#( answered; NUMBER FIVE. )

[mamawasatesttube]

So I know you’ve mentioned it before but I just wanted to hear again your thoughts on Tim x Ives

ooohohohooo timives the gently doomed romance of it all ♥

in robin '93 and even briefly in rr09 ives is just always kind of there. he drifts out of tim's life sometimes, but he always drifts back in, later. and he's been tim's civilian best friend for so long, and tim knows so many of his secrets. they click. they don't judge each other. they make each other laugh. if tim's gonna fall for anyone he knows in his civilian life, of course it would be ives. who else has been there, been a constant, the way ives has? of course it's ives. but at the same time there's something so tasty about their contrast - the way tim runs headlong towards danger every time, while ives describes himself as a coward. the way tim feels like he has to protect him.

to me, ives is tim's first m/m relationship. it happens in a manner so cliché they both laugh at it: after taking a gap year or two, to wrangle his depression and his ptsd and his Everything, tim decides to get his ged and maybe try college (lucius tells him he'd make a great engineer at waynetech r&d, but he needs a degree for it, and he figures, okay, what the hell, he's already good at tinkering, how hard can getting a bachelor's degree in engineering be?). and then he remembers the difficult thing about being a vigilante and having a full courseload at the same time and goes AUGH. and ives, a year or two ahead of him in university classes (and majoring in something else, but still there) laughs at him. and offers to tutor him. and tim goes yeah fuck okay fine sure yeah. what the Fuck is a free body diagram. and ives laughs at him some more but also really does help him out. (when he gets really stuck and confused, especially on his second semester of chemistry, he phones up zoanne, but that's neither here nor there.)

so tim and ives have this cute little romance over study dates at cozy cafes, over accidentally running into each other at a queer student association meeting and going "oh!" about it, over movie nights at ives's apartment where they squabble over a bowl of popcorn and tim pretends he didn't sleep through the last half of the two towers, disc 2. and it feels nice, and easy, and simple...

...until it doesn't. because tim shows up to a study date with a black eye that even his best attempts at makeup can't fully hide. tim has to miss dinner, and then their rain check dinner, and only comes to the third attempt half an hour late and limping. tim is tired all the time. and he's always been sleepy all the time, but now ives is wondering. and they're making out one day and ives's hand curls over the back of tim's neck and then he recoils, because tim, what is all this scarring, what happened, holy shit is this why you grew out your hair and keep wearing turtlenecks?!

and tim goes. ah. fuck.

and it's only a matter of time. it has only ever been a matter of time. because ives knows him. but he's been lying to ives the entire time they've known each other. the other shoe has always been going to drop. it was only ever a question of when. never if.

so ives finds him out. and he's shocked, and hurt, and betrayed, but then he's even more distraught to realize that he's not that shocked. it makes sense - why tim's always tired, why tim has always been kind of flaky, why tim has always had weird injuries now and then, why tim is so unbothered in the face of things that terrify ives. but what gets him is that these are things he's thought were always just... tim. because tim has been lying to him the entire time they've known each other.

so they break up, but it's softer than it could've been. because ives gets it, he swears. he gets why tim lied. but this is... a lot, and he needs some time to process all of it, and how he feels about it, and about tim. because it's hard to reconcile his goofy gearhead (ex-)boyfriend with a caped crusader who patrols the city by night, fighting crime and solving mysteries. hard to realize just how much tim has boxed up his own life and taken care to only ever let ives see part of it. he gets it - he's not angry, after the initial outburst - but it's hard, and he needs some time. he needs some space.

and so tim's secrets eat away at one more person he cherishes. it was inevitable. they were doomed from the start. but they made each other happy anyways, for a time.

(the coda, to me: tim and ives reconnect and start working on their friendship again a few months later, and tim promises to try not to lie to him anymore, and in an effort to actually show ives the other half of his life, he introduces him to kon. so we have tim sitting there struggling with feelings and complications of feelings and what it means to be honest and to be seen. meanwhile kon says something about his opinions on star wars and ives goes "BRO i am going to KISS YOU on the MOUTH" and tim goes wait. WHAT?)

