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yay sisters! (+one brother)
Justin Min's Tweets regarding the new TUA S2 pictures ☂️
I made TV klaus in comic Klaus style and I'm really happy with it! But i forgot to do the eyes and I cba so he wears sunglasses now.
slightly shittier power au
luther is still super strong. but to activate his strength he has to use a dumbbell with one arm.
diego can only curve shitty plastic cutlery. they surprsingly do a lot of damage.
allison can still rumour people but she has to say “want to know the hot goss?” first.
klaus can still see the dead. thats it. thats the power.
five’s time travel only works if he makes the tardis flying sound before jumping through time.
ben still has the horror but its not tentacles. its a bunch of spider legs and its somehow more terrifying
vanya still has her sound powers but they only work if she listens to pop music made in the last decade. she causes the apocalypse by listening to despacito
The Hargreeves as my favorite MCR songs
Luther- Welcome to the Black Parade
Diego- Mama or Helena (so long and goodnight)
Allison- SING
Klaus- Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) or Bulletproof Heart
Five- Teenagers [idek why it just reminds me of grandpa five]
Ben- Dead! [ I’m kidding lol] Kids from Yesterday or Cancer
Vanya- I’m not okay (I promise)
The Hargreeves as P!atd songs
The Hargreeves as FOB songs
The Hargreeves as P!atd songs
Luther- Northern Downpour or That Green Gentleman
Diego- Far Too Young to Die or Emperor’s New Clothes
Allison- Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have or Time to Dance
Klaus- Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time or Nearly Witches or Roaring Twenties [oops]
Five- Crazy= Genius [is that too on the nose?] or Golden Days
Ben- Old Fashioned or The Calendar
Vanya- Trade Mistakes or House of Memories
The Hargreeves as FOB songs
The Hargreeves as MCR songs
The Hargreeves as my favorite FOB songs
Luther- Sugar We’re Going Down or The Kids Arent Alright
Diego- Grand Theft Autumn or A Little Less Sixteen Candles
Allison- Death Valley or Thnks fr th Mmrs
Klaus- I Dont Care or Hum Hallelujah or 20 Dollar Nose Bleed [i couldn’t choose sue me]
Five- Centuries or This Ain’t a Scene
Ben- Just One Yesterday [this was a hard one]
Vanya- What a Catch Donnie
The Hargreeves- Immortals
The Hargreeves as MCR songs
The Hargreeves as P!atd songs
Did anyone say 80s fashion Hargreeves? No? Oh well.
Anyway this is what happened in canon right?
My fave spooky boi deserves some high fashion i think
even if he would just trash the clothes in ten minutes
What do you think would be the ideal endgame for each hargreeves?
The ideal endgame would go something like this: Luther: Sociable and having friends, other people he can actually talk to other than his family. I think that’s what he really and truly needs. It was something he never got to have and it was one of the things he spoke up about when he found out about the moon mission being all for nothing. I think he’d go out a lot more, maybe call some friends up and go out to eat, maybe see a movie, have bowling alley nights or hit the bar and have a few drinks RESPONSIBLY. Maybe even find a nice partner along the way and eventually settle down. He’d no longer look at himself as monstrous (but I also feel like maybe they can fix this along with everything else.) Diego: Maybe he wants to try again with joining the police force, not so much for himself but to honor Eudora and what she believed in. He still wants to help people, but now that he no longer has pent up bitterness and anger towards his family, he can think more clearly. He wants to do things the right way, or as right as they can be. I also think he’d be a lot more active with his family. Going to Vanya’s concerts with the family, spending more time with Luther because they were the ones with the most tension. Now that they’ve shed their numbers, they can be proper brothers instead of being at each other’s throats all the time. Hot take: If Eudora is alive somehow though, then I can see them possibly trying things again (but she made Diego promise to work on himself a bit too and so he does.) So the only difference is he joins the police academy not to honor her, but to respect her instead. Allison: She eventually works things out with Patrick and she can see her daughter Claire a lot more often. Things might still be rocky for awhile, but she tries. Allison also decides that being a movie star is no longer for her, seeing as it was built up on nothing but rumors. So she retires, then goes out to find a proper and honest job instead. Maybe she goes into the fashion industry or makeup or something, not really sure I feel like she’d wanna do a range of things.
