Like.. filling that hole in her heart where Maggie used to be via adopting a kid just seems like the most unhealthy coping mechanism and a recipe for disaster and emotional trauma for the kid. Alex needs some gd therapy to deal with her parental neglect and her alcoholism if we wanna call it that/basically just all her bad coping mechanisms that keep her from actually coping. And then she needs a few months or a year and then some to heal from that emotional mess with Maggie and coming out.
It isn’t just Maggie, tbh.
Alex has had a big year, that involved lot of people leave her, especially now with Kara going. Maggie and Kara are the big ones, but she’s also lost any leads on finding her father (who told her she wouldn’t understand why he was working for Cadmus until she was a parent, like, hello motivation right there).
But, yeah, I could def see her latching onto getting a kid to justify leaving Maggie as part of the reasoning, or a reason for it needing to happen sooner.
And, it def isn’t a good idea for her or for any kid brought in.
At this point I ship Alex with Therapy and not much else.
True, though
Alex (character development wise) lately has just seemed (to my non-episode-watching ass) like she’s gone with laser focus into kids/parent-everything which feels a lot like it’s happening in defiance to how and why her relationship with Maggie ended, like.. somehow if she throws herself into the mum thing now it’ll make the break up “worth” it or sth? which, in my reading of Alex and her maturity levels, is something she should be above at this point in her life. idk how do you feel about it?
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