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theheightofdishonor · 4 years ago

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So I randomly rewatched tua in reverse order (s2, then s1) and i’ve come to the conclusion that my fondness for Klaus comes mostly from the latter half of season 1, after he’s off the drugs.

As much as I feel sorry for Klaus about how often he gets ignored, I also can’t actually blame his siblings for doing so. Klaus is exhausting to care for/about and is more preoccupied with getting his next fix than about his siblings and he’s aware of that. He doesn’t hate them for it because he knows they’re justified.

I low-key felt bad for Diego because Klaus is 100% aware Diego has a soft spot for him and has almost definitely taken advantage of that knowledge before.

However, when he’s not wholly, selfishly consumed with finding his next fix, Klaus is ridiculously endearing, with an earnestness that begs you to love him. Think of when he’s trying to soothe Luther, unhesitantly offering his blood to save Allison, advocating for Vanya. Klaus’s love for his family is what makes him so easy to love when it would be just as easy to hate.

And honestly, that goes for all of them. Their love for each other and how they act on it is what makes the Hargreeves likable (redeemable, even, if you want) because let’s be real, they’re all un-united, awfully adjusted, occasionally insensitive child superheroes/celebrities/soldier who have a hard time forming deep connections with people outside of each other, partially because it was near impossible to find anyone who could understand even half of what they’ve been through and partially because again, they’ve been fucked up since childhood.

Like these idiots literally cause the apocalypse and lose each other in time, but when they meet again, they’re arguing again in five minutes and end up causing the apocalypse for the third time. It would be easy to hate them for it but it’s not and I love them (and Klaus) anyway, despite their laundry list of issues.

#klaus hargreeves #tua #i love him #i fucking do #but klaus in the first half of season one was uncaring at best and cruel/selfish at worst #like five is falling apart at the seams after the eye lab incident but all Klaus cares about is his $20 #in the first time line #he along with everyone else fucks off instead of actually trying to stop the apocalypse #mixed feelings on the cult thing #on one hand i get how it happened #like Klaus def takes advantage of this old guillible lady #convinces her he's mystical and the entire thing becomes out of hand #like i have no doubt it started as some kind of survival method #then it was a bit about the validation because klaus needs attention #I don't think he expected it to work as well as it does #mostly because he's so used to it not working on his siblings #and then he doesn't want it and they're still there anyway like the ghosts except they're not screaming #not gory and covered in blood #on the other hand that's thousands of people that Klaus ends up becoming responsible for and at least some who's lives he consciously ruined #and then he abandoned all of them #ik some people hated how he was about Dave in season 2 #and i get how weird it must have been for Dave #because Klaus clearly didn't think his interactions through #but like he's also trying to rescue the kid from dying????#not in any reasonable or sensible manner #and he's definitely fucking up any relationship future Dave would have with timetraveling Klaus #but it's a pretty sympathetic intentoin #how does your heart not break when Dave just ends up enlisting earlier?

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