— enjoying the lighthouse view, waiting for word on Coulson's passing. she can't leave Earth until he's gone, so it's just a matter of waiting for time to pass. — testing out her new Quake suit to be sure she can fight in it and it can sustain extended use of her powers. — debating what to do with her mother's newly cremated remains. there's a whole lot of trauma to unpack with this, but she could also just use someone to be there with her through it. — packing to leave on space mission, struggling on whether or not to read Coulson's letter he left for her before leaving to spend his last days in Tahiti. (possible impression: she's going really far away, then realize it's freaking space??)
in space
— sharing the incredible view from her spaceship with the rest of the cluster. — learning about the Snap and having to be the one to tell the rest of her team. feeling existential crisis levels of guilty over not being there. "I should have been there. I could have stopped him." because she carries the weight of protecting the world on her shoulders. — a few random alien adventures to liven things up for the Normal Canons?? idk, it's Marvel, sky's the limit.
back on earth
— SARGE, aka an alien who somehow looks exactly like Coulson. someone help her get through a small emotional meltdown so she can be angry and take care of this shit.
— being high on alien junk food on a casino planet and fighting off robot aliens (no big changes, just sharing the wtf of her life with others)
— fighting more robot aliens while traveling through time! or just freaking out over being in another decade. options: 1930s, 1950s, 1970s
— being stuck in a time loop where she's one of the only ones aware of the loop and everyone will die if she can't solve the problem. (no changes, just more wtf)
— being kidnapped and experimented on in the same way her mother was (maybe changes? or maybe just helping her through it)
— connecting with her alternate timeline mom in the 1980s and then watching her die again (possibly big change here of maybe saving her mom? would need to think on it)
This woman desperately needs to feel wanted and like she matters beyond what she can do for others.
Daisy grew up bouncing between an orphanage and foster homes, purposefully not being allowed to make connections in order to protect her from discovery. She didn't learn this until she was an adult, so years of feeling unwanted and sure that there must be something wrong with her have left lasting scars.
She needs to address her extremely conflicted feelings over her mother's death (and her mom attempting to murder her), which will be made even more complicated after covering the events of s7.
After a lifetime of searching, Daisy finally found her mother when she was 26 years old. Unfortunately, this Jiaying had been hardened by the actions of Hydra that tore their family apart, and the two ended up on opposite sides of a war for the lives of millions of innocent humans. Her father, Cal, stops Jiaying from killing Daisy by killing his wife himself.
In s7, after Daisy has met the cluster, she encounters a version of Jiaying from the past who is still capable of love and compassion for others. When she learns that Daisy is her daughter from the future, Jiaying tries to protect Daisy from the man who tortured her and stole her powers for himself, but she is killed in the process.
Phil Coulson was the first person to believe in her. Over the last five years, he became the closest thing she's ever had to family, and they have risked their lives for each other countless times. Losing Coulson leaves Daisy feeling more alone and unmoored than she's ever been before.
And please, someone help her overcome the trauma of Fitz's betrayal.
Fitz was one of her best friends, and the first person to be on her side when she went through her Inhuman transition. He was like a little brother to her, at times, so his betrayal hit her hard and there hasn't been anyone to help her through it. Everything happened so fast between what happened and losing Coulson that no one even stopped to ask her if she was okay after he drugged and forced surgical torture upon her.
For context: When they were trapped in the alternate reality of the Framework, Fitz's alter ego was The Doctor, the diabolical right hand of the head of Hydra. The trauma of this event combined with the brain damage he sustained a few years prior prompted this horrific event.
