#standwithward

I feel like someone in the writers room wanted Grant Ward to someday get redemption. Especially early on, it felt like they were setting up a redemption arc for him by letting the viewers get an idea of what his childhood was like. I can’t elaborate much on this (idk how to really), but I feel like he was set up for one and then didn’t get it.

On another note, I feel like Grant Ward deserved that redemption arc. He wasn’t brainwashed the way the others were, but he was basically brainwashed by Garrett, who found a kid who was broken down and turned him into a soldier. I feel like he could have been saved.

Skye: “One regret can’t change an entire life It doesn’t change who you are.” 

Radcliffe: “Of course it can. One person in your life, one decision, one sentence has the power change your life forever.”

Skye: “I just didn’t think Fitz was capable of doing something like that.”

Grant Ward Saves the Day

Deke becomes obsessed with Harry Potter when he first meets the group. He reads all the books and watches all the movies over the span of a few weeks. He’s heartbroken when he realizes that the Harry Potter books didn’t exist in the 80s.

Skye is surprisingly good at playing the guitar. The team finds out when she drags them into an instrument store after one of their missions, picks up a beat up second hand guitar and plays it beautifully. They all pitch in to buy her a guitar not long after that. Ward appreciates it greatly, as listening to her play some top 40s song and hum along is one of the only things that calms him down after the beserker incident. He only feels a little weird about the fact that he hasn’t told her that, and he listens to her play through the thin walls of the bunks.

May has legal guardianship over a kid at the academy. May worked in the field with her mother, and promised to look after her when her mother was killed. May doesn’t act as a parental figure, but more as the ‘cool aunt.’

Jemma is better at mental math than Fitz, but always answers slower so that he thinks he’s better at it.