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daisybeewrites · 1 year ago
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AoS as DnD archetypes… Villains edition!
ask and you shall receive, @just-ten-cents
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first up, ~Cal~
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Look, y’all. He’s a silly little guy. He occasionally goes into a rage so deep and painful that he kills everyone around him. He is the dark side of barbarians. The painful side of barbarians. And look, i’m not saying he was justified, but I am saying he really tried to be a good dad.
~Raina~
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I love her your honor. Look. She is very charismatic. She’s intelligent. She has great survival instincts. She’s a very well-rounded player… but I have to place her as a wizard in the school of divination. I think she’s always one step ahead, whether from a vision or intuition, and being a divinatory wizard just makes sense to me.
~Ruby~
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Ruby is my bbg I know she’s a bitch and also a pretty weak villain but she’s also my age and the teenage angst is real. I’m calling paladin for her! She’s athletic and charming and I feel like she’s a paladin of the oath of glory.
speaking of mom, ~Gen. Hale~
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Warlock. She made so many deals with so many devils for power and it turned around bit her. She would have been a great warlock if she wanted to be good, but instead she bargained for more and more power and went along with schemes that she knew were wrong and just. look the Hale’s make me so sad and angry. cycles of abuse and all that
~Kasius~
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This blue bitch Veruca Salt hamf. I cannot stand him. He has zero skills. His only skill is acting entitled and being dramatic. This bitch doesn’t even have a class because Sinata does it all for him. He’s basically an animal companion like hello?
~Sinara~
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Assassin rogue
~Ward~
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Time for everyone’s most hated, Grant Ward. I have so many strong words for him. I’m mostly mad because he’s actually a well-written villain, like he is the epitome of villain that even though he wanted to be redeemed he just plain couldn’t. I want to call him a paladin of oath of revenge but honestly? he’s just a fighter. He isn’t a fighter like Bobbi, no, he isn’t fighting to live and love and survive. He’s fighting and reaching out and clawing at everything around him because hurting people feels good. He is the worst type of fighter.
~Jiaying~
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This hurts me to type, but Jiaying is a cleric of the grave. Her gift was supposed to be used to carry on a legend, to teach and foster new generations and stay alive long enough to look after the inhuman community. She was supposed to work to provide a safe place for healing and recovery. She was supposed to be a cleric of haven and healing, but instead she’s a necromancer.
Anyway! Stay tuned for pt. III where I assign my fav side characters classes!
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onlyangelxo · 4 years ago
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“You must be Daisy.”
The corridor rocked with vibrations as Kora slammed against the wall. No one moved to stop Daisy, arm outstretched, as she finally came face to face with her older sister.
“Our mother is dead because of you.”
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samanthaswishes · 3 years ago
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Agents of SHIELD Rewatch Season 2B (ep. 11-22)
It's been months, but the rewatches are back!
Here's my commentary on my rewatch of Agents of SHIELD Season 2 Episodes 11-22. This may not be the best commentary since these are just the thoughts and opinions that come to my mind as I watch the episodes rather than a full-blown analysis, but I'm just having fun with it!
2x11 Aftershocks
This is also the first set of rewatches on Disney+, and you can't skip the recaps, so I get to watch Trip crumble to pieces TWICE in one episode. Making me cry this weekend, why don't you.
Baby Gordon! Also, this flashback scene takes place in 1983, which means it's probably not that long before Kora dies. It's crazy to look back on this scene after s7, knowing that Kora currently exists in that flashback.
Also, JIAYING!! She's still one of my favorite characters.
I want Jiaying to hug me and comfort me and tell me everything is going to be alright.
"They would be lost" as it cuts to Skye😭
AND THERE'S the second Trip crumbling of the day.
Skye... why are you wearing shoes in bed?
Just gonna say this now, Chloe's performance in this episode is *chef's kiss*
I remember watching this episode for the first time and just being absolutely devastated we didn't have Trip anymore. I'm still devastated.
Dr. List and Von Strucker mention.
So, why was Raina going on a killing spree in the temple?
I JUST WANNA HUG SKYE🥺
Also, I miss big sister Bobbi with the quarantine survival kit.
"I think you're a rockstar"🥺
"Come home, Jemma" I love this family.
Skye's heart monitor is literally going off the rails, signifying that her heart rate is dangerously high, yet no one heard or noticed?
"Smile!"😃
The plan for Bakshi to "escape" is both ridiculous and hilarious.
"ThEy'Ll NeVeR tAkE uS aLiVe!"
Okay, but what would have May's version of the plan been like?
Also Bobbi just casually wheeling her motorcycle out.
Okay, I understand where Jemma is coming from and her fears surrounding it, but I feel like she shouldn't have blown up in front of Skye, who was affected by all of this. Again, I totally understand Jemma's reaction, I just feel like talking about this as an epidemic and something dangerous isn't something to be said in front of someone who is affected.
Ooh, Raina, don't call his daughter a bitch.
Cal's little happy dance😂
It's sad hearing Cal talk about his plan, knowing what we know about Jiaying later.
"I can't live like this" "Then don't" Damn, this got dark quick, and it's just gonna get darker.
Props to Ruth Negga for putting on amazing performances while having to deal with all those thorns.
Hunter is a better spy than the show gave him credit for. Sure, he's made pretty shitty choices, but he's pretty good at the job. He was suspicious of Bobbi and Mack the whole time.
Also, the only part that makes this season hard to watch is the whole 'Real Shield' thing and the way Bobbi and Mack are around the team, which sucks cause I love Mack and Bobbi. They're literally my favorite characters after Daisy and May.
Oh Mack, you do so much more than just 'working on Lola one day'.
Again, talking about putting Raina down in front of Skye? I understand Jemma, but there are just some things you shouldn't talk about in front of someone who was just traumatized due to the same experience as said person you want to put down.
Did anyone else notice that the music Skye is listening to on headphones is the same score used during the Ghost Rider pod in season 4?
300bpm, that's 5 beats per second. For reference, my resting heart rate at this current moment is 90bpm, which is 1.5 beats per second. Skye's heart rate at the time of the collapse was roughly 3.33 times faster than my current heart rate.
"That's inhuman" we love to see it.
Again, can we not tell Skye that something's wrong with her?
I made a post about this a while ago, but besides the fact that her powers may have just been exposed, Skye might have been nervous about the broken glass because of what happened with the crystal decanter she broke at a foster home, which she mentions in like 6 episodes.
Also, I love these soft May moments. The way she goes from comforting Skye to freaking out in a protective manner over the fact that she's bleeding.
The way Trip's mom just knew😭
If you follow me, you know my opinions on Fitz and my disdain for him, and I don't agree with the fact that Fitz kept telling Skye to hide her powers as she could have gotten help sooner, but "You're just different now, and there's nothing wrong with that" will forever be one of my favorite lines from the show.
Raina, baby, no :(
"COME ON, GIRL"😭
Why couldn't we have more family moments like the end of this episode?
2x12 Who You Really Are
Welcome back, Lady Sif! I loved seeing her in Loki, and I really hope we get her back in Thor: Love and Thunder (was it ever confirmed that she was going to be in it? I can't remember).
The May and Skye sparring scene... *chef's kiss*
"I didn't want to hurt you" and then May's gesture that's just like "You think you can?"😂
Also, THAT transition
"Son of Coul"
In canon, how did they get that picture during 1x15?😅
Why did they have to make the Kree's weapon look like a mallet you would beat meat with? lol.
So, now the ICERs are dangerous? I don't remember them saying dangerous for some reason, and now I feel for Skye with the after-effects after she shoots herself later in the episode.
"I can" Love that May is crushing on Thor. And just Coulson's face after she says that haha.
"i BaReLy ToUcHeD iT"
"I learned this as a child, did you not?"
Agents of SPOOF has forever ruined the scene where they find the Kree cause I can no longer watch this scene without the song "Blue" going through my head.
I love the parallel they make in s7 of Kora's gun quaking apart to Skye's in this episode, even if Kora wasn't the one causing the quakes.
I love how Sif was about to explain the concept of a key to Coulson.
Yes, Mack is a pretty boy.
The zoom in on the water glass. The way water glasses have become something of a symbol for Daisy's powers!
The way May just knew the shaking was from Skye and that something was up all along.
Love how May and Coulson don't even think twice about grabbing Skye and standing in front of her.
Why Bambino for the name of the "I know what it does" weapon?😂
Mack just goes from "we'll decide what she is😠" to "Tremors🤩" and I love that.
May grabbed her and ran, and then she took a knee and got on Skye's level, just as a special someone had once told her to do🥺
No one talks about the May and Daisy scene in this episode enough. Just the way May says "Skye" tells you everything about their relationship and how much they care.
It's there for a split second, but the way May just softly touches Skye and moves her hair😩 (I'm obviously touched starved, can't you tell? lol)
Ugh, I always hate that line from Mack given his and Daisy's amazing relationship later. You can see the regret on his face when he sees her though. Ugh, can we just move on from the painful parts, please?
2x13 One of Us
"I'm stopping them before they start" Oh, Skye, baby. If only you knew what you were doing to yourself.
May's thoughts: "Is he really asking me to contact my ex right now?"
And there he is, Dr. Andrew Garner, the husband blueprint.
Also, Andrew is a great therapist, laying down the rules for treating Skye.
Love that Lian May still likes Andrew and invites him over for dinner despite her daughter having been divorced from him for years. I mean, I would too.
This is an Andrew Garner appreciation blog.
Here's one of the one-liners we get of Daisy's past in the foster system. Never will forgive the writers for just forgetting this major part of Daisy and having the characters treat her like she didn't have this trauma as well.
Also love how even Andrew grew a soft spot for Skye/Daisy as time went on.
"I'm not suicidal" UGHHHHH SEASON 2 WHY YOU GOTTA DO ME LIKE THIS. SEASON 4 IS COMING UGHHHHHH. Glad they care for her this season. You will hear from me more on this when we get to s4a cause I have A LOT to say about how they treated Daisy.
Did we ever establish EXACTLY was the photo on Andrew's desk?
Love how we found out that May can't cook and just ran with it in fanfics😅
Fitzsimmons gossiping about May and Andrew is such a mood.
"You need backup" "I need backup"
That kid filming with his iPhone is the only realistic thing in this show.
NOT THE BIRDS
Mack, imma have to disagree with you on that. I actually like pineapple on pizza.
As much as I absolutely love the 'May and Coulson are Daisy's adoptive parents' fics, where are all the 'May and Andrew are Daisy's adoptive parents' fics? Cause the way Skye talked to them, convincing them to let her go, just gave me 'daughter talking to her parents' vibes.
Skye's shaking can be because she's scared and it works, but given that you can see everyone's breath, it was probably, no doubt, freezing cold when they filmed the football field fight.
I totally forgot Bobbi was hiding under the bleachers. That made me laugh😂
THAT👏🏼 MAY👏🏼 POWER👏🏼 WALK👏🏼
Again, I JUST WANT TO HOLD BABY SKYE. She's over here watching the people she cares about the most destroy people who are gifted just like her.
Can we talk about the May and Coulson Worried Parent™ running?
"We're as close to a family as Skye has"🥺
2x14 Love in the Time of Hydra
You know, I really liked this stretch of episodes without Ward. Now, he's back. Gross.
I also just feel really bad for Kara
Look at that, the only time the MCU actually might have looked at Bruce's mental health and how he might actually not want the Hulk. Did we all just forget about how he said he tried to kill himself in The Avengers?
Not Fitz talking about being glad that certain people don't have choices the better themselves.
Watching May and Coulson talk about taking Skye out of the picture so she can better control her powers, knowing that something is up with Bobbi and Mack, is really neat. They were always thinking ahead.
"Off to see the wizard"
There are so many parts of this episode, I honestly have no idea what's going on lol.
The team canonically had karaoke nights.
The whole 'Real Shield' thing is so frustrating. Like, I understand some aspects of what they are saying, even Coulson later agreed, but their execution is just terrible.
Wait, so Jemma knew that there were going to be repercussions of the casts she made for Skye?
Thinking about all the flashbacks Skye was having when Coulson told her to "pack a bag"🥺 You can just see it in the way her face totally drops and the shaky breath she takes.
LOLA BACKSTORY
I will never get over May's voice coming out of Skye's mouth. This whole scene is just weird and creepy😣
I'm just tired of Ward justifying everything he's done wrong on his past when Daisy had gone through a rough upbringing as well, and she came out the most selfless person ever. She didn't become a little murderer.
"You seem so well adjusted" EXCUSE ME. DID YOU JUST SAY THAT ABOUT WARD???
Not gonna lie, Ward and Kara breaking into Talbot's base does make me laugh. It's just so chaotic.
Talbot's soldiers have to go through so much haha😅
"If there is one thing I cannot stand, it is a spy in my house" and the cut to Mack OMG.
Does Mack really think he can outsmart THE Melinda May?
Kara punching Bakshi was very satisfying.
At the time of rewatching this episode, I had rewatched (again) all of season 1 and prior episodes of season 2 (just so it says I watched them on Disney+), but I never noticed in 2x02 how Coulson told Hunter that there were people he trusted that vouched for him and that 'people' was Bobbi.
"I'm just trying to fix her!" UGHHH THIS LINE HURTS EVERY TIME. SIMMONS WHY? I LOVE YOU BUT THE XENOPHOBIA HURTSSS.
Not the edible arrangements😂
Again, feel so sorry for Kara.
2x15 One Door Opens
THE WAY BOBBI BUSTS THROUGH THE DOORS. YES QUEENNN!
I wish we got more Hartley before she died.
"The path we've chosen, makes you forget your lines sometimes" is one of my favorite bloopers.
Gotta hand it to Coulson's quick thinking.
Love how Bobbi knew it was safer to just break through glass than to voluntarily fight May.
Also, May and Bobbi fight... *chef's kiss*
When did Bobbi and/or Mack have the time to put a monitor in a fire extinguisher that's out in the open?
I don't understand the logistics of the casts. Like, I know it suppresses the powers, but like, what makes it so Skye feels woozy? Like, that should have been something to note.
As someone who hates horror movies, the very not-that-scary horror-esc scene/buildup did kinda scare me the first time I watched haha.
If I opened my front door, and some guy like Gordan was standing there, I would have screamed and shut the door right then and there.
Gordan is aware of exactly who Skye is, right? I wonder if he knew her during the few months before Whitehall. I mean, he had known Jiaying since at least 1983, and she wasn't born until 1988.
Also, I wonder if Gordan ever thought about Kora during those moments with Skye, a girl who was scared of herself and didn't have an idea of how to control her abilities.
