Hi finn!! What are some of your favourite headcanons for Mowalsh??
I always love this question yippeee. Sorry this is going to be another long one I love yapping.
Emery wears boxers and old t shirts at home. Samira starts to steal her boxers because they're the perfect loungewear. Emery doesn't mind it at all but she has to buy extra pairs because they're going through them so quick. She gets embarrassing ones like those with little rainbows all over. Samira is undeterred and one ups her by buying those with spongebob, spiderman, even one that has 'I LOVE MY GF' printed across the asscheeks. Emery makes her promise not to tell anyone, including especially Garcia and Santos.
Their hair care routine is very different because of their backgrounds. Samira inherited hers from her mother (who learnt it from her grandmother). Emery grew up with too many brothers and no sisters so she had to figure out everything through trial and error. A few months into dating, Samira forces Emery to sit on the floor between her legs. She spritzes a few drops of hair oil onto her hands and goes to town on Emery's scalp, hitting all of her pressure points. Emery is sure she sees the light of heaven. And then Samira starts gripping her hair from the roots and tugging, Emery pretty much slumps against Samira's legs, goosebumps running down her neck and arms.
Samira studied data science in her undergrad. She uses numbers and models to make sense of the world but she didn't want to sell her soul to a big corporation even when it was the heyday for such roles and she could've gotten rich very fast. Emery did a minor in literature (she's yearnatron5000, she needs the words to express her yearning).
Emery was raised catholic, hence the big family. She attended an all-girls catholic school for most of her educational journey and that is where she learnt to be self-assured (it's also where she learnt that she likes girls). She never really thought much about the gender gap or misogyny until she's in college where she saw mediocre men get rewarded for leaching off their more adept and intelligent women counterparts. She channeled her rage into working so much harder but also being mindful of remaining supportive of her female peers, never turning down a study group and always sharing her resources. This mindset continues even when she's a surgical attending.
Emery doesn't attend mass anymore, hasn't been since she came out to her family. Her brothers are supportive of her, they see her as one of them and invite her over for holidays with their own big families. Her father took a while to come around but once he saw that his only daughter was successful and happy and confident, he learnt to work through his prejudices and reconnect with her. Emery's mother, on the other hand, has not talked to her since her coming out. Emery is her only daughter after all so her mother had all these expectations and dreams of her being the perfect feminine woman who would meet the perfect masculine man.
Samira doesn't struggle as much reconciling her religion with her sexuality but she does share the same struggles coming from a heavily family-oriented background to being more isolated and career-driven as an adult. She doesn't understand her mother and her mother doesn't understand her but they'll always be linked together, never touching and always on opposite ends like a very sad merry-go-round.
Samira and Emery both don't want to have kids but Emery understands the importance of community so together they build their own village. Samira attends Emery's recreational softball games and befriends the other WAGs there. One of the WAGs is a regular volunteer at the local animal shelter so she introduces Samira. Samira simultaneously gains new human friends and the most adorable outlets for stress. She spends the most time with the more difficult cats, those that are semi-feral and traumatised. If it weren't for Emery as a voice of reason, Samira would have brought home 20 cats. Eventually, Samira convinces her to adopt a black tripod cat using the power of her Big Brown Eyes and snuggling the purring kitty against her chest. How can Emery say no to that?
i'll do high stakes another day this is getting too long
