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Someone with more SHIELD (and hopefully SWORD) knowledge, I need some help.
I am trying to figure out some general facts about Brand, plus a timeline for her employment with SHIELD/SWORD, promotion to director of SWORD, etc.
Facts I know from the internets:
1. Brand is the commanding officer of SWORD at the time of Secret Invasion.
2. She is 28 years old at the time of Secret Invasion.
3. She doesn't much like Nick Fury, but Maria Hill (SHIELD successor director?) considers Brand a Fury loyalist.
4. Brand also doesn't much like Maria Hill.
There is basically nothing known about Brand's past except that her father was an alien.
If anyone knows of any other canon background info, it would be greatly appreciated. There may or may not be fic involved. *shifty eyes*
I am trying to figure out some general facts about Brand, plus a timeline for her employment with SHIELD/SWORD, promotion to director of SWORD, etc.
Facts I know from the internets:
1. Brand is the commanding officer of SWORD at the time of Secret Invasion.
2. She is 28 years old at the time of Secret Invasion.
3. She doesn't much like Nick Fury, but Maria Hill (SHIELD successor director?) considers Brand a Fury loyalist.
4. Brand also doesn't much like Maria Hill.
There is basically nothing known about Brand's past except that her father was an alien.
If anyone knows of any other canon background info, it would be greatly appreciated. There may or may not be fic involved. *shifty eyes*
Later
She's multilingual, which we see in action several times. Languages we know of: she can talk to Lockheed in his own language, knows enough Skrull to bluff the Skrulls about being one of them for the crucial minute it takes to get her hands on an weapon, knows enough of the Breakworld language to decypher the inscriptions (which is what makes Hank suspect her, remember), and speaks her father's language. (We don't know the species yet, and in the one panel from her childhood in Secret Invasion we see his speech bubble yelling in whatever language, but not him.) Whether this means she grew up off world or on Earth is up to fanfic to decide, so far, but considering she choose Earth as her loyalty, I'm assuming the later.
Then there are her tattoos on each forearm, "Grace" and "Anne". I can't make up my mind about whether they were girlfriends or sisters, but I bet the women in question are dead, and that's why she has the tattos. Note that "Abigail", "Grace" and "Anne" are all sort of old fashioned names.
Re: Later
About her father - she says he was a green furry alien right? And she does seem to remember him fondly. At least, that's my take on it.
I would tend to agree that she likely spent most of her youth on earth, but I'm at a bit of a loss whether or not she spent that time with her father. I know Skrulls and Krees are on earth in the Marvel 616 verse, but I'm not sure that there are a lot of other aliens roaming around. I think it would probably still be problematic.
Any idea whether her family is still alive? I think she refers to her father in the past tense, but I don't recall any mention of her mother (or sisters, but I like that idea).
I'd assumed the tatts were of old girlfriends, but I am intrigued by the idea that they might have been her sisters and note the similarities of their names.
I also found it interesting that Brand isn't her real last name. I don't even know if she has one...
Re: Later
Re: the possible sisters, one of the ideas I'm toying with is that while Brand herself is a healthy woman and can channel the ability to burn with her hands at her wish, I think it's entirely possible other hybrids between her father's species and humanity might not have been so lucky. Maybe I'm Farscape-influenced, but if she had sisters, they could easily have gotten not such a successful genetic combination and died young and painfully. Hence the tatts.