SMART GIRL JEMMAAAA
They don't want secrets, but they're willing to break into a base, potentially hurting a lot of people? Again, Real Shield frustrates me.
Skye discovering new aspects of her powers will always be my favorite part of the episode.
Fitz and Simmons holding hands and being there for each other after Real Shield invades is sweet.
And people don't understand why Skye wanted to stay at Afterlife more than Shield. May wasn't able to finish, so Skye believed all of Shield was after her. Then, of course, she was chased through the woods and shot at.
May is the dictionary picture of loyalty.
Why is Coulson being sent down that elevator so funny?😅
Damn, I really hate Calderon.
Again, Skye only attacked to protect herself. SHIELD ATTACKED FIRST.
Love how much Bobbi still cares about Skye. The scream of her name was pure terror for her.
And there's the quake shield! Shame we only see her use her powers like that again in the series finale.
So, does Skye just not remember arriving at Afterlife? Did she like pass out as soon as she and Gordon got there?
2x16 Afterlife
Thank you Coulson for icing that guy cause that actor (the car salesman) is a pedophile (I know this cause he was the dad/grandfather on Andi Mack and they had to cut him out of the show)
What was the point of having Skye in two pieces of cloth?
And there's Mr. Battery Pack Lincoln Campbell.
Thank you Bobbi for defending Skye.
How would you have been invited IF COULSON DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT YOU?
So Jemma and Fitz made their plan pretty early on given that Jemma didn't have much of a reaction about Fitz "packing his things"
"I lost her"😭
The little foreshadowing to the following episode with Bahrain!
Hunter waking up like that is a mood.
Hunter is a whole mood this whole episode actually.
So, those shield agents were there with the battering ram for an hour? I'd give up after like five minutes.
After season 3, I know that Daisy and Lincoln weren't ready for the relationship they could have had at the time, but I will admit that they're cute. He's the one who convinced her that her powers could be a good thing. It's nice to see someone caring about her.
You mention Trip, and I will start crying.
MIKE PETERSON!!!!!!!
AND THERE'S JIAYING
Skye knows there's a connection between her and Jiaying.
Is Lincoln aware of the relationship?
That scene hurt knowing that Jiaying lost Daisy, but watching this after s7 and knowing she's also hurting because of Kora, it hurts even more. UGHHHH WHY DOES THIS SHOW MAKE ME FEEL FEELINGS.
Hunter just wants to go to Mexico.
2x17 Melinda
May and Andrew were such a good-looking couple.
THEY WANTED TO HAVE A FAMILY AND HAVE KIDSSS😭😭
"Best Security System in the World" yes she is.
Thinking about how Coulson wanted to bring May onto the Avengers Initiative with him.
Okay, but how cool/emotional/sad would it have been if we got a young Eva Belyakov in season 7 when they went to Afterlife?
The fact that Skye is still trying to justify SHIELD and blame herself when Jiaying is trying to make her see that she had every right to fire back IN DEFENSE. And people wonder why Skye """turned""" on SHIELD.
The Quake theme when she causes the avalanche. Ugh, I will never not get emotional when I hear that theme.
May's smile when she first sees Katya😭 WHY DOES THIS EPISODE HAVE TO HURT!!
I really feel bad for Raina.
The water glasses is making me season 7 emotional. (7x10, why did you have to be so sad???)
Another reason I love this episode aside from the Bahrain backstory is that it actually touches upon Daisy's trauma with foster care and abandonment and actually acknowledges what it has done to her character instead of ignoring it and treating her like shit.
"I tried some of the scotch too."
*26 Skye. You're 26. (Though Chloe I'm pretty sure was only 22 or 23 when filming this episode)
JIAYING KNOWS YOUR BIRTHDAY SKYE!!!
"You were born on July 2nd." And I'm going to go cry now.
Dichen and Chloe's acting and emotion in this scene is just phenomenal!!
"I was too afraid to hope"
Why did the universe allow people to hurt Jiaying and Daisy?
"Shield is not authorized for any action" *one second later* "Go"
"Bio always works" foreshadowing for 4x14!
The whole "Get down on her level or grab her and run like hell" scene is so heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time, and seeing this happen in 2x12, ugh I really love this show.
"Do good Melinda, but come home"
I know I haven't said too much on the Bahrain flashback, but I'm just so invested in it. Seeing the famous backstory of May come to fruition... it's all so amazing and painful all at the same time.
I always have and always will love May, and I understand May being upset that Coulson was keeping secrets from her, like seeing Andrew for counseling about the alien writing, but I feel like she was a little too harsh with him given the secrets she kept from him last season. I know that was for his own protection, but still. Again, I still feel like May has every right to be upset. Just the way she went about it just felt like an uncalled for reverse of last season. Just my opinion.
Were they trying to have some sort of romance thing between Gordan and Raina? I don't know... the whole "I can take you to amazing places" just gave me that vibe.
The connection between Jiaying and Bahrain is so chilling every single time.
AND THE KATYA REVEAL. There are so many moments from the show I want to watch for the first time again, and that is one of them. The realization for the audience and both May on what has to be done. Again, CHILLING.
I'm a more casual Philinda shipper, but I still love their friendship so much. The way Coulson ignored the Bahrainian forces and pushed past them when he heard the gunshot and went in for May. You can just see that friendship so clearly.
THE IMAGE OF MAY JUST CRADLING KATYA😭
"The Calvary went in after all"
"Let the girl go" CRYING
If I'm remembering correctly, Daisy must have been AT LEAST over six months old when she was dropped off at the orphanage. I'm pretty sure she was more. A six month old is very different from a newborn baby. How did they mess up her age by A WHOLE YEAR??
"He is a monster" "He was good once" THE FACT THAT THIS ALSO APPLIES TO JIAYING!! I feel so bad for her. Jiaying deserved better.
AND RAINA IS THE TRUE CLAIRVOYANT *cue the That's So Raina clip from Agents of SPOOF*
Way to go, Hunter. You've made it to Mexico!
I don't think I said this last episode, but I loved the Coulson-Hunter teamup.
2x18 Frenemy of My Enemy
The way Hunter is just avoiding eye contact with Fitz when Ward is mentioned lol.
Sad watching Cal like this, knowing Jiaying wants to send him away.
Again, was Lincoln aware of the relationship between Skye and Jiaying prior to this?
The Bobbi and Mack sparring scene is pretty cool too.
The "Simmons, what did you do" had May giving a hard Mom Face™
"Hey, baby😏" "Hey, sweetie😃"
That little interaction between Kara and Mike is so funny to me for some reason.
The whole Coulson wanting to use TAHITI on Ward still confuses me. Like yeah, Ward won't remember he was bad, but what about him being wanted?? Did Coulson have a plan for that?
I understand Jiaying has reservations against Raina, and rightfully so, cause of what she knows from Cal and Skye, but it still rubs me weird that she is questioning the existence of her gift knowing that anyone can be the first of their kind like Gordon.
From this point forward, the rest of the points are written like a month later cause school sucks, but it’s summer vacation now, so I have time finally!
So have Kara and Ward just been planning revenge on Bobbi for like a while or something?
So have Kara and Ward just been planning revenge on Bobbi for like a while or something?
Yes, Ward. That house is your last.
We love Mike cock-blocking them cause... gross.
“Gordo"
I love Cal. Just want to say that again.
I want more of Cal and Jiaying's love story. But then again, it'll probably make the whole thing even more sad than it already is and make me cry even harder.
Also funny how Skye was going to be brought up in the same state Coulson was born in.
“And I empathize" IF THIS DOESN'T EXPLAIN DAISY'S WHOLE CHARACTER I DON'T KNOW WHAT DOES.
SHUT THE FUCK UP WARD
I sort of kinda like Fitz and Simmons relationship in these later episodes of season 2 and the trust they are willing to put into each other.
JIAYING WANTED TO BE A DOCTOR😭
Cal wanted Skye to go to a charter school. Fun fact: I attended a charter school. Honestly, don't know what makes a chater school a charter school, but to me, my school was if you mixed a private school and public school and it was K-12. We wore uniforms, but there wasn't a tuition and it was opened to the public. You just had to be put onto a waiting list and you got in by lottery. I got in in 5th grade and graduated high school from there in 2019.
This scene reminds me of the Pirates of the Caribbean scene for some reason.
So, no one saw Mike's gun come out and go back in?
Cal complaining about capitalism is a mood.
“I'm kidding... sort of" about the liquor.
Skye's pickpocketing skills!!!!
Skye got the neopolatin ice cream sandwich. Love that for her.
See Lincoln, you could be a spy.
Hunter referring quantum entaglement as torture has the same energy as Scott Lang thinking of quantum entaglement as something sexual.
DAISY JOHNSON DAISY JOHNSON DAISY JOHNSON
And the soft Quake theme when she says her name for the very first time😭
The hula dancer🥺
I find it weird that Cal wanted to show the tools used to put Jiaying together. It might just be me, but I would be creeped out.
EVERYONE COMING TOGETHER!!!
Does Lincoln have any previous fighting experience? Cause he acts fast and knows what to do with his powers.
Also, despite everything, Skye still has faith in SHIELD and knows its Hydra.
It's cliche, but Skye falling on top of Lincoln is kinda cute.
Lincoln's face of recognition when trying to eletrocute Mike😂
“Sure, and I'm the Hulk"
Ward is still obsessed with Skye if he willingly followed Coulson like that.
I'd be a little pissed if I saw someone I trusted with Ward too, not gonna lie.
The way Skye was going to reunite with Coulson before Gordon got her🥺
SHIELD was that slow to get there?
Take me to your leader"
2x19 The Dirty Half Dozen
Excited for this one. One of my favorite episodes from this season.
Jiaying has such a maternal feel to her, which I love, but I always find it funny when she comforts Raina knowing that Ruth Negga is actually older than Dichen Lachman (only by like a month though).
I understand Jiaying's anger towards Cal after he revealed Skye's identity and relation to her when she had wanted that hidden.
Were there always those bright lights in the Cage? Cause it was always dark in there.
“I like seeing my Bus" I just remembered this is the last episode with the Bus, which continues to be my favorite SHIELD base/aircraft.
User-Friendly Cal™
I totally understand Jiaying's fears, but there are also the "never leave a man behind" values that Skye has.
So Mike and Lincoln are in the same cells that Wanda and Pietro were in, right? At least the same facility.
Love Mike's sarcasm.
Having to say "Hail Hydra" after every phone call must be annoying.
“Dazzled"
Coulson translation: "I'm taking my og team cause I love them and they're mine. Except for Ward, he's more of an inconvenience, but I need to use him"
There are windows other than the cockpit of the quinjet?
Don't worry Hunter, I'd be nauseous looking at Ward and Kara together.
Can May beat the shit out of Ward again? Please.
My Team™
I realized I haven't said much about Gonzalez. Is there even much to say?
I don't know if Coulson really had to tell May about seeing Andrew. Yeah, it hits a more personal nerve, I get that, and May can be upset, but I understand Coulson not wanting to discuss his own medical records.
Don't like Gonzalez saying the agents going on the mission are worth the risk, saying that they are more expendable than Bobbi. Bobbi's not expendable either, but I think you get what I'm saying.
THE OGs!
Jemma's first question being "Are you making friends?"🥺
I love the entire team death staring Ward.
“I'm still happy I shot you" ME TOO.
Jemma, Fitz, AND MAY agreeing with Skye is a whole mood.
“Ward, just no more talking to people" Yes, please shut him up.
That little comment about needles was all Kara needed from Bobbi.
Thinking about how they all had to pack their belongings from the Bus aka Skye's first real home.
And goodbye Bus. You were a great part of the show, and I will forever miss you.
“Really starting to wish I hadn't eaten that Hot Pocket earlier" is such a random line and I love it.
Also thinking about all the chaos the cast had while filming this scene. Between Chloe and Clark with the fart machine and Brett doing a little too much when they were "falling", I just love these cast moments.
Also an appreciation for Ponytail May.
Ward's confusion with Skye's powers will always be funny to me though.
“So that's what happened in Puerto Rico."
I also always think about how StaticQuake was a little interesting and weird for Chloe as she has a younger brother who is actually named Lincoln.
Ward's confusion and sass are enjoyable in this episode. A little. Only a little. Like a smidge.
ALSO THE ONE-SHOT FIGHT!!!
Chloe deserves all the recognition for that fight scene, especially since she broke her arm during it.
“Either come with me now or you're next" "Okay, after you" Always listen to Melinda May.
Bobbi and Mack's happiness when the mission is a success is nice though.
MARIA I LOVE YOU
Episodes like this make me wish I had watched the show when it was live.
2x20 Scars
KEONIGS!!!!!!
Call your sister" sticky note, LT FORESHADOWING
Glad to know SHIELD was the "friends" mentioned in Age of Ultron. I guess that's the only time the movies ever mentioned the show.
Thank you Bobbi for defending Coulson
Also, like how Coulson was able to see some of the errors that 'Real SHIELD' was right about.
Skye staying with Lincoln is giving major Sousa staying with Daisy vibes.
I wonder if the man's son Raina talked about eventually did go through the mist. I mean, he must have if Raina saw it. I'm just wondering when.
Oh yeah, this is the episode that introduced the monolith, that damn thing.
Okay, but why did SHIELD decide to keep the monolith from Hydra instead of, you know, destroying it.
People always are harsh towards Skye for siding with the inhumans for a bit there and uses it as an excuse to hate on her, but the way May and Coulson are already taking about the inhumans, asking "are they people" could give Skye the impression of what they may view her as. They kinda throw away her connection to the people and not listen to her when she tries to explain why she trusts them. Honestly, Skye has no reason to trust SHIELD right now as they chased her through the woods not too long ago.
I don't agree with Skye throwing Bahrain at May like that as she knows the trauma May has with it, but people also use it as another excuse to hate on Skye. May was egging her on, telling her the inhumans were dangerous. Yes, they were scared of the monolith. Another example of no one listening to Skye. Again, I don't think Skye should have thrown that at May, but I don't exactly use it against her overall character when May and Coulson were putting all that onto Skye.
Here they go with the Indexing. This is the part I don't agree with Coulson one bit. Indexing those with powers is a violation, and the show itself shows why it's a bad thing during season 4 with the Sokovia Accords.
“I miss my plane" ME TOO
THE HULA GIRL😭
“One of the greatest threats SHIELD has ever faced" You mean the innocent people who want nothing to do with you? and not, you know, THE NAZI ORGANIZATION THAT WAS IN YOUR ORGANIZATION FOR THE LAST 70 YEARS!?!?
