#ray chestnut

[number5theboy]

@brellygifs EVENT 01: ROMANCE

Allison/Ray + moments that make me ache

#brellyevent01 #brellygifs #tuaedit #The Umbrella Academy #Allison Hargreeves #Ray Chestnut #usersray #tusermyra #tusercj #tusermich #userzhr #ogaferoga #i totally managed before the deadline wdym #Almond

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Allison said Ray died ‘9 years ago at the age of 82’ in the S3 2019 timeline, which means he lived long enough to see the first black president be elected (which he was so excited to hear about in the 60’s)

#the umbrella academy #tua #ray chestnut #allison hargreeves #happy post for once

[fiveisnumber1]

#the umbrella academy #tua #umbrella academy #luther hargreeves #sloane hargreeves #diego hargreeves #lila pitts #allison hargreeves #ray chestnut #klaus hargreeves #dave katz #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #sissy cooper

[umbrella-academy-hcs]

Rewatching season 2 and there's a scene where Ray knows who Viktor is by name when he had no idea about any of Allison's other brothers which means that Viktor was the one sibling Allison actually talked about :(

#their relationship before s3 was so sweet #so upset about how allison treated him in s3 #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua #allison hargreeves #tua allison #allison tua #ray chestnut #tua ray #viktor hargreeves #tua viktor

[fiveapocalypse]

The chestnut family taking Five in after the reset.

He’s thirteen, and alone and Luther had gotten so angry at him that he’s still kinda reeling from the anger. Everyone walked away, he’s stuck to deal with his own thoughts and how much he fucked everything up. Ray is just walking home from getting groceries but he sees the kid sleeping in a dumpster because it’s the most adequate shelter from the rain and he feels bad so he takes him home, and Allison says it’s her brother, her oldest-littlest brother, and Ray doesn’t entirely get it but he knows Five is important so he helps her and Claire nurse him back to health (when did he get so skinny? He’s so cold. He’s disoriented and doesn’t fight either of them on taking care of him. His fever is so high, the threat of taking him to a hospital looms over all their heads).

Five doesn’t get better the following days, weeks, Allison says treating him isn’t working, Ray drives them all to the hospital at two in the morning because Five’s fever is ridiculously high and he’s been tossing and turning and screaming every four minutes. Allison is terrified. This is worse than the shrapnel wound. The bullet wounds. Getting buried by heavy red bricks. Whatever else Five faced trying to help them, and she realizes she’s just been a horrible sister and just—cries over everything. How she acted, her siblings stuck without their powers, Five. When Five finally is allowed visitors, he’s exhausted, and groggy, and everything is a blur. He doesn’t seem to remember much past the age of thirteen, but there’s blurs and images and he doesn’t even stay conscious for long either.

It stays like this for a while; a long while, and Allison just gets to work recreating a bedroom for Five. He had been sleeping on the couch before. She draws Five’s old bedroom from memory and fills It with as much toys and posters and dumb things she can think of.

Five wakes up one day, still a bit out of it. He has brain damage, half of his memory has just collapsed in on itself. He sees Allison and just bursts into tears because she’s supposed to hate him. He doesn’t know why, he just knows. Allison doesn’t know when Five will gain his memories back, if he ever will, but she doesn’t mind reading him and Claire stories, or giving him yogurt like she used to, or listening to him talk about rocks. Sometimes he gets horrible headaches, worse than migraines, and he locks himself away from her telling her she’s awful, horrible, he must be remembering something she did, or something she let happen, whichever it was, Allison doesn’t deny his claims until he comes out of his room looking every bit of 58 years old that he has always claimed to be.

She says his name, just quietly, and he just collapses into her arms and calls her selfish, annoying, the most idiotic one out of his siblings. He cries in her arms anyway and sometimes, the cycle repeats, sometimes it doesn’t, Five’s memories jumble themselves around in his head and one winter morning, as snow begins to fall, Allison sees something extraordinary—or maybe, she just sees something she can’t quite understand what to feel towards.

