#reginald hargreeves is a good parent

[kazcreates]

Six of Crows // TUA

Number One

Character: Matthias

Reasoning: This one is the easiest to determine and makes sense from both a power point of view and story-arc point of view. Matthias is a natural born leader, and sees himself as someone who needs to keep the rest of the crows in line and act as a sort of moral compass. This reflects well with the position of Number One, as the leader of the group and a somewhat self-righteous character in the beginning.

Number Two

Character: Inej

Reasoning: Although it would make sense for Jesper to be Number Two due to the metal/trajectory manipulation, Diego’s character better fits Inej in my mind. She would definitely hold a grudge against Sir Reginald Hargreeves for taking them away from their parents and for not protecting them when they were kids. She also would fit the vigilante role well, due to her pirating arc at the end of Crooked Kingdom.

Number Three

Character: Nina

Reasoning: It was a toss-up between Number Four and Number Three for Nina, due to her powers as a corpse witch, but I feel that she would fit better as Number Three with the reality manipulation/rumor ability, because of what she was able to do under the effects of Jurda Parem, and the line about her and Jesper seducing all of Ketterdam into submission.

Number Four

Character: Jesper

Reasoning: This decision is mainly based on character arc and personality. Klaus and Jesper are similar levels of chaos, sass, and queerness. As well as the fact that addiction is a big part of both of their arcs. I felt that Number Four was a better fit than he would have been for Number Two.

Number Five

Character: Kaz

Reasoning: I felt that out of all of them, Kaz would embody the 50+ year old man in a 13-year-old’s body arc the best. He and Five just remind me a lot of each other, and view themselves as the leader of their respective groups, whether or not everyone sees it that way. Plus, Kaz, due to his PTSD, is kind of stuck in the past sometimes, and I think that preventing the apocalypse would be a good mirror to his drive for revenge against Pekka Rollins.

Number Six

Character: Jordie

Reasoning: I find this one very, very interesting to explore, and for this reason, I thought about giving Kaz the role of Number Four, but no one else really embodied Number Five like he did. Plus, the idea of Jesper being able to talk to Jordie while Kaz can’t? I want to explore it. But other than the fact that he is dead, I like to think that Jordie would act as a common sense filter for Jesper, and by extension, Kaz, much like Ben does.

Number Seven

Character: Wylan

Reasoning: This was another fairly easy decision for me. The treatment of Number Seven by Sir Reginald Hargreeves is somewhat similar to Wylan’s treatment by his father. The isolation, the constant reminding that they are not special and are nothing compared to everyone else. The fact that Wylan was very much considered an outsider by the Crows for a large portion of Six of Crows. As well as the connection of both Wylan and Number Seven to music.

[cosmic-day]

Having seen the final season of The Umbrella Academy: I didn’t hate it quite as much as most of fandom seem to, but I also didn’t love it. Rambly thoughts and massive spoilers under the cut:

First of all, I don’t know how much the compressed episode count affected things, but I felt like adding  ‘could/would have worked better if fleshed out more’ at the end of every sentence in this review.

As far as positives go, I was OK with the ending. It has been baked into the show from the beginning that the Hargreeves siblings only break whatever they try to fix, and their erasure from the universe being the only thing that restores the timeline does make sense. I kind of respect the show for committing to that, rather than finding a last minute “they died but not really” cop out.

I loved Abigail’s role in it as well and think that is a really underrated bit of satisfying writing: Abigail who has been literally and figuratively fridged for three seasons gets to tell Reginald that she never asked for this and never wanted it, and most importantly gets to not only seize control of the narrative but end it. That part really worked for me.

Viktor had a decent arc and also got to confront Reginald about his shitty parenting which was also satisfying.

Unfortunately, there the positives end.

Most of the other characters got short changed. Klaus was stuck in an irrelevant subplot, as he often is, but here it felt more irrelevant than usual, and also gratuitously dark – I mean, it’s a dark show at times but this felt like trauma porn for the sake of it. Allison had some good moments, but not much of an arc. Diego and Luther were both reduced to goofy, borderline pathetic comic relief in a way that just felt mean spirited at times. Ben and Jennifer needed way more time to work properly.

And then there’s the Five/Lila of it all.