I'm always indecisive if Gonzalez going in instead of Coulson was a good idea. Coulson is too close to the situation with Skye, but Gonzalez's views of these people are all wrong.
That "May" and Bobbi leaving scene was way too quick that the signs weren't there and may for an interesting reveal.
And here's Mack's first attempt at quitting. Wait til he finds out he's Director in 2019.
Mack joined SHIELD in 2002 (13 years prior to 2015).
“My people would never blindly follow me into a war" Until you start one...
“It's me who's changed" THIS LINE HURTS SO BAD
“I think we've been spending too much time together"
And the confusion of two Mays begins.
FUCK YOU WARD
How did they even get the coordinates with Afterlife? It was because they were watching Gordon, right?
Fun fact for those who may not know, the actress who played Alisha (the multiplier), Alicia Vela-Bailey, is also the stunt double for Bobbi and her husband (I don't know his name) was the stunt double for Ward, so the fight between them in the finale is essentially a husband and wife fight.
“I was always excited to meet you" AWWWWW
I love May, she's my favorite after Daisy, but her totally disregarding the fact that Gonzalez did in fact send agents to contain and possibly kill Skye rubs me the wrong way. Does that count as gaslighting? Another reason Skye was more inclined to side with the inhuman than SHIELD.
“I hope your mother was everything you wanted her to be" always hits me, especially when Daisy brings it back in 7x10.
The turn with Jiaying almost feels sudden, but the episodes leading up have small clues. Also, she's right. Her scars from Hydra are much deeper and painful than Gonzalez's.
There's a certain type of feeling hearing Jiaying, a victim, quote Whitehall, her absuer. It's creepy, but you know shit is about to go down.
I see so many reactors and podcasters call Skye stupid for siding with the inhumans, but from her side, it looks like SHIELD shot at Jiaying. She had no way of knowing. Given SHIELD's record at this point, I'd probably have the same reaction.
2x21 S.O.S. Part 1
Lincoln's little slide to Jiaying is funny to me. I don't know why.
I'll never understand Jiaying's order for the inhumans to fire on themselves. That is literally getting your people hurt.
And now the blame for "SHIELD" hurting the inhumans is all put on Skye. Someone please just tell this girl that none of this is her fault.
And a SHIELD agent literally shot an inhuman right in front of Skye. People really need to stop saying Skye chose wrong. She has no reason to believe SHIELD.
OOOHH SHE DREW BLOOD FROM MELINDA MAY
Small Ruben Mackenzie mention
May waking up from being unconscious with Cal singing is so funny for no reason. She is just immediately like "WTF??"
Coulson is the only one considering that Skye doesn't have the full story and understands why she's acting the way she is.
And the true purpose of Jiaying's power is revealed, and it is quite terrifying.
To be fair, Skye chose based on how people have been treating her.
“Generosity of others" Not sure that guy was willing to give up his life.
Surprised Jiaying didn't have much of a reaction to hearing her daughter had been shot before. She was literally on the verge of death.
“When I find him, I'm going to kill him" Yes, please do, May.
As someone who hates needles, Ward putting those needles in Bobbi's fingers always makes me feel sick.
“It's her usefulness" Don't really like Skye's value being her use.
“There's always someone else to blame" And there's Ward's entire character arc cause he can never take responsibility for his own morals and actions.
Bye Bye Raina. You were a fun and interesting character.
Also, Jiaying, say bye to your daughter cause you just lost her trust.
This was the one time (I think) that Jiaying called her Daisy by her birth name in front of her.
Why Spain, Ward?
To be fair, Ward, May chose you, not Coulson.
The knee break always gets me😬
I've said it before, but Skye's family story is so sad I feel so sorry for all of them.
And here, we start the great Daisy and Mack friendship/sibling-ship that becomes one of my favorite platonic relationships in the whole show.
How many multiples can Alisha make at once? Cause she makes three right now.
Mack is such a badass I love him.
Monster Cal is hilarious.
This SHIELD team just loves to run their cars into people, don't they?
2x22 S.O.S. Part 2
That damn battering ram.
Poor Cal. He just wanted his family back together.
I'm about to theorize about Jiaying's power. We know she can drain life, but then season 7 comes around, and it is implied that she can give life to heal others. So basically, is Jiaying like a holder for life? Like a container? She can drain life, but she hangs onto it, causing her to not age, until she is needed to heal someone else? Just a thought.
“Just you and me, Tremors" MY HEART!!!!!
“Not the skills I'm looking for" Glad someone remembers Skye's root abilities.
Thank you, Lincoln, for finally questioning Jiaying's intentions.
Ginger Ninjas™
I know how this episode ends, but Hunter slowly opening doors still makes me nervous.
Kara, do you really think you can outsmart Melinda May?
BOBBI NOOOOOOOO
HAHAHAHA THAT'S YOUR FAULT WARD
It's always small moments of May's expression going really soft that really show you how much she cares about her team. I love that she shows her love for them through her actions, but these small moments are really nice too.
I wanna know more about specialists like May's medical ability as May seemed to tend to Bobbi on the way back to base. Obviously, I feel like CPR is must from all agents, but like, to what extent at Operations were they taught medical treatments?
“I just wanted to hear your voice" MAY AND ANDREW WERE SO SWEET😭
“Do good Melinda, then get home safe." UGGHHHH MY HEART
Bobbi and Hunter's relationship making everyone question their love lives.
Also, I feel for Jemma. I always felt like her wanting to talk to Fitz felt like she was forced to by herself. Like she felt like it was something she had to do since their friendship would never be the same, so might as well try the love thing out. That's just how I felt about it.
Jiaying is such a great character. I constantly feel sorry for what has happened to her and who she eventually became.
“I'm the guy who kills Gordon" YES
Never mind, Jiayings says "Daisy" to Daisy at least one more time.
No-Eyes™
“Hiya Honey"😀
I don't like Jiaying throwing that back at Cal. He is trying to protect Daisy. At this point, he's protecting her from you.
“Trust me, you will miss"
Skye really did hold her own really well against the Ginger Ninjas.
Jiaying actually is right in the situation, but, like she said in 7x10, she went about it all wrong. The inhumans did simply need protection cause the world wasn't ready for them.
First time watching, I knew the moment Jiaying put her hand on Skye's face what was going to happen.
Jiaying calling her children her true gifts, but then turning around and betraying her own daughter.😭
QUAKE THEME (yes, I will say it time everytime it's there)
“We're not bad, we're misled" Another reason they shouldn't need the Index.
That stabbing sound is a heart attack waiting to happen. Was actually scared for Fitz when I watched it the first time.
Also goodbye Coulson's Left Hand™
Again, Johnson Family story is just so sad and heartbreaking. Feel sorry for Daisy, Cal, and Jiaying for everything that has happened to them.
AOS Don't Kill Jiaying By Snapping Her Spine Challenge is clearly a fail.
Prints for Zephyr 1!
I wanna see Bobbi on morphine.
I want someone to watch over me the way SHIELD men watch over their loved ones when they're hurt.
What does Bobbi actually mean when she says "I can't do this anymore"
“Cutting off my hand without asking"
Was Mack being in charge of alien artifacts ever said again after the finale?
YES MAY! YOU TAKE THAT BIKINI WITH YOU! YOU ALSO DESERVE THIS BREAK!
Who had Andrew recruited for the Secret Warriors at this point? File seems big.
“I imagined you perfect, and you're way more interesting than that" Wish my parents thought the same thing about me. I'm just projecting now.
SHIELD should have adopted an agency dog from Cal's practice.
SHE'S DAISY SHE'S DAISY SHE'S DAISY SHE'S DAISY
I love her.
If it's just Daisy, how come the file is big and Andrew said he already had names.
Daisy is worthy of touching and DRIVING Lola!
AND WE'RE ABOUT TO MEET SOME GREAT INHUMANS LIKE JOEY AND ELENA!
BYE SIMMONS! HAVE FUN ON ANOTHER PLANET FOR 4,722 HOURS!
Would just like to mention, Seasons 4 and 7 might be the most enjoyable seasons for me to watch, but season 2 will always have a special place in my heart. Not just cause Daisy is my favorite character, but being Half-Asian myself, seeing a Half-Asian character like Daisy discover herself and really dive deep into her heritage is something that’s just so special to me. I could go on and on how Daisy has made me feel seen and made me want to connect more with my Filipino heritage, but there just aren’t enough words to describe it. Just wanted to leave this here about why I love season 2 so much.
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hypexion · 3 years ago
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Finally managed to watch the final season of Agents of Shield. Truly a time travel adventure worth waiting for, although I would have prefered to have seen it on actual TV and not “Disney Plus”.
It’s definitely a season that understands its finality, opting for a jaunt through SHEILD’s history with the not-so-subtle aim of getting some more fun references and bringing back old characters. Indeed, the first three seasons get a lot of love, with the return of John Garrett, Jiaying, and even the Malicks and their wacky squid cult. There’s also another Koenig, more Hydra, Shield and Chromicon agents than you can shake a time drive at, along with some guy from Agent Carter. (Also: fun alternate title sequences, including a fully fledged 70′s style sequence.)
Okay, Daniel Sousa isn’t just some guy, but as with all these big interconnected things, the whole “look it’s the guy“ bit doesn’t work if you don’t know who he is. However, the season does a lot to make sure he’s a fully realised character even if you don’t know the backstory. In fact, the whole Daniel/Daisy relationship subplot works pretty well, considering it had to fit into ten episodes between other things. You’d think adding in a new team member in the final season wouldn’t work, but it did. Sousa has his whole “out of time“ deal going on, but he’s also very ernestly good, even in the face of the wacky Agents of Shield problems. Like the time loop episode. Daisy says there’s a time loop and Sousa is like “well how are we fixing this“.
Really if I had to pick out a weak point for this season, it would be the villains. The Chromicons’ motivations are a bit weird, since you’d think with all this time travel and advanced technology they could do a better plan than “retgone Shield and take over the new timeline“. Also, even with all their fancy predictions, they basically lose constanty. Eventually, they have Natheniel Malick as an ally, who trades in his old fate for being Alveus bait to become a discount Mr. Sinister for Inhumans. And also a Quake knock-off. I think he lacks a certain menacing presence, and really he gets narratively side-lined by Kora, Daisy’s not technically evil half-sister. Kora herself mostly works, but her whole plotline would probably have benefitted from another episode or two of space, since she goes from “grr, Daisy and Shield bad“ to “actually I love my new sister“ pretty quickly. Her motivations are little shaky, but that does line up with how she clearly didn’t have long term plans that involved being alive at the point where she was introduced.
The rest of the team also continues to move forward. Coulson now has to deal with being a robot, May gets weird empathy powers, Yo-yo has to deal with her (newly introduced) Backstory Issues and Deke uses his time travel knowledge for good rather than self-enrichment. But also for self-enrichment. Also Mack’s parents die in the alternate timeline. Oof. As always, the cast has a lot of fun interactions, with a lot of different dynamics. Then Enoch dies again and this time it’s a lot more sad. It all leads up the very last “where are they now“ scene, where we see that everyone who survived got their happy ending. Yay!
Also there’s a Fitzsimmons baby! It seemed likely when Malick did the evil mind-meld, and became incredibly obvious in the final episode. Not much Fitz in this season incidentally, but it got an in-universe justification which is nice. Hooray for the dorks in love. Best ship, OTP and all that.
All in all, Agents of Shield is still probably the best live-action superhero show I’ve watched. I like the characters (even Deke), I like the stories, and honestly I like how it became its own thing detached from the MCU. Season seven provides a cool conclusion to the show, with a happy ending that the characters earned.
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lokigodofaces · 3 years ago
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list of variants/timelines i want to believe exist (and probably canonically do now)
this got long so i'm putting in a cut
a world where all of the events that happened in the Framework are real
bonus if the Framework world has their own version of the Framework that is like the real world in aos
Steve fell off the train, not Bucky. bc of the crap Zola did to Bucky, he survives in ice and well, and everything happens the same but Steve and Bucky's roles are reversed
Coulson doesn't bother to keep it a secret that he's alive, and the mcu is mainly just aos but with all the main characters as well (in other words, there's mainly good writing)
also in that world Steve and Bucky love Lola
Steve doesn't go back in time to live with Peggy
to all the people claiming aos isn't canon: Sylvie just made everything canon y'all. aos absolutely happened, and while i will argue that it happened in the main timeline, if you don't want to believe that it still happened in a timeline
Bucky didn't remember Steve soon enough, not until he killed Steve
Steve killed the Winter Soldier and didn't know who it was until he removed the mask
Hydra didn't hunt down Jiaying and by extent Daisy, so Daisy was raised by Jiaying and Cal who are not crazy bc they didn't have the same experiences they did in the main timeline
Thor never takes the others to Jotunheim, so Loki never learns he is Jotun
Fitz didn't survive almost drowning
Ward wasn't recruited by Garrett, but by literally any non-Hydra agent so he is a good guy
Coulson and May listened to the agent telling them to not send May in at Bahrain, heaven knows what happens there
the government gives the Avengers more than a week to go through the Accords, so they all get to the enhanced-people-have-to-wear-trackers, giant-underwater-prison, enhanced-operatives-can't-investigate-politicians, no-trial-for-enhanced, no-investigation-for-enhanced, etc sections so they all decide to not sign and just don't care what the government says
this is random, but i feel like Bucky as Ghost Rider would be a cool aesthetic.
the Avengers meet Robbie bc he keeps assassinating their targets bc they're targets of Ghost Rider's
Daisy dies instead of Lincoln
Daisy kills Lash before he can save her
Loki never "dies," so he is sent back to Asgardian prison after tdw
Radcliffe never reads the Darkhold, he just gave it to AIDA, so most of s4 doesn't happen
Dreykov comes after Natasha between Avengers and CACW, leading to the Avengers beating his *ss (like Yelena said, the god from space doesn't need an ibuprofen after a fight)
everything's the same but no Joss Whedon going on and on about Natasha not being able to have kids
whatever ship scenario you have is canon now
Loki gets all panicky after the Hulk beats him to a pulp, having now realized what he's done. Thor believes him, and this leads to Thanos being killed in 2012-13
Deadpool sits in the back of everything, shouting comments like "Yay! Superhero landing! But don't do that, it's bad for your knees!"
