#umbrella academy

[laurrelise]

welcome back klaus hargreeves

*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke

[average-emo-enigma]

Klaus from Umbrella Academy makes sooooooooo much more sense as a character after you realize that he was created by Gerard Way

[stardust4ari]

i dont want more people explaining why S4 makes no fucking sense, i just wanna pretend that whatever the fuck happened didn't fucking happened

[samwolfcos]

such a beautiful scene! I‘m so happy thats how the schow ended 🥰🥰🥰

*dancing at a wedding at the end of the world* The Umbrella Academy, Season 3 Episode 8

[sunsickjune]

“i felt that five had to have a love story” okay steve !! fine. i’ll humour you. picture this : lila and five in the subway. they’re travelling to different timelines, loosing hope, trying to find a way home. then they get to a timeline and five sees dolores. but she’s a human, not a mannequin. he falls for her. loves her. wants to stay with her in her timeline. and that’s why lila has to force him to come home. she has kids, a husband, a life. five wants to stay with dolores more than anything. but he goes home, back to his timeline, because he knows he has to save his family. because he loves them more.

[feralnumberfive]

[stevenrogered]

#siblings

[laurrelise]

robert is serving and tom is so tall that his bones are crushing and leaving him in severe pain (i’m tall i can vouch)

what is this from. why is tom the one sitting down. why is robert standing like that..

[mndvx]

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY — Final Season, August 8 2024

[acearcane]

As I’m trying to come to terms with whatever the fuck that was, I’ve decided that:

Seasons 1 and 2 are peak. Absolute masterpieces. Canon.

Season 3 can be taken or left. Has its moments, but overall not as good as the first two. Canon, but only if you want it to be.

Season 4 is a fucking crack fic written at 2am that the author rereads at a later date and decides to delete. Absolutely not canon.

[peacerisendove]

I think a better ending and message of The Umbrella Academy should have been that Five doesn't tell the others what he learns in the subway and about breaking the timeline, but instead he simply lives with his family, endlessly saving and trying to save the world. To live despite how dark it is and how hopeless it is.

To live in spite of hardship. To live and spit in the face of how hard and bleak it is.

To say, 'I lived' in spite of it all.

That should have been the message at the end.

[65thgames]

I agree with this! I also think falling into the trap of "who's to blame?!" for the apocalypses, the timeline fracture, all of it is ignoring who's fault it truly is. If Reginald never released the marigold this would have never happened. If he raised his adopted children with care and understanding, they'd perhaps be able to grow into their powers naturally. Viktor ending the world was the result of a childhood full of abuse, being drugged, and suffering from the sudden resurgence of his powers after they were dormant for years.

Five travelling to the future for the first time was the result of Reginald speaking in riddles in place of giving a factual reason as to why Five wasn't ready. Five thinking he knew better than his father because he was RAISED to be that way. He was raised to compete against his siblings and praised for it when he rose above them. He was conditioned by Reginald to think and behave this way.

The decision to travel back in time at the end of season 1 was done in mutual agreement. Five wasn't the only person to change the timeline in season 2. Meeting with Reginald was something that each sibling showed up to after deciding it for themselves.

I do not think Five is without his faults. At all. He is a flawed character. He made some very questionable choices in season 4. VERY questionable ones. But blaming him for everything is not only victim blaming the Five that was a victim of the apocalypse, the handler and the Commission. It is also victim blaming the Five who was a victim of severe childhood neglect, exploitation and abuse. Even if he tries to rationalise it by saying it was his fault for giving Reginald a hard time as a child (something that is very in character for him to attempt to do, and also another very common trait of abuse survivor) it does not erase the fact that Five was deeply traumatised and set up to fail before he even jumped for the first time.

Pointing fingers at which Hargreeves sibling to blame is exactly what I thought everyone hated about the ending of season 4. The subtle (although unintentional) shifting of the blame from Reginald to the Hargreeves for simply existing. Isn't that one of the main things we hated as a fandom?

People forget that TUA isn't just meant to be a story about superheroes. It's about learning to live again after childhood abuse. It's about how each of the siblings were affected by their trauma in different ways. So we're going to see many different portrayals of this.

Five is not without flaws. None of the siblings are. But I find it absolutely baffling that this fandom blames him for all the timeline incidents. Five tries to alter the timeline to save his loved ones? Nope. Selfish. Five decides to sit back for once and let the universe do it's thing? It's still his fault.

Maybe we need to remember who is actually to blame for all of this. You know, blame the guy who intentionally released the marigold instead of scapegoating one of the siblings.

Those who blame 5 for causing everything are basically just victim blaming him

no because this is SO RIGHT. it pisses me off beyond words when the sibs would get upset with five for “stranding them in the 60’s” or “bringing them to a timeline where they shouldn’t exist” i could actually rip my own hair out because the alternative to him doing anything would’ve been immediate death

but i feel like i also see tua fans saying this sometimes? and that pisses me off even more because, how can you watch five run around losing his mind trying to save the only people he has left for 3 weeks straight and think he was ever in the wrong? my unpopular opinion is that five did close to absolutely nothing wrong in the entire first 3 seasons (we don’t talk about s4)

like sure, he could’ve been a little friendlier. but also, he has like no social skills? due to him being alone for 40+ years? of course he’s not great with people???

idk i just get so frustrated when people blame five when he was ultimately one of the biggest victims in the show, i don’t love comparing the siblings because they’ve all had absolutely devastating lives but five is truly one of the saddest characters ive seen. he could never catch a break and then got blamed consistently. god this show will be the death of me

[suzieloveships]

Season 4 of The Umbrella Academy got me like

[vodakstr8tnogay]

[3njoythesil3nce]

cause wtf was that