#thats for you Reginald Hargreeve

[beanpodz]

Ok Reginald just fucking shooting Ben and Jennifer is probably one of the funniest things to happen on this show. Just fucking shot their asses and somehow removed the other siblings memories for some stupid as hell plot reasons that made no sense. Like I thought the squid was what was living in Ben’s stomach and it tore him apart and ate her but nope. Reginald just busted out and got their asses. Was this what the characters were describing when talking about it before? They talk about how much they hate Reggie all the time but let’s not mention the time Reggie went Elmer Fudd? Viktor wrote about this in their book and the general public didn’t give a shit one about this? I’m SCREAMING

[multifandumbmeg]

I swear to god one day I'll stop complaining, but I'm rewatching seasons 1-3 of Umbrella Academy because it is my comfort show, I fucking adore it, and BEN'S SPEECH TO VIKTOR AT THE END OF SEASON 2?? IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SEASON 4 ENDING???

Viktor "I don't deserve to live, I'm a monster"

And Ben, "DAD treated you like a bomb before you ever were one" [...] "DAD couldn't handle your anger. That doesn't mean YOU CAN'T."

!!!!! PAUSE RIGHT THERE. CRUX OF THE SHOW. YES THAT. THAT RIGHT THERE? THAT'S THE WHOLE THEME OF YOUR SHOW. THAT'S WHY WE'RE CONFUSED AND PISSED STEVE. IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE SHIT LIKE THIS HAMMERING THE POINT HOME, WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN EXPECTING A HEALING ENDING. YOU CANNOT ACT LIKE YOU'VE BEEN "LEADING UP TO/HINTING AT THIS ALL ALONG" WHEN YOU FUCKING CLEARLY HAVE NOT!!!! YOU LITERALLY HAVE DONE THE *EXACT* OPPOSITE!! YOU LITERALLY HAD BEN COME OUT AND SAY THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD-

S2 Ep 9 18:57. DAD. CAUSED. THE APOCALYPSE. By refusing to cope with Viktor's powers. BUT!!! ALSO!! YOU ARE CAPABLE OF OVERCOMING HIS MISTAKES.

In season 1, we see him release the marigold as Abigail dies on his home planet.

Then find out in season 4 THIS IS THE TRUE CAUSE OF THE APOCALYPSE. THE INTERACTION OF MARIGOLD AND DURANGO. WHICH HE WILLINGLY RELEASED, KNOWING IT WOULD WIPE ALL LIFE ON THE PLANET, BECAUSE HE WAS LONELY.

In all possible ways, REGINALD HARGREEVES is the cause of the timeline paradoxes and apocalypses, NOT the Brellies. If one person had to die and be reckoned with to resolve the plot, as clearly foreshadowed in the prior seasons, IT WAS REGINALD.

God I just hate the audacity, narcisism, and utter inconsistency of Steve Blackman that asshat does not know what he's talking about with his own damn show, and his insistence on his own shitty input is what royally ruined it.

[non-plutonian-druid]

I’m torturing ben again

another installment of my rarely-updated lemony snicket au, in which Ben has been experimented on by a mysterious man called The Monocle, resulting in him becoming the host to a terrifying tentacled eldritch monster. The Monocle has tried to perform this experiment many times on many children, and Ben is the most promising so far. As a reward, he gets to be tied to a chair in this shady closet while the Monocle comes after him with a scalpel! How exciting!

[ID: a three color drawing (black, white, and blue) in the style of Seth’s illustrations from the Lemony Snicket series All The Wrong Questions. Ben is tied to a chair in the corner of a shadowy room filled with jars of experiments gone wrong. The horror is emerging from his chest. A strip of light from an assumed open doorway splits the room, and reveals the shadowy silhouette of Reginald Hargreeves. End ID.]

[wowzah2nd]

The Hidden member

Five Hargreeves x Reader

Wordcount: 3k

When the umbrella academy returns to their time, they realize that things have changed, and strangers are now living in their home. A fight soon starts, which causes Five Hargreaves to blink out of the chaos. In doing so, he discovers a hidden room in the library's walls. Meeting someone unexpected.

Number five and the rest of his siblings seemingly appeared in their home everything seems to be back to normal finally he thought then a voice interrupted his thoughts and gained the attention of his siblings 

Slir Reginaled Hargreaves: i knew you'd return eventually 

Everyone turned to him in shock

Luther: your alive 

Reginaled: why shouldn’t i be 

Questioning the absurd statement 

Luther: your right i-im just happy that were all home and together again 

Everyone looked at Reginald suspicious this didn’t feel right to any of them something was off and it was just because their so called dad was alive now but something was definitely wrong 

Reginaled: home this isn't you home 

Everyone looked at him as if he’d gone mad of course this was their home five thought 

Alison: what are you talking about this is the umbrella academy  

Looking at her dad confused 

Reginaled: wrong again 

Everyone was staring at him how could they be wrong this was clearly their home. He then spoke again 

Reginaled: this is the sparrow academy 

Soon after his statement 7 figures appeared standing above them on the balcony of the living room.

Everyone turned around to face them diego retrieving his knifes ready to fight everyone seemingly getting ready to do the same thing. 

Then a voice from the balcony spoke 

Man: Dad who are these assholes?

Taking a better look at the man everyone soon realised who it was and were in shocked how could this be possible 

The umbrella academy: shit!!!

