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DC has brought us comic book accurate superman.

Yk what that means marvel? BRING BACK AGENTS OF SHIELD, INCLUDING THE OG WRITERS AND SHOWRUNNERS AND PRODUCERSSSS.

agents of shield was ahead of its time because they understood the trauma of liking a cute white guy only for him to end up being a fucking nazi

I could probably yap about wards' character development and as much as I love his character he would not have been as memorable or great if they gave him a redemption arc in season 2 and I'm so glad they didn't.

It would be a different story if they prolonged the Hydra arc over, say, the first 3 seasons and had him be a reoccurring character similar to Zuko from Atla then a redemption arc would have made sense.

BUT IM SO GLAD THEY DIDNT BECAUSE HIS CHARACTER IS SO INTERESTING

He's probably one of my favourite antagonist characters. Purely because that boy was for himself and himself ALONE.

I am convinced that if Shield had the upper hand over Hydra after the events at the end of season 1 HE WOULD HAVE 100% surrendered and been like "you guys have shown me the light and meaning in teamwork and family 🥹"

His motive was I had to do what I had to do to ensure my survival and no one can convince me to do otherwise.

I also don't believe he truly loved Skye. I think he saw that they had commonality. ALSO, she saw him as a "good guy" and "saviour" she was one of the last to find out he was a traitor so I bet he thought he could manipulate her into believing him and continuing to worship him as a good guy. BUT Skye is smarter than he credited her for, and also, she's more loyal than he gave her credit for. He's the type to be loyal to a person. She's the type to be loyal to a family. Because that's all she ever wanted. And that was his mistake in believing that she would remain loyal to him alone.

Also him repeatedly trying to redeem himself in season 2 was just because he realised that him being with family was better than him being alone and except he realised that way too late.

Ward was

We were both fucked up EXCEPT I healed and you got worse.

There are three kinds of love:

A passionate love - Lincoln

A lasting, committed love - Sousa

A FUCKING NAZI - Ward

A novel by Daisy Johnson

-Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Original 6 team, moodboards (colour+aesthetic)

Ahhh, they look so cool like this! Fine, I'll post them like this, but in the morning I'm gonna post each one in the order I made them, and give a fun little breakdown of the aesthetic and colour choice. :))

Yoyo went from irritating me to being the only one making sense regarding coulson. She was the only one who didn't allow her emotions to cloud her judgement regarding him and the situation at stake. Funnily enough he would have had the exact same feelings regarding the situation, same with season 1 May.

Wtf is this downward spiral yo-yos character is going in. Her and Simmons keep doing shit they aren't supposed to because "they can't die" You sound like you're in a manic episode . Like can someone explain.

Agents of shield confession:

I HEAVILY shipped ward and sky for season 1

In my defense I was like 12 and didn't understand toxic relationships

ALSO may and ward are an odd combo ik it was only sex but still from the beginning I was like Coulson is her man that's her husband.

I know it’s a tv show but how the fuck did Daisy have the time to get ready, curl her hair, makeup, every morning and then go on a mission? Like I struggle to get out of bed sometimes. Girl was on a different level, they all were.

Rewatching season 1 of agents of shield with my mom, and it's got me thinking about the daisy and ward parallels. (Also, given me an edit idea more on that later I BEG an editor sees this)

They both didn't have the best childhoods. They both were lost for some time. They both represent who they would have turned out to be had they been taken in by different people. And it's just so

Anyways the edit idea:

Audio: The winner takes it all meryl streeps version, specifically the movie version NOT the studio version. Any point of the song works, but maybe the last part would be best, where she belts the winner takes it all and then there's the ABBA backing vocals.

Visual:

so the winner takes it all - daisy becoming an agent, idfk some cool shots of her

And the loser has to fall - ward dying

I think it'll tug at the heartstrings and be super sad and just yeah SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN I BEG

THEY BAMBOOZLED ME WHAT THE HECK

NO ONE WARNED ME THAT FITZ DIES WHAT THE FUCK

I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS

Coulson and Mack are so funny for telling Deke yes we do leave lemons on people's bed to tell them we like them exactly like you guys do in the future you should do that to daisy.

Wtf is this downward spiral yo-yos character is going in. Her and Simmons keep doing shit they aren't supposed to because "they can't die" You sound like you're in a manic episode . Like can someone explain.

DEKE IS SO FUNNY.

