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jasontoddssoulmate · 3 years

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I made an account for the sole purpose of this TUA fic concept

I’m a sucker for those “the characters read the books/watch the series” fics and I’ve read a little for TUA but I just had the idea:

The Hargreeves kids watching the two seasons but instead of just the seven of them, their birth mothers are brought in to watch as well

Maybe have the birth mothers family (if they have any) watch it with them

This happens before everything. Before Ben’s death, before Five’s disappearance, before they even have their names. The kids, One through Seven, are brought in. Maybe when they’re old enough to get the gist of what’s going on, but before they’re 13.

These 6 young women are brought in (because I adore that Luther and Five being twins is canon in the comics and I love the mention of it), and they’re confused because maybe The Umbrella Academy isn’t internationally well known so the kids are familiar but they can’t put the name to the face. Not until they introduce themselves, anyways, and suddenly they’re face to face with the baby that they gave away years ago.

Maybe a few of them regret it, maybe they tried to forget it, maybe they spend so much of their time thinking about it or maybe they’re overjoyed that their baby seems to be doing so well.

But their names.

There’s just so much about them that doesn’t feel,,, so right? Maybe that’s not the word for it but they’re too polite sometimes, their casually cruel treatment towards their sister isn’t normal and the way that they simultaneously act entitled and inferior towards each other isn’t suppose to be as normal as the kids make it out to be.

All in all, the women are confused and maybe a bit wary of their casual usage of powers among each other that’s normal to the siblings as much as it is abnormal to the birth mothers.

But communication is easy since each child learned their own mother language as well as the language of their siblings birth place and then some which only seems to remind the women that holy shit these kids are technically rich because of their father

The Hargreeves though? They’re confused and wary as hell. They may not have been introduced as The Inaugural Class of The Umbrella Academy yet (or maybe they have considering what your timeline is) but they’ve been training for most of their life and the situation is baffling. Here are these random people that they’ve never met before (at least to their knowledge) and they’ve never had to go outside to interact with others, not really at least.

So it makes sense that they go for polite but threatening. They maybe decide unanimously that the weaker willed ones like Four, Six and Seven are discreetly protected behind their older (in spirit) siblings, One, Two, Three and Five.

But they’re no real threat, its obvious in the way that the Hispanic woman uses such an endearing term like “mijo/a” and the way that the Russian woman has an ever present smile on her face and such a sweet disposition that reminds them of their littlest sibling and hey her eyes look just like Seven

So after a while, they’re more open to being relaxed. Not Five though, he’s always been just a little paranoid and being a 58-year-old in a 13-year-old body never had anything to do with it. So he’s got a harsh personality but the Danish woman doesn’t seem to be deterred. He kind of reminds her of her older twin brother who acts so harshly, but who she knows loves her so much.

So here are 7 siblings and 6 women and maybe family that was there for the women when they needed them the most. And maybe the person(s) behind this decide to be kept anonymous but they oh so want the children to get to know what being cared for is like. Maybe these women get to know the consequences of their actions or the children learn that the one who birthed them had their reasons. And it’s no excuse but it’s also not their fault. Both parties should be able to feel what they feel because it’s a complicated and maybe painful situation.

The children lose their respect for their father every episode. Even One, who they all know cherished the favoritism but it doesn’t get in the way of his horror when he finds out that he used to lock Four in the mausoleum, still does if the flashbacks are anything to go by because not Four, not the kindest and brightest of their siblings.

And when they learn of Seven’s powers and the reason why they are never present, they are understandably upset. They feel rage and disbelief that she had such a crucial part of herself ripped away at such a young age, because they know that their powers are like another limb. They’re born with it and they grow up with it and they were able to live their life with it so they feel rage. Rage that Seven had been so violated. Rage that the Seven they know isn’t really the Seven she was suppose to grow up to be. The Seven they knew as toddlers was sweet towards them but had a mean protective streak a mile wide that could never be controlled, not even by their father. The Seven they know now is so meek and desperate for attention. The Russian woman looks the most devastated as she thinks of the baby girl she got to hold for only a few hours before she was whisked away by a rich old man who is turning out to be the monster that one often hears about in television.

But the women? They watch as the children in front of them, maybe a little damaged and emotionally constipated but so obviously protective and caring for each other, grow to be the grow ups in the screen above them that grow up and grow apart after so much tragedy.

They watch as seven eventually becomes five.

How Luther is sent to isolation for years and he goes along with it in a bid to continue to please their father.

How Diego continues to rebel because he wasn’t able to growing up but also maybe because he wants to spite his father, no matter how much he protests that he could care less what his father thinks.

How Allison goes through a divorce and loses her parental rights to even see her daughter due to her dependence of her powers that leaves her devastated.

How Klaus is an addict who desperately wishes to get rid of the ghosts that have followed him all his life.

How Five disappears only a little while after their current timeline.

How Ben was brutally killed by his own powers, never getting to grow up and become his own person.

How Vanya can’t seem to do anything but go through the motions of her life, maybe having a little hope that she’ll be seen this time around, but is quickly squashed from Diego’s disparaging comments and the casual dismissal of her from her living siblings.

They watch all this, and feel sadness and rightful anger that their babies lead the life of ex-child superheroes. The life of abused children. The life of children who had only each other.

But was it really enough? Was it enough to know that they loved each other but had a hard time showing it and owning up to it due to fear of their father? Due to the constant comparisons and the way Sir Reginald had them turn on each other.

But they knew it was enough. They see it in how Diego waits for Klaus to drive him around even after he had expresses annoyance beforehand, in the joy on Allison’s face when she sees Klaus again after so long, in how Five makes sure to check up on Klaus after his kidnapping, on Luther’s face when he apologizes to Vanya after realizing his own misgivings, in Ben’s task of continuing to follow his brother around even when it pains him and in Klaus trying to comfort Luther after he finds the unopened correspondents. They see it in the support they show Vanya as she goes to check on Harlan.

It had to be enough to know that after all they went through, they still care for one another and at the end of the day, would protect one another just as they were as One through Seven.

So they watch what would be the Hargreeve’s kids misadventures, they watch as they grow together and grow apart just to grow together again, much stronger than before.

They express sadness and disbelief when they see where Five ends up, they get mad when Leonard throws Vanya’s pills away, they grieve when they learn that Ben is dead, they’re embarrassed but find it hilarious whenever Klaus cracks an inappropriate joke, they become protective when there’s allusion to Vanya having sex, and are rightfully ready to throw down with Leonard as they watch their littlest sibling get gaslit into believing her family hates her as he nitpicks all of her interactions with her family.

But just as they express their feelings over what happens to their family, they feel an immense amount of exasperation towards their older selves because so much could be fixed if they only talked to each other.

They watch and despair over the missed opportunity that is Leonard in the same house as them just as they find out what his role is in the apocalypse.

Four tears up as he watched Klaus and Dave’s reunion be undone after all the heartache.

Seven cringes when Vanya dismisses Five’s claims that he had been stuck in an apocalyptic wasteland and suggests that he’s gone crazy after his stint with time travel.

Three feels her heart drop to her stomach as the flashback shows what becomes the moment that she faces the hard truth that come with her use of her powers.

Five feels himself flush in embarrassment as he watched two version of himself in the future, one that looks not much older than he does currently, go through paradox psychosis.

Six feels frustration and a fierce grief that leaves him confused because he’s still alive he’s not dead, but I don’t have much longer.

One feels horror as he watches himself hurt his siblings one after the other with a sense of helplessness because this isn’t me, I wouldn’t do this but I already did, why would I hurt my siblings, I’m Number One I have to be the one who protects them-

The women, on the other hand, see themselves in their children.

The French woman sees how her daughter and granddaughter, it seems, both look like a carbon copy of herself and her own mother.

The Danish woman sees herself and her twin brother in Luther and Five. Sees her own personality reflected in Luther and her brothers personality in Five. Sees how her twins care just as much for each other and their siblings as herself and her brother do each other.

The Hispanic woman sees Diego’s fierce sense of justice that leaves others in the dust, and sees herself as she fought to keep her boy but ultimately lost him just as Diego loses Eudora. She thinks to herself like mother like son and bitterly laughs to herself but she’s so grateful that Diego had a mother who cared for him just as she cared for him because she often though about him and always made sure to commemorate his birthday.

The German woman can’t help but see herself in her boy. Can’t help but see her little brother in him. Can’t help but see her older brother in him. Because Klaus is so joyful but he hides his pain behind a mask like her younger brother, he’s so loving towards his siblings like her older brother, and so nonsensical like herself. So like herself, down to the curly hair and the addiction. Even if she was able to overcome it with support from her family, it pains her and leaves her in despair to see Klaus and can’t find fault in those he had around him because she sees how much they try and sees how hard the Hargreeves find expressing emotion is to others.

The Asian woman sees how sweet and shy her youngest is and thinks only of her oldest, who reminds her so much of him and can only despair in seeing that he didn’t live as long as her oldest had. She can only ask herself why her children don’t seem to be able to see themselves to adulthood but can only be grateful that even in death he has someone with him.

The Russian woman knows that her husband sees her in little number Seven, in Vanya, no matter how little that is. Maybe their personalities aren’t so similar because Seven is shy but she’s got the sweetest heart and so clearly loves her siblings. She has the same smile that she has and her little doe eyes remind her of herself when she was younger. She’s so small next to her siblings, just like herself.

So they see themselves in these kids, these grown ups. But so do the Hargreeves.

They see how Luther looks like what the Danish woman would look like as a man and how Five looks exactly like a younger version of the Danish man who introduced himself as the woman's older brother.

They see how Two has the same skin tone and facial structure as the Hispanic woman.

They see that Allison looks exactly like the French woman and see the same in Claire.

They see Four’s curly hair and slim build in the German woman.

They notice how Six shares the same dark hair and lower facial features.

They see Seven’s eyes and smile and short stature in the Russian woman.

So maybe they don’t know them well enough to see what the women see, but they grow to see it overtime because they spend so much time there, in this suspended room in time.

The women insist on getting to know them and vice versa. They insist that they have to talk about their feelings and assure them or gently scold them, depending on the reason, for what they feel because god do these children need to learn how to talk more about their emotions in a healthy way.

They get closer to the children and start to really see their childish side. They all fight over the silliest things, and become pouty when attention isn’t being drawn over to them. They crave physical affection, even Five who won’t admit that his maternal uncle patting him and One of the head made him feel all gooey inside. They make faces towards foods that they don’t like and still prefer junk food over real food.

So maybe it’s harder to let themselves act like children because they’re being conditioned to not “be childish” but even then they have their lapses in control. Four enters a state of panic after being reminded of his time in the mausoleum. One feels overwhelming guilt when he sees how Luther hurts Klaus and reminds himself that he’s the one that needs to protect them, as the leader and self proclaimed older sibling. Five feels himself cry for the first time in a long while when he sees how his siblings act towards him in the future and realize it hurts him deeply because he knows that he’s messed up their lives a lot but can’t they see that he only want to keep them alive, he doesn’t want to see them die again, he can’t-

But instead of being shamed into controlling their emotions, they are comforted and reassured. Four’s birth mother helps ground him and counts his breathing with him to keep him from falling further into his panic. One get’s reassured by his birth mother that his future self isn’t his current self. That everyone in the room has seen just how much he cares for his siblings and knows he would do anything for them. The twins uncle gives into his urge and hugs Five, whispering in a hushed tone that it’s okay to cry, to let it all out. He whispers that his older siblings are being idiots and if they knew just how much their actions were hurting you, they wouldn’t hesitate to apologize and hug you too. His words only make Five cry harder.

So they are cared for and allowed to be themselves fully and can be childish to their hearts content. And their birth families watch on in amazement and adoration.

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I have so much more that I’ll probably add later, but basically I want them to be cared for, allowed to care for each other and learn to express themselves better. I want to see them get to have a good relationship with an adult and if possible their birth mothers.

Pls share links and stuff if you get inspired, I’m not much for writing fanfic but I really do want to see something like this. I’d read the shit out of it. I have so much more that I want to add but I’ll probably do something about it later.

#i just think it's neat #they deserve to be cared for #Luther and Five are twins #they may all be the same age but there's definitely an older sibling/little sibling vibe among them all #i love the idea of each of the kids and the women seeing family traits in each other #i headcanon Vanya as a feral protector of her siblings before Sir Hardass took away her powers #Vanya was the epitome of i've only had them for a day but if anything happened to them i'd kill everyone in this room then myself #except she was raised with them but my point still stands #they watch the series #i have mixed feelings about the Hargreeves birth mothers #protectiveHargreeves #protectivesiblings #lutherhargreeves #allisonhargreeves #diegohargreeves #klaushargreeves #tua five #five hargreeves #fivehargreeves #benhargreeves #vanyahargreeves #spaceboy #thekraken #therumor #theseance #the horror #the boy

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jazy3 · 3 years

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Thoughts on Grey’s Anatomy: 18X01

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

I was really excited for the Premiere and I have never been so disappointed in my life. It took me a few days to write this review because I’m just so unimpressed. I feel like the only interesting parts of the Season 18 Premiere were the Meredith and Hayes FaceTime call, Levi in that outfit and Jo with that hair, and the interviews. That's it. I mean Teddy and Owen’s two weddings were interesting if you’re a Teddy and Owen shipper, but I never have been so that didn’t really do anything for me.

The pacing of the episode was super slow and it was just altogether boring. There were also just so many inconsistencies. For example, Teddy and Owen originally planned to get married at the park with just Megan, Farouk, Evelyn, Leo, and Allison which doesn’t make sense because prior to their break up they were talking about planning their dream wedding. Now they finally get married and Richard didn’t even know about it? They asked Megan to fly in, but they didn’t tell their friends at the hospital after they just all attended Maggie and Winston’s wedding two weeks earlier?

It’s also not clear if Meredith knows that they got married which is weird because she’s the main character of the show and was an integral part of Owen’s previous two weddings one of which was held at her house. Also, Amelia and Link weren’t there and it’s not clear if they even knew about the wedding which is weird because Meredith, Amelia, and Link were all present when Owen proposed to Teddy at Christmas at Meredith’s house and they are all co-parenting Leo together.

While I appreciated the shift to a lighter tone and that they chose to have this season exist in a post-COVID alternative universe where we can see the actors faces again without the PPE and return to escapism the Premiere didn't pack the punch I was expecting. The premieres are usually super shocking and action packed and this one just wasn't. It was just boring and all of the most interesting stuff happened off camera during the two weeks between the Season 17 Finale and the Season 18 Premiere which is just stupid.

I saw the priest getting hit by one of the cyclists coming a few minutes before it happened based on the promo and the context of the scene and there wasn't a big shocking event like there usually is. The pace of the Premiere really felt off to me. My friend Amy who I watch with every week described it as the pacing you usually associate with a nice stroll through a moonlit garden. Fine for episode two or three or a connecting episode but not the Premiere. I feel like they really misjudged what fans were looking for and I’m hoping that they do the work and course correct now that the Premiere has aired and the completely dismal fan reaction as come out.

One of the few bright spots for me was the introduction of Peter Gallagher as Dr. David Hamilton. I love him as an actor! He's great! His recent roles in Grace and Frankie and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist were fantastic! I was super excited when I heard he was coming to Grey's. I like Dr. Hamilton so far and I'm interested to see how his relationship with Ellis and Meredith having dreams about her mother following her battle with COVID will play into the story this season. While it would be interesting to see Meredith work in Minnesota temporarily like Cristina did back in Season 9, I don't want her there permanently. Seattle is as much a character in the show as any of the main characters we've come to love, and something would be missing for me if she moved.

To be perfectly honest, it doesn't make much sense to me for Meredith to move to Minnesota permanently when she only knows a few people there. Who would watch her kids? If she's going to move to me, it makes more sense for her to move to Kansas where Alex is or Switzerland where Cristina is. Her kids have already lost their father and so many other caregivers and Meredith has stuck it out in Seattle for so long after everything that's happened that her moving to Minnesota for me would be bonkers.

Also, where were her kids in the Premiere? All of the interviews that came out prior to the Premiere talked about how Meredith’s focus at the beginning of the season would be on her work and her kids, but they were nowhere to be found in the Premiere and it’s not clear whose watching them while Meredith is in Minnesota. The interviews also made it seem like Meredith and Hayes would still be circling each other at the start of the season with quotes about how timing hadn’t been on their side, that they still needed to have an official drink and go out on a date, and that while Meredith wasn’t looking for a relationship one might find her.

That had literally nothing to do with the Premiere we saw whatsoever! The kids were MIA and it turned out that Meredith and Hayes started dating off screen following Maggie and Winston’s wedding and we didn’t get to see ANY of the firsts they talked about so much over the last two seasons. So stupid. The Premiere was a total rip off. I hate that Nick Marsh is back and I’ve never gone from liking a character and an actor to hating them in such a short period of time ever. My God. I’m so pissed off about this. What the hell were they thinking? Why did they think we would want this at all?

Don’t get me wrong, I loved Nick Marsh as a character and Scott Speedman's portrayal of him when he first showed up in Season 14. I was all ready for him to be Meredith's next great love and I was on board. But then he disappeared and was never heard from again and it was reported that Speedman wanted to take a break from TV for a while so I mourned the loss of what could have been and moved on. I sat through the out of character nonsense that was the DeLuca storyline in the belief that eventually that storyline would end, and Meredith would get a real proper love interest that made sense and would be her post-Derek endgame.

So, I was really excited when they introduced Hayes and I have really come to love his character and his budding relationship with Meredith. I feel like I've been waiting forever to finally see them go on a date and I am super pissed off that we didn't get to see it. I would have loved this storyline with Nick if they had introduced it at any previous point in time, but now after they've spent so much time setting up Meredith and Hayes it's just infuriating. I feel immense rage over how they handled Meredith and Hayes and Meredith and Nick’s storylines in the Premiere. I'm so angry. The whole thing just made no sense. That Premiere should never have aired. It never should have gotten past the draft stage. It was that bad. The first date and all of the firsts that come with a new relationship are the most exciting parts of a romantic storyline for me and I love seeing all of that on screen. They hyped Meredith and Hayes’ relationship up so much and even had the two of them talk about 'firsts' and dating after death so for their first date to happen off screen along with Austin's panic attacks and bad reaction to his Dad starting to date again is just such a rip off.

I have stuck with this show through thick and thin and for them to reward that loyalty by having the most interesting parts of that storyline happen off screen while showing a bunch of stuff on screen with other characters that they could have just told us about? So ridiculous. I was so excited for this season and now I'm just angry. I'm hoping that they are building to a big mid-season finale where Meredith is going to return to Seattle and by that time Bailey will have helped Hayes out with Austin and the two of them will finally get together on screen but I'm starting to feel like every time I get invested in one of the Meredith's new love interests, they pull the rug out from under me and I'm getting really fed up.

