#trans Vanya Hargreeves

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Redraw of the cover of apocalypse suite with Viktor >:3€

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Original by Gabriel Ba !!:

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Throwback Fic Week: tell my father (this is my life)

Next up: tell my father (this is my life).

Is it cheating if I post the combined fic for an entire series? Maybe. But this is my account and I do what I want. 

Welcome to my Season 1, Episode 9 Umbrella Academy AU in which Ben convinced Klaus to fight to let Vanya out of the cell in the basement. The AU is entirely focused on exploring these kids’ trauma and their healing processes, while also casually exploring their queer indentities. Each fic/chapter was focused on a different character, exploring their backstories and also their lives living together, sorting through old hurts while learning how to heal together. Also, almost every character is queer, and it was fun to explore not just Vanya and Klaus being bisexual, but Diego’s transgender identity, Five and Alison’s asexual identity, and Luther’s aromanticism through the lens of their trauma and how that intersects with both their experiences growing up under Hargreeves and them trying to make an identity for themselves. I also took the first season’s establishment of Klaus’ powers and brought back Patch, Ben, and Dave because I could. Also, it somehow developed a tiny plot in which I sort of predicted that Season 2 would open up the possibility of an eighth sibling- though, in my case, it was an evil sibling who happens to be Jack the Ripper and who joined the Agency.

Excerpt:

"Five's so small," Allison says quietly, "He's so old, but he's so small," and Diego nods. He understands. Dear god, he understands.

"He's our brother," Diego says, "And he's gone through as much shit as we have, and then some."

Allison nods. "And we weren't there for most of it."

Diego thinks about all the shit that they've all gone through that none of them supported each other through. Vanya being excluded and verbally abused, Klaus' drug addiction, Allison's divorce, Luther's years on the moon, Diego's time on the force and his transition process, Ben's death. Five's gone through a lot more shit, but they've all been alone and driven apart in their own ways. "I think most of us have gone through some shit that the others weren't there for. But now- now, we can help him heal."

Allison fixes him with a steady gaze, and Diego doesn't flinch.

She looks so old and yet so young at the same time. The scar on her neck is still rather dark and there are crows' feet around the edges of her eyes that weren't there the last time he saw her before Dad's funeral, six years ago at Ben's funeral. She's so mature, now, in a way she never was before. He wonders if it has to do with Claire or has to do with the fact that she's stopped using her powers, or if it's something of a mix of the two.

Diego wonders what she sees when she looks at him, if she sees the little boy straining to make the world see him for who he really was, bullying and scraping and pleading to get his way, or if she sees a half-broken man who's spent his whole adulthood clinging to the lies of superheroes he was told as a child.

"The three of us should really go grab dinner sometime soon," she eventually says, and Diego grins.

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Five, Vanya, Allison, Luther… is gerard way the op

Everyone clap for non consensual body modification everybody loves a character whose body has been altered against their will

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I see your point about June (and June is my favorite too). And I've definitely seen people headcanoning trans boy John out of really blatant spite, and complaining about June in a way that felt extremely pointed, like her mere existence is an insult and a source of hurt.

Buuuut on the other hand, many people loved transfem Roxy for a long time before the Epilogues, and I think it's fine and fair for them (... okay, us) to feel fleetingly disappointed that Roxy is transmasc in the Epilogues. I also think it's fine and fair to continue headcanoning Roxy as transfem, because the Epilogues were very explicitly in-text framed as one possible continuation out of many. I won't lie, I just love that t4t f/f Roxygen.

So my line of thinking is, it's probably still fine and fair to also love trans guy John, if people are inclined that way. It's more about the way that they do it? If you're finding yourself framing June as some kind of invasion on your holy safe space by the mean and terrible new writers of Homestuck, you need to take a step back and reexamine the transmisogynist bias there, and most importantly you need to stop being so goddamn rude to the people making art that just isn't for you. But on the other hand, I think simply ignoring the Epilogues and doing your own thing with trans boy John and his shaving cream trauma, that to me is perfectly in line with - and in fact respectful of - the spirit of the Epilogues.

(Similarly, I don't think it'd be bad to do a reading of the TUA comics where Vanya is a trans girl; I don't even think it'd be bad to write an AU genderswap of the TUA show universe where Viktor is a trans girl, though I'd greatly prefer if other characters' gender was changed too in that case.) (For example, I'd enjoy a full swap where A and V Hargreeves were the only "boys" growing up, and then V transitions and A is left all alone with his masculinity and he lets it steep into resentment. Also, sometimes you want trans girls with violins blowing up the world.)

Right, I hear what you’re saying but I think there’s a couple of key differences here

First of all, we know for a fact that Roxy being transmasc was prompted by a transmasc writer who was repeatedly & horribly transmisogynistic about transfem headcanons, so I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to assume that he really did specifically hate transfem Roxy headcanons out of spite so much that he made it an impossible reading in both timelines. But even then — I do think that if somebody specifically just decided Roxy is transfem and everything else from the Epilogues is the same (or magically headcanoned away as making sense somehow) then they would be intentionally misunderstanding & rejecting the text too. Like, that’s ok, that’s literally what a large part of fandom is, but the reasons for doing this are not neutral, and they reflect hegemonies & wider values.

In the case of transfem Roxy the point is to pointedly reject something we think is transmisogynistic — we have been teased with transfem Roxy for years, it’s an obvious & clear reading of her relationship to Callie in Act 6, and so I think it’s a legitimate criticism of the Epilogues. Meanwhile, there straight has not been years of hints for transmasc John, in fact, to headcanon June as transmasc you have to pointedly ignore her already extant queer narrative.

I also think you either misunderstand or are intentionally misunderstanding how alternate realities work in The Homestuck Epilogues & Homestuck Beyond Canon. They are not just one continuation out of many — there is only the two as far as I’m aware. I’m not up to date with HSBC but it’s my understanding that reality was cleft in two.

i agree with you on the Umbrella Academy! because this is something that has been like rebooted to switch things up, those characters are gonna get remixed. i’d love to see a transfem Vanya somewhere down the line. but if i only blogged about the tv show and i was constantly & loudly explaining how i prefer transfem Vanya and how she should be transfem in the show then I think that would obviously be in poor taste.

i think what bothers me is the boldness of so many men to be like “idk i just prefer this as a man character” right in the replies of posts where transfems are gushing about/sharing their transfem headcanons. I can’t even talk about June being trans without a few people saying that, and that’s actually confirmed as 100% happening, so it’s even more impossible to escape with like transfem Link headcanons etc.

i think all in all, transmascs, trans boys & trans men should try and leave more space for their sisters in the community. it is not subversive to wish every character was a man. just misogynistic. leave room for transfems, trans girls & trans women in fandom and beyond, folks.

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Free to Love: The True Us

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy Summary: Spending time with Luther seems to be the best option in the world they've found themselves in, at least to unlock necessary memories before the universe unravels around them. Warnings: Mpreg, pregnancy, pre-transition Viktor Hargreeves, trans Male mpreg, period-typical (1960s South) bigotry, and mentions of child abuse/neglect Word Count: 5,837 Ship(s): Luther Hargreeves/Viktor Hargreeves

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It took two days before a car came to pick them up and bring them to their next home. The hotel had been a nice place to stay in, especially since it left them both feeling more in the mood to play around with each other than a simple house would. 

Even just the thought of the things that they had done together was enough to bring a red blush to his cheeks. Luther hadn’t felt that loved and worshiped ever in his life. He knew that Vanya didn’t have her memories of the life that they had shared with each other and their siblings, but some part of him suspected that she was more willing to forgive the way that his body looked. Something inside of her had to remember the Academy and the weirdness that had come with it, none of the other girls that Luther had fallen into bed with or propositioned had ever held him with the same reverence and borderline love that Vanya did. It made him feel like he might actually be something special instead of the most convenient thing nearby her.