He's what the show needed

No gets how funny their interactions are because he's so nauseatingly apologetic yet fake at the same time and she's so rightfully done with his bullshit she's just like kys or ill do it for you to his face

I wish more people in the Agents of SHIELD fandom were appreciative of the canon Daisy and Ward dynamic in the same way I am. Like. I think a lot (or even most, really) of folks are in the "Get a job stay away from her" camp. Meanwhile I fully think the writers should've locked those two in a room together until it got real awful. I wanted to see her beat him to death. It would've been awesome.

⬆️ my ideal Daisy and Ward interaction.

I'll never get over them

“What’s your favorite horror movie?”

I don’t know, maybe when they both realized the communication from the zephyr cut out and Daisy didn’t get to say I love you back to Lincoln.

I am literally so happy that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. wasn't made in this era of television, like... the amount of episodes we wouldn't get?

We would have 8 episodes, maybe thirteen if we're lucky, but it would both stretch out the plot too thin while also not giving it not enough development. So many things would be cut out, so many perfect iconic moments we look back on today would be gone to fit the tight runtime

Oh, and then it would end on a cliffhanger only for it to get cancelled a month later cause it didn't reach those ridiculous streaming numbers

(And if it didn't get cancelled, it would take two years to make the second season)

Bring back 22 episode shows

I know everyone in the fandom is very Anti ward but uh.

I love him. He's so fucking funny it's like he didn't like them but somehow COULD NOT stay away from the team. He spent months being like "skye please forgive me I can tell you where your father is 🥹" and the entire she's like no and shoots him or tells him to jump. AND THIS MAN DOES NOT STOP. WHEN WE THOUGHT HE DIED? NOPE HIVE. but like not the same unfortunately. If we could have had him pop in and out of the show throughout either helping (to work towards his own gain) or being an opponent i would have been happy. (Like for example finding out he brokered the deal to exchange the Inhumans for the whole future space arc)

I think what really sold Grant Ward being a double agent was that the actor was genuinely acting for the first few episodes. Apparently they only told Brett Dalton about the plot twist the day before filming it so his interactions with the team feel authentic.

I don't think I'll ever be able to wrap my brain around how clever the Ward plot twist is

Bc what the writers do, in regards to a "wolf in the herd", is draw all suspicion off him by having him screw up the past episode. By killing the fake Clairvoyant, "for Skye", the other characters treat him accordingly: he's locked up. He's in a cell when the others learn about HYDRA, and given what he just did, no one (characters & audience) is questioning whether he's really S.H.I.E.L.D.

And so we point fingers at everyone else. Coulson is an obvious no, and unless Skye feels like switching again, she's a no. May feels far too obvious, and Fitz seems as far removed from HYDRA as possible

In fact, the one we all start to suspect is Trip. He only showed up a few episodes ago, and he suddenly gets along with everyone. Not only did he train under Garrett, but he's the one who's with Simmons at the Hub. And everyone is being secretive, everyone's anxious, and Trip certainly doesn't plan on being taken out. Since it's told largely from Simmons' pov during her parts, we're the ones seeing her fear, her cautiousness. Her whole "I can't trust anyone" thing. Trip seems suspicious

And he seems suspicious enough that we don't see the true wolf, the one who's been with the team the whole time

DEKE BEING THE GRANDSON OF JEMMA AND LEOPOLD???? (S5EP12) IM CRYING I CANT I KNEW HE WAS RELATED TO SOMEONE BUT FITZSIMMONS MY BABIES? UGH I LOVE IT. AGENTS OF SHIELD YOU WILL FOREVER BE SUPERIOR

I ALWAYS KNEW THEYD GET MARRIED THEY WERE GIVEN A SHIPNAME FROM EPISODE 1 ALREADY

INTRO POST!!!

Hi! Don't mind the entire revamp of the blog. Y'all can call me Viie. I'm a writer and an artist, and I'm currently primarily writing for Haikyuu! I used to write for Marvel and Agents of SHIELD too but I’m retired now. Feel free to hmu about that too though!

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★ my tag system is a bit messy and I'm still transitioning back to using this blog but over all three blogs, #my art will be for my art stuff and #my fics will be for my writing stuff!

★ I'll be most active on @cuttycrumbing , so my writing updates will originate from there and most of my older art will be there too

★ this blog is more active than it used to before! Mostly going to be posts about Haikyuu honestly but some reblogs of other fandoms or just general stuff can end up here too!

