#diego/lila

[lookingforhappy]

this was peak romance

[lochrannn]

1000% this

[pepperf]

AND ANOTHER THING...!

Fuck you, show, for not giving us any of the history of those last six years, and for acting like that meant they weren't important. I wanted to see Diego and Lila dealing with the birth of their first child. I wanted to catch a glimpse of their wedding. I wanted to see them dealing with the next pregnancy. I wanted to see them making a life together (get your minds out of the gutter).

Because I don't for a second believe that these two chaotic assholes were in any way casual or annoyed or bored by any of that! That they would have been anything less than 1000000% there for every second of it—these two, to whom love and family meant so, so much! Show me that, and THEN justify your choices, I fucking dare you.

[sublimeinal-messages]

How great would it have been to have Lila and Diego’s marital problems actually be that they’re both tired of normal marital life, when both of them are secretly getting back into the superhero / assassin gig behind eachother’s backs?

Like, ok Diego can still has his infidelity suspicion plot, thinking lila is cheating on him with five (which is fake. Didn’t happen at all. We all agree right?) but it turns out that Lila and Five are actually meeting up to plot, talking about old commission stuff on the downlow. Diego sneaks out to find them having dinner and he’s heartbroken, but it’s actually them eating takeout over assassination plans with files all over the table detailing how to kill someone without a trace, with pictures of alleyway vantage points and sniper rifles.

I didn’t expect this to end up being A Whole Thing but I had to write it out. Full thing under the cut:

Meanwhile, Diego’s been lying to Lila about losing his job. He hasn’t shown up for work in weeks, and recently got fired. Levaing the family financially unstable. Diego’s still showing up to be a dad during his usual scheduled times, but he hasn’t been paid in a while and both parents seem to be pulled away in different directions. And now the kids have begun to notice. This comes to a peak when one of their kids spot someone in their house at night dressed in black, and they tell Lila later that they saw Batman. Obviously Lila sees right through this and confronts Diego, who confronts her right back over her infidelity. Lila laughs in his face, because he’d have to be insane to think she’s ever do that, and with Five?? The barely-legal teenager who killed her parents? Are you stupid?? (Stares directly at the camera). But Diego’s hurt. He can’t get a clear answer on what they’re doing because she doesn’t want to admit she’s tired of being a housewife and wants to kick ass again. All they can agree on is that this isn’t working anymore, neither of them are happy, and they just hurt each others feelings.

So this fight ends in Diego storming out. They’re on a break. Lila is heartbroken, the kids don’t know what’s going on, and Diego throws himself wholeheartedly into being a vigilante again. It’s shown he’s fighting some shady organization that seems to have far reaching ties—related to Reginald, Abigail, and their new reset empire. Lila doesn’t know what to do, she gets some in-laws to stay over and look after the kids as she goes out to look for him (to no avail) and it ends up being the day she and five planned on their big assassination happening. Lila caves and says to five he’s gotta do this himself because her family is falling apart. Five is annoyed and makes a quip about how this is why he never lets romantic attachments get in in the way of him doing a job (stares directly into camera).

So five takes his sniper rifle and goes to the location early, where he’s positioned to take out their mark. Lila is out looking for Diego, and Diego is kitted up, on his way to take out these shady people he’s been making a case on, and intends to stop what they’re doing before they do it.

Anyone pick up where this is going yet?

Diego shows up at the location—a shady laboratory owned in secret by Reginald Hargreeves. The place is familiar. Diego slips into an alleyway. but what’s this? We’ve seen It’s the exact same alleyway but from a different point of view! Five is perched on the roof with a sniper, looking down at him. He gets his quarry in his sights and takes one final, steadying breath. This mission is going exactly as planned. The idiot showed up right as predicted. He didn’t even come with backup this time. It’s a textbook fish in a barrel. It’s almost disappointing how this couldn’t be an easier kill. But maybe Five’s glory days are just behind him. He puts his finger on the trigger.