— mistrustful of good things. after a childhood of being in and out of foster homes and an orphanage, Daisy suffers from a deep mistrust of good things in her life, particularly "home" and people genuinely caring about her. she always expects something to go wrong, whether by her own doing or something beyond her control, and it's something that the wrong person could easily take advantage of. even after finding a "family" with SHIELD, Hive is able to emotionally manipulate her longing for connection to the point that nothing short of physical intervention could break through his sway. — can't always put the greater good first. every so often there comes a time, usually involving something big, when Daisy gives into selfishness and disregards orders for personal reasons. when faced with a warning that saving Coulson's life will lead to the end of the world, she doesn't care and tries anyway because he's the most important person in the world to her. and when the opportunity arises to take out the future head of HYDRA who lead to the death of millions, she's willing to risk the permanent, drastic alteration to the timeline to save those lives because of her own terrible experiences with the organization. — self-sacrificing to a fault. when Daisy blames herself for something, her guilt is so extreme that she ceases to care about her own life. she was ready to sacrifice her own life to atone for the terrible things she did under Hive's sway, and when Lincoln sacrificed himself in her place, she spends the next year running herself into the ground and putting herself in horribly dangerous situations in an attempt to pay penance for his death that she blames herself for. and when the team travels to an apocalyptic future where someone with her powers tears the world apart, Daisy insists that she stay behind when the team returns to the past so that the time loop can be broken without her presence.
Angry foster kids who just want to feel wanted and welcome.
Wrench.
"Groomed from a young age to kill at another man's behest," Wrench's situation will remind Daisy quite a bit of Grant Ward, her former teammate and SO who turned out to be Hydra. She took Ward's betrayal personally, and it wasn't until she met an alternate version of him who was taken in by a SHIELD agent instead of a Hydra loyalist that she understood the good he was capable of.
The possibility of Daisy learning ASL to any level of fluency is pretty slim, but she'll put in the effort to learn some basics. The rest of the time, she'll likely rely on her phone to communicate with him. (She's a millennial hacker, so her phone is basically another appendage.)
A list of recommended episodes for those who want a taste of Daisy's world without consuming all 136 episodes:
Season 1 the look at these innocent babies season until suddenly Hydra season
1.13 "T.R.A.C.K.S." The team goes on a mission in Italy that ends with Daisy's life in peril. Additional context: Daisy goes by the name Skye until season 3. She met Mike Peterson in the pilot, and he was training to join SHIELD until a recent incident. This is a good glimpse of Daisy before she's hardened by so much loss and betrayal.
1.19 "The Only Light in the Darkness" Following the reveal of Hydra hidden within SHIELD's ranks, Daisy and Ward grow closer. Additional context: Ward took on the mantle of training Daisy to become a SHIELD agent earlier in the season.
1.20 "Nothing Personal" The fallout of the revelation in 1.19 rattles the entire team, who rush to rescue Daisy from Hydra.
Season 2 the wtf do you mean Daisy's part alien season
2.10 "What They Become"*streaming this one! Daisy is reunited with her father and learns more about her past. Additional context: The substance used to revive Coulson after his death in The Avengers was derived from a Kree and included a genetic homing beacon leading him to a hidden alien city. Also, her dad's kind of crazy and a bit serial killer-ish.
2.11 "Aftershocks" Daisy goes through quarantine following her exposure in the alien city. Additional context: Inhumans have been considered things to be controlled and imprisoned before this. Fitz suffered a traumatic brain injury at the end of season 1 and he struggled with it throughout the beginning of this season.
2.12 "Who You Really Are" After doing her best to hide her recent changes, the team finds out the truth of what happened to Daisy in the ancient city.
Season 3 the Inhumans are hunted and there's a hive-mind villain season
3.19 "Failed Experiments" 3.20 "Emancipation" 3.21 "Absolution" 3.22 "Ascension" Under the sway of the Inhuman Hive (who has taken over Ward's body), Daisy fights against her friends and is willing to let herself be killed in order to fulfil Hive's evil plan. Later, she suffers physical withdrawal from his sway and loses someone dear to her. (This chunk of episodes is really just to fully understand Daisy's apprehension and fear over being part of the sensate. It can easily be skipped with fanvids and clips substituted!)
Season 4 the Ghost Rider vs Darkhold, LMD replacements, and trapped in an alternate reality season
4.03 "Uprising" A grieving Daisy teams up with Ghost Rider, and Inhumans face mounting prejudice.
4.15 "Self Control" Some of the team have been replaced by Life Model Decoy robots who want to upload the rest of them into the Framework.
4.16 "What If..." Through the looking glass and into a horrifying alternate reality where Hydra won.