★ feel free to DM me! I'm usually always up for a chat ›››› I'm usually active 8am to 10pm PDT though so there's a good ten hours when I'm dead to the world lol

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Masterlist below the cut! * for unfinished works/series

HAIKYUU - under aishi

The HQ oneshot collection

★: Setter Squad Shenanigans*

The One Where They Wear Cheerleader Uniforms

★: A Very Merry... Something*

A Very Merry Christmas A Very Merry New Year

★: Semishira Week 2025*

you're here, that's the thing Of Roommates And Rose Petals Something To Be Proven Semi and Shirabu's Second Marriage How You Get The Guy A Guide On How NOT To Make Your Kouhai Jealous TBA

★: multichapters and longfics

library lunch dates (and the sort) a chemical change in the brain pretty "You can take a breath." Ushijima Wakatoshi is Not Invincible* The Funny Thing About Hope* The Dreams of One Tendou Satori* demi et demi* TBA TBA TBA

YURI ON ICE - under vitka

The YOI oneshot collection

★: multichapters and longfics

We're gonna make it all come true*

MARVEL [Agents of SHIELD] - under mayisms

The AOS oneshot collection

★: sunglasses, leather jackets, and laptops

sunglasses and leather jackets A Lesson In Bacon "Tell me where it hurts." Mother's Day The Next Big Thing City of Angels The World We Knew (Over and Over) voice (one day) What A Wonderful World*

★: Mayday 2024

Before I Was A Monster your little hand's wrapped around my finger (and it's so quiet in the world tonight) 4 times Skye/Daisy almost called May 'Mom' (+ 1 time she did) Just Us To Know* Mayday

★: The Philindaisy Playlist

Here Comes The Sun Yesterday You're On Your Own, Kid Somewhere Only We Know More Than Words I Will

★: heartstrings

How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You The Best Is Yet To Come

★: multichapters and longfics

What Happened In Vegas Homework Buddies Timeless somewhere in the multiverse*

MISCELLANEOUS - under reviiely and others

Fics written for other fandoms that are gifts or for experimentation

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Dreamland [Tadaima Okaeri | Welcome Home (manga)] in the darkness, there is light [Arcane: League of Legends (cartoon 2021)]

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If you're all the way down here, thanks for reading this whole thing, I guess?

thank u for everything uve given us so far!

just to tack on to the latest anon ask — what’s mays and daisies reaction when they finds out daisy died in that alternate future?

Hi Anon!

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The show: Daisy, you’re dead.

Daisy: Oh cool, finally!

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Coulson: I see, I see, hey, I wanna talk to your manager and tell them what a horrible job you’re doing telling us about our future.

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

May: What took her down?

The show: Herself.

May: So she won. Good.

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Simmons: Oh, drat, not another one.

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Mack: ????

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Yo-yo: Not again.

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Fitz: I knew that.

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The show: Daisy’s dead.

Deke: Yeah, no shit. (Insert infodump about the Destroyer of Worlds.)

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In all honesty, I didn’t plan that far. I hope you found this funny though.

Good morning!! Don’t mind me giving an ask literally less than ten min after you posted lmao—

Very intrigued by your post-tahiti cal & daisy dynamic, I like that he’s still in her life even after all… that that was s2.

I’m more curious about why daisy decided to run away after the whole hive debacle? Was it for the same reasons as in canon?

Also, the last dot point also rose a mental flag in my angst-infested brain — does daisy ever mistake cal for coulson when she’s sick?

First of all, as always, hi Anon! I do not mind you asking me so soon— I love it when people talk to me so this is awesome.

YES SOMEONE ASKED ME ABOUT WHY SHE RAN AWAY FINALLY HAHA!!! I have dialogue written. It wouldn’t have seen the light of day if not for you. Thank you. Thank you so much.

As for your last question, Daisy never mistakes Cal for Coulson. She drew a line between them a long time ago, and she never crosses it, not even by mistake. The reason she rambles is that her brain knows that she trusts Cal. She just… doesn’t remember why she didn’t tell him before. So she then tells him everything that she can think of. She also has a habit of calling him ‘Doc’ and he finds it very endearing.

ONTO THE MAIN EVENT!!!! ITS SUPER DIALOGUE HEAVY IM SORRY BUT VOILA HAVE IT. IT ALSO HAS SOME CONSISTENCY MISTAKES BUT. IGNORE THAT. ILL FIX IT IN A LATER POST.

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(Post season 3 finale.)

(In Daisy’s room.)

The room felt empty. Her mother and she were inside, but it felt empty. Since Daisy got her powers, everywhere had this sort of buzz, with the volume of it increasing with the number of people around her. The room was quiet. Lincoln’s absence haunted it.

