Daisy Johnson - Blog Posts
Chapters 1 and 2 out now! MayDaisy drabbles for Mother’s Day and Mayday 2024. Hope y’all like!
Second Mayday fic! Chaptered this time, next part coming out tomorrow <3
My first May fic for May!
Dousy my beloved I have created another alter to pray at
Another Dousy!!
Ficccccccccccc
My darlings I come with 4 chapters of May and Daisy being mother/daughter and there is more to come
Saddish May and Daisy fic.
PHILINDAISY TIME
Super slow burn because neither of them know about it until the second half.
I Will
finished
More Than Words
finished
Part 4 of the Philindaisy Playlist
Third instalment of my Philindaisy fic. Not completed, but going to be within the next month and a half.
I wrote a Philinda fic, it’s linked here on Wattpad and Ao3 :)
Enjoy!
daisy: i give up. im so tired.
jemma: quick, get the emergency supply!
mack: *carries yoyo and places her in front of daisy*
yoyo: *smiles*
daisy: AND IM BACK BABY LET'S GOOOOOOO
daisy: being gay isn't a choice!
*yoyo walks by*
daisy: ... but if it were, i'd hit that button hard
*meanwhile in aos s1*
daisy/skye: soooo when do i get my own gun?
may: i wouldn’t trust you with a nerf.
coulson: so explain to me how you two got into a car accident
yoyo: well, we were driving and there was a deer on the road and daisy didn’t notice it, so i said “margarida, deer!”
may: and???
yoyo: tell them what you said daisy
daisy: “yes, dear?”
daisy: quick poll, ps4 or xbox one?
daisy: mack?
mack: xbox one
daisy: may?
may: huh?
daisy: fitz?
fitz: ps4
daisy: yoyo?
yoyo: both are great
daisy: jemma?
jemma: i like the Wii
*awkward silence*
daisy: thanks grandma
yoyo: you hate everyone.
daisy: i know. it's the only thing that gets me out of bed in the morning.
theyre flirting ur honor
“Everyone gets attached to something eventually”
A lot of times I find myself upset that Agents of Shield diverged from canon and didn't stay as a partner to the movies, but then I remember The Blip. I know damn well the writers would have made it so that Daisy (and maybe LMD Coulson) were the only ones that survived The Blip. No more Sousa, no more anyone for 5 whole years. And Daisy would wake up every day and blame herself for how things went down, thinking that it was her fault. The poor girl suffered enough - I genuinely think that she would have killed herself if she survived the initial Blip.
there's a lot of love for computer science genius skye/daisy johnson, but i think a lot about pattern recognition anaylsis expert daisy too. she was the first to react to Fitz's run-down of the Peruvian 0-8-4, clocked how highly militarized the Hub was about Ward and Fitz's mission despite the brief being about disabling a weapon, saw the connection between Hannah Hutchins and Tobias Ford and this is just off from the top of my head from season 1 alone.
she knew something was happening in SHIELD when the Iliad crew hunted for her in the Retreat. she understood fitz’s theory of using her powers to open the Kree Monolith when he was still halfway explaining himself. she found Ivanov and Coulson’s connection in 4x14 The Man Behind the Shield, which ultimately revealed Ivanov’s motive. she even knew that there would be some incident or event in which they will need her powers back in season 5, which was her entire reason of staying behind.
also the Framework. it’s essentially a world made of binary. it makes sense that even if she didn’t have her avatar’s memories, she caught on when May and Coulson pointed out AIDA’s strategy in 4x22 World’s End. May saves the girl in Bahrain, the Cambridge Incident happens, Hydra reveals themselves and blames the Inhumans. “It’s me. I’ll be the monster. She wants the same fascist state she had in the Framework.” she was there for ten days tops and she got all that without the memory duplicity thing? she fucking rocks
Agents of B.A.R.B.I.E. -> Skye (a.k.a. Daisy Johnson)
This Barbie is an Inhuman!
There was a mini earthquake in San Diego/Los Angeles area I always just think Daisy Johnson is saving the world
I’m so interested to know how other people perceive the team and Daisy’s arc in the beginning of season 4. I feel like I’ve seen a lot more of the “I’ll never forgive the team for how they treated her in S4” sentiment recently, which is interesting because I’ve never taken that perception away from that storyline at all.
Did the team say or do hurtful things? Yes, for sure. (I usually see the aforementioned comment on videos on that one scene with Daisy, Mack and Fitz)
But does Daisy also do and say hurtful things? I honestly think so.
