HE LIVED UP NEAR THE SUN.

INDEPENDENT HENRY LAMONTAGNE of criminal minds, originally established in 2015.  written  by  kq    (  29.  she/her.  est.  )    exploring  themes  of  strength in silence ,  looking into the abyss ,  holding tightly to the ones you love ,  and  being a penelope garcia stan !! in light of recent and evil events, there will be mentions of parental death on this blog !!

until spencer is off on his “classified assignment”, henry’s haircut cues are taken directly from his godfather. it stems from a gentle dose of hero worship! he wanted to be as much like spencer as he could. as he grew up, it was just sort of… habitual?? it wasn’t necessarily an active wish to emulate him, but. he still didn’t find himself getting a haircut until he noticed that he and spencer no longer matched. purely coincidental. purely.

FULL NAME: Henry LaMontagne. FC: Tarjei Sandvik Moe. AGE: Verse dependent. BIRTHDAY: October 28th. LOCATION: Quantico, VA. SEX: Male. GENDER: Male. PREFERRED PRONOUN(S): He/him. ROMANTIC / SEXUAL ORIENTATION: It’s not ‘in flux’, exactly. Henry’s just not entirely sure what or who he’s interested in, at any given time. OCCUPATION: Student.

Biography

On October 28th, 2008 in Quantico, Virginia, Henry LaMontagne was born into the BAU’s tightly-knit family. Throughout his entire childhood, Henry was surrounded by the love of both of his parents as well as his mother’s team. Despite their lack of a genetic connection, the BAU was as close to Henry as any other family might be. They were a constant fixture in his life. He had more memories with them than he did with his grandmother or cousins.

There was rarely a time in Henry’s childhood that he didn’t feel safe. Though he knew there were monsters in the world, he also knew that his parents and aunts and uncles were the ones keeping them at bay. He considered himself the safest kid in the world, surrounded by superheroes.

Things changed, as he grew up. When his childhood naivety wore off, Henry became aware of just how much danger his mom and dad were in every day. The monsters of the world were no longer faceless beings that went bump in the night and his parents weren’t superheroes anymore. They were all just people.

Around the time that the black and white started to melt into shades of gray was when his anxiety set in. Along with his hunger for information about the people who the BAU faced up against. He thought that the more he knew, the less scared he’d be— after all, he was born into a family of experts and all of them were seemingly unafraid. Henry wanted to be unafraid, too.

Relationships

BIRTH ORDER: First born. PARENTS: William LaMontagne Jr., Jennifer Jareau. SIBLINGS: Michael LaMontagne. FAMILY: The BAU. Specifically, his godparents, Penny and Spencer. SIGNIFICANT OTHER(S): Verse dependent. CHILDREN: N/A. CLOSEST FRIENDS: The entirety of his school’s soccer team. His little brother. Some of the theater department. RIVALS: N/A. ENEMIES: N/A.

Physical Traits

EYE COLOR(S): Blue. HAIR COLOR(S): Blonde. HEIGHT: 6′. BODY BUILD: Slim. NOTABLE PHYSICAL TRAITS: His hair is often notable, because it’s length is constantly in flux.

Phobias and Diseases

PHOBIA(S): Monophobia ( fear of being alone ).   MENTAL DISORDER(S): Anxiety. WHEN AND HOW WAS THIS DIAGNOSED?: He started talk therapy, in middle school, after a recommendation by his guidance counselor. Managing his anxiety has been a struggle, but he does his best.

Personality

Generally speaking, Henry is a loyal and caring person. He has a deep sense of responsibility when it comes to protecting the important people in his life. To him, above all else, his family and friends come first; something which unfortunately manifests itself in the form of anxiety when he has no way of helping them. But, rarely one to call attention to himself, Henry doesn’t tend to let people know when he’s feeling anxious. More often than not, he prefers to listen than to be heard and would rather be behind the scenes than in the spotlight. Rarely does he feel shy, but Henry is often reserved around people he’s unfamiliar with and doesn’t tend to offer up too many details about himself.

USUAL MOOD/EXPRESSION: His usual mood is anxious, but he’s an optimist so he’s usually sure that he’ll be fine in five minutes. His expression tends to relay the second part of that statement. MORAL ALIGNMENT: Lawful good. MYERS BRIGGS: INFJ - The Advocate. ENNEAGRAM: The Loyalist. FOUR TEMPERAMENTS: Melancholic. FIVE PROMINENT TRAITS: Messy, observant, patient, forgetful, transparent.