In other news, I'm not too surprised that Megan and Riggs broke up off screen only because Virgin River, which I love, just got picked up for two more seasons and I imagine Martin Henderson is busy filming that and it looks like Megan is going to be around for a while and they had to explain it somehow. I loved Meredith and Riggs together and I hated how they ended that storyline so I'm not sad about them breaking up off screen.

The Premiere also broke my heart over Amelia and Link’s storyline. It’s just so stupid. It’s drama for drama’s sake that’s all it is and it’s tired. When did marriage become so important to Link? In the span of a few months, he went from being totally fine with not getting married and checking in with Amelia every few weeks on how she felt to convincing himself that Amelia wanted him to propose so he did so at her sister's wedding and used her dead brother's children to do it. Amelia's right the whole thing was super messed up and manipulative and she was right to say no.

Link decided marriage was important to him and that fostering Luna would be totally fine without ever talking to Amelia. Yes, Amelia should have shared her thoughts with him too, but he also should have paid attention. Now their otherwise healthy relationship is over because she doesn't want to participate in an archaic ritual that involves signing a contract and exchanging vows? That's just stupid. I hope they find a way to work it out and get back together because I really like them as a couple.

I like Dr. Michelle Lin the new Head of Plastic of Surgery that Bailey and Richard are looking to hire. I thought for sure after that photo of the other guy made the rounds on social media that he was going to be the new Head of Plastics, but then he said that he doesn't do "free" and I knew he was out. I'm excited for there to be another female surgeon of colour on the show as the gender and racial balance on the show has been more white and male as of late and I think Grey's is at its best when you have a roughly equal number of women and men and as many different races being represented as possible.

I think it makes the storylines more interesting and authentic and personally gives me more characters that I can identify with. This new doctor seems driven, determined, and could have a potentially interesting dynamic with Richard and Bailey. She’s also giving me some Cristina Yang vibes and I’m all for that. I love Cristina. Always have. Always will. That being said, I'm a bit confused as to where they are going with Jo's storyline as I thought for sure the new Head of Plastics would be a guy and her new love interest. But Bailey did say they still needed to hire a new general surgeon and a new neurosurgeon so maybe one of them will be for her?

I can't really say that there was anything I loved about the Premiere which is disappointing. Jo's parenting hair dye mishap was funny, Levi's outfit cracked me up, and I liked that Bailey agreed to help Hayes out, but that's about it. The thing I was most excited for coming into this season was Meredith finally being back on her feet and seeing the romantic storyline between her and Hayes finally come to fruition.

Finding out that she's going to be in Minnesota for the foreseeable future, she and Hayes started dating off screen but had to call it quits because seeing his Dad date someone new caused Austin to have panic attacks, and finding out that Nick Marsh is back? I hated it. I don't understand how the same person who wrote the Season 16 masterpiece “Snowblind” with that amazing snow scene between Meredith and Hayes wrote the Premiere. I just don't understand. I really hope they're not going to do a love triangle with Meredith, Hayes, and Nick because that would just be so stupid.

She's a forty something award-winning surgeon who's a widowed single mother of three. Love triangles made sense when she was young intern, but at this point it's just dumb. I also didn't feel the chemistry this time around between Meredith and Nick like I did the first time. It felt forced and flat. I like Maggie and Winston together, but I didn't find their storyline in the Premiere particularly engaging. I'm glad that Amelia stayed true to herself, but I hate that Link has decided marriage is the only way forward and that they're still fighting.

The only moment that really made me laugh out of the hour was when Jo opened the door and Levi was in that ridiculous outfit. I loved the FaceTime call between Meredith and Hayes, but I hated the context. Honestly, I'm not really excited about any upcoming storyline this season which makes me really sad. I'm usually super positive and hopeful when it comes to this show, but this episode just stomped all over my dreams. All I can hope for now is that they pull a twist and everything I was hoping for happens in the mid-season finale otherwise I don't think I'm going to like this season very much.

Until next time!

#grey's anatomy #meredith grey #cormac hayes #MerHayes #jo wilson #levi schmitt #atticus lincoln #amelia shepherd #amelink #miranda bailey #richard webber #cristina yang #michelle lin #ellis grey #david hamilton #thoughts #review #18X01 #here comes the sun

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ofmythsandmadness · 4 years

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MY THOUGHTS ON TUA SEASON TWO: PART TWO (spoilers)

So...I finished season two.

I’m putting ALL my thoughts under the tab so please, don’t click unless you’ve seen it all, and/or you just....like don’t care about spoilers? But please if you’ve not watched it, watch it first ‘cause it deserves all the hype and attention.

You can read part one to this here.

FIVE HARGREEVES…

I deadass thought he was gonna die.

I thought throughout the entire show that he was going to die, and ESPECIALLY at the end, I thought that was it. I guess I’m glad though that he didn’t die of course. But I was convinced, and glad he didn’t and that there was no shock-value death of a major character.

(though like maybe one of them should have gotten hit by a bullet in one of those final scenes?? I mean….there were bullets EVERYWHERE. By SO many guns. How did they miss every time????)

Aiden Gallagher did a terrific job with the character. I don’t agree with the things he personally has done but I am convinced on his acting abilities, I mean JEEZ. He sold the act and alongside Diego/David Casteneda, was really one of the best actors on the show. I am thoroughly impressed. I didn’t really like him much in Season One, but he’s sold the role to me now and I’m very impressed.

That being said... I kinda hated Five. That’s it. I liked him in general but some parts, I was so pissed off and just didn’t like. He was an asshole and I know he IS an asshole but it was beyond just being a grumpy old pisspot. And I don’t know really how to feel, because I know being 45 years alone and lost and then becoming the world’s best assassin or whatever will fuck your head up, so it makes sense. I just think there were points where he lost most of his humanity, and then he’d flip-flop back to a more caring being. I sort of just wished there was a clear definition to all of his thoughts and emotions on it all.

But at the same time his character makes sense so I don’t know how to feel??? Maybe I’m just pissed on how he treated Diego and shit. But I’m very very glad he’s not dead!!

ALLISON HARGREEVES…

Okay, I thought she was REALLY dead in that scene. You know the one I’m talking about.

Holy shit.

I was so scared. And also it was so sudden (and a little cool admittedly how Lila just threw it back at her like that - HOW DO I WORD thAT NON-SEXUALLY) and I was so fucking worried they’d kill her off, because I find sometimes her character comes off a little disposable. Not because I want her gone, more that the show finds her an afterthought and pushes her with someone or ‘silences’ her.

But overall I loved her storyline. I didn’t know if I’d like her just being married, it felt again like an afterthought and she was being pushed to be with someone, but the civil rights movement plot was really well done, in my eyes. I loved too the agony of having such impressive powers, but scared of the effects of doing so and also not wanting to be the person she was before. I felt for her and I was so impressed with her separating herself from her past, trying to push away from being the one who had it all and trying to be her own self. I think that this season did that really well, with all the characters and finding themselves, and I just...I want her to be happy, and successful and I want to see her find a way to use her powers without causing pain to herself or others.

And not be with Luther. Please, anyone who can do a thing about it reading this, do not make her and Luther a thing.

(also - emmy raver lampman is in general so goddamn talented and beautiful and i wish her the best. i just heard her rendition of satisfied and me oh my, that gal deserves so much more love, i hope this show catapults her career even more forward)

VANYA HARGREEVES…

Literally invented cottagecore.

Also, I love her.

I was so impressed with the way they handled her queer storyline. I was so worried about it, admittedly because television shows have a history of handing out stereotypical plotlines and not caring about the depth of them but dear FUCKING heavens, I loved this one. I cried like a baby, and yet I was left almost happy, at the end? Not happy, because they’re apart and Sissy’s stuck in a world that she can’t be herself in, but there was a beautiful bittersweetness that I adored about it. And it was realistic, and they didn’t just follow a trope and leave it there to wither up and die.

Vanya was adorable in this season and while I normally hate the amnesiac storyline, I think it’s an easy way out, I liked it here! Because yeah it was I guess an ‘easy way out’, but it worked and it made Vanya be able to be here and actually start over. I didn’t want to see her so burdened with who she had been and who she was forced to be, I wanted to see her smile and dance and love her siblings and she could and I couldn’t be happier. I mean, when she was just saying how she loved her family and her family was amazing...obviously it’s funny cause the family’s so messed up, but she meant it and I just want so much good for her.

I just love how they naturally developed the idea of the Hargreeves genuinely liking each other. This season really brought them together but unlike the first, it wasn’t necessarily because they had to, but because they wanted to. And I think Vanya did that for them.

Basically...I don’t know how to put it all into words without making this a 70-page thesis essay. But I love her and want the best for her.

(side note - I really also was impressed with Harlan. I was scared that somehow they were going to do something stupid with him, but he was adorable and I loved him. his character made me tear up a little, too. as someone who has close family with severe autism, it’s rare to see a show that doesn’t make an upsetting and non-accurate portrayal out of someone on the spectrum. but he was so precious and smart and good and Sissy loved him and dammit, I would die for that little family)

I’m ALSO curious if Vanya’s gonna visit Sissy ever? I mean I thought she would have at the end but obviously the cliffhanger didn’t leave room for that...idk know though because I think with multiverse theories and whatnot, she wouldn’t even know her but...eh.

KLAUS HARGREEVES…

I don’t actually have much to say on him, which is shocking because in Season One, I could have written a whole book on his character. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t love him! He’s still one of my favourites, and I wish I could just take away his pain because that boy deserves at least a kernel of good in his life. But truly, there’s just not much I know to say about him??

The scene in the restaurant with Dave and his uncle though hurt. What hurt more though was his nonchalant nature about it, because he’s been through that so many times and he almost expected it, which hurt. It’s expected and I knew he couldn’t just waltz up to Dave and confess his love and they’d be dandy, but as a queer person, it was a punch to the heart just watching him go through that.

I just want him to be happy someday, and bond with his siblings because there’s a deep sadness that lurks with Klaus, and maybe it’s from the actor too but there’s a melancholy that I relate to, which I hate because that melancholy is a heavy burden to carry. A worthlessness, and a deep depression that he’s seemed to have fallen into that’s a bitch to climb out of and I’m scared that he won’t be able to. He covers it up in funny gestures and vices but it’s still destroying him. Even the cult - he lacks any real love and he finds it in meaningless places, never remembering their names or anything about them and coming off as an asshole when really, he’s just looking for someone who truly cares about him, who he is on the inside and listens to him without yknow, becoming brainwashed and treating him like a god.

I’m interested to see where the show takes his character.

BEN HARGREEVES…

This show really said fuck my feelings on this one, huh???

EPISODE NINE MADE ME SO NUMB AND SAD AND JUST - FUCK.

I cried so hard when he got to save the day. He finally could do more than just follow Klaus around, and he finally got to be more than their dead brother. For so long, Ben was just an idea, a memory and I can only imagine the pain of having to deal with that. They touch on it in the show but it’s so much deeper than just being alone with only Klaus to talk to - I mean Ben was literally nothing, to any of the others, aside from being their dead brother. And when he finally got to save them, and save Vanya and fucking HUG HER AS HE PASSES ON TO THE AFTERLIFE….when I tell you I sobbed....

And his hug with Diego, how HAPPY they both were….the way that they both just….:’((

And that scene with young Klaus and Ben....Netflix when I said I wanted more Ben content I don’t know if I meant THIS.

At the same time...it was beautiful and bittersweet because he was happy, almost, moving on to his next life. He was able to do what he needed to and move on and that was beautiful. And, he got to say goodbye to at least some of his siblings, and so I can’t truly be sad about his passing. Even though it made me sob like a newborn babe.

But also...what the fuck was that ending?

And by that I mean, who the fuck signed off on that stupid lil’ haircut??? HUH???? WHY DID HE LOOK LIKE HE WAS WEARING FUCKING FAKE BANG-CLIPONS AOIHWGOIHWOIWHOIGWH

IN CONCLUSION. Fuck Reginald Hargreeves and also just FUCK.

In conclusion, I really loved this season. It ended happier than I expected and that makes me happy, so much more happy then I thought I would have been. TUA has been one of my favourite shows, and I’ve over the past while waiting for S2, developed several strong loves for these characters. More than I’ve ever cared about others. And for the most part, they were given the justice I hoped they would be.

Overall, I am happy. And I hope we get season three, almost entirely just so I can figure out if Ben Hargreeves is wearing fake-bang clip ons or not. And also...like for everything else.

Also, what the fuck is a Sparrow Academy? Whomst??? And where’s miss Lila?? And are they technically related and if so HUH?? And also...no rights to Mr Reginald.

This is such a messy summary, lmao.

But let me know what you think! I’m going to rewatch it soon, probably tonight and I’m so excited to fall even more in love with it. (and them)

#tua #tua spoilers #the umbrella academy #the umbrella academy spoilers #diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #ben hargreeves #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #lila pitts #raymond chestnut #umbrella academy

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S3A-E6

Oh boy, here we go, Motel California is just full of absolute bullshit. *sigh* let’s get started then.

Read More’s are good for the environment (or so i’ve heard)

Before we start, I wanna let you guys know that I’m just not gonna comment on the Jennifer/Derek scenes. I just. I really honestly cannot do it. I don’t care. No. Also as this is well, this episode, please be advised that there will be extensive suicide mentions.

Thoughts:

I know this is random as hell, but that truck looks like mine. Oh, and look at the date, it’s only like nine years older than mine. nice.

why does it look like he’s nursing an arrow wound on his leg? Is it just me? That doesn’t look like a claw mark.

Can...can I just point out (god, i already need the tag) that....that they’re drawing a DIRECT parallel between this ARGENT HUNTER and Scott with the whole “lifting up the shirt to reveal the bite on their side’ thing? Like, it’s a perfect replica of when scott does it in the first episode. And they don’t do that with the others. Jackson’s bite was just Visible when he got out of the water and we never see Isaac, and Erica’s bites. Boyd’s was a whole sitting down thing on the Zamboni with his hoodie. They didn’t even do the same thing with Victoria ARGENT’s bite. OH and he’s wearing the heirloom necklace from season 1.

Wait, hold up. So, he just got bitten that night, but he’s already gonna shift? What? The bite works that fast?

....he’s from MA? Why tf is he in california? Also, he’s 27 apparently, oof.

Finstock...honey...you ran out of keys when you have like 6 students behind you still.

why is Finstock paying for Allison and Lydia’s room as well? He’s just that nice, or did he honestly forget they aren’t on the track team?

Maybe it’s just the Sterek shipper in me talking, but someone wanna explain why the fuck Stiles would put Derek on the suspect list for HUMAN SACRIFICES? Let alone TWICE? He literally just helped Derek get his pack back and has been working with them the whole time? Why???Would??He???Suspect???DEREK??? OR his sister???

I totally forgot that Scott promised Stiles he would watch Star Wars after they got back to Beacon Hills. SCOTT YOU ASSHOLE COME ON.

yeouch. You’re putting a huge damper on my Stydia brotp here Stiles. jeez.

*Movie trailer voice* He’s a hunter whose family has been torn apart by a human/werewolf war, who refuses to give up the fight against a species his clan has persecuted for centuries. He does weird detective work that makes no sense and looks like a Dark Souls ghost repeat of someone’s death. He insists on ‘staying out of things’ but then follows people around getting mad when things go wrong. Coming this summer, Chris Argent must actually learn.....to get off his ass and help.

WHY DO THEY ALL DO THE CLAW THING??? Yes, they are obviously claw marks. Why the fuck do you need to put your fingers on it?

Honestly, it makes me so sad because STiles is trying okay? Like, Boyd was pissed that Stiles acted like his friend when they never hung out, and STiles is trying to do the chill smalltalk thing, trying to point out things they have in common. He’s trying to MAKE FRIENDS and Boyd is just....uh...possessed? And still getting candy?? Huh?

Honestly, I’d do the same thing Stiles. Get that candy.

Allison, why’d you get in the shower if Lydia wasn’t back with the towels yet? How’re you planning on getting to them? You expect Lydia to come into the bathroom while you’re showering to put one there? #allydia confirmed.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS? I ALWAYS FORGET THIS HAPPENED. WHAT THE FUCK?

Okay, okay, look at that adaptation we got going on here. Remember, okay, the last time Allison was harassed sexually (which, holy shit I can’t believe this has happened twice) it was by Jackson, who was possessed by Matt. So when Scott gets super fucking creepy, instead of freaking out, her FIRST instinct is to check if he’s still himself, if he’s okay. She jumps to ‘possessed’ and tries to take care of him WHILE SHE”S NAKED IN THE SHOWER AND BEING CREEPED ON. Which, while absolutely horrendously terrifying, is also an interesting character growth. We get to see how Allison responds to the same situation, but a season later.

Really not a fan of the weird-ass focus they put on this woman’s stoma ( think that’s the word) like...are you seriously trying to make that a part of the ‘horror’ aspect of this episode? For real? what is wrong with you?

So I did the research, and actually, hotels aren’t required to tell anyone about deaths in their rooms. But they also renovate the entire room basically to clean that kind of thing up. Replacing walls and anything that can absorb liquid and even electronics. Oh, the things I google for this research. *sigh*

So, she says “since opening.” So...why does it even matter that an Argent was here? ALSO...why does the wolfsbane whistle matter? Clearly the whistle wasn’t the cause of the last howevermany (apparently 40) years of deaths, so why would it be the cause of these ones?? They gave like fifty different answers to the question of why the wolves (and only the wolves) tried to kill themselves and none of them make sense?

Hey, so...what the fuck even is this possession thing going on? What is it actually doing to these wolves? Why are they getting affected at different times? or did they all get affected at the same time, and the scene with Ethan and Danny is supposed to have been happening at the same time as the bit with Scott and Stiles? Is it supposed to like, make them more impulsive, or just drive them to do what they want to do? Boyd wants some candy, and he will get some candy. Isaac wants to watch tv so he just sits there and clicks through static endlessly. Scott wants to......fuck Allison?

Honestly? Good dad moment here. Chris. Good Dad Moment. I just, feel so bad for Allison. That when it comes down to it, she will always end up lying to her family to save Scott’s ass. Either when they’re dating and her dad wants to kill him for it, or when Scott shows up in her bathroom and grabs her and she can’t possibly tell her dad about it without Scott getting shot.

WHY do they treat that moment like it’s a big shocker that Allison was there? She TOLD her dad she would be going to help them. This shouldn’t be a surprise to him???

....wait how was allison on the phone with her dad, fully dressed and outside, but now she’s in her bra and drying her hair in the bathroom? TIMELINES. TW doesn’t HAVE them.

