The Griffith Girls

Character
Name:	Carol, Vera and Gloria
Occupation:
Relationships:	live in the Griffith Hotel with Angie Martinelli, Peggy Carter, and Dottie Underwood
Fandom:	Agent Carter
Other:	Carol played by Benita Robledo; Vera played by Meagan Holder; Gloria played by Joanna Strapp
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Carol

Vera

Gloria

The Griffith Girls is a collective name for Carol, Vera and Gloria, three minor characters on Agent Carter.

Canon

They appear together in one scene in episode four, along with Peggy, Angie and Dottie:

In the breakfast room at the Griffith, Angie notices Peggy stuffing bread into her purse and starts a conversation about tactics for squirrelling food away for later. It turns out that Carol once fit a whole chicken down her sweater (a special chicken pocket was knitted for the purpose), and Gloria has a compartment in her purse that can fit a cup of gravy.

Carol also appears in one scene in episode three, at breakfast, wearing a nurse's uniform.

Fandom

Fans' ideas about Vera, Gloria and Carol show a desire for main characters of color, main characters who are queer, more main characters who are women, and more positive relationships between women.

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

Comments on a gif set of the Griffith Girls' scene:

I unabashedly loved this scene.

My favorite thing about this is that Dottie is getting fucking object concealment tips from these genius food-stealing women and she’s probably using that knowledge to hide idek small thermonuclear devices in her bra or something. Probably went back to the Red Room afterward like “omg girls let me teach you what I learned in America. It’s vital we teach our tiny assassins to knit, I met a woman who successfully concealed a whole chicken in her sweater, they’ll need this kind of ingenuity in the field.”

I also really love that this is a large group of women who unabashedly like food and eating. None of them are going “oh no my diet, what if I get fat?”, they’re like “I CAN FIT A CHICKEN IN MY SWEATER AND THEN LATER, I HAVE A WHOLE CHICKEN FOR ME.”

Okay, here’s my thing about this scene and it hit me when I first watched it but has taken me a while (and some conversation) to put into words.

Peggy, for a moment, seems rather uncomfortable with the idea of stealing food, where the other girls encourage it, even praising each other for it. This to me, seems to underline a real cultural difference. Peggy, having grown up in England with the rationing and the Blitz spirit, would have had a very much ‘make do and mend’ mindset. What you had, you shared. Stealing or fiddling rations was not only very frowned upon by others, but could be punishable.

The American girls, on the flipside, probably grew up young in the Depression. When there was food, you took it and you took as much as you could, because who knows when it would be there again? They have made ingenious solutions to avoid waste, and to avoid hunger. They eat like women who have known what it feels like to not have anything to fill a hungry belly.

That being said, I don’t think less of either set of women. I just think it’s an interesting dichotomy.

Mostly, of course, yay lady friendships and MOAR PLEASE.

"So uh can snarky bisexuals carol and gloria be a thing?":

[ninjasnowwhite asked:]

Please tell me you have all the headcanons about snarky bisexuals carol and gloria

[vintagecartinelli:]
oh god y e s okay here we go

they’re not actually together together. they were, but it got confusing, and they’re still attracted to each other but now they just snark at other people and are generally besties who sometimes make out in a 100% homo way and go on double dates together so in case the guys turn out to be dickhats they just ditch ’em and go off on their own

they literally pinged angie from the second she walked into that damn hotel clutching a handbag with that doe-eyed ridiculous look in her eye—

“queer?” carol asks, muttering to gloria over her toast and looking pointedly towards angie, who just totally failed at subtlety whilst checking sarah out —hey, they’ve all been there.

“as a clockwork orange,” gloria deadpans.

they tease angie, mercilessly sometimes — “what, i don’t know how those violets got there, what a curious random happenstance,” gloria says, with a performance worthy of the great white way, and even though she blew half a day’s salary on getting a few flowers it’s totally worth it just to see the blush creeping up towards angie’s ears.

angie comes home pouting for a few nights after that obnoxious girl that lived on the same hall as them finally goes home to her mother (they didn’t like her, anyhow, which has nothing to do with the fact that she sometimes glared suspiciously at them —okay, maybe it has a lot to do with that) and carol’s like, i know that look, that is the look of pining after a straight girl, so she puts an arm around angie and goes, “boyfriend troubles, martinelli?”

“nothing like that,” angie says, but she’s deflecting.

gloria rolls her eyes, because there’s no way this girl is still in denial, and leans across the table a little bit. “what’s goin’ on?”

“this english lady’s been coming in to the automat for a while,” angie says, and it feels like a confession. “she’s looking for an apartment… i gave her the griffith ad mrs. fry put into the paper…. thought it’d be fun. she’s pretty nice,” angie finishes hurriedly, looking down at her nails.

“maybe she’s already found a place?” gloria asks and, just to confirm her suspicions, lays on: “she got a man?”

angie stiffens, and gloria closes her eyes. poor girl. oh well, it happens.

peggy moves in two days after that, and the first breakfast they have when they’re all sitting together, carol grins real big and goes, “this the english lady you’ve been talking about, angie?”

angie and peggy both blush bright red, and carol and gloria inwardly facepalm, because they can already tell this is going to be ridiculous.

A series of tweets during the #SaveAgentCarter livetweet of season 1, episode 4:

(impishly) "My mom knit a special chicken pocket."

I just--can we PLEASE have Carol back?

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She must have had to pretend to be pregnant once the chicken was in her sweater

and I just

Carol is so perfect for SHIELD

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And Gloria's gravy pocket! It has to be unobtrusive AND WATERTIGHT, which is not easy. Mad sewing/engineering skills ftw!

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Basically the Griffith Gals are as devious & willing to use sexism in their favor as Peggy, (1/2)

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which seems like exactly the kind of people Peggy would like to surround herself with in intelligence work. (2/2)

Fanworks

Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples.

• FIC: Where Roses Bloom by chilly_flame (2015). Vera and Carol appear near the beginning of the fic; several girls appear in a breakfast scene near the end. Vera is called "Rose" in the text, probably due to the fact that Vera's name was never said aloud during the episode.
• GIFS: gif set of the Griffith Girls' scene by magzneto (2015)
• PICS: bloody nora gloria by connorswolf (2015). Cartinelli pick-up lines meme, feat. the Griffith Girls