Peter Parker's parents never die
the Cavalry is an Avenger
Yondu brings Peter Quill to Ego, causing the universe's destruction
Gamora and Nebula get along their entire lives
Gamora and Nebula switch roles (Gamora becomes the cyborg, Nebula the guardian and Thanos's favorite daughter)
Heimdall actually bothers to look for Loki, seeing if they can find his body for a funeral, to find that he is being tortured by Thanos. Odin refuses to send anyone to save him, making Thor realize just how awful he is. Thor, Sif, and Warriors 3 go with the help of Heimdall to save Loki
Odin and Frigga are actually good parents, creating the most iconic trio ever
tw suicide for the next bullet point
Bucky commits suicide between TWS and CACW (Sebastian said in an interview once that Bucky was suicidal)
Loki keeps coming back as DB Cooper for fun or bc he keeps losing bets
the Eternals did interfere
the shrapnel kills Tony
this one thing i made about Mr Rogers adopting Loki
Robbie is part of the Avengers in 2012, but when he sees Loki he immediately says that Loki isn't the issue and goes off to fight Thanos single handedly (and wins)
for whatever reason Coulson and May do legally adopt all the Bus Kids
Hunter and Bobbi both go to break Fitz out of prison, and they stick around for the rest of the season
Fitz and Jemma never meet (saddest of sad days)
Loki for some reason is in FFH and he sees Mysterio's illusions and just laughs bc he's such an amateur
everything's the same, everyone's just obsessed with classical music and it's constantly playing so i get happy watching it
Asgardians are like the elves in LOTR (books, not the movies), so they're constantly singing and dancing and all
Loki is shown playing a Norse flute-like instrument (we know they exist, we've found them, they're different than your typical flute and we don't really know how they sound but i want Loki to be a flautist and no i'm not not projecting (note the double negative) and yes i headcanon Loki to be a flautist i don't care what anyone says)
everyone gets therapy
someone (Monica or Jimmy) hits Hayward on the head, knocking him out (the same way Gandalf knocked out Denethor in ROTK when Denethor told everyone to flee) and the rest of SWORD works with them because clearly Hayward has issues
Stephen commits to not texting and driving
somehow Luis becomes He Who Remains just for one timeline so the entire story is told like how he tells his flashbacks
Coulson doesn't help Fury and Carol escape
T'Challa does not survive and M'Baku becomes Black Panther
the suit in Iron Man 3 is not garbage the entire movie
Tony doesn't find a way to save himself in time
Ross dies in Incredible Hulk
Loki has a pet flerken he just always carries around
by the same logic, Bucky has a kitten he meets between TWS and CACW that he always carries around. said kitten attacks people when they attack Bucky
Bucky becomes Captain America instead of Sam
when Thor goes back to 2013 Asgard, he drags Loki with him back to 2023
Clint tests the time travel by going to Sokovia and drags Pietro back with him
Steve comes back an old man, but they use Bruce's attempt at time travel to turn him back into the 30 something Steve he was
literally anything happens other than Thanos killing Loki bc Loki only used knives when he isn't even tall enough to reach Thanos's neck
Sam and Bucky straight up kill Walker
Daisy never goes through terrigenesis
Loki somehow ends up a tutor for Daisy
Bucky joins the aos team after they find him on the run from Hydra
Bucky plays baritone saxophone bc bari saxes are awesome and it adds nothing to the plot but he spends at least half an hour in each movie playing bari sax
everything's the same but John Williams is the composer
S.H.I.E.L.D. uses GH-325 to revive a bunch of composers (Mozart, Dvorak, Beethoven, Bach, Bizet, Holst, y'know, all my guys) because they for whatever reason have their bodies because of some wack mission. and now they have a bunch of classical composers alive who insist on writing more music. and what are you going to do, tell Bach to stop composing?
by that same logic, someone working at the Guest House decides to steal Freddie Mercury's body so that they can revive him bc he just loves Queen that much
Thor realizes how awful Odin is and makes it his goal to get revenge for what Odin did to his little brother
Thor meets a bunch of Loki variants (most notably gator Loki) and just decides to stop questioning anything ever
Mobius teaches Loki how to ride a jet ski
Loki arrives at S.H.I.E.L.D. and informs everyone he wants to go to school and learn about politics and run for president and S.H.I.E.L.D. is like "okay whatever just don't tell anyone you're a literal god" but have no way to stop Loki from telling anyone
y'know the "shot heard 'round the world" thing from the Battle of Lexington (first battle in American revolution, if you don't know what it is, we have no clue who made the first shot & both sides were telling their troops to not fire. once that shot was fired the battle broke out)? yeah well that was Loki i'm pretty sure
Loki comes to Earth and becomes an Avenger and all but only ever introduces himself as DB Cooper. Thor doesn't ever come to Earth, so everyone just thinks DB Cooper found the secret to not age and just showed up to save people. he disappears for stretches of time & everyone stops being confused bc he was in hiding for decades of course no one's gonna find him (he is actually on Asgard)
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javajunkieao3 · 4 years ago
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Daisy/Daniel Fic
Daniel learns about Jiaying and her connection to Daisy.
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Daniel heard them first. Raised voices, one belonging to Daisy and the other Simmons. Last Daniel knew, Daisy had still been unconscious, and despite the circumstances prompting the raised voices, he felt a rush of relief. At least she was feeling well enough to yell. 
“I have to go after them! You know what happened last time SHIELD agents went there.”
“You are in no state to go anywhere,” Simmons said, her voice stern. “And besides, we’re here before. It’s safe.”
There was a pause, and Daisy said, “Before? You mean-”
“Yes. It’s before Whitehall.”
There was another long pause, and Simmons said, “You can’t see her, Daisy.”
“I wouldn't tell her who I was,” Daisy said, her words coming out hurried. He could feel an urgency behind the words that he didn’t understand. “I would just say I was with May and Yoyo.”
“Do you really think she wouldn’t see through that? Daisy-”
“What year is it? Am I even born yet?”
“It’s too risky. And besides, you can barely stand on your own right now. How do you plan to get yourself to Jiaying?”
Daniel recognized that name. Jiaying. It was the same name that Daisy had been mumbling after Malick experimented on her. And then he remembered what else she had said. About it not being the first time that happened.
Daniel felt someone’s presence behind him, and he turned around to see Mack approaching. The Director gave him a slight nod as he passed, his voice booming a few moments later, “What the hell is going on in here?”
“I know where we are,” Daisy said. “I’m going to see Jiaying.”
“Daisy, that isn’t an option,” Mack said.
“May and Yoyo went.” “Yes, but May and Yoyo aren’t her daughter. You cannot see her, Daisy. That’s an order.”
Daniel heard the sound of something crashing to the floor and then Daisy strode past him, a blur of blonde hair as she headed back toward the living quarters. He hesitated before following, wanting to give her distance but also inexplicably drawn to her. It was as if their time in the barn had bonded him to her in some manner, and he couldn’t be settled himself until he made she that she was alright.
She had closed her door with force and when he knocked on the door, she angrily returned, “Not now, Mack.”
Daniel cleared his throat and said, “It’s not Mack. It’s Daniel, actually.”
He heard movement behind the door and then she opened it, looking up at him with red-rimmed eyes.
“I just wanted to make sure you were okay.”
“I’m fine,” she snapped, her voice softening when she tacked on, “Thanks, though.”
“Yeah, of course.”
He could tell that she wanted to be alone, but he found himself rooted in place. Maybe it was because he was concerned that she would still try to see Jiaying against Mack’s orders. Or maybe the simple fact that it was comforting to see her up and alive - even if she was royally pissed off.
Neither spoke for a moment until Daisy said, “Um, do you want to come in?”
Daniel was surprised by her offer and his first instinct was that it wasn’t proper, but then he remembered they weren’t in the 1950s anymore. And besides, what was propriety even on a time traveling spaceship? So, he nodded and stepped past Daisy into her room. She closed the door behind her, leaving them alone in the room. Daniel looked around, taking in the ordered chaos that seemed perfectly in line with the room’s inhabitant.
“Hey, I wanted to say thanks, by the way,” Daisy said. He turned to face her and she added, “You know, for before.”
“There’s no reason to thank me. I’m sure you would have done the same.”
Daisy nodded. “Sure. I heard Malick brought a house down on himself?”
“Yeah, he did.”
“Good. I only wish I was the one who brought it down on him.”
“You and me, both,” Daniel said in a low voice. He thought about what he heard in the medical ward, and after a moment said, “You don’t have to answer this, but in the barn when you were saying it had happened before, you were talking about your mother, weren’t you?”
Daisy looked surprised initially, but then said, “I’m guessing Simmons and I were yelling pretty loudly?”
“It wasn’t exactly a private conversation.”
Daisy sat down on her bed, tucking her knees into her chest. She was quiet for a moment before she began to talk. She explained how her mother had powers, like her, and Whitehall experimented on her. Daniel sat next to her, listening quietly as Daisy recounted her father putting her mother back together from scraps, and the irreparable damage that followed. Throughout it all, she spoke in a measured voice, almost like she was recounting someone else’s history rather than her own. When she was finished, Daniel said, “I’m so sorry.”
“And she’s out there. Right now. She’s out there before Whitehall got to her, and I can’t do anything. And I know they’re right. I can’t see her, it’s too risky. But-” her voice cracked, and she cleared her throat before thickly saying, “It doesn’t stop me from wanting to.”
Daniel noticed that the bandage on her inner arm was blood-stained again and without hesitation, he took a hold of her arm to have a better look. Daisy looked down and said, “Shit. It must be from where I tore my IV out.”
“Do you need Simmons to look at it?”
Daisy took a deep breath. “Don't worry. She’ll find us.”
Daniel looked at her in confusion and then there was a knock on the door, Simmons coming in a moment later and saying in a terse voice, “Daisy, I know that you’re upset, but you are stillmy patient and right now you need to be back in the medical ward so that I can monitor your condition.”
“Okay.”
Simmons was clearly surprised that Daisy agreed so easily, and after a bit of recovery, she said, “Okay. Good.”
Daisy stood with some difficulty, Daniel helping her along the way. He offered to assist her back to the medical ward, but she said, “I’m okay. Really.”
He could tell from the careful way she moved that she was not, in fact, okay, but he only nodded in response, choosing not to correct her. Instead, he watched her and Simmons walk back to the medical ward, thinking that her stubbornness was reminiscent of someone else he used to know. Although, that was where the comparison ended. In truth, Daisy Johnson was unlike anyone he had ever met.
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kingaofthewoods · 4 years ago
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I'm trying to puzzle out what was Fitzsimmons' original plan for the mission. In the recorded message for Fitz in 7x08 Simmons mentioned that the mission hadn't exactly gone as planned, and Fitz was surprised by the fact that Jiaying was dead and that Kora was with Nathaniel. I'm guessing that the time stream does not do very well with human emotions and unpredictability. Fitz wouldn't have been able to predict it any better than Sybil could.
Bear in mind that it's all wild speculation with my shipper goggles firmly on, but I'm gonna go on a themed tangent here and suggest that Fitz did not take into account that Daisy and Sousa would hit it off.
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There are two points of divergence from Fitz's plan that I can see. First, according to Simmons, the mission hadn't gone exactly as planned as early as 7x06, when the time drive started malfunctioning. Maybe it was because the ship was never hit, and it was never hit because Mack never made the call to abort the mission to flood the Lighthouse. And that was done either because the Chronicoms didn't know to abduct his parents, or the timeline of Daisy's hacking the security system was different. Now, why wouldn't the Chronicoms know not to abduct Mack's parents? 
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What if Sousa didn't do the fake fiance act, didn't rescue Daisy from Gideon Malick's creepy come ons, didn't follow her into Freddy's windowless office, didn't steal the gun, and Daisy didn't have it to use it on Nathaniel? They would have had to defuse the situation a bit differently, maybe with Quake powers, which would ensure Nathaniel's fascination with Daisy's Inhuman abilities, but would not give the Chronicoms the idea to use loved ones as insurance. Or, alternatively, Sousa either would not go with Daisy on her mission, or (more probably) he would, but they wouldn't waste so much time flirting over cell phones and Daisy comforting him over his time-displacement. Daisy would work quicker on her hacking, be able to unlock the checkpoint quicker, let May and Coulson advance on the mission before Nathaniel caught on, and Mack maybe wouldn't have the time to see his parents on the screens before the mission was complete. The base would be flooded, the Chronicom ship destroyed, the Zephyr would not be hit by the missiles, there would be no time loops.
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What would still happen: Nathaniel would gain his powers, Daisy would survive (with or without Sousa, because I believe Nathaniel would not have touched her more than he already did because he already got her powers. She would have eventually recovered enough to rescue herself, or else Mack and the others would have found her, because Coulson would still be around, and Mack would not be traumatized), and Sybil would have still restored herself and reached out to Nathaniel to form an alliance.
I believe the time drive jumped to the eighties because it was programmed to do it, to jump to a time when the coded transmission was supposed to go out, to when all the 0-8-4s were supposed to converge in the speakeasy. Mack and Deke's year in the eighties was not necessary to the overall plot, but the Zephyr would have stopped in the eighties regardless, if not only for this exact purpose.
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The second part of divergence is Jiaying's death. The part about Afterlife is tricky. Would Yo-yo not being able to use her powers be enough for them to venture into Afterlife, if the time drive was not malfunctioning? Perhaps, knowing the plan, Simmons would suggest it, or perhaps Daisy, knowing that Nathaniel was out there, would bring it up, and the events at Afterlife would play out as they did. Nathaniel would save Kora and attack the rest of the Inhumans. Jiaying would be brought to the team, but Daisy would stay well away, as Sousa would have no business suggesting that she talk to her, and she wouldn't trust him enough to have her back during that difficult conversation. Nathaniel and Garrett would still come for Simmons, but Daisy would not be with Jiaying when May called her, so she would probably stumble on Nathaniel on her way to her mother, but without her to witness the confrontation. Jiaying would not learn that Daisy was her daughter, would not die protecting her. Nathaniel would probably taunt Daisy about having a sister (to advance whatever plan they cooked up with Sybil involving Kora and her 'I wanna be an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. bullshit), May would still interrupt the quake-off, Nathaniel would make off with Garrett, Simmons, Deke and the Zephyr (and, assuming he had not died in the nonexistent time loops, Enoch).
Coulson would bring Kora to speak with Daisy, but Jiaying would be alive, a new drama would unfold, eventually Kora, Daisy and Jiaying would bond, as Fitz predicted, perhaps Kora would be used as an insider to retrieve Simmons? Why was Jiaying pivotal? Perhaps their combined powers would be needed to fight Nathaniel. I'm unclear on the plan here. Any ideas?