OKay, so Lydia says it’s only been 40 years, which would mean that the motel was only 6 years old when Alexander Argent died in it. Plus...Lydia literally says that approx. 4 deaths a year is a reasonable number? So...either this place has a lot of suicides, or it doesn’t. WHich one? Also, just because you have the warning at the beginning of the episode doesn’t mean you need to go into such callous detail about the different kinds of suicides that took place. God, that’s so tasteless.

As horrific as this moment is, I feel like I should point out that the behavior/conversation that Lydia hears...it’s nothing like what happened with the wolves. They’re talking about it, clearly nervous. But the wolves are stoic and silent. What? WHAT IS THIS PLOTLINE? IS THE MOTEL causing these suicides somehow, or are the werewolves poisoned by wolfsbane?? THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT PLOTS. WHICH ONE IS IT?

god, I just..I can’t not point out the contrast here! Lydia is saying she heard two people die in a room across the hall, and after leading Allison there they find an empty room going through renovation. All she has to say is “they were here” and Allison believes her. No hesitation. Stiles’ childhood best friend literally shows up dead and Scott refused to believe a word he said about human sacrifice until Deaton confirmed it. Yet Lydia and Allison have known each other less than a year, and Scott and Stiles are supposed to have been friends for ages.

I just...I hate fisheye lenses. they don’t give me any horror vibes at all, they just look stupid. Personal preference.

Boyd, honey, those things are supposed to have bags in them so they can be reused.

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS SCENE? WHAT THE FUCK? WHY WOULD THEY EVER BRING THIS UP JUST TO KILL BOYD OFF LATER? WHY?

Lydia is actually very correct, remember what I said about the renovating?

God, this episode has so much...just horrible shit. I’m gonna fucking ignore it for my own sanity and just focus on how wolfy it is that Isaac wouldn’t want to sleep under the covers at a hotel because it would probably smell. Plus, bare feets. Also, why’d he go to bed so early? Did Boyd go get the ice for him, since he’s sweating so much?

I love that they are roommates.

Okay, I don’t understand. Three more suicides are about to happen. Boyd, Ethan, and I guesss...Scott? So what the fuck was up with Isaac? I just...they’re supposed to like. give into their their worst thoughts or something? Boyd’s guilt about his sister. Ethan’s....something. Scott’s...uh...self-hatred? Or, I think it’s more his lack of self-confidence? He doesn’t hate himself, he just doesn’t think he can keep going. And Isaac’s ingrained guilt of doing the wrong thing? His fear of being useless...I guess? So is it supposed to make them suicidal and Isaac’s a weird case, or does it only do that sometimes, and the rest of the time it just leaves you paralyzed with fear? This makes literally no sense.

Where has Stiles been this entire time?

Uh...that’s not how Alphas work? Just because Derek died, it wouldn’t make Scott an Alpha. Scott didn’t kill him. Even if Derek Was dead, it would’ve been from impact or from the wounds Ennis gave him. In no universe would Scott become an alpha. If it was the impact, Cora would become Alpha, as the next blood relation. If it was Ennis, the Hale Alpha spark would be gone/soaked up by Ennis.

Okay...so, Stiles was in the bathroom brushing his teeth, and he didn’t hear Scott talking to the phone?

*snort* Stiles has a Nokia phone. How much do you wanna bet his dad bought that for him after the Pool Scene because he was trying to make sure Stiles didn’t break another phone?

Did...did Stiles just leave the room with the toothbrush in his mouth?

Okay, I get that this is a teen drama...but why does it have to be so obsessed with 16 and 17 year olds having sex? Seriously? It’s not the common occurrence people think it is? Now, if these were college age people...or, hell, even then it wouldn’t be this fucking common. Seriously. I don’t want eye-candy from someone who’s supposed to be 17 at MOST. Teenagers watching this might like the eye candy, but when I watched this at 17 I STILL was sick of the sexy scenes. Knock it off.

Also. Ethan IS STILL A FUCKING MURDERER.

.....uh....Ethan...do you not understand human anatomy? Giving Danny the bite wouldn’t remove the metal bars in his chest. It might heal the cartilage or whatever, but it wouldn’t REmove the BARS. Oh see that’s just creepy. Wait. OKay, are you telling me that Ethan’s thing that he wants, with this possession thing, is to bite Danny? AND HOW DOES DANNY NOT RESPOND TO THAT? HE’s supposed to know about werewolves, which means he HAS to be getting what Ethan’s going for. WTF?

...what the FUCk kind of voldemort “love and monsters” kinda bullshit was that? What does that have to do with Ethan’s deepest fear/insecurity?

I am...so confused. FIrst off, I love having Allison, Lydia, and Stiles all chillin’ trying to figure things out. THat’s amazing. But how do they know something’s up with Isaac? Also, it contradicts what I was theorizing before when Allison says the last time she saw Scott like that it was a full moon. Now I’m even more creeped out? WHy would they have her fully believe that it’s Scott, and just...let him be a fucking creep? Why would they openly admit that he’s been that terrifying with her before and then just...be chill about it? Also, when did she actually see Scott act like that? When he did it on his second moon Allison never saw him bc Derek tackled him into the woods. When did Scott go all creeper on her? Is this a REgular OCCUrREncE?

I know it was wasn’t intentional, but it’s such an adhd mood for Stiles to see the paper sticking out of the bible and just snatch at it. most people would call that ‘attention to detail’ but like...I just see it as ‘wtf is this, gotta know gotta know” mooood.

Why does Stiles go running to the next room like it’s an emergency, and what is the relevance of these articles in the bibles? LIke, yeah, you knew there were a ton of suicides. How does this help?? God, it’s like they were trying to make it a mini-horror film, but they just suck at understanding what the right order is to put things. FInding those articles should’ve been something that happened at the beginningin order to create a sense of unease, not in the middle of figuring things out!

how exactly did Stiles get the damn door open if it was locked? For that matter, how did Ethan know the handsaw was there? Was he on his way to talk to Lydia and Allison, or was he heading for Scott and Stiles’ room to get help? WHat’s going on???

Thank you Allison for not just Standing There. And Lydia for having a BRAIN. <3

HOW DID STILES HOLD BACK ETHAN? Ethan IS AN ALPHA? HOW?

OKay. I know I said I wouldn’t comment on these scenes with Jennifer, but this is just a general observation. DEREK. YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE. YOU ARE PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF CALLING PEOPLE FROM THE BED.

What...what does that mean Ethan? “You probably shouldn’t have.” WHat?

I know it’s supposed to be for the Allison/Scott angle, but I just love Lydia and Stiles heading to save the pack. *sigh*

I gotta say, I actually really respect Stiles for straight up telling Lydia about the parallels he’s seeing. Rather than hide it from her, he’s trying to get to the root of the problem, point blank and he’s being honest with her about his worries that she might be involved without even knowing it. And she listens and doesn’t get immediately defensive. This communication is SO GOOD. Stydia BROTP.

I’m fucking on the verge of tears. Sinqua, your acting is just...like, you barely speak in this scene and yet your face is just??So pained?

Bare feets. I know I point it out a lot, but like, compared to kali, who keeps her claws out all the time even in like a fucking hospital. It’s so cute to see Boyd and Isaac wandering barefoot in their hotel room. Just, the level of calm it implies, despite the situation. They feel so safe with each other.

ALSO did Boyd go through all of that while Isaac was under the bed?

WAIT WHAT? WHy is Lydia suddenly all pissed off? WHAT? That makes no sense! But then when she says his name, she doesn’t sound upset at all?? WHAT?

ALSO, I thought this was supposed to be about suicides? Why did they add this totally random (and horrific) thing? It has nothing to do with BoYD! JUST BECAUSE YOU PUT A TRIGGER WARNING DOESN”T MEAN YOU NEED TO MUSH AS MUCH FUCKED UP SHIT AS POSSIBLE INTO ONE EPISODE. GOD. It’s like those people who assume just because they’re allowed to do R rated shit, they have to have random sex scenes in their tv show.

where did Scott get gasoline? Like...where?

God fucking damn it, how fucking demonizing can you get, fucking juxtapositioning Scott’s suicidal monologue about Derek suffering and being dead, then jumping to Derek fucking someone instead of telling anyone he’s alive? What the fuck is wrong with these people? Why is it literally ANY TIME Stiles or Derek are in some way happy (NOT that I’m considering Derek at that moment in time Happy or in any way okay) they always make it out to be the most horrible thing ever? It’s like I said before, Stiles smiling on the field because he actually gets to play lacrosse? Jackson’s about to die. Stiles happy because he’s going to play a game in class? His best friend is missing. Derek....I’m not even going to give what’s going on a name. But then they just layer that over Scott...what even is he doing? Everyone else actually tried to kill themselves. Why is he just...standing there? Are they seriously trying to make the claim that his strength of will is so strong he’s the only one could can hold out against the...whatever the fuck is causing this? Jesus fucking christ do you have to turn him into Jesus every time? SERIOUSLY?

YOU DIDN”T THOUGH. SCOTT YOU LITERALLY REFUSED TO FIGHT BACK. YOU PLANNED A RENDEVOUS WITH DEUCALION BEHIND EVERYONE’S BACK BECAUSE YOU INSISTED FIGHTING BACK WAS WRONG. YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD IF DEREK AND THE OTHERS HADN”T COME TO FIND YOU.

...I get that this is supposed to be an emotional moment, but why the fuck does Scott’s monologue about how much he sucks have to drag Stiles down with him? Stiles was literally always good at lacrosse. He never got ‘better’ before being put on the field. You saying that the both of you were ‘nothing’ is a terrible, horrible thing to say because you’re implying that because Stiles didn’t get the bite like you did, the only thing that makes him more than nothing is being your friend. How does Scott manage to be a total asshole even when he’s in the middle of explaining why he wants to die?

AGAIN WITH THE RANDOM PLOTLINES. DAVIS WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? IS THE HOTEL HAUNTED, OR IS THE WHISTLE FULL OF WOLFSBANE OR IS THE DARACH ACTIVELY MAKING THEM KILL THEMSELVES? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? ANd why would the Darach be making them kill themselves?? THey don’t match any of her sacrifice requirements! This makes no sense with the plotline you follow for the rest of the season!

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SCENE? Scott was NOWHERE NEAR Ethan? WHY THE FUCK DID HE GIVE SCOTT THE CREDIT FOR SAVING HIS LIFE? And why would he thank him for it, when he told Stiles he shouldn’t have been saved? WHAT IS GOING ON?

Also, why does Ethan have like, a bruise thing on his cheek? Is that...is that a skin thing, or like, a show thing?

This doesn’t solve the problem of Allison’s car being stuck with an empty tank at the side of the road halfway to Beacon Hills.

dude. you realize that was literally 34 years ago? Deucalion would have to be like 50. and even then he would’ve been a fucking 16 year old Alpha. So that makes Deucalion more likely in his 60s. Also, why the fuck do you care Chris? This is such a random fucking thing. It makes no sense. What the fuck does it matter now?

Last Thoughts: What the fuck even is this episode? It’s like this steaming dumpster fire of half-assed ideas and loose ends to plots we’ll never see and really shitty horror movie vibes. We’re talking D List or maybe E list horror movies. I’m honestly disgusted? I can’t remember the last time I had to watch something so tasteless and cruel and insensitive in every single way?

.....on to the next episode, I guess. God, I need to change all of this in the rewrite, and I don’t know if I can actually make it good?

#personal #anti-scott mccall #TeenWolf-Rewatch

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Everything Wrong With The Umbrella Academy. Episode 6, The Day That Wasn’t.

We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals

Run Boy Run

Extra Ordinary

Man on the Moon

Number Five

Disclaimer: This is all in good fun! I wanted to do a really nitpicky re-watch of the series and found some really cool and interesting things I didn’t notice before. This is meant to have a Cinema Sins-esque tone. However, I did take off a lot more sins than Cinema Sins would have because I do genuinely like the series and the people that made it possible. So all of the good things got one sin off and all the bad things got one sin added. This is a really long post, so grab some popcorn. If there’s anything that I missed, feel free to add it!

I would also like to add that normally you wouldn’t watch a show this way. I am purposefully looking for mistakes, easter eggs, and other things that we’re not supposed to notice. I am watching not with the goal of entertainment, but for analysis. So most of the things that I sin, I am seeing for the first time.

Also, no I can’t do better. I am in no way qualified to give this level of criticism about anything.

[Today we got the s2 release date!! I am so excited. To answer any questions about that, I will probably do a season 2 version of this a year after it comes out. Since some of my sins involve fandom and any fic tropes/theories we might come up with, I want to make sure that has time to happen.]

The Day that Wasn’t

Only Dave notices Klaus coming to Vietnam via briefcase. The flashing blue lights and loud “oof!” isn’t loud enough to wake anyone else up. +1

Cody Ray Thompson’s workout routine. -1

“Katz” isn’t a fandom thing! The dude that is yelling at all the soldiers and Klaus to get ready (some sort of commanding officer?) calls Dave “Katz”! -1

Klaus is so confused that he just puts the pants on without really questioning it. What the fuck was going on in Klaus’s head? +1

Where is Ben? +1

Right where I’m paused Klaus’s face is hilarious. “It was at this moment Klaus knew. He fucked up” -1

The Power of Boners is what keeps Klaus in the fucking Vietnam War. +1

For all future Dave sins, I am calling it The Power of Boners because Dave gets one line. As soon as the show corrects this and shows us why Dave was so wonderful, these remain sins. Sin for the show for not providing more Dave content. +1

Overly saturated forigen country cliche. +1

Seriously, why is Vietnam so orange? +1

The Doors. -1

This one shot in the foreground of the girl with white boots. I want those boots so badly. Costume people, where did you get them? Sin until I know, damnit! +1

Cool white boots are cool. -1

Klaus’s dance moves. -1

Klave. -1

Scene does not contain a lap dance. +1

Or any other indication that Dave and Klaus didn’t just make out once and decided to remain friends. Please give me more Klave content show. If anything, just to flesh out this character who motivates Klaus for half of the season. +1

Luther barges in on people in the bathroom. He has six siblings! Anyone with at least one sibling knows that barging in on people in bathrooms is a shitty move. Heh, shitty move, bathroom, get it? +1

Klaus’s face when Luther deadpans “the world’s ending in three days”. It’s the face of someone who completely forgot about that since he’s been in the 60s for ten months. -1

Also, the way Luther tells Klaus “the world’s ending in three days” is the same way I might tell my brother that it’s time for dinner. +1

“Five’s a little- [coo coo whistle]” Emmy Raver-Lampman kills this line. -1

Luther’s face when Allison asks “what did Five even see?” brings me so much joy. That is the look of complete panic. Love that. -1

Luther can’t lie for shit. Checks out. -1

Anyone with siblings can relate to Diego, Allison, and Klaus’s reaction to this bull. -1

The dramatic music leading into the little “we died” followed by a sip of coffee. Priceless. -1

Title umbrella scares the shit out of Klaus! -1

Comic power foreshadowing? Sin until we get answers. +1

Foreshadowing that Five is in HQ by sending orders that don’t follow the same format as the rest of the ones on the shoe. Fiveshaddowing? -1

Kate Walsh plays an excellent villain. Part of that evil demeanor is getting all up in Five’s personal bubble. This is the closest Five has been to someone in the entire show without any injury or being drunk. -1

The Handler is creepy. +2

Five makes demands after setting foot in the building for less than one minute. +1

The masks from the comics are on the wall in the briefcase room. -1

Based on the two agents we see in the briefcase room and Hazel and Cha Cha, the uniform of the commission assassin is a blue suit, yet all of Five’s are grey or black like management. Inconsistency. +1

Typewriters. I hate those things. +1

I think Aidan Gallagher forgot what he was doing in this scene. His expression doesn’t look like Five, it looks like some kid who is letting a math lecture wash over them. You could make the argument that Five is sort of letting this wash over him too, but I would call bullshit. Five knows how dangerous of a situation he’s in right now. He shouldn’t look this calm. +1

The Handler touching Five’s face. +3

Dot has the “i’m in danger” expression when meeting Five because Dot let Five live in hell for 45 years. Five also looks like he wants to kill her. Great acting, Patrice Goodman. -1

Five’s expression when Dot says “No hard feelings” brings me so much joy. And fear. -1

The Handler makes Five the teacher’s pet on his first day by calling him leadership material in front of his new coworkers. +1

Kate Walsh was temporarily directed by Tim Burton for this scene. +1

That weird look one of the commission management people gives Five once Five sits down and starts working. I don’t like it, I don’t like it! +1

The Hargreeves mansion looks really fucking chaotic on the roof. I don’t like it. +1

Leonard’s face at finally being allowed inside the Hargreeves mansion. Just the right dose of satisfied and creepy. Well done, John Magaro. -1

Leonard is raising so many red flags that he may as well be a stop sign. +1

Umbrella Academy action figures. Oh, Reggie. +1

Luther has to explain that everyone in the whole world dies and not just them. The Umbrella Academy School of Delayed Reactions due to Stupidity was too long of a name so Reggie shortened it to The Umbrella Academy. +1

Allison’s right, Vanya isn’t being fair. However, Allison isn’t specific about how Vanya is family but Leonard is not. Sin for both of them for being dumb as hell. +2

“I’m gonna go find Vanya” “There isn’t time, we need to figure out what causes the apocalypse” irony. +1

“Nuclear war” cited as one of the possible causes of the apocalypse. Comics fans, enjoy this sin off. -1

“But I’m thinking this is about the Moon, right?” well yeah, but not for the reasons you think. Foreshadowing the moon. -1

That creepy portrait of Five behind Diego. No, not the big one, the other one by the bar. What the fuck, Reggie? +1

Leonard steals the action figure of The Monocle (reggie for those who don’t know the comics), which symbolizes the way Leonard feels he is controlling the Academy through Vanya. -1

Leonard is creepy. +1

Ben doesn’t realize that Klaus is going through withdrawal despite seeing it the day before. Sure, Ben could have been more focused on the tourture, but because Ben points out Klaus’s withdrawal by name in Man on the Moon, we can assume he noticed and that this is a continuity error. +1

Vanya’s powers affecting the world around her as soon as she is a safe distance away from the academy because reasons. Seriously, there should have been at least something while she was confronting her siblings. Show plays fast and loose with the rules of Vanya’s powers. +1

“If you tie me up after.” “Come again?” Diego and Klaus have the most sibling like relationship on this entire show. -1

Klaus’s Diego impression. -1

Excessive use of the word “bro”. One sin for every time I have to hear it in this scene. +2

“Mr. Five”. Is Five’s first name “Number” or did he not give the Commission any other name? Does this imply that he doesn’t go by Five Hargreeves? +1

This is one of the few scenes where Aidan Gallagher no longer looks like Aidan Gallagher and instead looks like Five. Acting. -1

