#soooooo much loooore

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Here is a longer synopsis for one of my main four Marvel OCs!

Name: Holly Legrand

Age: Biologically 23

Birthday: May 16th 1918

Faction: Rouge/SHIELD

Current Occupation: Sleeper agent for SHIELD (2012), traitor (2013-2025)

Likes: Her space, a loyal friend, plants, old fantasy movies.

Dislikes: Cars (she will absolutely LOSE it if she sees one), large crowds, loud noises, music.

Powers: Mind reading (specifically thought hearing; she can’t go into people’s heads, she just kinda hears their thoughts as they happen).

Languages: ASL, Allspeak

Friends: Nick Fury, Iris, Hawkeye, Steve Rogers (when they were kids).

Belief: She believes the only truly trustworthy people are the transparent ones. That’s why she likes Iris; she perceives her to be shallow and easy to read. The only exception is Nick Fury.

Achilles Heel: She is near incapable in loud situations. She gets overstimulated quite easily.

Here is a drawing by RJ Peirce! The design is mine, but she really helped it come to life!

Excessive lore below the cut:

Plot Synopsis (p1):

Holly Legrand is the daughter of a Varient Asgardian sorcerer whose timeline was long since destroyed, and a blacklisted TVA agent. She has one sibling: Gray, her older brother, two years her senior. She was born in the early 1900s, and thanks to her dubious parentage, her biological aging is slow. She grows up on Earth, with little knowledge about her mother’s planet.

She is only eight (biologically) when the TVA catches wind of the anomalies hidden in this timeline, around the 1930s. Due to a car crash, she is, unfortunately, the victim of a large misunderstanding that leaves her in FBI custody(and later SHIELD, when it is formed) and believing her family is dead, and vice versa.

Due to injuries sustained due to the crash, she loses her voice. Her powers also surface then: she can now hear other people’s thoughts. However, no one bothers to teach her sign language, and she never hints towards her powers at all, so the FBI remains unaware.

She grows up in SHIELD custody for most of her life, basically abandoned in a bunker, as she is mostly left alone, excepting the occasional curious team of scientists every decade or so. Take note that at this time, they have no idea Asgardians exist, so she is pretty strange to them.

She is so classified that hardly anyone knows of her.

And then, in the 80s, she meets Nick Fury. He quickly becomes a friend and a huge advocate for releasing her from the cesspool of bureaucratic nonsense she is trapped in. He also teaches her sign language, and opens up a whole new world for the now 23-year-old. Unfortunately, his efforts are largely ignored by SHIELD even after he becomes the director, and it is only in 2012 that he can secure a deal: if Holly can undergo training and excel on certain missions, she can live as a sleeper agent in the civilian world. However, Holly struggles with various mental problems, as being left alone, without language or any real friends took a toll on her, and her trust only extends to Nick Fury, and, eventually, Iris.

A few months before the mission, undergoing some basic preliminary training, she meets Iris, another young agent around 20 years of age. They strike up a deep friendship that eventually results in the two of them being assigned to the New Mexico impact site, under the watchful eye of Phil Coulson.

Holly struggles with keeping her powers hidden (as it is a lot harder to focus with the thoughts of so many people around her), and adjusting to this suddenly huge new world.

She participates in a few mundane background tasks, and helps empty Jane Foster’s lab, witnessing the confrontation between Coulson and Foster. She later gets into an argument with Coulson over the ethics of stealing Foster’s work, but she is unable to convince him of anything.

She witnesses Thor break into the facility, and is rooting for him the whole way. When he fails, however, to lift the hammer, it’s the last straw.

She has a flashback triggered by a passing truck, and loses it, sprinting out of the site before anyone can stop her. She only stops running when she reaches a road, and considers, briefly, ending it, before she is stopped and talked down by Clint Barton. They have a heavy conversation dealing with if Holly will ever leave SHIELD’s grasp entirely, and Barton convinces her that there are, in fact, many people rooting for her, and that’s a reason to stick around.

Then, they return to the site, and Holly has to awkwardly explain about her powers to both Iris and Coulson, as they had grown suspicious of how unfortunately intuitive she was about the whole situation (she knew where Thor was heading, she knew random information on Foster that she wasn’t supposed to know, etc.). Iris feels betrayed, and eventually tells Holly that they are done being friends, and that she wants nothing to do with her.

Holly is really shattered, and returns to SHIELD soon after the confrontation. She is told that she did a tolerable job, and after one more year of training under Barton’s supervision, she can lead a civilian life. Unfortunately, now most important people in the organization know of her powers, and the World Security Council is probably plotting something nefarious for her.

I’ll work on part two and get it out soon! Loooots of lore on this one. :)