I'm also unsure if Enoch was supposed to have died: Fitz was surprised that he had told Daisy about the future, but was not surprised that he wasn't there. Perhaps Enoch was supposed to have died protecting Jemma on the Zephyr when Nathaniel got her? Without ever revealing the future to Daisy and Coulson? Perhaps that's why he was programmed to kill if anyone tried to remove the implant?
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In any case, with Nathaniel (and maybe the Chronicoms) gone, the team could jump through the quantum bridge. I feel like Sousa would volunteer to stay, to help restore S.H.I.E.L.D., perhaps become the next Director (he would have been the perfect candidate, really), because Fitz was completely unsurprised when he suggested it. Fitz was, however, 'whot the helling' quite a bit when Deke interrupted and offered to stay himself. I feel like Deke would not have volunteered to stay if 1) he did not experience the eighties, and 2) if he did not want to play the hero and have Daisy be happy with Sousa.
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Alternatively, it's possible that Fitz predicted that Sousa would be into Daisy, would help her, save her from both Malicks and stay on the Zephyr for her, but did not predict that Daisy would fall for Sousa in return. He did not take into account that she would flirt with him, possibly causing the time drive malfunction and the time loops, fall for him harder, hard enough that she would listen to him when he suggested she talk to Jiaying. Even if the time drive was always supposed to malfunction, but Simmons didn't know it (maybe because the implant wasn't properly fixed after the EMP), without falling for Sousa, Daisy would not have talked to Jiaying, and Jiaying would not have died protecting her. Without her death hanging between them, Daisy would have bonded with Kora, and it all would have happened according to Fitz's predictions.
Instead, Daisy and Sousa fell in love and threw a massive wrench in the meticulously planned outcome. I find this delightful.
What do you guys think?
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TL;DR, my personal headcanon is: Dousy was such a wild card that even the time stream did not predict it.
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hecckyeah · 4 years ago
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After 7x09 and 7x10 I feel like they're definitely setting up Daisysous to be endgame, but then I'm also very aware that there are only 3 episodes left to wrap everything up (and also, a huge chunk of that time needs to be devoted to Fitz!)...what do you think will happen in the next episode, do you think there'll be time for any one-to-ones/heart-to-hearts with Daisy and Sousa, or do you think it will be mainly action/plot-focussed from now on? I really want them to have another 'first kiss'!
Hey Anon!
Uh yeap, you and me both. I was already swooning over their convos in 7x10, I think I would physically combust if they gave us another first kiss 😭🤯
As far as what's happening next ep, I'm not sure how to gauge it yet! Last week my expectations were super low. I figured since they blessed us beyond belief in 7x09, that this week would have for sure less Sousa, and probably not another heart to heart or anything. BUT I admit I was very wrong. And I'm not mad about that 😂
What I will say, though, is that Daisy right now is hell-bent on revenge. I think realistically, heart eyes and mushy conversations are the furthest thing from her mind.
On the other hand, she is about to run into about a thousand brick walls at once. This will be Sousa's time to shine as he fights beside her to hopefully take down Nathaniel. Sousa has quite a few bones to pick with the guy too, and I know he will do whatever he can to support not only Daisy but the whole team. He watched Jemma be taken right in front of his eyes, helpless to stop it. Once he hears what happened to Jiaying, he's going to be on the warpath right alongside Daisy. He seems really close to the team already, I know he's going to throw himself headfirst into the fight, however he can.
(Sidenote: Has Sousa adopted the team, or has the team adopted him...? It feels like both 😂)
I've said for my season 7 wishlist, I want a Will-and-Elizabeth in PotC type of scene where Dousy are in the middle of a battle and also in the middle of a desperate kiss. But ya know, I'm keeping my expectations low. Still trying to manifest it or whatever, though 😂
More realistically, I think we'll get another kiss and/or heart-to-heart "for luck" either before Daisy flings herself straight into the Zephyr to tear Nathaniel apart atom by atom, and Sousa just watches, stunned and in awe. OR, probably after the fight as they find each other again and they have a really sweet we did it, thank God you're alive scene, in which I would be a sobbing puddle of tears and happiness.
I've set my bar higher now, as far as how much the writers can deliver in a short time. And yes, we will need a ton of time for Fitz (my boy is coming back!!!!), but that doesn't mean there can't be more Dousy scenes, once Daisy is actually emotionally capable of processing anything other than revenge and anger. They're 100% endgame at the point. I will accept absolutely nothing less.
3 episodes is long enough in AoS time, to make a huge dent in anything they want to show. I have faith (not complete trust, but a good amount of faith) in the writers and their skills, and I know they love Dousy as much as we do. Thank goodness they only have 3 hours to torture Dousy if they feel the need to, and not 6 seasons like they did with Fitzsimmons 😭
I'm hoping for a really nice ending montage where Daisy and Sousa ride off into the sunset, but I know it might be more complicated.
But keep your hopes up, expectations decently low, and cross your fingers! Dousy is my ride or die, and even if (by some stroke of evil that I will never forgive) they don't make it, there will always be 7x06, 7x09, 7x10, and all the fanfiction you can hope for 😄
But I'm not worried about them! We've been blessed before, we'll be blessed again! They literally wrote Sousa into the show FOR DAISY. The one and ONLY concern I have is if Daisy would decide to go back to Afterlife to rebuild it and lead there. And I've also been predicting Sousa will take over as Director of Shield in the end. But even then, like I said in another ask, I can NOT see Daisy leaving shield forever. I think if she starts up Afterlife, she'll split her time between there and helping Sousa run Shield. So I'm not too worried about that either!
....Oof, I really have to shorten my answers 😂 Thanks Anon, and don't give up hope for our very favorite crack-ship yet, LOL
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adangerousbond · 4 years ago
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Home is where the plane is
Honestly no idea what this even is, nearly 5K of Daisy and Daniel just cause?
Wrote this out in an afternoon and haven't really gone over it, so may have some errors.
Enjoy!
Read below or at ff.net or AO3
A sharp knock on her bunk door drew Daisy out of her ravine, from the constant time looping to the way in which they had been able to break it had drained her physically, but even more so mentally. Once the others had been debriefed, more by Coulson than herself, she had slunk out for some peace, Enoch's words still screaming at the back of her mind.
"Yeah," Daisy answered evenly, unsurprised when the door opened, and Sousa entered.
"Just wanted to check in on you," he explained, taking in her quiet demeanour as she sat on the edge of her bed, legs drawn in close to her chest.
"Of-course you did," she shook her head, catching sight at his furrowed brow to her words, "it's just very time-loopy of you, well I guess, very you of you."
"I'm sorry about Enoch," he brushed past her odd comment, sitting alongside her in quiet comradely.
"He said this is the teams last mission together," she spoke after a few minutes, stretching her legs out as she turned her head slightly towards him, a sadness to her expression as she continued, "that we'll survive but the team won't."
"What do you think he meant by that?" he watched her closer as he questioned her statement, pushing aside the desire to pull her close and hold her tightly, he knew that it was not his place, not yet anyway.
"I, I don't know, maybe something happens, maybe SHIELD is different and doesn't let us stay a team, or maybe we change something and we don't even know each other when we get back to our time," the scenarios that had been running through her mind spilled out, her concern at the options evident as she fidgeted.
"This team is closer than most families, I'm sure whatever happens, you'll still have each-others backs," he told her optimistically, neither really had any idea what type of future they would go back to, especially not someone who had ever been there.
"They're the only family I've ever had, this plane, it's the only home I've had, I don't know how to give that up," her words breaking the little self-control he had, as he reached a hand across to hers, her fidgeting stopping instantly.
"They'll still be your family even if the team doesn't do anymore missions together," he tried to reassure her, stroking her hand with his thumb as he filed away the little bits of information she had let slip out amongst her statements.
Staring straight ahead, she could feel his eyes on her, watching, making sure that she was okay, as always. Maybe it was watching her friends die over and over, or watching her friend die for real, but it gave her a need to live in the moment more than she usually would, to take a risk she wouldn't normally – sure she had acted more freely in the time loop, but she knew that would reset and he wouldn't remember. There had been a type of power in that, that she could see how he would react, how she would feel, when she questioned him, all while knowing and receiving the same response, a power that allowed her to be more open with him than normal.
Turning to him, she saw the question in his silence as she leant toward him, her hands reaching his collar as she chastely kissed him, drawing back almost instantly to give him a chance to take her move in, after all he didn't have memories of their loop conversations like she did. The surprise in his eyes turning to hunger just as quick as the time before, as he pulled her closer to him, hands already on her waist before she had realised he had even moved them, initiating a second, deeper kiss, one that wasn't bound by the same time restraints as in the loop.
"Probably fair to tell you that that happened in the time loop," she told him as they paused for moment, "only once, that I remember anyway."
"Anything else that happen that I should know about?" he chuckled, his wrist resting on her should as he played with the hair he had messed with his hand.
"You died, but we all pretty much did a number of times," she threw out nonchalantly, the memory still fresh in her mind, along with the memory of him once again sleeping at her side in the reset; alive and well.
Using the hand still on his collar, she practically dragged him back onto her bed, his hands slipping under her black top, leaving a trail of fire on her skin at the contact, the new position allowing them to sink deeper into the kiss. He pulled away slightly, to her annoyance, until she felt his lips on her neck, the shift in focus giving her a chance to work on undoing the buttons on the blue shirt she had spent a little to long in the loops appreciating.
They both jumped at the sound of May's voice coming through the ship's speakers, requesting everyone's attendance to a team meeting, Daniel straightening up so quickly that Daisy couldn't help but smile. -----------------------------------------------------------
"We didn't interrupt anything did we?" May asked with her usual even tone, as they entered the lab, the glint in her eye gaining her a glare in return from woman in question.
"What's going on? Daisy asked, brushing past the question as she looked around for the next issue at hand as she stopped alongside the labs bright table, "what time are we in now?"
"We look to be just a couple months from when we last jumped," Simmons spoke up, a tablet in hand ready to show her workings should anyone want further information on her statement.
"Which means that we…" Yo-Yo trailed off, glancing to May for help in explaining the situation.
"Which means what?" Daisy questioned, glancing between the two women that seemed to be at the forefront of her summoning's, "what are you all not saying?"
"I promised Jiaying that we would help with Nathaniel and Kora," May informed her, the older agent spoke in no major hurry to elaborate.
"Obviously, we would, clearly he has teamed up with Sybil," Daisy pushed in an annoyed tone, wishing that they would be more direct with her, but also apprehensive of where the topic was going, a slight glance to Sousa who was standing quietly next to her told her that he was unsure as well.
"It's just that to do that, she'll have to come onto the Zephyr," everyone's attention turning on Daisy the moment May got to the point, watching, waiting for what her reaction would be.
"Can't you just meet up with her on the ground? Or on the quin jet?" Daisy questioned, the unease at the idea bristling under her skin.
"We've already given them the co-ordinates," Mack spoke evenly, his tone and crossed arms leaving no room for further discussions on the topic.
"So, this isn't you guys asking me, this is you telling me," Daisy stated, her tone level and cold, gaining her a hint of surprise or concern, or something else that she couldn't quite pinpoint from the man still standing a fraction to close to her side.
"If there was any other way, but we just can't risk it, I don't have to tell you want happens if she dies," Coulson explained with a bit more tact.
"I won't be born," the young agent sighed, knowing it wasn't a fight she was going to win.
"That's not a risk I am willing to take," Coulson stated warmly, his head half-cocked with a small smile as he attempted to bring her on board with the plan.
"Bringing her on here could risk that still," Daisy countered, raising her eyebrow as she stared him down.
"The chances are better this way though," Simmons spoke up as she continued playing with the screen in front of her, "they've just arrived."
"We'll go get them," May stated, nodding for Yo-Yo to follow, figuring some familiar faces would help the situation.
"You guys really couldn't give me more warning?" Daisy asked, crossing her arms as she leant forward to talk in a quieter tone.
"They were worried you would talk them out of it," Deke told her before he realised what he was saying, his eyes going wide when he backtracked in his mind.
"Deke," Simmons exclaimed, glaring her grandson down before putting on her fake, supposedly calming smile and turned back to her friend, "we didn't have the time too."
"You only had, what, two minutes to tell me, was five too much to ask for?" Daisy hissed back, her words lacking any real anger as she had already accepted what was happening, not that she got much of a choice, as she uncrossed her arms to lean on the lap table instead.
"Play nice," her best friend shot back with a laugh, glancing up towards the door to watch their incoming arrivals, clocking the way that Sousa placed a gentle hand on the Daisy's arm in comfort.
"And this is the team," Yo-Yo explained, catching the unease in the air as they joined back with the group and hoping their companions would not.
"Hi, Jemma Simmons," Simmons jumped to greet the guests, her politeness pushing aside any of the room's bad energy, "and this is Deke."
"That's Mack, Phil Coulson, Daniel Sousa, and –" May continued the introductions, hesitating for a moment, realising there could be an issue with giving out the final member of the teams name to the past version of her mother.
"And I'm Skye Sousa," Daisy smiled politely, using the first thing that came to mind, the team's eyes flying to her and the man she had just roped into a marriage with her; his closeness to her and his hand on her arm playing into it enough that her statement wouldn't be questioned from the apparent strangers.
"Thank-you all for this, we were starting to worry we might not hear from you again," Jiaying told them, unfazed by the team's demeanours as she got to business instead, "but from the look on all your faces, you have had your own worries to deal with."
"You could say that," Simmons responded, nodding at her words, "but we did honestly come as quick as we could."
"Where exactly did you come from?" Gordon pressed further, unhappy with the lack of information being shared.
"It's a long story," Mack stated firmly, putting an end to the questioning.
"I've seen a lot in my time, but nothing like this plane," Jiaying moved on, understanding the tone of the room as she looked around it, her eyes settling on the younger woman across from her, "Skye, you have powers as well?"
"Yeah," Daisy drew her answer out hesitantly, making no move to demonstrate.
"Your friend was very tight lipped about where she got her's from, but you, there's something about them, you got through a diviner and a Cree temple didn't you?" Jiaying getting to the outcome quicker than the team liked, especially the one in question.
"Not by choice, but yes," Daisy responded honestly, trying to keep the bite from her tone as she instead tried to focus on the reassuring lines that Daniel's thumb was drawing on her arm.
"That has not been done in a very long time, it must have been very difficult to locate, how did you manage it?" Jiaying exclaimed, genuine interest and amazement blocking her concern for the tone to the responses she was gaining.
"It's complicated," Daisy stated coldly, bringing a silence over the room, and ending the questioning.
"Right, so we have been trying to locate either Kora or Nathaniel but not having much luck, any ideas where she might have gone to lay low?" Simmons switched the subject quickly, giving her friend a gentle smile.
