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Throughout Heroes of Olympus, it is made pretty clear that greek demigods have issues speaking and even understanding latin.

Annabeth, for example, admits in Mark of Athena that she has some trouble with it:

Annabeth said nothing. She knew very little about the Roman goddess. She wished she had studied up, but Latin never came as easily to her as Greek. (Mark of Athena, Chapter 4, Annabeth)

When Jason recites the prophecy of the seven at the campfire in “The Lost Hero”, the campers had very obvious troubles understanding it (despite all, or most, of them already knowing the contents of the prophecy he is reciting.) Piper doesn’t even understand a single word, and is only able to discern that it is Latin that he is speaking:

An uneasy silence settled on the group. Piper could see from their faces that several of them were trying to translate the lines. She could tell it was Latin, but she wasn’t sure why her hopefully future boyfriend was suddenly chanting like a Catholic priest. (The Lost Hero, Chapter 10, Piper)

In the same book, Chiron states that greek demigods are merely able to recognize a few phrases at most and that no one can speak latin fluently without practice.

 “You know Latin,” Chiron observed. “Most demigods recognize a few phrases, of course. It’s in their blood, but not as much as Ancient Greek. None can speak Latin fluently without practice.” (The Lost Hero, Chapter 7, Jason)

Yet, it is a bit of a different story for Percy.

He not only has a relatively easy time understanding Latin, but he has actively spoken it in the past. By far not as well or fluently as Jason obviously, but still to some degree.

In fact, the beginning of his understanding of Latin in son of Neptune is remarkably similar to the beginning of his understanding of Greek in “The Lightning thief."

Just compare these two scenes. One from the beginning of Son of Neptune, and one from the beginning of The Lightning Thief:

‘They won’t attack,’ Reyna said, ‘unless you try to steal something, or unless I tell them to. That’s Argentum and Aurum.’ ‘Silver and Gold,’ Percy said. The Latin meanings popped into his head like Hazel had said they would. (The Son of Neptune, Chapter 3, Percy)

“The sword has a long and tragic history that we need not go into,” Chiron told me. “Its name is Anaklusmos.” “‘Riptide,’” I translated, surprised the Ancient Greek came so easily. (The Lightning Thief, Chapter 10)

Important note here: The scene in Son of Neptune was still when Hazel thought he was a roman demigod. Meaning his understanding of Latin seems to have an equal progression to how a roman demigod would understand Latin in his situation.

Now, obviously these were only a couple words and still align with Chiron’s description of the ability of Greek demigods to understand a couple words and phrases, but we have other direct comparisons, that show that Percy’s understanding seems to be a bit more advanced than other demigods.

For example, we do have direct comparison like that between Percy and Annabeth.

Again, let’s look at these two scenes from Son of Neptune and Mark of Athena respectively:

As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got son of a gorgon, power-hungry snake, and a few choice suggestions about where Octavian could stick his knife. (The Son of Neptune, Chapter 4, Percy)

A statue of Terminus exploded into being, right in front of Annabeth. He yelled at her in Latin, no doubt calling her a liar and a rule breaker; but she pushed the statue over and kept running. (Mark of Athena, Chapter 4, Annabeth)

“No doubt calling her a liar and a rule breaker” Meaning, Annabeth only assumes what he says from his tone of voice and the circumstances and doesn’t actually understand it. In contrast to Percy actually understanding most of what Hazel was saying.

