Anonymous asked: "For one thing, they’re no longer tethered to World War II, which made them intrinsically much older than they should be." It was established that the High Evolutionary put the babies in cryo for decades before giving them to the Maximoffs

brevoortformspring:

Yes, and that was an inelegant work-around that was rarely referenced. Better and cleaner to not need that bit of nonsense–especially since, at some point, the High Evolutionary isn’t going to have been old enough to have done that either.