I love these guys. Not only are they my favourite individual characters, but I loved their enemies to chaotic besties arc, and I really wanted more of that friendship. The subway plot was a brilliant idea, and I could have watched a whole episode (I’m thinking the Last Of Us episode ‘Long Long Time’), following them surviving together and developing their friendship (and also maybe addressing little irrelevant details like Five being the killer of her parents). But they just had to shoehorn in a romance, by Steve Blackman’s admission, because they ‘had to have a love story’ for Five. OK, but why? Why does a character ‘need’ a romance? Also, protip, but if you do something because you feel it ‘has’ to happen, and not because you want to develop the characters in any way, it shows.

I should say I don’t particularly care about the age gap issues. Nor do I entirely agree with the argument that it’s ooc for Five, because our precious blorbo Would Never betray his brother like that. I love Five, but he’s a little shit. Also, I’ve seen many complaints that he spent decades in the apocalypse and never gave up so why is he giving up now, but maybe he gave up because he spent decades in the apocalypse. Maybe he’s just tired. Everyone has limits, and Five has hit his.

I just hate that platonic relationships are always erased, sidelined and overwritten in favour of romantic relationships because those are obviously more important and more interesting. Five’s friendship with Lila and devotion to his family are also love stories, and they’re not lesser because they’re not romantic. I also violently hate love triangles. This one was particularly annoying and not even properly resolved.

Overall the season just felt lacking. Where were the great big goofy, joyous setpieces, or alternatively, if such is your jam, the dark and deranged pieces of ultra violence set to a banger of a pop tune. Where, in short, were Footloose and Istanbul Not Constantinople. (Though I will admit Baby Shark made me laugh.)

Anyway. I wouldn’t say the show is ruined for me, but it was a disappointing conclusion and my least favourite season by far.

[toewombs]

Luther hargreeves and loyalty

Number 1: luther hargreevesLuther grew up at number 1 the strongest and sometimes acting as the oldest of the group. He spent most of his life believing he was chosen to be the best witch makes him loyal to his farther as he was given this sense of importance by him. Luther sticks to his loyalty even if he reolises hes loyal to the wrong people because he was done right by them so he must be good in some way.In season one we see Luther defending his father’s parenting methods even after the abuse is pointed out. In fact we see in a flash back that luther was left alone in the mansion showing how he is the only sibling left “you dont have to call me by my number anymore… im the only one left”. All the other sibling left the academy but luther stayed loyal to his farther and to the academy. Luther only gave up on the fact his farther was a good man when he learns the four years on the moon where infact for nothing only so reginald didnt have to face what he had done to the only son who still stayed with him.Upon learning his farther was not the good man he always believed he was he spends time with alison in the day that never was because he new that she was the only one who stood by him all that time even if their relationship was, in my opinion, gross and insest-y she was the only sibling that had been with him after coming back and who told her daughter all about him szo she was who he forces his loyalty on. His loyalyty to alison sticks even after the day was earased becouse he has always been loyal to alison we just needed to see it instenseify in that episode because otherwise there would be no explanation for what he did to vanya.Locking vanya in that cage was an awful thing to do but deep down i can see it came from a good place. He saw someone who he never realy saw as his sister because his farther forced her out of his life hurt alison someone who he loved as a sister and as a partner (ew) so he used the powers he had to force her away again back to a position where she could never hurt his family again.In the final few episodes of season one we see luther help try to save the world even if it was through him attempting to atack vanya this si because he has a loyalty to the world and stems from his loyalty to his farther who molded him to be a superhero to save the world with his powers so he helps his family like its just another mission form his child hoodIn season 2 however luther has been lost in time. Confused he tries to return to what he knows anf find his farther only to be laughed out of the mansion. Luther seems to believe he was abandoned by his siblings and naked a life for himslef untill he was found by five. Lutyher refuses to attempt to save the world after what trying did to him but then he finds alison living near him and finds her married and moved on from him witha new husband and a new life far away from what happened in 2019 and living peacefully. WHen finding out that vanya was near he blames her for everything that happened. He thinks its her fault that he is nolonger needed by alison and goes to kill her but he cannot do it as deep down thats his sister and she is unaware of what happened and who luther is soo she is as innocent as the little boy she was with.In season 3 he falls for solane and she becomes his focas point and the person he is loyal tohe also makes an an effort to show his family they are loved witch can be seen when Viktor comes out as trans and luther offers to throw him a party to celebrate him “luther wants to throw you some big stupid party so you will feel loved”

[dazed-poltergeist]

Powers of Eden (I)

Associated fandoms: Assassin's Creed x The Umbrella Academy

Pairing: Altaïr Ibn La'ahad x Reader (Platonic), perhaps some Altaïr x Malik in later pieces

Warnings: One (1) spoiler for The Umbrella Academy

Summary: The reader, who is similar to the "The Umbrella Academy" character Five Hargreeves, attempts to travel back in time. While it succeeds, they travel a lot further back than what they would've liked..