All of their things had remained packed unless they were immediately using them, so that they could leave as soon as possible. Vanya tidied up the room that they had been staying in and made sure that she looked presentable after Luther had gotten the call saying that their home was ready. They were sitting in the back of the car that had picked them up when Vanya slipped her hand down and threaded her fingers together with Luther’s.

Her palm was so much smaller than his own, it made him feel like she was a delicate doll that he might break if he breathed too hard near her. He knew that she wasn’t, she had something powerful and dangerously terrifying inside of her. He knew that she could take care of herself because she had their entire childhoods when they had been manipulated to ignore her.

“Do you think that we’re going to have enough furniture to be able to function or should we start looking for jobs so that we can afford some?” Vanya asked as she leaned her little head onto his shoulder. Despite her stature, she had always been very small compared to him, the weight of her body against his own was enough to make him feel grounded back to the earth beneath them. 

Luther turned his head so that he could look at her and assess if she was benign genuine. She tilted her head up and he saw that in her deep brown eyes, she was genuinely looking forward and planning the future that they were going to have together. Something about that made his stomach do flips, which was something that it had done when Vanya had made a special food for him while helping Grace in the kitchen. He had forced himself to ignore it and channel all his emotions back into Allison back then because he knew that he wasn’t meant to have anything to do with Vanya. Now, Reginald had mutilated his body, lied to him, sent him to the moon so that he didn’t have to look at his own failures, isolated him from the only people that had understood him, and mocked him to his face when he came for help. Luther didn’t give a shit what the old man thought and was going to pursue his life and enjoyment on his own.

“I think that Ruby is going to transfer one of the old safe houses that got compromised by the police into a house that we’ll own. That way it’s off him, none of the crimes count anymore because there are new residents, and it will be staffed with everything to make it look like a real house,” Luther explained. He made sure to say it quietly and in Russian so that the man in front of them wasn’t going to be able to get him in trouble with his boss. They both spoke Russian, as well as Arabic, German, Spanish, French, and Ancient Greek. He wasn’t sure if Vanya was going to remember it on her own, but it was worth a shot.

Vanya asked, “Is it normal for that kind of thing to happen? Like in our family and our lives?” She was speaking in Russian with him, her voice also quiet so that the driver wouldn’t overhear and then begin to question the story that Luther had told Ruby to make sure that his adoptive sister was safe.

“I wouldn’t say that it was totally normal. Things for us were always pretty weird, but this is an entirely different level. We were heroes that stopped bank robbers and super villains that were blowing things up. We didn’t work with gangsters a lot because we were the ones that were supposed to be stopping it in the first place. Does that make sense?” he asked.

She nodded and leaned her head against him again. Her thumb began to trace over the expanse of his hand and he felt his breath catch in his throat. Her thumb was incredibly soft, in contrast to the thick calluses that she had on all of her fingers from holding down the textured steel strings of her violin. If he ended up having any extra money then he was going to save it up so that he could get her a violin as a gift, it was so important to him that she was able to do the only thing that she had ever felt good at. As much as he had complained about Vanya’s music back when they lived together for the first time, it was one of the most beautiful things he had ever heard in his entire life and he felt honored to have the chance to hear it again.

The car stopped outside of a house that was on the bounds of the city proper, which meant that the neighborhood would be quiet but close enough that neither of them would have to drive to get where they needed to go. The facade was a chipper yellow color and the roof was pointed instead of the mid century modern that Luther had been dreading that it would be. He knew that Dallas didn’t get snow outside of the few small storms during the absolutely height of winter, but something in his mind was always terrified having to go on the roof and shovel it like he had a couple times when they were teenagers.

Luther stepped out of the car with Vanya at his side and then gathered their bags out of the back. He got a better look at the house as they headed up the steps. The door was off to one side of the house, which allowed for a long flower bed that had neatly planted tulips and daffodils that added a stark blast of color to the yellowing grass of the lawn. The other side of the door had a tall tree that was already drooping orange leaves down onto the porch. There was enough space on said porch for two chairs and a small table, which was going to be nice for the summer nights where it was cool enough to actually be outside without worrying about burning.

“Here are the keys. Don’t do anything stupid that will get us in trouble. Ruby also wants to know when the wedding is going to be,” the man that had driven them said as he handed over the little keyring.

“Thank you. Wedding should be in two weeks, after we’ve gotten settled in the house. I promise I won’t let anyone know that we’re not married yet,” Luther said. Reginald hadn’t raised them with any kind of idea about what was the right and what was the wrong way to go about relationships because he thought such feelings were trivial and distracting. Luther had formed the ideas on his own and while he believed that new partners should be withdrawn and respectful of each other, not entitled to each other’s bodies or forward enough to propose something offensive, he didn’t believe that two people needed to be married just so that they could live together or have a family.

The reminder that Vanya might already be pregnant sent a shock of excitement through him. Neither of them knew if any of their other siblings had ended up in the sixties or if they were even in Dallas. Vanya had landed so long after Luther that he believed that they would need to wait a while longer before they made the whole decision. Regardless, he had already been trapped in the wrong time period for almost a year and so he was happy to make his home here. He wanted Vanya and he wanted to have a family with her just like he had promised. 

He picked up their bags after he had unlocked the door and then stepped through the door. He set them down next to the coat closet as they both turned around in circles to see what the place they were going to be living looked like.

Vanya admired the crown molding around the ceiling and the leaded glass in the front window, she had always enjoyed those kinds of things. Luther took in the living room with a kind of excited breathlessness. The front entryway had a bench for them to sit down and remove their shoes, a coat closet, and an archway that lead into the rest of the house. There was a rug over the hardwood in the living room that was pinned down by the couch, chair, TV, and coffee table. The walls were painted a gentle sky blue and were accented with beautiful paintings and pictures of National Parks from around the country. There was a hallway that led past the living room, bringing him back to a white tiled and yellow countertopped kitchen. The bathroom was a brilliant pink color with little black accents, but it was stocked with all the things that they would need to leave. Upstairs was a half floor that held the bedroom, which was a little awkward for Luther since he was so tall but he hadn’t planned on staying up there for very long. He did notice that there was another door that led to a nursery, already prepped with a rocking chair and a crib, which made him blush. Downstairs was a locked room that he knew held some of the guns and other incriminating evidence that Ruby had hidden. Other than that, the dim room was an old coal cellar that now held the furnace for the radiant heat system and some preservatives.

Luther headed back upstairs to find that Vanya had already unpacked and stashed their bags. She was sitting on the couch in the living room as she flipped through one of the magazines that had been placed over the coffee table to make it look more lived in. “What do you think of the place?” Luther asked as he leaned against the doorway arch that led into the living room.

“I think that it’s really cozy. We lived somewhere much bigger when we were kids, didn’t we? I don’t remember it very well, but I have this feeling like I used to wander around in circles for hours and hours while having no idea where I was or when I would find something that would lead me back to where I was before,” Vanya commented. She let the magazine fall shut in her lap and slide down onto the couch beside her.

“Yeah, it was huge. When Dad adopted us he had converted the original Victorian house in the middle to be attached to the storefronts on either side. Eventually he had purchased the entire block and turned the whole thing into the house. It meant that none of the rooms really made any sense and it was like a maze to get through,” Luther nodded. “I wonder what we could have turned it into if we had all decided that we wanted to stay there and live together.”

“Maybe when we get back to where we’re supposed to be we can try again,” she said hopefully. The two of them had talked about the fact that they were out of time and the ultimate goal was to put themselves back in the present with Vanya having a stronger control on her powers, but he hadn’t talking about the details of what had happened during the apocalypse.

He knew that Vanya was strong and could very well protect herself, but she looked so delicate when she was curled up on the couch in their new home. He wanted to protect her and preserve the hopeful innocence that the loss of her memories had given her. “Yeah, maybe,” Luther nodded in agreement.

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A few weeks passed and they settled into a new routine. Vanya got headaches often as she began to uncover little bits and pieces of her memories. So far it hadn’t been anything substantial, just her realizing that she knew certain recipes because she had helped Grace in the kitchen or that she had experience with kids because she had taught them violin. 

