#christopher pelant

[hodginspodgins]

[mikhaelwrites]

Always a big fan of protags with an enemy that is constantly manipulating them and is Obsessed with them. Because, without a doubt, the protag will become just as obsessed with them. And thats the biggest part of the manipulation. Giving the protag a "choice," knowing they're in too far to ever truly ignore their enemy.

Jonathan Sims is probably my favorite example. Especially that little conversation he has with Elias in his office right after they officially establish that Elias is The Bad Guy. Jon _still_ goes to him for comfort because Elias has built up this connection between them, even if that connection is built off of manipulation.

Temperance Brennan and Pelant. Brennan just couldn't let the man go because Pelant was smart. Brennan respected that intelligence and when Pelant told her that there was another killer out there, she became obsessed with it even after Pelant died.

Barry Allen is also another one. I mean, I didn't really like how often the show brought Eobard back but there is something soooo yummy about Barry always going to him for help. I can't even get into it, I'll explode.

Especially when there is no manipulation going on, the antagonist isn't even involved, and the protag still reaches out to them. Other obvious examples are Will & Hannibal and Eve & Villanelle. The equal obsessionnnnn. And with those two duos, it starts with the protag being obsessed FIRSTTTT. And then the antag just turns it up to 100%

[nirby-wirby]

You’re telling me they had a building full of highly specialized killers and FBI agents and Pelant STILL got away???? HOW

[hyperionheights]

bones sexuality headcanons

yeah i dont have proof (except angela) i just Know. call it my lesbian spidey senses. disclaimer that those are MY headcanons, you can have your own opinions on those ofc

main characters:

brennan: bi (preference for ugly men... but i digress). she probably started exploring her sexual orientiation in college and came to the conclusion that she's attracted to every gender to varying degrees. she's probably tongue kissed angela a few times pre season 1

booth: cishet ally! ⭐️ he's a bit confused but he's got the spirit, i'll give him that.. bi wife energy start playing whenever he walks into the room

zack: gayboi with a bad case of hero worship for dr brennan. naomi from paleonthology made him realise this isnt really what he'd like to excavate, if you get the gist... ;) (ew)

angela: imo? bi, but it's up to anyone. canon queer and i'm very happy about it

hodgins: bi. putting my foot down on this one- to me, hodgela is bi4bi. one day early into the series angela goes "why is everyone so hot... being bi is so hard" and hodgins is like "yeah, tell me about it" and they have a Oh, You Too? moment

cam: distinguished (ex-disaster) pan. she's all cool and collected now but in middle school she was probably stuttering whenever she saw a pretty girl

sweets: pan. boykisser. i just KNOW. that man is not heterosexual. probably had a few boyfriends in high school too

aubrey: bi? preference for women but in an alternate universe he and sweets are a thing

goodman: token straightie along with booth except i actually like him even tho even tho he took a 2 month sabbatical and never came back

squinterns:

clark: bi. a bit repressed and only realised it after breaking up with nora but as long as he gets there it's fine

daisy: pan. absolute girlkisser. she has the wlw equivalent of whatever zack felt for dr brennan. swaisy is a disaster pan couple.

fisher: pan- and i wont have it any other way. he was 100% checking sweets out when he came over to b&b's in s8, so i like to think when hodgins asks sweets "what is it with you and interns?" in 9x23 he's including fisher

wendell: bi and in a lab au he's dating vincent thank you

vincent: english twink and i think he and wendell should kiss in the lab lost & found

arastoo: straightie but we still love him. pan wife energy since he and cam are married

finn: god, i have No Idea but i have a feeling he doesn't either

wells: aro, and maybe ace too, but fyi even if he wasn't no one would want him

jessica: ... i used to say lesbian but i kinda let the jaubrey of it all get to me... pan vibes perhaps? i'll have to think it over. in another universe she and daisy are a thing too btw

other characters:

caroline julian:... lesbian. no i will not give an explanation for this one. sham marriage and all.

karen delfs: big pansexual energy coming from this random profiler?? i like her

villains: (do not take those seriously, but also...)

pelant: unlabeled. getting strangled by hodgins awoke something in him but he didnt have the time to figure it out between 8x01 and 9x04

taffet: very VERY mean lesbian

epps: heterosexual incel

broadsky: internalised homophobia over booth, clearly

kovac: the man pretended to be married to his sister. i'm not sure i even wanna know

[reyisodd]

lance sweets/christopher pelant apple trend drawing!! inspired by the fanfic "romantic homicide" by @necromanceyourgays

[spacepilotleela]

Why I can’t stand the Pelant Arc

Christopher Pelant is probably one of the most dangerous villains in Bones, presented as being a total computer master hacker and all-around deranged individual. Though the idea of a hacker villain is very interesting, the way it was executed is infuriating. It’s clear that nobody in the writer's room knew how malware and computers work in the real world.

I am not an expert in computer science, but I am currently a cybersecurity and computer networking operations major, I’m not very far in so my knowledge is limited but I do have a basic understanding of how malware works.

You cannot code malware onto a bone, that is not how computers work, and it’s not how malware works. There is more than one type of malware and they all work differently but there is not a single type of malware that could be coded onto a bone.

Malware can be hidden in an image file, this is entirely possible but not the way that it happened in Bones. Angela did not download anything to her computer that could have had a virus hidden in it. When Angela scanned the images of the bone into her computer, she created a brand new image file with a picture of code in it. A picture of code cannot harm your computer. I could print out the code for a virus, scan it into my computer, and make it my desktop background and absolutely nothing would happen because it’s not actually code. It’s no more harmful than a picture of a kitten.

The suspension of disbelief on the possibility of what Pelant does is not difficult for someone who doesn’t know about the way that malware works but once you understand even the basics it very quickly falls apart.

The one very unlikely possibility is that Pelant somehow wrote a QR code of sorts into the bone that led Angela’s computer to download and execute a file. I do not believe that is the case though, as for Angela’s computer to automatically open QR codes automatically download whatever without even checking for a confirmation, and automatically run anything downloaded without checking, would require awful cybersecurity on her machine.

Considering that Angela is shown to be proficient in computer science and how advanced her computer is supposed to be, I refuse to believe that she could be that stupid and have a computer that just downloaded anything it was promoted to download without some type of check. She works with the federal government, there is no way her system could be that insecure.

For the malware on the bone to work it would have to magically have been linked to an executable file of some type. I say magical because this is not how real computers work. Malware on a bone is about as realistic as if Pelant tattooed the virus onto his ass and infected the computer by scanning his cheeks on a printer.

[just-someone-online]

Y'know what, I can at least appreciate how unserious Pelant was at times. Booth shoots him in the face and when they next talk, Pelant's like "The hell, man? We were joking around! What was that for?"

Or when they asked him where Flynn factored into his schemes and he was like "Oh him? No, he really was on your side. I was just fucking with you guys."

idk, as much as I don't like him, he was at least able to get a laugh out of me.

[basketofmooneggs]

I think they should have killed Pelant with an infection from the shot to the head he patched himself. They could have done a whole episode trying to figure out who the body was just like normal and the final blow is that it's just Pelant. He died stupidly from an infection he could have survived if he wasn't a bad guy.

I think it would have been a great way to take away all his power and impact and something new and interesting for TV. No fun gun fights for Booth, but emotionally it would have been a much more interesting story, imo.