Season 5 the trying to stop an apocalyptic future season
5.14 "The Devil Complex" Fitz's betrayal leaves Daisy physically and emotionally scarred. Context: The team spends the first part of the season trapped 70 years in the future when the Earth has been split apart and only a tiny group of humans remains. The Kree are in charge and use Inhumans for gladiator-like displays, using nerve-blocking inhibitors to control them. Daisy is blamed for the Earth's destruction, and when they return to the past, she refuses attempts to remove her inhibitor in the hopes of changing the future for the better. Additional context: In season 4's alternate timeline, Fitz was "The Doctor," the right-hand man of Madame Hydra who experimented on Inhumans.
Season 6 the wacky alien adventures season
6.03 "Fear and Loathing on the Planet of Kitson" Daisy and Simmons get high on alien junk food on a casino planet. It's hands-down the craziest episode of the series.
Season 7 the time travel shenanigans season
7.03 "Alien Commies from the Future!" Daisy and Co meet a piece of SHIELD's history back in 1953. It's a fun episode that shows her adaptability in such a wild situation like time travel.
7.06 "Adapt or Die" After being captured by a son of Hydra with delusions of grandeur, Daisy is tortured in the same way her mother was. CW for brief, graphic hand injury.
7.09 "As I Have Always Been"*my favorite episode Daisy and Coulson are stuck in a time loop and have to save everyone.
Phil Coulson was the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in charge of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., meant to bring a potential dead Avenger back to life using a drug derived from an ancient alien corpse. Following his death in The Avengers, Fury resurrected Coulson using T.A.H.I.T.I., and had his memories of the project replaced. Coulson puts together a team of agents, and they travel the world dealing with strange new cases. During this time, Hydra is revealed to have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., leading to the latter's demise. Fury makes Coulson the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and tasks him with rebuilding the agency "the right way". Coulson becomes romantically involved with Rosalind Price, the leader of an anti-Inhuman government taskforce, until her death at the hands of Grant Ward, one of Coulson's former agents. Following the signing of the Sokovia Accords, S.H.I.E.L.D. is re-legitimized, with the still officially dead Coulson replaced as director. In the Framework virtual reality, Coulson teaches about the dangers of Inhumans. It is later discovered that Phil Coulson is dying due to the side effect of having Ghost Rider in him during the final battle with Aida. Following the final battle with the gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, Coulson retires to live out his last days on Tahiti with May.
Phil Coulson (Chronicom L.M.D.) Following the deaths of Izel and Sarge, Enoch and Simmons created a Life Model Decoy of Phil Coulson enhanced with Chronicom technology using the remnants of the previous L.M.D.s and the memories of Coulson saved to the Framework. Upon being briefed of what has occurred since then, he joins the team in stopping the Chronicoms from changing history. After defeating the Chronicoms, the Coulson L.M.D. receives his counterpart's car, Lola, and travels the world.
Melinda May is a S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot and weapons expert nicknamed "the Cavalry", against her wishes, after a mission to Bahrain where she saved an entire S.H.I.E.L.D. team from a rogue Inhuman. Unbeknownst to S.H.I.E.L.D., she did this by killing a young girl named Katya Belyakov. Still struggling to move past this event years later, May agrees to watch her old friend and partner Coulson for Nick Fury, reporting to the latter and looking for potential side-effects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. in the former. When Coulson becomes the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., May acts as his second-in-command, and over time begins to move past the events of Bahrain and even develop familial relationships with characters such as Skye. By mid-season five, she begins a relationship with Phil Coulson. Following the fight against the gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, May joins Coulson in his final days on Tahiti. In season six, she assists in dealing with threats involving Sarge's group and Izel, though she is grievously wounded in the process. After Simmons revives her in season seven, May gains empathetic powers, which she uses during the final battle against the Chronicoms to download empathy into the Chronicom Hunters. One year later, May becomes a teacher at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson Academy, with Flint as one of her students.