He had also noticed other changes begin to happen within her. She slept later and later into the morning, which allowed him to shower before she got up. That was something that had become an absolute necessity because she couldn’t stand to be in the same room as him when he was remotely sweaty, which he very often got after a run. He didn’t know what to make of those things, not really. They had been having a lot of unprotected sex, but he didn’t even know if he could make a child given what had happened to his DNA when Reginald had saved his life after the accident. He didn’t want to immediately assume that every time she ate something she used to hate or fell asleep on the couch while reading that she was pregnant. It felt like hopeful or wishful thinking that would lead to nothing but despair from both of them.

He came home one night after tending to Ruby at one of his clubs. His boss had decided to call it an early night when he found out that his favorite dancer had to call in so that she could take care of her sister whom was sick. It meant that Luther got to go home far before he had been expecting to, and that was when he found Vanya sitting at their dining room table with a mug of something clutched in her hands.

“Vanya, are you okay?” Luther asked as he walked over.

“I think that I got my memories back,” she replied. “Also, we need a new front window,” she nodded her head over to it.

Luther turned and saw that there was a massive crack down the front. He felt his heart jump into his throat and adrenaline spread through his veins as he tried to deal with the anxiety that knowing Vanya had her powers back was bringing him. If she had her memories back then that might also mean she had decided they needed to go their separate ways, which at this point was going to break him.

He took the seat across from her and folded his hands in his lap just to have something to do with them. “So, what’s going on in your head about it?”

“I… Not what I thought was going to go on in my head about it,” she chuckled. “I had this really strange dream. I’ve been having this dream since I first woke up in Dallas, I suppose it was a weird way of my subconscious trying to unlock the memories that my powers shut away to protect me. I can understand why it happened, even if I wish that it hadn’t so that I didn’t have to have this stupid headache.”

“What was the dream about?” Luther asked, genuinely curious and trying to help her the only way that he knew how.

“I woke up in one of the Academy uniforms, but I was an adult. I was back in the Academy, but everything kind of felt blue-tinged and like it was underwater. I walked and walked until I finally found everyone else sitting at the table too, but they were all like how I remember them being most recently to the accident. Grace came out and served us these golden brains. Everyone else immediately started eating theirs and they made these terrible squelching noises whenever someone cut into them. I wouldn’t do it, I was berated over and over again. Today I finally got frustrated and just devoured into it, and then suddenly my head hurt worse than it ever had before. I woke up because the window shattered and then realized who I was and what had happened before Sissy hit me with her car,” Vanya said.

She bowed her head after setting down the mug of tea that she had been drinking. She sniffled before she said, “I’m really sorry for what happened before we got sent back here. I promise that I didn’t mean to kill Pogo or Mom or bring down the Academy. It was like after I got out of the cell I wasn’t in control of myself, something else was moving my limbs and deciding what I was doing. I… I really promise that I hadn’t meant to hurt Allison, she was trying to rumor me again and I thought that if I shouted over her then it wouldn’t work. I didn’t realize that my violin bow was going to act as a funnel for my power that would hurt her like that.”

“I know,” Luther whispered. “I know that you didn’t mean to hurt her, Allison explained it to me after she woke up. I should have just listened to her, but I was still so desperate to prove to Dad that I was the soldier that he had tried to make me into. It was driving me insane that he had just sent me to the moon so that he didn’t have to think about the things that he had done to my body. It didn’t feel fair or just or anything like that. I didn’t do the right thing when you came to the Academy to check on her, and I didn’t do the right thing by leaving you in that room.”

He hadn’t realized that all those feelings were still sitting so high in his chest until they were tumbling out of his mouth. He was shaking slightly as he ran his fingertips over the peeling paint on the table that they had thrifted a week ago because it was more their style. He wondered if that was something that they were ever going to be able to do again, not that Vanya remembered who they really were and all the wrong that he had done to her.

“Thank you for apologizing. I knew that if you really hated me then you would have just shot me dead in the barn or left me with that weird family. Something bad would have happened if I had stayed there, I just had a feeling about it,” Vanya laughed as she took another long drink from her mug. “It’s still nice to hear you apologize for it. When you all left me in the basement it felt like all my worries and everything that had happened to me when I was a young child had suddenly been validated.”

“I’m so sorry, Vanya. I never should have done that to you. You came to me for affection and reassurance and instead I did the exact fucking thing that Dad would have done to you,” Luther said. He had always felt guilty for doing that, even immediately after he had done it and while he was encouraging his siblings to side with him. Vanya’s tear-stained face and her fists banging themselves bloody on the window of the cell was something that had haunted his dreams the entire time that he had been in Dallas.

“It’s okay, Luther. We all make mistakes and I think that you were punished pretty fairly for your actions,” she joked, her deep brown eyes sparkling with that humor that brought Luther in every single time. 

“Can I ask you something?” Luther glanced at her again. She gave him a nod to express her consent and then he continued, “What are we going to be? I know that we have to keep up a pretense of being married and having a family with each other so that we can keep the house, but what do you want to be behind closed doors?”

“I think that we can just keep doing what we’ve been doing,” Vanya shrugged a little uselessly. “I do have a question for you, though.”

“Shoot,” Luther replied. The anxiety he had felt upon realizing that Vanya might be upset with him had mostly settled down into something in the back of his head, so he was able to lean back into his chair.

“Why did you let me sleep with you? I thought that you were in love with Allison your entire life. You two were always making moon eyes at each other across the dinner table and you spent all your time together. Even when we were adults and she was already a child and a divorce into a relationship with another man it was like your entire world revolved around her,” Vanya hid her mouth behind her mug, but he could see the way that her lips were tugging down into a frown.

“I… I guess,” Luther dragged a hand down the side of his face. “This is so embarrassing. I was really into you when we were younger. I liked the way you looked, but I also liked the fact that you didn’t call me stupid or say that I was doing the wrong thing all the time. I know that sounds really fucking stuck up, but it was nice to have someone affirming me instead of bringing me down the way that everyone else did. I felt like I could trust you back then because you woul only tell me that I was stupid or wrong when I was doing something actually wrong. I knew that I couldn’t touch you, though, so I focused all my attention onto Allison. She was a girl, boys were supposed to like girls according to all the books we read, and she wasn’t the person that Dad had told me to stay away from.”

“Did you really like me back when we were kids?” Vanya asked. “That’s so sweet. I had the biggest crush on you when we were kids. You’re very handsome and strong, but you were also so intelligent. Not the kind of intelligent that Five is where he gets cocky and rude whenever someone isn’t immediately understanding what he’s saying. The days where Mom would pair us up together for classes were my absolute favorite. I think that might have been why it was so hard for me to connect with Allison when she decided that we were going to be best friends before everything went down. It’s also probably why I clung to Leonard so easily, he emulated you in a lot of ways and it was nice to feel reciprocated by a love that I knew I would never have.”

“That’s not true,” Luther immediately said.

Vanya tilted her head up so that she was looking at him and then raised a brow. “We’re married now,” Luther clarified. “We can love each other. The marriage doesn’t have to be something for the outsider viewers looking in unless you want it to be.”

“I definitely don’t. I mean, I just admitted to you that the only reason I felt so strongly for Allison was because I was hiding the real feelings that I had for you. I’m sure that there was some amount of crushing going on since we were children and there was such a limited selection of romantic partners for us to pick from, but none of my feelings were ever intense as the ones that I held for you,” Luther blurted. He felt a little embarrassed that he was showing his heart to her when she might not even properly wanted it.

“I think that we can call each other husband and wife, then. It will help us stay safe in this world we don’t really understand, and it will let us try being romantic with each other,” she grinned. There was a line of red dusting her cheeks and he was able to notice that her week or so on the farm had already made freckles bloom on her cheeks and over her nose. She had developed them sometimes when they were younger, but she had spent so often inside and playing her violin that she had remained near deathly pale the majority of the time.

