#tua alternate universe

[twobraincells-art]

Started as a suit practise but (as always) Five made his way in! It then turned into my long-pondered pre-s4 fix-it AU (also redesigned Fives s3 hair bc it was gross <3)

I thought it was stupid and a bit OOC that Five worked for the CIA- and what was he doing during that 5 year time skip??? So many questions I hope to answer!

In my Gun-For-Hire AU- Five, feeling lost and aimless, returned to his gun-for-hire life, cutting off most contact with his family in the process (out of fear of getting them hurt). He quickly became a globally known assassin, renowned for his efficient and brutal work. Is he happy? Of course not! But in a perfect world s4 put him on the right path back to his family and stepping away from his past forever.

Lmk if anyone has a vague interest in me continuing this! May make an extended series

[sublimeinal-messages]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone pick up where this is going yet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[vexanillion]

Total 360 from tts content but ykw.. whatever!! 🤓 (no power squid games au where five is actually the youngest at 18-19)

[cleverclove]

You’re telling me that RAYMOND CHESTNUT, Mr. “I would take my year with you over a lifetime with everyone else,” WALKED OUT on them!?

[tehcherrya]

I watched Umbrella Academy Season 4-- Let me talk about the finale. (And my writer's interpretation of how it should have ended)

As much as I love a 'doomed by the narrative martyr-dom' tragedy, that is not how you go about it.

I love stories with bittersweet "not everyone will make it out perfectly fine" endings. TMA. The Sandman. The Haunting of Bly Manor. Arcane. LotR. Not everything has a happy ending, and often it can be fairly satisfying in its own way. But for someone who likes tragedies, I am sorely disappointed in The Umbrella Academy.

Not in a 'oh I wished they lived happily ever after' sense-- no. No, it makes sense that the ending is sort of bittersweet because that's how the narrative was built to be. It was never going to be their perfect ending. Every season is just another apocalypse, another world-end scenario. In fact I appreciate the way they go out of their way to say it's just a vicious cycle every time they try to go back to being the same, there is no escaping the fates their destinies clearly have written for them, even if everything was quote unquote "normal". They were left without their powers. With a timeline where they are essentially human. And still-- the end of the world happened. Obviously something needs to be done, but it can't be all the way it was.

Here, is, personally, how I would have written the ending. Keeping the same tone, same aspects. But differently formatted.

Five goes through the same motions of realizing that he and his family are the one causing the apocalypses. Over and over and over. Not necessarily their existence itself breaking the timeline, but it's their existence as these marigold-fueled beings. Marigold was never supposed to go out into the world, let alone unto living beings. Timelines collide, and nothing ends well, as the universe can't handle its own essence being fused within living and breathing beings. It never has. So, it needs to be neutralized, so everything can fuse into one perfect timeline.

Five then goes back to the others. As a sort of veteran to the ideas of apocalypses, gives them their solution. And it's something that everyone doesn't expect. Do nothing. Let the apocalypse happen. Every time they've tried to stop it, it's only split the timeline into more apocalypses. So they need to let it neutralize itself.

But everyone is in disarray by this result, "Five, how can we just do nothing? We'll all die!"

And Five simply states that no. They might not. In fact there is a very likely change they won't. But they won't be the same. And everyone is silent as Five explains the situation. The Marigold, their father, the existence of the academy. It's all put them in these horrible timelines. Each one showing no resolve. If they neutralize the Marigold, they will restore the original timeline.

They won't die. More than likely their souls will still exist within this whole, original timeline. But those versions of themselves won't remember anything of each other. Living vastly different lives in different parts of the world, they might live their whole lives without ever meeting. They won't remember the times they've shared, their powers, their father, none of it. They will spend their whole lives not even knowing the words "The Umbrella Academy". They won't even remember there was ever any other timelines in the first place, nor that they were the ones who saved them. They would be no more special than any other ordinary people living their lives. No more apocalypses. No more despair.

And as the scene comes to a close and they all say their possible last goodbyes, and we have the sequence of all of the other timelines disappearing-- We are then met with our original timeline. We see all of the different endings for every character, living out their lives as they would have been if they hadn't ever been born with their powers. Each happy in their own individual way but the important part is that none of them have stories together. They are all living different stories, and have no memory of anything else. Obviously with "I Think We're Alone Now" playing over this montage.

And after our montage song ends with everyone else, there is one more person we haven't seen from-- bear with me on this last shot because it's a little cheesy, but in classic Umbrella Academy fashion. Our final shot is of a grown man in a suit, and it's not exactly said who it is, it's not a face we've seen before. Perhaps in a diner, as a call back to the famous seen from Season 1. The waitress with the name tag "Dolores" asks this man what he's to order. And with the snarky yet cool demeanor this man has always had he says 'I'll have the No. 5'.