Leo Fitz is brought on to Coulson's team as an engineering and weapons technology specialist, and provides tech support for the team throughout the first season. He has a close bond with Agent Simmons, the two having graduated from the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy together. At the end of the first season, he confesses his feelings to Simmons before nearly dying in an attempt to save her. Left with severe brain damage, Fitz struggles with technology and speech, but over time becomes a full member of the team again. When his consciousness is submerged in the Framework, Fitz becomes "The Doctor", Hydra's remorseless second-in-command, and has a relationship with Madame Hydra. The experience changes him; retaining his memories of this other life and leaving him haunted by his past actions. After Enoch sends his team to the future via a Monolith, he helps Fitz get there in a cyro-stasis pod before helping them return to the present, after which Fitz and Simmons get married. During the final battle against a gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, Fitz is fatally injured. As Daisy and Simmons lead the search for the cryogenically frozen Fitz in space, Enoch releases him prematurely when they come under attack. They eventually reunite with Simmons, but the Chronicoms capture them and force them to figure out time travel. However, Enoch rescues them and helps them build a time machine so they can save their friends and stop the Chronicoms from changing history. One year later, Fitz and Simmons retire from S.H.I.E.L.D. so they can raise their daughter, Alya.
The Doctor In the fourth season, when Fitz's consciousness is submerged in the Framework, a virtual reality created by Holden Radcliffe, he becomes "The Doctor", also known as Leopold, Hydra's remorseless second-in-command, and has a relationship with Aida, who now goes by Ophelia / Madame Hydra. After taking the position of Head of Hydra following Aida's incapacitation, he creates for Aida a machine to become a real person and is forced out of the Framework by S.H.I.E.L.D., after which point Fitz is traumatized from his behavior there as The Doctor.
Due to multiple stressful factors across separate timelines in the fifth and sixth seasons, Fitz experiences a psychic split that enables his "Doctor" personality from the Framework to temporarily resurface. In the first timeline Fitz, on their orders, proceeds to dissect Daisy Johnson, while in the second timeline, The Doctor falls in love with the id of Jemma Simmons.
Jemma Simmons is brought on to Coulson's team as a life sciences (both human and alien) specialist, and has a close bond with Agent Fitz, the two having graduated from the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy together. She grows to mistrust all things alien and superhuman, but shows her loyalty to Coulson despite this when they are faced with the rival S.H.I.E.L.D. faction. Following the fight against the Inhumans, Simmons is absorbed by the Kree monolith, a portal to the alien planet Maveth. There, she falls in love with Will Daniels, who sacrifices himself so she can return to Earth. Simmons eventually moves on from Daniels and begins a relationship with Fitz and eventually marries him. After Fitz is killed, Simmons partook in the mission to find the preserved body that Enoch had. They temporarily reunited before the Chronicoms kidnapped them to force them to figure out time travel so they can save their home planet. However, Enoch rescues them and helps them save their friends before building a time machine to help them stop the Chronicoms from changing history. Following the mission's success, Fitz and Simmons retire from S.H.I.E.L.D. to raise their daughter, Alya.
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, a S.H.I.E.L.D. mechanic under Robert Gonzales, is a founding member of the "real S.H.I.E.L.D.", and infiltrates Coulson's group with Morse. After being briefly mind-controlled by Kree technology Mack's distrust in alien and the superhuman is deepened, and he decides to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. when his fellow leaders agree to join forces with Coulson. However, following the war with the Inhumans, Coulson convinces Mack to stay, and places him in charge of all alien materials. Coulson makes Mack acting director of S.H.I.E.L.D. when he goes after Ward and Hydra. In the Framework, Mack's daughter Hope is still alive. After being used by Hydra to reveal Johnson is from the real world, he seeks out the S.H.I.E.L.D. resistance to help them. When the exit point from the Framework is found, Mack chooses to stay behind, saying that the time he spent with the Framework version of Hope was real enough for him. He later leaves the Framework when Hope disappears amongst the Framework's collapse. After the death of Coulson, Mack becomes the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. During the seventh season, Mack takes part in the mission to prevent the Chronicoms from rewriting history. One year after the mission's success, Mack continues to lead S.H.I.E.L.D. from a new Helicarrier.
Lance Hunter, an SAS lieutenant turned mercenary, joins post-Hydra S.H.I.E.L.D. at the request of Coulson following a recommendation from his ex-wife Bobbi Morse. Despite a tumultuous relationship with Morse, Hunter becomes a full-time S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and risks his life to save her when she is kidnapped. Following an incident in Russia involving the near-assassination of Prime Minister Olshenko, Hunter and Morse decide to disavow themselves from S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect Coulson and the team. Hunter continues doing mercenary work, with Fitz eventually reaching out for Hunter to free him from General Hale's base while posing as a lawyer. Hunter helps Fitz rescue Coulson and the team when they are transported to 2091 where their trail led them to Enoch.
