#instrad of their abilities

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celeste has one (1) expression and it's cheery winky face. and quinn loves it i think

[image desc: two traditional sketches of celeste and quinn locke, op's original characters. in the first sketch, celeste is slightly leaning back, winking with a bright smile as she says something (represented as a scribble in a chat bubble). there is a small circle that contains a simplified drawing of quinn, that depicts her with sparkles in her eyes and hearts around her, meaning that quinn is looking at celeste in awe.

the second sketch is of quinn standing, one hand in her pocket as she looks to the side, her expression one mixed with curiosity and unimpressedness. // end id]

[mastcrmarksman]

I call this. The amount of love, belief, and faith Clint has in his friends, family, team, and in people in general.

I'll isolate some of these more and do a whole post when I am on my laptop later with more precise examples, but I was reading Iron Man 193 / Tony's return to Iron Man and his eventual joining of the WCA (it's a lot of emotions and I have hankering for that era again as well as inspired desire for drabble writing/clint coming to tony about his own alcoholism literally decade and some years later since recovery arc for clint instrad of current canon )

But anyways, all of this right here. The amount love that Clint has for his people, that he openly shows (I have so many more examples tumblr limits me to 10), like he just had a whole lot of affection to give, and the amount of which Clint believes in someone and that is almost unbreakable, if in face the most beautiful quality in Clint.

Like Tony was so on the fence about coming back, and Clint feels bad for pushing him but he sees the path Tony is now on, sees the man is worth redeeming himself and earning back, and sees he has already proven he has what it takes, and just this is when Clint finds out original Iron Man was Tony Stark, so he's compounding two friends of his into one, and seeing a wholer picture, and he does feel guilty feeling he is pushing Tony back to Iron Man, but it's only because he loves the man so much, respects iron man and what he did for the world, for the avengers, and truly believes in Tony.

And then like the Hank panel, Hank is one of his oldest and longest friends and teammates, and he's seen Hank through a lot of dark times, so any time he gets to see Hank and his mind at work, and Hank have confidence in being able to figure something out and come up with a plan, a solution on the fly. It's what he admires about Hank. And he's always believed in (and yes I know we can talk about the treatment if Janet and everything and mental illness isn't an excuse but hank's is a major contributing factor and yes that is something blah blah not the post) this version of Hank. And respected him, and so just coming to Hank in this moment, (so much was going on in this era post civil war) and hearing him says "But I'll figure it out" and Clint's jusr immediate ability to just express this pride over Hank "God. I love you" and he just means it

And all these other panels. Like clint jumping on Steve's bed since he's been sent to go cheer the man up, and he just. He loves Steve, that's his true mentor, the person who helped heal Clint's father wounds without even realizing it (though Steve definitely realizes later on), and Steve's the guy he rides on the most in the beginning, but there are so many panels I could pull of just how much Steve matters and ugh. Ugh.

Clinton Francis Barton and how he is with people, how he is with affection and love. And just the faith and respect for people, and how he says it out loud.

"That's the Carol I had a crush on" just proud moment seeing her kick ass, take charge

Him meeting Cassie and seeing so much of Scott in her, and affirming how proud her father would be.

His excitement of seeing Pietro again and fighting along side him, even if these two do tend to rag on each other (its affectionate) he loves that man. That man is his brother.

The first one with Melissa, like that's him being a good team leader, that's him being able to read and understand people, being able to pick up on what's going on and say it out loud, and prove comfort.

And then just the way he readily betrays Shield (he was an agent at the time) for this New Avengers team, cause as he says they are friends and there is never any question in his mind on what he does. He'll take his friends' side, he'll chose them over anything other.

It's why Clint does tend to stay out avenger on avenger fighting, and hero on hero in general, because it's hard. It's friend vs friend and that's hard, when he always takes friends side. Its why coming back from the dead to the aftermath of civil war is rough, even when he's acquitted of killing Bruce he stays out of the civil war 2, pretty much hits the road and avoids it all.

This man is a people man and it shows so much, and he shows so much affection for his people.

( and I haven't even gotten into the sheer love and pride he has of Kate Bishop always )

[marcys-garbage-bunker00]

He instrad permanently remove shis ability to use his arms, lower jaw and weakens his legs to the point they are only useful for basic locomotion and otherwise his body is such a dysfunctional staye he might be alive, but he will neber be physically capable of harming you ever again!