“That sounds like a plan to me,” Luther grinned. He stood from the kitchen table and then knelt down in front of her. “Do you think that I could have a kiss?”

“Our first kiss as a romantic couple?” she asked. Her mouth was stretched in a wide grin to mirror his own, which made butterflies immediately erupt in his stomach.

When he nodded, she leaned forward and close the gap between the two of them. They had been sleeping together for months at this point and had kissed many times while doing other dirty things to each other, but this somehow felt more intimate. The words that they had exchanged as they explained their shared past to each other had allowed them to open up a part of themselves that had been lost before. It allowed their hearts to mix together into a wonderful cosmic explosion of stardust, colors, and the potential for something truly wonderful.

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“Luther? Are you home?” Vanya called as she closed the door behind her. Luther was able to see her from where he was sitting on the couch in their living room, the TV playing on a low volume as he nursed the headache that he had gotten from a badly received punch the night before.

“Of course I am! Where else would I be?” Luther teased. He took in the sight of his wife and couldn’t help the bright smile that stretched across his face. She was wearing a pair of fitted gray slacks and a button up shirt that actually fit her. As cute as she had looked when she had arrived at their father’s funeral, with baggy sweaters hiding her entire body, he did like the confidence that she had gained while she was living with him. The medication had been stunting her own introspection and her discovery of who she was, so now that she was off it she was able to explore far more than she had back then.

“I don’t know, Ruby could have called you away and you could be at one of his bars or getting your bones broken for fun,” she replied sarcastically. She walked into their shared living room and then plopped herself down into one of the chairs, allowing her head to fall back. All of the tension in her body faded as she gave herself a second to actually relax, Luther had seen that look many, many times before. 

He chuckled, “Not today. I think Ruby understands that I have a concussion. Or I would have a concussion if I wasn’t one of us.”

“Well it’s good that you’re home, because I have some things to tell you,” Vanya replied. She shed her slip-on loafers and then brought one of her feet up to her lap. She dug her knuckle into the bottom of the arch and then rocked it back and forth to try and soothe the swollen tendons. “The doctor confirmed what we already knew. I am pregnant, he was able to hear the heartbeat with his stethoscope. We’re going to have to make sure that the nursery is actually up to our standards.”

Despite it only being a confirmation, Luther felt his heart sore in excitement again. They had realized that Vanya hadn’t once bled in the entire time that they had spent in Dallas, which meant that she was definitely carrying their baby. They had gone to the doctor to have it tested since they knew that periods could be stopped by other things that were far more deadly. It was nice to know that they were having a baby and not a scary medical event that might result in Vanya dying due to the primitive medical world that they were currently in.

“Is it weird that I’m really excited for us to be parents?” Luther asked, shifting so that they were closer to each other. He made a split second decision as he gently moved their coffee table and then sat down properly in front of her. He took her foot into his hand and then began to massage it the way that she had been doing on her own.

“I don’t think so. Why would it be weird?” Vanya asked. It had taken her a while to say anything because she had gotten so relaxed when he had begun to pamper her.

Luther shrugged, “I guess because we were raised as siblings.”

“We specifically were not raised as siblings. I can’t speak for the Academy kids because you guys were pretty close to each other, always going on missions and shit, but I was so far away from all of you. I don’t think that we were properly siblings at all.”

“Not that either of us know what real siblings are,” Luther chuckled. “I suppose that from the outside our relationship would be unconventional in many ways. You married and decided to have a child with your bully.”

“You guys only bullied me because you were being manipulated by your abusive father. It wasn’t like you looked at me one day and decided to be the absolute shittiest person that you could be. And you apologized for it.”

“I have been trying to make it up to you the entire time that we’ve been married, and a bit before that,” Luther chuckled. Worshiping her body with sex after they had first reuniting was one way to prove to her that those thoughts and actions had not been his own, but rather an extension of Reginald that had lived within him. Now that had paid off and they had created something together, a little life that would be born with love and adoration.

Vanya shifted on the chair so that her feet were flat on the ground and they were looking at each other properly. “There was something else that I wanted to talk to you about.”

“Did you get any bad information when you were at the doctor?” Luther asked. He grabbed her hand and ran his thumb over the golden wedding band around her ring finger to reassure himself that they were in the sixties and married to each other, not in their present day and hating each other.

“That depends on what you end up thinking about it,” Vanya replied. “When I was there, I realized how disconnected I felt from all the other women and the terms that the doctor was using to refer to me. I’ve felt like that my entire life. When Klaus and Allison would decide that they could deign to give me an ounce of attention and include me in their girls nights, I didn’t enjoy it. I thought that there was something wrong with me, that I was broken in some way. I think… I think I’m just not a girl, and I don’t enjoy girly things.”

Luther blinked at Vanya. That certainly hadn’t been what he was expecting, but it also wasn’t totally out of the realm of possibility. The medication that Reginald had put Vanya on was enough to completely nullify any personality or personal introspection that should have happened when they were all children, so all of it was happening just then. “Oh,” was all he managed to say.

“I understand if you don’t want to be together with me because of it. I know that we just had this big talk about being in love and being parents, but we can just go back to being friends with each other. I want this baby to have as happy a life as they can, but that doesn’t mean that their parents have to be romantically involved with each other,” Vanya said.

“Woah, slow down. I needed some time to think, is all,” Luther quickly said. “Let’s start with something easy: What pronouns do you want me to use for you?”

“He/him,” Vanya replied with a small, nervous smile. His hands moved to his belly, cupping the baby that was growing bigger and bigger inside of there every single day.

“Okay. Do you have a name that you want to pick out?” Luther asked. 

“I was thinking something that’s just the equivalent of the name that I already picked out but male,” he said. “Maybe Viktor? It’s a name that has been used enough in the states that if people heard it then they wouldn’t immediately assume that I’m a Russian spy or something. But we would spell it with a k.”

“That sounds like a good idea to me,” Luther grinned. Seeing the way that Viktor’s shoulders relaxed and the sparkle in his eyes made him happier than he thought that he could ever be for something that completely did not involve him. If their siblings had been around, he would have thrown a coming out party or a new name party or something to celebrate his husband. It made him so excited to see Viktor becoming more comfortable in his own skin. “I guess it’s good that you already spend most of your time cooped up in the house, huh?”

Viktor laughed, “I guess so. But you never answered my question.”

“It wasn’t really a question, it was a bunch of nervous rambling,” Luther teased. “But I think that I’m kind of similar to you. I assumed that I had to be in love with women because that was what I read in books. But Klaus can love all kinds of people and everyone that isn’t a shithead is fine with it. I’m in love with you, so I must be able to be in love with men too.”

“You’re so sweet,” Viktor whimpered. He reached his hands up and tried to get rid of the tears before they had even fallen. Luther caught his hands back in his own and then kissed the tracks, reassuring him that he was okay.

[sincerecinnamon]

Referring to The Umbrella Academy characters

This topic has been on my mind a bit due to the show, the comics, and the interviews all kind of referring to the characters in different ways.

Thus, I wanted to throw out, into the void, the way that I personally percieve all of the main characters of The Umbrella Academy name, gender, and even sexuality wise in the versions.

Of course, I have only read the first six issues of the comic version of The Umbrella Academy, so if I get the others and decide I made some mistakes, I'll likely reblog this and fix it.

(They will be arranged by number since that is the one fully standard part of all of this to me.)

