Ok so since we're both bored and we're both momily fiends, what are some of your favorite momily headcanons? How many kids do you think she'd have? What would she name them? Would she carry or adopt? I'm constantly thinking about her :( she won't go away
Some MOMILY headcanonons!! 🤍
How many kids?
Ok so!! She would be content/grateful with one. But I honestly think her ideal would be two kids – partly because she’d never want her child to feel alone? She’d do everything in her power to be present and loving!! but I think she’d still carry this big fear of not being enough, of not always being able to protect them. So having two means they’d hopefully at least have each other, especially for when she’s not around anymore. She wouldn’t want them to grow up feeling how she did. I do think she’d be open to more, (in the right circumstances) especially if it’s through adoption.
She has the resources. The space. The means. And knowing how the system can fail kids (because of the job), I don’t think she could stomach the thought of a child ending up in a bad situation if she had the ability to help. That would destroy her.
Carrying?
As for carrying – I think she would want to, but it’s complicated. She carries a lot of guilt over her teenage abortion in Rome, and deep down she feels like she doesn’t deserve that “second chance.” Even though logically, she knows it was the right decision at the time. I could still see her going the adoption route though – especially depending on timeline. I can’t really picture current Emily with young kids (like babies), but (slightly older) kids who deserve a second chance? Yeah. Think of someone like Carrie. OR MILA! She’d absolutely step up for them. (S19 Emily, DO YOUR THING!)
Names
Names are HARD. But I do think she’d like names that can be easily shortened. Some options from my ongoing name list:
Charlotte (Char) (Lottie)
Juliet/Juliette (Julie) (Jules)
Isabel/Isabella (Belle) (Isa)
Lilly?
A while ago I asked people on Twitter what they thought she’d name a daughter and I got some stuff like Beatrice, Rosemary, Katherine and like… I get it! Classic, old-money names (probably because of her upbringing.) But they don’t hit right to me. They feel too polished, too posh. Not very Emily. (TO ME. Please don’t come for me with pitchforks)
Someone once said they picture her naming a son “Matthew” (for obvious reasons), and yeah… I could see that. But I also wonder if it would just be too… painful?? And honestly I don’t super see her as a boy mom LOL so I struggle with boy names in general.
Me ranting about the writers – what’s new
Also SAME I will never be free from this momily prison — I hate how the show teased us with all these moments of her clearly yearning for a family, especially kids, and then never followed through?? Like that scene on the jet with JJ — “I can see it. You. Kids.” — was that written before they knew AJ was pregnant? Were they originally gonna explore that idea for Emily and then scrapped it because JJ was pregnant (because AJ was) and they didn’t want two profiler moms? Idk. It just feels oddly specific and then suddenly they pivoted. Now they’re so committed to this “married to the job” angle but never show her being happy or fulfilled by it??? Like if that’s the narrative, then show her thriving in it… but they don’t. They keep giving us these little contradictions and it drives me insane.
ANYWAY thank you for letting me yap about momily she literally won’t leave my brain ever 🤍
