I was about to go in and work on asks (again if you’ve sent one there are a lot in there and I’ll get to them all but it will definitely take me a few more days). But I just want to take a moment and hopefully offer a bit of stress release to the fandom.
Tuesday everything literally got turned upside down on us as the C Arc turned into AO3 come to life. They surprised me (Which isn’t easy to do), did things we didn’t want to see, and then totally changed the playing field on us. Some are excited by the twist while others are devastated. As usual the source of that is mostly Fitzsimmons.
We’re here guys. The Fitznapping, Role Reversal, and Woman on Fire I’ve been predicting since last season is here. Just not how I though it would be. The writers did it and turned it on its head. I said they would do something that would have us freaking the hades out over hiatus and boy did they ever.
With this meta I’m going to break a few things down and offer some hope. But we still have to prepare for more twists that are going to hurt.
What will Fitz be like in the Framework?
What we know: He’s seemingly rich and holding his hand out to a woman in the car. He’s got either minions or bodyguards with him as well.
What we suspect his regret AIDA fixed is: His father. If it was something to do with his relationship with Jemma they would not have put the Papa Fitz stuff on the table. So in this world…AIDA will have given him a father and a supportive one at that.
In essence part of how we see Fitz will be if he had a father figure at the very least He had someone either nurturing his genius/guiding it. Or he never got into science and is more on the business side of things.
We had lots of fun trying to find the perfect actor for Papa Fitz. And boy did we find some fun options. But you know, he’s been here all long. Radcliffe.
Radcliffe built a utopia…his happily ever after is in there too. He sees Fitz as the son he never had, wants him working with him, appreciated his talents, and encouraged him. “I’m not going to let this come between us”. Bonus the way he touched him when talking about the Framework with AIDA, it was paternal.
Fitz said he saw Radcliffe as a father figure.
So that has been fixed now. Both for the ‘benefit’ of Fitz and Radcliffe. AIDA makes Radcliffe Fitz’s father in here. Be it she rewrote history, or lets say the Glasgow mission saved FItz’s Parents…without it they die and Radcliffe adopted him/took him in. (That serial killer board showed us just how much Coulson has done. He is patient zero in all this. Him not joining Shield is what made the biggest wave).
Having the father figure in his life be it Radcliffe or Papa Fitz is one of the things that likely changed FItz’s trajectory the most. And there is a good chance he never went into the Academy or if he did he was pulled away/into Hydra. In that case he never met Jemma or knows her in a different way (we’ll get into that later).
I know a big fear will lie in Fitz’s personality really being different. And yes he will be, he’s in a world where he doesn’t have the experiences we have seen shape him. The Fitz we had now isn’t the Fitz we had in the pilot. Who he REALLY is is still there. He is who he is because its who he is, its not is programming (that conversation with Jemma was huge and is going to be the crux of all this). He’s a good person, who is loving, brave, and loyal. However, until he remembers we could see a change. And that’s okay, it will be fun to see Iain strech his legs a big.
He could be Evil: Robo Fitz gave me chills. Just legit chills. So we could see a bit of Hydra Super Villain Mad Scientist Fitz here.
He could be an a**: He is this world version of Quinn or even a bit of Stark He knows he’s smart, he knows he’s rich, he’s entitled, and manipulative. Pretty much everything our Fitz is not.
He is himself…but with a twist: He’s the Fitz we know…but a bit more confident. Or they have twisted his loyalty and convictions from loyalty to Shield…to Hydra and his father figure. Remember Garrett said if Fitz joined Hydra in the fall, he’d hold a high rank and that would no doubt come with the kind of trappings we saw him with at the end.
No matter what….Jemma will eventually get through to him. Its not going to be easy, Jed said it won’t be easy, but she’ll do it eventually.
Where is Jemma in the Framework:
She is NOT in the grave. Had she projected herself into a dead body she would have died instantly. Jemma said her Avatar was “running around” in the framework. A dead body doesn’t do that, this isn’t Walking Dead.
We don’t have time for this. Period.