Damn what if you told your dad he mispronounced a word during a zoom meeting and he disowned you for embarrassing him and told you you were only welcome back home if you found bigfoot so you spend three years travelling the world to find bigfoot but along the way you become friends with bigfoot and teach him how to fight so he beats up your dad for you

[angelcasendgame]

Omg Dean in 1x03 checks his blind spot before pulling into the street how times have changed

[travllingbunny]

Theory on how <SPOILER> from Agents of SHIELD came to be

Everything under the cut. Major spoilers for the latest Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode 4.15 “Self Control”, promos for the next arc (returning in April) and the title of the last arc (the remaining 7 episodes of season 4).

And I’ve just seen the news as I was finishing this post…

R.I.P. Bill Paxton. Just 61, that’s way too young to go. :(

As you all know if you’ve seen the latest AoS episode, it ended with some pretty huge and twisty (and twisted) revelations about the virtual reality universe created by Holden Radcliffe and Aida, called “The Framework”. Ya all no doubt also know that, thanks to that, you-know-who is returning to the show (cue hilarious fandom meltdowns over the last couple of days, just as you’d expect). And, just as I was hoping ever since the Framework was mentioned (and kind of guessing, since Chloe Bennet gave an interview a couple of weeks ago saying that episode 15 and the last arc was going to be awesome, mindblowing, and rewarding for fans who have been watching since season 1) it looks like we’re going to be spending a lot of time in the Framework - in fact, we’re obviously going to be spending the last 7 episodes at least partially in the Framework, because the last ‘pod’ (as they call those arcs now) is called…

Yep! That’s right! Earlier in the season when they mentioned Hydra in a pretty random context, I joked on another blog that the show just loves Hydra so much it doesn’t know how to quit it even when it’s dead - and boy, was I right, more than I knew! I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m absolutely loving this. Because it seems that, out of all variations of Hydra, this seems to be the Captain America: Winter Soldier, Alexander Pierce version of Hydra, which is the best one - it has never worked narratively as well as it did in CA:TWS,’when it was a blatant allegory for modern authoritarianism and US security policy of the 2000s (no matter how much many people may like to go with “rah rah Hydra are NAZIS!!!!” which is obviously incorrect, for those who have a basic clue about what National Socialist ideology is actually about) and in season 1 of AoS, when it was basically the dark side of SHIELD coming into the open, the other side of the same coin. Only now in this AU, this Hydra has apparently subsumed SHIELD and is out in the open and publicly accepted. 

Jed Whedon has confirmed that this is not just a shared virtual simulation, but a full-blown AU, because apparently the magic (?) of Darkhold has given Aida the ability to replicate the ‘real’ world perfectly - except for “fixing” just a few things to make the lives of those who are connected to the Framework better and less painful. Namely, they fixed the “greatest regret” of everyone whose brains Aida has scanned and connected them to the network (May, Coulson, Fitz, Mack, Mace, Radcliffe’s ex-girlfriend Agnes, and probably Radcliffe himself as well). As far as we know, or can guess, based on what was revealed earlier in the season, these are:

May - Bahrain (we saw it play out differently and get a “happy ending” in episode 4.11 “Wake Up”)

Coulson - joining SHIELD instead of having a normal life

Mack - obviously, his daughter dying

Fitz - probably something about his father; he eithe wishes he had a loving and supportive father, or a loving and supportive father figure growing up

Mace - based on all we know of him, he probably wishes he were an actual superhero

Agnes - ? I don’t know. Maybe she wishes she had never hooked up with Radcliffe?

And everyone else in that world is basically an avatar whose life turned out differently due to those changes. Whedon’s explanation about Darkhold serves how this AU is so elaborate, and to make these virtual people - like Framework Ward - seem more “real”. But Daisy and Simmons have now hacked into the Framework without having their brains scanned, so they are going to be inhabiting these version of themselves that would have existed under very different circumstances, without Aida having adjusted their memories accordingly. (Or at least Daisy will… Things may be a bit tricky with Simmons…)

Now here are some scenarios how it all came to be.

