#tua s2 plot twist

[number5theboy]

how do you think the writers are gonna plan out 6 episodes of tua s4? sorta pissed we're given such limited time considering how many secrets there are that's yet to be resolved like the jennifer incident

My guess is like seasons 2 and 3 but without the filler stuff that goes nowhere (stuff like, off the top of my head, the fucking cult storyline, 75 % of what Five has been doing since S2 but specifically the paradox psychosis, the entire concept of the Sparrow Academy and so on and so forth).

General format of S2 and S3 was like Episode 1 (re-introduction of characters and where they are now; inciting incident at the end of it) -> Episodes 2-4 (various shenanigans that either do not contribute to the overall plot and are either character development or genuinely pointless OR are fake-outs about the plot that go nowhere) -> Episodes 5-6 (Five catches everyone up on the apocalypse plot and rallies everyone together; disagreements are had) -> Episodes 7-8 (in some different constellations, the characters resolve something and get a partial victory; usually still split up in smaller groups) -> Episode 9 (the overarching threat barrels into the story with the grace of a sledgehammer; the lowest point is reached) -> Episode 10 (apocalypse finale where everyone comes together as a team; plot twist ending that will barely matter by next season)

So based off of that, general guess on how a six episode season would pan out: Episode 1 (re-introduction of characters and where they are now - in this case, specifically Allison dealing with the consequences of her deal with Reginald; inciting incident at the end of it) -> Episodes 2-4 (plot gets fleshed out, someone - maybe Five - rallies the siblings and catches them up on the plot; maybe this time, they'll stay together, but more likely there will be little split up groups again to do little sidequests to defeat Reggie) -> Episode 5 (Reggie gets one over them, lowest point is reached, but they're all together again) -> Episode 6 (final fight; resolution; Reginald gets defeated?)

#Replies #Anonymous #Speculation

[erikiara80]

La tua Anonima Persona preferita è tornata! Nuova domanda innocente che non ti farà venire nessun incubo, promesso. Vedo che ti piace proprio la teoria di Hopper papà dei nostri prodi Willel. Dici che potrebbero usare scene come quella nella S1 per spiegare il plot twist. Per esempio? A me non ne vengono in mente altre

Ciao, Anonima Persona!

E' vero, questa domanda non è dannosa per la mia salute, quindi posso rispondere. Ti riferisci a questo post, vero? Dunque, se questa è una delle ultime grandi sorprese della storia, credo che potrebbero in gran parte spiegarla attraverso Will. Anche lui avrà il suo "Progetto Nina" secondo me, solo diverso. Ricordi dell'UD, di Henry, cose così. Ma con un'atmosfera meno sci-fi e più fantasy. Perché è Will.

Se la teoria è giusta, queste sono alcune delle scene che credo gli autori potrebbero usare per spiegare cos'è successo e completare la storia.

Tutta la spiegazione di Becky sull'MKUltra nella S1, ma rivelando che in realtà è quello che è successo agli Hopper.

L'origine dei problemi di ansia di Joyce, che vengono citati ma mai spiegati (c'è solo un vago "Spero che non sia...") proprio il giorno in cui quelli del laboratorio cercano di convincerla che suo figlio è morto.

Il modo in cui Brenner e Owens si sono occupati sia di El che di Will, entrambi quindi legati al laboratorio, in un modo o in un altro.

I parallelismi tra Sara e Will in cui incappiamo ogni secondo

Nella S2, come Hopper si divide, perfino dolorosamente, tra Will e Eleven, ed è estremamente protettivo con entrambi.

L'affetto profondo che Joyce ha subito mostrato per El.

E tanti altri momenti ancora. Puoi trovarne diversi in questo post

Non è detto che abbia ragione, ma se questa è davvero una delle grandi rivelazioni della storia, sarà così grande da cambiare il nostro modo di vederla, così com'è successo con Henry. E visto che con lui sono riusciti a collegare tutto, è possibile un'altra rivelazione simile, che colleghi altri archi narrativi e personaggi. E' in linea con il modo in cui la storia è narrata. E questo potrebbe essere il modo per farlo. Usando, tra le altre cose, flashback con scene di ogni stagione, e mostrando che quello che ha detto David è vero, la storia è sempre stata lì, fin dall'inizio, nascosta in piena vista.

E per me sarebbe ancora più bella. Grazie per la domanda!

#will byers #willel twins #stranger things #st theory #stranger things asks

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

the only thing that WILL surprise me in s3 is dave’s (crt) return and good writing 

#im 90% sure im gonna hate their 'unexpected plot twists' bc im morally ready to know that s2 writing team is still well writing for tua <3

[upset-hufflepuff]

HEY YALL you know the music that plays during Ben's reveal in S1E1?? It also plays in other scenes in both seasons??? WHAT IS IT CALLED I CANT FIND IT AND IM OBSESSED

#YALL KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT RIGHT #the oop! plot twist! violin music #the Umbrella Academy #tua #ben Hargreeves #five Hargreeves #diego Hargreeves #klaus Hargreeves #vanya Hargreeves #luther Hargreeves #allison Hargreeves #netflix #tua s1 #tua season 1 #tua s2 #tua season 2

[plentyelegant]

never mind about the shape I'm in, I'll keep you safe

(alternative title: Klaus just loves his baby sister send tweet)

Summary: After getting bested by their umpteenth threat to the world's continued existence, the siblings not only get scattered across the city, but their powers scattered amongst them. After waking up without his powers, a clue which of his siblings' powers he did have, or where his siblings actually were, Klaus starts looking for them... only to see possibly the most heartbreaking sight he could have imagined: Vanya, obviously burdened with his powers of seeing and hearing the dead... in a cemetery.

Words: 3.8k

Pairings: PLATONIC Klaus & Vanya (and some platonic Klaus & Allison near the end)

Warnings: Hurt/Comfort. Sensory overload/panic attack. Discussion of seeing/hearing ghosts. Mentions of death, drugs, and Reginald's abuse (The Mausoleum). One mention of insanity (klaus being worried his powers might drive vanya insane).

A/N: This is my first tua oneshot! I've been working on it since Friday because... well... the idea wouldn't leave me alone until I got it out in a fic. I actually did it instead of finally finishing s2, so... it might be a bit ooc? But I hope you like it! Title from "S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W by MCR. Based on the second addition of this post of mine. <3

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Well, Klaus thought, isn’t this just swell?

“Swell” was probably, by far, one of the most inaccurate ways to describe this debacle that he could come up with. Just earlier that afternoon - Oh, what a nice afternoon it had been! - he and his siblings were dealing with some threat. Maybe it was more nefariousness from the Commission, maybe they were preventing the apocalypse of the week. Who knew? Who kept track, anyway, of the fires they’d been putting out?

(Well, Five probably did. But that wasn’t the point.)

But it just so happened that this fire they’d been putting out had been able to best them and scatter them across the city. What’s more, this fire wasn’t an ordinary fire, but one like themselves, or that chameleon-esque one from the 60s. Maybe that fire had intended to erase or absorb their powers, and the act had been botched, or this was their intent all along. It didn’t matter, really; all that mattered was that this fire managed to give his and his siblings’ powers a whole switcheroo before scattering them.

(Alright, metaphors aside, it wasn’t a fire. It was a villain.)

Klaus’ only reassurance that their powers hadn’t been erased entirely (or taken by the villain for themself) was that, after they’d sent a blast out at him and all of his siblings, leaving the six positively reeling, Klaus had seen a very confused Luther start “blipping” everywhere, ala Five’s teleportation, before they’d all been scattered. Oddly enough, he’d been grateful for seeing that; if Luther had Five’s powers, it stood to reason that each of them had the power of another sibling instead of their own… right?

Well, it was what Klaus was going with.

But when he came to without any of his siblings around, a clue where they were, or that power-swapper in sight, he decided against trying to figure out which of their powers had been thrown at him. He may not have been the smartest of the bunch (that was either Five or Allison, really. Probably Allison. Yeah, it was Allison.), but even he knew it would have probably been a bad idea to see if he could control things’ directions like Diego, or rumor things into existence (or nonexistence) like Allison, or make use of Luther’s super strength.

And he could only imagine the catastrophe that might come about if he tried to use Vanya’s powers. The only one who knew how to best handle them was Vanya herself. And even she wasn’t exactly well-acquainted with them!

No, no, no. The best plan - if he could call whatever the fuck he was improvising a plan, which just didn’t seem like the right thing to do - was to find the others, figure out who had whose powers, and realize which one he had through process of elimination.

Speaking of elimination, as Klaus searched through the streets for where the other five ended up, he’d at least been content with the power-swapping ensuring that he wasn’t hounded by the dead as he attempted to round up his siblings. Silence from the ghosts was a pleasantry he’d never quite been used to, especially silence that hadn’t come along with either being as high as a kite or drunk as a skunk. At least, it made it easier to look for the others.

“Allison!” he called out as he walked the streets, “Vanya! Diego!”

Of course, sober or not, he still drew stares from passers by as he called their names. That was fine. He just had to find them as soon as he could. They couldn’t have been far!

(Well, they very well could have, but right now, Klaus took quite a liking to trying to reassure himself through falsehoods so he didn’t panic. It was fun.)

After an hour or two of searching fruitlessly for his brothers and sisters, he eventually turned into a lesser-populated street of town - a street which harbored a cemetery.

He winced at the sight of the large plot. He always hated going into graveyards; they only bombarded him with ghosts (which he’d never forgotten Reginald taking advantage of with that fucking mausoleum). Of course, the dead couldn’t do much to him now, since he’d been stripped (or relieved?) of his usual powers that afternoon, but that didn’t stop him from grimacing.

But his grimace fell when he saw someone in a patch of trees far off on the opposite side of the property from where he’d stood outside it’s gates.

