#ix. meta

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------at any given time you can find the following in reid's satchel:

his keys

the narrative of john smith - a gift from maeve

blake's fbi id

a bottle of lactaid (varying in how full it is)

a 3-day pill organizer (with his magnesium and any daily vitamins he takes, and later with his lamotrigine for his seizures)

his emergency valtoco for the sudden onset seizures

the protection bracelet he was gifted in corazon

a snack (rice krispies treat, fruit snack, whatever he's feeling)

a kazoo

a deck of cards

a bag of bang snaps

a small, portable chess set

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well now you have to talk about reid + ice cream.

------it's a simple but torrid love affair with the good doctor.

unfortunately he's lactose intolerant, however from a very young age he's held a great affection for dairy products. ice cream is the champion above all, but he's partial to cheap cheese products as well ( string cheese, babybel ). he also likes cereal, though his tastes in that flip violently between the responsible adult choices or the fun choices. you're just as likely to find a high fiber cereal in his cupboard than you are cocoa pebbles.

the problem is the milk. he loves it, really. creamer, too. he's gotten used to drinking black coffee with maybe a sugar to taste because he can't really be bothered to take lactaid for coffee ( and let's be honest, the lactaid really curbs the stomach pain, you still get the digestive issues ). he's not fond of soy replacements ( don't get him started on soy and how every year there are more and more studies about how unhealthy it really is for you ) and while he can drink the nut milks ( oat, almond, etc ) it's just not dairy milk and it really doesn't scratch that itch.

also, to be completely fair, the wateriness of nut milks kind of skeeve him out with cereal, so he has to not look at the cereal when he's eating it with those.

while he usually has a bottle of lactaid in his satchel, he often forgets to replace it when it gets low or honestly just raw-dogs it into something and suffers the stomach pain + digestive trauma thereafter. ( he also eats tums like candy when his stomach is bothering him. bad spence ).

but really, ice cream is his favorite treat and he's not picky about flavors or brand. he's hurt his belly more often than not on it, and i'm pretty sure the local pharmacy near his apartment keeps a bottle of various digestive aids on hand for him. he frequents that pharmacy a lot, actually.

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------while reid knows a few languages fluently (and can understand a few more than he can speak) he takes the initiative to learn both spanish and asl when gloria is pregnant with their son so he can be raised primarily bilingual, but also so they can communicate with him before he learns to speak.

ofc their son is named after people who are important to both gloria and reid ---morgan gideon reid.

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------s.pencer r.eid operates on minimal sleep around spooky season because he spends as much of his free time as humanly possible consuming any and all halloween media. movies, books, podcasts (he'll break the technology rule for it), plays, stores, you name it and he just saturates himself in it. halloween is his favorite holiday and he will never not dress up and pass candy out to the kids (with information, ofc).

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------SPENCER HAS THREE scars (by the end of the show), all from gunshot wounds.

his knee

his left shoulder

the right side of his neck

obviously most of these are hidden from view with his attire and considering he wears shirts with collars even the scar on his neck is at least partially covered, however of the three it's the most easy to spot at any given time.

the scar on his knee is a bit more gnarly considering it required extensive surgery, and at the time of his wound knee surgeries were far more invasive than they can be now. the one on his left shoulder resembles something closer to a cigar burn for how neat it was. finally, the scar on his neck is the freshest and still bears a rosy-pink tinge to it versus the pale complexion spencer usually sports.

otherwise, the good doctor barely has any marks on his body.

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------reid gets emotional if you make him watch dumbo and will tear up to fully cry (quietly) during the scene where the mom elephant rocks him in her trunk.

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------reid still privately attends na meetings. while he's wholly aware of himself and refuses to give into any urges he may have (on the worst of days) he's found a sort of healing in helping others through the process. he returned the chip lent to him by the senior fbi agent when he received his own one-year marker, and he's even taken to mentoring one or two members of na on his own.

it's not easy for him to talk about his experience with people he knows and loves. he sees it as a weakness and an incredibly dark part of his life. but he remains hopeful that he can help others, and refuses to let this be stain in his history if he can utilize it to make a positive impact on someone else's life.