A little bit later in Son of Neptune, Frank, who is a roman demigod, and has spent six weeks actively learning Latin in Camp Jupiter admits to having a bit of trouble understanding Ella when she recites the prophecy in the library:

Ella twitched uncomfortably. ‘Alaska. Six hundred twenty-six thousand, four hundred twenty-five square miles. State mammal: the moose.’ Suddenly she switched to Latin, which Frank could just barely follow thanks to his classes at Camp Jupiter. (The Son of Neptune, Chapter 36, Frank)

Yet, Percy is perfectly capable of understanding the very same prophecy. A prophecy he has never heard, in contrast to the demigods at camp half blood. He seems to be just as capable of understanding it as Hazel and Frank are:

‘Camp,’ Ella muttered. Then in Latin: ‘“Wisdom’s daughter walks alone, the Mark of Athena burns through Rome.”’ ‘Uh, right,’ Percy said. ‘That sounds important, but we can talk about that later. (…) ‘We’ll see her again,’ Percy promised, but he frowned uneasily, as if he were really troubled by that last bit of prophecy – the thing about Athena. (The Son of Neptune, Chapter 36, Frank)

But that is not all. Percy even spoke Latin as far back as the lightning thief:

“Zeus will destroy you!” she promised. “Hades will have your soul!” “Braccas meas vescimini!” I yelled. I wasn’t sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant “Eat my pants!” (The Lightning Thief, Chapter 10)

He didn’t even plan on speaking it, it just came to him as naturally as greek does to other greek demigods.

And I know some people will say “he had Latin in school. Chiron was his Latin teacher after all”.

Listen, I had Latin in school. I had Latin in school for close to 8 years and did an extra course at university for my history degree. You do not learn to speak Latin in school. At all. Especially in grade six. At this point you have some very simple sentences in Latin that you have to translate, and maybe learn like twenty vocabularies. You have sentences like “Julia puella est. Cornelia puella est. Julia et Cornelia puellae sunt.” You certainly don’t learn grammar, the conjugation of passive verbs like viscimini, declinations of “Bracca” or to use all of these words in a coherent sentence. Unless the American education system regarding Latin is completely different than the german one  and you guys learn to actively communicate in Latin and have a bunch of 12 year old prodigies, I can assure you, this did not stem from his Latin classes.

Now, do I believe that this was intentional on Rick’s part? No. Not at all.

Am I interpreting too much in a few little lines? Definitely.

SEASON TWO: briefly references age of ultron towards the end of the season. 25-26 years old. we find skye with a tougher chip on her shoulder than before, throwing herself into training under her new s.o., may, while she also researches the symbols garrett was carving under coulson's direction. S.H.I.E.L.D. is rebuilding with a mix of recovered agents and mercenaries for hire, while hunting the remaining heads of HYDRA. EVENTS OF NOTE: coulson fighting through the same compulsions garrett had, keeping it a secret from everyone on his team but may. building the funds for theta protocol. another sect of S.H.I.E.L.D. rebuilding itself in secret and claiming to be the real S.H.I.E.L.D., disapproving of coulson's way of running things. recovering an object HYDRA was hunting previously thought of as an obelisk, then called a diviner, with the same symbols coulson is carving. the symbols are discovered to be a map leading to an underground alien city, specifically a terrigenesis chamber, where inhumans underwent the ritual. skye learning both her parents are alive: her father, an unstable, formula-enhanced man who killed everyone in his path to find her, and her mother, a surviving victim of HYDRA'S inhuman experiments in the early 90s who leads an inhuman community called afterlife. skye being lured into terrigenesis and activating her powers, which when discovered, distances her from her fearful team. skye being taken to afterlife and accepted by the people there, trained under her mother's wing for a few days. both sects of S.H.I.E.L.D. discovering afterlife: coulson's to find skye, and the other, due to their fear of powered people. jiaying refusing peace due to her distrust and hatred of humans, nearly kickstarting a war and planning to unleash terrigen mist across the entire country to build new inhumans and destroy anyone who isn't. skye pushing a quinjet full of terrigen crystals into the ocean to disrupt jiaying's plan, who nearly kills her in trying to absorb her lifeforce afterwards: calvin snaps her neck to save their daughter. S.H.I.E.L.D. balances out, eager to move forward after cutting off most of the remaining HYDRA heads. skye adopts her birth name, daisy johnson, and continues as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. jemma simmons is sucked into a kree monolith they were investigating, left behind by fury and preserved against orders by the other sect of the agency.