Misc

Sometimes Henry feels like a career in law enforcement is expected of him, given that basically every adult he knows works for the government, but he doesn’t really think it’s right for him. Especially since just thinking about other people in the line of duty makes him anxious.

If his mom is gone for extended periods of time, Henry’s grades tend to dip a little. He spends more time checking for news updates in class than he does actually paying attention. It’s resulted in more than one parent/teacher phone call.

His haircuts tend to line up with his godfather’s. When Reid wears his hair long, so does Henry, and when Reid gets his cut, Henry follows within a week or two. This trend was broken, after Henry decided to shave his head, following Spencer’s arrest.

Henry tends to find himself in Penelope’s office doing homework and eating dinner, when he doesn’t have to look after Michael and JJ is on a case. It’s easier to convince himself that he’s got some kind of control of the situation.

It’s Henry’s ultimate goal to become a music therapist. In the meantime, though, he’s busy trying to master a few instruments. So far, he’s proficient at the guitar, the piano, and the violin. Sometimes, he plays in the pit for school musicals. Other times, he composes.

He’s been playing soccer since before he can remember and became a starter ( left wing ) during his sophomore season. Though he doesn’t always pass along the schedules for his games, he always texts his parents the final score.

Chicken wings own his heart. He’ll do anything for a box of flats. Anything.

Verse Info

❖ — FOLLOW THE SUN. ❜  Current canon verse. Just another face in crowded hallways. Henry’s a quiet kid with a fair few friends, but he doesn’t really go out of his way to get noticed. He’s on his school’s soccer team, playing the position of left wing. As far as classes go, he excels in the sciences and music classes but is practically hopeless when it comes to languages— much to his chagrin, being that he’s surrounded by multilingual geniuses after school lets out on any given day. ❖ — BAU BABY. ❜  Early canon verse. Still young and blissfully unaware of what his mom and dad do on a day-to-day basis, Henry is a generally happy kid. He’s suffered from seizures in the past, but doesn’t have them on a regular basis. ❖ — GROWING PAINS. ❜  Mental illness innit verse. Finally privy to the world that he lives in, Henry has started to struggle with mild anxiety. Unsure what he would say about it, he keeps quiet unless he finds himself having a rare panic attack. There are times that he acts out, but generally Henry is well behaved at school and at home. Most incidences of his misbehavior occur when his mom is gone for a long period of time. ❖ — GODFATHER’S SAFETY SCHOOL. ❜ College verse. In New Haven, Connecticut, now six hours away from his family and everything he’s familiar with, Henry is attending Yale University. During his freshman year, Henry’s declared major was psychology, but during his sophomore year he switched it to music with a minor in psychology, deciding to pursue passion over practicality. Eventually, though, he’ll decide he wants to go into music therapy. ❖ — WHEELS UP. ❜  Essentially, any thread that isn’t pre-established and doesn’t take place in Virginia! Sometimes Henry will be out of state because he’s going on a college visit, other times he’ll be travelling with the BAU due to a last minute case and a lack of other respectable supervision back home. ❖ — HAVE YOU SEEN THIS BOY? ❜  An AU that takes place after the BAU faces off with Izzy Rogers. When Rossi calls to distract her in ‘Run’, she doesn’t pick up and when JJ arrives at her house, there’s no sign of her or of Henry. He was intended to be used as leverage to score a deal for both herself and her partner, Matthew. But upon learning of Matthew’s death, Izzy decided to keep him. A kid could make for a very interesting con.

Being so young at the time of his abduction, Henry never suspected anything strange about his upbringing. He knew that his parents fought monsters every day and when his new aunt told him that the monsters had won, he believed her. Izzy moved them far from Quantico and they never stayed in one place for too long, moving again and again every time Izzy pulled off something big. For smaller gigs, she sometimes used Henry to gain sympathy or as protection for herself. It became his normal.

His relationship with Izzy was never a warm one, but they did grow to care for each other. They had a mutual trust that Henry couldn’t remember developing with anyone else he’d ever met. As far as he knew, Izzy was the only family he had left. Until one day, a run-in with the law in Kazakhstan led to their arrest and Henry’s return to the United States, back to a life he couldn’t even remember living.