“I think…” Daisy’s voice sounded foreign to herself. “I think it hurts more because I thought we could’ve had something.”

May understood. She always did. “Like what?” her mother asked gently.

“I don’t know,” Daisy admitted. “A future, maybe. I had this thought that maybe after all this was over, we would come home and have a drink and laugh about that time we almost died. Maybe even a life outside of SHIELD. But I…”

“Mm.”

“Last night, I had this dream.”

A beat.

“What did you dream?”

“It was just a regular day. A chill one. No ops, no paperwork, just the kind of day that we could do regular things. Me and him, we had lunch and we sparred and just… spent the day together. We went to sleep and he was next to me, but when I woke up, he wasn’t. For a minute, I let myself think that he just got up early and went to the bathroom or to get us breakfast. I laid there for an hour, pretending that he wasn’t really gone, that he’d be back any minute with a smile or food or anything. I just wanted…”

“Him.”

“Yeah.” Daisy stared at her hands. They blurred as her eyes welled. She didn’t like that. “I don’t think I can stay here anymore. Everything reminds me of him and it hurts. So much. Every hallway, every room, even the cells, they… I just can’t be here anymore.”

“So don’t.”

“What?”

“Don’t be here. Take a little time to yourself. No one’s going to blame you. Not even if you never come back.”

“But…”

“We’ll survive without you. We’ll miss you, but we’ll survive.” May squeezed Daisy’s hands gently. “Phil’s going to relegitimize the agency. He’s handing over the reigns to the government.”

That got her attention. “What?”

“He’s stepping down as a director. This time next month, he’ll be a field agent just like you and me. We’ll get to pick our own assignments. The three of us, we can stick together. Just like old days.”

As much as she wanted to… “I can’t.”

“I understand. We’ll keep your room locked.”

“I might not come back.”

“I know. But just in case. You never know.”

“I’m sorry, Mom.”

“It’s okay. Just promise me you’ll take care of yourself out there.”

“Promise.”

Daisy lied as easily as breathing, these days.

Omigoodness hello!! I just found out you have a tumblr and I was so happy to see some AoS stuff posted here! I definitely didn’t binge through all of them when I still have an assignment due in 52 minutes… haha… not at all…

Something did pique my interest tho!! You mentioned Cal having an ‘angry conversation with Phil and May over how they handled Skye/Daisy’s situation’? I’m super curious what you meant by that! So could I please ask for maybe just a few more crumbs? 🥹🥹

Hope you have a great day! x

Hi Anon! Always lovely to hear from one of y’all. I’m glad to hear that you liked my stuff!

• when Skye/Daisy runs away from SHIELD after Lincoln’s death (yes, I was still gonna kill him), she constantly seeks refuge in Cal’s vet place, to the point where he becomes a trusted confidant. Eventually, he remeets Coulson and May, and has a sort of angry conversation for how they handled Skye/Daisy’s situation.

So! I actually really like the post-TAHITI protocol Cal and post-s3 Daisy dynamic that I made for them. Here’s a few things to start so y’all have all the context you need:

- Cal’s post-op name is Dr. John Winslow (DVM)

- Daisy first showed up after getting in a fight with the Watchdogs, she’s badly beaten up, she doesn’t know where to go, and the first place she thinks of is the clinic.

- She ends up passed out in the alleyway behind the building, and Dr. Winslow finds her and helps her clean up and patches her wounds.

- Daisy doesn’t confide in him at first because she’s afraid that too much info will override the procedure, but over time, she lets go.

- Dr. Winslow feeds her, cleans and patches her up as needed, and is generally very understanding. He’s basically Cal if nothing bad ever happened to him, and Daisy wonders if this is what it would’ve been like to grow up as his daughter.

- For a short period of time, she even lives with him in his apartment above the clinic. Dr. Winslow says it’s to keep her out of trouble, but it was actually because Daisy was slowly slipping into a depressive episode, and he wanted to keep an eye on her.

- Daisy learns to cook from him. Coulson tried to teach her, but it never stays. Dr. Winslow teaches her very simple things, starting with how to make rice and a simple broth to tide her over until her next meal (> this makes Coulson a teensy bit jealous. Just a teeny bit.)

- She reveals her powers to him after a few hours of knowing him. There’s no way of explaining her injuries without it, and something in her just trusts him. She was afraid of how he might react, but Dr. Winslow just nodded and offered her a drink.