Add. Notes: Allow me to give some background on Five, for those who haven't seen the show: The original Five Hargreeves comes from an adopted family of 9. The siblings' names are Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, Ben, and Viktor, and his "parents" are Reginald and Grace. Along with his siblings, Five has superpowers, which in his case are teleportation and time travel. He used to work for a timeline related commission as an assassin. In this story, the reader/Five has no affiliation with the said Commission.

>✉️<

{ I've returned with a new piece! I'm pretty sure that I will write more parts for this, but I'm not sure how I should write a specific part related to languages without using Google Translate. So if any of you has advice related to that, I'd appreciate if you spare some for me. In any case, it looks like I managed to write something before St. Patrick's, so happy (still early) St. Patrick's Day! My so-called "spice" for this time is that I speak in English a lot more than in my mother tongue, which causes me to forget words in the latter language. }

-Eero, March 2023

Masterlist ✧⁠*⁠。

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When you were younger, you would practice teleporting –and on a few rare occasions, time travel– with Reginald's guidance, starting with a few small units at a time and then building up from that. On these very few occasions, he only allowed you practice time jumping to the future, and whenever you questioned him for that restriction, he would say things along the lines of "A wrong move down the line could change the whole world as we know it," "Time travel is far more complex than teleportation," and "You were not educated enough to understand time travel."

Even if what the older Hargreeves had explained to you these days was true or not, he wasn't just a prick, he was the whole cactus. Today felt like a good day to not listen to what he had told you, just to spite him. It wasn't like Reginald was going to stop you anyway; He was dead, "playing tennis with Hitler in hell," as Klaus said before his funeral.

You told Grace and Viktor about what you were going to do, even though they weren't going to know that when you meet them yesterday, the day you planned to jump back to. You strutted to the Umbrella Academy's courtyard, where after two attempts you successfully opened a way through time.

Except, when you stepped through the ripple of time and looked for signs that you actually time travelled instead of teleporting in an arduous manner, you realized that you weren't in the Academy's courtyard anymore.

You were standing on the roof of a small, sand-colored building. You could see a city around you, with a bunch of houses and towers in different shades of yellows and whites. You recognized a large building as you took in your surroundings; a blue and white temple with a gold dome acting as its roof. With the famous temple in mind, you easily concluded that you somehow ended up in Jerusalem.

Once you came out from your daze of admiring the landscape around you, you realized that a hooded man dressed in white was behind you, staring bullets into your head. You wanted to tell him about what happened to you, but given your location, you doubted that he would understand you.

The assumption ended up being correct, because he began speaking in an unrecognizable language. The only useful thing you could do in that situation was gesturing to him that you didn't understand him, which was exactly what you did. Some gears seemed to align for him, and as a response he took you by the arm and into the building below you.

The two of you landed on the floor of what seemed to be an outdoor living room. You couldn't really take in many details, since the strange man continued dragging you through the building. The room you stopped in had a collection of bookshelves, baskets, pots, and many other things, but what caught your eye was a one-armed man standing behind a table.

The cripple noticed you the moment you and the hooded stranger walked in, and began to question the latter about you. They talked for a short period of time, then the man behind the desk walked away from the table to you and the other strange man.

The two men turned to you, and tried to introduce themselves in the most simplest way they could to someone who didn't understand their language; they pointed at themselves and said their names. The now formerly hooded man introduced himself as Altaïr, and the other one with a dark robe over his similarity white outfit introduced himself as Malik. You told tell them your name in the same manner; you pointed at your torso and said "(Y/N)."

Altaïr looked at the other man and said something in his language, to which Malik chuckled and made another comment as a response.

("A name. That's a start.") ("What a funny name. You certainly weren't wrong about the 'odd person' part.")

The two began brainstorming on what they should do with you now; they couldn't let you leave the bureau, because you didn't understand their language, you likely had no idea what the surrounding world was like, and you looked like someone out of a bizarre story told by a drunk bard. All they could think of with the given circumstances was that they needed to take you in.

Malik went to one of the shelves in the room, and began looking for books that could possibly help with the language barrier. You joined him to look for documents with dates on them; you needed some year written on a recent paper, to get an idea of how far back in time you actually jumped.

Altaïr realized what you were doing, and found some excess paper to write down the year for you. You took the paper and thought that you wouldn't be surprised about the year, since their appearances seemed to give it away. Yet, you were very surprised, even for someone who just time travelled on purpose. You had jumped into the period of the Third Crusade.