Dot is really trying to get murdered. Don’t engage the man you put through hell for almost fifty years, moron. +1

The Handler has nothing better to do than to stalk Five. Does this lady have a job or did she take the day off specifically for this? What was she doing in the tube room?+1

The origin of “deadly little thing” is fucking Gloria? Really, fandom? +1

Five is too good of an actor. I understand why Aidan Gallagher might make some of these choices as an actor but I don’t understand how a man who grew up alone in the apocalypse can act this well. +1

The Handler keeps singling Five out in front of his coworkers. +1

The Handler’s arm around Five’s shoulders. +1

Creepy dude is back. I’m not even going to try and look up this guy’s name, but the expression suggests something I don’t want to think about. +1

Creepy guy’s name is Herb. Of course it is. +1

The file Five picks up just has a smiley face inside of it, which suggests that the Handler put it there as a red herring. Nice touch, show. -1

Gender neutral bathrooms. -1

Five’s expression when the Handler continues talking to him as she is peeing. -1

The Handler talks to Five while peeing. Gross. +2

His expression when she starts coughing is so funny. -1

Rugae +1

The Handler peeks over the door of the bathroom stall. +10

Cha Cha says, “Sure, shoot” when Hazel asks if he can ask her a question. +1

Where did the gunshot come from if Cha Cha didn’t shoot Hazel? I get they’re using it to make us think that she did, but there is no other explanation for the noise. +1

Luther frantically searching for his moon research makes me very sad. +1

Also, I’m kind of bored with this episode at this point. It’s such a low episode with the only interesting parts that make me as excited as the last episode Number Five, being the Commission parts. Everything else is kind of boring. Pick up the pace, show. +1

Reggie is a dick to Luther. +7

Luther looks so lost and broken and sad. I’m sad. Fuck you, Reggie. +1

Why the fuck was Luther carrying an axe?? +2

And rope?? +2

When and where did Luther find the time and money to get the engraved gold locket for Allison? This interaction is so full of plot holes and stupidity. +1

However, Cameron Brodeur and Eden Cupid do well with this dumb writing. -1

Seriously, who wrote this scene? The fact that I can’t bring myself to care about what is going on right now says a lot. +1

Reggie jump scare. +1

Cliche record scratch. How did that happen? Did Luther or Allison bump into it? Sin for lack of clarity and for destroying a record. +1

“Fun and games are restricted to Saturdays between noon and half past noon” Reggie is a dick to his children. +7

Klaus and Diego bonding. Literally? -1

Ben is in this scene! -1

I forgot how weird the soundtrack is for this scene. It’s too ominous. Scoring is important. +1

“Dave must have been a very special person to put up with all your weird-ass shit.” -1

“He was kind and strong and vulnerable and beautiful” that’s great, show. Why don’t you show us that instead of having Klaus say it. Just once scene where Dave shows these qualities so that he’s a real person instead of someone created to drive Klaus’s storyline? Please? +1

I feel really bad for Ben in this scene. From Ben’s perspective, he wasn’t good enough to motivate Klaus to get sober, but this random guy was. Ben angst. +1

Also, Justin Min manages to convey this without any lines. Major props. That takes some serious skill. -2

Bro. +1

“Everyone I like is already dead”. Fridging. +1

I can’t tell if this is Ben walking away or if this is the transition between Diego and Klaus’s point of views. If this is meant to imply the pov switch, It would have been easier to have Ben disappear from the same spot. If it’s Ben walking away because he can’t take being told that he isn’t good enough to get sober for, Ben angst. Either way, it’s a sin. +1

“Aww shit! I need to pee.” Diego’s expression is amazing. -1

“If this [having powers] is even true, everything I know about myself would be different.” That is Vanya’s storyline in a nutshell. This line is really underrated. -1

All of Leonard’s lines point towards the book. All of them. Which makes total sense. -1

Vanya is starting to show more sass and personality because the pills are gone. I wish fanfic writers would explore this. Including myself, I am sinning fanfic writers for not taking into account how cool Vanya is without the meds. +1

“I’m sorry you got stuck with the ordinary one” See! +1

“Ordinary” This word keeps coming up. Probably because of the whole rumor situation that we’re not supposed to know about yet. Rewatches are fun. -1

“My life is so weird” “I like weird”. And if you weren’t such a colossal creep, Leonard/Harold, I would like you too. This line is super sweet. Sin for manipulation. +1

Ellen Page isn’t my girlfriend. Have you seen this scene recently? She looks so cute/hot/beautiful here. +1

No transition, just straight from Leonard and Vanya kissing to The Handler slurping her smoothie. It’s jarring. +1

I want to know why they decided that killing Archduke Ferdinand would start World War I. Noodle incident. +1

“I had a bad Twinkie in the apocalypse once. Kinda put me off desserts.” Yet you still ate the fluffernutter sandwich, Five? +1

The Handler’s office is really cool. Once again, set designers you win this one. -1

Why would Five go straight for a decade instead of a flavor? How does something taste like the 1950s before it tastes like a popular candy from the time for example? +1

The suit is blue like the rest of the time travel assassins have. This suggests a uniform that the Commission didn’t make Five wear before, and suggests a sort of power play. Details. -1

The Handler is a fucking creep. +1

“M26 grenades from the Vietnam war”. This is the comment that sparked the theory that the Commission killed Dave. I want answers. +1

The candy that tastes like the 50s is really chewy. Why is Five still chewing it? +1

The Handler gives Five a pistol and he doesn’t immediately shoot her, which suggests that the pistol is empty. So why was the grenade still operational if the other weapons were not? You would think she would make sure that the grenades couldn’t be used against her. +1

The Handler is a fucking creep. I think Aidan Gallagher was a little uncomfortable in this scene. The look in his eyes isn’t something you can fake. +1

Kate Walsh is an awesome actress. -1

Out of all the candies in the bowl, Five conveniently takes one that is an actual candy and one that is a tracker. +1

So I want to talk about Luther. I think the show did him a great disservice by setting up his story this way. Compared to the Commission stuff, Luther’s story arc doesn’t seem important, hence the “Dad sent me to the Moon” jokes. If this was in a better order, then maybe the fandom would like Luther more. Not that I know what that order should have been, but it definitely shouldn’t have been this one. This whole episode seems kind of disorganized and Luther’s character suffers for it. After this sin, I’m going to shut up about it, so I’ll just add a few and move on. +5

“Four years of my life. A lie” “What an asshole” That’s a bit of an understatement, Allison. Seriously, this Moon research has got to have some value to it. Luther was studying the moon for four fucking years. Who knows what kind of crazy shit he could have found out about the moon’s atmosphere and what the Earth was like when the moon split from it. Those soil samples would tell us a lot about what the developing planet Earth was like. Luther’s moon research is important scientific material. And Reggie just locked it away. +3

This scene is excellent independently. Tom Hopper and Emmy Raver-Lampman play off each other extremely well. -1

“Can I show you something?” +1

The tools in the greenhouse have not moved in seventeen years. +1

And neither has the dust free record player. +1

Two cans of generic cola from seventeen years ago. And these two morons drink them. The family brain cell is dying. +1

This is such a sibling moment. Trying to do something nice and then it all goes up in flames? Sibling. Culture. -1

You know what isn’t sibling culture? The fucking locket. +3

This is a really human moment for Cha Cha. Burning the note shows that deep down, she cares about Hazel. -1

However, I don’t understand why she’s so pissed about Agnes. Is the show trying to ship Hazel and Cha Cha? Because that would be a stretch and I really don’t see it. +1

Klaus asking for one last hit is believable. Diego’s reaction is really good too. Well done. -1

Klaus’s ptsd. Putting my boy through trauma. +1

The wound on Dave’s chest has to be an exit wound. He was behind the barrier, so there’s no way he could have been shot from the front by the enemy. Someone (like a Commission agent) shot him from the back. So I guess we sort of got answers? I’m going to sin this until we know for sure. +1

Klaus is distraught. My poor boy. +1

Why is the chandelier still on the ground? You would think somebody would have attempted to pick that up at this point, right? It’s been two days. +1

Grace’s more relaxed hairstyle shows that she isn’t under Reggie’s strict control anymore. The tight pin curls are now replaced by gorgeous waves. Symbolism, well done hair stylist. -1

Grace lies because Pogo is standing behind Diego. Otherwise, I think she would have told him the truth right then and there. Secrets. +1

Yo, @ Luther. Who the fuck eats a hot dog like that? +1

Also, it was bright daylight when Diego was talking to Grace and now it’s pitch black out. What happened in those hours? +1

Talking about their regrets, Allison says “we can’t go back”. Insert every season 2 headcanon and the whole “Where are they?” tag line from the season 2 promos. +1

Allison attempts to see the silver lining of child abuse. This works and is a valid coping mechanism that I think is totally in character. Well done, writers. -1

The kiss on the cheek is very “this is the last time I will see my sibling whom I love very dearly and who also loves me for me”. This should have been it for Allison and Luther kissing because it’s a really good moment. -1

I love the dancing in the moonlight scene because it’s a reference to something from the comics. -1

The choreography is really, really good. Emma Portner fucking rules. -1

And I love the earrings that Allison is wearing. No joke, someone please tell me where I can find them, they’re adorable and I would love to have them. -1

However, the show made us see two sibling characters kiss. In a very romantic way. +15

And it’s very clear that this kiss happens outside of the fantasy too. +15

Also, without the lights and the music, were Allison and Luther just two weirdos dancing in the park to nothing? +1

The transition to get back to the Commission is really good. -1

“Gloria. The Handler knows that Five is up to something. Get this to Hazel and Cha Cha immediately.” Was the extra info about Five necessary? I feel like a regular person wouldn’t say that. +1

Gloria doesn’t know who the second best assassins are. +1

Five gets that stapler out of nowhere. This goes back to his unexplained power from episode 1, but now the question is: Is this switching power stapler based? +1

Five’s expression when he finally gets the name of the man who will cause the apocalypse. -1

And now we know the origin of the terminate Hazel message. Five, you clever bastard. -1

Did we see the terminate Cha Cha message before this? I can’t remember. If we didn’t then it’s a great reveal. If we did, then I didn’t care enough to pay attention. [I looked back] We didn’t. Great reveal. -1

Five, hide your bodies better so they don’t start waking up for comedic timing. +1

The comedic timing of Gloria waking back up. -1

“You’re a first rate pragmatist!” no he’s not. Have you been paying attention to Five’s character at all, Handler? If he was, then he never would have broken his contract because he was safe in the Commission.+1

Also, this is what a lot of fanfic writers base Five off of. Not his actual character, this fucking line. Sin for the fandom. +1

Why did they have to split up this scene? The Handler just attempted to shoot Five and now we’re supposed to care about Mom and Diego?? +1

Grace finally gets to tell the truth! Sin for Pogo and Reggie for forcing her to lie. +1

The truth. -1

The Commission desk people do care about Gloria. Caring. -1

Vanya finding Reggies book. This could have been the original trigger to the apocalypse in the first timeline. I want answers. How did it go down originally? +1

Dave! -1

“I do owe a debt. But it’s not to you.” This is one of those lines that will be referenced in a future season. “See, [this character and/or relationship] was referenced in season 1” or something like that. This is my favorite Five line, too. -2

Five once again stands too close to an explosion. Fuckin’ run, dude! +1

The ending of this episode reminds me of the “and it was all just a dream” ending that 5th graders write. Nothing in this episode has any consequences. +3

And I am adding back the sins I took off and then some for the important bits like Diego and Klaus bonding, Grace telling Diego all the secrets, and Klaus seeing Dave. +4

Wednesday. 8:15 A.M. (...again). The time stamp is pretty good though. -1

“What gives us a win this time?” And then Five appears. -1

Five snatches Allison’s coffee. And he should be bleeding from the shrapnel wound. +2

Allison’s face when Five snatches her coffee. -1

Diego, Luther, Klaus, and Allison are all watching Five stumble weird and chug Allison’s coffee with the funniest expressions. I want to know what they were thinking. Ya know, beyond “What the Fuck?”. +1

Those expressions, though. -1

“So if y’all don’t get your sideshow acts together” Five this whole season has been you saving the world and everyone else as a sideshow act. That’s gonna take a lot more effort than saving the world. +1

Aidan Gallagher fucking nails this scene. Expletive required. This is why I respect him as an actor. This scene would have been so easy to over act, but he kills this monologue. -5

If you look closely at Five’s hair, it looks sort of like the triangular shape from the comics. I can’t tell if that was intentional, but it was a good detail. Hair department. -1

“Who the hell is Harold Jenkins” followed by a coffee slurp. That is how they end the episode? Really? It would have been stronger without the coffee. +1

Season 2 comes out on July 31, 2020! I got the announcement just as I was finishing this episode! I’ll take off a sin because we finally know! Whoop!! -1

Overall review:

After the powerhouse that is episode 5, this episode feels odd and out of place. My favorite parts were the Commission parts, and everything else felt like an interruption. Even more so when you consider that the commission parts are the only parts of the episode that actually happened. Sure, it’s great character building, but without any consequences, it feels cheap. I feel like I’ve said everything I needed to say, so I won’t get crazy with the analysis. I would say more if anything in this episode actually mattered.

Total: 112

Sentence: The Umbrella Academy of Reacting to things Slowly due to Stupidity. Say that 10 times fast. Then I will undo all your hard work through the power of time travel. Seriously, fuck this ending.

#The Umbrella Academy #all in good fun #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #dave katz #leonard peabody #harold jenkins #the handler #dot #gloria #the commission

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dadsbongos · 4 years

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Hargreeves Kids in Order of Their Problems (and do i have a problem?)

No secret that the Hargreeves children are all fucked up, but as I was re-watching I was like damn - what if we ranked them? So here we go, I’m ranking all the Hargreeves’ spawn by their pain; taking into account their trauma with and without Reginald (mostly for Five/Klaus) and how bad it messed them up. I’ll be sticking mostly to the first season because that’s where a lot of the meat is, but I might include a tiny peek into season two.

Also, I will be directly addressing the frequent question I ask myself “Am I attracted to trauma when it comes to characters?” by looking at my favorites and if they’re all deeply scarred.

S Tier Pain - Five Hargreeves:

Not only was he forced to endure Reginald’s abusive training regime (at least until the haha moment), but he also got stuck in the future after a miscalculated time jump. You’d think that’d be bad enough, what with no longer being able to see your family, but no. Well, technically he did see them when he found their dead bodies but that’s just more to Five’s suffering. He also got jammed into a post-Apocalyptic life where he was the sole survivor and had to live all on his own (though he had Dolores, which is a whole can of sad, loneliness worms we don’t have time for). Then to make matters worse he was taken into the Commission where he was turned into as assassin for years, to which he quit early to save his family from the Apocalypse. After the first one - yes, the first - and arriving in the 60s, Five got to see a glimpse of his siblings dying to the second one. All he ever does is for his family’s survival, even if it means his misery. In season one (and two) he makes a deal with the Handler, who he can’t stand, just to

maybe

ensure she’ll protect his loved ones from the end of the world. He willingly works with a woman he hates and likely doesn’t trust so his family would be safe. And who could forget that redheaded lady in the bowling alley, like gosh, she really ruined his life by assuming his age like that... poor guy.

A Tier Pain - Klaus Hargreeves:

Unlike Five, he got to stick around for the entirety of Reggie’s cuck ways of abusing his kids physically/emotionally/mentally. From a young age (if that episode two lunch scene is anything), Klaus has been using drugs as a way to cope with his family life and his power. His addiction has led to a rather sad life, as evident from the first episode and some of his own dialogue - he’s not used to staying in one place, if anything his visits to rehab centers are the longest homes he really has. He’s not expected to stay sober long by the counter employee, indicating he’s been there before multiple times. When talking to Five outside of the prosthetic department, he outright admits he hasn’t been with someone for longer than about two weeks. He’s never shown to even hold down a job unless you count supplying local pawn shops - or, you know, the army. He served in war, straight up war, he likely has PTSD and to make things better, note the sarcasm, he lost his boyfriend in that war. Dave, the one person he’s described as loving more than he does himself. Klaus is constantly brushed under the rug as this crazy, attention-seeking junkie for most of season one by his family, but he’s more likely just calling for the help he clearly needs. Speaking of his family, I just wanna throw in that Klaus was kidnapped and tortured and not one person seemed to notice or even care.

B Tier Pain - Vanya Hargreeves:

Neglected by her adoptive father and siblings her entire life, Vanya was left out of the loop of even her own powers until she discovered them fucking decades later. She wrote a book trying to air out her father’s awful deeds and rather than finding solidarity with their shared agony at least a little, her siblings pushed her even further away. Quick mention, during the argument on whether or not to turn off Grace, she was immediately shut down on an opinion until she was shown to agree with Diego. Her vote didn’t matter until she sided with another sibling. Vanya grew up so starved for attention and love that when she got into her first relationship with Leonard (that bitchy murderer) she mistook it for a real love. Stayed with an abusive, gaslighting killer against all her sister’s warnings. She was betrayed by her own brother (fuck Luther, me and the homies hate Luther) after coming home, sobbing and pleading forgiveness, just wanting to help into being locked back in that vault Reginald used to keep her in. Vanya snapped, felt there was no other outlet and truly there possibly wasn’t for her, and ended the world. She was in so much pain, so angry with her life and how it was ruined by her own family that she blew up the moon. And honestly? I’m not even mad at her for it.

C Tier Pain - Diego Hargreeves:

Dude found his ex-girlfriend’s - and probably his potential love interest’s - corpse. He’s aching inside at least a bit. His spot as Number Two fueled a deep need to prove himself, whether he admits it or not, it’s why he’s a vigilante. Diego functions off of stopping crime and it’s only different from his childhood because he does it alone. He feels the need to validate what he went through, as if his suffering needs to be explained in some way. Speaking of childhoods, who gives them to us? Moms. Grace is his robo-Mom with no real sentience (well, before Cha-Cha and Hazel raided the place anyway, reboot Grace has some weird independence complex going on). She read to him, put him to bed, and fed his Mama’s Boy fixation - even going as far as to help Diego with his stutter. He put her down, in the robot sense. Diego was the first person to speak against shutting Grace down and yet he did so himself - knowing it’s what had to happen.

D Tier Pain - Ben Hargreeves:

He’s dead, so I’m not sure what he’s gone through other than having “The Horror” in his stomach and Reginald as a dad. So there’s not much to say about his trauma other than having to sit through watching people die horribly by his power’s hand. But again, he’s dead, and dying is one of the most traumatic things I can think of. That’s why he’s higher than the others but still lower than the previous four Hargreeves’ kids.

