OH! Wait!

[tencrush]

Oh! Wait, you know how in TRACKS, Simmons tells Coulson that he looks MUCH too young to be her father? What if that's just a big cluehammer and that kid called Phil from the 50's playing with the Captain America shield in the film IS Coulson, and he's older than we think? Older than he thinks? What if he's a SHIELD super soldier experiment gone

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[off_c]

It would make him even more Jack-Harknessy.

And thus, I am for it.

[tencrush]

I have resigned myself to Phil's super status, it's hilariously inevitable. I am done with my rewatch, and I'm pretty convinced they've fucked with Phil's brain before, you say Tahiti, he says It's a Magical Place, you mention SHIELD and secrets, he says Trust The System, same response, same words, every time. I think his pre-SHIELD existence is an implant of some sort. I think he's a super soldier of some kind, and the surgeries were carried out to keep his brain alive while his body fixed itself, it's a pretty petite scar for that badass staff, I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears. Simmons gave him a physical and he was pretty much perfect, not perfect-given-the-shredded-heart thing, just perfect. That's not normal.

[tencrush]

Also, yeah, if that detail from Captain America is correct, it's pretty much the Whedons doing what someone elsewhere described as continuityporn, and I'm all for that. They seem to be doing a lot of it, Coulson played with that walkie-talkie watch several times, and mentioned it several times, and how rare it was, before he reluctantly sacrificed it for the greater good in ep 9. It was old, there were only twenty of them, and now it's got a big fat hole through the middle of it. If he could poke its brain, he'd probably revive the watch. They only made 20 of them, ffs. METAPHORS!

I need more sleep.

[off_coloratura]

You're a flippin' genius and it will all turn out to be true. Less fictitious kink, more sleep!