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~Five being enraged~

Can we appreciate that the only time Five drops the F bomb was from being so pissed off that Diego was being too touchy feely with his lover wife? Five has cursed out plenty of 'shits' and 'asshole' through out the course of the series but it was only after being jealous and upset at Diego making Lila uncomfortable... him trying to lay on the charm to be back in her good graces, that pushed him over the edge.

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I watched this once every day since it was released until the season 4 drop 🥰🥰🥰

The first three series in a nutshell.

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So glad we got even more of them today 🥰

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY | Season 4 Bloopers

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My take on Five/Lila - and why they were endgame

I’ve seen so many people say that Five and Lila didn’t make any sense, and I just disagree. I've tried to really motivate why, and also why I see them as endgame. Feel free to agree or disagree.

First of all, Five and Lila share a common background of being raised plus trained as survivors and weapons. Five was molded by his time in the apocalypse, the Commission and his ruthless upbringing within the Hargreeves family, while Lila was similarly trained and manipulated by the Handler. Both of them were forced into brutal, high-stakes environments from a young age, developing a sense of independence, ruthlessness, and survival instincts that the rest of the family can’t fully relate to. We see this especially in Five and Lila’s difficulties in showing emotional vulnerability and trusting others. This shared experience means they both understand the cost of their traumatic upbringings and can relate to each other’s emotional scars in ways others just won’t be able to. So already by this, they’re somewhat bonded from the start.

In other similarities both Five and Lila possess extraordinary intelligence and tactical thinking. They challenge each other in a way no one else does. This has been an ongoing thing between them, bouncing off each other and sometimes teaming up. It’s also what drew them to work on another mission together in S4, there has always been some kind of pull/push there. Personality-wise both Five and Lila have a dark sense of humor and a cynical outlook on the world. But despite the cynicism, they still manage to eventually relax and find humor in each other’s company. The lighter moments we’ve seen between them at times have been an interesting contrast to their otherwise serious and violent lifestyles. 

I do believe their shared backgrounds and personalities created a bond that was then further strengthened during the years they spent lost in the subway together. Isolated from the rest of the world, they literally only had each other for company. The intimacy and trust that grew between them was inevitable. When you have no one else to rely on, you’re going to develop a relationship stronger than under normal circumstances. So over those years, they must have grown close in ways that no one else could fully understand. Even though we didn't get to see every detail of how it unfolded (because the season was way too short), it’s not difficult to imagine.

I’d also say they naturally grew a bond stronger than with any other character at that time, except for the one between mother and child which is why Lila’s need to be with her children would always make her go home if given the chance. Five knew this and it’s the reason he kept the solution from her for months. 

Now, to my thoughts about their actions in regards to Diego as this is often brought up. The argument that Lila cheated on her husband with Five is understandable from a moral perspective, if we see it as just that without any context. But when you consider the circumstances it is way more nuanced. You have to look at not only the environment they found themselves in, but also the emotional and psychological journey they went through together. Their relationship was ultimately forged over a shared background and then several years of isolation. Then you add to the fact that Diego seems to have treated Lila like crap in the years leading up to the isolation, she said it herself he was always moping around and complaining while she sacrificed her life to stay at home and take care of the kids. She even told him she needed a break to reassess their relationship. I do believe her and Five had somewhat already begun an emotional affair before the isolation, the way they were sneaking off together and clearly wanted to keep their thing separate from Diego and the others. Yet they still didn’t get physical until they settled down, believing they weren’t gonna find a way back.

Also, it’s important to here consider the strength of the bond, as I mentioned earlier, that Five and Lila must have developed over those years. They knew each other better than anyone else by the end. Spending every day together in a survival situation with nothing else around would likely create an unparalleled level of intimacy and emotional closeness. This bond would probably transcend Lila’s previous relationship with Diego, and maybe even Five’s bond with his siblings. It’s been years since he returned to them and they had all grown in separate directions. Lila and Five however had recently experienced something life-changing together, and it is unfair to dismiss the strength of their connection as something unethical or out of character when their reality had shifted so drastically from when the show started.

Another important point here is how the relationship with Lila allowed Five to finally be "human" and emotionally open in a way he hadn’t allowed himself to be before. Five was obviously emotionally detached as a result of both his past trauma and the burden of being a hyper-intelligent man in the body of a boy. With Lila, he had the chance to just feel love and trust without worrying about anything else. So I do think this outweighs his “betrayal” against his brother as people claim.

Now on to how and why Five and Lila were endgame. I’m convinced that Lila did love Five despite her choice to leave their isolation. To me this was cemented as she didn’t deny her feelings when Diego asked her straight out. If she wanted to make Diego feel better she could have easily denied her feelings for Five to reassure him. Yet even when asked twice she couldn’t do it. There was also Lila’s look of relief when Five returned to them at the end. It was Five who Lila allowed to comfort her after she said goodbye to her family, trusting him in her most vulnerable moment instead of blipping back to Diego and the others. These events showed the deep trust and emotional intimacy that still existed between them after returning to “the real world”. Despite her saying it was over. I also want to add here that Lila took Five’s hand as they were dying, the look between them was for me at least silently saying they loved each other. 

So all in all I do believe that the connection and love between Five and Lila was authentic. It also made sense. They’re able to understand each other’s emotional complexities, including their darker tendencies, without needing to change who they are. Still their time together seemed to actually have softened them both when they finally had the chance to settle down, almost as if they were healing from past trauma together. This would forge a relationship that no one else could replicate without going through the same experience. Making Five and Lila a reasonable endgame, which they also were in my eyes considering they died holding hands.

