#Daisy Johnson

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AoS + text posts pt. 20/?

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CHLOE BENNET AS DAISY JOHNSON IN AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. SEASON THREE

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“You are not cursed. You are not some horrible thing. I know, because you taught me that I wasn’t. You convinced me that I had a purpose. That maybe my life wasn’t over but just… getting somewhere.”

- Daisy Johnson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D 3x03)

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S2 E17 Agents of Shield 10th Anniversary

10 years ago today we…

Watched as Skye learned to move a mountain

Nodded in approval as Fitz broke into The Toolbox

Smiled as Skye got to hug her mother for the first time (Lets be honest, it was a sweet moment)

Took advantage of all those sweet, small moments with Lincoln (We don’t have him for long so I’m going to try to have him in at least on GIF for every episode he’s in)

Learned what happened after Bahrain (This was such a sad moment!)

Finished off the episode with Skye having her first family dinner (Another sweet moment. I’m glad she got this)

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[ghostfox]

It just hit me that Daisy went from teaming up (due to brainwashing, of course) with Hive, a corpse possessed by “a god”, to next season teaming up with yet another corpse possessed by “the devil”

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I will never get over the team's utter contempt for Ward following his betrayal

May: Attacks him with a buzzsaw and nailgun and beats him within an inch of his life, and the only reason she lets him live is to save her anger for later

Daisy: Pulls the most badass double cross on him in SHIELD history. Tells him to kill himself, TWICE. Shoots him in the chest, and is jealous she didn't kill him.

Fitz: Tries, and almost succeeds, in suffocating Ward in his prison cell.

Simmons: Promises to kill him if she ever sees him again, and actually attempts to follow through. When met with his doppelganger, only reacts to him with sheer disgust.

Coulson: Calls him a deluded son of a bitch. Threatens to kill him, actually succeeds.

Icons, all around

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Is this a safe space to say that I did not like Daisy's bang era in s2?

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I literally never registered it before, but Akela literally clocked Coulson so fucking fast. She spent five minutes around Coulson episode 4 and was immediately cornering May and asking what the fuck was wrong with him. And when May said he "almost" died during the battle of new york, she immediately shot back with, "but what did they do to him?" And when May tried to dismiss her, like the look Akela gave her

Such an interesting tell so early on that I never even thought twice about before

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Really obsessed with that one episode in AoS season 2 where Skye seems to have gotten her hands on a flat iron.

Episode 5: lots of volume, slightly wavy. Hairstyle aside, this is what her hair looks like for literally the entire show.

Episode 6: inexplicably pin straight, with nowhere near the same amount of volume.

I think the funniest part is that's it's literally just for one singular episode. Her hair is immediately back to normal after episode 6.

This is like. Two episodes later. What happened here.

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[everythingirl44]

The team not being able to seen each other again or be in the same again will never make sense to me

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Daisy: *setting up a cell phone for Sousa* What kind of picture do you want as the background image for your phone?

Sousa: I'm not sure. What do people typically use?

Daisy: Some people use pictures of things or places they like. Some people use pictures of family and friends.

Sousa: What picture do you have for yours?

Daisy: *hesitates*

Sousa: Sorry, is that intrusive?

Daisy: No, it's just...*shows him her phone lock screen featuring the photo she took of him outside of the Lighthouse*

Sousa: Oh. Can mine be a picture of you then?

Daisy: Okay. On one condition.

Sousa: Sure. What is it?

Daisy: I get to take a new picture of you to use for mine.

Sousa: *smiles* Whatever you want.

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Yes, absolutely!! This is exactly why I have problems with people blaming the team for her problems, saying they never bothered to help her or treat her well when that's not exactly what happened

Fitz has a major abandonment complex, it started when his dad walked out on him and his mom, furthered when Simmons left after his brain injury (arguably the most vulnerable part of his life), and now Daisy, his best friend, left S.H.I.E.L.D. when she needed them most. Obviously he doesn't think these instances are equal in his mind, but it's a pattern recognition thing, and he can't help but thinking that this is a continuation of all this

So while I don't agree with what he says in that moment (or at least how he expresses it), I can understand why he feels that way. For him, it's the culmination of many things, and he feels deserved in lashing out. It's really annoying how people try to pin the blame all on him without bothering to understand his background and motivations

And thank you, op, for saying that Daisy also did have her fair share of problems. She was grieving, yes, and she had every right to deal with that, but put simply, the way she was doing it was unhealthy. It was only making everything worse, which she was fully aware of bc of well. We know. The team 100% would have helped her during this time and allowed her to grieve in a more proper manner, again a thing she was aware of, which is why she avoided them

No one was completely right or completely wrong, this shit is complicated, and boiling everyone down to a few personality traits and emphasizing offhand ones is not the way to go about it

I’m so interested to know how other people perceive the team and Daisy’s arc in the beginning of season 4. I feel like I’ve seen a lot more of the “I’ll never forgive the team for how they treated her in S4” sentiment recently, which is interesting because I’ve never taken that perception away from that storyline at all.

