Maveth AU Jemma (AoS)

I've written her for MANY years since 2015 on the AoS fandom and I missed her: my original angsty demon child, queen of ships, and reason I wrote my thesis for my degree about PTSD  

Potentially triggering themes such as her suffering from PTSD (untagged because it's just part of who she is), all typical dark themes you find in Marvel like torture, abuse, gore etc. she was on a planet that was basically a horror movie for a year. She's been tortured, choked, stabbed, shot, almost eaten and more.

FULL NAME: Jemma Anne Simmons.

ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION: straight (but demiromantic) and very confused by romance since she hasn't experienced it yet (and has trouble understanding what isn't spelled out to her, feelings-wise). Will be very into hook ups (even if I often fade to black). 

TATTOOS: a small compass on her bikini line, on the left.

NOTABLE PHYSICAL TRAITS: after the planet, two very large scars along her stomach and belly (wounds that she had to cauterize), an equally treated long scar around her arm, inches below her wrist. A scar left from a bite on her lower back. Her skin is black around her wrists because of a tentacle plant, she usually wears wristbands to hide it. Several smaller scars on her arms and legs. A scar from scoliosis surgery on her back. More burns on her torso from Giyera. After s4, a scar from a stab wound left by LMD Fitz. And freckles. 

biography/about

I tend to give as many flaws as they have qualities, how many weaknesses as they have strengths (you spend time bettering something, something else will be ignored), I write this specific Jemma as still a genius but also a fighter hard to defeat after season 3 (though she's way better at attacking than defending, but she also has a strong pain thresholds and ignores wounds after s3). 

Jemma considers her team a family, and Daisy and May in particularly fill those roles for her (I'll freely admit that I projected my real life friendship on theirs, and the way I write Jemma probably makes Jemma and Daisy's stronger than it actually is). 

I will INSTANTLY ship her with Fitz rpers if they want to ship them, BUT the ship must be rebuilt because she goes off canon AND I do want her to express grievances to Fitz too. So if we ship it's up to you, because Jemma can agree that she's a terrible person but will want to eat him alive over thinking she'd be a danger to Daisy (as well as wanting to attack everyone who questions her - if I can say so myself - perfectly normal suggestion to kill Raina). That, and Jemma will never become a perfect therapist/cheerlader, she was blatantly portrayed as socially terrible in s1 and partly 2, there is no reason for her to suddenly learn to say the perfect words. She'll give all her heart but she's always going to say creepy or inappropriate things. Also, and usually Fitz rpers agree with me on this, I hate the trope of 'she's hope and he's doom' that they pulled with her several times, there has to be mutual comforting and some smiles every now and then, or what are we doing?

By default, with others, she and Fitz are platonic so there is space for other ships. With Fitzes, she may have still told him she could reciprocate his feelings BUT we should write them making up first, with Jemma also getting to give her explanation ('I left because I thought I was making you worse'), getting to argue, and then getting to admit she has feelings. OR we can keep them platonic but eventually Jemma will explain why she left.

 Season 1 is pretty much the same, bubbly scientist who needs to be reminded of what's creepy and inappropriate and likes following rules as long as she agrees with them. She did NOT have a crush on Grant Ward then, she just didn't want to tell Dad Coulson she wanted to have sex with him because he was hot. 

She's also not the extra nice and friendly person as she's usually mistaken for, she just hides mean comments or her cockyness behind a sweet voice (see how she gloats about Raina getting arrested, how in the first episodes she continuously rolled her eyes at everyone etc). She was already vindictive and ready to fight in s1, as well as overconfident. She is a loving and supportive friend but only to those she truly likes. There is a reason if Fitz seems to make friends everywhere he goes and she just has him and then, later, really only bonds strongly with Daisy. DAISY AND FITZ are the people who always know what to say and how to make friends, I have dozens of gifsets showing Jemma is terrible at this - she is kind, but she's not the sweetie many seem to think she is. 

 Season 2 She trained before going undercover and never stopped; driven by PTSD, her vengeful streak, her distance from the team and her self-hatred, Jemma started believing that making hard calls and being the expendable one was her role in the team; that, and to protect her friends not only from threats but from becoming like her. They were the good guys, she was just trying her best. Jemma was never anti-inhuman, she couldn't be since she didn't know they existed: she was anti 'an alien objected infected my friends just like it happened to me, Tripp died, Daisy's bones are breaking and she wants it to stop'. In fact, once it's clear that Daisy is part alien and goes to Afterlife, first time Jemma sees her again all she asks is 'did you make any friends?'. 

