Agents of Shield Fic Recs - Alternate Universe/Time Travel
Follow me to get lost by jdphoenix - Coulson and May jump through a time hole and end up twenty six years in the past. The only logical thing to do is raise Skye themselves.
Funny, sweet and heartwarming. Shows how Coulson, May and Skye's lives go so, so much better - but also the possibilities they lose this time round and the weight of the choices they make. Chapter 4 is the funniest and my favourite.
Complete.
House of Folded Paper by NezumiPi - Grant Ward builds himself a new family that borders on a cult. Shield has to hunt him down before the bodycount gets too high.
Set after Season 2, contradicts everything after that. Can be considered an interesting 'what if' scenario where Hive never came to Earth and Grant found a different method of revenge.
Multi-chapter, complete, not Season 3 or 4 compliant.
The Cursed Soldiers by NezumiPi - Mysterious assets calling themselves the Cursed Soldiers take a base from Hydra and offer it to Shield. Meanwhile, Coulson finds new information on Grant Ward's recruitment.
The kind of Ward-redemption fic I like. A Ward that makes better choices, previous crimes are not excused, and ends on a hopeful note. Also gives a rational reason for Coulson shifting his attitude.
I'd walk a thousand miles by Anuna - Lincoln was meant to die in space taking Hive with him, but he wakes up on Earth with an alive Grant Ward who doesn't remember much. A few months later, they're joined by Daisy fleeing a more radical Shield. Together they try to come to terms with the past.
A sweet, slow-moving fic about healing and reconciliation. It's an OT3 story that switches between past and present, an approach that works really well. The writer had me invested in a relationship that has no justification at all in canon. There's no action, but some dark hints about what happened to Daisy and what's going on outside the safe haven the three of them have created.
Multi-chapter, incomplete, not Season 4 compliant.
Funny, sweet and heartwarming. Shows how Coulson, May and Skye's lives go so, so much better - but also the possibilities they lose this time round and the weight of the choices they make. Chapter 4 is the funniest and my favourite.
Complete.
House of Folded Paper by NezumiPi - Grant Ward builds himself a new family that borders on a cult. Shield has to hunt him down before the bodycount gets too high.
Set after Season 2, contradicts everything after that. Can be considered an interesting 'what if' scenario where Hive never came to Earth and Grant found a different method of revenge.
Multi-chapter, complete, not Season 3 or 4 compliant.
The Cursed Soldiers by NezumiPi - Mysterious assets calling themselves the Cursed Soldiers take a base from Hydra and offer it to Shield. Meanwhile, Coulson finds new information on Grant Ward's recruitment.
The kind of Ward-redemption fic I like. A Ward that makes better choices, previous crimes are not excused, and ends on a hopeful note. Also gives a rational reason for Coulson shifting his attitude.
I'd walk a thousand miles by Anuna - Lincoln was meant to die in space taking Hive with him, but he wakes up on Earth with an alive Grant Ward who doesn't remember much. A few months later, they're joined by Daisy fleeing a more radical Shield. Together they try to come to terms with the past.
A sweet, slow-moving fic about healing and reconciliation. It's an OT3 story that switches between past and present, an approach that works really well. The writer had me invested in a relationship that has no justification at all in canon. There's no action, but some dark hints about what happened to Daisy and what's going on outside the safe haven the three of them have created.
Multi-chapter, incomplete, not Season 4 compliant.