- Daisy talks about her parents (Coulson and May) a lot, once even venting to Dr. Winslow about them when she was delirious from a fever. This is when he gets a bad impression of them, but he still respects that if she loves them as parents, he’ll be nice to them.

Basically, Daisy healing from her biological daddy issues. Because yes. Girl needs that. The ficlet will come later, probably. We’ll see.

Hello, different anon to… both of the earlier ones lol.

Delighted to see you back with Maydaisy Universe crumbs!

I do have a small question, though: Why and when does Skye start going by Daisy? (And bonus question: how does May feel about it?)

I love the universe you’ve created so much and I have a good many scenes that I’d like to ask what your versions would be like, but I’ll hold myself back for now 😅 (Oh but please don’t feel pressured to write anything, I just wanted to express my appreciation 😊.)

Thank you in advance if you decide to answer this, and I hope you have a lovely day! xx

Hi, different Anon! Happy to hear from you!

Before we start, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent me asks because this is the most productive I've been in weeks, and please, please, please, send me more of these! Send as many as you want, and I'll try my best to fulfill all of them. I love seeing these in my inbox every day. Feel free to send me a text or comment on any of these as well, since I'm starved of interaction. I don't plan on posting any of these onto ao3, so little ficlets are all you'll get from me for now.

Onto the main event!

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(2x22: SOS pt. 2)

(In the bunks.)

May hovered nervously at the door. Skye had said that she wanted to talk about something. It had been years since the last time they had this sort of talk, but May still knew the ritual. She'd let Skye know that she was outside her door with some sort of snack (Phil made them hot chocolate this time) and wait until the door opened so she could go in and they could start. Talking.

The door swung open, and May went in, walking around the bed to the side that faced the wall. Skye was sitting with her back against the side of the bed, accepting the mug of hot chocolate that was offered to her.

May settled down next to her, shoulder to shoulder. They both stared aimlessly at the wall in front of them.

"I'm fine," Skye began, and they both knew that was a lie. "I'm not... feeling weird or panicky or anything. I just sent Ward and Kara off with Cal for their trip to LA. Cal's... he's very excited to see his clinic."

Her mother hummed softly. "And you? Are you..." She sighed. "How did your talk go with him? Before the procedure."

Skye fidgeted with her hands. It was a nervous habit, one that she had learned to suppress on most occasions. "It was fine," she replied. "He told me about my past. Uh..." She quirked up the corner of her mouth, sparing a glance at the agent next to her. "Apparently, I liked applesauce over bananas and my grandparents are dead."

May huffed a laugh.

"He told me my name, too." Skye's hands fiddled with themselves. Nervous habit. "My full name. Apparently, they never gave me one in Chinese because we were going to move back to the States."

"What is it?" May asked after a moment. "Your real name."

"Daisy Louise Johnson," Skye said, her smile twisting around the words. "Not sure where the Louise part comes from. Maybe a grandma or a great-aunt."

May nodded. She took a sip of her hot chocolate. "Are you going to keep it?" she asked. "Change it back?"

Skye shrugged lightly. "I'm not sure. I wanted to, uh..." She shifted closer to May. "Ask you first."

"It'll take some getting used to," was the first thing out of May's mouth. "Phil will have the hardest time out of all of us. But I think you can do it. It's your decision."

Skye drained her mug, placing it on her bedside table before she spoke again. "I think..." She hesitated. "I think I might want to. But I want to change some things as well. Because-" Skye swallowed nervously- "Well, I wanted it to mean something."

Avoiding May's eyes, she passed her mother a notepad with three words scribbled on it hastily over and over again, like Skye was practicing her signature.

May traced her fingertip over the clearest three, eyes curious and processing what had been presented to her.

'Daisy May Johnson'.

Oh.

Oh, I see.

May glanced at her daughter, who’d taken to staring at the floor and picking at her hands absent-mindedly. “I think it suits you,” she said quietly.

Skye was quick to look up at her, a small smile blooming on her face. “You really think so?”

May pulled the girl closer, breathing it in. They had a long few months. This… this felt like the natural conclusion and a new doorway for them to step through. “Yeah, I do,” she said. “You want to tell Phil, or should I?”

Skye chuckled. “I think I’ll tell him, but can you be there?” She buried her head in May’s shoulder. “He’s gonna be all weird about it until you say it’s not weird.”

“Of course.” May leaned her head on Skye’s. “Thank you.”

Skye hummed. “For what?”

“Keeping me with you.” May squeezed Skye’s hand. “Me and Phil, we wanted to talk to you about what we talked about after you found your parents, but it might not be the right time.”