Bobbi Morse is Hunter's ex-wife and an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. A founding member of the "real S.H.I.E.L.D." after disobeying Fury's orders to save hundreds of S.H.I.E.L.D. lives, she infiltrates Coulson's group for reconnaissance. Coulson sends her undercover within Hydra, where she gave up the location of Agent 33 rather than risk the lives of many other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. She later agrees, along with her fellow "real S.H.I.E.L.D." leaders, to combine their faction with Coulson's. Ward then kidnaps her in an attempt to force her to confess to giving up 33 to Hydra, but when Morse is unrepentant, Ward sets a trap for Hunter which will see him killed in front of her. Morse takes the bullet for Hunter, barely surviving. Following an incident in Russia involving the near-assassination of Prime Minister Olshenko, Morse and Hunter decide to disavow themselves from S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect Coulson and the team.
Lincoln Campbell wasan Inhuman doctor with the ability to control electric charges. He helped Skye adjust to her new life post-terrigenesis, and his later attempt to protect her from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra led to his capture and experimentation at the hands of Dr. List. Skye saved his life, and when she turned on Jiaying once realizing her true intentions, Campbell was shortly convinced to do the same. Following Jiaying's death, Campbell attempted to live a normal life, convinced that his Inhuman abilities were a curse, but was hunted by the ATCU and becomes a fugitive. He subsequently joined S.H.I.E.L.D. for protection and to be near Skye—now going by Daisy Johnson and with whom Campbell formed a relationship—and became a Secret Warrior. Campbell chose to sacrifice himself to save the team and the world from Hive's plan by taking Hive and a nuclear warhead to space in a quinjet where the weapon can detonate without affecting Earth.
Following his death, Daisy has part of each of her paychecks sent to Amanda, Lincoln's sister.
Grant Ward, the son of politicians, was abused by his parents and older brother Christian growing up. After attempting to kill Christian by burning their house down, Grant meets John Garrett, a Hydra double agent within S.H.I.E.L.D., who trains Grant to be a skilled agent. Later being assigned to Coulson's team as the groups' muscle and wetwork specialist, Grant is outed as Hydra when that organization is revealed to the world, and, after the death of Garrett, becomes a prisoner of S.H.I.E.L.D. In love with his former teammate Skye, Grant escapes custody, apparently kills Christian and their parents, and infiltrates Hydra so Skye can meet her father. Despite this, Skye turns on Ward and shoots him, and he escapes only with the help of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Kara Palamas, with whom he develops a romantic relationship. He accidentally kills Palamas while she is in disguise as May, and blaming S.H.I.E.L.D., decides to take over the now leader-less Hydra. Joining forces with one of Hydra's previous leaders, Gideon Malick, Ward travels through a portal to an alien planet in search of the ancient Inhuman Hive, but is killed there by Coulson. This allows Hive to use Ward's body as a host.
In the Framework created by Holden Radcliffe, he is Daisy's boyfriend and fellow Hydra agent. He is revealed to still be a double agent, now working for the Inhuman resistance, due to his recruitment by Victoria Hand.
— urge to line up 3 small items next to you on a table. for Daisy, it's always sugar packets, which were her way of claiming the tiniest amount of control in her life when she had absolutely none as a child. she's continued doing it into adulthood because she still suffers from the feeling of so much of her life being out of her control. — the feeling of "a thousand bees trapped inside me" at any given moment. Daisy can sense the vibrations of everything around her, feeling them as if they're part of her own body. there's no way to shut it off, she's just used to it by now. — aching bones and bruises, particularly in the arms. her powers have caused hundreds of hairline fractures from her fingers to her collarbones in the three years since she acquired them, and it's a regular occurrence for her to add a few more to that count. — the importance of names. Daisy's name is extremely important to her. she spent the first 26 years of her life knowing nothing about herself until finally learning something so small as the name her parents always intended for her. — the importance of celebrating a birthday, even in the smallest of ways. like her name, Daisy grew up with a false birthday, only learning her real one shortly after learning her name.
