(g) platonic hotch and team // what are (hotch's) nicknames for the (team)?
platonic bau team and hotch // what are their nicknames for each other?
hotch doesn’t let anyone know he has nicknames for his team because 1) that’s unprofessional, and 2) they’re his names and his names only, but he still has them.
rossi: The Stallion. no explanation needed.
gideon: just gideon. no nickname.
derek: chief. they clash a lot and chief comes out in hotch’s head as almost mocking, but sometimes he’ll think about it and realize he genuinely means it, derek is a good leader and he truly respects him.
reid: superman. this has slipped out once and hotch denied it vehemently, and he’s mad at himself that he even said it out loud, but really it’s cause reid is about the same age as sean and sean was a sickly kid and hotch was the one who rocked sean to sleep and told him stories about a powerful man with superpowers and that sean was his superman and--
he just sticks with reid.
jj: sometimes he’ll call her jayje like the other girls do, and jj is secretly pleased because wow, aaron hotchner showing affection publicly? his secret pet name for her is bambi, because god jj is just s o tiny and also have u seen her doe eyes?
emily: Headache (with a capital H)
blake: just blake.
tara: honestly? doc.
luke: no nickname, he didn’t know him long enough.
garcia: he would literally die than let anyone (even garcia) know, but his little nickname for her is sunnie, as in sun and sunshine, because that’s truly what she is.