Jemma is the one who is going to get Fitz to “wake up” and she can’t do that from Maveth.
The circumstances that landed her on Maveth in the first place will not have happened because Coulson never joined Shield and I have a hunch things are going very differently with the Inhumans in here.
No writer in their right mind would open that can of worms with us again. They have been distancing themselves from that story like the plague.
This story is about Jemma getting Fitz back, not him realizing she’s gone and somehow figuring out he needs to get Harold, and its nto going to be Jemma getting off Hell planet and THEN joining the party.
Maveth is another world. The Framework is one work in its own right.
Jemma as never scanned so where her Avatar is (like Daisy) is a result of what AIDA did with Fitz, Coulson, May, and Mack. Now May and Mack won’t have been as big of factor as where Jemma landed. That is more “I never joined Shield Coulson” and Fitz.
Yes, we could get the he never went to the Academy and therefore they never met. Plus side we get to see him fall in love with her again.
We could get they are rivals, and look at that enemies to lovers.
Jed said that everything in “our world” is in there somehow. Case in point Ward. That also means things like Shield (who in an Upside down world would be what Hydra was, lurking and limping along in the shadows), Real Shield (Bobbi, Izzy, Gonzales, and Weaver), Mike/Deathlock, Afterlife (but look for it to have been captured or fallen we can’t get Jaiying, Lincoln, and Raina back).
What if Jemma in this world IS a Double Agent for Shield. Working within Hydra to steal secrets and take it down.
She’s not JEMMA anymore…she is someone else.
Its the back door Jemma was talking about.
It does indeed belong to Jemma Anne Simmons and her death has been faked for some reason. Be it by Fitzsimmons, Hydra, Shield, or Radcliffe. But like Coulson and Fury’s, its an empty grave.
It says “Loving Friend” on it so someone was close to her in this world to put that there. And it has to be SOMEONE who was scanned. May, Coulson, Mace, Mack, and Fitz.
This gives rise to Double Agent Jemma. “Jemma Simmons” in this world is indeed dead and Jemma’s avatar is going by a new name and identity.
Jed said that Fitz didn’t seem too phased about her being in the grave. So that either means that He wasn’t close to her here to have it have an impact…or he knows she’s not in there.
They hid who it belonged to for a reason. But in looking at the positive side of things they gave us Ward…..so why would they give us Ward and not continue the massacre on our feelings and have some Rando step out with Fitz. Because they could have done what they did with the hand with ward. Had Daisy coming out of the bathroom and sees the figure laying in bed…cut away. Leaving the fandom thinking its Lincoln ALL hiatus and then come back in 16 with SURPRISE! It wasn’t Lincoln.
So in not showing us the hand and confirmring it wasn’t Jemmas it build the suspense and often times our imagination or worst case are far worse than what happens. So all hiatus they leave us fearing who is coming out of the car next.
Okay so yes, Jed confirmed the hand isn’t Jemma…he said JEMMA. But…if Jemma Simmons is “dead” her Avatar won’t be going by Jemma will she? She’ll have a new name/cover so while Jemma might not be coming out of that car next….Lil and her Framework counterpart very well could be. Jemma here could be a double agent either spying on, protecting, or trying to get to Fitz. Or is a version of her Radcliffe wanted for his ‘son’.
Another option is that when Jemma “died” in this world Fitz went all Radcliffe on us and created Robo Jemma. So like Agnes is to AIDA…Jemma’s new counterpart would have a different name.
However we do have to consider other options for that Hand too.
AIDA/Agnes: But not romantically. Rather if Radcliffe is his father either one could be his “step mother”. Despite the butterfly effect its hard to get to a point where Fitz meets AIDA on his own.
Bobbi: She’s undercover in Hydra too, Fitz is her target or she is his bodyguard. Again NOT romantic.
Rando assistant: So its his version of Anon or AIDA and its not romantic at all.
Rando Girlfriend: Yes it has to be on the table. I’m sorry but it does. I don’t like it. It don’t want it. But it has to be there. It makes me mad as all get out that we have to deal with another form of a love triangle. Again I feel if it was this option they would have hit us with a truck with it already and really left us in shambles. IF they do this to us remember….