E Tier Pain - Allison Hargreeves:

She’s known as a “Daddy’s Girl” how that’s possible with Reginald, I’m not sure, but she is. Not to excuse any of the torment she got as a child or give the abuse a pass, at all. It’s just an inference that as Number Three and someone who easily got what she wanted with her power, she probably didn’t feel out-casted like Vanya. Nor was she left to survive on her own and then kill to live like Five. Allison, in all fairness, was viciously attacked by her sister after revealing she “Rumored” her memory away. Unlike Ben, she survived and went on to be the peaceful one of the family and her power didn’t directly kill, especially in ways that “The Horror” did. So I must rank her pain lower with a sad bob in my throat, nervous that all the Allison lovers will scream at/cancel me for putting her at E.

F Tier Pain - Luther Hargreeves:

Fuck Luther, me and the homies hate Luther. This little fuck found something out of proving himself to his father. So far up his dad’s ass that he was cool with being a monkey space boy for years until he realized Reginald didn’t give a shit about him. And honestly? Same. No but really, he did become a monkey man purely out of Reginald’s need for a hero to do what he said - and Luther couldn’t fill that if he was dead. I do recognize that his life was essentially wasted by his years spent on the moon, blindly following Dad’s orders but to be honest, he’s too in the background. He had nothing other than his father and therefore lost nothing other than his family, it’s hard to feel bad when you know he had no intention of doing anything other than be by Reginald. No plans unlike Klaus who had his life decimated by his drugs dependency or fuck, Five! Five had absolutely no life other than living through the Apocalypse for decades. Overall, I hate Luther but even though I can’t stand his gorilla guts, I do recognize that he has trauma.

~~~Do I Have A Problem?~~~ Considering that Five and Klaus are my favorite characters and they are the most traumatized? Yes, I am unnecessarily in love with characters in pain. I didn’t want to be a mannequin before I knew about Five, and now I crave to morph into Dolores (or at least combine with her like a Power Ranger)

#the umbrella academy #tua #number five #five hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #diego hargreeves #ben hargreeves #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #five the umbrella academy #klaus the umbrella academy #vanya the umbrella academy #diego the umbrella academy #ben the umbrella academy #allison the umbrella academy #anti luther hargreeves #fuck monky space boy

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letbenfuck2021 · 4 years

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I'm soo conflicted about S2! Personally I only truly enjoyed Klaus and Allison storyline. I love Ellen Page usually but some scenes I found so boring I liked Sissy more than her. They really did Vanya dirty and I hate it so much. Partly I'm happy peolpe liked S2 so we can maybe have a S3 and hopefully give her a better arc but still

I....I think that it was the least integrated anon and removed from the story with Luther’s coming in a close second but his independent story fell off pretty quickly and integrates with the main storyline. But the problem of it being separate from the main apocalypse story would have felt less so if it had been written more strongly and the writers had given it the time it deserved rather than relying on out-dated tropes and storylines. I think TUA often likes to brand itself as being innovative and certainly there are some aspects of it that are very....weird and maybe even fresh but their story/character arc choices aren’t one of them.

I feel like I always harp on this but the character writing in TUA is bad. I think the character/character arc writing was at its height in the first three eps of season 1 where characters had clear motivations and solid characterizations. As the season went on the character writing kind of just got worse. See, characters need to make sense. TUA is a...fantasy/scifi...mishmash of a genre fictive work, that means that they can pull shit like season two’s final twist where they bend the rules they’ve established for time travel but what is less flexible is character writing because for a show like TUA that would be its grounding element. But honestly, it feels as though the writers this season somehow....forgot? about everyone’s character arcs from last season and opted to just have everyone play out the same character crisis as last season? I think the only ppl who’s character arc carried over was maaaaaaaybe....Luther and Allison? but....the decision for Allison to not use her powers anymore happened off-screen in S1 and she ended up using it again anyway, same for this season.....Luther....kiiiiind of has some growth but it happens so suddenly and also off-screen that it’s kind of....hollow.

TUA writers seem to rely A LOT on off-screen character growth or instant character growth. take Klaus and Ben’s relationship at the end of S2. In S1, we are given their dynamic. It's pretty run of the mill, a sort of...play on the buddy cop duo trope. Ben is a mostly responsible and level-headed person who has been chained to an eternal child with self-destructive tendencies. They constantly antagonize one another though they seem to care about each other to some extent but this doesn’t really change in S2. Up until Ben’s departure, Klaus continues to antagonize Ben and insult him and Ben continues to have zero respect for Klaus and his choices and criticize him for his actions. They never really reconcile or change by the time they depart so when Klaus asks Vanya about Ben in the car, the narrative tries to frame it as though its a big emotional moment when just a little while ago they were still throwing petty insults and comments at each other. It doesn’t make sense. It is an unearned emotional beat that rings as....well untrue. The flashback that they had given us that same ep doesn’t really help either because it comes too late and therefore had ZERO effect on the pair’s dynamic throughout their entire relationship. This is poor, unsatisfying writing.

And I could go on for ages about why Vanya’s arc just....really doesn’t work this season. yeah yeah, I know everyone loooooves this new, not-sad Vanya but it is wholly unsatisfying the way she got to that point. It happens instantly. She didn’t grow, she didn’t change. She was brain-damaged and magically all her problems are gone (also I could go on for ages about why this doesn’t work either. trauma lives not just in the brain but in the body. read “the body keeps the score”. its a great book and a very informative read and anyone who wants to write characters who have trauma should read that book). This isn’t growth. It’s an erasure. And some can argue that Vanya is more entertaining now that she’s not bogged down by her trauma and abuse but to that I say 1) fuck you but also 2) she may be more entertaining but she is rendered almost inert this season. There’s no way for her to really continue on her S1 storyline and she isn’t really allotted the time needed to create a new arc for her. Naturally, the arc that should have been hers should have been her figuring out her place within the family. Had her memories survived throughout the season (though they hardly seemed to make a difference once she DID get them back, she showed no fear of using her powers despite remembering that she killed the whole world a few days ago, no hesitance or shame towards her siblings who were complicit in her abuse and oppression but whom she had hurt immensely, why even give her memories back? now they have reset her arc AGAIN!!) this arc would have worked nicely into continuing her S1 arc. Her place in the academy was...arguably the most stable out of all the sibs. Where they all seemed to have vied for the top-dog position, Vanya’s placement rested permanently at the bottom but now that this has been disrupted, there’s a lot of reevaluation that has to be had. But! I digress because this was not Vanya’s arc. Her arc (if you can call it that) was...once again divorced from the main storyline until the end YET AGAIN!

Season 2 was....highly frustrating for me. It seemed to have a higher budget which means the sets were better, the action more elaborate, and it is honestly a beautiful show but the show did very little to improve its issues with storytelling and its writing and that was a real bummer because I am in the extremely bad and unfortunate habit of liking good stories.

Anyway anon, I have gone on FAAAAAR too long and this is a HUGE fucking reply but I hope that at least I didn’t bore you. Have a good one and thanks for the ask <3

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Heya Quinn! What’s your full opinion on that new season of TUA?

oh my GOD i love it SO MUCH (spoilers ahead)

luther has none of my respect at all. fucking hate him. he nearly killed vanya at the beginning of the season???? and then tried to find his ex girlfriend / sister who was already married and cried to her husband about it?????? he’s just. ew.

onto diego! he was fun this season, i will admit that he’s a lil hot with a beard but also he just. the fact that david castañeda couldn’t stop laughing during the elevator scene just makes me appreciate him so much. also “hell yeah! i made that machine my bitch!” was my favorite line of his

allison is an absolute hero, she did so good this season!!! i just love her so much, and i’m glad she stood up for what she knew was right and also got married which was dope!! ray is much better than apeman :) (which by the way when she explained everything about 2019 to him he went “we have a black president?” which fits his character perfectly but he doesn’t even REACT to the whole umbrella academy dhfkfj he’s just like “i can excuse superpowered children but a black president, man....” but yeah i love ray anyway) yeah she’s just super amazing and i appreciate her

KLAUS!! he is my favorite i can’t explain how much i love him! i feel like he was just used for cheap puns this season, they could’ve elaborated more on him being able to physically interact with ben or the whole possession aspect but it was just used for a crappy v*mit joke that sent my anxiety through the roof which was Not Funky! anyway i loved that everyone was like “haha klaus would start a cult” and gerard way went “i hear you” but also the whole plot line with dave was so sad and i feel terrible for him. ALSO! i hope in a possible season 3 they elaborate more on how he’s dealing with ben being gone. he’s had ben with him all his life, so he never really had to say goodbye like the others did, but now ben is gone forever and i really hope klaus is okay :(

five is a badass as usual, the episode where he meets up with his old-bodied self was truly iconic and gave us the classic line of “I’M THE DADDY HERE!” so we love that, but it really was a good episode besides that and his character was once again really important to the plot and all that! good lad!

ben......... i miss this man :( his scene with vanya made me absolutely bawl, he’s so sweet and was truly an amazing sibling to her and klaus. even if they fought sometimes, him and klaus were each other’s friends. however. i do think that his scene with vanya needed to be done with vanya, not klaus. him and klaus weren’t really able to get deep into their feelings with each other, but vanya and him were both the kinda ignored siblings, so to speak, with ben being dead and vanya being literally ignored, so i think their scene together was more meaningful and emotional than it would’ve been otherwise. anyway i can’t WAIT to see emo ben in the sparrow academy that FUCKED ME UP dgfjfh

VANYA I LOVE HER,,,,,,, im so glad that she was finally happy this season she deserved it!!! her and sissy were absolutely perfect together and i’m so glad that she was able to help harlan in any way she could. plus like. saving him from death kinda helps dgfjhf but anyway she just. she’s so great bro. i don’t know what to say about her ngl,,,,,, one of my three favorite characters (the others being klaus and allison!)

so there’s a separate paragraph for the scene with klaus, allison, and vanya all together because that was my absolute favorite scene ever. i’m so glad we got to see them bonding and just. acting like actual siblings!! they weren’t worrying about saving the world, just vibing together!! i loved that klaus called allison OUT with that whole “if you have to say technically you’re already not doing great” and the dancing scene was so sweet,,,,,, there was one moment where vanya jumps up and down before she hugs allison and klaus and it’s just so SWEET because technically (due to the time travel thing that happened) she’s the youngest sibling and just...... i have so many feelings dude

anyway thank you for letting me infodump!!!!!!!!

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foxeshaveclaws · 5 years

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Another prompt😂😂 maybe the foxes realizing Neil has never been told or told someone else that he loves them... as you can tell I’m a slut for angst

Okay so this really just turned into an Allison-centric look into how she views Neil but that’s okay because honestly, Allison slaps and I love her. Enjoy!

Allison had decided early on in her final year at Palmetto that the best person to go shopping with regularly was Neil. He didn't know anything about fashion or tact so when Allison asked him how she looked, he told her genuinely. No sugar coating, no lies, no bullshit. Just the pure, unadulterated honesty that Neil had become fond of after the entire Baltimore incident at the end of the last season. Allison loved it. It was freeing in a way that she didn't expect and there was the added bonus that when he went shopping with her, she could convince him to buy new clothes and she didn't have to look at him wear the same nasty outfit every single day.

They were at the mall, sharing a giant basket of fries and a large bubble tea, as was their tradition. Their shopping bags were at their feet and their conversation was just twirling around in circles in the air between them. Neither of them were fully invested in it, but that was okay in Allison’s book. It was good to watch Neil just exist and be safe.

She had grown protective of him over the course of his first year and she liked being able to just see him sit, relaxed and not prepared to run at any moment. It was such a contrast from the quiet, sullen, brown eyed boy she had met the previous August, that when she thought about it for too long it started to hurt her head. Somewhere over the course of the year, Neil had burrowed his way into their hearts so deeply that when he was almost taken from them, it had felt the same as when she had found out that Seth had died. It felt like her family was being ripped away again, only a brother instead of a lover. It had burned and ached and chilled her all at once, cascading out of her heart into every single interaction she had with Neil, everywhere from the court to the mall. Neil Josten had burned himself into her and Allison had barely even noticed it until it was almost too late.

“Allison?” Neil’s voice interrupted her thoughts. She blinked at him and he cocked his head to the side. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah, yeah.” Allison sat up straighter and waved her hand. “I just got distracted. What were you saying?”

“Nothing important.” Neil lazily ate another fry but his eyes were sharp when he looked at her. “What were you thinking about?”

Maybe it was the fact that they were nearing the one year anniversary of Seth’s death. Maybe it was the fact that she was in her last year as a Fox. Maybe it was just the fact that she had never had a little brother before but now she had Neil. For whatever reason it could be, there was a sentimental streak that raced through her and she didn’t stop her next words. “Just thinking about how much I love ya, kid.”

The only way to describe Neil’s face was like that of a record scratch. Unexpected, strangely loud and looking like the entire world had just skidded to a halt for a brief moment before just skipping back and forth over the previous part. He was looking at her like she had just started speaking a complete other language unprompted. It was a startling expression to see and it left Allison stunned for a moment.

“What?” He finally choked out.

Allison raised her eyebrows at him. “I just said that I loved you. You’re like a little brother to me. Is this, like, news to you?”

“No, I-” He cut himself off, shaking his head. He looked well and truly rattled, which was strange to see. Nothing Allison said had been weird, nothing that a normal person wouldn’t have heard before in their lifetime.

That thought skidded to a stop within Allison’s brain. She had forgotten that even compared to the other Foxes, Neil wasn’t normal. He had had an unimaginably hard life, just like all of them, but his was a different type of hard. A type of hard where it might have never even occur to anyone around him to tell him that they loved him.

For a brief moment, Allison could see a small Neil, nothing but a toddler with a wild mop of ginger hair and bright blue eyes like marbles. He was small and soft and kind and unprepared for the cruelty his life would bring. She could see him and his mother on the run, Mary never hugging him, never telling him she loved him, only ever showing her skewed sense of care in the form of rushing open palms. She saw him when he first arrived at Palmetto, broken and silent.

Allison felt something ice cold and hard clench around her chest. The beast in her that was only released during a game and when someone threatened her family reared it’s growling head and Allison had to force it back down. There was no one around her to take it out on, no matter how much she wanted to lash out. She couldn’t hit people who were already dead, though she wished she had that power.

She reached out and took Neil’s hand in hers. She clenched it tightly and pulled it until Neil had no choice but to look at her.

“Neil.” It took all of her effort to keep her voice calm. “ I don't want any bullshit, just answer my question. Has anyone ever told you that they love you?”

The silence that stretched between them was answer enough in Allison’s mind but the slight shake in Neil’s head cinched it. His blue eyes were sad and confused and just a little afraid and Allison never hated anything more than she hated that expression on Neil’s face in that moment.

“ I love you, Neil.” Allison repeated her words. Everyone expected pretty girls to be airheads, to be idiots, but Allison wasn’t. She knew that whatever she said now was important and that this broken, scarred boy in front of her needed to hear it. “You are my brother and I love you. All of the Foxes do. Or at least the original Foxes from last year do, I have no idea what the fucking freshmen think of you but who honestly gives a shit about them. And Aaron. Who the fuck even knows anything about that bastard. And Andrew’s on you to deal with. But me and Dan and Renee and Matt and Nicky? We all love you and I will say it and make them say it until you realize that we are telling the truth and that you forget that you went nineteen years without hearing it, you got me? Because you deserve it, Neil. You deserve to be loved and anyone that doesn’t think so can truly kiss my fucking ass.”

Allison was out of breath by the time that she finished talking and it felt like her heart was going three hundred miles an hour but she had said everything she could to make Neil understand.

Neil’s gaze was sharp and heavy, staring into her like he was trying to figure out the best way to pull her apart. If it had been anyone else besides Neil, Allison would’ve snapped at them to stop but she understood that Neil needed this. Neil needed to look at her and just think. He needed to evaluate her and try and figure out whether or not she was lying. She didn't take it personally.

The silence stretched for what felt like years before Neil finally tore his gaze away from her in favor of looking down at the hand of his that wasn’t held in Allison’s. He stared at his scars and clenched his fist before looking back up at her solemnly.

“Okay.” He nodded slowly. “I...love you too.”

The grin that split Allison’s face was big enough to make her cheeks ache immediately but it was worth it. Neil gave her a small smile of his own in return and Allison couldn’t help the urge to ruffle his hair. She stood and grabbed their empty fry tray and tossed it before grabbing her bags.

“C’mon, I wanna go home and show Dan and Renee all the cute stuff we bought. Plus having emotional conversations makes me sick and I wanna throw up in the comfort of my own home, thank you very much.”

Neil laughed at her joke and grabbed his bags and followed her out, back to their home and their family. It would take time but Allison, for once, felt like she had the patience and love in her to help.

#aftg fic #aftg #tfc #tfc fic #allison reynolds #neil josten #beck screams #becks fics #aftg prompt

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Okay, so first off, Happy Birthday to your cat! I hope he got lots of his favorite treats. Glad to hear that today went as well as can be hoped for you. And overall today wasn’t too bad here. We got several big truck deliveries, but when I deal with those I tend to deal less with customers, so it sort of balances itself out. We’ve been told that we’ll be closing early all week because of the protests, so that’s been ramping the anxiety, but the internet has provided a number of pleasant distractions on my breaks.

