JJ had always wanted one just like it. She wore it, and hugged her sister. That was the last time she ever talked to Alice, the last time she saw her alive. That night JJ’s sister committed suicide.
JJ’s family was different after that. Todd, a junior in college, rarely came home for even a visit. JJ’s mom drew into herself, paying little attention to the child she had left at home, or her own care, leaving everything up to JJ’s father. It took three years for Mrs. Jareau to actually move out, but JJ lost her mother as well as her sister that wet Sunday. Other then her father all she had was school and soccer. She threw herself into both, making varsity her sophomore year of high school, and team captain her senior year. More then anything she wanted to get our of rural Pennsylvania, and she knew an athletic scholarship was her best bet. Her hard word paid off, earning her a full ride to Pittsburgh. More determination got her a transfer to Georgetown.
Despite her drive to succeed in college she didn’t know what she was going to do once she graduated. Not until one night when she was in the bookstore and a guest author was reading passages from his book about his real life experiences working for the FBI, catching serial killers. The man was David Rossi, one of the founding members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, who would eventually be her coworker. She bought his book that night, had it signed, and that fall after graduation applied to the FBI Academy.
After a few years working her way up through the ranks JJ became a member of the BAU, their liaison between the team and everyone else, interacting with the media, local law enforcement, and dealing with red tape. For the first time since her childhood she found a true family in Hotch, Garcia, Morgan, Spence, Gideon, Elle, Emily and Rossi. Though she does do out on a single date with Spencer Reid there is no overt romance with any member of the team. She would do anything for her family, and this includes killing the man who shot Garcia and threatened her team.
Her family grew again while on a case in New Orleans when she met a detective named Will LaMontagne Jr. After secretly dating for a year she tells the team that she’s seeing him. Not long after that she discovers that she’s pregnant. An elated Will proposes; she turns him down though they do move in together. He doesn’t love her job, which is a bone of contention between them. He does, however leave his home and job so they can raise the baby together. Henry is born the following November; JJ names Reid and Garcia godparents.
It’s not easy juggling motherhood and her job, but she does it. She loves Henry and she loves her job, both giving her fulfilment in their own way, both letting her make the world a better place. She wouldn’t change a thing, which is why she says no when the Department of Defense calls and offers her a job. She doesn’t tell anyone, hoping that the offer, once rejected, will be withdrawn. This is where she is taken into the forest, after refusing the job offer, before the DoD goes over her head to Erin Strauss. Perhaps if she’d let her team know what was happening earlier they might have done something, together, that would have allowed her to stay with the BAU. With her family.
First Person Sample:
I know I said I needed a vacation, but this was not what I meant. A beach would be nice. France would be nice. This is not nice, this is annoying. [She pushed at the screen of her phone, but nothing had changed; still no service. With a slight shake of her head she slipped it back into her bag. So much for contacting Garcia for help.]
I don’t like the woods, but if this is some kind of therapy it’s not necessary. I know how to deal with being in forests, I can cope on the job just fine. And if this is about something else... [The sound of a twig snapping makes her jump a little. If this is a dream it would be nice to wake up right about now.]
Emily? Rossi? Reid? Is anyone out here?
Prose Sample: Here's a little something, a log with JJ and Rossi
Special Notes: If the amnesia idea doesn't work let me know and I can revise. It's just an idea I worked out with Prentis mun
And the world that used to be:
The Player
User Name/Nick:Sarah
User LJ: wiccagirl24
AIM/IM: sarah1818
E-mail: psychosarah (at) comcast (dot) net
Other Characters: N/A
The Character
Character Name: Jennifer “JJ” Jareau
Character Journal: likemy_role
Canon: Criminal Minds
Age: 32
From When?: Between episodes one and two of the sixth season. She’s received a job offer from the Department of Defense, but not wanting to leave the BAU she simply ignores it. In canon this leads to the decision being taken out of her hands, her transfer arranged by Erin Strauss. Perhaps if she had been more proactive...
Abilities/Powers: An athlete from a young age, JJ’s in very good physical form. More then a decade of competitive soccer means she runs very fast, and can run for quite a length of time. She has some hand to hand combat training. She’s more proficient at shooting, though, then fighting. Her marksmanship is excellent, as the now-deceased Jason Battle (aka James Baylor) could attest to if he wasn’t, you know, deceased. She shot him in the head through a glass door while he held a hostage. It’s her ability to relate to people, though, that is her strongest ability. She is the one most likely to get a reluctant victim to open up. She listens to the team, the local cops, the parents, letting them vent, offering reassurances and soothing the way for the work to continue. She’s the one who soothes relations between her team and the local cops, the media, the bureaucrats.