Did the team say or do hurtful things? Yes, for sure. (I usually see the aforementioned comment on videos on that one scene with Daisy, Mack and Fitz)

But does Daisy also do and say hurtful things? I honestly think so.

That’s what makes that part of the season so phenomenal to watch, story wise. There is not black and white, good or bad, there just is. That is the reality of grief, that is the reality of mental health struggles, that is life.

There are no “right” answers when coping with the impossible, honestly. I think there are healthy and unhealthy ways to handle things, sure, but it’s not really a moral issue, on its face.

I mean, between the team and Daisy there are some rough interactions. Fitz is certainly a little hypocritical when he’s criticizing how Daisy handles things, given that he wouldn’t have reacted well if it had been Jemma. But He has been there for Daisy, up until this point at least, with Ward, her powers, they’ve been through a tremendous amount together. He feels abandoned and, yeah, he’s expressing it in a less than ideal way. But he cares. You know he cares about her. He and Mack wouldn’t be so angry if they didn’t care.

Mack is upset when he finds out Yo-Yo’s stealing the bone pills for her because 1) he’s been lied to for months, and 2) more importantly, it makes it seem that Daisy doesn’t trust him enough to directly come to him for help. That’s the thing. He would’ve helped her, probably given her anything she needed medically. She never needed to get Yo-Yo to steal any of it. It’s frustrating, it hurts. Mack is genuinely a deeply loving person, you know it’s killing him to not be able to get through to her.

Everyone on that team wants to help her, more than anything. They are begging her to let them in. I mean, lest we forget Coulson gave up his fucking job, in part, to keep chasing any lead he has on her.

When blaming the team for the rockiness at the beginning of season 4, you’re completely ignoring the fact that Daisy is actively running from them the entire time. She doesn’t want them to find her, and I really get it, honestly I do. I deal with things the way she does, radio silence, isolation, running away, being avoidant, self destruction, etc, etc.

Who could blame her, honestly? The anger and the self hatred and the guilt and the grief. Lord knows I’d take off, shut myself out. How do you even begin to manage that kind of pain, especially when it’s still fresh?

Well, you manage it any way that you can. For Daisy that means trying to atone for all of the pain she caused, which, are also things that caused her pain. Especially at the beginning of the season, it doesn’t matter how much she’s told that she is forgiven. Lincoln was at peace with his decision to sacrifice himself, Mack forgave her for hurting him while she was under the influence of Hive. Nobody is directly blaming her, except for herself. To try to heal from the pain she is in, would mean being able to extend herself grace, mercy. The only person who needs to forgive her, is herself. And she just- can’t.

She believes that all she does is hurt the people around her, which is what she is grasping onto to justify hurting herself. The hard truth of living that way is that when you’re stuck in your own, self harm, self hatred, shame-spiral is that you are the only person who can break out of it.

That’s a huge part about what I love about the storytelling of this arc. It’s genuinely some of the best mental health representation I’ve seen in a show like this.

Obviously, mental illness is not your fault. Being stuck in a bad place is not your fault. Daisy is not at fault for her grief. Her descent into isolation and a self-hatred, suicidal, shame-spiral does not in any way mean that she is a bad person. But there’s only so much another person can do when it comes to a battle that is completely contained within your own brain.

The team never stopped caring about her. Coulson, May, and Yo-Yo, specifically, never gave up on her. That’s important. She would’ve most likely been dead if they had stopped giving a shit about her. That’s significant.

But they’re not mind readers.

To go back to the scene with Mack and Fitz too. I think that scene is really important because it’s Daisy being confronted with the reality that her actions, her running away, isolating herself, really is hurting the people that love and care about her. She runs away to protect them from that very reality, of course, but how could they know that?

She doesn’t want them to care, and she hopes that if she just pushes them hard enough, if she bares her metaphorical fangs, they’ll stop. She’s accepted being alone, she’s accepted her own self destruction, because even if it hurts them at first, even if she’s absolutely miserable, they’ll be safe. Inside, she’s unwilling to admit that she needs them, and she’s acting in a way that allows her to avoid the cognitive dissonance of her actions (i.e. yo-yo stealing the pills they’d willingly give her if she asked).

But the fact that she’s hurting them doesn’t push them away. It just makes everything hurt more for everyone. She wants to embody that hurt, she’s cannibalizing her self to try to take on that pain but it doesn’t make anything better.

This storyline is not a case of right and wrong, if anything it’s an antithesis to it. It’s about how the ambiguity of life and grief and mental health are like tangled strings, messy and knotted, it’s about the love and effort and dedication it takes to hang on to/fight your way back to the people that love you, it’s about the strength it takes to carry on and forgive yourself, and, as May tells Daisy once she comes back, it’s about that: “you can’t choose who cares about you”.