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Summary:  Five and Lila's shared background of trauma, matched intelligence, and similar personalities means they make sense. They shared a bond that was only further strengthened during their years of isolation. For 7 years they only had each other to rely on. This inevitably created an intimacy and relationship that couldn’t be compared to what they had had with anyone else. Outweighing what they did to Diego when you consider all context. Lila and Five ended up being human and vulnerable with each other on a level they hadn’t been with anyone else. Ultimately Lila’s refusal to deny her feelings for Five, her relief when he returned, him comforting her as she sent her family away and then finally them dying hand-in-hand, showed that they were endgame.

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Hear that? Small but awesome 😊

Five and Lila have dragged me back to fandom (and Tumblr) for the first time in 13 years. I’ve been a TUA fan since the beginning but was fine just watching the show and occasionally finding an IRL person to talk about it with occasionally.

Their relationship on the show - it’s like being a kid again in fandom. I’m consuming every bit of content I can find. And this fandom has some wonderful, thoughtful folks, great writers and AMAZING artists. So I do have good taste at least. We may be small but we’re awesome.

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This is another incredible idea and as a writer I hate that I didn't think of this sooner!!!

Subway novel?

How likely do you think it will be that Netflix may come out with another book? They did a prequel story and the time commission handbook that was released a little before Season 4. Not sure about netflix's pattern with producing merch for series having ended. If their is still an invested interest from viewers and fans, then maybe? I might be too hopeful. Would be an easy way to adapt the original scripted episodes in the form of a novel. Definitely different from what was shown in the series finale but could shed light on the lost subway years. Or cut scenes plotlines with the other character. Could just say alt timeline if it diverged from the original plot too much. *shrug* I think too much sometimes lol

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The beauty of pain, suffering and growth. For what is a story without at least a little drama?

it's always so fascinating and heartbreaking when a character in a story is simultaneously idolized and abused. a chosen prophet destined for martyrdom. a child prodigy forced to grow up too fast. a powerful warrior raised as nothing but a weapon. there's just something so uniquely messed up about singing someone's praises whilst destroying them.

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The other night you quoted Homer at me. Why? You forced us all to learn it as kids. In the original Greek, no less.

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And this is why it's the default pet name Lila gives to him.

I think its adorable =^-^=

[requested] Klaus + acting like a cat

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Give me your memories Chapter 4: Polaroid photography

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Happy Birthday, Ritu! 💐🥳😍

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If we don't look at each other like Five and Lila look at each other, I don't want it.

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Some of my crazy thoughts…

…it may be strange, but after seeing S1-S3 in a few days and S4 actually quite recently, the story is finally starting to make sense to me! Now that I know the whole picture. And I think the ending makes sense to me too.

The whole third season is one big foreshadowing of things to come and the end of the story. Five already understand during this season 3 that there's no point in fighting the end and they enjoyed their "last party". The one they won't get later.

Literally every main character here has searched for themselves, made mistakes, done the right things, fought for their happiness, found love and experienced loss. And the women in the story have also experienced what it's like to be mothers and what it's like to lose and regain their children.

None of them were perfect, and literally everyone had blood on their hands as each of them saved themselves from the apocalypse, leaving a scorched world in their wake. So it makes sense that it was their turn later. It was the toll of everything that happened. They wanted to save the world, they were supposed to be heroes, but the world was always behind them.

Each successive apocalypse has only made things worse, but it has given everyone one crucial thing: time. Time for everyone to experience their own piece of happiness. And last up was Five and Ben. So yeah, hell yeah, Five exactly needed the story it got and should get every minute of it that Netflix deprived us of. Was it sad and tragic afterwards? Of course it was! Again. It's happened to everyone!

Everyone had their own story, but the basics were the same. They experienced very similar things. Reginald has made many selfish decisions to get what he wants. And so do his children. Still, in the end, none of them win, but everyone enjoyed their little world in the meantime for a moment.

Does it suck? Well, like, yes. But I can't say it's a bad story! It wasn't until I saw everything again that I began to understand things that didn't make sense to me before.

The story is actually brilliant in many ways, but that doesn't mean it's not sad. If I were to take away just one thought about the series, it's this: cherish the time you have, cherish the happiness you find, because nothing lasts forever.

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you can’t even fathom the problematic things me and my mutuals are romanticizing

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~Bracelet Lore~

Credit: Stevenrogered

With seeing the auctioned off spare bracelet that Five gave Lila, the more I look at it, the more I think the designer of it put more thoughts into it's intricate links and the weaving of metal. Rob Gallagher mentioned how the love story of five and lila was suppose to be the central part of the season. Would make sense that more meaning was placed in the symbol of his love and devotion for her. Think I read somewhere Five's mother originated from Dublin, Ireland but can't confirm 100 percent. Have high suspicion's Five's mother was the one working in the butcher shop. Lol fitting. Reminds me of how he uses that axe. The montage with the mothers went in the order of the character's numbers but I digress. The style is similar to celtic knot braids. Noticed six woven designs that look like butterfly knots. Each could have signified the years they have been together. Since at that point it hadn't been a full 7 years yet. Another thing to note is that an old tradition among ancient viking culture and celtic druids was wrapping a rope around the couples wrist. A knot that lays on their wrists. Colored ribbons were also used to wrap around their wrists. Differing colors symbolic of the couple and their future together.

Five's bracelet is far more romantic and sentimental than it already was with making it with what little supplies he bad. With Lila in mind to craft. Compared to Diego just making his when he was bored at the Asylum. Lila stole it due to her Klepto mindset and growing attraction. Not nearly as filled with depth as with Five's.