“Oh no,” he mumbled to himself as he shook his head, “Oh, no, no, nononono-”

He wished he was mistaken in thinking he recognized that quivering little frame, curled up against a tree with her forehead against her knees as she kept them close to her chest; he wished he didn’t recognize her all-black outfit from earlier, or her brown hair which she’d had her hands dug into as she covered her ears.

He’d recognized that posture all too well. Not from her, but from himself; from his days locked in the dark of that mausoleum, trying to cover his ears to block everything out and make himself small, because he felt small - and he was, he was just a kid - and curling into a ball because he’d had no one there to hold him but himself.

It was Vanya.

Vanya had his powers.

...And she got dropped in a fucking cemetery.

“Oh, fuck!”

Klaus half-ran, half-stumbled into the graveyard. Thankfully, it was nearly empty, and the few people there paid no attention when he ran across the yard, dodging and hurdling over headstones when he’d needed to. He’d dodged them on instinct and reflex alone, because all he could think about was that scared little ball up against that tree. He didn’t try to call to her; not only was he almost out of breath, but he feared that trying to call her name while she didn’t see him would just add to the bombardment of voices that no doubt rang out in her head.

As he got closer, the sight just became more and more heartbreaking, but it was at its worst when he’d gotten right in front of her, and he could hear her sobs.

“Go away.” she pleaded, a little muffled with how her head had been ducked behind her knees, “Please, please just go away.”

Klaus knew she wasn’t talking to him, but the ghosts. She wasn’t even aware of his presence yet. And he couldn’t let that stand, so he dropped to his knees and put his hand on her arm.

“Vanya-”

“NO!” she jerked away from his hand with a sob. He didn’t blame her - he would have done the same, after being left alone with the ghosts for…

...Oh, fuck, it had been hours since they’d been scattered. Hours since she’d ended up here. In a cemetery. With overwhelming powers of seeing the dead. Alone. 

“Vanya!” he said louder, trying to speak over the ghosts if he could have. Gently, instead of putting a hand on her arm again, he placed both his hands on her shoulders.

Finally, her head snapped up, and when he saw those big brown eyes shine with tears that hadn’t already joined the others that streamed down her face, it took all Klaus had in him not to start crying too. Instead, he just put his hands over hers. It wouldn’t do much to actually deafen the ghosts, but he hoped it at least gave her some comfort.

“It’s me, Vanny.” he said, hoping she’d hear it, or at least know what he was saying, “It’s just me.”

Her lips, which had been relaxed as they trembled from shock, contorted into a grimace.

She hugged Klaus so tightly that it almost winded him. Even with her powers being as incredible as they were, he always got surprised at how much physical force could be inside one little violinist. Still, he hugged her back, tight enough to reassure her while not making her feel restrained. No one really hugged him when the ghosts got too strong before, but if they did, this was how he would have liked it.

Klaus could feel Vanya grab fistfuls of the back of his shirt and hold them in what he aptly assumed was a white-knuckled grip. That was alright, he was just glad she hadn’t scratched him in the process.

“There’s-” she started, her head nestled against the crook of his shoulder, her voice shaking, so little, “There’s - there’s so many of them-”

Even though she couldn’t really see it, he tried to smile reassuringly.

“Ohhh,” He tried to make his voice as reassuring as the smile she couldn’t see. “Don’t pay any mind to those silly gooses, Vanny. All their snarling and shrieking’s just for show.”

Klaus could hear her sniffle against his shoulder.

“...Geese.”

Klaus twisted his neck a little to look at what was visible of Vanya’s face, “Hm?”

Vanya picked her head up a bit.

“Not gooses.” she said, her voice strained and her eyes red, both obvious byproducts of crying as she was bombarded by the spirits of the dead in a cemetery for hours, “Geese.”

Klaus rolled his eyes in mock exasperation. Of course, of all the things that helped ground her, it was correcting his grammar. Still, he took what he could get.

“Oh, so you write one bestseller, and now you know everything about grammar, don’cha?” he said, smiling and giggling when he’d finished so she’d hopefully know he’d been trying to be lighthearted.

Apparently, it worked, because a smile twitched at the corners of her lips, and she laughed a hoarse little laugh…

...until her little smile fell, and that laugh turned into more shaking breaths again, getting deeper and deeper until she gasped with every breath.

Oh, no.

Of course, it hadn’t grounded or distracted her for long; she hugged him tighter and nestled her head against his shoulder again. But this time, she screamed against his shoulder, a sound that wasn’t made one bit less heart-shattering by being muffled. As he tried to stop his own lips from trembling and his own eyes from watering, he just hugged her tighter.

“Shhhh, it’s okay, Vanny, it’s okay.” he said, his shushing more to sooth her than to actually make her be quiet, which he knew wouldn’t work the moment she shrieked again, “You’re okay. Just focus on this. Just on me.”

“I can’t.” she choked out, “I can’t - I can’t do it - I can’t-”

As hysteric as she was… Klaus knew she was right; she couldn’t withstand this. Not for much longer. Even after almost thirty years with the ghosts, he still had a hard time keeping them at bay. For years, he couldn’t. That’s why he’d started the drugs. But even his experience with the ghosts all his life, as nightmarish as it had been, was nowhere near as bad as what had been thrust upon Vanya. He, at least, had ways to withstand it, or keep it drowned out. Vanya didn’t have that.

And it was killing her.

It was killing his baby sister.

Maybe it wasn’t killing her, but without a way to quiet it, or keep it at bay, Klaus didn’t have any doubt that… that it could drive her mad. He feared it for himself, some days in his childhood, but that fear became so much more real - and so much worse - as his sister shook in his arms.

“Klaus. Please. Help me.”

But he didn’t know how.

She was in too much hysterics to walk out of here, and he wasn’t strong enough to carry her. He didn’t have any drugs on him either - even if he did, he was not going to give them to Vanya; there was no way in hell he was going to fuck her up like that. She didn’t have any of the mood regulators she used to take, either, which might have dampened the ghost-seeing powers just like they did her moon-blow-uppy powers before.

He didn’t know what to do. His little sister was in pain and terrified and he didn’t know how to make it go away.

...He had an idea.

There was one thing he could try - something he’d wished and asked fruitlessly for often when he was little. He didn’t know if it would work, but he didn’t know for sure that it wouldn’t work, either. If it could help Vanya, it was worth a shot.

“Vanny, I have an idea,” he pulled his arms away, “But you have to trust me, okay?’

He felt her head move in a frantic nod.

“I do, I do, I do, just - just do something -”

He put his hands on her arms and gently pulled them away and pushed her back a bit so she was right in front of him, and he could look into her eyes. He didn’t know if eye contact was necessary for this, but why risk messing it up if it was?

He took a deep breath and said something he wished countless times to hear as a child; something he’d probably look really, really stupid for saying if this didn’t work, and he didn’t get the power that he really, really hoped he did.

“I heard a rumor that the ghosts went away.”

…Vanya’s eyes clouded over.

Klaus didn’t think he’d ever felt so relieved in his life. Not even after he’d been brought out of the mausoleum, or when he’d needed anaesthetics to wire his jaw shut after he fell down the stairs, and he realized that drugs shut the ghosts up. No, this was more of a relief than all of that, guaranteed.

After a few seconds, Vanya’s eyes cleared up, going from milky white back to their normal brown. Immediately, she closed them as she brought her hands to the sides of her head, her little frame sagging with fatigue.

“Did it work?” he asked with a tilt of his head. Letting out a deep breath, she nodded.

“Thank you…” she mumbled, exhaustion evident in her voice as she opened her eyes, though her eyelids were heavy.

Klaus smiled again.

“Pure luck, Vanny.” he said, “That’s all that was.”

“Mhm…” she nodded a little, sleepy nod before her eyes fell shut and her head lolled to the side… 

And the rest of her body followed.

Though she was still kneeling, and it wouldn’t have hurt much if she hit the ground, Klaus still caught her as she fell unconscious, keeping her back and neck supported as best he could as he gently laid her on the ground next to the tree she’d been curled up against. Of course she collapsed; he knew how exhausting this must have been for her.

So, Vanya has my powers, I have Allison’s, and…

Klaus thought back to earlier, when he’d seen Luther frantically blipping around.

...Luther has Five’s. Great.

Well, it wasn’t like he could go searching for the others and figure out where the other three powers ended up. Vanya, laying flat on her back in the shade, was already dead to the world, and would probably be for a while yet, and Klaus would never just leave her here. Also, since he didn’t exactly have Luther-like super strength (or, depending on who got it in the switch… Allison-like? Diego-like? Five-like? Oh, now that would be rich.), or as much upper body strength as he’d like, he couldn’t carry her out.

No… the best thing to do was wait here. Whether he was waiting for one of the others to find him, or for Vanya to wake up, or for someone to kick the both of them out when the graveyard closed, he wasn’t sure. But he knew he’d wait right there for one of those things… preferably any but the latter.

Resigned and relieved, he moved over to sit up against the tree, next to his sleeping sister. With his back against the bark, he let his head loll back. Until now, he hadn’t realized how exhausted he’d been in all of this, after walking the streets for hours, running to poor Vanya, and finding her as he did…

It had been a full afternoon, and he decided resting his eyes for a bit wouldn’t hurt.

---

Klaus was lured back into the realm of the conscious by the sound of voices.

“There they are!” he’d heard.

No, not the voices of the dead he usually heard. Those would be with Vanya when (if at all) that rumor wore off (and honestly, he hoped it wouldn’t).

No, it was the voices of his siblings.

“Klaus!” he heard Five’s ever-snippety tone.

“Vanya!” he heard the worry in Allison’s voice.

He opened his eyes to see the rest of his siblings coming towards them; Allison and Five, who he heard moments before, as well as Diego and Luther. He let out a sigh. Thank fuck. He’d been worried that he might get kicked out first, as that would’ve been his luck.

It didn’t take long for them to make their way over to them.

