take, just for fun, on how to make Ward The Grim Reaper:
Ward can be anyone he wants to be, now that his identity is erased. His identity has been compromised before... Ward's only one of his aliases.
Ward becomes known as Eric Williams. Williams is the maiden name of his mother. Simon is the younger brother, he preferred to use the grandma's last name.. When Garret asked "Ward" who he is, he became "Grant Ward" agent of Shield again.. But that wasn't the first time his identity was compromised. The 3 brothers have the same mother, and lived with their grandma. Each has a different father, and we've never heard of Maynard before because he's a half-brother. Ward changes to a name that resembles the younger brother's, but reminds him too much of the past. People will associate his new last name with his cool younger brother who's now a celebrity-type a famous Hollywood actor in the MCU. Actors make good liars, they make good undercover Hydra agents...Hydra has their sights on the younger bro. . Hydra has been circling these brothers for a long time.
Garrett "found" all three brothers. Maynard was easy to "turn". Simon pretended he would support Maynard's goals. Garrett wasn't sure the middle brother would turn until he saw him kill Hand, "Turn, Turn, Turn" applies to the brothers as well as to Ward, Garret, and Skye...Garret wants Ward to seduce Skye. Garret is almost like a recruitment officer, who "turns" people to Hydra. The younger bro becomes Wonderman.
Garrett leaves, to make sure the others are following their dreams. Trevor Slattery was following his dreams when he became an actor, and when he pretended to nod off in IM3. AIM is a limb/branch of the Hydra, and Trevor is not what we think...He's deep undercover for Hydra and located the ancient 10 rings organization for Hydra/AIM by drawing them to him at the same time as covering up AIM's mistakes, he's a Master at lying/deception, the King of the undercover Hydra agents, the most believable con-man. The real Clairvoyant "knows what the President dreams about", infects minds through the subconscious, and Raina and Akela Amadore know this. Amadore was worried about sleeping. Garrett doesn't know he's a host for it... and the force we call the Clairvoyant is almost demonic in nature...Chooses certain people to hide in/possess. There's something eating away at Ward's memories, something Maynard did after he met Zemo. Maynard has worked for Strucker and Zemo as a bodyguard. Ward knows a little about Hydra's upper management through his brothers. Nash was just a puppet, infected, something was speaking through the back of his mind. Machines were keeping him alive. Garret has cybernetic parts, and the techno-demon infected him, spoke through him because of his persuasiveness.. It likes Raina because she's also persuasive. She has questions she would have asked the real Clairvoyant, because she actually has a gift... Garret says, "i don't have a gift, but you do".
The force Nash talked about that will come for Skye is something we can't comprehend. It's almost possessing each of the people we thought were the Clairvoyant, It's related to the Zodiac group, and black magic/hypnotism...It prefers Raina, wants her as a host for it. This black magic force was moved to Blackout via Garrett's hypnotic suggestion to follow his dreams. Hypnotism/mind editing is a science we know very little about, so it may appear to be magical.. There's an unseen war going on for Shield's soul... Coulson is the only person who's been revived and still has a soul, what Jane calls a Quantum field. Magic and science are one and the same, but it's more like two sides of the same coin, or a Yin Yang. Each character has a similar opposite, and there's a little bit of Shield's philosophy left with hydra, now that they've mixed. If anyone else is brought back they won't be the same..Garrett doesn't know it but he's already dead, the cybernetic implants saved his life from the "burns"..
"Mike Peterson is dead", he died on the bridge... They're worried Coulson's brain was being controlled...Garrett's mind is controlled... When Garrett spoke to Blackout he unknowingly transferred black magic powers, and the ability to tap an alternate dimension, to Blackout. It was Blackout's gift, though he doesn't know how his powers work or why. It seems like a miracle that his powers suddenly activated. The Clairvoyant used his brain/body as a vessel, and chose him as a temporary host for his persuasiveness, allowing the thing infecting his mind and making him say those things to pull another con & crawl back into the shadows. "Magic" is science we don't understand, closely related to quantum forces, starlight/moonlight and to the subconscious. Part's of Ward's soul, or the deepest level of subconsciousness as Dr. Strange calls it, has been infected by something more powerful than Hydra, which is using the dark/repressed areas of his brain that were activated by the staff's light to live inside Ward, Ward is becoming one of the Clairvoyant's. As it moves through their mind it steals all memory/data they had access to, so Garrett was one of its victims, but it has more data to collect and hosts to infect..
Ward has opened himself up to these forces, first with the staff, then with Lorelei.. Belief and perception come into play. If you honestly don't believe in ghosts like Garrett, then you might not know it's happening. Skye figures some of it out. Skye lets Peterson blow Ward's arm away to save herself.
Cybertek gets their hands on Ward. Ward (now known as Rick Williams) is given a cybernetic metal arm, and taken away from Garrett to Deathlok's side.
The thing is, Ward's new arm has many moving pieces, and is the first in their new line of what they call "magi-tek" (cyberspace is a magical place)... Ward's new arm can transform into a number of different blade-type weapons, sort of like a T-1000 arm with gears and small moving pieces... Ward becomes one of their worst enemies. He's not just Hydra, he's had a hell of a past, and is close to the forces of death. They start calling him "The Reaper", and he joins Deathlok's side.
Cybertek has been working on The Reaper tech for a while... Peterson rejoins the side of the living, gets his freewill back, and becomes an enemy of The Reaper, as he joins the team, so Peterson never got this upgrade from them. Unlike Winter Soldier's metal arm, it can become a bladed weapon, and Ward prefers to morph it into a Cybernetic Scythe. Ward is supposed to get Skye to Hydra and eventually harvest Raina's eyes. Ward is worse than we can imagine, he becomes a recurring villain with a misunderstood past, who's very soul has been lost. He falls for Raina.. and attempts to take Skye's gift to Raina...He betrays Garret. Raina is the one who is collecting genetics of the registered gifteds for the real Clairvoyant still...Garrett knows little about how they're going to change the world, and why they needed Scorch's fire resistant platelets. Red Skull believed magic and science are one and the same. Some members of AIM (a "limb" of the Hydra) don't question Red Skull's drive to understand magic. Zodiac is obsessed with astronomy/astrology, mysticism/magic and how science and magic are actually better described as "two sides of the same coin"... It's incorrect to view them as exactly the same.. Hydra's only scratched the surface of the other side of the coin, magi-tek is the wave of the future.. Garrett doesn't believe in ghosts in the machine, or that a literal soul is missing from Deathlok's body...Strucker was dead serious about burying the volunteers so far down their ghosts won't find them. Demonic entities cast shadows on the only light memories in the mind. The "Ghost" character was trapped between our dimension and another...Some people have become ghosts in the machine or were programmed by machines. "We all create our own demons". Garrett doesn't believe in it enough to become possessed, so it passes over him. He honestly believes he's been the Clairvoyant all along, he supplied it a lot of data. It's been possessing him, and allows him to think things were his idea all along.