Her daughter smiled softly. “I don’t think it is,” she said. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. You’re…” May held Skye tighter. Well, she’d have to stop calling her ‘Skye’ in her head soon. She’ll make the switch once it’s official. “I’m glad to have you as you are.”

Skye tapped her hand twice, the one she was holding.

I love you.

May let herself relax for a moment, and let the silence blanket them like she used to tuck Skye in.

It’ll be a change, but for her daughter, it was worth it.

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The MayDaisy !!! Still as good as the last time I read it from your universe ! Thank you so much for all the crumbs !!

If you don’t mind, could I ask that you expand a bit more on Skye and May’s reactions to Skye getting powers ?? Like if Skye was worried about how May would react, or if May was worried that her little girl was gonna turn out like that little girl in Bahrain ???

Hi Anon! I'm not sure if you're the same one from yesterday, but you're welcome all the same.

Now to the main event: Skye's powers and how they come to light!

I don't especially feel like writing this, mostly cause I'm still a little blocked and I'm not really sure how it would go, but here's the next best thing (AKA me forcing the words out and hoping it sounds fine).

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(2x11: Aftershocks)

(In the quarantine room.)

"Hey."

Skye glanced up from her hands. "Hey," she croaked. "What's up?"

May slid inside the glass box. Skye wanted to protest, but the words died in her throat when she saw Fitz nod at her from the outside. May tapped her hand. "Feeling like you’ve been in that glass box your whole life yet?" her mother asked her. "You doing okay?"

Skye nodded. "Yeah, yeah. I- I just…" She sighed. "I feel isolated and exposed at the same time. Being a caged animal is no fun." She cracked a small smile. "I'm used to it."

"I wish you weren't." May held onto her hand gently, like she was afraid that Skye had changed in that chamber, like she'd become glass. In a way, she kind of had. "Fitz said that you had something to tell me."

Skye didn't need to look up to see the engineer sitting by the door, effectively guarding them inside the soundproof box. Instead, she looked up at May.

"Please don't be... I don't know, mad, or something. " I don't want you to leave. "I didn't hide this from you. I barely... I found out from Fitz maybe an hour ago." Please don't be mad. Please, please, don't be mad. Please don't hate me. Please don't hate me because I changed. Please don't flinch. You never flinch. Skye swallowed. "I, uh..."

May tilted her chin up so that their eyes would meet, gazing at her, through her, and Skye knew that the jig was up. May could read her like an open book. May knew that something was wrong with her. May knew.

Skye's eyes burned. Her lungs burned. She squeezed her eyelids shut as tears came unbidden to the surface, and she clutched May's hand like a lifeline. She couldn't breathe.

Please don't hate me. Please don't go.

"Hey, hey, angel..." May's quiet voice came to her like a light in the fog. "Hey. Can you take a deep breath for me?"

She gulped in air, but it only made her more dizzy. She held onto May tighter.

"Can you open your eyes for me?" The world was too bright. She hated the lab. She hated how pristine and bright it was. "Good, thank you. Can you name me five things you can see?" Stupid fucking bright lights, stupid lab, stupid powers, stupid brain. "Skye?"

"Fitz, the lights, the lab..." She squinted. "The potted plant over there. You."

May tapped her hand twice. I love you. "Okay," she said, "what's four things you can touch?"

They went through the exercise, and only when Skye finally forced some water down her throat, did May let them talk about it. Her. Her powers.

"So." Skye swallowed slightly. Cracked a smile. "Where were we?"

"Don't." May gave her that look. "Don't do that."

Skye let out a small breath. "Well, what do you want me to do?" she demanded quietly. "What do you want me to say? 'Sorry for having a panic attack, please hold, I'll be right with you'? 'I have weird powers that make things explode and I have both survivor's guilt and regular guilt about killing one of my closest friends'? 'I feel like a murderer and like I'm truly, truly, my biological father's daughter'? Do you want me to say that?"

The silence between them hung heavily in the air. Skye's chest was heaving. I fucked up. I fucked up. This is bad. Fuck.

When May didn't say anything else, Skye dared to look up, finding her mother just staring at her. No heat. No anger, no sadness, just her eyes boring into Skye's soul. Skye knew that look. It was the one May got whenever she was thinking about Bahrain. She used to babble happy conversations to that look, trying to ease it away from her mother's face in time for dinner.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "For becoming this way."

May's face slowly melted back into her careful neutral. She tapped Skye's hand, once, twice. I'm sorry. I love you.