Comic versions:

One - Spaceboy (he/him, cis and straight)

Two - The Kraken (he/him, cis and straight)

Three - The Rumor (she/they, cis and straight)

Four - The Seance (unlabeled entirely)

Five - The Boy (he/him, cis and aroallo smth)

Six - The Horror (questioning, then died so I guess they never had the chance to find out)

Seven - Vanya/White Violin (she/her, lesbian)

((I only read Vanya as her name because they are mostly called by their codenames in the comics from what I've read, besides Vanya and Five since Vanya was unable to go on the missions and Five left before he could get one))

Show Versions:

One - Luther Hargreeves (he/him, cis, straight)

Two - Diego Hargreeves (he/him, cis, straight)

Three - Allison Hargreeves (she/her, cis, straight)

Four - Klaus Hargreeves (they/them, enby, pan)

((I read on Collider that Robert said Klaus is nonbinary, so I take that as truth))

Five - Five Hargreeves (he/it, cis and aroace)

Six - Ben Hargreeves (he/him, cis and biromantic asexual)

((Sparrow Ben would have internalized homophobia bc he didn't grow up with Klaus, who was able to help him accept himself))

Seven - Viktor Hargreeves (he/they, trans, straight)

((Elliot did say they he doesn't think Viktor ever really loved Harold, and I honestly think he was probably just straight and both not fully knowing how to properly express affection in any context but romantic and maybe going along with what he thought Harold wanted to make sure he could keep feeling special))

Also, Lila is a bicon, although it took me a while to warm up to her (and season 4 doesn't exist).

Also also, see how all the queers aren't in the number one spots? We see your biases, Reggie.

(In reality, I heard someone say that they were numbered by how easy they were to control, and I agree besides the fact that they were numbered as soon as they were acquired, although with all the time travel, maybe he knew? Although, simultaneously, once he figured out who he raised, he got the Sparrow Academy instead, so-)

((Also, did Harlan not feel and kill the Sparrow's mothers? I guess not, but how did he only feel our core Hargreeves' mothers, then? He was only connected to Viktor, and even if you say he ended up connected to all of them, I'd argue Ben shouldn't have been alive either))

If there's anyone else you want to hear me talk about or any explanations you want or smth, feel free to ask! I am very happy to yap :]

[sonder-writes]

have a season 4 prediction fic that did it better than the tua writers, for your health

Settling In (41116 words) by sonderwrites Chapters: 20/20 Fandom: The Umbrella Academy (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Diego Hargreeves/Lila Pitts, Klaus Hargreeves/David "Dave" Katz, Sissy Cooper/Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Minor Raymond Chestnut/Allison Hargreeves,

Characters: Klaus Hargreeves, Diego Hargreeves, Lila Pitts, Number Five | The Boy (Umbrella Academy), Luther Hargreeves, Allison Hargreeves, Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Number Two | Ben Hargreeves, David "Dave" Katz

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 03, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, No Incest, Trans Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Spiritual, Angst, The Hargreeves | Umbrella Academy Need a Hug, Sober Klaus Hargreeves, POV Alternating, Sibling Bonding, Happy Ending, Eventual Happy Ending, Autistic Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Pregnancy, Lila Pitts is Bad at Feelings, Dysfunctional Family

Summary: The Umbrella Academy are in a new timeline now and they have to navigate not having their powers (and losing other things too), newfound lost love interests, dopplegängers, and Reginald's stash of marigold.

[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”

[well-what-did-you-expect]

Read Before Anything

What Media I Will Write:

Headcanons

Scenarios

One-Shots

Fics

Random Things I Find/Come Up With

What I Will Write+Keys:

Fluff🩷

Smut❤️‍🔥 [Note: Any smut written includes 18+ characters, I will include the default ages for my written characters]

Platonic Friendship💛

Platonic Family Dynamic💜

Poly Relationships [Can be Fluff or Smut]

What I Won't Write:

Pedophilia

Beastiality

Mostly anything that has to do with bodily fluids/matter [Mainly piss and shit. Blood, vomit, and cum are the only one that will ever be mentioned, but those depend on the writing]

Mostly anything with su!cide [Mentions of SH, thoughts, previous attempts, attempting, it all depends on what the context is]

What I Won't Tolerate:

Discrimination [Any homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, ableism, etc.]

Minors interacting with 18+ writings

Picking on others [Picking on someone because they think different things than you do about a character, because they don't like your favorite character, just don't do that here]

Fandoms I Will Write For:

Creepypasta

Harry Potter

Supernatural

The Umbrella Academy

TMNT 2012

Blue Exorcist

Criminal Minds

Characters I Will Write For+Basic Info:

Creepypasta

Jeff the Killer [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [20, Bi, He/Him]

BEN Drowned [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [19, Pan, He/They]

Eyeless Jack [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [24, Bi+Demi, They/He/It]

Homicidal Liu+Sully [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [22, Bi+Demi, They/He]

'Ticci' Toby [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [20, Pan, They/He]

Possibly More If They Are Requested

Harry Potter

Harry Potter [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/Him]

Ron Weasley [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, He/They]

Hermione Granger [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, She/Her]

Draco Malfoy [🩷💛💜] [16, Gay, He/Him] [Note: Sorry ladies, but my Draco is a men liker, not a women enjoyer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Neville Longbottom [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, He/They]

Ginny Weasley [🩷💛💜] [15, Bi, She/They]

Luna Lovegood [🩷💛💜] [15, Pan, Any Prns] [Note: My Luna does not have time to worry about gender. You can use any pronouns for her! They don't care!]

•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•—•

James Potter [🩷💛💜] [17, Pan, He/Him]

Sirius Black [🩷💛💜] [17, Gay, He/She] [Genderfluid Icon!!]

Remus Lupin [🩷💛💜] [17, Bi, He/Him]

Lily Evans [🩷💛💜] [17, Bi, She/Her]

Mary MacDonald [🩷💛💜] [17, Bi, She/Her]

Marlene McKinnon [🩷💛💜] [17, Lesbian, She/They]

Regulus Black [🩷💛💜] [16, Gay, He/Him] [Trans Icon!!]

Dorcas Meadows [🩷💛💜] [17, Lesbian, They/She]

Supernatural [Ages Aren't Included Due To Multiple Seasons So Age Varies] [S1-S10]

Dean Winchester [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Bi, He/Him]

Sam Winchester [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Pan, He/Him]

Castiel [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Pan, He/They]

Charlie Bradbury [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Lesbian, She/Her]

Gabriel [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Pan, He/They]

The Umbrella Academy [S1-S2]

Luther Hargreeves [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [29, Straight, He/Him]

Deigo Hargreeves [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [29, Bi, He/Him]

Allison Hargreeves [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [29, Bi, She/Her]

Klaus Hargreeves [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [29, Pan, He/They]

Number Five [🩷💛💜] [Pan+Ace, He/Him] [Note: This 58 y/o man has a 13 y/o body. Big reminder of that. Also my Five is Ace. Just because pretty boy doesn't mean sexualise]

Ben Hargreeves [🩷💛💜] [Pan+Demi, He/They] [Note: Yes, Ben is a ghost. When writing for him, reader will either be a ghost as well or Ben just straight up didn't die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Vanya Hargreeves [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [29, Sapphic, They/She] [Note: I am aware that Vanya is Viktor, but I will be writing Viktor as Vanya because I am only writing from before Season 3, before he got his gender transed. Don't come at me for being transphobic]

TMNT 2012 [S1-S4]

Leonardo Hamato [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, Any Prns] [Note: My Leo is genderfluid]

Raphael Hamato [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/They]

Donatello Hamato [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/Him]

Michelangelo Hamato [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, He/They/It] [Note: My Mikey is FtM]

Casey Jones [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/They]

Master Splinter [💜] [Father Splinter Only]

Blue Exorcist [S1-S2]

Rin Okumura [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/They/It]

Yukio Okumura [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/Him]

Shiemi Moriyama [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, She/Her]

Izumo Kamiki [🩷💛💜] [16, Lesbian, She/They]

Ryūji Suguro [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/They]

Renzō Shima [🩷💛💜] [16, Bi, He/Him]

Konekomaru Miwa [🩷💛💜] [16, Pan, He/Him] [Note: My Koneko is FtM]

Criminal Minds [Ages Aren't Included Due To Multiple Seasons So Age Varies] [S3-S7]

Spencer Reid [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Bi, He/They]

Emily Prentiss [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Lesbian, She/Her]

Jennifer Jareau [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Bi, She/Her]

Penelope Garcia [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Pan, She/Her]

Derek Morgan [🩷❤️‍🔥💛💜] [Not-Strictly Straight ($20 is $20 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), He/Him]

Aaron Hotchner [🩷💛💜] [Straight, He/Him]

David Rossi [💛💜] [He/Him]

[crosswire]

9 TV shows, 9 characters

thanks @emiliosandozsequence 4 tagging me<333

sam winchester - supernatural

will graham - hannibal

nina zenik - shadow and bone

vanya/viktor hargreeves - the umbrella academy*

jonathan byers - stranger things

fox mulder - the x files

ahsoka tano - the clone wars

riley flynn - midnight mass

alicent hightower - house of the dragon

^^this is actually also pretty much an exhaustive list of any tv show i've watched aside from like, the twin peaks pilot, a little bit of atla & miraculous from my sister, some star wars stuff, and a couple episodes of the office lol

*not trying to deadname him, but i kind of pretend seasons 2&3 don't exist so he's still closeted and/or isn't trans, also vanya is technically a male/masculine name on its own

tagging: @quiglettt @adamshallperish @deanwinchesterpregnant @samwinchesterpregnant @colifower if ya interested!

