#Fitz mack

[clintbartondeservesbetter]

AoS team probably make remarks about their previous mission without context confusing those who weren’t there.

for example

jemma and coulson joking to each other and jemma walks out of the room saying something about his ‘prostitutes’ and mack walks by just then

daisy and yo yo talking about exs and daisy says that at least her ex isn’t a pyco in her basement

hunter complaining about the danger on a low level mission and fitzs saying that at least there’s no drowning

[florida3exclamationpoints]

AoS + text posts pt. 9/?

[reckoningishere]

IAIN DE CAESTECKER as Leopold Fitz

[crunchyspaghetti]

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”.

[agentsofmarvel]

jellycats i would give the agents of shield characters with no explanation

daisy 👇🏻

sousa 👇🏻

fitz 👇🏻

jemma 👇🏻

coulson 👇🏻

may 👇🏻

mack👇🏻

elena 👇🏻

deke 👇🏻

alya 👇🏻

[livinonlaketime]

This is one of my favorite scenes in AoS. They have way too many things to list as “worse” and yet they’re all true

[daisybeewrites]

AoS team as quotes from fics i like

this has sat in my drafts for four years so. here you go?

Daisy Johnson

Phil Coulson

Melinda May

Jemma Simmons

Leo Fitz

Lance Hunter

Mack

Yo-Yo Rodriguez

Enoch

Danny Boy

[sapphirebluejewel]

Endless List of Platonic Relationships I Love - Leo Fitz and Alphonso Mackenzie

"You did good, Turbo. You did really good."

[lands-of-fantasy]

Remember when Agents of SHIELD had the team in a reality where everybody was Hydra so they remade the main poster for every season up to then to reflect that? Iconic.

[winnie-the-monster]

[everythingirl44]

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

[photos-or-inkblots]

May: Thrusters are misfiring! Talk to me, what do we do?

Simmons: You're the pilot!

Sometime after

Simmons: Well, I'm a biologist, but sure, I can invent time travel.

it is so, so good to have you back without the Fitz-tinted glasses, Jemma.

Nothing against Fitz or Fitzsimmons (somewhat) but I like characters who do not become mouthpieces for the other or become exclusive for each other i.e. around more than half of Jemma's dialogue in S4 which will not pass the Bechdel test at all, thanks

[reckoningishere]

LEOPOLD FITZ & ALPHONSO MACKENZIE | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

[contemplativeeyes]

I'm doing an AoS rewatch, and I've missed them all so much!!! It just gets better with every watch. I always pick up something new. Plus: Mack and Elena learning each others' language after their first meeting. 😍 No chill Simmons being so thirsty for Fitz - I can. NOT. EVEN. 🤩 Ugly crying when Bobbi and Hunter leave all over again. I am up to season three, and I can't decide, so I will ask you all. What is your favourite season of AoS?

[agentsofmarvel]

i read some of the marvel cinematic universe guidebook that includes agents of shield seasons 1-4 and both seasons of agent carter, so i though i would share some fun facts i found through reading. i see y'all like my fun fact posts, and i like making them, so i decided to make another one :)

fitz and simmons were sci-tech class of 2004.

According to the Guidebook, fitz was 16 when he met Simmons who was 18 at sci-tech. I feel like this is wrong?? I didn’t think they had a two-year gap I honestly thought they were born the same year.

Skye was dropped off at st. Agnes on April 23, 1989, which the nuns used as her birthday. 

Sousa must be obsessed with horses, horse races, or just betting in general. He is seen betting (or trying to bet) on horse races in BOTH seasons of Agent Carter and in season 2 has a horse figurine on his desk.

Sousa was born in Twin Falls, Idaho but grew up in Brooklyn (he was in the Brooklyn Boy Scouts ofc).

Maybe they had a horse farm in Idaho? That could be why he likes horses. this point is just me speculating, the guidebook said nothing about him growing up.

Hunter calls Daisy and Lincoln “Shake and Bake” (I knew this before, but i honestly find this so funny so I included it)

According to the Guidebook of the MCU, Lincoln was “apparently” k*lled alongside Hive. girl why apparently….like was he supposed to make a return somehow???

Hunter’s dad was a police officer from Kent, England.

The only person Mack said was allowed to call him “Alphie” was his mom, but his brother called him the nickname throughout childhood to tease him.

Mack also tried to sell his brother to a roadside stand when they were kids. 

May scouted Bobbi at the academy & said that she was the strongest recruit she’d ever seen. 

In the comics, Daisy dated James, known as Hellfire. He appears in s4 but they do not have any feelings toward each other (thank goodness that didn’t happen)

The fact sheet for s4 Fitz says "When nervous, Fitz's eyes bug out" and it made me laugh

Mack has a special insurance policy in case of "d**th by robot"

that's everything i personally found/wanted to include !! sorry i didn't include much agent carter :/ but thank you all for your support on these posts :)

[momentofch-aos]

I may have said it before but todays m’s shield though of the day is…

Mack calling Alya “Tiny Turbo” and Daisy’s daughter “Tiny Tremors”

Oh he calls Daniel “chief” as his nickname too. Daniel likes it because it reminds of Rose, Jarvis and the SSR