Do you guys ever think about what Queen Essence and King Quincy named Cooper? Obviously he was an egg when he was taken so 'Cooper' was picked out by his Pop family.
For twenty years what did they call their missing son? 'Our son'? Did they ever name him? Was the name they picked never said, just a secret between the two of them because after so long they knew that wherever he was, he had a name? Do you think on less painful days they made a game of guessing what his name might be. Do you think they made bets? Each took half the alphabet for whatever it would start with.
Quincy telling Essence before bed, "You know, I'm feeling Jackson. I was looking at Darnell today and I thought 'Could've named him Jackson'."
Essence laughs, rolls her eyes and says, "Mother's intuition says it's 'Anthony'."
Do you think Darnell begged his parents to give him a name, any name to call his brother? Just so he could feel real, instead of some vague concept?