december meme, abbie mills
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Missed another day due to emotional trauma from Agents of SHIELD. I'm mostly okay now. But speaking of shows that have recently traumatized me...
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pocky_slash asks: Tell me all about why Abbie Mills is so great!
HOW DO I BEGIN TO DESCRIBE GRACE ABIGAIL MILLS.
This is Abbie. She's a badass police lieutenant in Sleepy Hollow who could've gone to Quantico but said FUCK IT, I'M GONNA STAY HERE AND KICK DEMON BUTT INSTEAD. She grew up in an unstable home, and after her mother was committed to psychiatric care, she and her sister got shuffled into the foster care system. She saw a demon in the woods when she was thirteen and coped with it the only way she could -- by lying through her teeth so that she wouldn't be locked up, too. (And she still has a lot of very reasonable angst about the repercussions of that.) After some rough times and brushes with the law, she found a mentor in the local sheriff, and he helped her pull herself out of the system. She's a great cop not just because of her general badassery (may I remind you of that time she faced down two Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a shotgun), but because of her amazing capacity for empathy. And, sure, when the weird British dude with no concept of modern conveniences showed up and started babbling about a headless horseman, she was understandably skeptical for like five minutes until she realized how much his stories jived with her own (previously repressed) life experiences, and then she took an astounding leap of faith and has since become an occult expert in her own right, as well as the best friend a temporally displaced soldier could ever hope to have.
Also, she is the queen of well-deserved sass, and she will stand for none of your bullshit. She's like five foot nothing of pure concentrated awesomeness. She's the heart and soul of this totally ridiculous show, and pretty much the only thing that keeps it grounded at all. Look, I made a vid about her once.
IDK, I don't really know how to encapsulate the sheer joy and delight that is Abbie Mills (and Nicole Beharie). But she is totally my forever girl. ♥
pocky_slash asks: Tell me all about why Abbie Mills is so great!HOW DO I BEGIN TO DESCRIBE GRACE ABIGAIL MILLS.
This is Abbie. She's a badass police lieutenant in Sleepy Hollow who could've gone to Quantico but said FUCK IT, I'M GONNA STAY HERE AND KICK DEMON BUTT INSTEAD. She grew up in an unstable home, and after her mother was committed to psychiatric care, she and her sister got shuffled into the foster care system. She saw a demon in the woods when she was thirteen and coped with it the only way she could -- by lying through her teeth so that she wouldn't be locked up, too. (And she still has a lot of very reasonable angst about the repercussions of that.) After some rough times and brushes with the law, she found a mentor in the local sheriff, and he helped her pull herself out of the system. She's a great cop not just because of her general badassery (may I remind you of that time she faced down two Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a shotgun), but because of her amazing capacity for empathy. And, sure, when the weird British dude with no concept of modern conveniences showed up and started babbling about a headless horseman, she was understandably skeptical for like five minutes until she realized how much his stories jived with her own (previously repressed) life experiences, and then she took an astounding leap of faith and has since become an occult expert in her own right, as well as the best friend a temporally displaced soldier could ever hope to have.
Also, she is the queen of well-deserved sass, and she will stand for none of your bullshit. She's like five foot nothing of pure concentrated awesomeness. She's the heart and soul of this totally ridiculous show, and pretty much the only thing that keeps it grounded at all. Look, I made a vid about her once.
IDK, I don't really know how to encapsulate the sheer joy and delight that is Abbie Mills (and Nicole Beharie). But she is totally my forever girl. ♥
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Date: 2014-12-15 05:28 am (UTC)This is Abbie in a nutshell. She stayed home from Quantico to save the world.
Also THAT SMILE THO.
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