"Don't be sorry," May said after another moment. She held onto Skye as tightly as she could. "You're still who you are, powers or no powers."

"I'm different now," Skye protested.

"That may be true, but that's not all there is to you, is it?" May studied her expression. Skye felt her eyes rove over her face. "You're not just your powers. You're my daughter. You're Phil's daughter. You run this base. You're a genius in CS. You're one hell of an agent." May squeezed her hand again. "You're still you. Now with added..."

"Danger," Skye finished.

"Impact," May countered. Skye could see her mother wavering. She hated it, hated that she was the cause of it. "Once we get these powers of yours under control, they're just another tool in your toolbox."

"I'm a ticking time bomb."

"You're more than just a ticking time bomb."

"I'm still a ticking time bomb, even if I'm more than that."

Skye tried to pull away, but May held firm.

"You can learn how to control them," her mother said firmly. "And you will. I have faith that you will."

"What if I can't?" Skye asked. There was a buzz underneath her skin, like everything had been freshly slapped and blood was rushing to the surface. She wondered what that meant. "What if I hurt people? What if I..."

Repeat what happened down in the underground city, destroy lives and people and beliefs, turn into the girl that you have to take out to save everyone else, force us into a second Bahrain. What then?

"We can get through this," May said, knowing everything that passed through Skye's mind. "I trust you."

Skye knew her mother wasn't lying to her, but it seemed as if that she had misplaced beliefs. It wouldn't be the first time. It probably wouldn't be the last.

"Okay," she said anyway. "I trust you, too."

Jealousy

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Rating: General

Words: 300

Summary:

May understood that Skye wasn’t her daughter. Kind of.

Series: sunglasses, leather jackets, and laptops

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May wasn’t the type to get jealous. She really wasn’t. She was the type to know her worth and her place and her standing in things. She didn’t get jealous.

But.

She’d taken care of Skye for almost seven years now. That’s got to count for something, right? Not that anything was transactional, but May had earned the right to call herself Skye’s mother. Right? Skye asked for it. She’d made that dinner, had that talk, asked that question. She wanted to call May ‘Mom’. May had said yes. She had been apprehensive, but she’d said yes.

So she was allowed to be jealous. Which she wasn’t. May wasn’t jealous that Jiaying could just waltz back into Skye’s life and just be her mother. She wasn’t jealous that Skye could just call her ‘Mom’, just like that. May knew that what Skye and Jiaying had was blood, understood that her and Skye’s bond never stood a chance against what the girl had been searching for her entire life.

She wasn’t jealous.

Except, she kind of was.

This is something more important than yourself, May reminded herself. This isn’t some petty grudge you have against some old rival. This is Skye. She deserves the best you can give. If Jiaying is what she wants, you’re going to let her go peacefully, dammit. Don’t make things harder than they already are.

May calmed herself down. This was worth the fuss, but she couldn’t be difficult. She had to be the bigger person and be good and be diplomatic, if not for anything or anyone then for Skye.

So, she said, “I hope your mother is everything you wanted her to be.”

So, she gave Skye a hug, hoping to convey everything that she couldn’t put to words.

So, she let Skye go.

The MayDaisy Universe Pt. 2

Stuff from the notes file that I forgot I had until I went back for inspo.

• Fitzsimmons doesn’t recognize Skye because they were transferred to the Hub shortly after they met her.

• Skye knows a little bit about Bahrain. May told her after the events of Adoption Day.

• Skye carries zip ties with her everywhere.

• May is always a little quieter during the Bahrain anniversary. Only Skye can coax a conversation out of her.

•The two of them are even more closely bonded after Skye gets her powers.

• If Coulson gets a concussion, he always calls Skye (as Daisy) Skye again. If he can’t remember, he calls her Angel Eyes.

• May partially blames herself for Skye getting shot.

• Skye (as Daisy) often answers to Skye and Mary Sue when she’s distracted. She won’t respond to Daisy until she grows more into the name.

• May only sleeps with Ward so she can get over Coulson, which backfires because she now wishes that it was Coulson she was having sex with and not some upstart twenty-eight year old.

• Skye was an agent trainee though she will still answer to cadet if it was said strictly enough.

• Skye as an agent is also very difficult to discern in terms of her specialty. She’s extremely well rounded in terms of her fighting skills, which rival Ward’s in the beginning and May as she grows older, and her leadership/charisma matches Coulson’s in the best way. She still works a lot in CS, so she could also be considered a Sci-Tech kid if she uses enough fancy words.