"No, but I also never knew she would turn to the dark side so easily, I have spent her whole life trying to protect her," Jiaying responded, accepting the change with a polite ease.
"Maybe she needed to be taught to control her power not to fear it," Daisy stated evenly, knowing first-hand what it could do to you when the thing you feared was yourself.
"I tried, but everyone else was getting more and more afraid of her, which made her worse," her mother reasoned, the care and concern in her voice just working to anger Daisy further.
"Did you ever think about taking her away from Afterlife?" May cut in before a response could be voiced, a firm stare given towards the younger agent.
"Many times, but as I'm sure you all would know, people are either afraid of us or want to use us as weapons," Jiaying spoke sadly, she might not yet have been fully against everyone not powered, but for the team that knew her future they could sense the anger and hatred under there even now.
"Well we were designed to be weapons," Daisy stated casually, catching the eye of the man next to her, knowing he was paying close attention to the whole conversation and remembering he knew very little about any of the inhuman stuff.
"Some powers are more dangerous than others, but it is a gift, not a curse," the un-aging woman's sentence coming out as if she had said it a million times.
"That doesn't change the fact we were literally meant to be used for weapons, even your powers, they might seem harmless enough, but you can drain the life out of people," Daisy informed her matter-of-factly, she had after all felt those powers first hand but she knew it best to leave that particular part out.
"How do you know that?" her mother's tone went dark for a moment, the knowledge of what she could do troubling her, before she regrouped herself and continued, "regardless, that's not the belief that we choose at Afterlife."
"It's not a belief, it's just a fact," Daisy shrugged, turning to her team for support.
"She's right, the Cree who created the mutation in the first place told us," Coulson backed her up.
"You've met the ones that started this all?" Jiaying questioned, her interest peaked at the new information.
"Along with the monster meant to lead us to battle," Simmons shuddered at the memories, her tone enough to drop any further questions from their guests.
"Even if that is what we were first meant for, it's up to us to decide what it means now," Jiaying fell back to her almost cult sounding words.
"And that's not always the right choice," Daisy fired back.
"Alright, how about we all get some rest, I think we all need it," Simmons put a stop to the conversation at hand, deciding it best before something was said that might trip them all up, "May, if you could be so kind as to show our guests to their rooms."
Watching them leave, Daisy moved towards a closed laptop nearby, waving off Sousa as she did, she needed a moment to herself, to process and the best way she knew how was to hack. She could feel her best friend watching her closely, a warmth to her mothering that she couldn't help but wonder if she would feel once the mission was done and Enoch's truth came to light.
"That means everyone," Simmons scolded her with a soft smile.
"I'm just going to run through some of the cities networks, see if I can get into any," Daisy explained, returning her smile, "and then I promise to leave." -------------------------------------
Opening her bunks door, Daisy stilled for a moment at the sight of Daniel lying on her bed, flicking through some files he must have come across somewhere. His eyes catching hers as she entered, and she held back a head shake at the fact he was once again, always there.
"Mack told me to stay here, you know, to keep up your lie about us being married," he explained his presence, watching her carefully, not fully sure where they stood with each other right now.
"Right, sorry about that, I didn't think she should know my real name, and I didn't know what else to say," Daisy rambled her excuse off, smirking at him as she lowered herself down next to him, "though, really you started it by telling Gideon you were my fiancé like a decade ago."
"That would be a very long engagement," Daniel agreed with her reasoning, eyes narrowing as he asked the question that had been bugging him the most, "why Skye?"
"I went by that for a long time, I didn't know my real name and the orphanage gave me a terrible one, so I made my own," she told him after a moment, quieter than she had been and pulling her legs to her chest as she spoke.
"It's a nice name," his words kind as he focused on the positive, knowing she had gone through too much the last few days to want to delve into the rest of her statement.
Humming in response, she stared at the files he had been reading, her mind to busy to be able to focus on them, but after a few moments of silence, she turned away. Taking the hint, he went back to his reading, far from wanting to push her into anything and just thankful she seemed willing to let him stay, willing to let him be there for her and part of him wondered just what they had discussed in the time loops; at the very least, what had made her kiss him, not that he was complaining.
"The last time I saw her, my father killed her because she was trying to kill me," Daisy broke her own silence, the words coming out before she had decided if she was ready to share them, "she wanted to kill a lot of people and thought I would help her."
"That's horrible," he placed the files on the bedside table and reached for her hand, her fingers wrapping around his slowly as if she wasn't quite convinced that she should reach out to him.
"She had a lot of terrible stuff done to her, and I've always tried to convince myself that that excuse was enough, enough to explain how she was when I met her and what she did to me, I mean she apparently searched for me my whole life and yet was willing to kill me," she found that once she started talking, she was struggling to stop, he was just too easy to talk too, "but I have had terrible, terrible things done to me, and yes, I've done bad things, but I've always ended up doing the right thing, or at least I hope so, and I mean it just makes me think her excuses don't quite cut it, you know."
"And now to learn she had another daughter, that I've got a half-sister, one that she actually raised, and that one jumped to the wrong side so quick, and it makes me wonder, am I just fighting a loosing battle? Am I just one bad thing away from switching sides too? Deke's future knows me as the Destroyer of Worlds, so maybe it's not that big of a jump," she kept talking, "I've done some real bad things Daniel, you have no idea, maybe I'm not that much different than her. But seeing her like this, seeing her as a good, nice mother, it just makes it so much harder, maybe I was the one that come into her life and ruined it, that is my specialty, so how can I claim to be one of the good guys?"
"You are a good person, Daisy," he stated soundly, he had wanted to interject so many times through her rambling, but he could sense that she wasn't looking for a response, she just needed to talk.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to just unload on you," she sighed, refusing to meet his eye, but relishing in the warmth from his hand holding her tight.
"Daisy, I'm pretty sure you're the strongest person I've ever met, leaning on someone else doesn't make you weak," he told her honestly, squeezing her hand as if to back his statement.
Blinking away the tears that had started to form, she turned to him, her eyes trained on his as she tried to determine if she could believe him or not. Leaning forward, she closed the gap between them, kissing him firmly, a part of her hating how needy she could feel she was, but she needed this, she needed him, more than she could admit to even herself.
He rolled her onto her back, his lips never leaving hers as she set about undoing his shirt, his hand wrapped around the back of her head, tangled amongst her hair as his other slipped under her top and to the side of her waist, her hands dropping down to help him lift the plain black top up and over her head. She used the extra space the move created between them to push his now undone shirt off his shoulders, humming in annoyance when he used the space to pull away further.
"Are you sure you want this? You don't seem like you're in the best head space," he questioned, slightly out of breath, but ever the gentleman.
"Not sure if you've noticed, but I'm never really in a good headspace," she smirked back at him, nodding at his question nonetheless, pulling him back down to her level.
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"How long have you been up?" Yo-Yo asked, entering the gym with May following close behind, the two having planned a sparring session the night before that Daisy recalled had, while doing her hacking, overheard them fight over the start time of, won of course by May.
"I was checking on my hack and saw Jiaying heading to the kitchen, so here I am, hiding on a treadmill," Daisy huffed out a laugh, slowing the machine down to a walking speed.
"You seem in a better mood today," Yo-Yo grinned at her, whether implying something or just glad that her friend was happier, Daisy couldn't quite pinpoint.
"It was the first time in what seems like a very long time that I've woken up – " Daisy started, only to be interrupted before she could complete her response.
"We don't need to know what you woke up to," May smirked at her, her words catching an odd look from Yo-Yo as she tried to unpack them.
"That I've woken up not in the time loop," Daisy glared back, not playing into the older woman's trap, she could admit to herself that waking up next to Daniel had definitely also added to her good mood, but she was not about to admit that to her current companions.
"What is May talking about?" Yo-Yo asked, switching her focus between the two as she came to her own conclusion, "has she been doing her creepy empathic thing with you and Sousa?"
"Wait, what?!" Daisy near yelled, suddenly worried about what exactly her friend meant.
"Oh, come on, everyone can see the way he follows you around, and that you don't seem to mind," Yo-Yo explained her reasoning, smirking at her friend as she chose to ignore the bigger question for her statement regarding May.
"What did she mean May?" Daisy stopped the treadmill completely, feeling the dread come over her that she could only imagine was how teenagers felt when they were caught by their parents.
"It's okay, it doesn't reach through to your room," May let her off the hook quickly, shaking her head at the thought.
"Why not?" Yo-Yo asked, confused at the turn of events, but more interested in the answer.
"My room is lined with stuff to stop me from causing issues on the plane if I lose control of my powers again, so I'm guessing that stops your empathic stalking?" Daisy grinned, relief flooding over her as she started the machine back up to a light jog speed.
"Yes, thank god," May shared in her relief, she would have been feeling it had she been able to feel and it was refreshing for the emotion she felt to be fitting to what she was thinking.
"How do I get that? I told Mack and he's now traumatised," Yo-Yo exclaimed, making a mental note to bring it up with Simmons later as she quickly realised that although the other two knew of the lining, they weren't the type to have questioned what it was.
"Good, that would be too weird," Daisy smirked, making no move to dispel any beliefs that they had formed regarding her and Sousa, something not lost on the other two, "you're like my mum."
"Plus, I've seen you have nightmares, I don't want to feel those," May deadpanned, turning back to square up with Yo-Yo.
"Real supportive May," Daisy grinned back, expecting nothing less, but thankful now that those nightmares had gotten her at least some privacy.
"May, supportive? Feel's like we are interrupting something," Coulson joked from the doorway, flanked by Deke and Sousa.
"Yo-Yo was wanting to do some redecorating," Daisy stated quickly, making sure to get in first before any comments were made as she smiled in greeting to the men, her eyes resting on Daniel's for a moment longer than the rest, his trailing over her as she ran, gaining him a smirk in response.
"Oh, well if you want me to pick you up anything, actually here to see if anyone had anything they wanted added to my list as I'm heading out for a supply run," Deke informed them, missing the shared glare amongst the women.
"Jiaying's making breakfast," Coulson told them, his eyes narrowed on one in particular.
"I saw, hence the early morning workout," Daisy nodded, making no effort to hide the fact she was hiding in a gym.
"There are a few things you could get me actually, Deke," Yo-Yo stated as she stopped the sparring with May to write a list.
"Make sure to put some things for Daisy too," May told her, a grin on her face that put the woman in question on edge as she once more slowed her treadmill down to a walk.
"Oh, no, it's fine, she already told me," Deke brushed it off quickly, the underlying conversation of the room completely lost on him.
"Did she now?" Yo-Yo looked up from her writing with a smirk, sharing a look with the other two women.
"Yeah, I've got the sniffer devices and the list of the locations to plant them, it's like basic level hacking, super easy," Deke rattled off the information as if she had drilled it into him.
"Oh, right," Yo-Yo responded as she returned to her list, biting back a chuckle.
"See, I knew you three would be up to no good, what's going on here?" Coulson questioned them all, clearly not buying their poor attempt at hiding the previous topic.
"If you must know," May started, glancing between the two women either side of her as she could feel one's worry and the other's amusement at the turn of events.
"I don't think he does," Daisy stated quickly, her eyes narrowing on the older agent.
"My new empathic abilities, well, they have some side effects, and turns out I can also feel other people's, you know, alone time together," May explained with a grin, watching as everyone around her went dead still and slightly pale at her words.
"What now?" Deke asked, shuffling uncomfortably at the new information and wishing he had not been in the conversation at all as he looked between the unmoving Coulson, who was opening and closing his mouth as if he was actually lost for how to respond, and the small woman across from them, amused by the control she had over the room.
"They really don't want to know this May," Daisy stated sternly, giving a slight shake of her head to the now frozen Daniel, clearly very unsure of how he should proceed.
"So, I picked up on Yo-Yo and Mack's reunion and that's why Mack won't make eye contact with me anymore," May told the group, deciding to leave out the part about Daisy and Sousa, as she thought he might actually be good for her.
"We did not need to know that," Deke stated, turning, and leaving the moment that he got the list from Yo-Yo.
Simmons voice coming through the intercom interrupted anyone from commenting further, the break in the rooms focus gave Daisy a chance to mouth thank-you to May, before grinning at Daniel as he took a visible breath. Stepping off the treadmill, she made a move to follow the small group out of the room, falling into line next to Daniel with a quiet 'I'll explain later', she watched the team merge into one big group, one big family and couldn't seem to shake the tinge of sadness over Enoch's warning.
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ellsey · 4 years ago
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Agents of Shield Rewatch 7x10 Stolen
I don’t even know what to do with myself after that last episode whew. But the show must go on.
They got the most out of this bar set for real
I think James Paxton did an amazing job of not just trying to copy his dad, but really trying to get the essence of John Garrett
We’re back in the 80′s wheeee
Roxy is a real agent now! 
Good for her
The Triskelion you say?
Ruh roh
Sousa is impressed
Daisy and Jemma are not
Hahaha
Legit my face and Jemma’s are the same at this moment like
The way Sousa swoops in there and finds a way to let Daisy let him help her is just...I love it
So does Dr. Simmons
Also Jemma says look how cute he’s being chivalrous, but her face says I know you Daisy Johnson and you like that man yo
Because Daisy’s face definitely did not escape Jemma
And Daisy was grinning like a fool
Daisy is very concerned about Jemma’s behavior when the implant was taken out, and clearly she’s worried about Fitz
“We can’t lose any more parents” Ummmmmmmm
May and Elena are like...ummm we need to tell you something and I really feel for them in this case
Nathaniel is letting everybody see the timestream which...I mean, I guess
“I could kill them”
Daisy is like “There’s the mom I know”
Gordon is a very sweet kid which makes me sad for what happens to him
Oopsie Daisy knows there’s a sister now
Ohhh, so I didn’t catch this the first time, but the implication here is that if Kora is alive Jiaying would have never met Cal because she wouldn’t have left Afterlife at all
So it may be Daisy would have had a hard time being born in this timeline regardless
I mean was their plan was to make sure Kora got killed so Jiaying would want to go get it with Cal?
Obviously they didn’t have a plan but eh
Nathaniel is so manipulative and Kora deserves way better
Although interestingly it looks like Kora can both give and take life with her power
“Staying in the 80′s wouldn’t be my worst case scenario” I’ve got good news for you Deke
Well I guess Daisy got in Jemma’s head because now she’s thinking that Fitz could be dead
Deke tries to comfort Nana but I’m not sure if it’s working
“You vaporize me with a space laser” Omg
“I’m not even mad, they let me watch you die a bunch of times.” 