SEASON THREE: deals with the fallout of the sokovia accords from civil war. 27-28 years old. here, we find a confident, witty daisy who seems comfortable in herself and her powers. S.H.I.E.L.D. focuses on rescuing and recruiting newly mutated inhumans ( thanks to the terrigen mist that was swept into fish oil pills after daisy pushed them into the atlantic ), though they are constantly racing against the ATCU who captures and contains them, and pushing back against the sokovia accords ( of which daisy refused to register ). HYDRA still lurks in the shadows. EVENTS OF NOTE: the monolith is discovered as a portal to another planet, used to exile a powerful inhuman leader known as HIVE after the kree abandoned their creations. jemma simmons is rescued after six months. daisy leads a small team of inhumans dubbed THE SECRET WARRIORS for a short time, including elena "yo-yo" rodriguez, joey gutierrez, and lincoln campbell. the watchdogs, a terrorist hate group against powered individuals, start causing major issues. gideon malick, the last head of HYDRA, recovers the monolith from S.H.I.E.L.D. and reveals it was the origin of their organization, with HIVE akin to a worshipped deity. hive returns to earth, using the deceased body of grant ward as a vessel. possessing the ability to connect inhumans to a hive-mind, he infects daisy, leading to her fighting against her team and gravely injuring one of her closest friends. daisy is eventually saved by lash, an inhuman who'd been chasing her with the purpose of breaking her connection to the hive mind, and returns to S.H.I.E.L.D. with news of hive's plan -- to detonate a warhead filled with terrigen mist to turn the entire population of earth into his inhuman army. through the vision of an inhuman who could glimpse the future, daisy was convinced her fate was to die to stop hive and atone for her sins. however at the last moment, lincoln campbell ( friend and lover ) took her place, using a quinjet to rocket himself and hive into space and detonate the terrigen bomb. daisy, distraught and traumatized from the last several weeks, quietly departs from S.H.I.E.L.D.

SEASON FOUR: still dealing with the sokovia accords leading up to infinity war. 28-29 years old. several months after the death of lincoln campbell, we find daisy almost back where she started: a lone hacker living in a van, with the addition of using her abilities to track down and defeat the watchdogs. the news has given her the moniker quake, describing her as a dangerous vigilante with the destruction of many buildings and robberies of banks under her belt and, a rogue of the sokovia accords, leading the public to question their effectiveness. EVENTS OF NOTE: daisy meets robbie reyes on one of her hunts, the current host of the ghost rider, who claims she goes around with a death wish. coulson has stepped down as director to search for daisy, choosing jeffrey mace as his replacement ahead of S.H.I.E.L.D. being legitimized once more, though eventually they agree that coulson runs field missions and mace deals with the politics. daisy is reluctantly brought back into the agency when their missions aligned, and grapples head-on with her guilt. her name is publicly cleared by jeffrey mace after quelling an earthquake in los angeles as part of a mission, and she is re-recruited as an agent. political tensions arise with whether or not inhumans have the right to be citizens. the darkhold ( not to be confused with agatha/wanda's copy, or maybe it is? ) becomes a threat, especially when transhumanist holden radcliffe and his ai creation, AIDA, get their hands on it. aida is corrupted by the darkhold and puts in motion a plan to replace everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. with LMDs, while trapping their real consciousness' in a digital reality called the framework, that she rewrote to have HYDRA rule the world and S.H.I.E.L.D. be the underground rebels fighting against them. daisy and jemma simmons go into the framework willingly to rescue their friends, who have had their entire histories rewritten and remember nothing of their real lives. when the framework is destroyed, aida tries to use the darkhold to destroy this reality entirely, and is stopped by coulson making a deal with the ghost rider to hide the darkhold in another dimension -- at the price of his soul. aida is destroyed, and the team is left once again to rebuild the rubble of their organization, and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s public approval -- though right before they expect to be apprehended by the military, the team is instead captured by mysterious figures and brought to a monolith that sucks them into a future they must find out how to subvert.