Secondly, I would pick Noah for the one that has the second set of twins, for mainly two random reasons; 1) because last time it went Chris, then Noah, so it feels like it should do the same this time, and Chris already had Ben, 2) because it keeps the number of kids per family more balanced- 4 & 3 rather than 2 & 5. Idk, my brain just gets weird about symmetry and balance in things and I’ve never figured out if it’s an ADD related thing or just a me thing. Also, the idea of him trying to do his job while pregnant, with Chris and ESPECIALLY Peter trying to be super protective at the same time is just amusing to me.

And actually, thinking about that and the preview for the next chapter made me think of a couple things that didn’t make it into my reviews. When/how/from whom did Chris learn about the fire? Did Gerard or Kate tell him in a gloating sort of way and kind of tip him off that something was hinky about it, or was it through other hunter contacts, so the thought of outside involvement came later?

Was he still pregnant with Ben, or was it later on? Did he contact anyone in Beacon Hills about it for further info at any point before he showed back up in town? Because I was trying to think about some of the things that could turn up later for angst (why I was doing that to myself is anyone’s guess, but here we are…) and it occurred to me that if Noah was going to have any lingering upset over Chris leaving it would most likely (to me) be from the time right after the fire.

He’s just lost Claudia, and went off the rails from it, but at least he had Peter, and Laura, and the other Hales. Now Peter is in a coma, Laura’s left town, and the rest of his adopted/found family is dead. He has no idea where Chris is, or if he’s safe from whoever did this (does he know about what happened between Chris and Peter before Chris left again?, and he’s dealing a set of even more heavily traumatized twins right now. I feel like even the most understanding person is gonna have some stuff to work through there. (Also, Jesus, poor Melissa [possibly for multiple reasons])

Uhhh…sorry to send things into a drama tailspin there for a moment. Allow me to try and brighten things back up with the original impetus for me to make this a submission and not an ask; because you mentioned X-Men Halloween costumes and I have Thoughts. *takes super deep breath* Because omg, yes, so very many options.

Side note - I would be so happy if someone dressed as Nightcrawler. He is my precious fuzzy elfin bb, and I love him to bits and get so tired of him getting left out of things (looking at you Funko.) I feel like Stiles or Peter have the best attitude match (maybe, MAYBE Jackson), but don’t know if anyone would want to deal with the amount of makeup involved. But, anyway, just, the possibilities.

Stiles telling Malia she can’t just take the easy way out by going as Wolfsbane, so she takes one of her old white A New Hope Leia dresses and cuts it down into an old school Mystique costume.

Peter pulling rank and telling Derek he’s the Alpha so he gets to be Wolverine (this even works better height-wise [I didn’t realize you didn’t know their approximate heights. I’d looked them up before for…reasons. Having seen them standing next to each other repeatedly, I’m pretty sure any actual height advantage Ian has comes strictly from his hair], although when Stiles points this out he earns himself a hell of a glare.)

Naturally that means Chris has to be Cyclops, because, well, calm and serious. Noah realizes this means they expect him to be Jean Grey. (N: “Why can’t I ever be a character that wears normal pants?!” C: “Well I have to be the boring one all the time” P: “I mean, you are the closest to a telepath of the three of us. Don’t you want us mock fighting over you?” N: “…if we do this I get my pick of the Phoenix costumes.”)

Stiles and Noah trying to fight over getting to be Gambit so they can do exploding playing cards, but getting told they can’t be Gambit unless they can do the accent correctly (Gambit isn’t Gambit if he’s not Cajun, that’s just how it is, I don’t make the rules.) While part of me thinks it’d be funny to see Jackson as Nightcrawler because of the tail thing, I think Stiles would be more entertaining.

He’d make little smoke bomb things to fake the sulfur and brimstone effect of his teleporting. All the family members with enhanced senses would HATE him because they STANK something fierce, and it LINGERED. But anytime one of them tried to tackle him to get them away, he’d yell “BAMF!” throw on to the floor and run like hell.

Jackson would be Iceman so he could make it a crossover costume with the character from Top Gun so he could wear aviators and a leather bomber with his outfit. Allison could dress like Shadowcat from the early Excalibur run, and she could see if Ben would dress up as Lockheed with her (because that would be adorable).

Derek would decide that if he can’t be Wolverine and glare angrily at people the whole time, he’ll be Colossus so he can just stare with silent disappointment the whole time. Scott would decide he wants to be Cable (because “…he just looks so cool…”), so Melissa and Chris would dig through their old hunter gear to help him make his costume.

Melissa could be Jubilee, and rig up little flash bangs to fake the plasma bursts (unlike Noah she has absolutely no qualms about proving that she can still rock a pair of short shorts.) Lydia would either be Rogue to show off that SHE at least can manage a believable accent, or Emma Frost for the looks that costume would gain her from Allison.

Alternatively; both sets of twins argue over who gets to be Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, so they decide that one pair will do the classic comic version, and one will do either the Evolution cartoon version or the MCU version (though they are allowed to switch out the Quicksilver for the other film version if they choose).

Lydia claims Mystique instead (it’s tempting to make her Banshee, but that seems a bit TOO on the nose), or maybe one of the other Phoenix looks (when I say Phoenix looks I mean Jean’s Phoenix or Dark Phoenix suit from the comics, because I LOVE that outfit), and Ben dresses as Beast (because that would also be adorable). *finally stops to take another breath* …umm…so anyway, yeah, as a perennial X-men fan I think it’s safe to say I love this idea, and am so grateful for you putting it in my head… …sorry about the wall of text, I may have got a little carried away… …again…

I loved every single sentence of this wall of text, so never apologize. (Although I did break it up a little before posting because that makes it easier to read for other people.

I think all of my ideas for the middle of this fic where either based on questions you, or @artemisa97 asked me in reviews. So honestly, keep them coming if you want to ask them. They help me determine where the problem areas are, what kind of kinks I need to work out, so honestly, even the sad ones are a great help.

And yeah, I hadn’t looked up their heights yet, I just assumed Peter and Chris were a bit bigger than Noah, but I was delightfully wrong!

I do have one more gem to share, a height comparison of some of the boys and to show you just how tiny Ben is compared to the others.

Blue - Noah (182 cm / 6 ft)

Purple - Chris (177 cm / 5′10)

Red - Peter (178 cm / 5′10)

Yellow - Derek (183 cm / 6 ft)

Green - Ben (111 cm / 3′8)

Turquoise - Jackson (170 cm / 5′7)

Ben’s height is about average for someone between the age of 5 & 6, Jackson’s height is a little on the short side, but I’d imagine that he’d still grow a little until he’s like 20 and end up being around 175/176 cm.

I’d imagine Stiles to be a little taller around 172 cm, Allison is a little shorter at 165 cm and Malia is around 168 cm. (They will all still grow a bit, averaging between 173 (Allison) and 178 (Stiles) )

And the one thing I will say about whether or not Noah gets the twins, without getting too spoilery, or maybe it is, I’m sorry if it is but I can’t help not share.

Is that eventually both Noah and Chris have the same amount of kids from Peter. And one of them has twins. I’m still debating on names, in the deleted scene I named them Mikhail and Adeline, I currently have different names picked out.

And I think the balance thing is ADD related, because I had the same issue with planning the story XD. So yeah, Peter gets to have a lot of kids, and adopt a lot more into the pack, because Season 2 is kinda canon in this universe, in the sense that Isaac, Erica, and Boyd are still turned. Kira comes along, and of course Lydia. Considering what I have planned for Danny and Mack, I might add them to the pack as well.

And omg I LIVE for those X-men costume ideas <3 Omg. I love it. Considering Stiles’ abilities he would definitely be Nightcrawler and would probably use a quick spell or two to get the makeup in place. (A druid invented this fantastic spell to always get eyeliner on fucking point and shared it in their spellbook. Spoiler alert; said druid was Noah in his teenage punk years. Turns out, it works for other makeup too.)

And I’m in fucking love with all of these ideas actually, I can’t really say which I like more.

#once upon a time comments #ben says stuff #submission #once upon a time spoilers #kinda?

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Girl’s Night In( NRT Bonus Scene)

Prompt: Maybe that Lydia and y/n scene that someone requested, you could do that for a bonus scene

You don’t necessarily need to have read NRT to understand this imagine, but just in case, here are all the parts (so far): Season 1: one - two - three- four- five - six Season 2: one - two- three - four - five - six Season 3a: one - two - three - four - five - six Season 3b: one - two - three - four - five - six

A/N: Just some cute friendship fluff between these two besties :)

It had been far too long since either of you had ever been able to just be teenage girls and hang out. Lydia had been the one to suggest the idea, and you had all too quickly jumped at the opportunity.

So, instead of heading home with Scott after school like you would’ve normally, you hopped into Lydia’s car and picked up some essential sleepover supplies and went on your way back to her place. It seemed better to go to hers, given that at home, Scott would mostly likely bother you and then it wouldn’t really be a girls night then, would it?

With a huff, Lydia dropped all the supplies she’d gathered in her hands unceremoniously onto her bed, turning to you with exasperation. You regarded her actions with a grin, your eyes sliding from her to her bed, before a slight frown marred your lips. “You’re sure we shouldn’t invite Allison?” You question, your brow drawn in in concern. “I mean...”

“Y/N, as much as I love Allison and i’m sure you do,” Lydia begins, taking the small few steps over to you before setting her hands on your shoulders. Squeezing them reassuringly, you grins up at you; “it’s been way too long since there’s been any Lydia-Y/N time and we are seriously lacking. Allison will understand.”

Letting Lydia’s words sink in, you once again smile, albeit softer, nodding. “You’re right,” you laugh, smile widening as move towards Lydia’s bed. “We are always so busy fighting off the supernatural, I rarely get to see you anymore.” Your words are said with a slight frown, only teasingly pouting over at Lydia as she joins you, sitting across from you on her bed.

You pass her a pillow at her making grabby hands, the two of you falling into an eased conversation and routine, feeling like nothing had ever changed between the two of you.

You and Lydia have been friends for years, and even though the both of you had changed (for what you would argue; the better), nothing would ever change between the two of you. Even if it had been months since you last saw or talked to each other, you and Lydia never had issues falling back into line with one another; it just had always been that type of friendship. And you wouldn’t trade it for a single thing.

Lydia was one of your most treasured friends, and she knew more about you than most.

“Don’t just blame the supernatural,” Lydia grins, raising a coy brow your way. “You’ve also been a little busy with a certain you-know-who.”

At first, her words stump you. Your brows furrow in confusion, and then you feel your cheeks warm and your eyes widen upon realization. “W-What... Who...”

“Don’t play dumb with me,” Lydia grins, “i’ve seen how close you and Stiles have been recently.”

You stammer, trying to come up with some sort of response as you feel your cheeks burn madly. You end up just looking like an actual idiot the entire time, desperately trying to calm yourself as Lydia throws her head back in amusement. “Shut up,” you mumble after a moment, feigning hurt though Lydia knew it was fine. “It’s not like you haven’t been growing close to a particular boy. Hmm, Aiden?”

Smiling falling from Lydia’s face, she shrugs; “maybe, but now that he and his brother have disappeared, I dunno...” You frown slightly at Lydia’s words, offering her a small smile of pity. But, like Lydia, she doesn’t dwell on it too long and soon, she’s smiling up at you once again. “Besides, I remember specifically you saying you didn’t like Stiles, and now look where we are.”

Rolling your eyes at Lydia’s smirk, you feign innocence; “I don’t like Stiles,” you correct, exaggerating on the ‘like’. “We are just friends. Besides, Isaac like just broke up with me... so...”

Lydia’s eyes lower, playing with frayed edges of her pillow; “how are you doing about that, by the way? It must be a little weird given how close him and Allison have grown over the past few weeks.”

“I won’t lie,” you begin, shrugging lightly. “It bothered me at first. And maybe a part of me was, hell even is jealous. But, even though Isaac broke up with me, it unanimous and he knew I didn’t love him in the way I once had. So, if he’s happy, i’m happy.”

“Yeah, because you’re in love with Stiles.”

“Shut up!” You laugh, swinging your arm back and lightly hitting Lydia with your pillow. She laughs loudly in response, just barely missing the hit, before moving do to the same. Before you know, the two of you are swinging your pillows back and forth, sometimes hitting, sometimes missing each other with your pillows as you laugh and giggle loudly.

You lose yourselves for a moment, just lost in the fun of minute; then, Lydia’s door swings open and both of your guys attention is caught by her mother poking her head into the room. You flush slightly in embarrassment as Lydia’s mother giggles softly at you.

“Mom,” Lydia sighs, “don’t you know to knock?”

“Hello, Ms. Martin,” you greet lightly, waving at her.

“Please, Y/N, Natalie. You’ve known me a long time now,” Natalie says with a smile, to which you nod, returning her smile softly. Pushing open Lydia’s door lightly, she makes her way in, turning to Lydia. “And, Lydia, I just came to see how you two were doing. It feels like forever since Y/N’s spent the night.”

Clasping your hands before yourself politely, you nod; “life’s been a little crazy,” you explain with a shrug. “But i’m happy to be here.” Meeting Lydia’s gaze, you nod with a bright smile.

“I heard your father was back in town, Y/N,” Natalie comments, and you do your best to hide the frown that threatens to grow on your lips. As you glance back over at Natalie, she smiles down at you sympathetically. “Are you doing okay?”

“He’s rarely home,” you shrug, “because of his job and everything so... yeah, i’m okay.”

Natalie nods, and then a moment of silence passes before Lydia interrupts. “Okay, well, mom,” she calls, turning to her mother with a raised brow. “Y/N and I have some serious gossiping to get to, so?”

“Yes, yes,” Natalie laughs, moving towards the door. “Well, i’m glad you’re doing well Y/N. You two have a good night, and call me if you need anything.”

“Bye mom!”

“Thank you, Natalie!”

The moment the door shuts behind Natalie, you turn to Lydia as she rolls her eyes.

“She was being sweet,” you laugh, taking your place back on Lydia’s bed.

“I know, I know,” Lydia sighs, shaking her head. “She just... I hate that she brought up your dad.”

“It’s fine, honestly,” you assure, nodding down at Lydia as she moves to lay down on her back. “Now, enough with the sad talk, what should we do first?”

“Get out of these clothes,” Lydia groans, pulling at her blouse. “I’m dying!”

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the-cookie-of-doom · 5 years

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“B-b-b-but Derek Hale’s a failure and a shitty leader whose only purpose in the show was to be surpassed by Trash Wolf Scoot and make the audience realize what a great, competent, superior leader and better character Trash Wolf Scoot McCall is compared to him! Derek Hale got exactly what he deserved for refusing to obey Trash Wolf Scoot, really!!!!” https://princeescaluswords.tumblr.com/post/185664990955/stans-will-excuse-dereks-actions-by-portraying

russianspacegeckosexparty *whines and screeches and froths and drowns in his own bile because Teen Wolf fans and viewers have the nerve to prefer actually compelling fictional characters over his shitty idol Scott and because his shitty idol Scott is not EVERYONE’s fav*

Shitty, entitled middle aged white man & actual harasser PEW:

There are two competing impulses here in relation to the narrative. When these impulse are combined combined they form the toxic woobification also known as “Derek Deserves Nice Things.” This is the belief that Jeff Davis tortured Derek for no other reason than his and the audience’s sadistic amusement. They miss the writers’ goal: to show that in Derek’s role as a foil for Scott, he got exactly what he deserved for allowing his painful history to control him. Derek’s failures came from his inability to manage his trauma, to separate the people who hurt him from the people who didn’t.

In Season 1 and Season 2, Derek let his fear of the Argents and his shame about his actions with Kate (and Paige) influence his actions. He didn’t trust Scott; he didn’t share information freely with Scott; he relied on anger and its attendant violence to keep him safe. It didn’t work.

(It’s noticeable that when Derek let go of the past – when he started to trust Scott, when he started sharing information with Scott, when he did things like hand out Halloween candy to children – he got nice things! Derek ended Season 4 – a season which showed him being open, friendly, trusting, and complimenting and encouraging Scott – with a sexy, protective girlfriend; revenge on his tormentor, and the inheritance of his mother’s legacy!)

The first impulse was the need to make Derek more important than Scott McCall. The thought that Derek Hale was only there for Scott to learn what not to do never even occurred to them, even though the name of the show was Teen Wolf. Derek’s aggression, violence, and lies weren’t seen by them as obstacles for Scott McCall to overcome – which they were definitely intended to be by the writers. When the narrative had Scott overcoming and surpassing Derek, they were flabbergasted. Derek was a hot white man with an incredible body and a sad backstory. To viewers weaned on television culture, he should have been the lead – or if not the lead, the controlling narrative of the show. It should be Derek’s story that took precedence. But it wasn’t!

The second impulse was, of course, Sterek. There’s nothing wrong with the ship itself, as long as the viewers realized that – no matter what the MTV PR department said – it never had a chance of happening. Regardless of subjective chemistry, Derek wasn’t going to have a romantic relationship with Stiles because it would have taken too much focus off of the actual leader and star of his own show Scott McCall/Tyler Posey. It could have happened, if the show was about Stiles or Derek, but it’s not, and having a relationship between the lead’s two foils, including one closely echoing Derek’s backstory and being illegal, would have required too much focus.

Given these two impulses, the audience had to sell themselves the story that Derek Deserved Nice Things, that he was Not a Failwolf, in order to satisfy them. So that’s why they ignored the terrible things Derek did to others, especially to his own betas – seducing Erica, hurting Isaac, withholding information from all three of them – that sent two of them running for the hills and one of them running for Scott.

Cookie: Oh my god. Oh my god this is so horrible, what the fuck.

PEW: This is the belief that Jeff Davis tortured Derek for no other reason than his and the audience’s sadistic amusement.

!!! That is exactly what happened. Tyler has remarked on how he had to work any scraps of backstory for Derek aside from Tall Dark and Brooding like he was trying to pull teeth. Dylan said in an interview that “Have you seen him? We have to torture him, otherwise everything is too sexy for him.” Derek was only there to be abused. And that’s fine! God knows I love a good whump, and it is a popular dynamic that one of the main characters always has to be. Think Jace Wayland from The Mortal Instruments, with his tragic backstory. Or Harry Potter, spending his childhood abused at worst and neglected at best. The only difference is, those characters got a break from the abuse, they had sanctuaries to go to and people who protected them, but Derek never did*.