Power Limitations: JJ doesn’t have any special powers. She does, however, have an almost two year old son that is the light of her life. Upon her arrival a fae, meaning to help, supresses her memories of Henry, which may return at a later point in time.
Inventory
Wearing:
1 light blue button-down shirt, mid length sleeves
1 pair dark grey slacks
1 light grey cardigan
1 pair black shoes\1 pair black socks
1 bra/pantie set, dark blue and black lace
1 watch on her right wrist
1 gold necklace with heart charm
1 topaz ring on the right hand ring finger
Carrying:
1 Glock 26, fully loaded (11 rounds)
1 spare magazine (10 rounds)
1 hip holster, black
1 messenger bag containing:
- 2 pads legal paper
- assorted pens and pencils
- 3 breakfast bars
- 1 smartphone
- FBI ID and badge
- 1 8-count box of crayons
- 2 magazines (one Oprah, one Rachel Ray 30 minute meals)
- a spare pair of socks
- 5 casefiles
- gum
- 1 nano i-pod and earbud headphones
- 1 wallet (containing $87 and a few dollars in coins, a checkbook, credit cards, DC driver’s license, pictures of her sister (deceased) her brother and his family, her and her father, the team, her and Garcia, and her with Will and Henry)
For a visual reference look here
Personality:
“You do what it takes to protect your family.” That’s JJ’s answer after Penelope mourns the fact that her friend had to kill a man. JJ, though visibly shaken, said she didn’t even blink. Battle had shot, and almost killed, Penelope and two more family members, Hotch and Rossi, were in danger. Family is the most important thing to JJ. Perhaps it’s because she lost her sister at a young age, or perhaps it always would have been true, but JJ’s main focus is on taking care of her family.
Garcia and Reid she seems to view as younger siblings. As Reid points out she’s the only one who calls him Spence, an affectionate nick name. She’s the one, too, that arranges for there to be cake for Reid’s birthday, and an embarrassing hat, because he never had birthday parties as a kid. She hugs him when he needs reassurance, and when he’s kidnapped she’s guilty, scared, and visibly shaken. She respects and even teases him about his intelligence, but unlike many who seem to see only that she sees the whole person. She teases Garcia about her conspiracies, worries about her, and makes her Henry’s godparent, along with Reid. They go shopping together, go to bars, confide in each other. Though she takes care of all of her team, Garcia and Reid are the ones she is the most protective of.
Family is the team, and it’s Will and Henry, but it’s more then that. When asked by the mother of a missing teen, before she had Henry, if she was a mother JJ said no, but that they (the team) look at all the children they search of as their own. Every one they save is part of her family. She agonizes over the case files, and it’s the ones she doesn’t chose that haunt her more then anything else in her life, with the possible exception of her sister’s death. It’s especially cases that involve young women, missing or dead, that she finds hardest to deal with.
Losing a member of her family, be it her team, her son, or her father, and making the wrong choice about which cases to focus on are JJ’s greatest fears. She also has a phobia about the woods, with seeming no logical reason behind it despite the tall tale she once told Morgan. For the most part, however, JJ is a positive person. She is composed, able to handle press conferences and reporters without a problem. When a serial killer tries to come onto her during an interview she is able to coolly tell him that he isn’t her friend, and he can call her Jennifer, not JJ. She is warm, offering hug to team members and victims, holding hands with grieving parents, drinking imaginary tea with half-orphaned little girls.
JJ is the heart of the BAU team, the ‘glue that holds them together’ according to Garcia. On a practical level she is the one that decides where the team goes most of the time, arranges for the plane to be ready, for hotels, liaisons with the local law enforcement. On a less visible but equally important way she finds ways to build up her team when the cases make them question themselves. When Prentis worries about an orphaned girl JJ says that she found the aunt, and she seems very nice, though someday she believes Emily will be a good mother. When Rossi wonders if his books do more harm then good after a girl who attended one of his readings is killed JJ tells him about attending one of his readings and how the experience brought her to the FBI. When the whole team has a bad case while she’s on maternity leave she shows up at the office when they’re expected to return, hoping that seeing her sweet innocent son will remind them of the good side of things.