[its-all-honey]

The Umbrella Academy Season 3 ☂️

i last week finished watching the third season woo !! i used to be so obsessed with tua after watching season 1 that i even ended up getting all the volumes of the comics 😅 after watching season 3 i also reread all the comics back to back in like one sitting lol (spoilers for both the show and the comics coming up 🫣)

im gonna try my best to not make this sound super confusing when i talk about both season 3 of the show and volume 3 of the comics lol ------------------------------- the comic ---------------------------------so i went into season 3 having not previously read the 3rd volume of the comics meaning i had no idea what would happen, though i did know that the idea of hotel obsidian/oblivion was based off the comics BUT!! i found that the 3rd season of the show practically had nothing to do with the comics other than the title 😭 the plots of the show and comics across all seasons and volumes are both very different and season 3 was the most unlike its corresponding comic. one of the main differences being that the sparrow academy are only introduced at the end of volume 3 of the comics so i honestly dont know where the whole storyline for the 3rd season of the show came from i personally found the plot of the 3rd volume of the comic quite confusing and hard to follow as the perspectives and locations kept changing a lot so im actually rather glad that they chose not to portray the events of this comic in the show. that being said, i did like how each of umbrella siblings had their own storylines/adventures that they were on. probably my favourite storyline in the comics is vanya's ongoing recovery from volume one of the comics and also the pairing of five and allison which happens throughout the comics. i also like that luther and diego's rivalry is present across the comics. ------------------------------- the show --------------------------------- in the show, i find the characters to be much more likeable and more full of personality compared to the comics so season 3 did not disappoint in that respect. it was cool to see aspects of the comics continue to be translated into the show for example allison's reluctance to use her powers is a big thing in both medias AND IM SO GLAD THAT KLAUS FINALLY GOT TO USE THE FULL POTENTIAL OF HIS POWERS IN THE SHOW 😭😭😭 all the other character progression among the umbrella siblings is great as well!!! (we love senior citizen five) i liked the sparrows though some of them did not get much screen time and a few of their powers were a bit lame in my opinion 💀 (marcus and alphonso i am looking at you, sorry not sorry) i love love LOVE fei tho she is sooooo coool and christopher being just a random floating cube is so silly to me plus if you think about it, um some woman gave birth to that?!?!?!?! seeing sparrow ben just get subtly accepted by the umbrella siblings was so sweet like they were lowkey all just so happy to see ben again even if he's different. OH AND SPEAKING OF ACCEPTING!!!!! VIKTOR HARGREEVES 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 madddd props to the producers/writers of the show for giving elliot page a trans character and doing it in such a good way ❤️❤️❤️❤️ im so obsessed with all the different sibling reactions to viktor (also vanya in the comics has short hair sooooooo) ok so a few things i didnt like so much was first of all, luther and sloane romance felt really forced to me and a bittttt weird but ive seen people say that luther was in his himbo era during season 3 so honestly i'll let it slide. secondly there's lila who i disliked in season 2 but then she shows up with stan and i loved stan he was so silly!!!! BUT THEN lila is suddenly actually pregnant😭???? idk man, it gotta hella crazy. um thirdly (this is gonna be a really hot take but hear me out), i know its the whole point of the show and its a reoccurring thing that happens but all this end of the world/apocalypse business is kindaaa boring now 🧍 i guess it does happen differently in each season so its not completely repetitive everytime and i must say that this time was actually my favourite end of the world lol hopefully, the finally season will resolve everything nicely but only time will tell i suppose 👁️👁️. im actually gonna shut up now though because this is getting so long and while i could go on and on about tua im gonna have to stop 😭

[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

[quietwings-fics]

how you make you

Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Fandom: The Umbrella Academy Ship: Gen (Ben & Viktor) Additional Tags: Sharing Clothes, Trans Vanya Hargreeves | Viktor Hargreeves, Trans Male Character, Pre-Canon, Sibling Bonding, Canonical Character Death Wordcount: 100 Summary:

When they were kids.

Ben’s clothes fit Vanya the best. Not just the mask, though she fits that over her face and wonders, for a moment, if anyone would mistake her for a part of the team if she stood beside them.

His jackets and his shorts, every one of his uniforms, he says they look right on her. She wishes she could keep them, but they live under a strict dress code everywhere but the fragile safety of their own bedrooms.

When he dies, their father packs away his clothes, and Vanya doesn’t even have time to hide away a shirt for herself.

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[poolboyservice]

"we need more trans rep!" some of you guys couldn't even handle Viktor Hargreeves in the show without, like, calling him a "fallen lesbian" and headcannoning him with "multiple personalities" and Multiple Personality Disorder* solely to continue calling him Vanya

*although never explicitly stated by these headcanons to be about MPD, 'multiple personalities' usually refers to MPD, an outdated name for DID

[sissytobitch10seconds]

New and Old

Fandom: The Umbrella Academy Summary: Diego has found something rather suspicious in a place that he wasn't supposed to be. Too bad he doesn't have enough common sense to know not to react to it. Warnings: The t-slur used in a joking way, implied drug use, accidental misgendering, and general Hargreeves miscommunication Word Count: 3,307 Ship(s): Viktor Hargreeves & The Hargreeves Siblings

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A/N: Just wanted to say before anyone reads this that Klaus does use the t-slur in reference to Viktor because I thought it would be in character for him and he's a trans person, so it's not derogatory. If this makes you uncomfortable, maybe give the fic a miss! Stay sissy and bitchy everyone <3

“Vanya? Are you in here?”

Diego was getting frustrated. He had been looking for his favorite hoodie for the better part of four hours and had yet to get even an inkling of where it was. He knew that there were other options for clothes that he could wear, but his brain had decided that if he was going to brave the cold New York spring, then he was going to do it in the hoodie that Grace had given him for his birthday or not at all.

He had searched all over his room, in the laundry room, and in the renovated living space where they all spent their time but hadn’t found anything yet. Those were the only places that he would have left it on his own, he was certain of that. After they had returned back to their time from the sixties, their father was still dead but they had fixed both apocalypses. They had inherited the house and immediately moved back in together so that they could figure everything out. It was better for Luther and Five, so that they could have someone to teach them how to adjust to their lives without the Academy. It was good for Diego to have a support system as well, but he mostly just liked knocking down the old walls of their place so that they could turn it into something livable instead of an amalgamation of training rooms and empty storage spaces. Only about a fifth of the mansion was livable without one of them stumbling into a memory that they didn’t want to recall without a therapist present.

Which meant that unless it suddenly learned how to grow legs and walked away on its own, it had been stolen by one of his more mischievous siblings. Despite what the others thought, Vanya was the worst about stealing clothing that did not belong to her. She was the smallest out of them all by far, despite the fact that Five was still short even though he was occupying a thirty-year-old body like the rest of them were. She fit in all of their clothing even if anything that stretched across Luther’s shoulders dwarfed her tiny frame like it was trying to swallow her whole. Everyone assumed that Klaus would be the one to take their clothing, but now that he was putting on some weight due to his healthy diet and the absence of drugs, he only really fit in Allison’s clothing.