ITS NOT REAL and as soon as Fitz wakes up its all Jemma all the time.
The Jemma Fitz loves is not in the picture. So he’s not cheating on her or anything like.
When Fitz comes out of the Framework Fitz will recognize it was that, in the Framework. It will not change his feeling for Jemma at all. “Theirs is a forever love”.
Jemma comes into his life and we get to see her have him fall in love with her all over again.
If AIDA has inserted herself in here as Fitz’s Girlfriend is more of a Dragon guarding its treasure. Its allowing her to keep an eye on him. Its not because she loves him. .
Jemma needs to get close to Fitz, she needs to be in the mix or in a position where she can do that and start to work on him. So she can’t be completely off the map here Get him to wake up. Get him to want to leave the Framework. And its not just Fitz she and Daisy have to do this with. Its May, Coulson, Mack and Mace too. All the while surviving whatever the crap is going on in that world. AIDA didn’t program the story, she just changed it at a certain point ans is going from there. So its a true What If AU.
AIDA allowed x factors in the mix like Ward….this Ward is based off of Coulson, May, Fitz, and even a little bit of Mack. And is still ‘alive’ here thanks to someone’s regret fix.
This is Ward we are talking about…kind of AOS plot twists.
The trick isn’t going to be really finding everyone, its going to be convincing them to ‘come home”. Convincing them this isn’t real.
Both Radcliffe and AIDA who built the Framework in the first place know how much Fitzsimmons mean to each other. As does EVERY SINGLE PERSON they scanned in there.
We can’t forget even once they get them to want to come out its Radcliffe who knows where they are and how to do it safely. RADCLIFFE is the one they have to get to tell them. And we know he’s pretty dang happy in there, especially if we are right about Fitz. He’s got his son, powers, Agnes, and no fear of death. Let me tell you @jessiecrimefighter and I just came up with another one of those really awful ideas. But in the End its Radcliffe who has to be willing to let them go and die to save them all.
We have and endgame here guys. In the gut punch of what we had please don’t lose site of that. This is TV so we have to suffer before we get these moments.
We endured the hell of Maveth and were rewarded with them becoming Canon and The Singularity.
We endured the so close yet so far of A and were rewarded with Sciencing Domestic Fitzsimmons through B (and really we had to know something was coming with all that good).
Just like in Season three where they set up Perthshire/Jemma pictured them together, that they both loved each other. It became of matter of getting there. The bump them was Will, them getting kidnapped, Fitz going to Maveth, and its aftermath. And we are there again only this time its better. Its Marriage. Robo Fitz with the wedding talk was like Fitz watching Jemma’s videos. A huge “oh my you want that” moment without the other directly saying it.
Fitz wants to propose, he wants them to get married and grow old together.
Jemma WILL say yes, and she will say yes as soon as she gets him back.
There is NO Universe where FItz doesn’t want to Marry You.
Their’s is a forever love.
THEY WILL MAKE IT BACK TOGETHER….and out pay off at the very least is them engaged if not a wedding.
Many of us wanted a Woman on Fire Fitznapping…well we got it. And I said to remind me I wanted it when it was here and not how I pictured it to be. So that is what I am doing.
I would also like to point out that the person who has nearly pulled them apart the most is in the mix. Ward. Boy do I have some fun theories for him but those are for after the ask box isn’t overflowing. Especially thanks to Jed’s newest quote.
I know my meta won’t stop someone from stopping the show if they are upset about the turn. I know it doesn’t change canon. I know it doesn’t change we are going to have to suffer a little bit. What I’m hoping I get across is that the suffering will be worth it. That we need to stay positive and stay together with this. Fitzsimmons will be fine, we have that diamond ring just waiting at the end of this. So hang in there guys. But in my gut I do believe there are FAR more interssting stories to tell vs just throwing a Rando GF in the mix.
The Framework is full of love and loss. Seeing who you really are. That our experiences help shape us but they don’t define us.