Look, this is hilarious
“You haven’t changed a bit. And I’m aware that statement makes no sense.” omg Phil
“Looking spry for an old guy” 
Yep, she wants him
“Mack caught me up” I wish I could have seen that because I’m sure it was amazing
Also I’m struck by the way Sousa says “10 years ago” because it’s very clear he’s had zero time to adjust to his change in time period poor guy
“The timeline is screwed, pardon my French” SOUSA
But also, the way he very calmly and quietly gives Daisy the support she needs to do something that is going to be very hard is just...MY HEART IS FULL
Also, this is clearly done with nothing expected in return
We stan
We also get a chance to see that Sousa, while fitting in very well with this group, clearly has people he wishes he could have said goodbye to. I know a lot of people just went “OH PEGGY” which I’m sure she’s part of it, but this man had an entire life with family and friends and he just disappeared. Granted, he would have been dead so they would have missed him anyway, but still.
It’s a lot
Also his offer to bail her out is peak Sousa, but also it must remind Daisy of what he said to her in the time loops
And that little smile of hers...WE SEE YOU DAISY
Elena is ready to gooooooooooooooo
I feel like you can tell Kora is kind of wishy washy about all this, but she’s caught up in this idea of revenge for her mistreatment and caught up in Nathaniel, which...girl...no
The look Daisy gives Sousa when he says, “She’s been there” like
I AM DYING
But also I have a feeling that won’t be the last time he is on the receiving end of that look in his lifetime
Ok, I think Jiaying is saying two different things here. The first is you seem so familiar. Like clearly she is vibing on half of her DNA in Daisy. And then she says she recognizes Daisy’s gift because of Nathaniel.
I adore Sousa slowly noping out of there when he knows he’s no longer needed
Poor Daisy :(
I am happy she got to see the mom she could have had though if it weren’t for Hydra
But also it’s sad because Daisy realizes how different the Jiaying she knew was from the true Jiaying
I am so, so, so happy that Daisy had this moment with her mom though
John Garrett is a Deke Squad fan confirmed
Awww RIP good Gordon
May getting to take out some aggression on Garrett is pretty sweet
So, we know their actual target was Jemma, so this was stuff with Daisy and Jiaying was just Nathaniel being a sadistic prick obviously
“For the record, I’m digging the upgrade” Hahahaha of course you are
“Leave my daughter alone” Ohhhh Jiaying
For a hot second I thought this show was going to give Daisy some closure lol at me
Nathaniel clearly does not know everything about Daisy’s abilities though
I love you May
Full respect to Sousa who actually shoots at Garrett when told to
Kora kind of deserved that let’s be real
Oh now we look for Deke
Who it turns out is on the Zephyr
Oh Garrett
Nathaniel wants to know where Fitz is, so in this way he is basically most of the fandom
This episode managed to raise my hopes then dash them all again. Womp. We have a 100000/10 on the Dousy scale for supportive talks and bag carrying. Awww. This episode also gets a 10/10 on the Younger Versions Seem to Be Cooler scale because for real, John Garrett, Gordon, and Jiaying were all better in their younger iterations. This episode also rates a 10/10 on the What a Tweest! scale because it turns out they were after Jemma all along!
Well, we’re back in 1983, so we’re back to 80′s music. This episode’s song is “Burning Down the House” by Talking Heads.
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storytelers-arc · 4 years ago
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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??)
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godblessthecactusess · 4 years ago
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hola - welcome to another reaction post
Agents of SHIELD - s7ep11: Brand New Day (WARNING – SPOILERS (obviously))
-          So straight off the bat, reading the tagline, looks fun - “(in order to win against Sibyl/Nathaniel) they’ll have to get creative, and maybe even a little out of this world.” Intriguing. Looks like we could be in for some fun stuff this episode, but I’m really wondering how we’re going to turn this all around in just three episodes (counting the finale as two), so I’m guessing there’s gonna be a big thing to happen that’s gonna end it all. Like, someone’s gonna die, I’m just gonna say it, it’s gotta happen?
-          Also, because I can’t restrain myself, I have been on Tumblr and Twitter today, and I haven’t actively stopped to read what I’ve seen, but because I am rubbish at avoiding it, I have figured out that we’ve got some flashbacks this episode, which appear to have Fitz in them??? I bloody hope so gosh.
-          Right, I’m gonna start it. Deep breaths.
-          Recap, okay.
-          RIP Jiaying.
-          Deke is so oblivious but I still love him and wish that Daisy and Deke had been a thing.
-          Daisy’s been crying nooo
-          So they lost the Zephyr. (And what’s left of the Fitzsimmons fam)
-          They went to space??
-          Daisy’s gonna fight this bitch. (I know I’ve seen it already in clips but still).
-          I’m discovering it’s really hard  to type and pay attention.
-          “I wanna be an agent of SHIELD” 1. I mean, that’s the show but 2. She says with the face of “but like actually don’t trust me look at my evil grin mwhahahaha”
-          Space woowww
-          How do all these randos know how to fly the Zephyr??
-          Did Deke just make a Die Hard reference? (rhetorical, yes he did); I mean I haven’t seen the entirety of Die Hard, but I watched bits last Christmas and I’ve also watched enough B99.
-          …Motherfucker. (again actually something I learned from B99, not Die Hard)
-          Aw Mackelena babysitting
-          Proof?
-          Oh so the team’s finally learning what we learned about time in Endgame.
-          “A Brand New Day” got it
-          Bro I was gonna say that (about it’s basically Project Insight) but he said it better cos he’s Coulson and he’s cooler.
-          “My sister” look at these two
-          Ha lies I bet she’s fucking lying
-          “Sibyl said” the new version of Simon Says
-          Hold up did she just give her the keys?
-          DON’T MAKE ME WATCH THIS AGAIN
-          IT’S A FITZSIMMONS BEST BITS
-          And I’m going to cry
-          DON’T hit my BABY
-          Elizabeth’s eyebrows are to die for
-          WHAT DID THEY DO TO DEKE NO
-          Where’s she going huh
-          Look Sousa put suspenders on
-          Are they his battle suspenders
-          Cos that’s the cutest thing ever
-          I love him
-          “I ALREADY HAVE A SISTER TO SAVE HER NAME IS JEMMA SIMMONS” OMG
-          Science Daisy
-          So she’s really never flown a quinjet huh
-          “It’s your last chance to stay behind” *assertively puts on seatbelt”
-          That moment when you don’t know if it’s a cut to the next scene or Mack’s caught them
-          No wait he’s got his shotgun axe. Bitch ready to go yes.
-          Oh wait he’s telling her off.
-          No he’s agreeing.
-          Omg yes Mack
-          Where does all that water go – I’m assuming there’s a drainage system?
-          So they left Mum and Dad behind rip
-          Is Kora just in the background reading a book.
-          Protective Nana Jemma
-          Nate you never cared about ‘your old man’.
-          Sousa just leaves his seat
       It’s a nice parallel to Goose in Captain Marvel
-          They have an auto-grav setting? But like, the quinjet isn’t made for space.
-          Daisy, ever the optimistic.
-          Mmmmmmspace
-          Oooof pulling the Bahrain card.
-          If May hadn’t done it, she wouldn’t have had a cool backstory, so put that in your pipe and smoke it Kora
-          Mmmmmcreepy messages through a virus in 1980s aesthetic. What a…. well… aesthetic.
-          Sassy Coulson back at it again.
-          I mean you are a fucking robot can’t you just plug yourself in or some shit; I’M NOT VERY SCIENCY OKAY
-          Oh great another “last mission” convo
-          Sounds like you will.
-          Thanks I’m crying
-          Oh wait he doesn’t remember the kiss I forgot that, shit.
-          Can’t just break a fucking window Nate, you’re gonna have to pay for that. Like literally with your own money, please and thanks, I don’t think the team brought any money with them.
-          Ooh love a good Coulson talk.
-          Honestly where would the team be without May? Dead, I think.
-          Burnt toast.
-          Did she just say Grant Ward.
-          Yes she did.
-          Ward would have been worse without Garrett? Uh I think not, not if someone had just called Child Services, and gotten him some fucking therapy.
-          “What are your intentions with Daisy?” Dad Mack coming through, “no funny business” and all that.
-          “I don’t have any intentions.” WHAT A LIE DANIEL HAHAHAHAHA YOU CRADLED HER HEAD ON YOUR LAP WHEN SHE WAS INJURED, YOU CARRIED HER BRIDAL STYLE OUT OF THAT BARN, YOU WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAVE THIS WHOLE MESS, BUT LOOKED RIGHT AT A SLEEPING, RECOVERING DAISY AND SAID “IM RIGHT WHERE I NEED TO BE”, YOU SAT AND NAPPED IN A CHAIR BY HER BEDSIDE THE ENTIRE TIME, YOU DIDN’T SAY NO WHEN SHE KISSED YOU, SO EXCUSE ME MISTER “NO INTENTIONS” BUT I THINK YOU MIGHT BE WRONG
-          “Well then you better get some” omg we stan mack even though his voice is so deep I often miss what he says
-          “omg shes like so into you gurl” is basically what I just heard. (picture 2000s american teenage girl, phone pressed to ear, chewing gum really loudly etc.)
-          “sir” HES SO POLITE
-          I’m loving this chat and its so true, every single one of them would massacre Sousa if he hurt Daisy.
-          “just like a damn comic book” ahaha haha…. ha. yep.
-          But I do love a good comic book joke in the show.
-          Wasn’t it in like s4, and Coulson said something about Daisy being Director and she was like “ha yeah maybe in the comic book version”? idk man im rewatching SHIELD because I have the worst memory but that was funny too
-          These two’s eyebrows in this scene god.
-          Honestly if you get the chance to rewatch this scene just watch Mack and Sousa’s eyebrows as they turn to look at each other it’s adorable.
-          Alright Sousa no need to be so mean I think it’s a great name.
-          These two giggling together omg the one things I didn’t know I needed.
-          19th century definitely was.
-          FINALLY SOME NEW FITZ AT LAST
-          “can you give us a moment” “yes” “…..oh”
-          What are you suggesting fitz my darling
-          …sooooooooooo….
-          Some time to have a kid maybe.. idk… grow old together…
-          What bloodwork? Did I miss a thing?
-          Snuggling Fitzsimmons ahhhhh
-          I didn’t think Kora would be so sad omg. Now I feel bad for her shit it wasn’t meant to be this way, I-
-          Fitz looks so different omg
-          Omg Fitz grabbing onto her and hugging im soft omg what a beautiful trope
-          WHO’S FITZ WTF OMG NO FUCK SHIT CRAP AHHHHHHHH
-          A kickass fight scene nice
-          Uh oh
-          Nice one May
-          “Sunshine” what an asshole
-          They’re gonna decimate everything wtf
-          Wasn’t there all those ships in the trailer
-          “quake”
-          Look at these cuties
-          Thanos could turn you to dust too.
-          SORRY too soon
-          Uhhhhhhhhhh what the fuck is happening
-          They’re just wiping out shield
-          Rip the Triskelion
-          DON’T YOU TOUCH HER LIKE THAT oh look now I’m being protective wtf is happening to me
-          Urgh absolutely disgusting
-          Well shit
  Uhhhhhhh so this is problematic. I mean, by all accounts, they could just leave this timeline and go back to the OG one. I mean, there’s a canon timeline where Steve learns early that Bucky is alive, Loki has the Tesseract and Steve just told a elevator full of Hydra agents “Hail Hydra” (so a highly chaotic timeline, that the avengers just left) so they could just leave but like, that’s unethical, i guess???? Oh well.
  Let’s go have a look at the new trailer for the FINALE!! ARGH omg its all ending and I’m sad
  WELL im going to cry aren’t I? ffs
Daisy’s accepting that this is their last mission.
“This is what we were fighting for.” Which issss….? 
It really is the end, huh.
The finale will make me cry. There’s not many SHIELD episodes that have made me do that. I think the one that made me cry the most was the spy’s goodbye. And I seem to remember crying when Fitzsimmons were at the bottom of the ocean,  and then laughing through my sobs bc the shot of Fury coming down from the helicopter, arm outstretched like Jesus was the most hilarious thing I had ever seen; but other than that? Not many. 
I’m excited and terrified at the same time. I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF. HELP.
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Bloodbound Chapter 24- Allies and Strangers
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Bucky and the clan-less arrived at the scene. Bucky had an automatic gun and he shot Rumlow’s men as they exited the van. The shots weakened them. Some ran towards Bucky to attack him. But Hope and Lincoln flung forward and took them out. Scott came barging in through the gateway driving an old van. Bucky threw his bullet-less gun down and took out a stake from his belt buckle. He threw it at the on-comping vampire precisely slashing through his heart, turning him into dust.
“Get in the van and get out” shouted Lincoln.
“I don’t have to be told twice” said Pietro as he ran to the van. Others followed him. They piled into the back; Scott hit the gas and started the engine. Bucky and the others cramped into the existing space as the van took off. Some vampires who were alive were too weak to chase them.
Only after they put some safe distance between themselves and the factory, everyone let out the breath they were holding. The van grumbled through the streets of New York. Meanwhile, Natasha was filling Steve and Tony on the information she gathered. Pietro wasn’t listening. His mind was preoccupied.
“Where is Wanda?” asked Pietro.
“In the shadow den along with the others. They are safe” replied Scott. He turned to Steve, “By the way, big fan of your company’s infrastructure” he said with a smile.
“What?” asked Steve puzzled.
“What?” repeated Scott trying to cover up.
Scott drove the van to an old amusement park. Bucky led the way to the small outlook post with a speakeasy grate. He knocked the door in a pattern; in response a woman looked through the speakeasy grate. Seeing Bucky, she opened the door. Bucky walked in and the other clan-less followed him. Others looked uncertainly at each other as they followed him to the Shadow Den. He led them to the underground structure. It was bigger than they expected. They clan-less had made separate rooms for each of them. Some stopped their activities to see the new comers. Bucky led the group into a room which looked like a meeting hall.
Hearing everyone’s voice, Wanda turned around. Her face broke into broad smile as she saw Pietro alive. She ran to him and wrapped him in her arms. Pietro hugged her back just as tight.
“Don’t worry, sis. ‘m still here.”
The meeting hall was packed. The clan and the clan-less were sitting separately. Wanda and Pietro sat holding their hands. Coulson was alone in the corner watching everyone intently. Natasha cleared her throat and everyone looked at her.
“I want to thank everyone who saved me and my friends today. Willingly or unwillingly we became allies and this is the only chance of survival for all of us. Rumlow and Stane will stop at nothing to kill us and we need to stand together. We-”
“Why should we help you?” Lincoln interjected.