— being shot by Ian Quinn and left to die — the fight with her mom that ended in Jiaying's death — going back to Hive ( x ) — becoming the Destroyer of Worlds
Daisy is an Inhuman, a human with alien genetic material mixed into her DNA that, when activated, changes the person at a molecular level. Through her Inhuman powers of Vibration Manipulation, she can sense and tap into the vibration energy of everything around her, manipulating what is vibrating and at what frequency.
concussive blasts — She can generate and focus powerful concussive waves of vibrating air in the form of directed concussive blasts, varying in intensity from breaking glass to crushing bone to toppling a solid structure. She can also use the blasts to propel herself into the air and cushion her falls. vibrational absorption — She is able to absorb a larger quantity of vibrations, such as from an earthquake, but can only hold them for so long or risk causing irreparable damage to herself. disintegration — She can cause molecules to vibrate violently enough that the bonds between them are destroyed, causing whatever she is using her powers on to disintegrate into the atmosphere. force-field generation — She is able to shape vibrating air into physical fields that can block both energy and physical objects. sound manipulation — Since sound is the vibration of air molecules, she is acute to sounds that other people can not hear and is able to reproduce certain sound frequencies.
physical consequences — Attempting to forcefully internalize and hold back her powers or using them excessively without proper protection puts an excessive strain on her body and may lead to internal injuries like ruptured veins, hairline bone fractures, or other severe consequences.
See here the results of weeks of not taking care of herself:
hand-to-hand combat — Trained by Melinda May, one of SHIELD's most skilled fighters, Daisy's style is a mix of kickboxing, boxing, Krav Maga, and Jujutsu. weapons training — She has expert marksmanship that has previously allowed her to take out an entire team of Hydra agents with just a pistol. Since then, she's had experience with dozens of types of firearms. espionage — She is highly trained in espionage and deception and has learned great tactical skills during her years with the agency. hacking — Daisy is an extremely skilled computer hacker whose skills are often utilized for intelligence gathering and data interpretation. Her expertise in hacking has made her a master at pattern recognition and analysis.
— timeline.
— scene ideas.
moments.
in space
back on earth
traveling through time
canonpoints to au.
themes and desires.
She needs to address her extremely conflicted feelings over her mother's death (and her mom attempting to murder her), which will be made even more complicated after covering the events of s7.
She needs help processing her grief over losing Coulson.
And please, someone help her overcome the trauma of Fitz's betrayal.
locations.
— notes.
flaws.
clustermates.
Blake.
Wrench.
Fox.
about.
episodes.
Season 1 the look at these innocent babies season until suddenly Hydra season
Season 2 the wtf do you mean Daisy's part alien season
Season 3 the Inhumans are hunted and there's a hive-mind villain season
Season 4 the Ghost Rider vs Darkhold, LMD replacements, and trapped in an alternate reality season
Season 5 the trying to stop an apocalyptic future season
Season 6 the wacky alien adventures season
Season 7 the time travel shenanigans season
teammates.
(Fitz, Simmons, Lincoln, Ward, Coulson, Daisy, Mack, Hunter, Bobbie, May)
Phil Coulson was the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent in charge of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., meant to bring a potential dead Avenger back to life using a drug derived from an ancient alien corpse. Following his death in The Avengers, Fury resurrected Coulson using T.A.H.I.T.I., and had his memories of the project replaced. Coulson puts together a team of agents, and they travel the world dealing with strange new cases. During this time, Hydra is revealed to have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., leading to the latter's demise. Fury makes Coulson the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and tasks him with rebuilding the agency "the right way". Coulson becomes romantically involved with Rosalind Price, the leader of an anti-Inhuman government taskforce, until her death at the hands of Grant Ward, one of Coulson's former agents. Following the signing of the Sokovia Accords, S.H.I.E.L.D. is re-legitimized, with the still officially dead Coulson replaced as director. In the Framework virtual reality, Coulson teaches about the dangers of Inhumans. It is later discovered that Phil Coulson is dying due to the side effect of having Ghost Rider in him during the final battle with Aida. Following the final battle with the gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, Coulson retires to live out his last days on Tahiti with May.