*Except, of course, for Stiles, who protected Derek even when he hated him, even when he was afraid of him. I’m not even saying in a shippy way, but the only person who consistently was there to defend Derek was Stiles. Not Scott. Scott would never do anything for Derek unless he somehow got something out of it first; how about, trying to make Derek promise not to hurt Allison before being willing to free him from Kate’s torture dungeon? This even after Derek has done nothing to hurt Allison or imply he ever would, and going so far as to take her home when Scott decided going to a party was more important than learning how to werewolf, thus putting everyone, and Allison, in danger. This even after Derek has every right to hate Allison’s family, and not go out of his way to protect her. Which he absolutely did here.

I had to scroll back up for this, but: “the toxic woobification also known as “Derek Deserves Nice Things.”

How lacking in empathy do you have to be to think that one of the main characters deserving nice things is toxic? Derek Hale DOES deserve nice things, for fucks sake he’s EARNED them after everything he’s been through. (And, not to compare trauma because that is equally toxic, but since they seem intent on doing it anyway: Derek has been through much more and much more than Scott. He, more than anyone on the show, deserves to have a goddamn break and a little sympathy.)

I just. I can’t even touch on that last part about Derek deserving everything he got. That is so tone deaf and blind, how did PEW even manage to watch this show? Clearly he can’t see what’s right in front of him. Derek did not deserve what he got at all. Hell, NO ONE deserve the level of unending abuse Derek was put through for the sake of whump.

“Derek let his fear of the Argents and his shame about his actions with Kate (and Paige) influence his actions. He didn’t trust Scott; he didn’t share information freely with Scott.”

Yikes. First off, as I already said, Derek had every reason to fear the Argents. They murdered his family. Derek has no way of knowing how many of them were involved; the only one who couldn’t have been was Allison, since she was a child. But Chris? Victoria? Yeah, Derek was right to fear them. And even if you take away the death of his family, the Argents are HUNTERS. They KILL WEREWOLVES, something Scott never did manage to figure out because he was too concerned with getting his dick wet. Even going so far as to side with them in the worst moment of cinematic history, before he even knew them or had reason to defend them. Allison was a pretty girl, and Derek was telling him what her family did to his, and Scott decided the Pretty Girl won over the death of Derek’s family, children included.

As for trusting Scott? When did Scott every prove himself trustworthy? I’m sorry, but if someone looked me in the eyes and told me that maybe my family deserved to burn alive, I wouldn’t ever trust them. There is nothing they could do to earn my trust after that. But eventually Derek comes around, showing that he is in fact a better person that I am. Because I would have thrown Scott right at the Argent’s feet for that comment, and let them see just how merciful they really are. And that isn’t even touching on how Scott lied to Allison about her mother’s pack, directly resulting in her hunting down Derek and his pack, and attempting to kill two of her classmates. Conveniently, the two people Scott had claimed to care about when it was convenient for him as a way to keep Derek from building a pack.

“The thought that Derek Hale was only there for Scott to learn what not to do never even occurred to them.” No character’s sole purpose is to be a foil. A character may be designed as a foil, but first and foremost, they are their own character. A thought that apparently never occurred to PEW. As much as he wishes it did, the show did not revolve around Scott, and neither did the characters. Because while he was the main character, he was not it’s only character.

“Sterek. There’s nothing wrong with the ship itself, as long as the viewers realized that – no matter what the MTV PR department said – it never had a chance of happening.”

Once again, PEW entirely misses the point. I don’t think anyone ever genuinely believed Sterek was going to be canon. We all knew better than that, we were not yet in an age where queer relationships happen on screen for anything other than comic relief like a sideshow freak; there only briefly. They weren’t going to do that with their main characters, because then they would have to get rid of them! Like when they wrote off Danny and Ethan, and kept Mason and Corey mostly out of the picture when they were together, or when they brought back Ethan and Jackson for the very end-for no reason other than exploiting Colton coming out and getting those diversity points! (Which were very much not earned, in my opinion. It was pandering at best.)

It wasn’t the fact that Sterek was never going to be canon that made people so angry; it was the fact that Jeff kept dangling it in front of the fandom for years, once he saw how popular it was becoming. He would talk in interviews about how much he loved the Sterek dynamic, tweet about how much he supported it, and then write barely any scenes were Stiles and Derek interacted. We knew it wasn’t going to happen, and we didn’t appreciate being mocked.

“[...] and having a relationship between the lead’s two foils, including one closely echoing Derek’s backstory and being illegal, would have required too much focus..”

But it wasn’t too much focus when any other characters got together? No, of course not, because other relationships didn’t challenge Scott with their popularity. It’s okay not to like a ship, but don’t be so sanctimonious about it.

Also, illegal? Cute that he brings this up as a ‘concern’ when it comes to Sterek, but where was the outrage when they started pushing for Lydia and Parish? You know, that 24 year old cop fantasizing about showering/amking out with a 17 year old girl? I think the power dynamics with that are inherently far more problematic than little old Sterek.

“So that’s why they ignored the terrible things Derek did to others, especially to his own betas – seducing Erica, hurting Isaac, withholding information from all three of them – that sent two of them running for the hills and one of them running for Scott.”

The tag Derek Hale Is A Failwolf currently has 569 works in it. That’s a pretty good amount, considering many people don’t get into specific tags like that. I’ve never seen anyone ignore what Derek did; and on a broad level, no one is ignoring that Derek seducing Erica was kind of gross, or that hurting Isaac was wrong. Keeping information from them wasn’t the best idea either, but Derek did it from a place of trying to protect them. They were kids, and he was their alpha; he was trying to deal with the dangers like the alpha pack on his own because he didn’t want to put them in harms way. Unlike Scott who withholds information that directly puts them in harms way (see: lying to Allison about her mother).

Derek also hurts Isaac during training. Rough? Yes. Unnecessary? Well, I would say that depends. Derek was showing Isaac what his body was capable of doing; he could heal, something he never had before. You can’t deny that gave Isaac some new perspective and a hell of a lot of confidence, no longer afraid to be hurt.

And then you have Scott, who disgusting abuses Isaac to assert control over him. He was not trying to teach Isaac anything, he was just angry and jealous that Isaac wanted to kiss Allison, who had broken up with Scott, and made it clear that she didn’t want him waiting for her. They. Were. Not. Together. Scott had no claim to her, he wasn’t ‘defending her honor’, he was being an asshole ex. And Isaac paid the price, getting abused by his so called alpha. And what could he do in that situation? Scott was housing him; by challenging him, Isaac would be risking getting kicked out with nowhere else to go. A great situation to put an abuse survivor in. Scott had all the power and authority in their relationship, so do not try to paint Scott as the savior that welcomed him after he was banished by the big bad Derek.

As usual, PEW is watching a very different show than the rest of us. But it does not revolve around Scott, and it never did. The characters all had their own lives and motivations.

And, Derek Hale does in fact deserve nice things. Especially if those nice things involve a long vacation to somewhere that has no wifi, no cell reception, and no way to be reached by a certain self-righteous teenager, with a certain human at his side.

#fandom discourse #Derek Hale is My Man #I will Fite #submission

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teenwolffan-with-nolife · 6 years

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Drifted Apart

Word Count: 3,034

Warnings: Torture, Angst, Fluff

Characters: Stiles, Allison, Lydia, Derek, Scott, Isaac, reader

Pairings: Isaac Lahey x Reader

A/N: Feedback is appreciated!

A/N 2: Tell me if I missed any warnings.

A/N 3: This is just word vomit.........

A/N 4: The title also sucks so...........

Even after being with them for so long, you still felt like an outside in your family. And you hated it, but you couldn’t help this feeling. Maybe it was because you were adopted, but they never talked about that. They tried to welcome you into the family. Scott even introduced you to his friends, and you loved all of them, and enjoyed hanging out with them.

They treated you like you were their sister. You started hanging out with them less when you started high school. You didn’t want to seem needy.

You became best friends with a boy named Isaac Lahey. You both told each other your secrets. You knew what his father did to him, but he made you swear never to tell anyone. You didn’t want to lose your friendship with him, so you promised him. You secretly loved him, but never told him, not wanting to make your friendship awkward.

One day, he started acting different. Instead of his usual clothes, being some random pair of pants, a shirt, and a scarf, he now wore leather pants, a white t-shirt, and a leather jacket. Instead of his usual geeky self, he seemed more confident. You weren’t mad at him, you were happy for him.

But, you were also scared. You didn’t want to lose your best friend, the person you secretly loved. He promised you everything would stay the same between you two. Until one day.

-----FLASHBACK----2012 (Season 2)

The two of you were sitting next to each other, laughing at his jokes. You saw Scott enter the cafeteria, and was staring at you and Isaac. You didn’t think it was anything important. So you turned your back to Scott, and started to finish you conversation with Isaac. You turned to Isaac, who you saw was staring at your brother. Then he looked back at you, and stopped smiling. “Hey, (Y/N), I have to tell you something.”, he said as he leaned in from the opposite side of the table.You did the same. “Yeah, what is it?”, you said as you also leaned in.

He whispered into your ear, “I miss my dad.?, he said. You backed away a little and looked at him with confusion. “I know, he hurt me, and I shouldn’t, but I’ve also had some good memories with him. Like before my mom and Camden died., he said. You felt sad for your friend, so you pulled him into a big hug. “I’m sorry for your loss.”, you said to him. After that, you felt someone pull you two apart. You looked up to see Scott, and he was furious. “You.”, he said as he pointed to Isaac. “Stay away from her.”, he said, angrily. “Come with me (Y/N).”, he said as he held onto your wrist and pulled you away from Isaac. He was stronger than you expected. You finally pulled out of his grasp. “Scott? What the hell?!?!”, you yelled at him. “(Y/N), stay away from Isaac.”, he said to you in a warning tone.

“Why?!?! He’s my best friend!!”, you yelled at Scott. “(Y/N), he’s not good for you.”, he said. “How do you know what’s good for me?!?!?!”, you yelled. “He’s my best friend!”, you yelled at him. “(Y/N), he’s a bad person.”, Scott tried to explain to you. “No, he’s not! He’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me! He’s the only one that actually cares about me!”, you yelled again. “Don’t you think I care about you?!?! Of course I do! And I’m telling you Isaac Lahey is a bad person!”, he yelled back this time. “Screw you.”, you said to him as you stormed off with tears in your eyes.

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That was one year ago. Since then, Scott stopped thinking that Isaac was a bad person, but he still didn’t let you hang out with him. Everything was awkward between you and Isaac. You felt as he was avoiding you for some reason. Eventually, you ignored all of them. Scott, Stiles, and Isaac. You became sad. You kept thinking that you were stupid, that someone as amazing as Isaac could never had been your friend, that he was just using you.

One day, you were just sitting in your room, studying. You were tired. You’ve been up for days, studying. It was hard for you to concentrate, and you could barely understand the material. You were slowly falling asleep, but you tried doing everything that could keep you up. There was no coffee left, so you had to go out to the store to get a new one. Still tired, you grabbed your jacket, keys, and wallet, as you headed downstairs. You didn’t know that everyone was sitting in the living room, discussing something. They all stopped talking the minute you came down, as they all stared at you. Isaac, was the only one you were looking at. You weren’t paying attention to everyone else.

You looked so different. There were black sacks under your eyes, your hair was barely brushed, and you looked overall, exhausted. “Just ignore me. I’m just going to get some coffee.”, you said as you headed towards the door. “What’s up? You look like hell.”, Scott said to you. “Gee, thanks for making me feel all better Scott.”, you said sarcastically. “(Y/N)-”, Scott sighed, about to continue, but you cut him off. “Just whatever. I’ll be back soon.”, you said as you were about to head out. “Just be careful tonight.”, you heard him say. You had no idea why. “Whatever.”, you said as you rolled your eyes and closed the house door behind you as you left.

As soon as you got your coffee, you walked back to your car. You accidentally dropped your keys, and you couldn’t find them. Great, you thought. “Looking for these?”, you heard a voice say from behind you. You quickly got up, to see a man holding your keys up in the air. “Yeah thanks.”, you said as you tried to reach for your keys. He moved his hand away. (Y/N), right?”, he asked me. Who the hell is he, you thought. “Yes, who are you?”, you asked him.

“Right, sorry. My name’s Aiden. I know your brother, Scott.”, he said as he smiled at me. “Oh, well that’s good to know. Anyways, I really have to go.”, you said as you tried to reach for your keys again, but he stopped you. “Why are you in such a rush?”, he asked you. “Look Aiden, I get you wanna talk or whatever, but I really need to go. Like, now.”, you said. “Maybe we should hang out sometime.”, he said to you as he gave you a disturbing smile. “Yeah, maybe some other time. I have to go. Can you please give me my keys?”, you asked. He was giving you a creepy vibe, and you wanted to leave.

“Right.”, he said as he slowly gave you the keys, only for them to fall out of his hands. You sighed. “Sorry. I’m just clumsy.”, he said. “It’s okay, it happens to everyone.”, you said as you bent down to pick up your keys. You then saw something shift behind you, and before you turn around and check, you felt a sharp pain in the back of your head. Then everything went black.

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“Maybe we shouldn’t have let her go out alone.”, Scott said, looking worriedly at the clock. You should’ve been back an hour ago. “Yeah, no shit Scott. Who knows? Maybe the alpha pack already has her.”, Isaac said, as he paced around the room. “Okay, let’s just take a deep breath and call her again.”, Allison said, attempting to calm down Scott and Isaac. “Who knows, maybe she’ll pick up. Maybe her phone died or… something.”, Stiles said, unconfident in his words. “Or maybe she’s ignoring you. I mean, you aren’t exactly her best friends right now.”, Lydia said.

“She’s not picking up. Let’s just track her scent.”, Isaac said. “Okay.”, Scott said as he went to your room, and grabbed one of your things. He found one of your shirts and passed it to Isaac. “Let’s go.”, he said. The five of them got into the car. “Hey Isaac.”, Allison whispered to him. “Yeah?”, he asked back, not really paying attention to the conversation. “Do you like (Y/N)?”, she asked him. “What?”, Isaac immediately gave his attention to Allison. “I asked you, do you like (Y/N)?”, she repeated her question.

“Yeah.”, he said finally. “I’ve always liked her, she was best friend. Now, we don’t even talk to each other anymore. I just wanna go back to her not hating me.”, Isaac said. “Maybe you should explain everything to her. Tell her why, and tell her what you are.”, Allison suggested. “Yeah right. Scott would kill me if he figured out that I liked (Y/N). Much less tell her that I’m a werewolf, or about the supernatural.”, Isaac responded. “She’s gonna find out sooner or later. Would you rather from you, or a pack of psychotic, chaotic alphas?”, Allison asked Isaac. After that, Isaac sat there quietly of the rest of the car ride.

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When you came through, your head was pounding, and your wrists were tied together. You didn’t know where you were. You were freaking out. Your heart rate was racing. You were scared and felt like you couldn’t breathe. The last thing you remember…. was your conversation with Aiden. Did he do this?, you wondered, still freaked. “Look who’s up.”, you heard a voice say. You looked up, squinting. There was a short man, with a cane and glasses looking back at you.

“Who the hell are you?”, you said nervously. “Don’t worry (Y/N), we won’t hurt you. Not yet.”, he said. “My name is Deucalion.” he said. “W-What do you want with me?”, you said shakily, trying to ignore the pain in the back of your head. He walked closer to you, as you tried to back up into the corner as much as you could. “We need Scott. You’re the easiest way to get to him.”, he said, as he bent down to your size. Why the hell would he want Scott?, you wondered to yourself.

“W-What do you want with him?”, you asked, fearful. He laid the back of his hand on your cheek as he stroked it. You flinched away from him “Don’t worry. I just want his power.”, he said. “I need to get him here, and I can do that by taking something he loves.”, Deucalion said. “You think he loves me? You think he cares about me?”, you chuckled, no longer afraid. “Well, sorry to break it to you, but in the last three years, me and Scott have only talked to each other like three of four times. He’s always shutting me out, so why would he care about me now?”, you laughed. “Oh, he cares for you more than you give him credit for.”, he said as he left you.

Then two people came in. A woman and a man. “Keep an eye on her.”, Deucalion said to them. “Can we have some fun with the bitch?”, you heard the woman say to him. “Only a little, Kali. Don’t kill her.”, you heard Deucalion say as he walked out.

What?!?!, you shouted in your head. Why did he say don’t kill me? They’re not gonna hurt me?!?!, you asked yourself. You started panicking again. The woman and man turned around to face you. “Hey (Y/N), I’m Kali, and this is Ennis. We’re going to have some fun!”, she said, excitedly. You tried to escape, you pulled at your restraints, but nothing worked. They started coming closer and closer to you, their eyes, changed color. They had red eyes. You looked at their hands, and claws, replaced their fingernails. You started hyperventilating. You couldn’t breath and the back of your head pounded as they got nearer. “No! Stay away from me!”, you yelled, but they didn’t listen. They growled and attacked you. “NO!”, you screamed as you left their sharp talons make contact with your skin.

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“Turn here.”, Scott said to Stiles. As soon as the car stopped, Isaac jumped out of the car and ran. “Isaac wait!”, Scott yelled at him. “I can’t! We have to save (Y/N)!”, he yelled as he ran off.

The pain you felt was unbearable. You couldn’t move, and you were crying. “P-Please s-stop.”, you begged them as you cried. “Aww what’s wrong (Y/N)? Not having fun? We can try some other things!”, Kali said with an evil smirk. She was about to scratch you again, but Ennis stopped her. “Do you smell that?”, he asked her. “The alpha and his little pack is here. I told you they would come sooner or later.”, Ennis said. “Good. Let them come.”

You whimpered as they moved away. They hid, getting ready to attack whoever came through the door first. You were too weak to speak or move. So, you laid there, slipping out of consciousness. “(Y/N)!”, you heard Isaac’s voice yell. You slowly looked up, and saw him running towards you. “I-Isaac.”, you said as your eyes fluttered, and you pointed behind him. Kali was a moment away from killing him, but if you hadn’t warned him exactly at that moment, he would’ve been dead. You tried to stay awake, but it was so hard. Before your eyes shut, you saw Allison, Scott, Lydia, Derek and Stiles run inside. “(Y/N)!”, was the last thing you heard.