Klaus: ben 

Ben looked at the umbrella academy confused, everyone from the umbrella academy looking at him in shock and luther and klaus walking a bit closer to get a better look at him 

Luther: is that really you  

Diego then decided to yell

Diego and who are those weirdos on the balcony 

Reginaled: those are my children the sparrow academy 

(slight time skip)

Thing started to get heated in the sparrow academy quickly people yelling and screaming at each other but Five seems focused on trying to get the brief case 

Soon after a fight broke loose started from just a punch from ben. Which then water falled into both academies fighting one another. As this fight was going on someone was watching  them in a secret room behind a bookshelf within the library. Who was this person, well she was the academy's biggest secret.

The eighth member of the family Y/N Hargreaves 

as she stares at the umbrella academy using her powers she smiles

Y/N: welcome Umbrellas 

As she watches the two academies fight she notices one of them disappear with a blink of light. She was intrigued she knew he had a teleporting ability.

As she stared at the projection she has created watching the fight she wasn’t able to see what the other member of the umbrella academy was up to since she needs to follow them to allow the projection to split off to a separate person but since he had seemingly just poofed and gone she couldn't watch him anymore 

She was a bit sad about that she thought he was cute 

But then a thud in her room startled her causing her to lose focus and in toe the projection disappearing 

Y/N: damn it 

She turned from where she was looking to see what that sound was. It was only her supposed to be in this room, no one ever was in here or even visited her beside sloane.

The she saw him which cause her to stand up in joy 

Y/N: oh my goodness it's you 

This caused the boy to looked confused why was there a girl in this secret room by herself and about his age too

Boy: who are you 

This caused Y/N to pout 

Y/N: thats a bit rude to ask since your in my room 

He looked shocked 

Boy: your room?  more like it with the grade A holding cell with the locks they used on that door and the walls being so thick that only Luther could break them if he tried. 

y/n looked at him unfazed by his statement she knew why the room need to be like this it was for her safety but also the families too

Y/N: yeah it always been like this, haven't really left since forever 

He looked at her in shocked 

Boy:Are you serious 

Y/N: yeah…i mean of course when i was younger i shared a room with sloane but then one day i got moved 

This caused the boy to really look at her and ask again why a girl around his age seemingly locked up in a heavily fortified room seems like child abuse.

Boy: your not 13 are you 

She smiled seeing how fast he figured it out 

Y/N: technically my body stopped again at 6 but eventually i started to age normally again at mental age 23

This cause the boy to chuckle 

Boy: how is this even possible

y/n made a thinking face thinking if she should tell this strange boy about her self but her intuition was telling her she could trust him.

Y/N: weeeeell…its because of my powers i stopped aging 

The boy gave her a questioning looks how is that possible 

Boy: What are you powers exactly

Y/N: They are related to time in a sort of way such as this

y/n waved her hand creating a projection to the living room showing the two academies fighting 

Y/N: i can create live projections of places ive been to and see whats happening currently 

Boy: so pretty much a glorified security system 

That statement caused y/n to get angry, this caused her eyes to glow white and thing in the room started to shake 

Y/N: DON'T CALL ME THAT 

Her outburst caused a wave of energy to realise it self from with in her breaking nearly everything in her room and even causing the boy to be blown back against a wall. After realising what she had done she started to panic

Y/N: og my goodness i am so so sorry i didnt mean to do that 

She then ran to the boy to check up on him kneeling infront of him helping him up then grabbing him from his face to his arms and cheking his legs if he’d been hurt 

Boy: Im fine dont worry about me but what was that 

y/n stepped away from the boy to give him some room but also out of embarrassment she literally just met him and shes already fawning over him 

Y/N: That was one of my energy burst when i get really upset or have a lot of repressed energy or even emotions if i don't let them out in a calm way or slowly or even somehow calm myself down that can happen.The room is pretty much to protect the family and myself 

The boy had a look around the room and nearly everything but the room itself was damaged 

Boy: you did a number on your room sorry 

Y/N: don’t be sorry i shouldn’t have yelled knowing my powers i should be more careful and don’t worry about my room i can fix that 

The boy look at her puzzled 

Boy: How?

y/n gave him a mischievous smile 

Y/N: like this..

Putting her hand out and open a white light emitted from it she then processed to move her hand from her right side to her left this then causing everything to go in reverse things that were shattered or broken started piecing them sleeves together until they were fully repared 

Y/N: Ta Da… that another one of my time related powers i can reverse time on items, places and even people. Places are a bit harder though the larger the area the harder but if it's a small area such as a room pretty easy even and item as well

 This new information intrigued the boy and was now curious about the part where you said you could do it on people too

Boy: you also said people how does that work

y/n tried to think of a way of explaining properly then just did her best 

Y/N: lemme give you an example 

She then proceed to grabs the boys hand and scratched with a small pocket knife she had grabbed near by

Boy: what the fuck

He then pulled his hand back 

Y/N: shut up and give me back your hand of you want that cut gone 

He proceeded to give it back and let her work. She then repeated what she did to reverse the room back to normal he was amazed watching his cut close

Boy: wow 

Y/N: i can pretty much reverse your body to how it was before the injury 

The boy was amazed people who didn’t know her powers would assume she was just healing but this was completely different she could reverse someone's body to how it looked or how it was to its original state before an injury. This got him thinking about her situation why was she still young

Boy: does this have any involvement of why your still 12

y/n was a silent for a moment most likely still traumatised from it 

Y/N: Yes…

The boy looked worried but he needed to know 

Boy: what happen?

Even though she was hesitant to tell him anything her intuition told her she could trust him

Y/N: It happened when I was 17 dad wasn’t satisfied with me just doing recon, cleaning up after giant fights or even “healing” the team he thought I could do better. So what best way to practise then on yourself he wanted me to practise ageing. 

