#cousy

I was a huge Coulson/Skye shipper during the early seasons. They were definitely written to be flirting and they had a ton of chemistry.

I suspect what killed the possibility of that ship ever setting sail in canon is that Clark Gregg and Chloe Bennet ended up developing a surrogate father/daughter relationship IRL and thus it would have been inconsiderate and a little gross for the writers to force them to act out a romantic/sexual relationship in the show.

(There's a bunch of other social media posts and various interviews about how Clark Gregg and Chloe Bennet developed a surrogate father/daughter relationship IRL, but I don't feel like digging all of them up for an off-the-cuff Tumblr rant.)

Now that the show is long over and thus there is no speculation as to which direction canon will go, I don't really see any need for the old Skoulson vs. Philinda ship wars to continue. Canon made its choice, but there's plenty of early season material to support taking things in a different direction in fanfic if you want to.

I still enjoy early-season Coulson/Skye fanfics or later-season AUs in which their relationship develops in a different direction than it did on the show. I also enjoy Coulson/May fics or Philindaisy family fics that more closely adhere to canon. Meanwhile, I also enjoy Coulson/Audrey fics, Coulson/Rosalind fics, Coulson/Pepper fics, Coulson/OFC fics, etc.

Because the #1 person I ship Phil Coulson with is myself, so any Coulson/[cis woman] pairing works for me because as a cishet woman it's easy for me to imagine myself in her place. (Yes I am cringe but I am free, and you can have my self-indulgent isekai maladaptive daydreaming when you pry it from my cold dead hands.)

And she can tell Coulson doesn’t exactly want to tell her what’s going on, but he doesn’t want to hide things from her either - treat her like she is not part of the team, or must be isolated for her own good. Like it might make her believe he thinks she’s too vulnerable right now, too weak, after Hive. She knows Coulson must be thinking something along those lines. He still looks exhausted at the idea of conveying the information.

ngl i cried a few times before the final scene but i lost it when she called him AC

like, fuck, canon or fanon, this is THE thing, THE relationship, these two are what brought me here. the show could have ended a hundred different ways but as long as in the end i still had Daisy and Coulson - Daisy and Coulson looking at each other like this,  Daisy and Coulson having this conversation, i’d be fine.