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So i spent a little too long scrolling through Pinterest and I kept getting those posts that are just screenshots of tumblr posts and they were like Harry Potter headcanons or fic ideas and the comment section was filled with people saying how to find a pretty similar fic in ao3. I went to ao3 and looked up the ones that sounded appealing to me and when I was about to start reading them, I came to the realization that I only like the headcanon but could not care less about the story.

It's kind of fascinating, I mean sometimes it's so hard to even find one fic of a headcanons you like and when I find headcanons I like, I can't care less about the fic. I like the idea and the ways people view the characters but there is something about reading it happen that's just not it

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Questions I had left after the end of Umbrella Academy season 4:

What happened to Sloane?

Why did Five suddenly stop caring about the family? When he and Lila are stuck on the subway, why did he not try harder to get back?

Why did Ray walk away from Allison?

What are Hargeeves and Abigail? What happened to their kind?

Why did Abigail create marigold to begin with?

If Hargeeves' kind fled from their planet, where did they end up?

How did Five create the time commission?

Why is there a subway?

If 43 babies were born because of marigold, what happened to the ones who lived?

The reason why Lila had to go back and stay with the family was because Ben/Jennifer had to absorb all of the marigold. So then what happened to the other superpowered people around the world?

Why does the apocalypse have to happen? If Hargeeves kills Jennifer, is the apocalypse the universe's way of correcting the wrong?

If there is an Umbrella Academy, a Sparrow Academy and a Phoenix Academy, what other academies are there?

How did Five manage to secure a job with the CIA while still looking relatively young?

How did Lila find her family? How does she know they are her family?

Did they land in this timeline as consciousness inside bodies with established lives or did they have to create their own lives?

How did Jennifer even get into the giant squid?

How does a commission worker, become a commission worker? Are they snatched from a random timeline? Is it like with Loki, where all the TVA workers are variants of people in the timeline?

If Grace was a real person in the 60s how did Hargeeves make the robot that would become the kids caretaker? Did he keep her corpse or did he just make a robot?

Was the 1960s Grace the Abigail of that Hargeeves?

Why did Hargeeves only try to get seven children? In the first timeline he managed to get seven babies and in the second timeline he manages to get another six babies, so why didn't he try to get all of them? (at least the ones that would be alive)

Why was there a Ben riding in the subway in the end of season 3?

What the fuck is Christopher?

That's all I could come up with for now, but I will probably add to the list if something else comes up

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Umbrella Academy season 4 was batshit crazy and no one can change my mind

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It wasn't on my bingo card to hear two different MCR songs in two Netflix show trailers this year but I'm living it

My Chemical Romance is really having a year this 2024. Dead Boy Detectives and then Umbrella Academy? Life has never been better

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Wait!

Just hear me out

Thanks, you can go on now

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Is Jonathan part of Smallville high's Astronomy club....?

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My roman empire is the fact that Stiles is like really smart but no one ever comments on it in the show because he is sarcastic and does silly things every once in a while

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Aizawa: Wait let me see what you have there.

Izuku: A knife *giggles* *runs away*

Aizawa: *activates ereasure* NOOOO *goes after him*

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I have to be completely honest and say that this mf Okkotsu Yuuta smooth walked into my heart. Like how?? I don’t know. I read JJK and liked Nanami, sure. I also liked Choso, sure! But my favorite was Inumaki Toge, mostly because he’s cute and petite. But then mf Okkotsu Yuuta comes in trying to kill Yuji and he looked so goddamn tired that I loved him. I just read the most recent chapter of the manga and the way he just gets rid of the fucking roaches like it’s a piece of cake and I just URGH I can’t stop loving him so much! Like he’s kind, sweet, so fucking strong too, he was such a shy little boy too! He’s also pretty chunky if I have to be anymore honest. The shirt he wears is like made for him, because it is, and-and-and I can’t keep going, you get my point I’m sure

(NOT MY ART!!!!!!! I don’t draw! This is from Pinterest! I just thought it was fitting. If you know the artist tell me so I can credit them)

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So, there’s this big headcanon where Five gave his childhood away to “protect” his siblings from their father. But you know what I think? That it wouldn’t be true. Don’t get me wrong. I love that. The angst makes me happy, but let’s be honest. Child Five was arrogant and liked to be better than others. His favorite siblings were Ben and Vanya because they were the quiet ones, their numbers where under his and they wouldn’t go against his word. Just seeing how he acts I don’t think that if we were told more about their childhood, that we would see him sacrificing his childhood for them. Just random things, you know? Things aside, I really do like reading about it in fanfiction

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I don’t remember half of this while consuming TUA...... Five really did piss a lot of people off, didn’t he? Of course he did.

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Someone once pointed out how if Ben was alive, that he and Klaus would not be close at all. And you know what? It is true. So sad yet true. In my opinion the best duo of TUA (apart from Five and Dolores, of course) is Ben and Klaus. I just find their banter extremely funny, but if you think about it, they only are as close to each other because Klaus is the only person who can see Ben. They got close through the years and that’s the only reason they know each other so well. Just thinking of a timeline in which he lives and is not close to Klaus is strange. Klaus would be less himself because a lot of his choices must have been influenced by Ben. And Ben wouldn’t be as wittty and sarcastic as he is because he probably learned most of it being a ghost next to Klaus. I don’t know if I’m glad that he is dead because then they are close, or sad that he is dead because we don’t see as much of him as we wished we did.

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I can’t emphasize how much the tag of “Bruno Madrigal & Capybara” makes me happy. It’s so freaking wholesome and they are besties :,)

There is this one fic that has the capybara somehow following Bruno everywhere and he gets so frustrated and then the capybara trips a guy that is about to stab Bruno and the man is just so grateful for the little guy. I— I’m not c-crying

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So I was reading this one Encanto fic where Mirabel and Camilo time travel 50 years to the past and things happen. I enjoyed it quite a lot. Later, like a few hours after, I was looking at the Five-centric tag in Umbrella Academy fics and I just realized that the whole plot of Umbrella Academy is a time travel fix-it. With the whole idea of traveling to the past to change the course of the story for the greater good of their futures, aka, Five spending 45 years trying to figure out how to travel to the past and stop the apocalypse that killed his family and the rest of the planet (and left him stranded in nothingness)

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Question!

So I don’t know if any of the Hargreeves siblings ever changed their legal names from “Number ______” to their more “normal” names. Like I’m pretty sure that Allison, Vanya and Diego would definitely have changed theirs, Allison because she is an Actress, Vanya because she seems like the responsible one, and Diego because he wanted to be a police at one point so it kind of makes sense, right? Five and Ben were long gone by the time they would have been able to change their names, Klaus would be too high to care and Luther never left the Academy and when he did, he was on the moon.

Though my question is not about that. I was thinking about Five and how he never really wanted a “normal” name. So legally, the seven children were all “Number ______” when they were adopted, so that means that Five is legally “Number Five Hargreeves” does that mean that “Number” is his first name and “Five” his middle name?

It just makes me think (and laugh) that for 17/18 years, there was a huge house with: one chimpanzee, one robot, one alien and seven children named “Number”.

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Is that you Agent Number Five Hargreeves?