“What happened-” Luther started, a little loud due to his concern. So it didn’t wake Vanya (or disturb nearby mourners), Klaus brought a finger to his lips and shushed him.

He pointed down to Vanya, still sleeping at his side, and put up his hands - and their ouija board-esque tattoos - in a flourish, a clear gesture saying that Vanya had his powers.

They all got it immediately.

“What about you guys?” he whispered.

“Well,” Allison started, still glancing at Vanya. “After I tried seeing if I could control where things I threw went, I figured out I had Diego’s powers.”

She nodded to Diego as he stood behind her, looking over her shoulder to stare down at Vanya with a troubled gaze, which almost looked… restrained, as if he was trying to keep his emotions at bay.

“I landed by a lake, so it was easy to find out with skipping stones.” she explained. Of course, leave it to Allison to find the most practical way to deduct which power she’d gotten.

(It must have been fun holding the family’s brain cell.)

“And after a few broken streetlamps,” Five announced, hands in his pockets, “Figured it would be best if Diego here kept a cool head for a while.”

So, he’s got Vanya’s powers. Klaus figured out. Makes sense.

It didn’t, but none of this did. Nothing in their lives ever did.

“And it took a bit to find Luther when he kept blipping across the street every time he sneezed.” Allison said, eyeing a very sheepish Luther behind her.

“Sorry.” He rubbed the back of his neck.

“That means…” Five trailed off.

Klaus nodded.

“I’m all…” he brought up his hands and wiggled his fingers, “rumory.”

Allison looked between him and Vanya. “Did you use it?”

Klaus nodded again.

“Just to get the ghosts off her back.” he assured, looking down at his sister, “Ohhh, they just terrified poor Vanny. She was crying her eyes out when I found her.”

He looked back up at them.

“She alright now?” Diego asked. Either he was doing a terrible job at keeping his worry for Vanya out of his voice, or he wasn’t trying at all.

“Oh, yeah, yeah, she’s fine.” He waved his hand as nonchalantly as he could manage, as if it didn’t feel weird to talk about how “fine” his sister was after he found her crying her eyes out. “She’s just… out. She ended up passing out all on her own.” He shrugged and shook his head. “Wasn’t me, or the rumor. She was just tuckered out, poor thing.”

Five walked forward until he was right in front of Vanya, crouched down, put one arm under her back and one under her legs, and - much to Klaus’ surprise - lifted her with no trouble. Klaus’ eyes widened at the sight, and his eyebrows raised.

“Super strength.” he said, completely and utterly matter of fact.

Oh. Klaus held back a grin and stifled a giggle. Of course.

“Which means,” he grit his teeth, “it won’t be hard to throw one of these headstones at you if you let out that laugh you’re doing a shit job at holding back.”

Keeping a poker face, Klaus put up a thumbs-up.

“Come on.” Five turned around, “Let’s figure this out.”

Five started to lead the pack of power-mismatched siblings out of the cemetery, and even though he wasn’t sure where they were going, Klaus followed where Five was leading. That always took him and his siblings to the most lovely destinations, didn’t it?

He ended up falling in stride with Allison, who kept looking at the ground.

“So…” she lifted her head back up and looked at him, “You used a rumor on her?”

Even though she’d already asked that, Klaus nodded.

“If there’s one thing I know, Allie,” he started, “it’s how bad the ghosts are. Especially somewhere like…”

He gestured around them.

“...this. I felt pretty out of options, really. I didn’t even know I had it. Pure luck - that’s what we usually run on, right? Luck, I think, is the lifeblood of the Hargreeves.”

“You sure it’s not things going wrong?” she asked. Klaus shrugged.

“Hey,” he said, “the family can have two lifebloods.”

Allison seemed to agree. “God knows we need it.’

After another moment or so of walking, she laughed a little laugh - not really a laugh, but close enough to one that any other word would have been too inaccurate.

“I remember…” She let her gaze fall to the ground. “When we were kids, you’d always ask me to use it. All the time. When we’d come back from missions, when you’d have nightmares, when Dad let you out of…”

She didn’t finish that thought. Instead, she shook her head.

“...and I never did. I wanted to, but-”

“Alliiie, you don’t have to explain yourself.” He waved it off with a shrug, “I get it! Dear ol’ Dad would’ve lost his marbles. I never held that against you, and neither-” he put his hand on her shoulder, “should you.”

Allison nodded before she said…

“It might not wear off.”

Klaus gasped, putting a hand over his mouth.

“Oh, nooo! That's... the opposite of a problem!”

Allison rolled her eyes.

“Klaus...”

“Come ooon.” he said, “Seeing ghosts all the time is, surprisingly enough, not all it’s cracked up to be. Kinda spooky, actually.”

“I'm just saying,” she said, a little exasperated by her brother’s sarcasm, “It might be permanent. Even when we do get our powers switched back. Sometimes… rumors stick around for a while.”

“Well…” he winced, “I guess we’ll just burn that bridge when we get to it.”

“You mean cross that bridge?”

At that exact moment, they both heard a loud sneeze and whipped their heads forward at Luther - or at least, where he was. Much to the other four’s exasperation (Vanya didn’t respond, as she was still asleep), he’d blipped across the graveyard.

“...Nope.”

#the umbrella academy #umbrella academy #mine #tua #tua fanfic #klaus hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #my writing #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #five hargreeves

[disco-tea]

S3 Speculation.

Okay so this is mostly just me venting but I’m actually super nervous about S3. Mainly because I’m just worried about how they’ll handle the plot and the new characters. I’ve had so many shows that I loved that have done similar things like this and it never turns out well.

I think the main potential things that I’m low key nervous about would be:

The main characters/relationships/dynamics that we love might get sidelined and shoved to the background in favor of developing new ones.

All the new characters could potentially take up a lot of screen time and leave less room for development from main characters we still want r to see more growth and arcs from.

Then there’s Sparrow Ben...as a general rule, totally changing a character that is still technically the same character never really sits well with the audience. It’s happened with Angel, it’s happened in the Arrowverse, and Sliders (to a degree), and many other shows. It usually leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths because it’s like a character died but without the actual process of mourning, and now suddenly there’s a new character with the same attributes stomping all over the old character’s memory? It just feels wrong, particularly if you’ve placed emotional value on this character. I think the only time I’ve really seen plots like that work is where it’s only temporary or not a complete irreversible change. The audience needs to somehow reconcile our Ben with Sparrow Ben for it to work. We need to feel like this is more of a stepping stone for Ben’s pre-existing character points/arcs/relationships rather than just a clean slate where everything about him we’ve gotten attached to has been erased.

So I think what it really boils down to is the feeling of being replaced. And yes, the Umbrella Academy has been replaced, but I think for S3 the Umbrellas need to feel that but the audience doesn’t. We still need to feel like we’re watching the same characters with the same dynamics we’ve been following in their story and not like there’s a whole new cast here to replace them.

That being said, there are some things that are giving me some hope and reassurance.

The siblings bonds.

So I think at this point the writers are acutely aware that the thing at the center of their show is the sibling's bonds. It’s not the powers, it’s not the plot. It’s the “same weird family, new weird problems.” The show starts and ends with the siblings being together. Even in S2, when by all logic there probably should’ve been major rifts between the siblings, they found a way to bring it back around and have them all come together and forgive and grow closer. So I think (I hope) at the end of the day, the writers are most concerned with the sibling bonds and with keeping them together. (It’s also my sincere hope that the Sparrow Ben concept is just a vehicle to bring Ben back into the land of the living so he can be closer and more involved with his siblings than he was before.)

TLDR: Without the siblings there’s no show.

It’s still the UMBRELLA academy.

I mean yeah, the Sparrow Academy is here, and yes the siblings have been replaced, but the show is named after them and they still have the most comic backgrounds of anybody. The Sparrows didn’t even have names (except like one character) until the show. Nobody started watching just for the Sparrow Academy. So hopefully the writers will remember that.

Repetitive writing is (usually) bad writing.

Most of the time you really want to avoid being repetitive in writing unless you’re directly making a parallel. And yeah, I’ll admit, some of the arcs in TUA have been slightly repetitive, particularly in S2, yet at the same time they’ve usually been working towards something and there are other elements at play. I just can’t see the Sparrows being just another Umbrella Academy without there being some sort of a catch. If they are just Umbrella 2.0 designed to be integrated in without some sort of twist that sets the Umbrellas apart, I think I’ll probably be disappointed.

Which brings me to my next point that is verging into fan theory territory.

There’s already a big difference between the Umbrellas and the Sparrows.

So I think what’s really interesting about the Sparrows is that they’re still together. They’re still operating as a group under Reginald, which probably isn’t a good thing because I doubt it's because he suddenly got better at parenting. Reginald hasn’t changed, the very existence of the Sparrows is proof of that. Reginald didn’t mend his ways or change himself, he just replaced those he deemed as failures because the problem could never lie with him. That's what he does to everyone, he messed them up and then completely discards them because it’s their fault, not his.

So Reginald adopted a whole new set of children (and a cube??) and gave them numbers and everything and by all logic subjected them to the same awful childhoods. So why exactly are there a bunch of 30-year-olds still living with their abusive father and squabbling over numbers and ranks? Why does Sparrow Ben care so much about being Number 1?? I mean yes, the Umbrellas argue over their numbers too and it’s something they all struggle with (and are learning to overcome) but most of them at least tried to make a life for themselves outside of the academy. Most of them left as soon as they could because of how bad Reginald treated them. (With the exception of Luther, but even then he was sent away eventually because Reggie is a flaming garbage can of a human being.) So why exactly did the Sparrows stay? I’m really curious because judging by some of the character descriptions, I don’t think it’s out of love and loyalty.

#long post #sorry i’m venting #I do feel a bit better though #umbrella academy #sparrow academy #sparrow ben #tua s3 speculation #umbrella academy season 3 #sparrow panic

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TUA S3 Episode Titles

Basic ideas of what each episode title could entail, but FYI I suck at these since every single one I made for the last season were wrong lmao so one thing we’ve gotta take into consideration is how the titles affected the episodes in the previous seasons.