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You woke up in a hospital bed, with Isaac by your side. “Isaac?”, you said groggily. “(Y/N)! You’re up!”, he said relieved. “What’s going on? What happened?”, you said frightened, remembering the previous events that had happened. “(Y/N) calm down. I’ll explain everything, just take a minute.”, he said, trying to calm you down. You slowly nodded your head. “Okay, I don’t really know how to say this, but there are monsters in the world.”, he said. “Things that aren’t human.”, he explained to you. “So, those people, uhm Kali and Ennis, they weren’t human?”, you asked him. “Yeah, they were alpha werewolves.”, he said. “Werewolves.”, you breathed out. “Yeah, there’s a good amount of them here. Like Scott, Derek, and me.”, he said. “You’re a werewolf?”, you asked him. “Y-Yeah.”, he exhaled. “Why didn’t you tell me? I thought we told each other everything.”, you said to him. “I wanted to tell you (Y/N). I did. But Scott didn’t want you to know about the supernatural. He wanted to protect you. If you knew, you’d be putting yourself in even more danger.”, he tried to explain to you. “So, that’s why we couldn’t be friends”, you said as there were tears in your eyes. You tried to understand, but you were mad at him for not being your friend, and practically ignoring you. “(Y/N) no. I’m sorry. I’ve been such a jerk. I haven’t been your friend lately, and I’m sorry. I’m so so sorry.”, he begged you as he started crying. “Isaac, just tell me why.”, you said, trying to hold back your tears. “S-Scott said I couldn’t. He wanted to keep you out of the supernatural. He wanted to protect you.”, he answered. “Where is Scott?”, you said, as you looked around, not able to see Scott. Nobody else was there. “Everyone else was hurt bad. Yeah, we heal pretty fast, but they still needed to rest. And Melissa was was paged a few minutes before you woke up.”, he said, he slowly got up from his chair, but flinched.

“Isaac, you’re hurt!”, you exclaimed. You saw it hurt him to move. “No, it’s okay, it’s not that bad.”, he tried to explain. “Isaac, you’re bleeding! Why aren’t you resting?!”, you yelled at him. “I-I had to see you first. I had to explain to you.”, he said. “Okay, you explained to me, and I forgive you. Just please rest now.”, you tried to tell him. “There’s more. I-I have to tell you something else.”, he said to you as he looked down, nervously. “Isaac-”, you sighed, but he cut you off. “I know what you’re gonna say (Y/N), that I need to rest. But I need to tell you this. I’ve been holding it back for long enough.”, he said to you. “Okay, what is it?”, you asked him softly. “(Y/N), this past year has been hell. All I’ve been thinking about was you. Everytime I was stressed, I thought about how you used to put your hand through my hair and calm me down. Everytime I had a nightmare, I remembered how you used to calm me down. Everytime I couldn’t control my shifting, I thought about you. And, and when we couldn’t find you, I felt sick. I felt like it was all my fault. And when I saw you laying there, hurt, I couldn’t. I wanted to kill them. I wanted them to pay for hurting you. Because, I love you. I’ve always loved you. But I didn’t know how to tell you. I didn’t know if you felt the same way back, and I didn’t want to ruin what we had. I know I’m not good enough for you. No one could, but if you could please give me a chance- ”, you cut him off by pressing your lips to his. At first, he was shocked, but he sunk into the kiss and wrapped his arms around you. You soon broke this kiss and put your forehead on his. “I love you Isaac, and I’ve never thought that you could’ve loved me back. You’ve always been amazing.”, you said. He grinned widely. “One rule.”, you said. “Anything.” “No secrets. No matter what, we’ll tell each other everything.” “I promise.”, You both grinned before he pulled you back into another kiss. “I’ll love you and I’ll never let you go.” he said, before you pulled him into another kiss as your wrapped your arms around his neck. None of you noticed Scott walking into your hospital room. “What the hell?!?!?!?!?!”

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Frayed

Teen Wolf Rewrite

Pairing: Stiles x Reader

Warnings: Ages 16+, swearing, blood

Words: 3028

A/N: I’m so sorry for this chapter, but there’s only so much I’d could do with it. Anyway, hope you enjoy 😊

Season 3A Masterlist

I sighed as Coach blew his whistle once again, shouting at a kid who got out of his seat.

“Back to your seat!” He yelled, making my headache worse.

I leaned my head back against my seat, only to feel lips kissing my head gently. I smiled to myself; touched that Stiles was caring for me even if he wasn’t sitting with me.

“Yo, Scotty.” Stiles tried to get Scott’s attention, snapping his fingers. “Hey, yo, Scotty? Still with me?”

I turned around to see Scott zoned out, staring out the window. I grimaced in sympathy; the poor guy has been through a lot in just a short amount of time.

“Scott?” I called, reaching over the back of my seat and touching his arm softly.

Scott flinched, rubbing his face that was against the window. “Yeah, sorry. Uh, what’s the word?”

“’Anachronism.’” Stiles told him, reading off an app on his iPad.

“Something that exists out of its normal time.” Scott answered flawlessly.

“Nice.” Stiles nodded. “Okay, Y/N, you’re next. ‘Resplendent.’”

“Shining or glowing.” I answered without much thought.

“That’s my girl!” Stiles beamed at me. “Okay, next word, Scott…’incongruous.’”

Scott winced in pain. “Um, can you use it in a sentence?”

“Yes. Yes, I can.” Stiles nodded. “It’s completely incongruous that we’re sitting on a bus right now, on our way to some stupid cross-country meet after what just happened—incongruous.”

“Out of place, ridiculous, absurd.” Scott recalled, ignoring Stiles’ sentence.

“Perfect.” Stiles gave Scott a thumb’s up. “Okay, next word. Um, Darach. Darach, it’s a noun.”

“Stiles Stilinski.” I groaned, slamming my aching head into the leather-coated seat while Scott blinked at Stiles repeatedly.

“We have to talk about it sometime, okay? And we’re gonna be stuck in this thing for like five hours, so why not?”

Scott didn’t answer, instead sighing loudly and leaning his head back against the window with a painful look on his face.

“Next word…” Stiles sighed. “’Intransigent.’”

“Stubborn, obstinate.’” I answered easily.

The bus went over a huge bump, making the vehicle rattle. Scott grunted in pain and clutched his side tightly. Stiles and I exchanged worried looks.

“Oh, Scott, are you okay?” I worried. Scott grunted breathlessly in response.

“We shouldn’t have come.” Stiles declared. “I knew it. We shouldn’t have come.”

“We had to.” Scott said weakly. “There’s safety in numbers.”

“Yeah, well, there’s also death in numbers, okay?” Stiles retorted. “It’s called a massacre… or a bloodbath, carnage, slaughter, butchery, wow, that’s…”

Scott groaned again while Stiles was reading off his iPad, and I had had enough of watching my best friend be in pain.

“All right, Scott, I’m telling Coach that—”

“No.” Scott interrupted me. “No, no, no. I’m all right.”

“Well, you don’t look all right.” I snapped.

“Would you just let us see it?” Stiles asked, reaching forward to grab Scott’s shirt, only for Scott to slap his hand away.

“I’m okay.” Scott insisted.

“Just let me see it, okay?” Stiles asked gently. My heart melted at the sight of him trying to take care of our friend.

“Okay.” Scott nodded. He pulled up his white t-shirt to reveal three gashes in his left side. They were bloody and gross, and they didn’t look like they were healing at all.

“Oh, dude…” Stiles gaped.

“I know it’s bad,” Scott started, pulling down his shirt. “But it’s because they’re from an alpha. It’ll take longer to heal.”

“How come Boyd and Isaac are fine then?” I asked, nodding to the boys that sat a few rows ahead of us.

Scott didn’t answer. He leaned his head on the window and stared out of the glass.

“I can’t believe he’s dead.” He moaned. “I can’t believe Derek’s dead.”

I pursed my lips and turned back around, a certain sadness settling into my bones. It was true. Derek was dead.

Derek and I weren’t close. In fact, I wouldn’t call us friends, but he had become a permanent fixture in our lives and to think that he was gone… well, it hurt.

Derek, Peter, Boyd, and Cora had a plan to kill Deucalion, thinking that once the leader of the alpha pack was dead, the rest of the pack would disappear. Scott disagreed, and set up a meeting just to talk to Deucalion, bringing Isaac with him. Derek and the rest of his pack followed Scott there without him knowing, and a fight broke out, resulting in Derek’s death.

Coach’s whistle chirped again.

“Two of you, back in your seats!” Coach yelled. “Jared, again, car sick? Every time—how do you even get on the bus? Look at me. No, don’t look at me. Look at the horizon. Keep your eyes…keep your eyes on the horizon. McCall, not you too?”

I looked back at Scott to see that he had a deep grimace on his face, his eyebrows furrowed.

“No, Coach, I’m good.” Scott called.

“Hey, Scott, you’re bleeding again.” Stiles pointed out, nodding at Scott’s side, where blood was seeping through the material of Scott’s t-shirt. “And don’t tell me that it’s just taking longer to heal, okay? Because I’m pretty sure that still bleeding means not healing, like, at all.”

Scott ignored Stiles, looking at Ethan, who was sitting with Danny a couple of rows ahead of us. “He’s listening.”

“Is he gonna do something?” I asked worriedly.

Scott shook his head. “Not in front of this many people.”

“Okay, well, what about the two ticking time bombs sitting right near him?” Stiles wondered, gesturing to Boyd and Isaac.

“No, they won’t.” Scott assured us. “Not here.”

“Okay, well, what it they do? Are you gonna stop ‘em?” Stiles questioned.

“If I have to.” Scott nodded.

The bus driver slammed on the breaks as traffic slowed to a complete stand-still. Scott grunted in pain and Stiles’ head slammed against the back of my seat.

“You okay, babe?” I asked him, reaching towards him and brushing his fringe back.

“Yeah, I’m fine.” Stiles sent me a smile.

Suddenly Scott stood up and stepped over Stiles to get to the aisle.

“Scott?” Stiles asked. “Where are you going?”

“Boyd.” Scott answered. “He’s gonna do something.”

“Okay, what?” Stiles narrowed his eyes. “How do you know?”

“Look at his hands.” Scott nodded at Boyd.

He slowly made his way towards Boyd and Isaac and placed his hand on Boyd’s claws, talking to him quietly. Boyd must’ve agreed to whatever Scott told him, because Scott came back, clutching his side as he scooted through the aisle and back to his seat.

“Crisis averted?” Stiles asked.

“Mm-hmm.” Scott murmured.

“Okay, good. Cause we got another problem.” Stiles proclaimed. “Ethan keeps checking his phone, like, every five minutes. It’s like he’s waiting for something, you know, like, a message, or a signal of some kind. I don’t know, something evil though, I can tell. I have a very perceptive eye for evil, but you both know that.”

I held in my laugh while Scott glared at Ethan.

“I don’t like him sitting with Danny.” Scott muttered.

“Yeah, neither do I.” I agreed.

Stiles pulled out his phone, catching mine and Scott’s curious glances.

“I’m gonna see what he’s waiting for.” Stiles said.

“What are you doing?” I asked my boyfriend.

“I’m gonna ask.” Stiles answered, typing in a text to send to Danny. Danny looked back at Stiles, and Stiles smiled and waved cheekily. Danny shook his head, causing Stiles to text him again.

Danny visibly put away his phone, making Stiles keep texting him. The whole bus could hear Danny’s phone beeping again and again as Stiles text him. Ethan gave Danny a funny look. Suddenly Ethan turned his head to look back at Scott, Stiles, and I, causing us to duck our heads under the seats.

“Well, that wasn’t very subtle.” Stiles muttered.

Finally, Stiles’ phone dinged with a message from Danny.

Someone close to him is sick. Might not make it through the night.

“Ennis?” Scott asked after Stiles read the text message out loud.

“Okay, so does that mean, uh—”

“He’s not dead.” Scott realized.

“Not yet.” I corrected him.

“Jared, I'm warning you. I'm an empathetic vomiter.” Coach said loudly to the car-sick Jared. “You throw up, I'm gonna throw up right back on you. And it will be profoundly disgusting.”

“Please don’t talk about throwing up.” Jared said meekly. “It’s not good.”

“I might throw up on you just to make a point, Jared.” Coach threatened.

“It’s not good. It’s not good.” Jared repeated. Poor guy.

Coach turned to the rest of the bus with a glare. “Now the rest of you, don’t think we’re gonna miss this meet because of a slight traffic jam, a minor tornado warning, and Jared. We’re gonna make this thing. Nothing is gonna stop us!”

Stiles put his hand up, tired of seeing Scott in pain.

“Stilinski, put your hand down.” Coach ordered.

“You know, there’s, like, a food exit about a half a mile up. I don’t know if we stop and then maybe—”

“We’re not gonna stop.” Coach interrupted Stiles.

“Okay, but if we stop—”

Coach blew his whistle, cutting Stiles off again. “Stilinski! Shut it! Seriously! It’s a little bus! Stop asking questions!”

Stiles sighed and covered his mouth with his hand. “I hate him.”

I laughed through my nose and looked to Scott, who had his eyes closed. “Did you call Dr. Deaton?”

“I keep getting his voice mail.” Scott sighed.

“That’s it.” I gritted through my teeth and grabbing my phone from my bag. “I’m calling Lydia and Allison.”

“How are they gonna help back in Beacon Hills?” Scott wondered breathlessly.

“They’re not. They’ve been following us for hours.” I told him.

“Pathetic.” Stiles added.

I dialed Lydia’s number and listened as the phone rang.

“Hey, Y/N.” Lydia greeted in a cheerful tone. “Yeah, we’re just about to walk into a movie, uh, you know, the popcorn and—”

“I know you guys are right behind us.” I interrupted her. “Put me on speaker.”

“Okay.”

“Okay, look, Scott’s still hurt.” I told Allison and Lydia.

“What do you mean still?” Allison questioned. “He’s not healing?”

“No, he’s not healing.” I said. “I think he’s actually getting worse. The blood’s turning, like, a black color.”

Stiles gestured for the phone, and I gave him a questioning look.

“Let me talk to them.” He whispered.

I handed him my phone without a word, rolling my eyes as I did so.

“What’s wrong with him?” Stiles asked sarcastically. “I don’t—do I have a PhD in lycanthropy? How the fuck am I supposed to know that?”

There was a long pause as Allison and Lydia talked on the other line, Stiles rolling his eyes in response to whatever they were saying.

“Yeah, I’ve been trying.” Stiles piped up in an annoyed tone. “Reason? Have you met this guy?”

Stiles huffed as he hung up the phone and gave it back to me.

“I should’ve just let you deal with them.” He muttered to me before standing up to go talk to Coach.

“Coach, it’s five minutes for a bathroom break, okay?” Stiles pleaded. “We’ve been on this thing for, like, three hours—”

Coach blew his whistle, stopping Stiles’ sentence for a moment, before he continued.

“It’s sixty miles to the next rest stop—”

The whistle blew again, interrupting Stiles again.

“Being cooped up for hours is not good—”

Whistle.

“You know, our bladders aren’t exactly—”

Coach blew the damn whistle again, making Stiles shake with rage.

“Coach, this is—”

Chirp.

“Can you—”

Whistle.

“Please—Let me talk!”

Coach laughed before blowing the whistle for a long while.

“Get back to your seat, Stilinski!” Coach yelled.

“Okay!” Stiles roared, turning to come back to Scott and I.

“And Jared, keep your eyes on the horizon.” Coach instructed Jared.

Stiles got a twinkle in his eye before turning around and sitting next to Jared. I couldn’t hear what he said, but the next moment, Stiles jumped up as Jared started projectile vomiting everywhere.

Stiles laughed as he ran back to his seat next to Scott while I glared at him, trying not to puke myself.

The bus quickly pulled over at the rest stop and everyone ran off the bus. Stiles and I each took a side of Scott and helped him walk to the restroom, while Allison and Lydia caught up to us.

“Jared, you suck!” Coach’s words followed us. “Hey, somebody grab some towels or a mop or a new bus.”

Stiles and I lowered Scott to the floor while he gasped in pain. Allison raised his shirt, showing that the wounds had turned black.

“Oh, my God.” Allison whispered, looking to Scott. “Why didn’t you tell us?”

“Sorry.” Scott whispered weakly.

“Okay. Just give us a second, okay?” Allison told Scott, giving him a nod. She turned to Stiles, Lydia, and I with a concerned look. “This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve seen him heal from worse than this.”

“Okay, what do we do then?” I asked, panicking slightly.

Stiles grabbed my hand and squeezed it, while asking, “Do we just call an ambulance?”

“What if it’s too late?” Allison replied. “What if they can’t help?”

“We gotta do something.” Stiles said strongly.

“You know, it could be psychological.” Lydia spoke up suddenly.

“What do you mean,” Stiles asked her. “Like, psychosomatic?”

“No, she means, Somatoformic.” I told him.

“Som—” Stiles tried to repeat.

“A physical illness from a psychogenic cause.” Lydia explained.

Stiles looked to me, silently asking me to explain what Lydia just said.

“It’s all in his head.” I said.

“All in his head?” Stiles repeated thoughtfully. He was quiet for a moment before his face lit up in realization. “Because of Derek. He’s not letting himself heal because Derek died.”

“So what do we do?” Allison asked.

Lydia rummaged through her pink, leather purse, pulling out a miniature sewing kit and holding it up.

“Stitch him up.” Lydia ordered. Stiles, Allison, and I looked at her like she was crazy. “I’m serious. Maybe all he needs to do is just believe it’s healing.”

Allison grabbed the sewing kit and took the needle from the plastic box, and sanitized it with a lighter while Stiles, Lydia, and I tried to sterilize the area with paper towels.

“He’s gonna need another shirt.” Allison said. “Where’s his bag?”

“Um, I’m gonna get it.” Stiles nodded nervously. “I hate needles anyway, so…”

He went to leave but glanced at Scott and gave Allison a nervous look.

“Uh, do you know what you’re doing?” He asked her.

Allison nodded. “Yeah, my father taught me.”

“I mean, how fast are you gonna… I mean, the bus, like, the bus could leave.” Stiles stammered.

“Well, you just make sure it doesn’t leave.” Allison replied, looking back at him.

“I can help, babe.” I gave Stiles a short smile and grabbed him hand, pulling him out of the restroom.

I led Stiles to the bus, where we waited for Lydia, Allison, and Scott to come out of the bathroom. They were taking forever, and when Lydia came rushing out of the building with a worried look on her face, I knew luck wasn’t in our favor.

“What’s wrong?” I asked Lydia.

“Allison can’t get the needle threaded.” Lydia answered. “She sent me out here so she could concentrate.”

Right then Coach blew his whistle and stepped off the newly cleaned bus.

“Let’s go!” He yelled, gesturing with his arm to gather onto the bus. “Back on the bus!”

Isaac and Boyd walked over to us with curious faces.

“Where’s Scott?” Isaac asked, looking around to Scott.

“He wasn’t healing.” Stiles said before proceeding to explain what was happening to Scott and how Allison was stitching him up because he thought it was his fault that Derek was dead.

Isaac growled and ran away to where Ethan and Danny were talking by a tree, and tackled Ethan, punching him in the face. The fighting went on and Stiles and I looked on, not knowing what to do to make Isaac stop.

“Stiles, what’s happening?” Scott asked Stiles, suddenly appearing over his shoulder.

“They went after him.” Stiles shrugged. “I told ‘em what was happening with you and they just went after him.”

“Who, Boyd?” questioned Scott, rushing over to the group that was surrounding Isaac and Ethan.

“Isaac,” Coach called, trying to stop the fighting. “Isaac, Isaac! Back off! Stop!”

Scott pushed through the crowd and yelled, “ISAAC!”

Isaac immediately stopped punching Ethan, glancing at Scott with sheepish eyes.

Stiles and I exchanged looks as we remembered an incident last February when it was Isaac’s first full moon and he was about to attack us when Derek roared.

Isaac panted, getting his frustrations out as he walked away from Ethan while Danny rushed to the injured alpha.

“All right!” Coach yelled finally, blowing his whistle angrily. “Back on the freakin’ bus!”

There were murmurs as everyone lined up to get back on the bus. Allison and Lydia joined the queue, abandoning Allison’s car, as they had run out of gas.

Stiles and I sat together in the seat in front of Scott and Allison, while Lydia sat in front of us.

“All right. Let’s go over this one more time.” Stiles spoke up, ten or so minutes after the bus started up again. “So, it’s the sacrifices, right? Everything has to do with them and someone who thinks he’s, like, a dark druid of some kind.”

“Or actually is a dark druid.” I said, looking at Stiles intently.

“A Darach.” Stiles nodded.

“Not to interrupt, but, you know that some ancient cultures sacrificed people in preparation for battle.” Lydia spoke up, turning around in her seat to look at us.

Stiles sighed and quirked his eyebrows.

“So we got alpha werewolves against a dark druid.” Stiles summed up.

“Yeah.” I exhaled, leaning my head against his shoulder.

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