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AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. | Melinda

Top 10 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Villains (as voted by my followers)    5▸Jiaying (57.9%)

“This war started decades ago, when S.H.I.E.L.D. was founded to guard the world against people like us. And it will never end.“

MCU Femship Week | Day 4: Friendship | Jiaying and Peggy Carter

(this series also counts as sapphic aesthetics)

It has long been a theory of mine that the entire course of the MCU as we know it would be different if Peggy and Jiaying’s paths had crossed back in the 1940s. Imagine, for example, Peggy had been part of the effort to initially save Jiaying from Hydra. So alerted to this issue, the SSR and then SHIELD would prioritize keeping Whitehall locked up, if not dead, and would prioritize keeping Jiaying (and the other Inhumans, once Jiaying shared this information with them) safe. They, and ultimately the world, would have an increased knowledge of Inhumans and how they’re no more a threat than “regular” humans, and Inhumans would have more of a reason to trust “regular” humans and their government. Meanwhile, Peggy would be charged with Jiaying’s care and (at least temporary) acclimatization to the States, and obviously the two women would forge a bond, a friendship that would eventually develop certain benefits. It’s a win-win situation: everyone in the world is more knowledgeable and less bigoted, Jiaying and Peggy are happy, and when baby Daisy is born (may I also point out that Daisy can be a nickname for Margaret?) she’s surrounded with love from her parents as well as her namesake/godmother and grows into a woman with all of her canon strengths but considerably less of her canon trauma. (She can probably also get her gf Jemma a lunch with her hero Peggy at some point, during which Peggy finds the fangirling sweet.) Peggy and Jiaying, though certain aspects of their relationship probably fade with time, stay close all through their lives, and Jiaying is in one of the front rows at Peggy’s funeral, shedding tears for the woman who helped her stay safe and even more than that helped her give Inhumans a rational voice in the world.