[1] Meet The Family:

Pretty self-explanatory in that it will introduce both the Umbrella Academy and the audience to the Sparrow Academy, while also vice-versa in introducing the Sparrows in their own way to the Umbrella Academy with a sense of irony using such a casual term. Also adds an ironic twist to the phrase Klaus used in S2 ‘Family barbeques are about to get real weird’ (Klaus back at it again with his underestimated clairvoyance maaaaaaammmm).

[2] World’s Biggest Ball of Twine:

I know a lot of people want a family road trip—me too lads me too—but I honestly think this’ll be referencing the timeline after all the Hargreeves’ shenanigans. I can only assume that this may be said at some point by Five while explaining why they can’t just use the briefcase again, assuming they still have it, to just go back immediately to fix things. Their actions causes too much chaos and they need time to figure things out, potentially hide out (although I’d love to have them stay at the Academy in order to make things easier and cause friction with the Sparrows) while Five tries to figure things and the others try to find a sense of stability amongst the destruction they’ve caused. They fucked up, plain and simple, and now poor Five needs time to fix it.

[3] Pocket Full Of Lightning:

I went about looking for anything this could be referring to in terms of song lyrics or reference and couldn’t find anything yet, but something that did come to mind was that of the nursey rhyme containing the words ‘pocket full of posies’. While not the same, the nursey rhyme uses a pocket full of posies, or herbs, to ward off disease and death so my first thought was that they used this to show that flowers could be seen as innocent, but a pocket full of lightning could be something that is quick and sudden and hurts someone? I’m not sure to be honest. But the symbolism of having something in your pockets comes from having something readily available, or easy to use. Meanwhile, lightning symbolizes the destruction of ignorance or marking people to remind them of what they barely survived. So many, much like the supper in Season 2, this episode may go into the actual power Reginald still holds—even if he isn’t their original father—over the Umbrella Academy and maybe the Sparrows as well?

[4]Kugelblitz:

This one is meant to be looked up and according to google means “a black hole formed from radiation as opposed to matter” and “a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped”. So basically—something super dangerous and wild. But it does also mean “ball lightning” in German which could mean something more considering that there is another title in German and is an anti-aircraft tank made by Germany for WWII and was an operation by the Germans in 1943 against anti-Partisan in Yukoslavia. This title has so many means connected to German that I have to think may connect to Klaus or even allude to Five, due to the idea of black holes and time travel, also being German and potentially Klaus’ twin but it’s nothing concrete.

[5] Kindest Cut:

This seems to be a parody of the Julius Caesar phrase “This was the unkindest cut of all” upon his betrayal and murder at the hands of his fellow politicians, so I can only assume that this title may allude to another betrayal but one that was either seen coming or a murder that was asked. Maybe a mercy kill? I’m not sure to be honest. But I think that perhaps at this point one of the Sparrows, perhaps Sloane who due to the character profiles released seems to be the most likely to try and break away from the Sparrows, but it could also be Five joining the Sparrows to save his siblings being the kindest betrayal? Not sure.

[6] Marigold:

Due to the fact that the golden orbs of light we saw Reginald release in S1 and that Vanya both gave and took from Harlan, this episode may go more into detail of Reginald’s connections and potential experiments with the children’s powers. There are so many questions to be answered, especially about his link to the children and how his alien-ness may tie into things. Perhaps through flashbacks or experiments he does with the Sparrows and Umbrellas themselves? Due to the fact that the original Reginald seemed aware of what the children themselves were capable of power-wise with that of Klaus’ potential, having a vague awareness of time-travel in terms of how it affects people in connection to knowing Five wasn’t ready to do it yet and even how dangerous Vanya was and why he chose to lock her powers away. Reginald definitely knew more in the original timeline and I feel like now he is going to go more in-depth with the Umbrellas this season as adults rather than the rudimentary “superhero” training we saw them go through that suited the collective rather than showing individual training aside from Vanya with her glasses and Klaus’ exposure training with the mausoleum. I hope this episode will actually address the supposed “potential” Klaus had and why Reginald saw him as his “greatest disappointment” compared to Five who was MIA and Vanya who he seemingly gave up on, especially since the next episode definitely seems to be a Klaus-centric one that could finally address his power-arc started in S1 that was basically abandoned last season in favor of giving Ben more screen time.

[7] Auf Wirdersehen:

Translated from German to mean “Goodbye” in the sense of not a forever goodbye but rather a momentary one (“until we see each other again” —potential symbolism connected to the pilot “We Only See Each Other At Weddings and Funerals”?? The next episode is called “Wedding At The End of The World”??), it is ironic that this was also the name of a show from 1983 about seven people struggling through adversity and growing closer together which may also hint at the relationships within the Umbrella family/Team Zero getting better throughout the season. Anyways, this title definitely suggests to have a large connection to Klaus specifically due to his identity as being from Germany mainly due to speaking German throughout the first season, establishing that Reginald most likely bought Klaus from a German woman in 1989 like how he bought Vanya from a Russian woman the same way in the pilot. Now, I doubt that this would be a literal goodbye due to the fact that neither any of the showrunners/cast or even Robert Sheehan himself have come close to suggesting that Klaus may leave this season and due to the popularity of Klaus within the fandom, that wouldn’t be a smart move unless Sheehan expressly wanted to leave and said as much. They simply wouldn’t kill Klaus off around half-way through the season. But I doubt this sort of title would warrant being connected to anyone but Klaus. But I definitely could see this being a sort of rebirth for Klaus through an act of sacrifice and the introduction of his immortally into the main plot. I see this as hinting at Klaus sacrificing himself like Ben did in order to save his siblings but not staying dead like in S1 when he seemingly died saving Luther at the club, and coming back to life with a new resolve and completing his arc with him accepting Dave and Ben’s deaths and letting him finally find his potential that Reginald hinting at in S1. However, I think that would happen over time and rather he may die and either the others don’t know and only find out after he comes back or he dies and stays “dead” for this episode and we explore Klaus like Vanya was explored in S1 and S2 before he is revived for the next episode like how we saw him vanish with the briefcase in one episode in S1 and appear back on the bus visibly changed in the middle of the next episode.

[8] Wedding At The End of The World:

This one seems to also be very symbolic due to the fact that I doubt any couple within the show are close to be wed, but rather it being a symbolic coming-together of the Sparrow and Umbrella Academy in order to stop the coming Apocalypse (honestly, I don’t mind another apocalypse as long as it isn’t Vanya again). A “wedding” doesn’t have to be the marriage between two people, and according to Collins Dictionary can also be “the combination or blending of two separate elements” or a “joining together” which I think is the two Academies coming together. They are becoming one, or simply ‘Team Zero’.

[9] Six Bells:

This title I believe connects to that of Hotel Oblivion and the idea of a bell hop bell when someone enters a hotel and are checked in, but the fact that it is only “Six” bells makes me think of either two possibilities; one is that Five only at this point has joined the Sparrows and so is not included with the Umbrellas being forced into Hotel Oblivion, or that Klaus who I and many theorize will die two episodes prior to this will finally wake up revived only to find that his other siblings have been locked away leading to the irony of him, who was always seen as the “useless” one being forced to team up with the Sparrows against Reginald to save his siblings. As well as this, we also can point to that of a funeral in which a bell is rung 6 times potentially hinting at a death or connecting to death in terms of Klaus being presumed dead by his siblings? Death is often signaled by the ringing of a bell and something to note is also the ringing of a bell happening at both a wedding and a funeral (tying back into the pilot title?) so I think this may tie into both Klaus’ “death” and the “marriage” of Team Zero. I doubt they would go through with hyping and building the characters of the Sparrow Academy only to kill them before the finale, and we’ve seen from the S2 finale that killing the Umbrella Academy both makes no sense and would make the idea of including Hotel Oblivion in the finale useless due to the fact that they would be dead and so why would they be sent there. So I definitely think only six of the Umbrellas will be sent there and the one left behind will either be Five or Klaus.

[10] Oblivion:

The finale title is self-explanatory in tying into Hotel Oblivion, and I don’t really have much to theorize on it based solely on the fact that there is such a high probability that my previous theories could be wrong. All we know for certain is that Hotel Oblivion will definitely be making some sort of appearance this season, whether through threat of the actual team being taken there as seen by the set pictures leaked showing cars with the emblem of the Hotel. However, the word “oblivion” also has several meanings and could have a double meaning along with connecting to that of the hotel. Oblivion came mean “destruction”/”extinction” or “unaware” or “forgotten” and I think depending on what happens in terms of potential hints of other episode titles could definitely vary. If “Kugelblitz” ends up referring to a black-hole causing the new apocalypse then it could definitely connect to the destruction meaning, but if the likes of Klaus is revealed to be alive with his siblings in this episode after being assumed dead then it would definitely add to the meaning of his siblings being “unaware” or that Klaus has to save them or face being potentially “forgotten” and alone like the ghosts.

#tua #the umbrella academy #tua s3 #tua season 3 #tua season 3 speculation #tua s3 speculation #tua s3 theory #tua s3 theories #tua season 3 theories

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Fiveya Meta: they need to talk

Endure me, I am on a fiveya-train and my thoughts don’t shut up.

After watching the most recent behind the scene videos of TUA season 2 we can conclude that they did make senseless choices in the plot because in some cases they had to. For example in the case of the snow storm created by Harlan in the final episode, that was added to the script because suddenly there have been a snow storm on the outside set the days before the scheduled filming and they couldn’t clean the place enough, in time for the recording. The snow was added.

