(g) platonic team and hotch // what are their nicknames for (hotch)?
platonic team and hotch // what are their special nicknames for each other?
oh boy okay!! i’m not too good with nicknames but i will give it my best shot
rossi: oh rossi. likes to poke fun at hotch, will call him “aaron” if either a) it’s a serious moment, or b) needs hotch to do something for him. but also very affectionately calls him “patatino.” neither rossi nor emily will translate, but hotch has a sneaking suspicion rossi wouldn’t call him it in english (it still softens him whenever rossi uses it though).
gideon: hotch.
derek: usually just hotch. under his breath he’ll mutter “the big ol’ g-man” after hotch has scolded him out, but just hotch.
reid: just hotch. it feels weird to call him anything else.
jj: again, just hotch. she’s the only one who’s ever called him “agent hotchner” unironically just cause of her job, but hotch is the go-to.
emily: The Boss (she says it in a way you know the T and B are capitalized), G-Man, Mr. President, Eyebrows, Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner. these are usually behind his back but hotch knows about all of them,, if she really wants to poke at hotch, it’s Aaron this, Aaron that. one time she called him Hotchie-Poo to his face and she was suspended for the day.
blake: hotch lmfao.
tara: again, hotch. at the beginning she was v professional, agent hotchner this, agent hotchner that, but then she starts calling him hotch hehe
luke: only got to know him as hotch :”)
and,,, last but not least,, ,,
garcia: she knows that she’s the only one who can call hotch anything and not get suspended for it, so she takes advantage of it. sweetcheeks, honey, sweetheart, King Hotch, Your Royal Highness, Double O 7, lil dimples, and one, horrifying time, in front of the entire precinct and team, shortly before emily got suspended, “hotchie-poo.” garcia thought she was gonna lose her job, hotch just nodded and said “thanks garcia” before hanging up.
garcia thinks she can use any of these nicknames because hotch can’t fire her otherwise the team falls apart, but. but hotch actually enjoys her nicknames a lot just bc he knows how genuine she is when she calls him those.