Five whips his head towards her when she opens the back door and in a flash of bright, bright blue, he disappears, disappears and is suddenly right in her arms, hugging her tight enough to suffocate her, even if he’s not trying to. “Ally,” he sounds so quiet, nothing like the Five she knew, “Ally, Ally, Ally, A—”

The last time he had his powers, all of his siblings were dead.

Allison hugs him back, just as tight as he did her.

#the umbrella academy #five hargreeves the boy #five hargreeves #five hargreeves centric #alternate universe #allison hargreeves #ray chestnut #claire #tua headcanon #tua s4 speculation

[x-eliph]

TUA S3 QUESTIONS

i need a season 4 of TUA asap-

like why was ben on that subway? especially the subway WHERE HIS MOTHER GAVE BIRTH TO HIM?!

where tf is my girl sloane?

what’s going on with reginald and his lil alien wife?!

how will they all move on with life WITHOUT POWERS?!?

i need to know what’s going to happen with allison, ray, and claire literally right now!!

luther came back cuz he wasn’t kugelblitzed.. SO DOES THAT MEAN ALPHONSO AND MY BAE, JAYME, ARE COMING BACK TOO?

lila and diego’s kid?! like hello?!

is the apocalypse coming after them again?!

would five be considered immortal since he’s stuck as a teenager?

AND OFF TOPIC BUT I ALSO NEED SEASON 3 FUNKO POPS AND I HAVE TO HAVE THEM.

#the umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #ben hargreeves #jayme hargreeves #sparrow academy #tua fandom #sloane hargreeves #sparrow ben #five hargreeves #lila pitts #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #ray chestnut #reginald hargreeves #umbrella academy #the sparrow academy #xeliph

[joxnerd]

One of the things I find the most interesting when it comes to the Umbrella Academy is the parallels between characters. There’s plenty of them, but right now I want to talk about one specifically.

In Season 1, we see Eudora get killed by Hazel and Cha Cha, and then Diego’s reaction during the aftermath of it all. We don’t know what Diego and Patch’s relationship was like, but we did know that Diego clearly cared about her and that Patch wanted to find his brother, not only for her job but maybe because she does still care about Diego. And Diego definitely blames himself for her death because he encouraged her to try things his way, which usually includes doing things solo and acting rather impulsively, and that’s what she did when she decided to go in alone instead of waiting for him.

Later, Diego is fighting Ch Cha and she tells him to kill her for Patch, and Diego spares her because he knows that isn’t what Patch would have wanted him to do. Five tells him something along these lines earlier, and I believe that it doesn’t really sink in until Cha Cha tells him to kill her while he is so close to having done just that. I also believe that deep down, Diego knew that the entire time, and that’s why he decides to spare her - also because “she’s probably not worth it.”

(I personally like to think that he also didn’t kill her because Grace wouldn’t have wanted him to do it either and of course, she died a mere few hours before this. Her death was still fresh in his mind, and while it’s not canon, there’s no way he didn’t also think of his Mom during that moment, even if barely at all, because he’s such a mama’s boy!)

And it is true…neither of them would have wanted him to kill Cha Cha, atleast, not in their honor.

Then in Season 3, we see the opposite version of this with Allison. She makes a deal with Reginald to get her daughter and Ray back, and before this, she commits many terrible deeds to even get to that point - such as killing a man (which, I mean, they’ve all done this at some point but there was really no need and she only did it to hurt Viktor), doing a certain something to Luther, and causing multiple rifts within the family. After making the deal, we also see her trying to persuade everyone into going into Hotel Oblivion to fight the guardians.

The interesting thing about all of that is that she does get Ray and Claire back, but only because of doing all of these horrible things. And I know that Ray would did not want her to do these things, especially not to get him back. I mean, they had a whole heartfelt goodbye, and while it was hard for Ray to let her go, he knew he would have to and he didn’t want her to stay there for him because she didn’t belong there. And judging by the look on his face during that scene, this is most definitely how he is feeling, or at the very least - something is clearly off about this version of him, and Allison isn’t going to get exactly what she wants.