Hotch remarks once that JJ would make a good profiler. She reads people, understands them. When a police officer seems reluctant to show Hotch files she plays the helpless ‘help me impress my boss’ card, winking over her shoulder as she’s lead to the files. When a young girl has trouble talking about being kidnapped and forced to kill a friend she finds a common bond, soccer and living in a small town, and gets her to open up. She works seamlessly with the team, knowing what they’re looking for, helping to limit suspect pools and find clues. Hotch suggests she take the classes, mostly a formality since she’s already an equal member of the team. She shakes her head. She likes her role, and doesn’t want to change it. She doesn’t want to change jobs, either. Money is not important. Making a difference and being with her family is what she needs.
History:
Jennifer ‘JJ’ Jareau was born in a town in Pennsylvania ‘so small it didn’t have a bowling alley.’ She was the youngest of three children and the second girl, looking up to both of her siblings but especially her sister Alice. Her childhood was typical of a girl raised in a small town; school and Girl Scouts, camping trips and slumber parties with friends. She started playing soccer at a young age, at first on a rec level but when she got older that would change.
When JJ was eleven her sister came into her bedroom one rainy Sunday afternoon, gifting her little sister with her favorite necklace and telling her that ‘no matter what happened’ she would always love JJ. The necklace was the one Alice always wore, and though she tried to say no JJ had always wanted one just like it. She wore it, and hugged her sister. That was the last time she ever talked to Alice, the last time she saw her alive. That night JJ’s sister committed suicide.
JJ’s family was different after that. Todd, a junior in college, rarely came home for even a visit. JJ’s mom drew into herself, paying little attention to the child she had left at home, or her own care, leaving everything up to JJ’s father. It took three years for Mrs. Jareau to actually move out, but JJ lost her mother as well as her sister that wet Sunday. Other then her father all she had was school and soccer. She threw herself into both, making varsity her sophomore year of high school, and team captain her senior year. More then anything she wanted to get our of rural Pennsylvania, and she knew an athletic scholarship was her best bet. Her hard word paid off, earning her a full ride to Pittsburgh. More determination got her a transfer to Georgetown.
Despite her drive to succeed in college she didn’t know what she was going to do once she graduated. Not until one night when she was in the bookstore and a guest author was reading passages from his book about his real life experiences working for the FBI, catching serial killers. The man was David Rossi, one of the founding members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, who would eventually be her coworker. She bought his book that night, had it signed, and that fall after graduation applied to the FBI Academy.
After a few years working her way up through the ranks JJ became a member of the BAU, their liaison between the team and everyone else, interacting with the media, local law enforcement, and dealing with red tape. For the first time since her childhood she found a true family in Hotch, Garcia, Morgan, Spence, Gideon, Elle, Emily and Rossi. Though she does do out on a single date with Spencer Reid there is no overt romance with any member of the team. She would do anything for her family, and this includes killing the man who shot Garcia and threatened her team.
Her family grew again while on a case in New Orleans when she met a detective named Will LaMontagne Jr. After secretly dating for a year she tells the team that she’s seeing him. Not long after that she discovers that she’s pregnant. An elated Will proposes; she turns him down though they do move in together. He doesn’t love her job, which is a bone of contention between them. He does, however leave his home and job so they can raise the baby together. Henry is born the following November; JJ names Reid and Garcia godparents.
It’s not easy juggling motherhood and her job, but she does it. She loves Henry and she loves her job, both giving her fulfilment in their own way, both letting her make the world a better place. She wouldn’t change a thing, which is why she says no when the Department of Defense calls and offers her a job. She doesn’t tell anyone, hoping that the offer, once rejected, will be withdrawn. This is where she is taken into the forest, after refusing the job offer, before the DoD goes over her head to Erin Strauss. Perhaps if she’d let her team know what was happening earlier they might have done something, together, that would have allowed her to stay with the BAU. With her family.
First Person Sample:
I know I said I needed a vacation, but this was not what I meant. A beach would be nice. France would be nice. This is not nice, this is annoying. [She pushed at the screen of her phone, but nothing had changed; still no service. With a slight shake of her head she slipped it back into her bag. So much for contacting Garcia for help.]
I don’t like the woods, but if this is some kind of therapy it’s not necessary. I know how to deal with being in forests, I can cope on the job just fine. And if this is about something else... [The sound of a twig snapping makes her jump a little. If this is a dream it would be nice to wake up right about now.]
Emily? Rossi? Reid? Is anyone out here?
Prose Sample: Here's a little something, a log with JJ and Rossi
Special Notes: If the amnesia idea doesn't work let me know and I can revise. It's just an idea I worked out with Prentis mun