Melinda May is a S.H.I.E.L.D. pilot and weapons expert nicknamed "the Cavalry", against her wishes, after a mission to Bahrain where she saved an entire S.H.I.E.L.D. team from a rogue Inhuman. Unbeknownst to S.H.I.E.L.D., she did this by killing a young girl named Katya Belyakov. Still struggling to move past this event years later, May agrees to watch her old friend and partner Coulson for Nick Fury, reporting to the latter and looking for potential side-effects of Project T.A.H.I.T.I. in the former. When Coulson becomes the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., May acts as his second-in-command, and over time begins to move past the events of Bahrain and even develop familial relationships with characters such as Skye. By mid-season five, she begins a relationship with Phil Coulson. Following the fight against the gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, May joins Coulson in his final days on Tahiti. In season six, she assists in dealing with threats involving Sarge's group and Izel, though she is grievously wounded in the process. After Simmons revives her in season seven, May gains empathetic powers, which she uses during the final battle against the Chronicoms to download empathy into the Chronicom Hunters. One year later, May becomes a teacher at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Coulson Academy, with Flint as one of her students.
Leo Fitz is brought on to Coulson's team as an engineering and weapons technology specialist, and provides tech support for the team throughout the first season. He has a close bond with Agent Simmons, the two having graduated from the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy together. At the end of the first season, he confesses his feelings to Simmons before nearly dying in an attempt to save her. Left with severe brain damage, Fitz struggles with technology and speech, but over time becomes a full member of the team again. When his consciousness is submerged in the Framework, Fitz becomes "The Doctor", Hydra's remorseless second-in-command, and has a relationship with Madame Hydra. The experience changes him; retaining his memories of this other life and leaving him haunted by his past actions. After Enoch sends his team to the future via a Monolith, he helps Fitz get there in a cyro-stasis pod before helping them return to the present, after which Fitz and Simmons get married. During the final battle against a gravitonium-enhanced Glenn Talbot, Fitz is fatally injured. As Daisy and Simmons lead the search for the cryogenically frozen Fitz in space, Enoch releases him prematurely when they come under attack. They eventually reunite with Simmons, but the Chronicoms capture them and force them to figure out time travel. However, Enoch rescues them and helps them build a time machine so they can save their friends and stop the Chronicoms from changing history. One year later, Fitz and Simmons retire from S.H.I.E.L.D. so they can raise their daughter, Alya.
Jemma Simmons is brought on to Coulson's team as a life sciences (both human and alien) specialist, and has a close bond with Agent Fitz, the two having graduated from the S.H.I.E.L.D. academy together. She grows to mistrust all things alien and superhuman, but shows her loyalty to Coulson despite this when they are faced with the rival S.H.I.E.L.D. faction. Following the fight against the Inhumans, Simmons is absorbed by the Kree monolith, a portal to the alien planet Maveth. There, she falls in love with Will Daniels, who sacrifices himself so she can return to Earth. Simmons eventually moves on from Daniels and begins a relationship with Fitz and eventually marries him. After Fitz is killed, Simmons partook in the mission to find the preserved body that Enoch had. They temporarily reunited before the Chronicoms kidnapped them to force them to figure out time travel so they can save their home planet. However, Enoch rescues them and helps them save their friends before building a time machine to help them stop the Chronicoms from changing history. Following the mission's success, Fitz and Simmons retire from S.H.I.E.L.D. to raise their daughter, Alya.
Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie, a S.H.I.E.L.D. mechanic under Robert Gonzales, is a founding member of the "real S.H.I.E.L.D.", and infiltrates Coulson's group with Morse. After being briefly mind-controlled by Kree technology Mack's distrust in alien and the superhuman is deepened, and he decides to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. when his fellow leaders agree to join forces with Coulson. However, following the war with the Inhumans, Coulson convinces Mack to stay, and places him in charge of all alien materials. Coulson makes Mack acting director of S.H.I.E.L.D. when he goes after Ward and Hydra. In the Framework, Mack's daughter Hope is still alive. After being used by Hydra to reveal Johnson is from the real world, he seeks out the S.H.I.E.L.D. resistance to help them. When the exit point from the Framework is found, Mack chooses to stay behind, saying that the time he spent with the Framework version of Hope was real enough for him. He later leaves the Framework when Hope disappears amongst the Framework's collapse. After the death of Coulson, Mack becomes the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. During the seventh season, Mack takes part in the mission to prevent the Chronicoms from rewriting history. One year after the mission's success, Mack continues to lead S.H.I.E.L.D. from a new Helicarrier.