And it is Five. Finally not trapped in the body he was. Finally no longer a slave to the apocalypses he's had to deal with ever since he was a boy. He gets to grow up. He gets to live. Once this man exits the diner, he takes his briefcase with him. Opens his umbrella to shield himself from the rain. Smiles. And walks away.

SCENE!

Am I a writer or am I a writer? Bittersweet, yet not horribly executed. Thank you for staying. I'd like to thank Umbrella Academy fans for taking your time to read this. I would also like to thank my regular followers who are wondering what the hell an Umbrella Academy even is. And if that is you, I promise you we will get back to our regularly scheduled program soon! But thanks everyone for sticking around this writers rant of a post!

[marygeldingm93]

Welcome to my universe 🌌

[tua-guiltypleasure-aus]

AU in which they all grew up with their birth mothers

Rachel gets excommunicated on October 4th, she's in her early 20s, has nothing but the child she didn't have until a few days ago. That's when her sister Sarah-Beth escaped and joins her. It was a hard decision, but she loves her sister more than anyone.

Sarah-Beth finishes school and becomes a mechanic. When Klaus is older, Rachel gets back to school as well and gets a position at the local governmen, helping adolescents how do live on their own after running away or being kicked out.

Growing up though, she worked at a nail salon. The women there were very nice and understanding, teaching her. Klaus found her job was amazing. She got to paint all day!

Rachel loves her new found freedom, a freedom she never thought she missed. But she loved wearing whatever she wanted, whatever colour she wanted. She didn't bat an eye when Klaus wanted to wear bright clashing things he liked. Let the kids be happy and be themselves.

But there were still moments. Moments when Klaus would be so afraid. He would reach out to her, but there was nothing she could do to comfort him except distract him.

It was during one of Uncle Levi's deathdays that she found out. Klaus was four years old at the time. She wasn't brave enough to go back to visit his grave, but there was a bus station a bit further away from the community. He would take her siblings, cousins and herself sometimes there and they'd just eat bread.

He tragically died due to a drunk driver, but the memories were nice anyway.

So she drove there with Klaus, with bread she herself had baked.

And while they shared and ate it, Klaus eyes widened out of a sudden, looking just past her. He couldn't look away and started to shiver.

He told her there was a man there. A man with a long beard and hat and covered in blood. He was missing a tooth.

She did not know what to think of this. She didn't tell him how Uncle Levi died, a far too sensitive subject for a small child. Did he see something he was not supposed to watch on TV?

But then Klaus asked if they had pumpkin bread, the man was asking. She hadn't, but it was Uncle Levi's favorite bread.

Then, Klaus backed away, his breathing starting to quicken until he yelled "No!" and grabbed her wrist. Right as she was about to calm him down, she noticed the blue glow on his hands, how it went around her and when she turned-

Uncle Levi was standing there. Just like Klaus had perscribed, except he was all blue. He started to flicker and she turned back to her son, pulling him into a hug.

After that, nothing could surprise her anymore.

Not when it turned out that he was immortal (a day which she would not like to repeat ever again) or when he showed her how he could levitate.

And so, it really didn't shock her all that much when a person just fell out of the sky just a few feet in front of her and Klaus, only for said person to spot her son and explain how they were sibling- adopted!- siblings in an alternate timeline and they really would like to go back there

[hannahhook7744]

I Heard A Rumor (That I Ruined My Life) Verse Character Moodboards;

Allison Chestnut.

Raymond Chestnut.

Patrick Hendrickson.

Claire Hendrickson.

Klaus Hargreeves.

------------------------------------------------------------

This was made for my story 'I Heard A Rumor (That I Ruined My Life)'. I might make more later, after I update the story if anyone is interested.

[holistictimedrfiter]

Rewatched The Umbrella Academy and I’m so excited for the final season will be coming up next year 🥹🎉☂️

I really love them and their siblings chemistry/vibe…💜 and this is AU Adult! Five if he didn’t went into the future and stayed with the rest of the family.

[neon-danger]

call me crazy but I don’t hate the umbrella academy season 4

[bish-plz-haha]

Crazyass headcanon bc it's 3am and I'm rewatching Lucifer but absolutely in love with TUA

And kinda delusional atm

Lucifer and The Umbrella Academy are in the same universe.

[mymusicperfection]

OMG, just waiting for this season to come out as a joke and put on the real one we all deserve

HOW UA SHOULD HAVE ENDED

Hard cut to Klaus talking to the girl on the bicycle

Klaus: “Did we save the world or screw it up again?”

Bicycle God: “You were never the problem”

She holds up an action figure of Reginald and crushes it in her bare hands. Marigold lights emerge from it. Golden light envelops everything

Hard cut to Klaus waking up in bed. He is wearing pajamas covered in marigolds.Street noise can be heard from outside.

(From offscreen) “You okay, Hon?”