This caused the boy to become more intrigued 

If I aged myself young or even old no one would suspect a sweet little girl or even an old lady nearby. It took awhile but I got there being able to age myself up or down. Once I had mastered both he became satisfied with how fast i was changing and wanted me to do it faster. 

Along the way I somehow got stuck at 6 while rapidly ageing and no matter how hard I try i was stuck. somehow dad broke me 

I assume it's due to how fast I was changing my cells, the rapid changing stretching them back and forth so much that they couldn’t handle it anymore. I honestly thought i was stuck but over the years dads research what happened and he found out that my cells were slowly repairing themselves took about 6 years for me to start ageing at a normal rate before that i was ageing at a snail's pace

Even thought she was trying to hide it he could see through the sarcasm and the jokes that she was in pain and that there was more t the story ‘

Y/N: The day that i stopped ageing was also the day i started having those energy burst due to the amount of frustration and rage building up not being able to age myself back…

y/n look at her hands nervous to continue but she knew she had to 

Y/N: it was in the training room my sibling could here me just screaming and yelling in frustration so they call came in 

Y/N Flash back 

Dad: Come on number 8 try harder 

Y/N: im trying dad 

She was starting to get even more frustrated and angry having tears in her eye 

Dad: stop crying, you are one of my children and my children are not weak NOW CHANGE BACK

Y/N: I CAN’T 

Just as she said that her sibling had entered the room want to see what was happening causing them to be now in the blast zone 

Everything in that room and even the rooms near by were shattered broken it was a surpise that the room was standing. Everyone that was caught in the blast was blown away and injured 

Seeing what had happen y/n started to panic, she started look for her sibling through the rubbled luckily they were all okay with minor or mild injurys only ben getting the worst of it having shard of wood imbedded in him y/n decided to work fast before it was too late

Y/N: oh my god ben i am so sorry 

She knelt down to his level examining him for nay further injurys, but it was only the shard 

Y/N: Im going to pull it out okay if i done you body will reverse with the shard still there so it needs to be gone okay 

Ben look pissed but he knew she was the only one to save him right now so he let her work.

In her six year old body she pulled the shard as hard has she ensuring it all came out and then checking for any remaining shards after knowing for sure there was nothing she started to reverse his body as soon as the wound closed she signed with relief then hugged him.

But he pushed him off her in rage 

Ben: WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING 

Y/N: what do you mean 

Ben: YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US WITH THIS LITTLE FUCKING STUNT 

Y/N: B-but i didn’t mean for any of this to happen i didnt even though i could do this 

Ben: I DON'T WANT EXCUSES YOU COULD HAVE KILLED US

y/n looked around the room her sibling now staring at ben yelling at her marcus came by to try calm ben down but he wouldn’t making marcus to just pull ben away from the situation. Sloane then cam by to comfort her 

Sloane: hey you know i don’t think this i your fault this was obviously an accident 

Due to her age being much younger now sloane couldn’t help but baby her a little bit even though she knew they were still the same age mentally 

Y/N: i know

She said in a sniffled voice. Sloane then decided to hug her in comfort 

But ever since that day everyone except sloane had avoided her most likely worried she would caused another outburst over the smallest thing. Which did happen eventually  Even thought you were mentally 17 your body and brain was of a 6 year old so there were time over the years where outburst had happened and that was when dad decided to build that room for you 

END FLASH BACK

Y/N: and thats how i got moved her. Once i started again properly it got easier to contain my outburst or prevent them by calming my self out or even realisimg the energy at a slowly and safely but sometimes it can still happen so i live for their safety 

That got the boy thinking bu you also said for you safety. By the way the room looked it was supposed to hold something either dangerous or of value 

Boy: you said before this was to pretect your family i understand why now but what is this room protecting you from 

This caused you the ause for awhile even though your intuitions said you could trust him you were still hesitant you knew nothing of him 

Y/N: I dont know anything about you so why should i tell you why im in here

The boy paused he didnt know if he could trust her but the possible information she help could really help or even slightly assist him 

Boy: fair enough what do you wanna know 

She smiled 

Y/N: everything 

He scoffed 

Boy: I dont have time for this 

y/n then grabbed his hand 

Y/N: but i do 

Light again emitted from her hands but this time her eyes glowed aswell but not as if she was about to cause an outburst but as if she was seeing things the boy just stared at her waiting for her to go back to her normal state and eventually she did 

Boy: what did you do 

Y/N: well if you have to know

She said in a sarcastic tone 

Y/N: had a look at your past 

Boy: what no. thats not possible 

Y/N: with me it is. I saw every single bit of your past even from when you were a baby five 

He looked at her shocked, she could definitely see his past 

Five: well shit i guess you can 

Y/N: and seems like you guys are going through it 

Five gave out a loud sign making his way to your couch and sat down y/n following and sitting down next to him 

Five: yup me are. But now that you know everything about me i need to know the other reason your in her 

After seeing his past y/n knew her intuition was right. But its never been wrong but seeing his past was just extra proof and an excuse to get to know him better. And without hesitation she told him 

Y/N: cause i can also see the future 

This cause fice to jump out of his seat and stare at where she was sitting 

Five: That impossible 

y/n then made a slight hissing noise as if to say okay maybe not the right way to say it 

Y/N: okay i can't see the future fully but i get bits and pieces from time to time and i got really good intuition about things that could happen. So its not fully seeing into the future more like saaaaay a sixth sense i just know feel if something is gonna happens nd sometimes i get picture or views of what it to happen and my job is just to piece together 

Five then looked at her with a squinted look 

Five: So that's why the old man keep you in here cause you can see the future i mean i get it you in the wrong hand is pretty bad but that can be just ot yes powerful but theres something else 

y/n then started to giggle in joying seeing that he can tell she was holding something back