I also think they could have written some of the characters better and given them real development (*cough* Luther, Ben *cough*). I wasn’t even a fan of the whole “Vanya lost her memory” thing, but I’ve read that Steve Blackman (the showrunner) doesn’t want to diverge from the original content too much (which is a bit silly to say since they did make major changes since season 1, but okay). I guess that’s why Vanya’s amnesia was still there, although they treated it differently. In the comics it was Mom-Grace who helped Vanya to find herself again and her own value, in the show it was Sissy who did it. I thought it was kind of a hint to the comics the fact Sissy resembled Show-Grace a bit (blond, kind and a mom). Did I think it was unnecessary to have a love interest for Vanya right after season 1? I did, but I justified the choice by thinking that the show wanted to give Vanya a taste of what real love (not like Leonard’s manipulative and abusive love) is supposed to be. I also thought it was a way to show how Vanya needs to stop clinging to the first person who gives her affection, attention and treats her with kindness. I hope she’d realize that and work on herself and family in season 3, first and foremost.

Even with the evident flaws I enjoyed season 2, especially because I decided to treat it as a passing by (detour/digression) chapter in a longer story. All Hargreeves siblings in the ‘60s tried hard to make a new life and ignored their actual life (Allison, Luther, Klaus) or had a convenient amnesia (Vanya) or focused on something too much to lose track of what matters (Diego). Everyone except Ben (who was not treated once again as a full character despite the apparent level up the PR promoted) and Five (who once again was running around in panic mode to stop an apocalypse). Remember Vanya saying, “New timeline, new me.” And Five replying “That’s NOT how it works.”? I may give the writers more credits than it is due, but I hope those two lines were some kind of meta messages for the more attentive viewers. Those two lines can explain perfectly season 2 to be honest.

Nobody can know how long a tv show would run, a fact that expose us to uncertainty. It’s always a gamble trusting writers and showrunners to deliver a good story, but all it’s fair game and one has only to accept it. I do not trust any of them, but I cannot help myself and still hope that they will not ruin everything. With all this said, let’s talk about something I think the show has to tackle in next seasons: Five and Vanya are two points of a theme that needs to be addressed and solved. They need to interact, talk and close their open theme together.

This is not a cohesive meta and I probably will lose myself in too many details, but I hope the message I am trying to convey will arrive. This is only my reading of the show and theories, so you can disagree. I just hope you’d find something interesting and maybe help someone to have a different perspective on what’s going on and where (I pray) the show will go. Here the points I will talk about, if you are in for a very verbose essay, please click on the “keep reading” button. Meanwhile I’ll wear my tinfoil crown and sip some margarita.

Five and Vanya are a theme

It was mean to be Ben

Why the Fiveya’s tension in S2 EP 7’s iconic scene is a symptom of something

I dare to hope in fiveya (at least until proven wrong)  

1. We have a theme: Five wants to stop the apocalypse and Vanya is the apocalypse

It’s a twisted joke of the universe that the very thing Five is obsessed about in season 1 (the apocalypse) was caused by the person he trusted the most (“I’ve decided you’re the only one I can trust” - Five in S1EP1). The red thread that linked Five and Vanya can’t be more evident, that’s one of the reasons why I started shipping them. The family’s dynamic, the siblings’ relationships and bonds are equally important, they add layers and motivations to the story, but if we strip everything else and look at the core, we all know Five and Vanya are at the centre of it.

It’s not a simple coincidence that Five said “I’m the four horsemen”. At first, it’s just a funny line, because Five is drunk and he described himself as those fearsome figures (because he is the best assassin of the whole world and time. Death incarnated in his humble opinion). You don’t take him seriously when he said that line, you don’t pay attention to it.  

However, later it gains a certain degree of truth. Subtly the show tells you that indeed Five is linked deeply to the “apocalypse” (Vanya), as much as the four horsemen (they are the prelude and the bringers of the end) are linked to the apocalypse (in the biblical sense). He lived it. He was trapped there for 45 years. He is obsessed with it. The Apocalypse is his business.

Timid little Vanya is the first person he looked for in the middle of the doomsday’s ruins and arguably his closest friend. On the first day of his return Five only have meaningful talks with Vanya. Five sought her to confide the horror of his memories and share the burden of the truth. He trusted her above everyone else. Then the universe made a laughingstock of him when it was revealed that Vanya caused the Apocalypse. Five didn’t know he was running towards her, despite wanting to go back to his family (her) all his life. 

In the first two episodes of season 1 they made clear that Vanya and Five had an intimate bond in their childhood and still cared for each other after so many years, then the show proceeded to separate them until the finale. They tried so hard to keep them far away from each other during season 1 and we all know everything would have been different if they had time to properly talk, process their situation and find a solution together. Of course, the show didn’t give them that chance, otherwise the show would have ended in episode 3 and goodbye drama!

They did not confront each other in the end of season 1, they let Allison take that role because the show built up their connection as sisters and I didn’t dislike the choice. Did it work thematically? No, Allison has no connection with the apocalypse. That’s Five’s business. He didn’t confront Vanya, he let others take the lead in the most crucial moment and with no surprise the apocalypse still happened.

The other apocalypse in season 2 was still connected to Vanya and again Five ignored the cosmic signals and focused on dead ends. Despite knowing perfectly that the butterfly effect can come from any source, he didn’t even think about Vanya’s being the cause of the apocalypse again. Five should have listened Klaus when he suggested that Vanya might have been the cause. Funny how Klaus told him in S1 that he has an addiction and Five aggressively denied it. Funny how saving his family and stopping the apocalypse are always his top priorities, but Five still deny himself (for a reason or another) the time to confront Vanya (the apocalypse).

We have a theme waiting to be resolved: Five wants to stop the apocalypse and Vanya is the cause of the apocalypse. If Five does not confront Vanya the theme will never have a closure. It’s still open right now. It is still there, waiting to be picked up again. There is no resolution.

2. Vanya and Ben’s goodbye

The scene between Vanya and Ben was one of my favourites from season 2 and after pondering for a while I concluded that it couldn’t have been anyone else but Ben the one who helped Vanya in that moment. My theory is that the show will walk backwards the breaking points of Vanya’s life: Ben’s death, Five’s leaving and Reginald’s abuse.

Vanya is not fixed. How could she when she was barely Vanya in this season? “New timeline, new me” she said, but that was just a convenient escapism mechanism. Years and years of mentally and emotionally abuse don’t disappear in one week. The Hargreeves have still a lot to process and resolve, individually and as family. That’s why I hope the show will progress the story in the right direction and actually work on them in season 3. Especially Vanya, who needs to confront her trauma. That’s why the scene with Ben in episode 9 was necessary.

From Vanya’s book:

[…] Our everyday existence was full of evidence that Dad had [...]-pped into treating us like experiments. Not as children, but like animals. And what happened to Ben was the last straw that finally shattered the illusion for the others …

Ben died long time ago and his death was the last straw that shattered the illusion (for the others) that their father cared about them (even in his own messed up way). Everything changed from that moment and each sibling drifted away from one another after that. Ben’s death was the moment Vanya and the rest of her siblings stopped being a family. The definitive step of Vanya’s alienation from her siblings.

There was no place in the group for her. With Five’s absence and Ben gone (he is a caring brother, with Klaus is like that and I can imagine him being kind to Vanya in their childhood too. Although, Ben is not Five and we have seen him being harsh to her in the flashbacks in S1EP10), Vanya was truly lost.

The tearful and important moment between Ben and Vanya was a reverse moment in my opinion. Vanya needed that from Ben, his death heavily influenced the course of her life (everyone’s life) and it was only fitting that Ben should have been the one helping her to start again. It’s symbolic in a sense, but also very factual.

“Sorry that I left without saying goodbye” – Five, S1 EP2

“At least this time I can say goodbye.” – Ben, S2 EP9

I’m using my fiveya-goggles, but we all thought that what Five said in S1EP2 (when Vanya tried to find him at Hargreeves’ mansion) wasn’t just about him leaving her apartment. It’s a very specific line that works on double levels: text and subtext. The subtext of course refers to the day he run out the house and time jumped. I highlighted these two lines from Five and Ben because I think they share the same theme: leaving her without saying goodbye.

Vanya wasn’t on mission with the team when Ben died, and I doubt she even saw his body (or whatever remains were left) when the Umbrella Academy returned. She didn’t even see his manifestation during the Icarus’ fight, too focused in her own power. The scene between them in Vanya’s mind gave both the opportunity to make amend of untold words and missed moments.

Ben is dead, he is the one he cannot return. His departure is permanent, there is nothing they can do about that. However, they can have a closure. Ben needed to be the one first patching to mend Vanya’s relationship with her family, to remind her that she does belong. This sort of second death (finally move on into the Light) has more meaning than the first one, this time Ben completed the mission. He saved someone he loved (he couldn’t stop Klaus from destroying his life with drugs and alcohol) and could trust his siblings to take care of the rest.

I still think Ben didn’t need to die-die, but in a sense it was time for him to move on into the light. He was afraid to go on, but if he could move on so his siblings. It is time for Vanya to move on her own trauma.

(Yeah, I know. I still have problem with the scene because they erased canon in a way and Ben could do a lot more as character. They erased the fact drugs stop their powers like in Klaus’ addiction and Vanya’s pills, so how Vanya was able to use them under LSD? I tried to explain that to myself by the fact “they needed to bs that canon fact in season 1 and ignored it”.

We can also argue that Ben could have prevented the apocalypse in 2019 by doing the same thing, but in their defence S1-Ben didn’t know he could possess a body. Yeah, how did he do that without Klaus’ power help? No idea, that doesn’t make sense to me either. Ahah. I just swam with the flow at that point and accepted it as it is. Call it the power of superpowered siblings’ love. I’ve seen worse plot holes in my life. I can live with this).

3. Pass me the knife, there is some tension here!

From Vanya’s book:

Though prone to arrogance and outbursts, even more than the average preteen, Five was my sole confidante in the years before he disappeared. It almost seemed fitting […] the siblings to leave us, it would be him who [I fully?] […] who fully trusted me.