Klaus looks over and Dave is cooking breakfast in their flat

Klaus: “Yeah, just had a weird dream.”

Looks out the window and sees an empty lot where the Hargreeves mansion should be.

Klaus: “Wasn’t there a building there?”

(Naïve Melody by the Talking Heads begins to play over a montage)

Diego and Lila Are wrangling their kids into the camper van. One of the kids gives Lila a picture of her family in a field of bunch of orange flowers (marigolds)

Luther is stripping and the obsessed lady in the crowd is Sloan. He has a marigold in his mouth. He takes it out and gives it to her.

Viktor is playing the violin with Harlon. Sissy is setting the table. She sets a bouquet of marigold into a center vase.

Allison is gardening while Clare and Ray play in the yard. She is planting Marigolds.

Five is teaching at some university. An older woman comes in. “Dolores” he says as she kisses him. He has a Marigold in the lapel of his suit jacket.

Jennifer serves Ben at the dinner. Closeup on her pouring coffee. He has a Durango flower tattoo that says “Jennifer” and she had a marigold tattoo that says “Ben”

Cut back to Klaus staring out the Window

Dave: No, been an empty lot as long as I can remember

Klaus, smiles: Yeah, I don’t know why I thought that

Camera Zooms out from the window as music continues

Reginald, voiceover: And that is how our unlikely heroes manage to create one timeline where everything was fine.

BTS footage plays with the final credits 

[vexanillion]

cw for blood AHH!

More squid games/tua stuff!! Favorite part about this is making more Five and Allison content

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

When you get seriously attached to the crack au in your mind and you start writing it

[ankilona]

In Three, We Have Everything:

Chapter update: 8th Chapter is out!!! 🥳🥳

Summary:

Klaus needs to learn to control his powers, like yesterday, and what better place for it, tha the literal fairy tale dimension.

Five just wanted to relax after they averted the apocalypse... again, and healed the fractures of the timeline... again. And to top it all of, he got his hart broken, and might have lost a sibling. Even if it was one of his least favourite... it still stung. Travelling to a different dimension (again), wasn't on his to do list. What is one willing to do for his siblings...

And Chad? Chad just wanted everything to go according to his plans. Really is it too much to ask? As things stand it is, thanks to Ben and his rehabilitation ideas, and the Hargreeves siblings uncanny ability to stick to him.

All in all, nobody expected their life to take this turn, but maybe, just maybe... they might find something they wouldn't have in any other way. After all it's enough for a butterfly to flap its wings, and the other side of the world might get destroyed... or three people fall in love. It's really up in the air still...

Ao3 link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59166841/chapters/150868303

[river-o-lethe]

Timeline #000 - “Pilot” Verse

Synopsis: When the timelines all disappeared at the end of season 4 instead of erasing the Hargreeves siblings from existence altogether, the little girl in the sky instead decided to combine everything into one singular “earth” (timeline). 

Supposedly, it should be perfect. After all, She was kind enough to make it so 00.06 never died and 00.05 never ran away. The Umbrella Academy gets to grow up as heroes - they defeat the villain of the week and then move on to live their lives beloved by not only the citizens of The City but also the entire world. 

Still, things feel…off. Every so often a memory not belonging to them will pop up or an object that shouldn’t exist will appear. Hopefully it’s nothing of concern. It probably isn’t. Right?

Explanation: This verse is heavily based off of the original pilot for the Umbrella Academy - which you can read here - and the plot of DC’s “Crisis on Infinite Earths”. 

As mentioned above, it is a pretty heavy combination of different aspects of the show and the comics. The main difference is obviously Five never disappearing and Ben never dying but there are smaller details that make up this verse as well, including:

The siblings having a mix of their comic and show powers (so Diego would have Trajectory Manipulation + Infinite Breath, Allison would have her reality manipulation, Ben would hypothetically be able to summon other creatures with the portals his body makes, etc.)

There would be actual supervillains (such as Dr. Terminal + Murder Magician) alongside the Commission as antagonists.

“Mom” being more like her comic counterpart as the actual Grace lived a normal life.

Reginald’s “inventions” actually being a significant part of the siblings’ lives and the general environment of the Academy.

Modern Technology existing.

Alongside many other things (it’s heavily RP dependent).

I mainly roleplay this verse with versions of the siblings that are either teens/young adults (18-21) or the versions of them that can be found in the original pilot -  but once again that can be dependent on the type of roleplay and my partner’s own preferences. 

This is one of the “verses” (alongside Show + Comic canons, Combined Umbrella + Sparrow, and general crossovers) that I’m always willing to do. Feel free to take it and use it for your own RPs if you want. If you’re ever interested in doing a roleplay in this “verse” with me specifically or if you have any questions about it, feel free to reach out - I’m always happy to expand on some details/explore possible avenues of a roleplay!