You quickly recovered from the shock that came with that fact, and wrote down "2019" onto the other side of the paper Altaïr had given you. You gave the paper to him for both him and Malik to see. The two froze in place, and Altaïr dropped the piece of paper onto the ground. They turned to look at you again, and visibly wanted to ask multiple questions about the future from you; you could see the eagerness on their faces. Unfortunately, the language barrier was no help.

The presence of an inability to communicate with you made the two white-clothed men determined to try and teach you their language while you were under their wing.

For a change of scenery to let you process what happened, Altaïr took you back to the main area of the building, where he sat you down. He walked into a third room to get you some food, after Malik had left you two alone to find you some clothes that would help you blend in—to make it less obvious that you've come from 900 years into the future.

As Altaïr handed you some food, Malik came up to you two and placed a small stack of clothing next to your legs. He muttered something to Altaïr in their foreign tongue as he was walking back into what you concluded was probably his office.

("If they need help with the clothes, you can count me out.")

Since the building usually didn't have any visitors of your kind, majority of the spare clothes were related to what seemed to be their uniform. The clothes Malik had provided you included a pair of dark pants, some white robes similar to the ones Altaïr was wearing, and plain boots fit for running and climbing, along with a leather harness to keep the clothes in place. Those clothes obviously weren't what you were used to wearing, but they were relatively better than the ones you had on at the moment.

You left Altaïr alone into the main area to go change into the robes. Only after you had changed you realized that your clothes looked like a downgraded version of the two men's outfits. You concluded that the clothes they wore had different features based on ranks. You didn't even know what kind of organization they worked for or what their jobs were, so you couldn't put more thought into the conclusion that you had just made.

As you got back to Altaïr, you only then felt the exhaustion from the energy-consuming time jump kick in. Even if you would've had enough energy to try time-jumping again, you wouldn't have wanted to risk accidentally travelling into the Stone Age. The little "living room" seemed comfortable enough to be used as a bedroom, which was the reason why you lied down in the bundle of pillows that were sitting on the ground.

The white-clothed man briefly disappeared into another room and returned to get you a thin blanket. As you prepared to rest, Altaïr sat down to begin contemplating on the things he could try to do in order to help you adapt to a possible life in Jerusalem. Thanks to a sheer lack of ideas, he only thought of recruiting you as a novice for the Assassin Order.

Now that you had fallen asleep, Altaïr went to Malik to consult him on what they should do.The latter thought that recruiting you—a strange person who literally emerged out of nowhere and couldn't even speak their language–into the Order was an outrageous idea that should be out of question. The dark-coated man also added that they couldn't even take you to Masyaf to swear you in and train you there because of the language barrier. But even then, their morals told them that teaching you was the best they could do with the lifestyle they had.

The two decided to show you a little thing or two about being an assassin, without making you an official member, and see how it would go. Malik proposed that he would teach you their language whenever he could multitask, and Altaïr added that he could show you a move or few while he trained or when he brought you along for an info hunt. All they could do now was to wait for you to wake up and get ready for a bring-your-novice-to-work day with the two men.

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Personal pointers: A particular bureau for Assassins that Altaïr frequently visits in certain fanart is in Jerusalem, since Malik is the Rafiq there. Like majority of the buildings in that city, the hideout is in the color of sand and maybe a few specific spices.

[the-commissions-deadliest]

TUA OC - Bonnie Astor

Faceclaim: Ruth Connell

Name: Bonnie Astor

Alias: The Huntress (One of the 43)

Age: In her 40s (Older than The Umbrella Academy folks as a result of time travel shenanigans)

Gender: Cis Woman (She/Her)

Sexuality: Homosexual, Homoromantic

Occupation: Temps Commission Employee – Originally hired as an assassin, would later be promoted to The Handler’s second in command. Despite years of service to the Temps Commission her true loyalty lies with The Handler and not the company itself.

Personality Traits:

Positive Traits: Adaptable, loyal, caring (to a very select few), hardworking, observant, good with words and people

Neutral Traits: Ambitious, secretive

Negative Traits: Vindictive, manipulative, quick to hold a grudge, brutal, stubborn, apathetic towards the feelings and wellbeing of strangers

Abilities/Power:

TW: BODY HORROR AND MENTIONS OF BONES BREAKING

Bone Manipulation: Bonnie has the ability to claw through her skin and rip the bones out of her body to use as a weapon; not only are her bones of a higher density than the average person, once they’re removed, she’s able to control the sharpness of them thus making them effective weapons. These weapons are truly an extension of her in every way. Her body promptly grows a replacement for any bone she removes.