“Their plan went hay fire thanks to you. After they are done with us, they will sure come after you.” Steve stated.
The clan and the clan-less argued back and forth; soon it burst into a shouting match. No one was listening to what other was saying. The room was a mess.
“Guys. Guys, stop it. We have important matter at hand.” Coulson intervened. The room became silent and every pair of eyes were trained on the human standing in front of them. There was a glint of red in their eyes echoing the annoyance of being interrupted. Any other person would have been intimidated by the sudden spotlight on them but Coulson continued on with the demeanour.
“We have a pressing issue. We need to work together whether we like it or not. This matter affects everyone. We have no other choice. Natasha, share the intel with everyone”
“Rumlow and Stane planned to frame Tony for smuggling weapons but the link was too weak. In every record Stane’s name would come up. And they can’t turn Jiaying against Tony with that case. They waited for a chance. Last year, when Tony changed a kid into vampire without the council’s permission, Stane decided to use it. He had been putting together a case for long.”
Tony was surprised by Natasha’s revelation. “How long have you known?”
“All along. Peter didn’t disappear. Stane sent him away to the clan-less.”
“To them?” Tony started in disbelief. It would mean he is still alive. “Peter is here?” he asked looking at the clan-less. Seeing Hope nod in affirmation, Tony’s eyes watered. He closed his eyes and breathed in relief.
Natasha continued, “Stane and Rumlow are involved in smuggling and they know only it’s a matter of time before someone from the council intervenes. If Jiaying knows about Peter she would vote to execute Tony. She won’t look into smuggling. They would have gotten away with it.”
“Where does clan-less come in this?” Bucky asked.
“Peter was purposefully brought to you to make it look like Tony and the clan-less were conspiring. If their plan didn’t succeed, would have used the clan-less to finish of the council. The wanted to use the feud”
“What were they smuggling? And where?” Hope spoke up.
“Weapons. The weapons from Stark industries are transported across the Atlantic.”
“Don’t say it’s for the Legion” pleaded Sam.
Natasha nodded gravely. Everyone was silent taking in the situation. Bucky spoke up, “I need to discuss with others.” Bucky went out of the room followed by other clan-less. The others weren’t sure what will be the outcome. They made small talks and passed the time. When Bucky came back, he said, “We will help you but we need a deal. One of the clan-less needs a seat at the council. Every clan-less should be given the draught. If you agree we have a deal.”
“Deal” said Natasha after thinking for some time.
“What about your council buddies?” asked Bucky pointing to Steve and Tony. They both nodded their head in agreement.
“It’s about time we change the laws” stated Natasha. She extended her hand towards Bucky as a sign of alliance. Bucky accepted it.
“Natasha, Tony and I will take the evidence to Jiaying and try to convince her. Pietro will need to come with us. She needs to see him and get the story from him about his transformation.”
“I am also coming” stated Wanda. “I am not going to leave his side” she added indicating Pietro.
“The last shipment is today. We need you to stop it. It’s having one of Tony’s latest inventions. It in the hands of Legion could erase our own kind in Europe” said Natasha to the clan-less. Bucky agreed. Everyone left to prepare for the oncoming battle.
“So, they ditched us again?” Howard asked looking the only other member left in the room.
“Nah, they left me in charge” retorted Coulson.
“No, they didn’t.”
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smallblueandloud · 4 years ago
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okay, so i’m thinking about it, and here’s what i’ve got so far for the star trek au:
coulson is from a species/culture that only recently joined the federation. he’s part of the first generation that was able to join starfleet, and he’s one of the highest-ranking officers of that species by the time we meet him. this explains why he’s so fascinated by “starfleet” (shield) history - his society was joining the federation when he was young, and it was really exciting! brand new history! he wanted to learn everything! starfleet is so cool! by the time we meet him, the rose tinted glasses have kind of worn off, but he still feels strongly about the original dream of starfleet and all of the good that it’s done for his people.
may is a human born on earth. her mom was a high ranking security officer on an exploratory vessel, and now may herself is also widely respected for her own achievements. (haven’t decided what the equivalent of bahrain is but it’s painful. something similar to tarsus, maybe?)
daisy is half human (jiaying) and half [insert species here] (cal). i haven’t decided much about cal yet but i think inhumans are going to be members of various species so that daisy and elena can be different species, lmao. i want jiaying to be human so that daisy shares that same connection with may and has a chance to learn about her culture from her. her powers manifest.... at some point, idk. not sure if she grew up in the foster system or even what the foster system would look like in the star trek universe.
fitz... i have not decided about fitz yet. i don’t know enough about star trek species to have one in mind for him, so he might be human too? idk. either way, he was raised by his mother after his father left, etc, etc. if radcliffe is a person in this au, they’re the same species.
simmons is a vulcan because i say so! the whole “repression(tm)” thing fits her SO well. she wears gloves in order to interact with her crewmates because... haven’t decided if she’s a scientist or a doctor but either way people grab onto her frequently and she is Not About That. solkar can keep slutting it up around humans in vulcan heaven but she is a proper vulcan, thank you very much. she’s also scarily strong and has definitely snapped a few times, but no one on the crew likes to talk about that one time simmons almost murdered someone. (i need a vulcan name for her but.... that’s a later problem.)
mack is a human, fitting with the theme of him being the team’s straight man (for comedy purposes, not lgbt+ purposes - mack is Most Definitely Not A Straight Man, thanks so much). idk whether he was born on earth or on a colony yet. i’m leaning towards colony just because it gives him different experiences from may? but i’m not sure yet. either way, he’s still very religious and celebrates christmas quietly every year.
elena is a genetically modified... something. i haven’t decided on her species yet, just that it’s not human. i would have to do some digging. i’ll probably make up a species, because i want it to be based on latino culture (Give Me My Goddamn Space Hispanics, star trek!).
bobbi..... god, i want to make her a trill. it’s so perfect. i want it so much. i will keep y’all posted on what i decide there.
hunter is a former bajoran resistance fighter this concept is from the same person who proposed trill bobbi and i am STILL DECIDING. sigh. it’s so perfect....
ward is...... i honestly don’t know. i haven’t decided who the villains of this story are going to be. maybe i’ll get away with not mentioning him at all? if i decide to actually create a real plot for this au, he’ll be part of the main villains, which will probably be based on the dominion. do i know anything about the dominion? hey, that’s what wikis are for, right?
trip is... an andorian? because they were a founding member of the federation? idk here, y’all, i haven’t seen enterprise. i would have to do some more reading to see if this fits at all. but i feel like he needs to be from a species that was a founding member of the federation, because of his canon connection to the howling commandos. i would make him another vulcan so that he and simmons have a connection there, but he really doesn’t repress his emotions like that unlike some people. not sure what i’m doing here yet but trip is probably going to be alive because i make the rules and the rules are that people don’t die for avoidable reasons.
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incomprehensiblelentils · 4 years ago
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I did not actually post about the SHIELD finale besides my bingo card yesterday because I was very tired lmao so here is my roundup of thoughts!
tl;dr 7.5/10, mostly pretty emotionally satisfying, the best My Little Pony/Care Bears episode I’ve ever seen, I will miss this dumb show, Skimmons forever <3
Someone appears to have sat the writers down and said “look, here are all the things you did wrong in season 2, a lot of them were super racist and make you look bad” and they went “ah fuck whoopsie, we can totally make up for that” and then...they kinda did????? like one of the things I hate most about this show is the Jiaying plotline, it’s very bad and racist and I’m not just saying that because it’s Dichen. But like...they gave them a whole emotionally resonant plotline where Daisy and Jiaying got to talk and like kinda make up??? and she died which sucked but I’ll take what I can get. SHIELD SAID JIAYING RIGHTS
KORA!!!!!! oh my god Kora is literally just Kara all over again and I don’t care, I LOVE this. I love that Daisy was like “ok you’re being super annoying but I still don’t want you to like die or whatever ‘cause you’re my sister, so I’m going to point out your shitty Nazi boyfriend is shitty in an attempt to get through to you.” AND THEN KORA LISTENED AND LEFT HIM. IT WAS MAGICAL. I was absolutely sure that Kora was on the express bus to Fridgetown and then she just didn’t die and she and Daisy get to be sisters now and it’s so beautiful!
Jemma just straight-up being in Dollstate was the funniest thing to me. I did Notice that Daisy was extremely acting like her handler, which was cute for the ten minutes this went on or whatever.
On that note, can’t believe that SHIELD continues to be a better Star Wars than Star Wars. See: Daisy floating in space Leia-style, Kora being turned from the Dark Side with love.
I cannot believe that the writers were like “how do we tie up the Chronicoms plot? We are going to CARE BEAR STARE them into being our friends!” It is so wildly stupid and charming and optimistic and I love it so much.
I also love that the entire thesis of the show is literally “the real Agents of SHIELD was the found family we made along the way.” ENDGAME WHOMST, SAID AGENTS OF SHIELD. WE ARE HERE TO BE A FAMILY NO FUCKING MATTER WHAT. FAMILY MEANS NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND. OR FORGOTTEN AT THE BOTTOM OF A CLIFF. (Daisy was not left at the bottom of a cliff, but still.)
Daisy gets to lead SWORD with her sister and her manfriend!!!!! That was lovely and a perfect ending for her. I’m so proud.
I also really warmed to Sousa over the course of this season, because when he first showed up and they were like TIME FOR ROOOOOMANCE I was like “ah shit here we go again” but actually, no, he’s totally fine. He’s just Victor from Dollhouse and his entire purpose is to be supportive and sweet to his ladyfriend. This is fine by me. I rescind my former statement that Robbie Reyes is the only man good enough for her, Daniel Sousa is also Lentils Approved™.
I have one (1) significant qualm and it is that Leo Fitz is a sentient piece of cowshit who was perfectly willing to hide out in a time pocket for YEARS and play house while the world was burning around him. He saw no problem with this and felt no guilt, unlike Jemma, who is a human being and felt guilt. I hate him so much and he should’ve gotten brain cancer and died. I am pretending that is what happened. Also, I’m fairly convinced the baby was his idea, not Jemma’s. We stan a relationship with mind control and reproductive coercion!!!!
The baby was REALLY cute though. Much like Morgan, it’s not her fault that her daddy’s a shithead.
I also feel cheated because I wanted to see Mack and Elena have kids!!! Like that’s obviously going to happen or at least they will adopt Flint and I got none of these things and I am annoyed about it.
I think Melinda’s ending is a little dumb, but mostly because if anyone deserves to retire, it’s her. I hope Andrew is still alive in this timeline.
I want a spinoff about the adventures of Mack and Elena, SHIELD Power Couple. I just think that would be cute and she, Piper and roboDavis seem like they’re having a great time.
VICTORIA HAND CAME BACK we literally cheered we were SO HYPED
Oh also Daisy spent the entire two episodes dragging the shit out of Deke and then he stayed behind in the past just like I wanted him to and we never saw him again and he never got anywhere near kissing Daisy HA HA HA HA HA.
IMPORTANT EDIT: Daisy and Jemma are two of the last to log off the call at the end of the episode and they promise to contact each other about a particular thing and then Daisy winks at her. SKIMMONS LIVES BITCHES
anyway! this show was weird and made me mad and sad a lot but unfortunately I love it and have built quite a lot of my fandom life around it, so uh. So long, you weird little superhero show. <3
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hithelleth · 4 years ago
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AoS 7x07-x11
I caught up on it on Thursday, just didn’t have the time to write it down. (Also, turns out I did actually get through 7x06 on the previous batch of binging.)
7x07 was fun with the 80s/90s boy band .and all; they really should have leaned into the crack more.
Episodes 8 – 10 were okay, with quality Daisy x Daniel content. A+.
Episode 7x11: did they just admit Grant wouldn’t have been who he was without Garrett? (I know, they also did that with the Framework story in S4, or so I heard, because I wasn’t watching it.) Amazing.
And Coulson refusing to kill young Grant because he was just a child, not that that stopped them before – but even the writes putting that on screen. Wow.
Although they also had Kora say Grant would’ve been even worse without Garrett. Because I guess he’s inherently evil or something. Of course. I mean, these writers. They are how they are.
Speaking of Garrett, young Garrett was fun (and apparently the actor is Bill Paxton’s son. Well done, casting! Also, I was today year’s old when I realised the Bill Paxton as Garrett is the same Bill Paxton from Twister. And I love Twister. *headdesk*)
Actually, this episode reminded me that the old Garrett was fun, too. Don’t get me wrong, I hated that SOB, but he was a great villain. In retrospect, I think they made mistake by killing him and then pushing Ward as villain – they should’ve kept Garrett alive and given Grant a proper redemption arc (with consequences and all), meanwhile Garrett would’ve worked well as their personal big bad (and even he had that tiny bit of a tragic back story with having been left behind plus not really subscribing to Hydra’s ideology to not be one-dimensional) and he would have been a fun villain to hate.
See, we could have eaten the cake and had it.
But oh, well. Moving on.
I read that other post about disability erasure regarding Simmons giving Sousa a new prothesis, and I on principle agree that erasing disability is shitty but I also agree with the replies in that same post that the old prosthesis wasn’t super comfortable and caused pain, so why not alleviate his suffering if there’s the technology that can make his life easier. 
 That’s what demands for accessibility are all about, after all, aren’t they? Or should be, at least. To make the lives of people with disabilities easier, more on equal footing with everyone else. I don’t think enabling disabled people to live more easily/with less pain, erases their disability. Or should disabled people not be helped so they can be martyrs? If so, then you don’t care about disabled people, just about pro-forma representation. Being given accommodations that improve their lives doesn’t make disabled people any less disabled and it still means that they aren’t any less people if they are disabled.
That said the show did a poor, rushed job about it. At the very least, they should have had Simmons talk to him before manufacturing the prosthesis – I mean, shouldn’t she have fitted it to measure? Maybe they shot some more material and had to edit it out? Oh, well, never mind.
But, yeah, I’m okay with him getting a better prosthesis.
On a related note.
I can’t believe it’s 2020 and the thing that’s been making me smile every time I think of it since Thursday is this freaking show with the freaking flirting and betting and Mack being #1 Skye & Sousa shipper! <3
I’m actually looking forward to the finale, but also dreading it, because, well, it’s AoS.
They better not do something awful, because Skye does not deserve having another person die (like the repeat of Jiaying, but I guess they kinda redeemed her?) on her at the end. They owe her a happy ending.
And it’s the very least they sure as hell owe us.
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