Cut to diego and Lila’s house. It’s dark inside. Gracie and the twins have been put to bed and the in-laws are tired and in the living room. A phone rings, and it’s Lila, calling to say she hasn’t found Diego and is hoping he came back, but it’s not the case. Lila says she’ll be back soon and the in-laws begin packing up to go home. Gracie stands in the hallway, overhearing. To her, her whole world is falling apart, and she runs back to the twin’s bedroom in tears. She can’t believe this is happening. The lights are turned off in the hallway and the house grows quiet. The front door opens and closes and it’s implied that the in-laws have just gone home. Mum will be back soon, but the twins won’t stop crying, so Gracie gets up to get them some milk and cookies to make them happy again. She steps out into the dark hallway

To see a man dressed like Batman, in full fight gear. And she looks up at him with hope in her eyes, saying “daddy?”

Only surprise! It’s not, and they grab her as she lets out a scream. We cut to Diego as he reaches to open the door at the end of the alley only to find it locked, and realize he’s been set up. He spins around only for a gunshot to sound, and it cuts to black.

Lila comes back to the house. Finds it trashed. Finds her Inlaws murdered in horrific fashion in the driveway. Gracie and the twins are gone. And the little domestic life she and Diego made destroyed as we cut back to Diego, bleeding out in the street from what looks like a fatal gunshot.

Then five comes down from his perch to confirm his kill, only to realize what he’s just done.

So there. Here’s a dramatic, non-cheating subplot that has a similar amount of stakes that we could’ve had with season 4. Maybe Lila and Five end up going on a crusade for everyone to get their powers back so they can bring Diego back from the dead. Maybe this is what leads them to the subway, to mess with the timeline again, because as commission agents they can’t let go of the idea that time can be fixed and it isn’t theirs to mess with anymore. Maybe this sends Lila over the edge, and when trapped in the subway with five—she tries to murder him instead!! After all, he’s not only killed her parents, he’s now killed her husband! Why not have five scramble to figure out a way back for all those years while running for his life? (While a scooby-doo like soundtrack plays and they get all turned around and confused). Maybe Diego isn’t actually dead in the end, and it’s all a bait and switch to fool Reginald, who was watching and lines the whole thing up to fuck with them. Taking the kids as a deterrent so they won’t dig any deeper. But maybe in the last second before five pulls the trigger five hesitates. Maybe he doesn’t have what it takes to murder anymore. He swore it off earlier—what glory is he really chasing anyway? Maybe he recognizes the gait of the person in the alley and makes a non-killing shot to just take them out. Maybe he saw ahead that this was a setup by Reginald and made an agreement with Diego and filled his vest full of blood packets. And he fully knows Lila and Diego are both doing secret little vigilante gigs behind each others backs but tells neither because he really doesn’t want to get in the way of some stuffy marital dispute. Nooooo thanks. He had enough of that when he and Delores were together and bickering constantly. Five just wants his family alive and happy in whatever timeline they end up. (Chokes the spirit of Steve Blackman just a little bit harder)

Anyway, everyone else thinks Diego is dead; and all get together again. Weddings and funerals uniting them once more, and each of them reveal how life didn’t turn out how they wanted on their own, and they get to bond and unite to track down Gracie and the twins. “One last time” they agree, to be heroes and finally do something right. To save some little kids. Members of their family! Innocent ones, who don’t deserve to be caught up in their mess. And it culminates in confronting Reginald once and for all and destroying the ill-gotten gains he warped the universe in his favor for. And Reginald’s gone the rest of them can finally have peace of mind. Maybe the timeline genuinely gets better now that one monocoled megalomaniacal maniac isn’t in the centre of the universe anymore. The very thing that doomed the timeline before. And now the umbrellas are able to disband and go on in their lives as normal people in a timeline that exists with no favouritism at all. It’s all just what they make of it

(and hey! Maybe Diego comes back out of hiding and saves the day! And he and Lila both confess they want to take more active roles outside of being parents. And their kids are wowed by the fact that their parents are both superheroes. And it’s cool and awesome and I don’t sob at a very tragic defeatist ending of all I hold dear).