Regenerative Healing: In addition to regrowing bones, Bonnie’s body has the ability to heal bone breaks and skin lacerations in mere moments.

Skin Manipulation: Has the ability to soften her skin at will; combined with her naturally sharp, clawlike nails it’s very easy for her to really dig in there to reach her bones.

Contortion: Has the ability to contort her body in unnatural and unsettling ways. Consequently, is able to hide away in tiny corners and ambush her enemies.

Bonnie’s abilities don’t come without consequence, though she can heal injuries and regrow her bones in mere moments it’s very painful for her to do so and can be quite exhausting. To cope with this, she takes several different types of painkillers daily to stabilize the pain and ensure she can use her abilities in a fight if needed.

Backstory:

On October 1st, 1989, 43 women around the world gave birth simultaneously at noon despite showing no signs of pregnancy until labor began. Bonnie was one of these children, born to a young woman in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her mother didn’t have the resources to care for an unexpected child and thus when a wealthy couple offered her a large sum of money for her baby, she accepted. And so, under the instruction of Reginald Hargreeves, the couple bought Bonnie and 6 other kids to create The Phantom Academy, a sister academy to The Umbrella Academy. Based in Canada, The Phantom Academy were often referred to by Reginald as the Hargreeve's cousins. Bonnie was the Number Two of The Phantom Academy.

At first, Bonnie was difficult to train due to her hesitance when it came to using to her abilities; the young girl just couldn’t understand why she was being pressured to do something that caused her pain. Her parents would hire a nanny specifically to look after Bonnie, hoping to ease her difficult behaviours and tendency to lash out; Bonnie would become very close to this woman. Eventually, fed up with her stubbornness, Bonnie’s parents decided the only thing to do was to force her to use her powers by threatening the things/people she loved. Namely her nanny, keeping her trapped and threatening to withhold things such as food from her unless Bonnie used her abilities, essentially forcing her to trade her own bones for these things. It wasn’t long until Bonnie had become the “perfect obedient” child her parents wanted her to be. And so, much like The Umbrella Academy, Bonnie and her siblings would spend their youth successfully fighting crime in Canada. That is, until everything came crashing down for The Phantom Academy.

When Bonnie and her siblings were 17, they would be sent on a mission that would change everything. Bonnie was apprehensive about the mission claiming that they didn’t think it was going to end well with Bonnie being the most vocal about. However, their parents and brother referred to as Number 1 (whom Bonnie had been known to butt heads with in the past) disregarded her concerns. This mission ended in the death of all siblings aside from Number 1 and Number 2 (Bonnie). Infuriated that this tragedy could’ve been avoided had her parents and brother just listened to her, this caused a traumatised Bonnie to break down and to start lashing out again even going as far as getting brutally violent with her brother.

Instead of addressing her trauma and grief regarding the situation, Bonnie’s parents ultimately deemed her a lost cause, that helping her would be more trouble than it was worth. They told the world she had died along with her other siblings, that Number 1 had been the only survivor all while keeping Bonnie locked away in The Phantom Academy manor. They deprived her of her painkillers, effectively keeping her weak and in pain so she couldn’t fight back and leave. This went on for a few years until one warm summer evening, on the anniversary of her sibling’s death, Bonnie snapped and pushing through the pain, fought back and left for good; Bonnie was never seen again, being recruited by The Commission shortly after leaving.

[newwwwusername]

Fic title : Why Didn't You Say Anything Before?

@newwwwprompts Chronic Pain Awareness Month 2023 prompt : Character with chronic pain has a flare-up in their back

Rating : General Audiences

Fandom : The Umbrella Academy (Netflix)

Pairing : Five & Viktor

Additional tags : Chronic Pain, Pain, Back Pain, Number Five | The Boy Has Chronic Pain, Hiding Medical Issues, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Ibuprofen, Good Sibling Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Childhood Trauma, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Past Child Abuse, Bad Parent Reginald Hargreeves, Autistic Number Five | The Boy (if you squint), Body Dysphoria (not in the trans way), but also Canon Trans Character

Word count : 884

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Gotham's New Children

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/EVAhGdK

by skeletondust

Wayne Manor has some new neighbors.

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A crossover of Batman and the Umbrella Academy.