Y/N: okay then you caught me but i dont wanna tell you so how bout i show you. Do you mind taking us to the fight 

Five looked concerned was she gonna help her family fight his or something else but he somehow trusted her 

Five: fine

He wrapped his arms around her shoulder and blinked them into the room seeing that both their familys were still fight and both familys noticing two children entered the room 

Umbrellas: FIVE

Sparrows:Y/N

They all said at the same time but still didn’t stop fight 

Y/N: now lemme show you 

She then lifted her hand as if to point at something and pointed at a random spot in front of her 

Ben noticed what she was about to do but was too slow to stop her

Ben: Y/N N-

Y/N: Boop 

Ben was too far to even try and stop her but good effort she thought 

She then turned to face five who looked dumbfounded 

Y/N: I can also stop stop time but only for about 1 min and about anything in a 50m radius of me so they were like this for 1 min unless i unpause the whole area or specific people 

She then started to make her way to the umbrellas touching their shoulders to unpause them they all look shocked at her why was she helping the 

She then walked by to five 

Y/N: think of this as a thank you for getting me out of that room can’t really leave unless dad lets me out and I dont like using people as hostages when they come visit so you getting me out was my ticket out so thank you

They all looked at y/n surprised turns out five was right she was basically a prisoner 

Y/N: now you have about 30 sec before they unpause of their own so you all better get going

Five decided to listen to her and take his family and leave now left alone wither her family she turns around to face them knowing she only has a few secs to speak her mind uninterrupted 

Y/N: i'm not going back into that room you make me and ill purposly cause the biggest outburst youve seen and not help any of you understand so dont even try it 

They all unpause ben tried to go at her but marcus stopped him no wonder he was number 1 and ben wasn’t. Ben shrugged marcuses hand off and walked off everyone did the same no one wanting to interact with you but marcus and sloane stayed 

Marcus: Welcome back 

He then walked away. He was always the diplomat so he was neutral to everything that happen in the house so makes sense for him to welcome you back 

After that sloane cam running to you 

Sloane: Ohhh my goodness i'm so glad you finally out of that box ive missed you so much 

Even though Sloane didn't visit as much as she used to, y/n knew it was probably the cause of Dad or the others

Y/N: I'm glad i can be with you again sis

Sloane: me too

[trippin-over-my-fandoms]

So since I predicted that Sloane and Luther would get together from the day she was announced as well as a couple of scenes- I feel obligated to share w y'all my batshit crazy idea of what I thought might happen in season 4 and like now that we have TWO trailers why I think it might happen. In other words-

Me being delulu about tua s4 and y'all gotta deal w it

So my initial thought was that in this new timeline they are themselves slotted into lives they don't initially remember, that the longer they dwell in the timeline the more they remember and some come to accept. Up until the inevitable happens and the world is at risk again for whatever reason. However, saving the world means giving up these perfect lives for accepting their shitty dysfunctional reality to save each other. Because the more they stay and accept the more they lose of previous timelines.

I was gonna write a fanfic but then my resident evil obsession started and if y'all have read any of my fanfic y'all know my history with long-fics.

Why do I now think this could actually be the case you ask?

At the end of season 3 Luther takes off after our girl Sloane with Klaus following but everyone else is just so calm. Soooo which leads us to

Trailer 1

Viktor might own or work in a bar. Which the fact that he seems to be somewhat settled for sure tells us that some time has possibly passed between season 3 and 4

The sign says "home for wayward boys" implying that Allison may not have been in the group and maybe neither Viktor before the transition. I'm also wondering if now that his wife is back maybe in this new timeline they both fostered/adopted our main characters.

Oh yeah did I mention Reginald's moon wife is alive? His whole thing with the children was his alien (literally) way to save her. Now she's alive.

Allison is with claire so she also possibly has her life back.

Ben is getting out of jail and like it could be a "time has passed between seasons" thing or something happens in one of the episodes where he winds up locked up.

Diego is at a kid's party and either has his own kid or a niece or something. it's not claire and the family behind him is not his umbrella fam.

MY BOY IS SO SMALL ITS GONNA BE SO WEIRD SEEING HIM "NORMAL" THIS SEASON also he looks kinda sad. trailer two debunks what I initially thought of his reveal in this trailer because I thought oh haha what if it's a Halloween costume but like we'll get to my season 2 crazies hang in there.

Klaus is upside down in an interior (proven by the radiator) so he is either stuck, meditating, in a trance, or it's Sloane holding him there. I also kinda wonder if he's going through a clean streak or something OCD like with his addictions from the whole blue gloves thing. tbh i saw those in the promo and thought it was blue screen and his hands were gonna be effed up lol.

ben shouts "lets go kill this bitch" and allison corrects "this is a rescue mission" sooooooo is reginal and or his wife the bitch in question? and like sloane is the only one missing from our group so maybe she's the one being rescued? or maybe one of the new characters (like gene and jean).

which brings me to a theory I'll get to after my trailer break down and before the second breakdown.

side bar but the xmen stile jet is great lol

the subway is 100% a metaphor for the timelines AND that house diego and luther are at is the one from season two where they see reggie and grace at that party

the mind thingies in the blue room are so fucked up and i cant tell if thats sloane or wife hargreeves or a grace return in the bg but im wondering if it connects them to other timelines? Im wondering if the woman is sloane bc abigail has such curly hair but it does remind me of grace so idk.

upside down umbrella is insane okay

starting to think the jet might be flashbacks

A SPACE SUIT HAND REACHES INTO A RED FORCE SOMETHING FOR ANOTHER HAND AND SLOANE MAYBE????

fuck organization if you have read this far welcome to my brain- anyway- theory is that her place got swapped for abigail hargreeves' on the moon and now our beloved moon boy has to save her from that place. so symbolic.

now i was half put down a few shots later when we see victor emit a similar color power later but trailer 2 kinda backs some stuff up.

so trailer 2

opens with ben alone and confused and vicktor calls ben at the phone booth leading me to 100% believe they have split up again and have to find each other. very nostalgic of season 1 and 2

"there's something happening to you and it's only gonna get worse" so this is either about just ben OR its about all of them. either way ben did look confused so his eldritch horrors are either hulking out or he's losing memory chunks like my theory suggests. but it might revolve around ben bc vicktor specifically says "you" in the next time about the world ending.