I said that Vanya’s walking backwards her life’s breaking points. So, after Ben’s death, she needs to address Five’s leaving. Five was her only confidante in the years before he disappeared, as she wrote in her book. Five was very important to young Vanya (and old Vanya needs to remember that) and I bet when he left, that was a scar never healed.

Vanya missed him and hoped for his return, for a while she kept the lights on in the house every night and prepared for him his favourite sandwich. When Five did come back Vanya couldn’t process that fact properly in season 1, all she could think of was that she didn’t want to lose him again. Five on the other hand decided that he would save everyone on his own and for that choice he made a bunch of tragic rookie mistakes.

Miscommunication is their kryptonite and right now Vanya and Five aren’t able to fully communicate at the same level. Reggie did such a good work at parenting that they’re so unfit to deal with their emotions and relationships, that will always be the root of their mistakes.

Same story in season 2, meanwhile Vanya is on the verge to provoke another apocalypse (although indirectly), as usual Five was too obsessed with his own plans and was not even aware of the situation. He knows nobody is insignificant when it’s about altering the timeline, but he always ends to focus on the wrong lead. The show again did incredible summersaults to avoid the two to interact properly and when they interacted things still didn’t work for a reason or another. She didn’t remember her past, he was not entirely sincere with her. She wanted to start anew (having a family with Sissy, easy-peasy), he is trapped again in a run against time to save his family. They are still not at the same page and for the show that is convenient. They still can play with their open theme (my point number 1 in this meta).

I don’t blame Five in S1 for thinking that if the worse happens, they would need to kill her. I think he was in a very delicate state of mind in that moment, he didn’t have time to process the fact Vanya (his favourite sibling and we all know she is his favourite) caused the end of the world. It was disappointing and cynical, but time was ticking fast, and he had been in his “maniacal-panic” mode for almost eight days. I also think he wouldn’t really kill her; he was the one who convinced the others that they needed to take her with them in the time jump. They need to “fix her” (aka help her to never feel alone in the universe and prove her we do love her) or they’re going to make the same mistakes again and again.

Just to be clear I think if Five wasn’t one day from the end of the world and in a rush to stop Vanya, he would had had the same reaction as Old Man Five in S2. His 14-days younger version take it very well “Fair enough” he said and then proceeded to tell Luther how to save Vanya, no mention about killing her whatsoever. Old Man Five had time (10 days more than our current Five) and a direct clue on how to stop the apocalypse (thanks Luther). Nobody was going to kill Vanya.

“Vanya will always be the cause of the apocalypse, unless we fix her.” - Five S1EP10 

“Vanya is the bomb. She will always be the bomb.” - Diego S2EP8

Vanya is the bomb and she will always be the bomb unless she heals. A fact that can be added to my number 1 point in this meta, there is an open theme and they need to tackle it. Five and Vanya need to confront each other and resolve it.

This takes me to S2 EP7: the iconic stare-power stand between Five and Vanya. THE TENSION was real, and you could cut it with a butter knife. The first time I screamed at my screen, I felt like Gordon Ramsay in one of those episodes of “Kitchen Nightmare US” when someone finally serves him good food.

Of course, the immediate reading of the scene is that Five needed Vanya to come along and Vanya didn’t want to go because at that point these Hargreeves are still strangers to her (amnesia is so convenient), Sissy and Harlan are the ones she knows and loves in that right moment.

They were still able to cut each other with sharp words and hostile glares though. Five let her have what she wanted, not because he feared her, but because as usual he cares more about her feelings than what he would ever admit. It’s the second time in S2 he let her go, his soft spot and favouritism for Vanya was showing once again! *fakes surprise*

I think the tension shown in this scene is a symptom that Vanya and Five are on the verge of something they will (they have to) confront soon or later. This is the subtext reading I came out with.

Even if you don’t look at it with shipper goggle, you feel there is something going on. They let the viewers feel there is a sensitive something whenever these two have an alone scene together. All their alone scenes have a specific grade of intimacy, they made it clear since the scene in front of Five’s portrait. They care for each other, they love each other (sibling love, platonic love, we-could-have-been-something love etc…) and it’s there. However, Five left and Vanya never truly recovered from that. They didn’t process that fact and I truly believe they can’t move on until they heal that scar.

Basically, S2 EP7 Fiveya’s scene = We have to talk, but this is not the moment because the show is only on its second season! THIS TENSION IS HERE FOR A REASON.

4. Hope is the last thing to die

I shouldn’t trust a show, I’ve been disappointed so many times in the past years and showrunners of popular shows tend to be unoriginal and cowards. However, I am an optimist at heart and until season 3 I dare to hope anyway. If proven wrong, there are always fanfictions who can do better job than canon.

If all was lost they could have eliminated Alluther too from the universe because of certain fans screaming “harcest is incest you weirdos”, but Allison and Luther’s situation still exist and still work on the parameter “will they or not”? I imagine for their shippers it was annoying to have such a regression in season 2, but they didn’t destroy it and they still gave them scenes.

Fiveya had even a more subtle situation than Alluther but they’ve been granted the same level of intimate interaction whenever they have an alone scene together. Until Five (the character) will gain an older body (which he can) the whole thing is suspended. However, I think they wouldn’t have been open about the possibility of Five changing back to an older body and spoke about in season 1 if they didn’t have an idea for that.

I brushed off the line Five said to Old Man Five about being forever trapped in his 13-years-old body. It’s canon that there is a way to gain an adult body for Five, the Commission has the technology and even if it’s not the Commission they can mambo-jambo the thing in a way or another. That would never work. The actor is a growing up teenager and from season 1 to season 2 he has already changed. I imagined he will change even more before season 3 will ever start recording (maybe very late due the COVID-19 situation).

Aidan is a fan favourite and I am one of those who can’t see anyone else playing Five, with this said there are still ways for the show to give us fiveya. Young fiveya flashbacks will be always an option to explore the idea of “they had a crush on each other when they were young” and make other viewers understand that it wasn’t all “sibling” love between them. Endgame in a distant season can always have an epilogue with an adult Five (another actor I mean) having a very non-platonic (let adult Fivey kiss please) moment with Vanya, meanwhile building up the longest slow-burn (kinda, deep down I believe those feelings for each other are there) of the century.

Maybe I am wrong, maybe my tinfoil crow is too tight, and my brain doesn’t breathe. Maybe the show will succumb to easy paths and angry bullies. I don’t know, but until proven wrong I dare to hope.

PS: This is a monster of a meta and it probably doesn’t make sense? I hope someone will get what I’ve tried to say. I hope you survive, brave readers. Here a glass of margarita for you. I’d love to hear what you think

#fiveya #five x vanya #vanya x five #my meta

[greenbannanasthought]

It’s alright God, it’s OK, I trust You

Mungkin diantara kalian, yang main tiktok hehe, udah nggak asing dengan kalimat di atas. Tentu saja fyp ku sering muncul suara adek kecil yang teriak “So, it’s alright God, It’s Ok, I trust You”. Yup, i felt that. 

Semuanya dimulai di pagi hariku yang cerah, matahari bersinar terang, mata baru melek pas tepat jam 9 pagi. Kebiasaan bangun tidur bukannya mengucap syukur ya cyin udah dikasi napas sampe hari ini, eh malah nyamber handphone buka instagram, kebiasaan yang tentu saja bukan hanya aku seorang yang melakukannya wkwk. Salah satu instastory dari mutualku seketika menuntun lidah tak bertulang ini untuk membuat dosa pertama kali di hari Mingguku yang tiba-tiba berubah kelabu. “lah janc...” dan seketika ku ralat menjadi “Astagfirullah”... Inhale... Exhale... jadi gini...

Setelah merampungkan studi S1-ku kemaren, yaa.. Maret kemarin aku wisuda ges, FYI ajah. Aku, nggak deng, lebih tepatnya orang tua ku pengen banget aku lanjut S2, demi.untuk.masa depan yang lebih baik, katanyaaa. Jadi yaaa karena emang aku clueless banget yee kan ini idup mau dibawa kemana, jadi ya ikut ikut aja, ya wes ayo es duwa wes. Rencana awalnya aku pengen lanjut ngambil magister profesi psikologi klinis di Unair (iya.. aku S1nya juga di Unair) AKAN TETAPIIII.. semua berubah setelah aku tau ada informasi yang emang udah jadi fakta kalo kuotanya udah penuh. Mam to the pus, Modhar Dhuarrr. Patah hati sepatah patahnya. Nggak, bukan aku (eh rodok deng) tapi papi mamiku. 

Entahlah aku harus seneng atau harus ikutan patah hati atau gimana tapi jujur aku pengen kerja dulu, untuk menghidupi anakku, iya.. anak kucing. Gak deng bohong, aku pengen merasakan gimana sih kerja sendiri, ngehasilin uang sendiri, ngerasain gimana susahnya cari uang. Tapi, tapi tapi tapi dan tapi gimana bisa mulus jalannya kalo ridho orang tua tidak menghendakiku untuk bekerja dulu. S2 S2 S2 titik. huft.

Puncaknya adalah waktu aku ngomong ke papi tentang masalah kuota Magpro Klinis udah terpenuhi. Oh ya tentu saja ada drama dong pastinya, seperti kata om Ahmad Albar “dunia ini panggung sandiwara ceritanya berubah ubah”, eh gitu gak sih liriknya? udah gak berubah ubah lagi ini mah drama hidup saya, terlalu banyak plot twist. Doi ngamok dong “Yawes terserah kamu. gausah S2 S2an maneh. Sak karepmu arepe piye”. DEG. Jangan ditanya, tertohok sudah hati hamba, seketika ngefreeze. Bungkam sudah mulutku, ciut sudah nyaliku untuk berargumen. Dah ku diam seribu bahasa bagai orang lagi sariawan.