Lance Hunter, an SAS lieutenant turned mercenary, joins post-Hydra S.H.I.E.L.D. at the request of Coulson following a recommendation from his ex-wife Bobbi Morse. Despite a tumultuous relationship with Morse, Hunter becomes a full-time S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, and risks his life to save her when she is kidnapped. Following an incident in Russia involving the near-assassination of Prime Minister Olshenko, Hunter and Morse decide to disavow themselves from S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect Coulson and the team. Hunter continues doing mercenary work, with Fitz eventually reaching out for Hunter to free him from General Hale's base while posing as a lawyer. Hunter helps Fitz rescue Coulson and the team when they are transported to 2091 where their trail led them to Enoch.
Bobbi Morse is Hunter's ex-wife and an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. A founding member of the "real S.H.I.E.L.D." after disobeying Fury's orders to save hundreds of S.H.I.E.L.D. lives, she infiltrates Coulson's group for reconnaissance. Coulson sends her undercover within Hydra, where she gave up the location of Agent 33 rather than risk the lives of many other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. She later agrees, along with her fellow "real S.H.I.E.L.D." leaders, to combine their faction with Coulson's. Ward then kidnaps her in an attempt to force her to confess to giving up 33 to Hydra, but when Morse is unrepentant, Ward sets a trap for Hunter which will see him killed in front of her. Morse takes the bullet for Hunter, barely surviving. Following an incident in Russia involving the near-assassination of Prime Minister Olshenko, Morse and Hunter decide to disavow themselves from S.H.I.E.L.D. to protect Coulson and the team.
Lincoln Campbell wasan Inhuman doctor with the ability to control electric charges. He helped Skye adjust to her new life post-terrigenesis, and his later attempt to protect her from S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra led to his capture and experimentation at the hands of Dr. List. Skye saved his life, and when she turned on Jiaying once realizing her true intentions, Campbell was shortly convinced to do the same. Following Jiaying's death, Campbell attempted to live a normal life, convinced that his Inhuman abilities were a curse, but was hunted by the ATCU and becomes a fugitive. He subsequently joined S.H.I.E.L.D. for protection and to be near Skye—now going by Daisy Johnson and with whom Campbell formed a relationship—and became a Secret Warrior. Campbell chose to sacrifice himself to save the team and the world from Hive's plan by taking Hive and a nuclear warhead to space in a quinjet where the weapon can detonate without affecting Earth.
Grant Ward, the son of politicians, was abused by his parents and older brother Christian growing up. After attempting to kill Christian by burning their house down, Grant meets John Garrett, a Hydra double agent within S.H.I.E.L.D., who trains Grant to be a skilled agent. Later being assigned to Coulson's team as the groups' muscle and wetwork specialist, Grant is outed as Hydra when that organization is revealed to the world, and, after the death of Garrett, becomes a prisoner of S.H.I.E.L.D. In love with his former teammate Skye, Grant escapes custody, apparently kills Christian and their parents, and infiltrates Hydra so Skye can meet her father. Despite this, Skye turns on Ward and shoots him, and he escapes only with the help of former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Kara Palamas, with whom he develops a romantic relationship. He accidentally kills Palamas while she is in disguise as May, and blaming S.H.I.E.L.D., decides to take over the now leader-less Hydra. Joining forces with one of Hydra's previous leaders, Gideon Malick, Ward travels through a portal to an alien planet in search of the ancient Inhuman Hive, but is killed there by Coulson. This allows Hive to use Ward's body as a host.
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physical consequences — Attempting to forcefully internalize and hold back her powers or using them excessively without proper protection puts an excessive strain on her body and may lead to internal injuries like ruptured veins, hairline bone fractures, or other severe consequences.
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