Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-15736398-20140815200340

Thanks to new information from Adam delivered via Matt Webb Mitovitch of TVLine, there now exists a rather strong possibility that Emma and Henry might actually share the same birthdate 18 years apart.

The evidence that suggests this is as follows:


 * We know that Emma was 17 when she conceived Henry, and 18 when she gave birth to him, and that both his conception and birth occurred in the same year: 2001.


 * Emma's birthday is officially October 23rd (1983).


 * By his own admission, Henry is 10 when he comes to find her in Boston on October 23rd, 2011.


 * Even accounting for the 1-year time jump in the middle of Season 3, the show's internal chronology has only reached the early part of 2013 by the beginning of Season 4, meaning that Emma is 29-going-on-30 and Henry is 12-going-on-13.

It would actually be poetic symmetry if the 'Savior' and the 'Truest Believer' shared the same birthday, and is something that I can very much see A&E doing based on what they've done to date with the series. 