The only exception to this is Skye, due to both her whole "everything about her is a mystery" thing in early s1, and the fact that she wasn't a SHIELD agent yet, which meant it wouldn't make any sense for them to release an ID for her. As far as I'm aware, she has no canon height. And normally that wouldn't mean anything, because why would her height be anything other than the height of the person who played her, right? Right????

Unfortunately for weird little freaks who obsess over incredibly minute, entirely unimportant, and wholly inconsequential details (AKA me), for some inexplicable reason the writers/whoever was in charge of the promo materials decided to give the characters heights that just straight up?? Don't match the heights of the actors who played them????

Why. Why would you do that.

(This whole thing is making me lose my goddamn mind. I'm not joking. It's such a deeply, enormously, nigh unfathomably baffling decision to make. Please does anyone have any sort of explanation for why they would do this to me. Please. Please I am begging.)

"So how tall is Skye?" I hear you ask. "Should we just go off her actress's height? But the other characters have heights that don't match the people that played them, so what if she does too? Golly, if only there were someone who gets weirdly and annoyingly pedantic over minor character design details and discrepancies here to help solve this conundrum!"

WELL! ☝️🤓

The way I went about it was through a combination of the heights on the IDs and the heights of the actors for the respective characters. If you take the height differences between the actors, then translate that to the heights for the characters, you can figure out how tall Skye would be pretty easily.

Is what I would say if it was that simple. Unfortunately, the changes to the heights from the actors to the characters are not consistent, ranging from 0 to 3 inches. Which means that while it's essentially impossible to find an exact canon height for Skye, it is possible to figure out a range of heights she could potentially be.

Elizabeth Henstridge and lain De Caestecker are the only actors whose real heights were used for their characters' IDs (5'4 and 5'8 respectively), so if we use them for reference then Skye would be around 5'6, the same height Chloe Bennet is irl. Technically above average for cis women (average in the USA is around 5'2-5'4, depending on a couple different factors), though not necessarily "tall."

However, on the other end of the spectrum you have Coulson, who has the biggest change in height from his actor. Even though Clark Gregg is only 5'9, Coulson is 6'0 according to his ID. If we use him as a point of reference, then that would make Skye at least 5'9, maybe even as tall as 5'10 or 5'11 (google says the actors are like 3 inches apart, but to me it's always looked closer to 2 or even only 1 inch in the show).

Other heights she could potentially be based on the aforementioned criteria include 5'7 (Brett Dalton is 6'2. Ward is 6'3) and 5'8 (Ming-Na Wen is 5'4, May is 5'6).

To summarize: if you take the characters' canon heights into account while also keeping the height differences between the actors in mind, then Daisy's canon height range is pretty much anything in between 5'6 and 5'11.

In simpler terms, that means that Daisy Johnson is above average at the absolute shortest, and nearly SIX. FEET. TALL at the tallest.

Do you see why this is making me lose my mind.

(God I sincerely hope she doesn't have an explicitly stated canon height somewhere that I missed. I think I'd kill myself.)

Was talking to @gingerpeachtea about the how much Hannah Hutchins reminded me of post Hive Daisy and guys this shot is so insane from an (accidental LMAO) Quake foreshadowing perspective. The fact that they're talking about forgiveness for hurting people, the way Hannah is in the light and facing upwards while Skye is in the dark and facing down, the entire episode leading up to the Bahrain reveal when everything with Hive is functionally Daisy's Bahrain, THE FACT THAT THE LIGHTING MAKES HER CLENCHED FIST LOOK LIKE IT'S COVERED IN BLOOD..........

Daisy: Never have I ever, been grounded by my parents.

Hunter: This isn't fair! You make orphan jokes and win all the time!

Coulson utterly horrified: a- all the time?

Long time no art of Daisy looking absolutely miserable 😛

so! consider: the most random group of languages she has surface-level knowledge of inferred from what other people think she is or recognize her as