[ford-ye-fiji]

for the past two days, exactly two people have been single-handedly going through almost every Five post I’ve ever made (reminder to everyone that he was the subject of an intense hyperfixation from 2019 to 2023) and liking all of them. Every. Single. One.

And ngl, that is powerfully persuasive.

I am clicking on posts I don’t even remember. I am seeing his little face in my notifications every five seconds. They are reminding me how much I love and miss my boy. When will Five return from the war

[giant-ball-of-twine]

There IS a right answer to this btw. But please still rb this/comment with your own thoughts and justification bc I love to read them >:)

[laurrelise]

another day has passed and i’m still fucking wondering why the hell jennifer was found in a goddamn squid

[le-panda-chocovore]

Alright we gave a lot of shit to Luther for his "DAd sEnD mE ON thE MOON" whiny discourse but I think we don't talk enough of Five's "You think I had it easy ? I was ALONE for 45 YEARS!!" whenever someone talk about how awful growing up with Reginald was. Like. Dude, okay you're a grown ass man in the body of a 12yo boy and you're mad about it, that's fair. But it's not your siblings fault, so stop yelling at them because all of you had it rough. Besides, you CHOOSE to not listen to your fucking dad while they were FORCED to obey him.

[kaybreezy3000]

See below for how I made this, if you are interested.

I call this Five's WTF face, and it's the same one I had this morning when someone sent me an ASK, not specifying one particular post I have done, with one word that said, "AI." See below if you want to see how I made this. (not AI 😉)

Link to my other Tumblr art and story posts

Disclaimer: I am not a professional artist. My background is in painting, and I started sketching people a little over a year ago, and I have a post on A03 (Link to that) to show my progression with that to this based on the lovey character of Five.

I just do this for fun and I haven't found my style yet, other than I like to try everything. I use Procreate digital drawing app, not AI for my art or the stories I post.

I have done things for other people on occasion that use a photo filter-like to dress up a pic for them or for a cover or something, but that's about as AI as I get.

I totally understand the AI question because it's out there everywhere, so I figured since I got 'asked,' I'd show how I do things this time.

This one above was done with a painting style, but the process is very similar for the more cartoonish/anime or sketch/line art I have done.

Here is the picture I looked at. (I always use a picture or several pictures or models as reference.)

This next one is my step one, which is getting the main lines right, and in this case, not much detail because it's for a painting. For this, I like to use the studio pen tool. (Looks very bad at this point. Sorry, Five. 😆)

This next one is the start of me adding colors and messing around with where shadows and highlights will be, but very little blending yet, and I am only using the basic 'soft brush' tool and smudger.

For the next step, I just keep going, adding more color and try to get things looking closer to the actual photo, but I also start using the wet acrylic brush and the dry acrylic brush-nothing fancy.

After that, it's what we get at the top of my post, with simply finishing it by adding more and more paint until I get it dark enough in the darkest spots and then I get to play with lighter colors on top again. I also go back and use my studio pen to darken areas and correct the sharper lines that got painted over.

~So that's it. If anyone ever wants to know how I do something, never hesitate to ask; I am an open book.

As a final note. Thank you to all who have liked and reblogged my art and my stories, and for all the people/artists/writers/meme makers on here just trying to make stuff because they like to. I adore you all. 💕

[ennard-is-near]

Guys I really need your help on this it’s for something important I promise.

Guys I really need to know I’m cooking something.

[oi-52]

How do you think 5 and AJ are from before the incident?

Thanks for your question!

Irrelevant but I've been thinking about uploading posts about 5 and aj on draft for days now and I was surprised to see this question!

Anyway, they had such an interesting relationship with Comics. Their relationship changed with the appearance of Handler in the series, but I still find them interesting. In fact, the relationship between commission employers and employee Five is interesting no matter what head canon you put in it. That he's one of the people watching from the time Five fell on apocalypse until he was deflated. One of the people he would have approved of everything he went through to become the best assassin on the commission. Unlike Comics in the S2 board scene, Aj looks afraid of Five, while Five isn't afraid of him and is relentless. Five is nervous and exhausted enough in the context of holding hands with the handler, and his presence may bring him catharsis. Trying personal revenge in unwanted negotiations. I think Five would have wanted to kill Aj as well, just like Five tried to kill Handler in S1. Aj can only infer and imagine because I don't think it came out enough... I think Aj might have feared him as much as Five was a well-made assassin and he might have acknowledged his brain as much as Five hated Aj. Or Aj wanted to use Five better than the handler to the point where he thought about negotiating until he got caught by him, and Five was sick of those things. I would have loved the precarious atmosphere that would have been between them. Conversations in unhidden tension. A moment like walking on a blade. Things like that.

