Over on another of Ysabetwordsmith's posts, we got rather derailed, talking about how certain kinds of spying and subterfuge tend to come out of growing up in a disadvantaged group, like a gay or black person does.
It got me thinking about Coulson in particular, as in canon he's supposed to have served with Nick Fury in the Marine Corps. Nick Fury displays the same basic personality as every Marine I've ever known: direct, aggressive when they feel threatened or less than secure in a situation, and proud of physical skills over mental ones.
Phil is far more balanced in his emotions, skills and the values he places on others' skills. Why?
What if he’s just growing UP with someone who is a part of an oppressed group? It would explain his gentleness with the team when they act in ways which seem much younger than their physical age, especially. Given his protectiveness, what if he is the YOUNGER sibling in a family of two, the older of which has some kind of pervasive delay, or congenital health problem that made the sibling a constant target for the local idiots? Unlike Steve, it would probably have been something that prevented the sibling from retaliating directly.
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Another hint about Phil's early life
Date: 2014-04-21 07:28 pm (UTC)It got me thinking about Coulson in particular, as in canon he's supposed to have served with Nick Fury in the Marine Corps. Nick Fury displays the same basic personality as every Marine I've ever known: direct, aggressive when they feel threatened or less than secure in a situation, and proud of physical skills over mental ones.
Phil is far more balanced in his emotions, skills and the values he places on others' skills. Why?
What if he’s just growing UP with someone who is a part of an oppressed group? It would explain his gentleness with the team when they act in ways which seem much younger than their physical age, especially. Given his protectiveness, what if he is the YOUNGER sibling in a family of two, the older of which has some kind of pervasive delay, or congenital health problem that made the sibling a constant target for the local idiots? Unlike Steve, it would probably have been something that prevented the sibling from retaliating directly.