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WOOO

I did a little thing for ApocalAugust!! Accompanying the wonderful fic by my bestie paraph!! https://archiveofourown.org/works/68498281/chapters/177473996

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niko, after she dies, furious that she doesn't get to be with her dad again. because she has gone through so much -literally fucking died- and she still doesn't get to see him again. she doesn't even get that

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it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

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waiting for my wife (ao3) to come back from war (error 503)

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Illustration for Beyond The Purple Hills by @paraphwrites for the @dbdazine, in which Crystal attends a ghost party with the boys.

Read this fic on AO3 here

Read the full zine here

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dbda umbrella academy au, anyone?

our 7 hargreaves children are, naturally: edwin, charles, crystal, monty, thomas the cat king, simon, and niko. superpowers are as follows:

edwin - travel. at first, it's just traveling between locations, but he gets this fascination on time travel when he's young. he's sure he can figure out how to do it

charles - knives. he can make any knife his any target from whatever distance -- make them twist in air. potentially related to telekinesis abilities, though he mostly uses it on weapons

crystal - rumor. she can make anyone do, believe, or feel anything, just by saying "i heard a rumor" before it. "i heard a rumor that you stabbed your friends." "i heard a rumor you left forever." "i heard a rumor that you loved me."

monty - shapeshifting. he often turns into a crow to spy on the crime in advance, but he's also known to take on octopus tentacles and kill ruthlessly

thomas (the cat king) - visions. thomas can see dead people. he can see and talk to dead people. and he cannot not see them. there is no escape, only death, constant, screaming- he does not know a life with quiet

simon - strength. simon is incredibly strong. he could lift a bus without a single person loosing their balance. he is named the team leader -number one- when he is six.

niko - no powers - that she knows of. she is capable of releasing incredibly powerful waves of destructive energy, but she is unknowingly put on medication to repress this power

and now, for those who do not know, the plot:

the 7 hargreaves children are all born on the same day, their mothers not pregnant the day before -- spontaneous births. they are adopted by one Mrs Hargreaves (the night nurse) who puts them through intense training in order to become superheros. they fight crime. they are not called by their names, they are numbers. they are prisoners.

one battle, when they are 14, goes wrong. monty dies protecting edwin. it breaks something inside of them. edwin and charles had always been the bestest of friends but edwin cannot handle this grief and he shoved charles away. then, edwin gets fixated on time travel.

the night nurse tells him not to. it is dangerous and stupid. but edwin is certain he can. more -- he needs to be able to. because if he can time travel then he can go back and save monty and none of this hell would have ever happened. so he does it. he fucking time travels.

only, he gets stuck in the future. in the apocalypse, which he finds is set for june 4 2019. the world is on fire. he finds his families' corpses. he picks a false eyeball up from simon's dead hand. he waits.

10 years pass. 10 shitty years and everyone has left the night nurse's home, that horrible violent place, except simon. simon lives on the moon, doing research for the night nurse. simon lives on the moon, and charles is a rouge ex-detective, and crystal is an actress, and thomas runs a cult, and monty is dead, and niko plays the violin. she isn't even first chair

and then the night nurse dies. simon is brought back to earth. everyone meets at the estate for the funeral.

charles and crystal have something that looks adjacent to chemistry. they were in a relationship, once, after edwin was gone when everything was black. they kissed, or maybe that was a rumor, too. thomas does cocaine off of the night nurse's urn. he spills the ashes and when simon finds him frantically trying to scoop the ashes back in, cocaine dust getting caught with it, he does not say a word, just walks right back out of the kitchen and to his own room. a room he has to duck to get into, now

they have the funeral. they have the funeral and niko clutches her umbrella, alone, because no one spares her a word, except for thomas who offers her a high smile, and crystal, who asks how the fuck she has the nerve to show up here.

niko knows the memoir was cruel of her. to spill their secrets -everyone's secrets- to the press. but no one read it. not even the night nurse- her mother. so it's not like it matters. it matters to crystal, though -- crystal, who barely had a bad thing about her in the book. niko hid so much, just for crystal's sake. because however cruel niko was, she knows crystal is ten times worse

they have the funeral and simon and charles fight. they fight and simon runs into the statue of monty and it falls to the ground and knocks over the night nurse's urn, and thomas puts out his blunt in the ashes.

they have the funeral and a portal opens right over the urn and a teenage edwin falls from the sky and collapses right next to the fallen monty statue. he's nearly impaled on one of monty's metal tentacles.

charles starts crying. thomas pulls out another blunt. there is a sea of questions, attempts at hugging, sobbing, but edwin pushes them all off and tells them to shut the fuck up, because the world is going to end in seven days.

no one believes him. he falls out of the fucking sky, in a teenage body because he somehow got the math wrong and so it doesn't matter that he's sixty-eight, he looks fourteen, and he's clutching a mannequin statue named dolores, and no one believes him.

fine, then, he says. i'll stop the end of the world on my own.

charles offers him a place to stay. a place to stay and a home and a shoulder and a hug and all edwin will not look at him. crystal tells charles to leave, that he's making things worse, so he leaves and thomas comes with him because thomas is a little worried that charles is going to throw himself off a bridge.

crystal leaves, too. she doesn't have the time for this shit. simon stays because simon always stays, he has never lived anywhere else, but he does not stay for edwin. no one stays for edwin. no one can. it is too much, to see him again. it is like seeing a ghost. a ghost who does not want to be seen, a ghost who keeps yelling at you, a ghost who refuses to be touched or looked at and cannot be understood or believed.

edwin ends up going home with niko. he does not mean to, he wants to work, but his body is exhausted -sixty-eight years compounded into one second does that to you- and he collapses on her shoulder in the taxi ride back. she strokes his hair softly and says she is happy he is home again, and that the others will come around, they are just in shock, and it is all true, and edwin has no idea she is going to end the world.

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i mean i know it's a given but we all agree that hell is a metaphor for self-hatred, yeah? like edwin is dragged back right before he is about confess that he's gay and has a crush. he's sacrificed in the first place because a boy had a crush on him. both times hell is brought up it's in conversation with edwin and homosexuality. like that isn't an accident. and then it's someone showing him actual love and care, that he's worth fighting for, that ends up getting him out of hell. and obviously edwin has escaped hell before, we have no reason to believe he couldn't again -- edwin is not weak. edwin is not unable to escape his self hatred spiral on his own. but now he doesn't have to, and that matters, too, i think

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I'm giving out flowers in the DBDA fandom today!

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awww!! thank you so much!!! have some flowers back sweetheart 🌹🪻🌻

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Charles keeps saying he doesn’t know where he’s going (if he’s going to hell or not) but when he died a blue light came for him instead of the red light from hell.

What happened to this poor boy over the last 30 years to convince him he’s going to hell?

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:(

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painland!!

(I’m never letting the public forget these insane images)

+ third wheel edwin my beloathed

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Have you drank water in the past hour?

Yes / I'm going to drink some water right now / I have a condition in which I can't drink water

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props to stem people wtf! i can bullshit my way through any english essay because literally u just have to say stuff. but for stem paper u have to say stuff AND it has to be true. wack.