We don’t know much about Claire, but I’m sure she would be quite frightened if she knew what her Mom had done to get back, possibly even being scared of her own mother.

Anyways, this is longer than I wanted it to be, but I just thought of this after getting out of the shower and thought it was a really interesting parallel. One of them didn’t follow through, but the other one did - because there is no way that Allison didn’t know that Ray and Claire wouldn’t approve of what she was doing. But she still did it anyway. Diego was about to go through with it, but was able to stop himself, while Allison did go through with it, and now has to live with the selfish choice that she made.

#the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua #allison hargreeves #diego hargreeves #claire hargreeves #ray chestnut #eudora patch #show analysis #character analysis #original post #long post

[islandoforder]

everyone who saw that final scene with ray and claire and assumed that allison is dead is forgetting a) that allison pressed the button instead of reggie and good old sir reginald would not have given himself a job that would permakill him 2) that reg literally used the universe reset to bring his loved one back to life and allison and reginald had a deal going to bring hers back too iii) that it’s the umbrella academy and no one is dead unless you’ve seen the body. several times. and even then not always.

#the umbrella academy #tua #tua season 3 #tua spoilers #the umbrella academy spoilers #allison hargreeves #claire hargreeves #raymond chestnut #ray chestnut #I honestly feel like I’m losing my mind when I see people being like we all know that scene means she’s definitely dead #like she’s schrodinger’s allison rn sure but also dude what show have YOU been watching?? #reginald hargreeves #sir reginald hargreeves

[muse-of-fandoms]

When its implied that romance in the umbrella academy has more drama than a greek tragedy and you watch it anyway full expecting that it would destroy you emotionally but you watch it anyway and end up balling at 2:35 am in the morning asking God why cant your meow moews be happy for once in their shitty lives

#I was warned #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #diego hargreeves #five hargreeves #luther hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #allison hargreeves #ben hargreeves #dave katz #sissy cooper #ray chestnut #delores #sloane hargreeves

[directlyat-thesun-moved]

Allison x Ray barbershop au except it’s literally just canon

#tua #the umbrella academy #allison hargreeves #raymond chesnut #ray chestnut #allison chestnut #tua memes #tua netflix #umbrella academy #tua s2 #tua s2 spoilers #allison x ray #allison hargreeves x Raymond chesnut

[number5theboy]

☂ UMBRELLA ACADEMY APPRECIATION WEEK ☂ DAY 5 ☂ FAVOURITE OUTFITS - RAY CHESTNUT EDITION

#tuaweek2022 #tuaedit #The Umbrella Academy #Ray Chestnut #Raymond Chestnut #tusermich #tusermyra #tusercj #usersray #userzhr #userfra #fiveviktorklaus #ogaferoga #he is sooooooooo #and i want all of his shirts

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

CRIMES

Literal crimes

#tua #the umbrella academy #klaus hargreeves #klave #tua dave #david katz #dave katz #allison hargreeves #allison chesnut #ray chestnut #raynond chestnut

[allisoooon]

Jill’s character is so underrated. She grew up in a time of segregation and leeching. She didn’t have superpowers to protect herself or actually know that things would get better. She has no family to go back to since her parents cared more about their daughter’s success than their own daughter. She’s left to fend for herself in a world where the odds are against her. She could literally be killed and nobody would bother to look for her or avenge her. Allison only been there for a year and she’s still shaken by it. She gave up her future for a man who doesn’t remember her name despite being in his cult for three years and having a threesome with him. But despite all the BS she faced she’s still sweet and hopeful. Dave and Sissy had more privilege than her but were too afraid to live their lives since they were too afraid of what their family would think of them. Even Lila had a similar fear with the Handler and even though she’s gone she’s still healing from the wound. Jill’s parents left her for dead yet she survived and found a community who love her for who she is. She traveled the world and could express herself freely. The Hargreeves could learn a lot from her

Don’t forget it’s a win in itself that a dark-skinned woman was portrayed as highly desirable in a piece of mass media (not that that was hard--the actress is breathtaking).