Words: 3067, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Grace Hargreeves, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, Luther Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Klaus Hargreeves, Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy), Number Six | Ben Hargreeves, Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Dr. Pogo (Umbrella Academy)

Additional Tags: Crossover, Batman crossover, Dead Reginald Hargreeves, Mentioned Reginald Hargreeves, Past Child Abuse, Good Parent Grace Hargreeves

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/EVAhGdK

[thegayhimbo]

No idea what Fandom to suggest so I'll just go with Umbrella Academy 👀

I’ll give fair warning that it’s been a while since I’ve watched the show, so apologies if my memory is spotty. Also, I haven’t seen season 3 yet, so no spoilers please!

my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave:

Don’t know if I have one. 😐 All of the characters were messes in one way or another.

my trash-shit fave:

Tie between Diego and Viktor Hargreeves.

my I love to hate them fave:

The Handler. Reminds me of Cersei Lannister from GoT in that she’s awful, but also entertaining to watch.

my I hate to love them fave:

Allison Hargreeves. She does a lot of morally questionable stuff with her powers, but I still feel for her in spite of that.

my I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire non-fave:

Harold Jenkins/Leonard Peabody. Dude was a manipulative creep who tried to groom Viktor and turn him against his siblings. I was not sorry when he died.

my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave:

Again, don’t have one. It’s been a LONG time since I watched the show.

my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave:

Sir Reginald Hargreeves. I get why he’s hated, and I agree he was an abusive parent to all 7 kids, but at the same time, he was still interesting to watch. I wanted to know more about his backstory and his reasons for doing what he did, and I’m hoping season 3 goes more into that.

my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship:

David Katz and Klaus Hargreeves. I really wanted them to make it! 😢

my dirtybadwrong fave ship:

Lila and Diego in season 2.

my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship:

Viktor Hargreeves and Sissy Cooper in season 2.

my I didn’t care about this ship either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about it now I can’t stand it non-fave ship:

Don’t have one.

my MAKE IT STOP non-fave ship:

Allison and Luther in season 1. Just..............why?

Thank you for the ask! This was fun. 🙂

[lahotelbellamuerte]

𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐎𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐧 - lower floor + lobby

series masterlist ! current: lower floor ! next: the time that was before + lobby

There's a saying that every decision we didn't make somewhere in the universe we did. And that version may look like you, but isn't. Just like you they made many other decisions to make that one different than yours. But beware if you ever run into your doppelgänger. 

Many of those end up dead when their doppelgängers appear, so it's advised to stay away. Especially if you're a time traveler, we don't know where you might end up. Listen to the cosmic rules of never looking for your parents, or yourself. 

Now, the very day, the Umbrella Academy decided it was a good idea to meet their father in the 60s—it wasn't. Reginald Hareegeves had studied the bunch of adopted children and realized they weren't what he needed for his plan. So, he changed the future through the actions of his once-upon children on the future. 

Take a seat, grab a drink, and have a snack. Here we begin the story of the Hargreeves back in the present day, but not to meet what they expected. Not a relaxing return but a much different look on things. 

I invite you to check into Hotel Oblivion...

ᴀɪᴅᴀɴ ɢᴀʟʟᴀɢʜᴇʀ— ɴᴜᴍʙᴇʀ ꜰɪᴠᴇ —ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ʟᴇꜰᴛ ʙʀᴏᴋᴇɴ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ

ᴘʜᴏᴇɴɪx ᴍᴀɢɴᴏʟɪᴀ — ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ ꜱɪɢʜᴛ

the rest of the umbrella + sparrow academy as their prospective actors/actresses 

ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴛᴇʟ'ꜱ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄ:

1. ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜꜱ — ɢᴜꜱᴛᴀᴠᴏ ꜱᴀɴᴛᴀᴏʟᴀʟʟᴀ 2. ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴍʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ — ʜᴀʀʀʏ ꜱᴛʏʟᴇꜱ 3. ʙᴏʀᴅᴇʀʟɪɴᴇ — ᴛᴀᴍᴇ ɪᴍᴘᴀʟᴀ 4. ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀʏ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ — ꜱᴜꜰᴊᴀɴ ꜱᴛᴇᴠᴇɴꜱ 5. ɴᴏ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴅɪᴇ — ʙɪʟʟɪᴇ ᴇʟʟɪꜱʜ 6. ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢ ɢᴏᴏᴅ — ᴍɪᴄʜᴀᴇʟ ʙᴜʙʟÉ 7. ʙᴏʏꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ — ᴅᴏᴠᴇ ᴄᴀᴍᴇʀᴏɴ 8. ɴᴏ ʙᴏᴅʏ, ɴᴏ ᴄʀɪᴍᴇ — ᴛᴀʏʟᴏʀ ꜱᴡɪꜰᴛ (ꜰᴇᴀᴛ. ʜᴀɪᴍ) 9. ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛɪᴍᴇ — ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴇᴇᴋɴᴅ 10. ᴍᴀʀʏ ᴏɴ ᴀ ᴄʀᴏꜱꜱ — ɢʜᴏꜱᴛ 11. ᴇxɪᴛ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄ — ʀᴀᴅɪᴏʜᴇᴀᴅ 12. ꜰᴇᴀʀ — ᴄᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛ ᴊᴏʏꜱ 13. ᴏʙʟɪᴠɪᴏɴ — ɢʀɪᴍᴇꜱ 14. ʜᴏᴡ ᴠɪʟʟᴀɪɴꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ — ᴍᴀᴅᴀʟᴇɴ ᴅᴜᴋᴇ 15. ʜᴀʏʟᴏꜰᴛ ɪɪ — ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ 16. ꜱɪɢɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ — ʜᴀʀʀʏ ꜱᴛʏʟᴇꜱ 17. ᴇɴᴇᴍʏ (ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴊɪᴅ) — ɪᴍᴀɢɪɴᴇ ᴅʀᴀɢᴏɴꜱ 18. ᴍʏ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ — ᴇᴠᴀɴᴇꜱᴄᴇɴᴄᴇ 19. ᴛʜᴇ ᴜᴍʙʀᴇʟʟᴀ ᴀᴄᴀᴅᴇᴍʏ — ᴊᴇꜰꜰ ʀᴜꜱꜱᴏ

[queercreati]

Season 3 Prediction, Part 4:

Diego: So, um, tell me. Are you single? 

Sparrow! Lila: Uh... 

Patch: Who the fuck are you?

Time Comission! Lila: They’re not single fyi 

Diego: And you? 

Time Comission! Lila: *Nervous laughter*

[brionysea]

the most important difference between five and veggie just slammed into my brain like a freight train: vegetable would sacrifice his children for the world. five would sacrifice the world for his siblings

[upset-hufflepuff]

Luther Hargreeves is a well written and human character with very good character development and he's SO underrated. It's 2021, y'all need to realize the villain is Reginald and stop being pissy about Luther just processing his trauma differently due to emotional manipulation x

[captainkirkk]

Thanks to @pulcheres​ for coming up with this idea, I can’t get it out of my head now

AU where adult Five - who is still grieving the fact that he didn’t get to see his siblings grow up, and realises how fucked up they became under Reginald “abusive motherfucker” Hargreeves - decides to travel back to 2002 and look after these kids himself.

Except he can’t kidnap them outright or kill of Reginald. What he’s doing is risky, but that would completely destroy the timeline.

So he applies to be the Umbrella Academy’s tutor.

He’s a pragmatic genius with extensive combat training; there’s no way Reginald Hargreeves wouldn’t respect him. Five plays the distant, methodical professor whenever Reginald is around - but when he’s gone, he nurtures the shit out of these kids.

He teaches Klaus how to banish ghosts so he has a moment of goddamn quiet. He teaches Allison about moral ethics and the consequences of actions, even if she’s too young to really take in what he’s saying. He teaches Luther how to be a brother, not just a leader. He helps Ben come to terms with the monster locked inside his chest. He pays attention to Vanya. He helps Diego soothe his anger.

He helps them all develop hobbies. Lets them be individuals. Helps them develop coping mechanisms. Gives them the opportunity to talk to someone about their problems (that’s not a robot or a monkey or a child). 

He interferes as best as he can with Reginald. Distracts him, messes up his “experiments”, subtly manipulates him into doing something else instead of torturing his kids for the day. 

It doesn’t ever feel like enough, but it’s better than nothing. And he still gets to be close to his younger siblings and help them, which is all he ever wanted.

There’s a lot the Hargreeves siblings don’t understand about their mysterious new professor. But they begin to trust him. He’s the only person who’s truly in their corner, not Reginald’s. 

Except they have no idea that their professor is really their missing brother, Five.

And Five has no idea how to tell them.

[siegrrun]

Disappointment

Reginald Hargreeves knew from the very beginning that the children were special. From the earliest stage of their lives they showed signs of extraordinary abilities and he couldn't have been more satisfied. And so he started monitoring their progress with great interest and even greater expectations.

* * * 

Number Seven is his first disappointment. He quickly learns how uncontrollable her powers are. Of course, all of the children's abilities are dangerous, there is no denying that, but hers are the most destructive out of the bunch. The most wild. The most... apocalyptic. 