In this reality, the Hydra takeover may have happened in a more “peaceful” way. The events of Captain America: TWS only happened because of Cap’s actions. Maybe in this reality, without Coulson, the Avengers did not get to band together in time, and the crisis was actually resolved by the bombing of New York (this is not my idea, someone on Youtube brought up the bombing). Maybe Cap died, and never got to foil Pierce’s plans. Or maybe Cap was never even awakened from his sleep. In any case, it’s probably a result of Coulson not being in SHIELD.

So in this scenario, there may not have been a big Hydra/SHIELD showdown (the Triskelion is still standing, undamaged) - they were practically the same organization for decades, and SHIELD just transformed into Hydra, or Hydra subsumed SHIELD. Some people probably were quietly disposed of, and others may have gone underground (I have some ideas who may be among the latter, based on some filming spoilers), but there is no separate SHIELD organization still standing. And neither organization got the reputation of terrorist organization in the public - instead, this new Hydra, which I’m going to be calling SHydra, is out in the open publicly accepted.

Now, how would that happen? We know that the Inhumans are pretty much universally feared in the AU (kids are even taught in school to fear them), and that Hydra has successfully subsumed SHIELD and is now out in the public and accepted. Those two things could be connected. Some really catastrophic events and widespread fear of aliens and Inhumans - these threatening ‘others’ - could have gotten many people to decide that stricter security and tougher measures are needed, and Hydra used the fear and instability to convince people it’s necessary. (This would of course be incredibly ironic considering the goal for which Hydra was founded, which was to bring to Earth the most powerful and dangerous Inhuman of them all, but that was a secret kept even from many of the Hydra members.) Now, the fish oil thing presumably never happened, but the world may have become aware of the Inhumans in other ways - whether it’s just  through Katya and other who left Afterlife, or the Royal Family (incidentally, the subject of the upcoming Inhumans TV show) or some other Inhumans, or something else may have happened that  led to a lot of other people going throuth the Terrigenesis. There are ltos of different possibiltiies.

 And a lot of people within SHIELD and in the public decided that maybe that’s right, and freedom really wasn’t the main priority under these circumstances. After all, SHIELD (with Hydra in it) was already an organization that did things like kidnap citizens and bring them in for illegal interrogations, or recruit troubled and desperate teenagers by practically kidnapping straight from juvie, or send their agents on what were practically suicide missions, or secretly break into government facilities in various countries, killing everyone inside, in order to steal dangerous weapons because they thought it was safer in their hands, and then hoard those weapons instead of destroying them or sending them into space (which Fury was lying about to the operatives with security clearances under Level 9). And they almost launched Project INSIGHT. So why not take it to the next level, when the world is under such a threat?

(Incidentally, Project INSIGHT probably went as planned, which would mean that at least Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, as well as Stephen Strange, are dead, since they were among the targets.)

This is where May’s regret also comes in. Saving Katya was not a happy ending, unless you change her nature completely, since she was deranged and incredibly dangerous. Maybe she did all sorts of destructive things since (Bahrain happened several years ago) and was responsible for some of the fear of the Inhumans in the AU. Which could have made May all the more determined to fix things, with tougher methods and stricter security, if needed. She was already in season 1, when Coulson was insisting on icers instrad of killing, prone to saying things like, maybe it would be better if Chan Yo Hin did not survive, or telling Ward after his murder of Thomas Nash “You killed a man in cold blood! (…) Which would be OK, if you hadn’t killed the wrong guy!” And if May is Hydra, you know that she’s not in it for opportunistic reasons like Garrett, she’s not in it just for personal loyalty to one person, like Ward - she’s in it because she really think that’s the right way to go. 

In this reality, Daisy may still be called Skye and may not have superpowers, if she had not gone through Terrigenesis. I kind of want her to not have powers, as it would force her to do things more in the old-school way.

The SkyeWard of it is the easiest to explain. Coulson not being a part of SHIELD butterflied away all the reasons why tha relationship was doomed. This is a reality where Ward was not a double agent in the team Skye/Daisy was a part of, since without Coulson’s resurrection he had no reason to be (since that was all about Garrett giving him a mission to find out more about Coulson’s resurrection, so Garrett would find the “Jesus juice” to keep him alive), so there’s no personal betrayal or finding dead bodies of strangled agents. And, considering how much she was into Ward from the start, the only reason they were not together in mid-season 1 was because Ward was keeping his distance in order to be focused on the mission Garrett had given him, and opted for sleeping with May for tactical reasons (something he also wouldn’t need to do in the AU). In this reality, they got together and stayed together for the last 3-4 years, happily working together for SH…Hydra.