Tatapanku kosong, menatap pantulan wujudku sendiri di cermin “now what?”. Ya... emang yang namanya anak ndablek harus dishock therapy dulu baru sadar, akhirnya niat diri dalam lubuk hati yang paling dalam untuk melanjutkan studi, perlahan muncul ke permukaan. Ditambah bujukan mami, yang tiba tiba masuk ke kamar buat ngomong dari hati ke hati (halah). Sebenernya aku ada rencana lain. Magpro Klinis dibuka lagi Januari tahun depan, jadi ada sisa sekitar 6 bulan buat aku nyari kerja, yang adalah hanya bisa dilakukan kalo aku magang. Pas banget Unair lagi buka lowongan magang jadi penulis artikel ilmiah dengan kontrak kerja 6 bulan. Mengingat aku dah punya pengalaman buat nulis artikel ilmiah, (yoi.. gak nyesel ikut bergabung ke Kartu Keluarga bahagia bersama ibu dan mba mba Dosenku tercinta) aku memberanikan diri, membulatkan tekat untuk daftar. Apa lagi katanya WFO, Wah semakin bulat tekatku untuk kembali ngekos dan merasakan kebebasan yang haqiqi wkwk. Sumpa, jujur ya, tinggal di rumah orang tua setelah kamu lulus sekolah, kehidupanmu terjamin, gizimu tercukupi, tapi kesehatan mentalmu meronta ronta :)

Akhirnya... setelah berpikir dengan otak dingin, dengan bantuan angin sepoi sepoi jalanan kota Blitar yang udaranya lumayan bikin pengen kemulan, dan dengan obrolan ringan dari Rosyi, thanks to you Ros, aku membulatkan tekatku untuk rencana dadakan selanjutnya. 

Memang sungguh sangat plot twist kehidupan ini, kalo kata Nadin ‘hidup berjalan seperti bajingan’ tapi kalo kata mas Choi mai hanibaniswiti  “Kalo hidup selalu berjalan sesuai rencana, gak bakal ada kejutan”. Ya... iya sih, cuman kejutannya jangan lama lama juga. Contoh nih, ndang dilamar gitu misalnya, wkwk guyon mas guyon, se-siapmu aja, jangan buru buru, tapi yo ojok sui sui tulong. Dan poin dari semua ini adalah, setidaknya mari kita berjuang dulu, entah happy ending atau sad ending... it’s alright God, It’s OK. I TRUST YOU 

[sandalaris]

SethKate for the 10 sentence meme?

one sentence per genre for a pairing

How can anyone do any of these with just one sentence?! At least I tried.... there’s a lot of run on sentences in this, btw, although after a few I just decided the one sentence rule could shove it and went with keeping each one short, and at least one I said screw it and made it pretty long for a one-sentence story.

1. Angst

A shadow self, that’s what Amaru called them, the ones she twisted and turned and brought forth from the other side, and logically Kate knows he had no choice, knows he did what he had to do to save Richie and her and the world, but logic has no hold in the face of screaming gaping wound in her chest that pulses and weeps grief and guilt when she looks at Seth’s face. It’s a cruel and ugly twist of fate, to still love the man who killed her brother.

A/N: A mild AU I will never write (but have thought about what would happen before) in which Amaru did her shadow-self thing on Scott and Seth is forced to kill him.

2. AU

There’s nothing wrong with the school itself, she decides, even if she does find some of its rules and traditions a bit odd. She wouldn’t even need to be here except Our Lady of Sorrow holds the only duel credit program with both an opening in Statistics and Intro to Psych that was willing to let Kate in given her... unusual circumstances (being homeschooled, a devout Baptist, and technically enrolled at a local public high school - a PE credit apparently requires a bit more than her daddy and the internet can provide - had her sure that even applying was a lost cause). She only has to spend half a day on campus and only one of her classes is even near the annex building so she hardly sees Seth (she refuses to call him “Mr. Gecko” on principle. She’s only somewhat a student here, and he is certainly not her teacher, even if he is a teacher.. she thinks).

She’s counting the weeks until the semester ends.

A/N: I would love to read this as a full fic... just not sure I want to write it, lol. 

3. Crack

No. Nuh-uh. No way. Seth is not some pansy assed prince charming setting out on a quest or one of those glory seeking wannabe knights who graduate from the Fairytale Training Academy, and he’s certainly never wanted to be anyone’s goddamn hero, so little miss damsel in distress, who’s probably some secret lost princess because Seth’s read this tale before and he hated it the first time around, can save her sob story for some other guy because he is absolutely not-

“Please.”

...fuck.

A/N: A reluctant Seth who is entirely too aware of fairy tale tropes and trying everything he can not to be in a one? Way more amusing than it should be to me.

4. Future fic

Seth eyes the group of sparkly wrapped boxes sitting on the counter with distrust, part of him already counting their numbers and trying to figure out how many have his name on them. After last year, when Seth managed to sneak a peek at every single last gift and “ruined the surprise,” Kate had managed to hide every Christmas present so well he’d begun to wonder if she’d decided he didn’t get any this year.

He reaches for a small, shiny box, the tag just peeking out from the curly bow and revealing a “th” in a familiar loopy penmanship, when Kate suddenly hisses behind him.

“Don’t even think about it.”

A/N: “Future” makes me think domestic fic (at least in FDtD), and that’s not an area I’m real familiar with, so *waves hand* this is what you get. :P

5. First Time

Her hands are shaking. Not visibly, but enough to make her fingers feel weak and the gun in her grip far too dangerous.

“You ready?”

She doesn’t know if she’s imagining the doubt in Seth’s voice, regret bleeding through at agreeing for her to play a bigger role, but she nods firmly anyways, tightening her grip and stepping forward.

A/N: Kate’s first heist... although I doubt Seth let her use a gun the first time. Too dangerous in the hands of an amateur. And I’m pretty sure Seth kept Kate’s role as danger-free and background as he could, because she was still fighting so hard to be considered an equal partner at the beginning of S2.

6. Fluff

She’s just managed to settle into the perfect spot when the bed shifts slightly behind her and a familiar hand fumbles sleepily at her arm and over her stomach before finding the hollow dip of her waist. Kate lets out a half-hearted protest, bits of warmth escaping at the blanket slips down and the sheet bunching beneath her as Seth wastes no time tugging her across the mattress, the sound dying into a soft laugh as he tucks her half under him and grumbles wordlessly against her temple without even opening his eyes. She shifts, tugging the corner of the pillow down a bit so its not digging into her neck before letting out a happy sigh. Perfect.

7. Humor (I had a hard time with this one, so I just wrote something random)

Kate makes a noise of frustration, pushing herself from her chair and snapping, “I’m gonna die a virgin. Again!”

“You know,” Richie says with far too much brotherly glee, “if you’re looking for someone to-”

“Shut up, Richard!”

8. Hurt/Comfort (another one where I didn’t exactly want to go full hurt/comfort, so instead I went Hurt? As in injury? Yeah, lets go with that.)

“Ohgodohgodohgod.” She can’t seem to stop the litany of words, repeated phrase cycling through her mind as she presses harder. There’s blood, so much blood, seeping red and too thick through her fingers that she can’t even feel the pain.

She should feel it, she thinks, she did before. Or maybe its better that she can’t, she doesn’t want a repeat of the well.

She takes another step, seeing the door just a few steps away. There are people beyond it, Seth and Richie’s people (Seth’s going to be so pissed, she thinks with a kind of worrying detachment.) It’s a simple goal: get to the door. Everything will be alright if she can just get to the door.

A/N: Kate is totally OK in this. It’s bad, but not as bad as she thinks, and while she doesn’t make it to the door before collapsing, someone comes through really quickly and sees her.

9. Smut  Hand holding?

The leather is soft against his skin, well worn from years of near continuous use and Kate’s dedicated care. He remembers when she first got them, the fancy looking box with its folded tissue paper holding them inside like they were a gift. He had hated them, hated the way they covered Kate’s small, deadly hands, the way Dad expected for her to be grateful, how necessary they were.

He slides his hand up, pad of his thumb brushing over the expensive leather covering her palm before it presses against the soft, vulnerable skin of her inner wrist, and he swears for a moment her can feel the nervous flutter of her pulse before he curls his fingers to lock around her wrist.

She looks at him, an amused quirk of to the edge of her lips as he raises her hand between them and he meets her gaze, not bothering to measure the redness of her eyes as he reaches his free hand up to pinch the fabric just above her pinkie.

“What’re yo-” She cuts off with a choked gasp when he tugs, but doesn’t jerk back. He’s inexplicably proud of her for it.

Her eyes are wide and a little panicked, bottom lip trapped between her teeth as she watches him tug at the top of each finger, loosening the well-fitting glove until it sits loose on her small hand.

He takes in a shaky breath, feeling unaccountably nervous as he grips the empty tip of the glove’s middle finger, like he’s removing far more than just a simple bit of leather. But then again, maybe he is. After all, Kate’s almost never lets any of them see her without her gloves, not willingly.

He pauses at the thought, gaze flicking away from his task to look at Kate. He regrets it almost immediately. He wasn’t going to stop once he started, wasn’t going to give Kate cause to think he held any of the fear she’s convinced he must feel. But maybe she sees the question in his eyes, or feel it in the sure way he holds her wrist because she nods, small and hesitant but there. He pulls the glove the rest of the way off and lets it fall to the floor.

He lets out a breath just as Kate seems to suck one in, her gaze locked on her bare fingers and Seth loosens his grip, fingers already turning so he can run the flat of his palm up her wrist, forearm pressing against forearm as his hand aligns with hers.

He’s grinning, sudden and full of too much smug satisfaction if Kate’s affectionate eye roll is anything to go by, but Seth doesn’t care, already lacing their fingers together so he can hold her hand proper for once.

A/N: This is part of a tUA inspired AU that has no plot and therefore will never be written. But I know exactly what Kate and Seth’s abilities are, which is part of why this is such a thing for Kate here and why Seth feels her fears are unfounded.