(wondering if luther nervous farted in the car lmao)

Gene and Jean are possibly conspiracy theorists or agents posing as them but its interesting they are bringing attention to the altered timelines.

okay yeah world ending revolves around ben im tired okay and not proofing this you're stuck with my ramblings

the white violin is for sure abi hargreeves no doubt it doesn't look like sloane and plus the violin viktor got was bc reggie gave it to him that he got from his wife before she died okay. fanfic rn where viktor is the chosen child fanfic rn where abi loves all the kids fanfic rn where shes alive but shes just as much of a dick and we could have an epic trans story for viktor and expectations and yeah anyway-

whoever said it was jenny in trailer two i wanna kiss u on the lips ur prolly right and i love you for it

"ben died because we failed as a team" "and-" "and what" FOLLOWED BY LUTHERS CONFUSED FACE LEADS ME TO ONE OF TWO THINGS AND YOU ALREADY KNOW ONE OF THEM memory loss my beloved or something shocking occurs to him or like he seems something idk

more blue room stuff and uh maybe its not mind stuff maybe its power stimulation like what if they dont have their powers but ben does idk.

who TF is klaus digging up

OH GUYS NO I THINK LUTHER IS A MALE DANCER THATS WHAT THE SPACE SUIT IS IDK WTF IS THIS SHOW I LOVE IT

anyway they keep showing that one scene and like idk im delulu about sloane im so tired and i am not ready for this show to end in 8 days im sobbing y'all

[st4rshipr4nger]

OML A TUA SHIFTER??? TELL ME EVERYTHING ABT YOUR DR RN 👹 (if thats ok w u 🥰)

EEEEEE HIIIIII YES YES YES I MOST DEFINITELY WILL

okay so im the handlers daughter (she adopts me she is NOT my birth mother) and then she adopts lila but were the same age so anyway she like raises us and stuff cause shes mother and so she trains us and shit like she does in the show with lila and also me and lila kind of have the same powers ish because okay idk if youre familiar with xmen but i like have rogues powers so like power absorption and taking peoples energy and stuff so like if i touch someone skin to skin ill take their powers if they have any and their energy and i kind of get their memories too, and so she makes me wear these gloves because one time i accidentally touched her when i was a baby and took some of her energy and she almost passed out or something, anyways being the handlers daughter obviously comes with trauma so when im like ten im like mom i dont like this i dont wanna do this anymore and shes like well thats too damn bad and i tell lila im running away but we make a plan to like meet up in the future so i run and shit one night and i find the umbrella academy a few days after and Pogo answers the door and i tell him about my powers because ive seen the hargreeves on television and on billboards and im like can i just like stay here for a little while and hes like yes ofcourse but i need to talk to sir reginald and hes like wow youre weird and then i kind of become like his labrat because he wants to see exactly how my powers work but hes also like youre fucking dangerous, so he gets this serum that makes my powers go away for a limited amount of time and i have to get injected with it every morning but i meet the hargreeves and we all get along pretty quickly and they like accept me into the family and oh my god GRACE :(((( i love her so much me and ben obviously have like a LITTLE thing but none of us is gonna admit it until like later but yeah reg doesnt trust me going on missions at first but he lets me go on one which kind of ends bad so he doesnt let me go on anymore and i have to stay on the sidelines with viktor ALSO me klaus ben diego and vik are super close i get closer with everyone else too but like specifically them so like yeah!! me and ben kiss literally like three days before he yk and then i want to kms !!! but its fine he watches me as a ghost for the next 18 years!!!! but yeah its obviously hard for all of us to take and stuff

ANYWAYS!!!

so when were all older we obviously go our seperate ways but i kind of stay in touch with diego klaus and viktor (allison never answers her damn phone and luthers on the moon) i read viktors book and i thought it was fine like i dont have an issue with it he was speaking facts that nobody else in the house wanted to admit and we were pretty much treated the same also after bens death i kind of like started doing drugs with klaus again because the serums were also just drugs like be fucking fr anyways klaus also never tells me that ben is looking over us and he feels bad about it but like klaus and i are really similar [in my dr everyones like oh hes just klaus but in another body] so im not like yk i cant like stay mad but trust in my dr i will be sorry buddy anyways i still talk to diego cause me and him are also bestfriends and i try to send messages up to the moon sometimes to luther cause he and diego were literally like i actually felt like family around them theyre like my brothers but obviously wtv

thats like kind of a backstory thing i left some things out but i love oversharing about some of the things in my drs its fun

let me know if you wanna hear more cause like eeeeeeeee

also im scripting that like i dont know klaus has ben on his shoulder and that stuff cause i like to make myself suffer a little bit

[tuatism]

just posted something similar on main but i think i can explain better when i connect it to klaus so to my tua blog this thought goes.