As soon as he had finished searching through the rooms that it could be in for the fourth time, he had begun to search for the actual sister in question. Grace hadn’t seen his sweatshirt or Vanya, so it was nice to see her again but not entirely helpful. The next step was to ask his siblings where their missing sister might be, but had gotten nothing once more.

So he was beginning to search for a human being instead of a sweater. Arguably, it should have been easier for him to find something that was at least ten times larger and also moving compared to how difficult it was to find his jacket, but he had come up empty in every room that he poked his head into. It was honestly beginning to worry him that his sister had disappeared earlier that morning and was no nowhere to be found.

The last place that he was checking was the bedrooms. He had already searched his top to bottom and had poked around the others when he was asking them if they had seen Vanya. That meant that the aforementioned woman’s bedroom was the only place that she could be, he was sure of it. He opened up the door and then looked in, only to find nothing.

His mouth tilted down into a frown as he stepped in properly. His brain was beginning to eat itself because he hadn’t been able to find the item that he needed to continue his routine. He knew that he had to work on his control issues, his therapist had said as much, but this was one thing that he couldn’t go without today. Too much had been let go of and changed the day before.

He figured that it would be easier to ask forgiveness from his sister for snooping through her things then it would be to wait until she returned from wherever she must have gone to. It wasn’t like they were all kids anymore and he was looking for a way to get her in trouble. She was an adult and she was allowed to leave whenever she wanted to, though they had all agreed that they would leave a sticky note on the fridge with their whereabouts for Five’s sanity alone.

Vanya had gotten a new room the first out of all of them when they moved back in because her room had been cannibalized by Klaus’ shortly after the Academy had begun to fall apart. The room that she had now was far roomier than the last one had been, with enough room for a comfortable chair and a desk that was fit for an adult. He also had his music stand and wo massive bookshelves full of everything that someone studying music would need to study. She had also decorated the space with her own little bits of flare, blue color and pictures of flowers that she had taken herself splattered throughout the room.

Diego closed the door behind him and then knelt down so that he could look under the bed for any sign of his missing clothing. He again didn’t find anything, but he did notice that there was a suspicious bag that he recognized all too well laying in the corner.

He reached out and then tugged it forward before he noticed that it was in an ornate brown box. He removed both items from under the bed and got a better, proper look at them both. The box was made of a cherry colored wood, put together so that the seams felt smooth against each other. The latch was shaped like a flower and turned towards the left so that the top half could lift off when it was to be opened. The top of the box had an ornate carving of a fox running through a forest, the depth of which was actually really impressive.

It only took him a second to flip the lid open so that he could see what was actually inside. There was a growing pit in the center of Diego’s stomach the longer that he saw with the knowledge of the edge of what he had seen. It only grew wide, like it was trying to swallow him, when he actually confirmed his suspicions. 

The inside of the lid had a classy black velvet lining that was wearing in the center and had collected an aggressive amount of dust in the corners and alone the seams. In the center of it lay a bag with the orange biohazard mark of a sharps disposal container, along with a set of needles that had not been used. There wasn’t anything else in there despite the nature of other such boxes that Diego had found in his life.

Despite that, the anger that burned through his system was enough to make his mind go into a hazy white confusion. He rose to his feet and stormed through the house in search of Klaus or any of his other siblings. When he found them, they were gathered in the dining room while playing a game of what looked to be solitaire. He slammed the box down onto the table loud enough that they all jumped and the cards went flying.

“Diego, what the Hell?” Luther snapped as he began to lean down so that he could pick up the mess. It was likely his knee hitting the underside of the too-small table that had caused the mess in the first place. They really needed to work on getting some furniture that was more suited to someone of his monstrous side.

“Yeah, Gogo, who spit in your porridge?” Klaus asked. He had dark eyeliner smeared around his lids and he was wearing a chipper yellow sundress that Allison had worn the week before.

“Do you now what this is, Klaus?” Diego questioned. He could feel the anger and heat of betrayal burning in his gut. It was threading through his veins and fueling who he was as a person. He wouldn’t be alive without that drive, that anger, and he was grateful for it.

Klaus fidgeted where he sat, obviously understanding that he was in trouble about something. He shifted so that he was kneeling on his chair, his hands threaded together as he used his elbows to lean low over the table. He turned his head to the left and then the right as he looked at the box before he finally answered, “No?”

“Diego, honestly, what is going on?” Allison asked. “Use your words like a big boy, not a child,” she accused when he opened his mouth to start yelling.”

He let out a huff, his nose flaring with anger. He realized then that she was right, for once. What he was doing wasn’t going to help anyone, it was reactionary and exactly the kind of thing that had driven Eudora away. She was giving him another chance the same way that his siblings were and he needed to show them that he was worth it. He took a deep breath and then let all of the anger melt out of him through is feet so that his mind returned to him. “I was looking through Vanya’s room because she’s always stealing my shit,” he began.

“As she does,” Klaus nodded as he collapsed back into his seat.

“She’s never taken anything of mine,” Allison glanced between the two of them. “I can barely even get her to let me paint her nails, let alone for us to share clothes.”

Klaus gave a half shrug that was more like he was rolling his shoulders and Ben flickered into the background, blue and half corporal. “Maybe the two of you just have really different styles, Allie.”

“Her style has been changing quite a bit lately,” Ben said in the moment that he had where his siblings had the ability to see and hear him. Klaus, despite having brought Ben to that plain with his powers, jumped at hearing his brother outside of his own head.

“I guess that’s true,” Allison murmured. ���She’s been changing a lot recently, hasn’t she?”

“Well, can you really blame her? I think that we’ve all been changing quite a bit,” Luther reasoned. He had been going to therapy the same way that the rest of them were and he was discovering things about himself. They had a stack of jigsaw puzzles and more baked goods than any one person could reasonably eat in the kitchen to prove that. “She’s been doing more things out of the house and she actually brought someone home the other day.”

Despite yelling at Diego earlier for doing the exact thing, Klaus slammed his hands down onto the table as he got up into his kneeling position again, “She did what?” 

There was a pop and the entire room flooded with the smell of ozone. Five stepped out from the doorway and then walked over to the coffee pot next to the microwave in the kitchen part of the room that they were in. None of them ever sat in the formal dining room, even if they had to remind their mother about that every evening for dinner. It held too many bad memories of times that they had been forced to sit and listen to old men speaking about things they didn’t understand.

“You’re too loud for the morning,” Five told him, his tone bored but still somehow conveying just how upset he was.

“Five, it’s one in the afternoon,” Allison scoffed.

It spoke to his progress that the only thing that he did was glare at her as he sunk down into the open chair. Diego was glad that the entire family was there if he was going to have to bring up something potentially dangerous that their sister had done. It likely wasn’t a good idea of Vanya to be taking any kind of illicit substances when they didn’t know how they would react with the sedative that was still in her system or her powers.

Five drained the mug of coffee that he had been clutching in his hands and then cringed. “This tastes like shit. What are we talking about?” he asked.

“The coffee tastes like shit because I brewed it when I got up this morning and it’s one in the afternoon,” Luther deadpanned, echoing what Allison had just said. Five just rolled his eyes and waited for someone to answer his question.

“I found this in Vanya’s room,” he explained as he opened the lid to show them what was inside.

“Why were you in Vanya’s room?” Five asked as he leaned forward to see what was inside the box. Allison was the only one of the siblings that was bold enough to reach inside so that she could remove the biohazard bag from inside and look it over.

“I was in there because I wanted to see if she had stolen my sweatshirt, she’s been stealing a lot of clothing for the rest of us recently and my brain is telling m-me that I can’t go outside unless I’m wearing it,” he explained. He could feel his cheeks and ears heating up as he admitted that, but he reminded himself that his siblings weren’t going to bully him about his mental illness anymore.