That’s what makes that part of the season so phenomenal to watch, story wise. There is not black and white, good or bad, there just is. That is the reality of grief, that is the reality of mental health struggles, that is life.
There are no “right” answers when coping with the impossible, honestly. I think there are healthy and unhealthy ways to handle things, sure, but it’s not really a moral issue, on its face.
I mean, between the team and Daisy there are some rough interactions. Fitz is certainly a little hypocritical when he’s criticizing how Daisy handles things, given that he wouldn’t have reacted well if it had been Jemma. But He has been there for Daisy, up until this point at least, with Ward, her powers, they’ve been through a tremendous amount together. He feels abandoned and, yeah, he’s expressing it in a less than ideal way. But he cares. You know he cares about her. He and Mack wouldn’t be so angry if they didn’t care.
Mack is upset when he finds out Yo-Yo’s stealing the bone pills for her because 1) he’s been lied to for months, and 2) more importantly, it makes it seem that Daisy doesn’t trust him enough to directly come to him for help. That’s the thing. He would’ve helped her, probably given her anything she needed medically. She never needed to get Yo-Yo to steal any of it. It’s frustrating, it hurts. Mack is genuinely a deeply loving person, you know it’s killing him to not be able to get through to her.
Everyone on that team wants to help her, more than anything. They are begging her to let them in. I mean, lest we forget Coulson gave up his fucking job, in part, to keep chasing any lead he has on her.
When blaming the team for the rockiness at the beginning of season 4, you’re completely ignoring the fact that Daisy is actively running from them the entire time. She doesn’t want them to find her, and I really get it, honestly I do. I deal with things the way she does, radio silence, isolation, running away, being avoidant, self destruction, etc, etc.
Who could blame her, honestly? The anger and the self hatred and the guilt and the grief. Lord knows I’d take off, shut myself out. How do you even begin to manage that kind of pain, especially when it’s still fresh?
Well, you manage it any way that you can. For Daisy that means trying to atone for all of the pain she caused, which, are also things that caused her pain. Especially at the beginning of the season, it doesn’t matter how much she’s told that she is forgiven. Lincoln was at peace with his decision to sacrifice himself, Mack forgave her for hurting him while she was under the influence of Hive. Nobody is directly blaming her, except for herself. To try to heal from the pain she is in, would mean being able to extend herself grace, mercy. The only person who needs to forgive her, is herself. And she just- can’t.
She believes that all she does is hurt the people around her, which is what she is grasping onto to justify hurting herself. The hard truth of living that way is that when you’re stuck in your own, self harm, self hatred, shame-spiral is that you are the only person who can break out of it.
That’s a huge part about what I love about the storytelling of this arc. It’s genuinely some of the best mental health representation I’ve seen in a show like this.
Obviously, mental illness is not your fault. Being stuck in a bad place is not your fault. Daisy is not at fault for her grief. Her descent into isolation and a self-hatred, suicidal, shame-spiral does not in any way mean that she is a bad person. But there’s only so much another person can do when it comes to a battle that is completely contained within your own brain.
The team never stopped caring about her. Coulson, May, and Yo-Yo, specifically, never gave up on her. That’s important. She would’ve most likely been dead if they had stopped giving a shit about her. That’s significant.
But they’re not mind readers.
To go back to the scene with Mack and Fitz too. I think that scene is really important because it’s Daisy being confronted with the reality that her actions, her running away, isolating herself, really is hurting the people that love and care about her. She runs away to protect them from that very reality, of course, but how could they know that?
She doesn’t want them to care, and she hopes that if she just pushes them hard enough, if she bares her metaphorical fangs, they’ll stop. She’s accepted being alone, she’s accepted her own self destruction, because even if it hurts them at first, even if she’s absolutely miserable, they’ll be safe. Inside, she’s unwilling to admit that she needs them, and she’s acting in a way that allows her to avoid the cognitive dissonance of her actions (i.e. yo-yo stealing the pills they’d willingly give her if she asked).
But the fact that she’s hurting them doesn’t push them away. It just makes everything hurt more for everyone. She wants to embody that hurt, she’s cannibalizing her self to try to take on that pain but it doesn’t make anything better.
This storyline is not a case of right and wrong, if anything it’s an antithesis to it. It’s about how the ambiguity of life and grief and mental health are like tangled strings, messy and knotted, it’s about the love and effort and dedication it takes to hang on to/fight your way back to the people that love you, it’s about the strength it takes to carry on and forgive yourself, and, as May tells Daisy once she comes back, it’s about that: “you can’t choose who cares about you”.