This phone edit is celebrating one of my most favourite friendships on the Criminal Minds. Emily and JJ are one of the best examples of a healthy and loyal friendship depicted on t.v.. They truly show how supportive and caring women should be towards one another.
How good friends should build each other up, have each other backs, and show up for each other when it matters. It shouldn't be filled with dramatic fights, toxic betrayals, and destroying one another.
I based it off of their conversation on the jet to Paris, when JJ travels with Emily while she's still recovering. The two discuss Doyle, and how Emily should get a tattoo to commemorate surviving her trauma with Doyle. JJ throws out the idea of a Phonenix to represent transformation, and Emily is more receptive to the idea of a Blackbird.
They then go on to discuss JJ's work as DOD Liaison at the Pentagon. Emily immediately sussed out she knows a bullshit cover story when she hears one. And JJ gives Emily an abridged version of the truth of her role in the task force in Afghanistan. Which later leads to her kidnapping and own transformative survival story, which Emily helps save her from.
Anyway it probably needs a little more tweaking before it's perfect, but I figured I'd once again share this with people who would actually enjoy it and understand the meaning of the symbolism behind it.