I miss Dousy… and Fitzsimmons… and Philinda… and Skimmons… and Macklena… and Huntingbird… all of them I miss all of them send tweet

Okay during the very first watch of season one, was I the only one that was convinced that May was secretly Skye’s mother at first? Like her being all ‘she can’t know the truth’ and being weird about helping at first and stuff, I was deadass certain that it was going to be revealed that she was her mother.

And I mean she is her mother, biological or not idc that’s Daisy’s mum. But, that was genuinely my theory during my first time watching lmao.

I saw someone on tiktok say, “does anyone think about how over the course of the show, Coulson had to watch Daisy’s spark fade like May’s did after Bahrain?” and I’ve not recovered, frankly.

Look, there are a lot of scenes in AOS that absolutely tear my heart to shreds, but the one that personally gets me most? Daisy holding onto Coulson before he’s going to leave, when she’s crying her eyes out and she tells him that she loves him. Like my fucking godddd man. Instant tears. I’m genuinely gonna cry just thinking about it again.

Just when she finally found home, he was torn away from her like every other goddamn thing in her life. I could go off on an infinitely long rant but I’m gonna let myself out instead.

I wanna talk about Raina’s character for a second here, because she’s a character I really like for who she is and I don’t see her talked about nearly enough.

Did she do her fair share of bad things? Absolutely. She wasn’t some innocent hero with a strict set of pure morals (then again, none of the AOS characters were, and I stand by that). She lived for her and only her, and her one purpose was discovering who she really was, everyone else be damned. The world treated her horribly, so she adapted to that. After all, as far as she was concerned, why should she care about other people when they don’t care about her?

She was self-serving, manipulative and loyal to no one but herself, but I think that made for an interesting character.

Not to mention, in a way, I feel like she really redeemed herself in the end.

Like her death?

Raina’s power was literally her ability to see visions. She knew Jiaying was going to kill her on that bridge, but she also knew that Daisy would see the whole thing. Unlike what Raina is shown to be up until this point, she sacrificed herself so that Daisy would see the truth about her mother, and in turn, so would the rest of the Inhumans at Afterlife. Therefore, they’d have a chance to reverse Jiaying’s misdeeds and prevent a deadly outcome.

I think it’s really cool that in the end it’s shown that she wasn’t as selfish as everybody originally thought, and in her sacrifice, she proved said people wrong.

In all, I really enjoyed what Raina brought to the show. Her absence afterwards was actually really noticeable and sad at first, at least for me. Just sorta my take on her.

Bobbi being able to hold her own against and beat the absolute shit out of Ward and Kara by herself, after she was tortured for hours, still forever proves what an actual girl boss she is

Coulson and Daisy’s father/daughter relationship may be one of my favourite things ever, but no one talks enough about how much Cal adored Daisy too. Was his way of loving her unconventional? Yes. Was he extremely flawed? Absolutely, but he loved her so very much.

It has been half a decade since Agents of SHIELD ended and i still cannot believe they made the main character's endgame love interest the originally endgame love interest of a whole other show

“Yo-Yo’s so underrated” this, “Bobbi and Hunter deserved more” that…

What about my guy ENOCH??

Dude never gets enough recognition for anything. I adore him so very much. Little Chronicom bestie means the world to me.

Daniel Sousa @ Daisy Johnson

I feel like the fact that the show’s own therapist character ended up unwillingly turning into a big ol’ scary monster, losing his mind in the process then proceeding to die really is symbolism for how this show treats its characters and their mental health/trauma in general lmfao.

Not even the goddamn therapist was safe.

Dear whoever first said that Daisy saw Coulson- the real, non-LMD Coulson- in the “afterlife” so to speak when she died for those few moments in the finale… I’m in your walls.

Does anyone else think about the moment May would’ve had to call the team and inform them when Coulson finally passed away?

I like to think she called Daisy first, but I doubt that. I think she would’ve called Mack. I truly believe that she would’ve wanted him to be the one to break the news to the others, and be there for them when they found out Coulson was really gone. Daisy most of all.

Daisy, who would’ve most definitely immediately isolated herself to grieve alone regardless, because that’s how she deals with things like that (me too girl it’s fine)

I just can’t stop thinking about how they all would’ve felt. Yeah, they knew it was inevitable, but that wouldn’t have made it hurt any less when it did actually happen.

Imagine May’s eventual ride back to base without Coulson. Imagine her going back inside knowing that he’s not going to be there greet her, and he never would be again.

IT’S SICKENING. SICKENING, I TELL YOU.

Headcanon that Skye starts saying "ugh okay MOM" to May when May is being The Adult in all their various domesticy team situations (particularly as Skye's CO), at least once they are comfortable enough around each other to appreciate (read: good-naturedly tolerate) sarcasm from each other. But then by the time she's Daisy, the sarcasm is more half-hearted in her voice, warmer and barely covering the longing and unstated love. May's orders become more like motherly wisdom and her eye rolls are paired with her subtle smile. And eventually the pretense drops and what was once a jab and then an inside joke is now something like a nickname. And eventually, at the academy, everyone new in May's life assumes the photo on her desk is her daughter. And, she is. Maybe not something as formal as adoption and paperwork, nor even a fuzzy heartfelt conversation, but things with them didn't ever need formality to be real anyway. They know.

Potential TWs: mentions of s*icide/s*icidal thoughts.

Ultimately, in S4, I fully believe that Daisy ran away from the team to end her life.

She ran away so that the team would inevitably “give up on her”, so to speak, and that it wouldn’t hurt them as much when she did turn up dead.

I was inclined to call her actions passive suicide ideation at first, but it wasn’t even that. She was actively doing everything in her power to get herself killed, even if she wouldn’t admit it. Even if she had no plans to do it herself (that we know about), she was deliberately putting herself in those dangerous situations. She wanted them to kill her. Hell, she even begged Robbie/Ghost Rider to do it.

She begged him to kill her.

She was also in constant pain. The bone-restoration pills she was taking, as Jemma said, didn’t relieve pain. She wanted to be in pain. To feel it. Because she felt like she deserved it.

So, I can’t lie, it bothers me a little how quick Fitz and Mack are to just jump down her throat when they confront her in early S4. I understand that they’re upset at her for just abandoning ship, but I can’t really say that their anger is justified. She’s in SO much pain, and they know that. She was brainwashed by Hive- and left with lingering addiction/withdrawal-like effects. She lost Lincoln, the dude she loved. And worse, she blames herself for all of it. They know the pain that she’s in.

“She’s turned her back on us, Mack.”

No, she wants you to turn your back on her.

She wants you to give up on her.

That way, she can end her life without feeling more guilt for leaving the team behind. After all, they won’t care if they resent her for leaving, right?

It’s frustrating, and frankly just sad, that they couldn’t see that. (Meanwhile, Robbie picked up on it immediately and he was a literal stranger.)

It’s not that I blame them at all. After all, this is usually how it goes in real life too. Not a lot of people can recognise the signs until it’s too late. It’s realistic, if anything. But just… sad.

When Lance Hunter said "I'll take a bullet for any one of you. Not for the S.H.I.E.L.D. logo on the wall, for you." it broke my heart and at the same time completely healed it

Skye: "[...] since I failed my drivers test"

Me: baby you live in a van what do you mean you failed your test?!

(Of course she could have taken it again, but the idea that she's actually living in a van and driving without a licence is so much funnier and in character)