Killing Ward was an obsession, and she was ready to give her life for several reasons, but it was still hurtful to be believed capable of hurting Daisy. She had a harder time forgiving Bobbi and Mack for their betrayal (hates Mack on a principle because jealous of Fitz).

 On the planet, season 3: Jemma has lived one year in my version of Maveth, while it was six months for people on Earth, and has adapted to the place, responding to the constant threats and violence by turning just as feral as the beasts there. There was a red 'sun' and I have several headcanons on flora and fauna but it's something that can be told by Jemma if she's asked.

A tentacle plant left her skin black around her wrists, and she has two large cauterized wounds along her abdomen, another cauterized cut on her arm, and a small bite mark on her back. She found a Kree staff and used it to hunt, becoming much better at fighting, but thinking too much meant hesitating and dying, so she had to rely on instincts and that impulsive behavior became a part of her. Things came out of the wall where it was dark, so she needs lights at all times.

She also still talked to her friends as if they were there while aware they were not. 

 After the planet, season 3 or the Big Change: It's obvious right away that Jemma isn't herself after Fitz takes her home (and he doesn't see a dark planet, he finds himself in a very red jungle): her health is terrible, she clings to her closest friends, she hide, is hypervigilant and aggressive. It takes her more than a couple of weeks to come out of her room and start talking again. She has a hard time admitting she spent way longer there because she doesn't want Fitz to feel guilty. 

Here are some of the most noticeable consequences of what happened: 

• She sleeps in the morning after dawn because is terrified of falling asleep at night.

• She lost the filter between thoughts and words and between thoughts and actions and is trying to find it again.

• She cannot stand the smell or sight of meat. Ifshe can hide the smell or make it look different (like salami) she can eat it. But she also has trouble with vivisecting/dissecting human and animal bodies and can’t really see a solution for it. 

• She's violent when startled or grabbed though it gets better with time.  

• Depending on the verse, after some therapy and after more misadventures, she might choose to leave. After all, if she can't help at the lab, and she 'always makes things worse', what's the point of staying?  

 After a year of fighting she has learned how to use her whole body and objects around her as weapons. She became REALLY good at climbing things and at ignoring pain too (however she lacks of natural reflexes connected to self-defense like trying too instinctively avoid blows). She'll always wear warmers to hide the scars on her arms or gauntlets and, on missions, when she might be still out at night she has goggles/glasses to see in the dark and not freak out, as well as weapons always hidden all over her clothes because she has no powers but isn't limited by a tvshow budged when it comes to tech.

She's still captured and tortured because of Malick (with fire, which is why she's not bleeding), terrified to be trapped on Maveth again. When Lincoln goes to die, however, she tries to take his place but doesn't make it in time, stopped by Mack and Fitz, because she feels responsible for Hive's presence somehow and because she thinks she's more expendable and Daisy will live better this way. She doesn't blame Daisy for leaving and will secretly help her.

season 4 goes a lot like in canon, with her working at the lab again as much as that's possible for her, going on missions too, and plotting against Mace. Her emotional health starts getting to a better place, the constant training when she's not supervising lab scientists helps her become an even better fighter, and she has a safehouse just in case things turn south with Mace. 

Having to kill a LMD that looks just like Fitz brings back all her fears of hurting the team and she's gutted, barely able to keep it together in the Framework, and she's back to bad reflexes and insomnia. After the framework, and the fact that within ten days she's been choked twice, had to crawl out of her grave, was shot by Fitz, and more, she's in pieces. 

She has to leave for a while and misses the jump into the future and her enslavement, and her absence and canon divergences SHOULD change what happens there too (especially if you are a Daisy who doesn't want her friendship with Fitz to be ruined). If you'd like, Jemma and other characters can be reunited at a more peaceful time later. Deke can be her grandson or Fitz's but I don't default to FitzSimmons happening.

This way I'm free to keep writing Jemma as I want, and with whatever plots I want for her after s5. I am extremely critical of both the season, the way Jemma is turned into a love interest during the show losing everything that made her special, and even how she's treated IN the show, because when she was reasonably horrified by what Fitz did to Daisy and for once took space to deal with it, Mack encouraged to go talk to Fitz, AS ALWAYS making Fitz's physical and mental health depend on Jemma erasing her own emotions and just being there, and if I ever wrote that season in a way similar to canon it would lead to a break up again. NOT because Fitz is mentally ill, but because Fitz himself says he had known from the beginning and didn't disclose it to her. Season six and the fact that when they fight inside their minds it turns out she still didn't tell him why she left in s2, he still thinks he's not worth of her, they call each other the reason they are in pain? That is not a couple I'd ship. 

Added: July 13th 2026