In the ‘real’ world, Skye/Daisy was recruited for SHIELD by Coulson and Ward. With no Coulson, she still could have been recruited by SHIELD (Hydra… SHydra). Maybe by May and Ward. In the normal reality, she was originally investigating SHIELD to find out about her origin and her parents, and that’s how she got their attention, and that may have happened here as well. Rewatching season 1, I was struck by how important Ward was in those early episodes for her growing closer to SHIELD (ironically enough) and away from the Rising Tide. It was second in importance only to the father/daughter relationship she immediately developed with Coulson. In season 3, she has admitted that a large part of the draw of SHIELD was that it was the only family she has ever had, and in episode 3.9 she said she could understand how Ward similarly needed a strong father figure (which he found in Garrett) and even how Garrett could draw him into Hydra, because she was fooled by her mother for a while. With all that in mind, it’s not that hard to imagine her becoming a part of SHydra, with May as a strong mother figure and Ward as boyfriend.

But now the Daisy with all the memories of things that have happened in seasons 1-4, has dropped into the life of that other Daisy/Skye who has had a completely different last few years… and boy, is she in for a surprise when she sees who her boyfriend is. And this Framework Ward, who has his personality but completely different memories of the last 4 years (pretty much the opposite of Hive), is going to be equally surprised when he sees her acting strange and not so happy to see him, and becoming almost a different person overnight.It’s going to be awk-ward, to say the least. And fun to watch, in a terrible way. Or terrible, in a fun way.

Fitz probably had a father figure in this reality and it resulted in him being much more confident than the real Fitz ever was, which has led to him becoming a genius billionaire (playboy philantropist). I like the idea thatRadcliffe designed a reality where he actually knew Fitz from an early age and was his father figure, both because he wanted it and because he thought it was what Fitz needed. Radcliffe’s influence may have made Fitz a lot more confident and successful, but maybe a also lot less ethical. He may be working for Hydra as a consultant, like Tony does for SHIELD in the ‘real’ world. (I don’t know who the woman with him was, but it would be fun if it’s Agnes - it would pay off the weird Aida/Fitz vibes from earlier in the season.) 

So, I’m going to guess that Agents of Hydra are:

May - one of SHydra’s leaders Ward and Daisy (probably still Skye) - SHydra agents Mace - he may be the Patriot, the public superhero face othe organization, SHydra’s version of Captain America Fitz -  SHydra’s version of Tony Stark Mack - not sure, but he may also be an agent (SHydra is out in the open and accepted and members may be able to lead more 'normal’ lives)

Now, Coulson is the only one we know for sure is a civilian - a school teacher. But they still need to find a way for him to be in contact with the others… If what RoboCoulson told RoboMay is true, that that Philinda are together in the Framework, maybe Coulson is May’s husband. They could have still met if he went to the SHIELD Academy but then opted not to join after all. He probably never met Audrey (because in the real world he met her because he was on an assignment to protect her from Marcus Daniels aka Blackout), and definitely didn’t meet Rosalind. May’s relationship with Andrew may have gone south, but for different reasons than in the real world. Maybe he didn’t like her new development. (Speaking of other characters, Lincoln is probably alive, but either in the Afterlife or being a doctor somewhere, and has never even met Daisy.)

…And then there’s Simmons, who is… dead? Or “dead”?

I’m not convinced she’s really dead. My first assumption was to assume she’s faked her death. It wouldn’t be the first time a character in MCU has done it. The reason I believe that is that I would be incredibly surprised if we did not see Elizabeth Henstridge in any of the Framework scenes, and I’m not sure how that would work if she has no Simmons avatar to embody.

But looking at the shot of the gravestone in HD, it says she died on 8 November (year can’t be seen). Could that mean she actually died in this AU during the events of FZZT (which aired on 5 November 2013, and AoS time seems to roughly correspond to real life timeline)? That would  mean that she died during the events of that episode, because Fitz was not there to encourage her to find the cure.

But then it would be hard to see what Simmons could do with a rotten corpse in a coffin as her only avatar (sorry for the image). She has no Willow to resurrect her if she is really dead.  So how exactly do you get Simmons/Liz Henstridge in the Framework?