( The Mentalist. Episode spoilers for 'Scarlett Fever' and 'Bloodshot'. )
The more I watch of The Mentalist, the more I actually want to write CBI ménage à cinq fanfiction, although goodness knows how I'd go about it.
I'm not sure it's really a ménage à cinq, actually; whilst I 'ship Jane/Lisbon and Jane/Van Pelt and Jane/Cho and Jane/Rigsby, the only non-Jane pairing I really 'ship at the moment is Van Pelt/Rigsby. So I suppose it'd be more 'Jane is in love with everyone' fanfiction than a true OT5. Not that there's anything wrong with taking a 'Jane is in love with everyone' perspective; I'm just thinking aloud.
And how would it work? Would the other characters know? Would only some of them know? Would Rigsby be vaguely aware that something's going on, Cho and Van Pelt able to pick up on Jane's behaviour towards them personally but unaware that it's a bit wider than that, and Lisbon astute enough to work out that Jane is actually totally in love with all of them? If all the characters know, are they all right with it (either Jane's love for them personally or specifically the fact that he is in love with everyone (I imagine Van Pelt and Rigsby, at least, would be slightly uncertain about the concept of polyamory))? Would actual sex be involved, or just love and adorability and Jane falling asleep with his feet on Cho's lap and his head on Van Pelt's?
I don't know. What I do know is that contemplating this is making me smile a ridiculous amount. Jane/everyone is the best pairing ever.
The more I watch of The Mentalist, the more I actually want to write CBI ménage à cinq fanfiction, although goodness knows how I'd go about it.
I'm not sure it's really a ménage à cinq, actually; whilst I 'ship Jane/Lisbon and Jane/Van Pelt and Jane/Cho and Jane/Rigsby, the only non-Jane pairing I really 'ship at the moment is Van Pelt/Rigsby. So I suppose it'd be more 'Jane is in love with everyone' fanfiction than a true OT5. Not that there's anything wrong with taking a 'Jane is in love with everyone' perspective; I'm just thinking aloud.
And how would it work? Would the other characters know? Would only some of them know? Would Rigsby be vaguely aware that something's going on, Cho and Van Pelt able to pick up on Jane's behaviour towards them personally but unaware that it's a bit wider than that, and Lisbon astute enough to work out that Jane is actually totally in love with all of them? If all the characters know, are they all right with it (either Jane's love for them personally or specifically the fact that he is in love with everyone (I imagine Van Pelt and Rigsby, at least, would be slightly uncertain about the concept of polyamory))? Would actual sex be involved, or just love and adorability and Jane falling asleep with his feet on Cho's lap and his head on Van Pelt's?
I don't know. What I do know is that contemplating this is making me smile a ridiculous amount. Jane/everyone is the best pairing ever.
