Every now and then I remember Daisy’s reaction to finding out Trip is in the framework and it’s such a bittersweet moment.
When she runs to him and just tackles him into a hug and he’s like ‘heyyy, lady i don’t know’ and Daisy’s just embarrassed but also happy because this is Trip, and it’s such a Trip thing to say.
Because she was the one to watch him crumble and die on what was most likely ones of the most memorable days of her life for so many reasons. It was her grief and shock and horror at his death (aside from her inexperience) that caused her to lose control in a way she didn’t even realize and destroy that whole temple.
And it’s bittersweet because Trip in the framework is quite possibly the only guy who seems exactly the same and it’s as if no time had passed at all, except Daisy is different and she’s learned things about herself and become someone Trip never got to see or know and it’s devastating. Trip died right when she got her powers. He died before he learned her real name; before Daisy even learned it herself.
He never got to see her as Daisy or as Quake. But this framework Trip did, except he’s not really her Trip because he doesn’t know her or remember their friendship.
And as soon as she meets this version of someone who arguably she would’ve been the closest to, she has to say good bye and you could see it in their last conversation how devastated she is at the fact that once again, this is goodbye. The tears in her eyes had be this close to tears myself.
And you just know that if Trip had lived he would’ve been supportive and would’ve believed in her and would’ve been the one cracking superhero jokes and making the stressful painful situation Daisy was in that much more bearable. Because he genuinely cared about her and he wouldn’t have been the kind of person to see her as different or as dangerous. He would’ve treated her the same as always except for a remark here and there about how many more people she could take down now as opposed to before.
And Trip died thinking she had died as well. He died thinking he failed her. His anguished scream of ‘No’ when she froze in that inhuman cocoon is honestly so painful.
Nothing and no one could convince me they didn’t have one of the best relationships on this damn show. No one and nothing can convince me his death wasn’t the saddest most shocking one.
5 and a half seasons later, and dozens of character deaths including main characters later, and Trip’s death is the only one that stayed with me and kept hurting.
I just love his character so much and I loved his relationship and chemistry with Daisy. Wish we could’ve seen his character grow and develop over the years.