bug like an angel (mitski) is so four "klaus" hargreeves coded

klaus is a lonely character. this is something that's true throughout all the seasons, and we can see how in each season he finds a new replacement for personal connections or worse; a replacement for the love he had lost with dave. in season one he had already been a drug addict (which i will touch on in another point), in season two he seeks solace in his "alternative spiritual community"/cult, and in season three he looks for (familial) love with his father.

going further on season three's replacement, i think that it is by far the most impactful (whilst not being particularly relavent to how he relates to the song, but i want to talk about it whilst i'm thinking of it). klaus looked for familial love with an alternate version of his father because, in part, i think he saw some of himself in that reginald. he saw someone who was constantly drugged and was treated as a joke by his family and was essentially discarded whenever he wasn't useful. sound familiar? of course, that reginald wasnt actually much like klaus, but it's easy to see how if you're desperate for someone, anyone, to connect to you'd strive hardest to find it in the father who never loved you. the father who's affections you've been starved of your whole life. anyways, moving on

i think the direction i'm taking this one is pretty obvious; dave.

throughout the show there's multiple (sometimes rather subtle) moments where klaus clearly wishes for nothing more than to be with dave again. in a cruel joke from fate, it's discovered that klaus cannot permanently die, which only makes it harder for him. i believe that part of why he has such a difficult time moving on is due to the fact that dave died. obvious point, i know, so let me explain further. with most relationships, they'll end mutually. be it a calm break up, cheating, a fight, family issues, etcetera; most relationships have something that can clearly be defined as an "ending point". klaus and dave never got this, especially since klaus can communicate with the dead. in theory, klaus could talk with dave whenever he wants (at least in season one he could), so it'd be hard to really consider the relationship as being over.

after dave dies (and before the slight time reset) klaus swears to go sober so that he can see dave. he finds during the torture scenes that the only way for him to speak with ghosts is to he sober, but he knows that (in that moment) he wouldn't be able to go through with it unless he's physically restrained. he made the conscious decision to reach out to diego for help, hoping he'd be able to go sober for dave. time is rewound slightly and his meeting with dave and the whole restraint thing is undone, causing klaus to make different decisions regarding his sobriety. he still tries, yes, but in the end he has to have the drugs physically slapped away from him. in season two he is also sober, albeit much more successfully. he, once more, comes horribly close to relapsing to drinking when he goes to the store and buys all manner of alcoholic beverages (although they are all dropped and promptly broken when he arrives at his home).

im choosing to interpret this lyric in the less literal way because i think thats more interesting to interpret with klaus. i've already touched on him seeking love in other forms, so i won't dwell on that, but it may be touched on.

klaus is at rock bottom, in season three we watch him lose basically everything. he lost his one and only love, he lost his cult (although the degree to which he wanted them is debatable), he misplaced his trust, and he lost all hope to see dave again. he knows that there's no use in it, yet he can't help but yearn to be with dave. deep down klaus knows that not only can he not die, but the dave in the new reality may very well be out there somewhere; along with the fact that he will never be klaus's dave no matter how much he wishes. he will never be truly happy again, no matter how much he wishes.

[its-raining-brellies]

IM WATCHING THE TRAILWR

it came out at like 4am my time which is really sad so i’ve only just seen it…

First it has them walking in the mansion? Is that their mansion? Their mansion is in disrepair!!!!!!!

This is Reginald’s speech from the fucking bank robbery sequence?????? REGINALD’S SPEECH FROM THE BANK ROBBERY SEQUENCE????? S1E1??? Circular structure?????? CIRCULAR NARRATIVW??? I love a circular narrative i pricked my ears like a terrier when I noticed that 😂

Wait one second

“Hargreeves’ home for wayward boys”

It’s not any academy, it’s an orphanage????? Who are the orphans? Is this designed to have Five in it? I’ve read whump fics where Five gets kidnapped and taken to an evil orphanage run by Reggie. Canon,???

Ohhh a subway station. Interesting. I love some good train imagery I do

Viktor and Five collab huzzah!!! Or is that Ben sitting at the bar? Is this non-time travelling Ben as was seen in the s3 finale?

OH WE FINALLY GET TO MEET CLAIRE GO US

What did Ben do to get himself in prison?

WHO is that woman by the piñata and why is it not Lila?

LUTHEE IS GOING TO SPACE AGAIN… oh God, that’s going to be really difficult for him due to the general trauma of being left on the moon. :(

this is the bad photo that Luther took btw:

allison looks so cool 👌 the hair and shoes and coat are awesome. also I like Five’s design this season- it’s better than the godawful side part at least!

So we have Five and Allison walking together first. That makes sense, they’re obviously the ones who make decisions and do sensible things for the most part, Allison’s character change in s3 notwithstanding. Followed then by Lila and Viktor. Idk if there is any significance to that.

When they’re walking, you can see Five, Allison, Lila, Viktor and Ben. Not anybody else. 🤔 Intriguing! Where are Klaus and Diego!

The shouting getting in the van is so in character I love them

“HELL YES LETS GO KILL THIS BITCHHHH” “This is a rescue mission.” And Klaus has a paper bag. Why does Klaus have a paper bag?

EVIL REGINALD DRONES CANON??? :( that seems boring ngl can’t have them fighting evil drones!

WAit. Lila is looking at this train map. The station is empty. AHAT IF THE TRAIN IS THE TELEVATOR?????? It’s certainly not just a train, they’ve all been on it alone and it does something very interesting. I want to know about the train. Televator is a solid theory I think.

Allison and Luther walking up to a mansion… I feel this has something to do with Claire. Maybe Claire or Ray is in the mansion and Luther is for emotional support?