10. UST (Unresolved Sexual Tension)

She doesn’t blink, barely seems to be breathing, holding herself so carefully behind her desk, straight backed and fingers laced together as she stares stubbornly up at him. He smiles, slow and measured and knowing, letting his gaze sweep over the cardigan she’s begun buttoning all the way up since he joined her little class, before leaning close, meeting her gaze and dropping his voice low, like a secret between them.

“And what do I get if I get it right?”

A/N: Seth goes back to school to get his GED, Ms. Fuller is not what he was expecting. I actually had a whole scene playing through my head for this, because I like build up, and it was really hard to pick just a small part to put here.

None of these are edited, despite how long it took to post, meaning I have mixed feelings on them, lol. I think I like more of them than I expected to, so yay!

#sethkate #asked and answered #my writing #these were both really hard and really fun #and with mixed sucess

[illyrianhighfaerie]

Live reactions TUA S2 E4

• THE PLOT TWIST OH MY FUCKING GOD LILA IS THE HANDLERS DAUGHTER

• Lila is catching feelings for Diego and is going to help him, I'm seeing already

• Luther not being an asshole to Vanya? YES THANK YOU?!!?

• "Is it to late to be unadopted?"

• Klaus and Allison's relationship it's everything

• Klaus >>>>>>> everyone else

• Vanya you superb little lesbian, you don't even try to hide it

• Homophia makes me pissed off, my poor baby Klaus

• Raymond stop being a dick and let your wife explain everything

• NOOOOO KLAUS STOP IT

• Klaus is like a gay Jesus and I LOVE IT

• Five can smell the bullshit from five miles away

• Luther, this is depressing as fuck

• oh no... Incest siblings back at it again

• Luther wasn't even FAZZLED by the fact that Klaus is a cult leader.

• Lila don't manipulate my man Diego

• THE FACT THAT REGINALD MADE THEM LEARN HOW TO DANCE and that impression though

• GRACE?

• oh my god... Reginald and Grace...

• VANYA USING HER POWERS TO SAVE HARLAN OMG

• VANYA WHAT WAS THAT

• Vanya and Sissy... They have my heart

• Luther laughing at the disgraces in his life... Sounds like me

• Diego is gonna be pissed, I'm seeing the headlines

• FIVE SPEAKS GREEK I'M SHOOK

#the umbrella academy #season 2 #spoilers #the umbrella academy season 2 #the umbrella academy spoilers #luther hargreeves #diego hargreeves #allison hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #number five #ben hargreeves #vanya hargreeves

[blake-wyatt]

the biggest plot twist in tua s2 is how I went from ‘luther can perish’ to ‘protekt this dumb overgrown baby at all costs’

#he was so funny and so stupid and so pathetic and I loved him!!!! #the phone call to olga with diego? comedic masterpiece #the umbrella academy #tua spoilers

[sunriseseance]

A lot of people seemed to have figure out immediately who the bend neck lady was. Where you one of them? Because I did not figure it out until she was hanging and falling and while she was crying I was crying too because only then did I realize who she was 😢

I was NOT at all!!! I feel I'm pretty good at predicting plots (predicted all of s2 of TUA) but 8 did not get anything at all of Hill House and I am in the same boat as you!!! It hit me so hard 3mipyuonwllu. And honestly??? Even when I watched it AGAIN, it hit me. I think that's the beauty of the show. The twist is cool, but the tragedy lies in the tragedy. Nothing else.

#The haunting of hill house #Nell Crain #Answered

[sunshinse-rainbows17]

⚠️spoilers⚠️

Writing my thoughts for TUA S2 Ep9:

Two more left Oof

Yes klaus. You are sexy trash! I agree.

Yes Allison!! Save Vanya! You can do it.

Oh

Diego does look like Antonio Banderas

Klaus is just too relatable

Come on Klaus!!

Ouch

oh my goodness. Ben!

Ben my cutie pie is gonna save Vanya!!

Grassy knoll.

That’s like the 6th time.

Damnnnnn Five is being hostile

They need to stop with the farting.

Snitches end up in ditches Herb.

I am loving The Handlers outfit. She is serving LOOKS!

She looks like some roman goddess and I love it.

She’s also got her hair style and colour back that I liked.

So Herb just managed to open the file to the right page huh. Tv Magic I guess

Come on Ben...you can do it!

Oh look, Carl is being a dick again.

SIDDY IS GOING ALL BREE VAN DE KAMP WITH HER GUNS AND I LOVE IT!

What is the obsession with farts?

Didn’t we see something similar with jfk and five in season one?

See now Luther is sounding normal ish.

As someone who plays the cello, I love that Vanya plays the Violin, it makes me happy.

Tiny Vanya in the violin

That’s trippy.

Aww bless her, Vanya is just scared.

I just want to give her a hug.

I don’t know what to write other than I love Ben and I’m crying at his words to Vanya...

It’s been 17 years! Wow...that’s a long time

All been gravy 😂

Wait, are we not going to see Ben again.

Ok I’m crying.

Ben brought Vanya back but there were consequences and I don’t know how to feel about it.

Oh Sissy...

NO!!!

Wait what....

Oh so Vanya’s powers protect Harlan?? Oh....ohhh

Well Carl is dead...which I don’t mind too much as he was nasty.

Wait what?!

That was one hell of a plot twist?

Or is it a plot twist??

I don’t think Five did kill Lila’s parents.

The handler is so sinister...I love it.

Oh my god

Oh that’s gross

No she did not just eat AJ the fish?!

Luther! Don’t shoot young Five...

Oh smart thinking!

Diego needs to stop thinking he can save Kennedy

I’m confused, I thought the world was meant to end two days before the end of the world.

Did they prevent the end of the world two days ago?

So JFK still dies...

Oh Diego...🥺

Either something hasn’t been explained or I’m being slow but I’m confused.

Reginald isn’t Reginald?!

What the hell

He’s like a squid monster?!

My goodness...

Oh we have songs by Gerard Way...that’s ok I guess

War?!

I’m not ready for the season finale...

#the handler #tua klaus #tua lila #tua netflix #tua spoilers #tua vanya #tua #the umbrella academy #diego hargreeves #vanya hargreeves #allison hargreeves #luther hargreeves #five hargreeves #spoilers #netflix

[electra-xt]

thoughts on s2

i’m done, and overall i really enjoyed it! here are my initial thoughts

things i loved:

• the lighthearted way that the show handled the incest! i thought all the jokes about it were great and i enjoyed diego’s freakout about lila being his sister

• COMMISSION DIEGO was SO GOOD

• the handler!!! everything the handler!!!!! i’m so glad she’s back

• i don’t hate hazel anymore! thank you for your service sir

• the handler blatantly and obviously hitting on five, even when he was in the teenage body— and lying in the bathtub reading his files

• i think allison got a lot more to do this season and that made me happy

• thotty diego stripping down and also wearing tank tops all the time and having sex with lila

• five is amazing and unhinged

• the lila/five fight to bad guy YES

• hello by adele in swedish YES

things i did not love:

• i feel like the writing was just... really bad sometimes? diego was so inexplicably dumb! why was he obsessed with jfk? why was everyone so mean to him all the time? and if i were a klaus or luther stan, i would not be happy. 

• my biggest problem with this season was that for 90% of the time, the show was just the siblings failing at things. i don’t like idiot plots and i don’t like that kind of tension. episode 7 was particularly bad because you just knew from the very beginning that they weren’t going to succeed, so you basically just had to watch as the whole “we have to leave” “no i have attachments here!” happened over and over again, and it really makes the show drag. they made up for this with the fight in ep 10 but i think it really should have been more evenly spread out throughout the season, and it added a level of “oh my god why are you so stupid” to everything. no thanks

• on a less frustrating writing note, i loved diego’s whole “y’all need to recognize that i got shit going on y’all don’t even know about” moment but it felt so off from everything else he’d said that i kind of wonder if it was improvised

• but elliott’s torture and death :( he deserved better! in general i think this show is just too obsessed with torture... like i know i’m more skittish than average but jesus christ! why? and the scenes in the mental institution and the FBI facility were really twisted too

• i did not care about the swedes as characters at all

• why the fart jokes?? is this somebody’s fetish?

• i still just... diego’s hair... aghsdkfghskdjg

• diego’s hair, corollary: bro let him have a little chest hair... the entirely waxed look felt a little unnerving

• i wish they’d laid down more clues to lila’s powers before the very end

• this is gonna be unpopular but i was totally unconvinced of the chemistry between vanya and sissy. i felt like sissy didn’t get much of a fully fleshed-out characterization and they didn’t do much but pine for each other and talk about escaping together

BUT i really did love it by the end, and i’m gonna make a separate post of my favorite diego moments but any time the family was reunited and working together it made me so happy. and i’m really glad they brought back the handler! and i loved the commission! and i have lots of thoughts (and ones regarding shipping lol) so don’t hesitate to reach out!!! i have turned anon off temporarily but i 1000% do want to hear from people who want to talk TUA so hit me uppp

#mine

[karasunology]

ARE U MF ALIVE OMG 😝 HOWS UMBRELLA ACADEMY 🙈 AND IM GOING TRIAL AND ERROR FOR THE THEME COLOUR BYE,, AND U BETTER HAVE EATEN OR GRR GRR 😡😡

HAJAHSSJ I FORGOT TO ANSWER UR DM BYEE 💀🔫 ALSO I REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WENT POOF🏃💨 AND YOU LITERALLY FUCKIJG MADE A PRAYER CIRCLE😭 okay but tua s2 was great ig?? my trust issues just went skyrocketing📈 with every plot twist that happened ( or i think i was just being a dumb bitch ) also our theme planning do be sucky doe😼 YEAH YEAH I ATE DINNER WBY?

#ask.files #osa🐄 #atsu🐄 #atsu🐄 + osa🐄