Thread:Marvelus/@comment-26838855-20190116120806/@comment-26838855-20190404111045

Mrmichaelt wrote: Alternate suggestion. It's only said they met when they were 16 but that doesn't mean nor was it said that was when they started at the Academy. It's notable they graduated early so... what if they started early like at age 14 and didn't meet until they were 16? They noted they both had Dr. Hall as their chemical kinetics advisor in their 2nd year at the Academy in "The Asset" I think it was. And we know the implication was they were in different social circles, she was popular and he was well isolationist and didn't hang with people. Just from personal experience, there was plenty of people in my year that I didn't really talk to until sophomore, even junior year and become friends with. I was sure I had a memory of Simmons saying they met on the first day of the academy but again, rusty on Season 1 and Season 2, Part 1, and absolutely happy to trust you on this. I would've had a search online to check for a source on that but it was late at night and I just wanted to get the reply posted, and it would've taken quite a while. Neither wiki article specifies they met on their first day, so this is probably a weird Mandela effect thing. Definitely need to brush up on that rusty area.

Also, Franklin Hall taught them in their second year so a) more than 1 year (as we assumed) and b) they knew each other by some point in second year.

How about:
 * Summer 2002 - Fitz finishes school at the end of Year 10 (most people in the U.K. at his age before the law changed would finish at the end of Year 12 or 13 (now it's just 13), so he'd be a couple of years early). Simmons should technically be in the school year below because she's September but they sometimes make exceptions and since she's so smart I wouldn't be surprised if they made her the youngest in the same school year as Fitz rather than one of the oldest in the year below, so let's say also finishes at Year 10. Year 9 would be a big stretch.
 * Autumn 2002-Spring 2003 - First year at the academy, they don't meet.
 * Autumn 2003-Early 2004 - First half of second year (many universities change modules and therefore lecturers halfway through the year and so they didn't necessarily have Franklin Hall until early 2004.
 * Early 2004-Spring 2004 - Second half of second year, in which they share the chemical kinetics module and meet, 12 years (Simmons says "10") before Spring 2016.
 * Summer 2004 - They graduate early after just 2 years. Assuming 2004 is the graduation date and not the start date, I don't think they can have started back in 2001 because that's very early to leave education and also it would mean that they had to have met each other by 2003, since they shared a module in second year, and that's pushing "10 years". Simmons now has two PhDs.
 * Autumn 2004 - Simmons decides to join S.H.I.E.L.D. aged 17. This is still a sticking point for me, because surely if you go to S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy you've already decided you want to join S.H.I.E.L.D..