i'm going to bring up a season 5 conversation that is very overlooked but for once, it's a lighthearted and funny one.
in 5x11-ish General Hale tells off Ruby for being "obsessed" with Daisy Johnson. Lady, YOU're obsessed with Daisy Johnson.
i've seen this show thrice. walk with me here.
Hale sees Daisy as a worthier candidate than Ruby to go into the Particle Infusion Chamber. She spends her entire screen time in the first half of S5 trying to draw out SHIELD for Quake. and to arrest them, but that comes secondary as we've seen in 5x15 where Coulson spends some time in her base and clearly considers the alien Confederacy problem as a higher priority. this is just a crazed fan trying to see a glimpse of their fav.
She literally fan girls about Daisy in front of Coulson – "You've made her into quite the formidable soldier" / "She's strong, she's cold, she's calculating" / "She'd be worthy of the name Whitehall named this project" etc because Daisy Johnson is the standard Ruby Hale could never reach (in time, we'd never know). Also she noticed her daughter's obsession. Dude. Ruby possibly became obsessed with Quake because her mother loves Daisy so much that she became their training standard – probably from all of those assessments on how SHIELD operates to find them but whatever
which, i find it a little baffling that despite Hale's established academic smarts, she completely foregoes the Inhuman part of Daisy. you'd think the girl who could generate blasts that allows her to control gravitonium would probably have some adverse effects if its properties were infused in her body. i'm sure vibration manipulation and gravity manipulation cancel each other out somewhere. also, considering Hale has access to SHIELD files, I'm sure there's a section somewhere that details how Daisy's powers are sensory as much as it is physical or maybe there isn't, since data privacy and all that, though Daisy was at the receiving brunt of SHIELD's intake process and the Secret Warriors wasn't exactly secret – see Yo-yo's eventual integration and name-dropping Lincoln a few times with Talbot and Radcliffe. also i'm pretty sure the extent of her abilities came up at some point when she was rogue. there's a good chance she'd know. this is actually quite comical if Hale's fangirling actually distracted her smarts from considering this.
anyway, i just think it's funny that Hale quite literally tried to insert Daisy as her blorbo in her grand scheme of Hydra evil like we writers do. "oh yeah i have this mission that creates the strongest man in the world, well i want the strongest man in the world to be a woman (actual line she said in the show) and i want that to be my favorite vigilante-slash-superhero of all time!" which exacerbates Ruby's insecurities but high key i don't think Ruby cared about it either because she also Gets It. they're both crazy for Quake. Sam Koenig's got quite the competition.