Is that Ben that Viktor’s beating up ???? Viktor beating someone up is in and of itself very novel. What’s going on with that?

oooh Diego and Five? Five would win no doubt. I’ve not seen any of his powers this trailer though… which is curious.

Oh who are these dancing people? Maybe this is Gene and Jean Thibideau.

I can’t see them clearly sadly. I’ll have a look on Netflix rather than Youtube, see if I can identify them, but can’t take screenshots on Netflix.

Is that Five and Lila in the apocalypse? God, I would quite like to see Five have a mental breakdown over being once again in the apocalypse. Tbh I would quite like to see Five have a mental breakdown full stop. If they put him there and don’t have him crumble I’m gonna be annoyed.

Woman in a burger shop producing guns? Agnes Rofa?

WAIT A FUCKING SECOND. Lila is absolutely sobbing into Five’s shoulder. What happened? Did her and Diego’s child die? Did Diego die? Do I need to get annoyed at Five being kind to an out-of-character extent? I MUST KNOW ALL. Either way, between this and the apocalypse moment I’m glad to see some Five/Lila bonding time.

OH NO REGGIE PUT THEM I. A MACHINE AGAIN. DONT PUT THE BRELLIES IN A MACHINE THATS AN AWFUL PLAN TJATLL HURT TBEM

Is this a Hargreeves family Christmas I see going on?

GUYS ITS OKAY FIVE TELEPORTED. it’s okay. Five teleported. Is he in the paradox-proof room? Commission origin story? Well, that shot is promising, as Five Commission origin story is soemthing I’m itching to hear.

Dare I ask why Santa has guns?

Is that a child’s arm with an Umbrella Academy tattoo? Is it Five? Are there new children again? EXPLINNNN PLEASE

Klaus running a séance. Is he going to be a scam fortune teller person? That would be so cool, he’d thrive doing that.

The car sans Viktor and everybody looking horrified. What does that mean for Viktor? Is he the one who dies? It would make the most sense I fear.

Okay between Luther in a ball pit and Diego by the piñata, there’s definitely a child’s birthday party that happens. Claire’s? Or Diego and Lila’s child’s? We will find out. I look forward to it in either case, that will doubtless be very entertaining.

Whose hands are those making the sinister looking deal?

Why are Viktor’s powers gold now? They were blue.

Is that Jean Thibideau that Luther’s throwing through a window?

I think this last sequence is just showing them all using their powers.

I gotta say I’m disappointed that there aren’t any moments that made me giggle like there were in the other trailers. :/. Is this season gonna be unfunny?

Also I’m annoyed that Five seems to be sticking with his much calmer s3 personality rather than being his usual unhinged self that we know and love.

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

The Umbrella Academy season 4 episode 4

I have been excited to see this since season 1, oh my god, FINALLY gonna see how Ben died

Oh my god, Allison trying to drag Klaus out of the bathtub and FAILING (she could have rumored him but I appreciate that she didnt/tried other avenues first)

The fact Ben didn't want to go. Do you think that haunted Luther? That if he hadn't said anything, maybe Ben would still be alive? (Hargreeves would have noticed and forced him to come anyway, but survivors guilt is a hell of a thing)

All my homies hate Hargreeves

Love that Pogo is their poilet

He opened it, that's why. And he finds Jennifer

Hes gonna touch her and go boom

OH MY GOD

HOLY FUCK

ALL MY HOMIES DESPISE REGINALD HARGREEVES, HOLY FUCK

HE KILLED BEN

Oh my god, and Ben never would have known, he was shot from behind, in the head, he died instantly

They should kill him, slowly

Oh I knew she was too "normal" can't trust that on this show

ALLISON I LOVE YOU YES BEAT UP THE OLD MAN

They won't let him take their brother from them again, regardless that this is not the Ben they grew up with, they won't lose him again (they might anyway, along with everything else)

Rip him apart Viktor, fucking GET his ass

They love him. Ben. They love him because of their Ben, I think is a big part of it, but over the past 6 years, I believe it's become more than that. He's become their Ben too. Different, from the first one, but still *Ben*. And when they look at him, that love is there for both versions of him. And they will not lose him again. Certainly not like this

The freaking transition from THAT realization to Klaus being a medium is really fucking funny

Klaus doesn't know... unless he does, somehow, remember due to all the drugs and alcohol, and just never said anything cause he assumed the others knew too... hm

Oh. So uh. Was Ben a haunting, then? 16 years by his side feels like a haunting to me

PFFFTTT

This did remind me I have peaches in my fridge, dunno if they are from Georgia though

This is very uncomfy!

Nah, just Ben did that, and I do, for one, peg this version of him to have no problem killing some bitches if he deems it necessary

Would love for them to save OG Ben! But also I think that's a bad idea, and it won't work.

Luther and Diego are so funny together

Cause they're family babe, and thats what they do

The fact they they don't know who this is somehow makes me trust him even less, cause I don't know what he actually wants. I KNOW what Jean and Gene want, but him? I had assumed he was working with them to Jumpstart the Cleanse, but they don't know who he is. Which means he somehow knew that she had an opposite particle in her and touching one of the Umbrellas would mean the end of the world. So how does he know that? And why does he, specifically, want that to happen?

The fact that they are perfectly mirroring each other rn

"Those people aren't my family. My family died a long time ago." Is that so? Well. They see you as their brother. And they are not giving up on you

Certainly SOUNDS like fate

Heh. Six

Is the announcer voice the Handler? It sounds like her

Oh is that why he was digging up a grave in the trailer?

