#anyways i support the inhumans in their quest to destroy shield

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Ok, here is the rant I said I would do. Notes, I’m not going canon divergent on these events, this is simply an analyses of how SHIELD’s actions directly impacted Daisy. Which also explains why in my portrayal the only person of the main team that she fully trusts is Mack. She loves everyone else, sure. But when it comes to her powers, when it comes to the inhumans, she knows she can’t trust them. That they won’t end up using her at one point because they need her to save the world or a loved one, without even thinking about how this will personally impact Daisy.

how shield ruined daisy’s entire life

tw: death, abduction, torture, child death,

part i, pre-canon

First, we must talk about how shield (and here we bring up peggy, fury and all the other higher ups) allowed Hydra to rise in its ranks and take over the operation. This eventually led to Daniel Whitehall’s release from prison (which was ordered by Alexander Pierce). SHIELD had been founded after the Second World War, after they defeated Hydra, but it failed to recognize it had grown again inside of its ranks, filling various important positions. Whitehall learned that Jiaying was alive because shield agents (who were operatives of Hydra) had found her location and noticed she was still young. Whitehall than kidnapped and tortured her.

During this time, Daisy was taken by a group of shield agents who were, I’ll give them that, trying to do their best for this baby who was supposedly being hunted down by monsters. Except, those monsters were her parents. Let me ask you -- if Cal and Jiaying had found Daisy when she was still young, if they had time to heal from what happened, would they have become the broken people we met? Probably not. Sure, Jiaying would still be willing to do anything to protect the inhumans, but she would have a bond with her daughter (the same bond we saw she had with Kora). Jiaying spent twenty years thinking she had lost another child.

SHIELD kept moving Daisy around, constantly, to protect her. And once again, yeah, they were trying their best. But they didn’t have the entire information, they didn’t know what was really going on, so they stole her from her parents.

This led to her being raised in an orphanage where she wasn’t exactly well treated. And because SHIELD constantly kept her moving, she was never adopted, even when people wanted to take her in. So she thought no one could love her. And while she later learned the truth, this was something that stuck with her. That she could never be loved, no matter how hard she tried to please people, they would eventually leave.

part ii, the monolith

Now, I’ve already talked about SHIELD’s incompetence with Hydra. I’ll just add, that it meant that Daisy’s commanding officer was actually a hydra agent who betrayed the team, hurt her friends, and emotionally manipulated her. Great work enviourment, guys!

Moving on, let’s talk about the Monolith, an item that SHIELD was scared of and kept under lock and key because it was supposedly very dangerous. It was briefly under NASA’s control as well, and they also had no idea what it did. You know who knew? The Inhumans and they fought hard to get it back. They risked their lives to get the item so they could properly store it (unlike SHIELD which decided to... uh... do experiments on it? Geez, and they say the scientists are smart. Maybe listen to the people who actually know what they are talking about instead of doing it yourselves.) But I digress.

"I'm guessing it's dangerous." "In the wrong hands, lethal to our people. It's better we have control over it."

The Inhumans knew it was dangerous. The whole battle on the ship was because they were trying to get it back. And instead of, I don’t know, killing Gordon and everyone else, they could have seen the desperation in them and understood it was something that was specifically dangerous to inhumans. But no, they took it back to the base and swallowed Jemma.

Also, just a note, Gordon’s actions in season 2 were not aggressive until the end, he was just picking people up and taking them to safety and instead of going “huh, this group of people who are clearly not exactly human have a teleporter and they try not to interact a lot with humans... let’s track them”. Like, I’m sorry. Just from mistakes made - SHIELD brought on several disasters and the only thing we saw from the Inhumans that we could blame them for was the incident in Bahrain.

Which brings me to season 3 and all the mess with Hive. Hive came from the monolith. They opened it (to save Jemma) without any care about what they were bringing back and what the risks were. And what they brought back possessed Daisy and made her addicted. It destroyed her from the inside and just when she didn’t have anything more to give, her boyfriend sacrificed himself to destroy it.

And during this entire mess, in a very american move, they allow the cooky doctor who was helping Hive to just.... go back to his normal life instead of imprisoning him. Which consequently brought us the Framework, which was... actually it was Fitz’s fault because SHIELD did tell him countless times to stop. (but, not that the narrative holds him responsible.... which he absolutely was... and also for torturing Daisy, but we aren’t talking about that right now). Once again, Daisy had to suffer the consequences of SHIELD’s actions.

She suffered because of Hive’s actions.

She suffered to save everyone from the Framework.

And let’s remember that SHIELD (Coulson) gave Jiaying’s journal with all of the inhuman blood lines not to an inhuman who was going to protect them, but to Andrew, a third party (who was actually hunting them down and killing them). All those people Daisy met, all those people her mother protected, gone.

Because of SHIELD.

*I do wanna say, yes Jiaying did fake the attack to get everyone against SHIELD this is war but after being tortured by HYDRA (and SHIELD and HYDRA were the same thing in the eyes of the inhumans) and seeing Gordon hunted down by SHIELD, and literally the years of bad experiences they had, they were protecting themselves. Their actions didn’t come out of nowhere, they knew what was coming (and let’s remember that two years later Stark and his group tried to push the Sokkovia awards which would have forced them all to register in a list and be constantly watched by the government??)