The ignoring of Jill (as compared with a lot of other minor characters) has a lot to do with the type of personality she has.  She’s sweet, quiet, introverted, intelligent, and confident, but some of these things are shown through a lack of action.

You can deliver a ton of information about a character in their introduction.  It’s called an “establishing character moment” on TVTropes.  This is generally how you make the most of your minor characters.  Examples:

Sissy: Hits Viktor with her car.  Runs out with Harlan, showing she’s a mother and suggesting she is frequently the sole person taking care of her child.  She looks worried, showing she cares about strangers.  The only thing she says is “Son of a biscuit.”  She’s expressive of her emotions, but only in a socially acceptable way.

Ray: Comes home in an amazing mood, proudly reading an article about a movement he is part of out loud so his wife can hear it.  From that alone, we know he’s an activist, and that he has a lot of hope in a world we know to be very bleak for him.  “We made the papers, baby!” he preambles, so we know his wife is his partner in activism, suggesting he sees her as an equal.  This is confirmed when Allison comes down the stairs and he gushes over how beautiful she is and how lucky he is to have her.  Then he gives her the book, showing he is generous and insightful.

Jill: Reading a book while riding on a bus with a cult, or a cult-to-be.  She’s introverted and loves to read, but is maybe a bit gullible.

That’s it.

Does this mean they did a worse job establishing Jill than the other two?  Not necessarily.  It suggests Jill isn’t someone prone to big displays, and that this is how she spends much of her time.  The importance of it is really establishing that Ben is crushing on her, so it's probably a little of both.

What do you do in an establishing character moment when the thing that says the most about your character is that they are quiet and still?

Phlegmatic characters like Jill are the hardest to write, and the audience tends to attach to them less.  This is partly because they’re not big and colorful like the sanguines and the cholerics, or deliberately at the forefront like the melancholics (I should do a post on the four temperaments).  They like to be in the background and become the “steady/reliable one” of the group.  They prefer to play supportive roles.  They’re not doing attention-grabbing stuff, and often stay relatively quiet because they like to let other people handle things.  But the audience sometimes doesn't attach to them well because you have to establish them in bits and pieces, and people don't always pick up on some of those pieces because they're subtle.

Alllll this being said, to address another part of your statement, please don't mistake cheerfulness for strength in the face of trauma. Many times, it's a front. Destiny's Children is probably a safe haven for her.

#tua meta #the umbrella academy #ben hargreeves #jill something #allison hargreeves #sissy cooper #ray chestnut

[umbrella-academy-hcs]

I got polls so time to mess around with this new power

#this is just for shits and giggles #which is why I put Five x Delores lol #anyway this should be fun #the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #tua #tua netflix #five hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #sloane hargreeves #diego hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #dave katz #lila pitts #sissy cooper #ray chestnut #tua delores #tua klave #diego x lila #luther x sloane

[fiveapocalypse]

Five: I found a cat.

Allison: we can’t pick up anymore strays five

Five: we don’t have that much strays

Ray: bud, we rescued a lizard, a mouse, two dogs, a momma cat, a bird, a squirrel -

Five: I’ll have the squirrel as a pet then

Allison: and we’re taking the cat to a shelter?

Five: ………..yes.

#the umbrella academy #five hargreeves #five hargreeves centric #allison hargreeves #ray chestnut

[jellybeanium124]

Since Ray is alive now, he can meet Five, Ben, and Viktor!

#also technically bc ben is alive now too 🤷‍♀️ #chaos intensifies #tua #the umbrella academy #tua s3 spoilers #raymond chestnut #ray chestnut #five hargreeves #ben hargreeves #viktor hargreeves