It's a shame, truly, to waste such a potential, but he can't take this risk, not after she attacked him. She's too dangerous. 

So he locks her up, hides her along with her powers, away from everyone's sight. 

A Pandora's box never to be opened. 

* * * 

Number Four is his second disappointment, perhaps the greatest one as he never put any real effort, never even tried to understand and control his abilities. Too weak, too soft, too scared of his own shadow to realise how powerful he truly was. 

Reginald can only sigh watching him cry and tremble in the corner as he adds another hour to the kid's training.

* * * 

Then comes number Five, who was his biggest hope but turns out to be yet another disappointment. 

He's smart, logical and driven, focused on the task on hand in a way none of the others could manage to be. But his intellect and the quick pace in which he masters his powers make him arrogant and rash, and Reginald can sense a disaster coming from miles away. He tries to discourage the child, putting him through harder and harder training, showing him how truly unprepared, how incompetent, how unexperienced he is. 

But number Five's will is as strong as his and so one day he disappears, leaving the Umbrella Academy one member weaker.

***

Number Six has always been a mix of satisfaction and disappointment. He too is afraid of his powers, of the creatures living inside him, of himself. Scared to fight, scared to train, scared to live. But, unlike number Four, he does try to live up to his father's expectations. He never truly succeeds, but Reginald is satisfied. 

Until he isn't.

Number Six's death truly is inconvenient. He was finally getting somewhere, finally taking control over the eldritch monster inside of him.

Disappointing, Reginald sighs, turning away from his son's grave.

***

The Umbrella Academy is falling apart, the children leaving one after the other.

Number Two is one of the first, slamming the door behind him, a bag in his hand and a curse on his tongue.

Reginald's far from surprised. Number Two has always been a temperamental one, seeming to be permanently stuck in his rebellious stage. He shakes his head, not even looking up from the papers on his desk. He might have taught him to use his powers efficiently, but he could never control his temper.

***

Number Three is the last to leave. Her reluctance doesn't change anything though, she has disappointed him a long time ago. The addiction to her powers was her weakness and the greatest failure.

She showed signs of it from an early age - he still remembers the frivolous way she controlled everyone around her long before she learned to tell rumours (the phrase he thought of when he realised how much danger her power posed; a phrase long enough for him to react if used against him) - now he can't believe he's never seen it before.

She leaves in the end, doors closing softly behind her and the Umbrella Academy is no more. 

***

Only number One stays, a leader without a team, the one whose powers are insignificant compared to the others. 

Reginald sends him to a mission, after mission, after mission, more out of curiosity than necessity. He wonders when number One will finally break like the others did. 

Number One's spirit doesn't break, but his body does and Reginald's once again disappointed. What use is to him an undestructable man that can so easily be destroyed? 

Reginald Hargreeves looks out of the window. It's a full moon, he notes absently. He sighs and takes off the monocle to rub his eyes tiredly. 

The Umbrella Academy was an utter failure, a true disappointment through and through. He wonders if the rest of 43 children would be more competent, if a different set would fare any better. 

If he could, he'd try it all again. 

[oskarwing]

Free parenting tips for Reginald Hargreeves in regards of the oatmeal scene:  Don’t have a kettle whistling in the background while your daughter who can control sound is having breakfast she doesn’t like.�� Don’t make her eat oatmeal if she doesn’t like oatmeal, you ass. There’s other breakfast food that’s just as good!  Make sure your child knows killing people to get out of a situation she doesn’t like isn’t actually good and don’t just say HM like you’re disappointed she made the carpet dirty!  Or ignore all that and build a robot nanny to traumatize her. 

[dogbearinggifts]

I mean, sure, Reginald said he just wanted his kids to reach their potential and that all the hell he put them through “was to prepare [them] for something greater than [themselves].” I think he even believed it. 

But it didn’t work. The shit he did to his kids—the shit he thought would result in a family of deadly effective superheroes—resulted in a collection of bitter, angry, neurotic hot messes who couldn’t give two shits about the fate of the world. The only child of his that thought he was right and believed the world needed him turned his back the second he learned it all was a lie. The one he believed had some of the greatest untapped potential turned to drugs in a deliberate bid to avoid developing his powers. 

That’s what abuse does. It does the opposite of what it’s supposed to do. It doesn’t make kids stronger; it breaks them. Doesn’t matter what the parent’s intent was. They broke their kids and now those kids are left to put themselves back together.