v. rescripted - canon divergences
-Jemma hasn’t disappeared to go undercover; instead, after getting more interactions with the team members at the base and through phone that allowed her to calm down, she spoke to Coulson and they decided to let the team know she was going on an assignment and that it should be kept secret. She got to say goodbye, and there is no fighting with Fitz about her lying or hiding she’d leave.
-She does has PTSD and anger issues, but again, due to the support she gets and the fact that she and Fitz are still “close” even if it’s different, effects are less noticeable and she’s trying to manage on her own (she will eventually get treatment when she’ll realize that not even dating Fitz her problems will disappear, and that she happens to lose control on her actions and her own self-hatred in ways that could lead to pain for everyone). She KNOWS she has PTSD and has been hiding that too (part of her reason is that she’s very ashamed and to be afraid of stealing spotlight from the others’ traumas, but she’s also scared to be sent away until better).
-She gets together with Fitz earlier, thanks also to her friends’ talks who help her understand her feelings
-She really thinks of the team as a family, she has a bros situation with Ward, she adores Kara and Hunter, and they are all like brothers and sisters (except Coulson and May, who are like parents, and little Deke who is like her kid. Little she knows he is her fs grandson.)
-She still wants to murder the guy who pushed the pod.
-She has biological family issues as in: absentee father who did love her but was always gone due to work, and who has expectations about Jemma she can’t fulfill now, criminally neglectful and manipulative mother who is the source of Jemma’s exaggerated guilt and with whom Jemma isn’t on speaking terms after the pod (and a phonecall that really went badly), and both never approved her friendships with people of a different social status, nor her ‘party planner career’ that Jemma made up to test their love when still a teenager, and that became such a big lie that she couldn’t let go of it (also because stubbornly waiting for their approval). The lie she said about her job also had her little sister feel rejected over something so meaningless and turn her back to her, mostly because Cat felt betrayed by what she considered her mother figure (things will be fixed between Jemma when Jemma will say the truth). Her brother hates her. Her family staff adored her as a kid, and so did her grandmother. The family is very very rich, also Jewish from her father’s side.
-What the team actually knows about her family at the beginning of this: she has one, with two parents, maybe some people hard mentions of a sister, they are likely rich, they called her during their team in the Bus and they seem close, they are in Sheffield. Additional things Fitz and Skye would know: she has a brother. She’s Jewish. Her parents work a lot and weren’t there much. More things will be learned as time goes on because she’s not (always) withholding information on purpose, it just doesn’t cross her mind to share.
-She had a rebellious phase at sixteen, a few days, purple hair, a tattoo, drinking, driving, all kinds of things that seemed ‘rebellious’ enough, with a gang of other rich kids who never had to deal with consequences, until she attempt to take her father’s yacht to crash it, was drunk and went into the wrong one, police arrived because of the security, she willingly took the fall, her daddy got her out of trouble, and she swore to never break rules for no reason again, because she doesn’t like the problems that come with it, nor she likes being rude to people who are just doing their jobs.
-She’s going to be pretty sassy/mean to friends, in a playful way, but also a true ass to people she doesn’t like/know too well, and she’s definitely cocky, and smug, and prone to be sadistic with the enemy, and stubborn, secretive, but also so loving and ready to play around and to help people in whatever way she can.