[in-tua-deep]

My idea of how common knowledge the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is… wrong

[chemnections]

(07/10/23)

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Klaus: *Comes home face bruised and bloody*

Five: Let me guess, I should ‘see the other guy?’

Klaus: Wouldn’t recommend it

Five:

Five: Who am I killing?

[winters-hysteria]

so (AGED UP OFC) five has a mommy kink???? personally, i'd love to see it, i've never seen anyone else write him that way :)) (also i love your writing, its so good <333) ~turtle anon

omg anon i love you <33

(disclaimer: i write for agedup! characters, and usually don't write for male anons unless specifically requested. (check my master list, i do any marvel/umbrella academy tho i favour five and klaus))

SSSSMUtt. mommy kink, swearing, mhm you know

-so five definitely has a mommy kink. like. have you seen him? you could have him on his knees with a single smoky glance his way.

-he wants you on top of him calling him "your precious little boy" or telling him just how good he's doing. he practically craves it, basking in the glow every time you give him even the smallest bit of praise.

-he loves going down on you. he loves hearing you moan his name, grind against his face, run your hands through his hair while you squish his pretty lil face with those thickies.

-sppppeaaking of thickies. he does not discriminate. you got thighs, bb he's between them.

-you accidentally slipped up and praised him one time when he was sitting with his siblings, and now klaus believes he has a pretty good idea of what goes on in your shared bedroom.

-his belief is even more confirmed when five accidentally calls you mommy in the kitchen (no one else was there so he was safe.)

-five also just enjoys laying on your chest while you pet his hair during a movie or something

-mans has a stressful life, let him be

-he so sos soososososso enjoys being tied up and not allowed to touch. like you say hands off???? he will not be able to. or he won't on purpose so you get mad and tie his hands away.

-mf likes to misbehave on purpose. it's canon, he's a brat.

-aftercare is hella important, he will wear himself tf out fucking you and he needs you to clean him up and snuggle with him until he falls asleep <3

[ll-but-its-random]

LL incorrect quotes (pt. ???)

Except I'm going through a shipping brainrot.

(Some NSFW)

John: We should get you to a doctor for a check up immediately. What if it happens again, and there isn’t anyone around to help you? What if it’s congenital? Oh my God! Was it me? Did I hurt you? Sarah: …You realize any other person that made their partner pass out on bed would simply feel really proud of themselves, right?

---

Eight: Crushes are so weird. Whenever I'm around mine, I start acting stupid. Marina: You always act stupid. Marina: Marina: Wait... --- Einar: You gotta apologize. Five: FINE! But I must warn you that this might make me a better, nicer person and that is NOT who you fell in love with. --- Six: Good night to the love of my life, Sam, and fuck the rest of y'all. --- Sarah: Hey John! Gotta a date for tonight? John: No... Sarah: Now you do. Hold my hand. --- One: I'm gonna take a shower. Wanna help me out ;) Adam: ...Have you never taken a shower before? --- Einar: You look good in that hoodie. Five: You know where else I'd look good? Einar, without hesitation: My bed. Five: Dominating the worl- wait what? --- (Set up on a blind date) Adam: Consider it background checking, but do you have any death certificate? Date: Um... no, not yet. Adam: Good, I'm not fucking a ghost again. --- Waiter: What would you like? Eight: Bring a milkshake with two straws. Marina: *blushes* Eight: *puts both straws in his mouth* Watch how fast I can drink this!! --- Six: I have the urge to do something stupid. Sam: I'm stupid, do me.

+ any of the non-loric characters here pulling the "Do you have a surname" card, because they know damn well they don't.

[laurrelise]

at the risk of sounding stupid how the fuck did reginald know the kids were going to have superpowers