Klaus took the biohazard bag from Allison and then waved his hand behind him haphazardly, likely to try and get rid of the annoying ghost that was yelling something at him. “These are definitely sharps, but if she’s doing anything weird at least she’s using something clean.”

It was hard for all of them to remember the time that Klaus was so out of his mind on whatever he could get his hands on that he was barely their brother. He had changed quite a lot and they were very grateful for it, but it scared them to think that he could relapse back into that person. Allison took the deck of cards from Luther and began to shuffle them so that she had something to do with her hands. “This would explain a couple of things.”

“What do you mean by that?” Five asked, accusatorily.

“Well, she cut all of her hair off. Do you remember a single time in our entire lives that Vanya had short hair? She always kept it long,” Allison answered with a small shrug. “Drug usage can really damage your hair, so maybe she cut it so that we wouldn’t be able to tell because there would be no hair to use.”

“I thought that she was just trying something new out,” Luther frowned.

The front door of the house opened and shut before they could continue. They all went silent and glanced back and forth at each other as Diego took the bag back from Klaus to put it in the box. He had just shut it and then locked the front when Vanya appeared in the doorway.

“Hey guys, what’s going on?” she asked, the smile slowly slipping off her face. It made Diego feel insanely more guilty that he was expecting it would, letting her get upset when she hadn’t even really done anything to warrant their scrutiny of her.

“Welcome home,” Allison smiled as she tried another small broach in the conversation.

Vanya stepped further into the kitchen after she dropped her bag down near the door. She scowled when she saw what Diego was holding and almost ripped it away from him. “Where did you get this? Why do you have it?”

“I think that we should be the ones asking the questions, Vanny,” Klaus replied. “Like why are you doing drugs in the house without telling me?” When no one joked or laughed, he flopped back into his chair with a dramatic roll of his eyes. 

The aforementioned violinist looked down at the box and then up at all of them before she let out a giggle. It devolved into a set of belly-aching laughter that had her clutching at her side as she gasped for breath. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it’s really not all that funny.”

“Then why are you laughing?” Five asked, his anxious fingers drumming on the ceramic mug in his hand so hard that Diego was honestly worried about the poor thing shattering.

“It’s just, I kind of thought that you guys would notice. I mean, how did you get a single mission done when you’re this unobservant?” she asked, her mouth split into a wide smile.

“To be fair, I noticed,” Ben said as he flickered into life behind Klaus. The other man was scowling like he had just been bullied into something, which he usually was when he manifested their brother for longer than a couple of seconds.

“What are we missing here?” Allison asked, glancing between her brothers before she turned back to Vanya.

Vanya sent a sharp glare towards Ben and then took a deep brath before she began, “These are sharps, you’re right. But I don’t use them for non-prescription drugs. I’ve been taking Testosterone for almost half a year now. I’m really surprised that none of you picked up on the fact that I’ve lost all the fat in my face, my voice is way deeper, and I’ve been bringing home one night stands.”

“How is that… oh,” Luther dipped his head into his hands.

Diego glanced at his brother and then back to the violinist, “Why are you taking testosterone?”

“Diego, really?” Ben said, her voice low and sad. Diego felt a spike of pain before Klaus gasped at the other end of the table and distracted them all.

“You’re a tranny!” he shouted with an accusatory finger point. Everyone else at the table exploded with reasons about why he couldn’t say that and shouting at him for even uttering the word in the first place. “What? I can say that because I am too,” he defended as he held his tattooed palms up in a defensive position.

“Just because you’re non-binary doesn’t mean that you can say slurs at him-them?” Allison turned back towards the aforementioned violinist with a question on her brow.

“Ah, right. I guess I have to do introductions now,” the superhero groaned. “My name is Viktor Hargreeves, I use he/him pronouns and I don’t mind being called slurs by my sib.”

“Fuck yeah!” Klas cheered as he pumped his fists into the air.

Five got up to get another cup of the coffee he didn’t like. When he returned to the table, he muttered, “I can’t believe I didn’t notice.”

“Me neither. I got top surgery a month ago and was bedridden for several days,” he snickered. “I guess I thought that Mom would have mentioned something.”

Luther cupped his head in both of his hands, signaling the way that the rest of the siblings felt about the whole situation. None of them were upset about the fact that Viktor was trans, they were all overjoyed underneath the overwhelming rush of confusion. “We really have to start paying more attention,” Diego swore as he flopped down into his chair.

“Yeah, you do,” Viktor snickered. It was only when he walked out of the room that Diego realized that he was, in fact, wearing the sweatshirt that he had been looking for.

[umbrella-aye-aye-aye]

The Umbrella Academy/Jumanji Crossover

i’ve been trying to write this fic forever but it just ain’t happening so instead u get a text post ig

they’re in the past, season 2; five finds a mysterious video game, leaves it elliot’s while gathering his siblings…klaus turns it on bc he was the only one home. the others end up following once they realize

Luther: Jefferson ‘Seaplane’ McDonough. strengths: pilot, margaritas, strength weaknesses: mosquitoes

Diego: Dr. Xander ‘Smoldering’ Bravestone-strengths: fearless, speed, climbing, smoldering intensity, boomerang, knives, holding breath weaknesses: none

Alison: Franklin ‘Mouse’ Finbar- strengths: cranial assault, expert weapons valet, rumor weaknesses: cake, strength, endurance

Klaus: Ming Fleetfoot-strengths: cat burglar, pickpocket, safe cracker, animal/ghost whisperer, [later: subjective immortality] weaknesses: pollen

Five: Ruby Roundhouse- strengths: karate, t’ai chi, jui-jitsu, dance fighting, spatial jumping weaknesses: venom

Ben: horse

Vanya: Professor Shelly Oberon-strengths: cartography, archeology, paleontology, sound weakness: endurance

Klaus only chooses Ming bc he tries to get Ben to play by saying: choose ur character Ben! No? Okay, then ur Ming!

Ben: Why? Because he’s Asian? >:(

K: Alright fine! I’ll be Ming!

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Klaus can talk to Ben the horse; everyone is skeptical & slightly concerned

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Klaus: Ben? Luther: stop making jokes, Klaus. Klaus: You should see the size of your—!

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Luther & Diego struggling w/ new dynamic; Diego seemingly superior over Luther; stand in each other’s shoes as 1 & 2; fight all the time but learn & make up

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Alison: am I still black? Vanya: yes

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Did anyone notice cat burglar was in bold for Klaus? i just think that’s Neat

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Alison & Vanya peeing scene like in Jumanji; ‘Vanya come look at my pen15!’

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Vanya admitting he enjoyed being perceived as a man & coming out; everyone really supportive—Luther & Diego EXTREMELY and loudly and awkwardly supportive; Alison, causally asking if he wants them to cut his hair when they get back; Klaus: I’m not the only disappointment? Five: we’re all disappointments, Klaus. Except Vanya if that is your name

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Everyone has three lives; Klaus gives his breath to Luther on his last life; he falls back anyways, new power says: subjective immortality; Diego crying & angry: why is that in bold, Klaus? WHY IS THAT IN BOLD, KLAUS?

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Did I mention this was a Klaus-immortality-reveal fic? No? Well it is

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Five dance fighting to ‘Istanbul’ except everyone can hear the music this time bc it’s playing on the radio….everyone very impressed & disturbed. Lots more blood. Lots more killing. (Lots more dancing.)

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Speaking of Five & disturbed, everyone finds it odd seeing Five in Ruby Roundhouse’s body. For one…..he’s taller.

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Pls imagine…Vanya & Alison teaching them how to squat to avoid mess/in return teach them to ‘point & shoot’ (yes I’m sorry for this one)

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Luther & Diego get the jewel & yell Jumanji together; thru the Power of Friendship & Brotherhood

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Klaus: why isn’t Five’s power margarita? Ben: Why isn’t that one of your weaknesses?

That’s it I guess idk what else to put