• “Can’t wake up on the wrong side of the bed if I don’t sleep.”

• Skye/Daisy doesn’t flinch at knives, guns, or punches, but she flinches at scalpels and the snap of gloves.

Part 1 here

The MayDaisy Universe Collection

I got an idea of compiling short tiny headcanons for my Sunglasses (and other stories) universe from this post so here’s the first part!

• this is kinda already in the fics but whenever Skye has a nightmare, she goes and finds wherever May is whether she’s sleeping or awake— she just finds her and curls up next to her someway, somehow. This starts after they move from LA in the first fic.

• Skye and Coulson first met when she was still a kid and he watched her for Clint, who was her social worker at the time. The story of how they met is linked here.

• Skye and Barton still remember each other, but they’ve been out of contact for a while. When she starts working at the Triskelion, she sees him again, and they catch up. Between TMWIH and Next Big Thing, they become friends and text every now and then. Skye likes to send him bird memes.

• Skye and May are roughly the same size and swap outfits constantly. In the beginning, May will think that she lost a shirt until she sees it in Skye’s closet, and in retaliation, she took some of Skye’s stuff. They end up mish mashing their styles to create some combo of dress casual and comfy pjs.

• May and Coulson have taken Skye to Disneyland and Universal on a trip back to LA during the years she spent with them. There’s a picture with Skye and Coulson in Hufflepuff robes while May stands next to them, decked out in Slytherin merch.

• Coulson cooks for everyone on the Bus. He teaches Simmons, Skye, and Ward how to cook. Simmons takes to it easily because “it’s basically chemistry”, Skye manages to make an ooblek soup, and Ward, who is supposedly great at making survival food, somehow ungrills a cheese.

• when Skye was in her coma, she kinda had this framework experience where May and Coulson were her bio parents.

• similarly, if I had put her through the Framework, her regret would’ve been that she couldn’t save that girl in Ashlands, and she would’ve quit SHIELD to be a single parent/sister figure to the girl. She would’ve been a waitress by day, hacker by ‘night’, which was supposed to be a parallel to how she began the start of the series.

• while we’re on the subject, the Framework lives I planned out for Coulson and May are different than in canon (bc ofc I had to make things harder for myself, lol) I’ll make a different post tho

• after she kills Jiaying (oops, spoilers for the people who didn’t read voice) Skye and Cal have a long convo about what they want from each other. In the end, Cal agrees to have his memories erased because he trusted Skye, who said that this was the best option for everyone involved.

• when Skye/Daisy runs away from SHIELD after Lincoln’s death (yes, I was still gonna kill him), she constantly seeks refuge in Cal’s vet place, to the point where he becomes a trusted confidant. Eventually, he remeets Coulson and May, and has a sort of angry conversation for how they handled Skye/Daisy’s situation.

• when her powers get out of control in that one episode that I don’t remember, the one with Sif in it, Skye grabs the nearest gun she sees and shoots herself with it. Contrary to canon, while she had more firearm experience in this universe, Skye didn’t actually register what she was holding before she shot herself. In her mind, it didn’t really matter, because she was taught to eliminate the threat. If it was by lethal force, so be it. If it was her, so be it. It was still an ICER though.

• Skye/Daisy and May drift apart during the break between season 3 and 4, understandably. May and Coulson had gotten together the night she left, before they knew that she had left. They were planning on telling her the morning after, but when they went to get her, all that was left in her bunk was a note. May tries to make contact, and is only successful once or twice. Skye/Daisy only calls if she needs something, which May always provides.

• Skye, May, and Coulson ran SHIELD in s2, and Coulson was fully prepared to hand the agency off to Skye when he succumbed to the carvings. Skye was told later, and she was prepared for that eventuality.

• after Coulson actually dies in s5, Skye/Daisy lets Mack handle things while she and May take a trip to get themselves back to working condition. Then Skye/Daisy resumes leadership of SHIELD and leads them through season 6 and 7.

• May and Coulson were planning to adopt Skye after the events of s2, but they held off asking her because they thought that she might not want that after meeting her bio parents.

• Coulson proposed to May in Tahiti, and they flew Skye/Daisy in for their tiny ceremony. They never told anyone else about this, and throughout season 6 and 7, May would wear her wedding band on a necklace under her shirt.

That’s all I can think of at the moment, but enjoy your crumbs, everyone! You can pick any of these and beg me to write them and maybe I’ll say yes if my brain lets me. Also there’s a lot of self promo in this post, lol.