I don’t know guys. There’s so many different ways the final season could’ve gone, but not in a million years would I have chosen to make it go the way it did. That’s a whole other post—but in the end, I just know I’ll be entertaining my own little ideas for what happens to these characters I’ve grown and loved, and keep them alive in my own heart and AU story ideas. Thats the true canon for me, and the rest is just… fuss and marigold dust

[fluffy-fusion]

Made some of these in hopes to recover the TUA fans and also cause I like these their funny

[laurrelise]

oh what’s that? it’s just one of the cutest, most well-written relationships in the umbrella academy?

right, you’re right i thought so

[ironfirebagelknight]

WHO THE FUCK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?

For... THAT!!

This is actually bullshit and I can not believe no one did anything about it

Don't actors have some sort of power over shitty things like this?!???!!!

[atrocities-inc]

Why did they not mention Stanley at all in season 4? Like???

[fictional-apologistt]

screw you season 4 writers.. screw you.

[swampbrick]

if I can’t pretend that the Lila/Five plot line didn’t happen I WILL absolutely pretend that nobody died and they ended up in a toxic but fulfilling polycule with Diego and Delores and they all raise Gracie and the twins together

[beanarie]

today i was taking the subway in a city where i don't live and i had this lightbulb thought

diego should've been the one stuck with lila

think about it. no one knows five is glitching. lila approaches him in front of the group with her great idea to time travel, he blows her off, she looks at him and says "fine, you underdeveloped little coward. just make sure you don't let me down with the ride home". then a split second before she blinks, diego grabs her hand like wait babe wtf

and then the theme song to anne with an e plays while they rebuild their fucking marriage.

obvs five has to ride a few trains of his own, but he finds the variant's journal and the diner much quicker.

[lochrannn]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts Characters: Diego Hargreeves, Lila Pitts, The Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy Additional Tags: Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, diverging from season 4 but i think i'm actually sticking closer to canon than the damn show, Complicated Relationships, Angst with a Happy Ending, The Umbrella Academy (TV) Season 4 Spoilers Summary:

Lila!

The kids!

How could Five do this to him?

“Hngh.”

Diego wakes up with a start that feels like he’s falling, but then all he can feel is his feet sticking out of the bottom of the sheets, his pillow stuck to his face where he’s clearly been drooling in his sleep.

He clearly just had a nightmare, that much he knows, but it felt so real, and his thoughts are running around in busy circles trying at once to remember what it was about while at the same time not wanting to engage at all, the memories flashing by his mind’s eye feeling hot and venomous.

—-

Unsettled by an ominous dream and Lila being weird and secretive, Diego struggles to catch his bearings while trying to juggle his family life and the sudden disappearance of his recently incarcerated not-quite brother.

[pepperf]

It's loving Diego/Lila hour here, sorry not sorry.

[jellybeanium124]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts Characters: Diego Hargreeves, Lila Pitts Additional Tags: Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Weight Gain, Happy Ending, Everybody Lives, Fluff, Implied Sexual Content, and by that I mean barely the beginning of a hand job, Diego Hargreeves Needs A Hug, Soft Diego Hargreeves, Hurt Diego Hargreeves, Protective Lila Pitts, Soft Lila Pitts, come get yall juice, fixing season 4 ovah here Summary:

Allison rumored durango out of existence, and because they couldn't exist without each other, marigold as well. Diego and Lila go back to their lives with a new perspective on everything, and a renewed effort to make their marriage work. They've had enough excitement for the meantime, and enjoy living slow for a while. When Diego realizes he's put on a little weight, he gets upset about it.

[fluffy-fusion]

Diego is so the type to say random things in the dead of night. Like for no reason he will just say random shower thoughts or dumb things without warning while meant to be asleep like imagine it's 5am

"You think we ever met in another universe?"

"Love, Go to sleep."

"Lila would you still love me if I was a worm🥺"

"Im going to smother you GO TO SLEEP."