It’s An Obsession By This Point.

The Umbrella Academy Season 2 + foreshadowing

+ Bonus:

How I would open tua season 3

If they used the alternate selves in the timeline:

Dark stage. The Umbrella Academy theme starts playing (the one Vanya plays on her violin in season 1 episode 1) except with an electric guitar.

We don’t see the face, just hands playing on a dark stage.

Cut to the plant from Luther’s moon base. Pull out to reveal it is one of many plants Alternate!Luther is tending to. He has his body before the accident, he’s in the sunshine, he’s happy.

Cut to scene of the family being robbed. Same as before, a man in the shadows saves them. This time we see his police badge before we see Alternate!Diego’s face (free of scars.)

(And yes before you ask his charatcer arc in season 3 will be realizing how terrible the police force is.)

Alternate!Allison walks down a red carpet. Cameras flash. Pull up, the carpet is just a hallway. A little girl runs up and hugs her: Claire. She picks her up and they smile together for a camera. The camera is lowered revealing Patrick.

An orchestra’s rehearsal room. We see musicians taking their seats, readying their instruments. We don’t see Alternate!Vanya until we get to the front of the room. There she stands, baton in hand. She isn’t a musician, she’s the conductor. The music laid out in front of her is titled The White Violin- Vanya “last name.”

Sparrow!Ben in his uniform. He stands in front of the paparazzi, covered in flecks of flood. His team stands behind him. They’ve just saved another bank.

Each time we see a sibling, their number pops up just like the first episode of season 1, but then is crossed out and replaced with the same first name but different last names.

Cut back to the guitar on stage. Again, the musician is kept in shadow but more sound filters in. There’s a shouting audience. More lights, smoke, a band appears behind the guitar player.

Similar to the first episode we then flash over to each (ex) sibling watching a news story but this time it’s of the (new) Hargreeves foiling the bank robbery. Each looks on with a flicker of confusion, but then shake their heads. It’s nothing, it’s normal. They just imagined the sense of deja vu.

Final scene is of the stage, this time with a full band behind the guitarist and a cheering audience. We pan up to see Alternate!Klaus holding the guitar. At the crescendo the crowd goes wild. He holds the note and smiles at the audience, happy with the performance.

We follow Klaus walking backstage. His band clap him on the back. He turns a corner to find:

A portal opens. Our Five tumbles through.

even more autistic!Vanya hcs

I messed up this post the first time, so let’s try again.

Her hatred of squishy foods is not limited to just oatmeal: cooked carrots, cottage cheese, bananas, and mushrooms are off the table.

Very high pain tolerance, to the point where she’s been in actual danger and not realized it.

Slurs her words when she’s forced to go off script.

People have gotten mad at her for seeming disinterested all the time, so she consciously changes her body language so people know she cares what they’re saying.

“When I said I wanted to be special, this is not what I meant.”

She’s slept with the same stuffed animal since before she can remember, and she’s really embarrassed about it.

She’s pretty good with one-on-one conversation, but in group settings, she gets lost easily.

She’s content with having only one or two friends.

She always wears layers because of the weight, and because she’s hyposensitive to heat.

She can recite the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice from memory, but can’t remember what she ate for lunch, or if she even ate lunch.

She’s still working on embracing her autism. It’s hard to see the positive side of something that can mess up your life so much, but she’s trying.

Five’s first kiss. He can brag he’s made a girl faint over a kiss.

Vanya Hargreeves Was Completely Valid In Everything She Did

Ok. So.

Vanya Hargreeves—I’m just gonna say it, is the most relatable character I’ve ever seen. Specifically Ellen Page’s adaptation. Here’s why.

Vanya is what happens when somebody doesn’t respect themself, gives too much, and gets hurt.

In her childhood, Vanya was raised to see herself as nothing. To place everyone above her—her siblings, specifically. She was supposed to be small, of course so that she wouldn’t be dangerous. However, that just made her incredibly depressed.

She didn’t just crave connection and respect though. She wanted to give it to others, because that’s what she was taught—that others deserved it, not her. That’s why she left the lights on for Five. That’s why she reaches out to him again. That’s why she talks to Allison. That’s why she reaches out to Leonard. Why she talks to the first chair violinist in the bathroom. Because she wants to be needed, to be useful, and loved in the only way she knows how. For others.

Which brings me to my second point. Vanya Hargreeves is not a selfish person. A lot of people seem to think that because she is shy and anxious and self defeating that she’s self centered, but that’s not the case. She reaches out multiple times to people, tries to do what they would need, because she cares. She genuinely cares.

So what happens when someone takes advantage of that low self respect, and that need to love and be loved?

Leonard fucking Asshat Jenkins.

Leonard was raised by an abusive father, and boy oh boy did he learn a few tricks from him. He molded himself into everything Vanya could need, and she took the bait, because she was desperate. She’d tried multiple things already—attempting to validate herself and her experiences by writing a book, giving lessons to children, taking medication, reaching out. So why not let this man be a good thing in her life? If he ever treats her wrong, it’s her fault, right?

Then Allison tells her her secret. Vanya didn’t remember being rumored—a very close parallel to how a lot of people deal with trauma. Indeed, being locked in a cage and treated how she was was traumatic. Vanya is angry. She’s been shown that she’s worth something, and now someone who’s repeatedly let her down and only recently been a better sister to her has turned her back on her by telling her this gut wrenching truth from her past. Remembering trauma alone is huge. But hearing it from one of the people who unwittingly hurt you? Can you really blame her for lashing out? Of course, it was an accident how far it went, but her anger, if not right, was still understandable.

And then Leonard. Leonard, the person who she trusted, was just out to hurt her too. Vanya recognizes this—this isn’t the first time she’s been used for her powers. So for the second time, she becomes angry not at herself, as she’d always done in the past, but at someone else. She lashes out. This man who’d filled her with such happiness, happiness that turned to poison. Someone she’d been intimate with. Someone she loved.

Then as a cherry on the fucking cake, her siblings lock her in a cage. Imagine going through an abusive relationship, discovering past trauma, and also discovering you have fucking super powers—then the only people you have left, the people who are supposed to help—lock you up. They’re scared of you. They’re just like everyone else. There’s no hope.

So yeah, Vanya Hargreeves at that point was hurt, confused, lost, and oh, sooo angry. And I think she had some pretty fuckin good reasons. She had no reason to hold back. She’d been holding back all her life.

While trying to kill the world is really shitty, look into Ellen Page’s lifeless glowing eyes and tell me Vanya Hargreeves wasn’t just a puppet being controled by her hurt. Her illnesses. Her trauma, her grief for her past and the loss of trust she’d endured. Tell me she was evil. I’ll tell you she’s me.

Five crouching down to speak to Vanya in season 2 remains one of the funniest things to me.

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Klaus saying No 🤚 to drugs in 2.03

Klaus if he wore the skirt uniform like he should have!!

Watch this. And then watch it again. Focus on someone different each time