Thread:Mister Explicit/@comment-24669364-20170310004014/@comment-26838855-20170315172913

I think your theory is closer to being correct than mine, as I do think the turning point in the Framework's history will end up being the HYDRA uprising. But to me, it would make more sense for it to be that HYDRA took over in like the '60s or '70s, in a bit of a "What if the Nazis won the war?" twist. That way it would make sense for May to be a loyal HYDRA agent, and Daisy and Ward to be HYDRA as well - that they were brought up in a world with HYDRA as the new world order, not S.H.I.E.L.D., and they signed on to the organization instead. It would also explain why Coulson is teaching Inhuman hate - he is teaching in a world several decades into a HYDRA mentality.

As far as what each character's biggest regret is, I'd expect: Can't wait for the show to come back
 * Coulson's LMD said in Self Control that sometimes he wonders what would have happened if he didn't sign up, as all his regrets have followed from that moment. So in the Framework, I think he never joined, but is a teacher. However, Coulson's LMD did also say that in the Framework, him and May are together, so I imagine they're married - HYDRA agent, and teacher of HYDRA ethos
 * I think a guilty part of Daisy wishes that after that moment in Turn, Turn, Turn when she kissed Ward, their story could have continued. Because it was immediately after that moment that everything changed. Everything went wrong with Ward when he turned his back on them, they were forced into the shadows, she went through the trauma of her powers, Afterlife, her mother's betrayal and death and father's memory wipe, being swayed by Hive, her addiction, losing Lincoln, going on the run and becoming a hated fugitive for 7 months, etc. If everything hadn't gone wrong at that moment, she wouldn't have had that hardship. She'd have never had to get her powers, never would've cut her hair, never met Lincoln/led to his death, suffered all her loss - she could've just lived with Ward happily and blissfully unaware. So she has, she's "happy" with Ward, who was always on her side in this world. I think she'll also therefore still be "Skye".
 * Side note, because of this, I think Ward's going to be a genuinely nice person in this world - all the good things we saw in Ward before he was revealed/went down the darker path, and Daisy's going to struggle, seeing all the good things that made her love him in the first place, but juggling with the knowledge of everything he did in the real world.
 * May's regret is Bahrain. I imagine in the Framework, she found a way to get Katya out safely, and because of this, stayed in the field and was swiftly promoted, and is now a high-up agent at the Triskelion.
 * Mack's regret is not getting to live out the life he and Nicole imagined, with their daughter Hope. So Mack will never have joined up or anything, he's just living happily with his wife and an 11-year-old daughter.
 * I think Fitz's regret was not patching things up with his father (they've set that up this season), so he did in the Framework, and ended up working in partnership with him, two geniuses, leading to fame and massive financial success, ending up running his father's company and being like a multi-millionaire
 * Simmons is really hard to guess, but whatever it is, it lead to her being... dead?