revrezner's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Fan Theory: The Clairvoyant

This is still me, jashykins, writing this post but the theory is mostly revrezner's. I have been wanting him to get his own blog for so long and this theory is a great example of why. If you're wondering: he requested I write the post myself. Some of the theory is my own, but revs' theory forms the majority of it and is the reason I was able to create my own speculations.

So here we go!

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has a big ongoing mystery. The big mystery is what happened to Coulson and why. We've gotten hints and clues to what happened to Coulson, but the why has never really been explained. Behind the Scenes, of course, the why is because Coulson is too fucking awesome to keep dead.

But the show's answer is going to be different, of course.

The episode T.A.H.I.T.I. seems to have a big hint of what is actually up with both the Clairvoyant and how Coulson was brought back to life.

Now here are some things that we know about Coulson:

-He is different than he was before. There have been numerous characters commenting on how much he has changed since New York.

-He was dead for a LONG time and the process used to bring him back wasn't one many seemed to agree with (at one point one of the doctors says that they should've let Coulson die).

-He begged to die.


Now here are some things that we know about the Clairvoyant:

-This person is obsessed with Coulson.

-This person seems to know a lot and leaving out magic: this means this person has a way to get a lot of classified information.

-This person WANTED Skye seriously injured to get Coulson to go to the facility where Coulson was operated on.

In T.A.H.I.T.I. it seems that Skye was meant to be injured so that Coulson would lead the Clairvoyant to how Coulson was brought back to life. But what if that wasn't the case at all? What if the Clairvoyant wanted Coulson to go where the operation was performed so that this person could be freed?

It is my and revrezner's opinion that the Clairvoyant isn't a human but a being that lives inside people (think of like a tapeworm but it won't kill you and it isn't from Earth most likely). And the process that brought Coulson back to life also put part of the Clairvoyant inside of him.

The Clairvoyant would be able to work telepathically so that it could do things (like imitating the sound of a cellphone and forming a human voice) while not alerting Coulson to its presence. However, the presence of the Clairvoyant is affecting how Coulson reacts to the world.

Remember: Coulson is acting differently than before he was killed and brought back to life.

And why do I think the Clairvoyant isn't from Earth? The body that was found in the episode T.A.H.I.T.I. seemed to be like the invading alien force from The Avengers (and, yes, the movie Prometheus did come to my mind too).

Coulson also could've felt the Clairvoyant entering him (the drug used to help Coulson with his operation was most likely gotten from the alien corpse) and that's why he was begging to die. Not because he was in so much pain, but that he was feeling an alien presence enter his head.

And the reason why he was given false memories? So that he wouldn't remember the alien presence either because Nick Fury didn't want Coulson to know or that he thought that erasing Coulson's memories would mean that the Clairvoyant couldn't control him.

However, as has been seen, the Clairvoyant has been able to influence some of Coulson's actions though not to the extent it wants.

I think once Coulson saw the alien corpse he either recalled what happened or, more likely, was able to connect the alien presence in his head to the corpse and then to the drug.

So when he was running out of the facility saying not to use the drug on Skye he finally figured out what was actually happening: The Clairvoyant had been trying for awhile to find another host and found its chance in Skye. It saw that Coulson adored Skye as a daughter and knew if it put Skye in harm's way (aka having her be seriously injured) that Coulson would go back to the facility its body is contained in. Then Coulson would allow things to happen where Skye would be its new host.

It is my opinion that the Clairvoyant can be in two hosts at once.

As for the ending of the episode:

Coulson can't remember why he didn't want the drug to be used on Skye because the Clairvoyant was able to block out those thoughts/memories from Coulson's mind once it entered Skye. So Coulson now can't remember what he knew about the Clairvoyant.

This means that Skye might be fully controlled by the Clairvoyant in the near future. I am a Whedonite and I know Joss Whedon is one of those people that would think of following that plot line.