No, this is different. Allison was dragging him out of the tub in the original time line. Where's Allison

Buried alive? 👀

Oh honey :(

They drove each other nuts but they love each other

UHHHHHHHHHH

[miiilowo]

milo i may have severely misjudged you but i feel like youd like reginald hargreeves from the umbrella academy idk he kinda reminds me of your william afton art + hes an evil old father and i feel like thats consistent with other guys you like

if i watched the show i might like him but from a distance. meh. i can see why though

[angelyuji]

I don’t have a tik tok, sorry 😅

Right!!?? They KILLED the characters development! Especially Five!! I know everyone deserves love but Five with Lila??? (I’m not gonna talk about the actors age cause even tho it’s a big gap, they are a c t i n g, I think people should remember that, there wasn’t even a sex scene between them)

Going back, it was Five the one that made Lila realize she was in love with Diego + he spend 45 years in that apocalypse missing his family every second, are the writers really gonna say to us that THAT SAME FIVE would fall in love with Lila??? I know they spend 7 years trapped in that reality, but come on! AND what Diego said to Five in the van? That Lila told him that “you can’t get pregnant while breastfeeding”? That rubs off in soooo many ways for me… I kinda liked Lila in S3 but not anymore

Plus, the “jokes” about Diego being fat when in reality he’s really fit? I mean, we saw him in the fight with the CIA

Luther got dumber and dumber this season and I hate it! Isn’t he supposed to be an astronaut? Astronauts are smart, right? Plus, they only mention Sloan ONCE! He was so in love with her in the past season (so much that he even forgot Allison) and now he doesn’t even TRIES to find her??? What type of bullshit is that??

Allison… was there… and mad… Well, she and Claire rescued Klaus but… what happened with Ray anyway? They did got divorced? Why? They seemed so in love. But then she was jealous of Sloane… but she didn’t wanted a relationship with Luther either… I mean, she didn’t even tried to talk/flirt with him anymore…

Ben… he was never a part of the Hargreeves, at least for what I felt. Even after saving Viktor. The sudden relationship with Jennifer was SO rushed, even when they explained it. I mean, if Reginald wanted to kill her, why didn’t he did it right away? She was a kid who was found inside of that calamari (English is not my first language, I don’t remember if that’s the correct word, sorry 😅) ANYONE would suspect of her death anyway

Then, the writers “saved” Klaus only to make him a drug addict AND a sex slave again??? What happened to his development??? He WAS at peace with his powers and could even fully control them for what??? I would preferred it if they made him a cult leader again, ugh

I KNOW this is gonna be controversial (like the thing I wrote in the beginning) buuuuuut I liked Vanya WAY MORE than Viktor

I’m not a transphobe I swear! It’s just that I could empathize more with Vanya while with Viktor... I know he was trying to save Ben and Jennifer and that was the right thing for a brother to do(? But like I said, I could empathize more with Vanya

Which leads me to a more controversial take 😅

I think Vanya and Five should have to be the couple that got together and were happy

lol i have an account on basically every social media platform to exist lolol

the whole five x lila thing was sooo weird like ughhhhhhhhh lila and diego were so cute and the whole "i thought you didn't like bracelets???" when he DID give her bracelet when they were in the hospital together??? alsoo five would NEVER betray his brother like that. thats crazy (lets not even talk abt how awk it must have been to film this when lila's actress has known aiden g since he was a minor like)

also diego ripping his shirt off and he's ripped and im like ???? wheres the dad bod??????

yeah allison never even fully used her new powers. i liked allison and klaus's relationship tho like every scene with them made my heart hurt. it did piss me off that they made klaus fall back to drugs and be used as a slave like ugh.

the jennifer stuff was soooo stupid like god idgaf abt this girl at all. also like why didn't reginald kill her???? weak ass bitch reginald and his weirdo wife

i love viktor, sorry, he's so fine i need him. i also prefer viktor becuz vanya was annoying lowkey lmao

also im sorry again but no to vanya x five, i hated luther x allison so much. i liked sissy and also viktor being a man-whore is sooo :)))) need him!!

[lutinkobold]

If aliens can believe in you,

you better believe in yourself. 

[officiallydriedkelp]

So Diego speaks Spanish on multiple occasions in the series, but that makes me wonder, when did he learn that? Like, I doubt Reginald made any opportunities for the umbrellas to connect with their ethnic/cultural heritages. Which brings me to the conclusion that Diego must've learned it himself after moving out of the academy.

Imagine, if you will, all day Diego goes around punching bad guys in the face and then in the evening he goes and takes spanish classes at the local college

[ollierachnid]

I do wonder if Abigail (Reginald's partner) is cognisant of Reggie mangling the universe on a whim to bring her back and if she's even really aware of the person he now is? Although we see very little of her alive, the individual we do meet is aware and accepting of her own death. She tells Reggie to take her violin and gift it to someone special and that the world needs him (presumably his skillset could have saved others if that's where his intentions lay).

She does not seem upset by her inevitable passing and encourages him to move on and find other people to care about and save. Instead he fought to make her very death reversible and picked apart and pulled the universe back together in his own image, stepping or manipulating all the people who were willing to care for him in the process. Doesn't really resemble her request, no? I'd imagine it would only take a handful of his children to bring to light the individual he is, what he's done to harm others and how he directly disregarded her dying wish. Let's see the fallout there.

Everyone he raised or who surrounds them is ready to love and accept him if he just changed and tried to do better by them, but he's so irreparably selfish he spurns each one in a myriad of horrid ways and I want to see the consequences straight from the one person he does love

[c0ffeeb1ack]

watching reginald take off his human mask and lay it casually on a chair and then slaughter a bunch of people offscreen like

[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