The thing about Skye
Skye didn't realize that the world, as she knew it, was rather muted. It was so blessedly quiet, unbeknownst to her, until one day it wasn't
One moment the world is silent, and the next, rock cracks around her body, and it screams.
Daisy later likens it to as if she'd been walking through life with the world on mute, and suddenly someone turned the volume on. It's like a million bees under her skin, always humming- ringing in her ears- and the rest of the world hums back all at different frequencies and tones.
At first, it gave her a lot of migraines- especially when she'd try to contain it within herself. It pinged in her bones and rattled in her brain so loudly sometimes that she couldn't stand it. She got a lot of nose bleeds in the beginning, until, eventually, her body got used to the new normal.
It's at Afterlife that she learns how to pick through the noise- to distinguish her frequencies from others and how to mute or 'turn up the volume' on individual things.
She learns that people's frequencies change with their emotions- a harsher buzz in agitation or a soothing hum when they are calm.
Daisy finds that she enjoys May's vibrations the most, and always ends up somewhere in her vicinity if she accidentally lets her mind wander. Coulson's are nice, too. They sound playful and almost like a purr in her presence.
She can feel the whole base hum, slow and low, and everyone in it. When she can't sleep, she reaches out her senses, tracking each of her team- making sure they're still safe and here and not wandering out in the world, somewhere, out of reach.
Daisy quickly becomes obsessive about her found family and knowing where they are- obsessive to the point that she becomes incredibly anxious whenever one of them goes out on mission and she can't find them. It becomes less of a comfort to help her sleep and more of a fixation that she can't sleep without. She can't think of anything else at all until her family is gathered and here and safe again within her senses.
Daisy does her best to hide the anxiety she feels whenever one of them goes away. She's always felt it, but now it feels like she's drowning in it- like the world is inherently and fundamentally wrong until she feels their vibrations again- hears their frequencies in her ears like reassuring whispers.
The frequencies used to be deafening, but now it's deafening when select ones aren't there.
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~Silver~