Hot take: She goes into the police force with Diego to do detective work, because she has the experience, as we’ve seen her do when looking into Leonard’s background and tracking down her sister. I think these two would make a badass detective duo tbh. Klaus: No drugs, no vices. Helps other recovering addicts, helps the community a bit by doing volunteer work, even helps ghosts out now that he understands them better, and has work out time with Diego to get himself into a healthier routine. He’ll help Ben out at the library during volunteer work as well. Klaus also works part time at a coffee shop where can meet all kinds of people there. He even meets someone that he thinks might get along with Luther and so he hooks them up because he knows his brother needs to experience real love. Klaus has usually been right. Klaus also does little projects at home like starting his own make up line. He’s hoping he can turn it into a real business in the future. Five: I can see him become a tutor for kids who never really got proper education. Maybe even a teacher/professor. So instead of obsessing over equations for trying to save the world, or do something crazy like time travel, he can use it to help others find some kind of direction in their life. Hot take: As an off to the side job, he’d help take care of animals at the shelter. Ben: Alive again. He helps out at the local library, maybe as an assistant. He reads a whole lot. And this probably goes into my New Years resolutions I did around the end of last year, but I can see him doing a bit of traveling to other places and taking his siblings with him when he can, since he’s now able to. He’d be outside all the time too, at the park, just walking, seeing the sights. He stops by the coffee shop sometimes to see how Klaus is doing and asks him about the people he’s met. Ben is aiming to be a writer, so hearing about the different kinds of people really help him with ideas for books, as do the sights. Vanya: I see her becoming a therapist after everything she’s been through. She has enough experience to help those who feel alone and less than important. She makes friends more easily now, and maybe even has friend hang outs with Luther, where they and their friends all gather and be social and have fun. Something they’d both been missing all their lives. Vanya also spends a lot more time with her siblings in general and they go and see her concerts. She still tutors people in music, mainly the violin but after the whole “blowing up the moon” thing, she decides to learns a few other instruments as well, like the piano and acoustic guitar.
Does anyone know why did Ben left the room on episode 6, when Diego is tying up Klaus?
I think its because he was hurt because Klaus wouldn't sober up for HIM, but he would do it for Dave, or he was jealous somehow of Diego?? though its a very rough theory... Any better ideas?
☂️ The Umbrella Academy - 2 & 4 ☂️
Diego and Klaus are a meme team of spiraling destruction and I love them both
im glad we collectively decided ben is in no way cishet
Updated TUA Timeline
A little over a year ago, Aidan posted a timeline for the events of the Umbrella Academy on his Instagram. I posted it on this blog at the time and promised I was going to update my TUA Timeline post with that info. Never did. But I am now! So, here it is. The updated TUA Timeline.
Also, there will obviously be spoilers, so don’t read this if you haven’t watched season 1.
October 1st, 1989 - The Umbrella Academy kids are born.
1993 - Grace Joins the family. This is according to Aidan’s Timeline. Depending on the time of the year, the kids would be 3 or 4 when this happens. This may or may not be when the kids get names.
1993/1994 - Vanya forgets about her powers. Vanya also trains with Reginald and is subsequently made to forget about her powers around this time. Though we don’t get a specific date or length of time that Vanya trains, the flashbacks don’t appear to show her training for a super long time. I think a good guess would be less than a year for this training, putting Vanya’s age at 4. (This also matches up with the casting for the young Vanya and young Allison roles, which I used previously to estimate this age/date)
1997/1998 - Klaus is locked in the mausoleum for the first time. I am basing this on the casting for the role of young Klaus, which has him at 8 years old. However, it’s not quite that simple, because when Klaus is talking to his dad in episode 7, he says that his dad locked him in the mausoleum when he was 13. Complicating matters even further, there is a post somewhere out there that took a screen shot of Reginald’s journal with notes about locking Klaus in the mausoleum. (I have not been able to find that post again, so if anyone knows the one I’m talking about and has a link, I would love to put it in here). The date recorded on those notes is 2001. (I don’t remember the month, but I think it was summer) That would have made him 11 years old. It’s possible that this was just an inconsistency in the writing. Or it’s possible that Reginald locked Klaus in a mausoleum on at least 3 different occasions at age 8, 11, and 13. Possibly more.
2001/2002 - The Umbrella Academy stops a Robbery I’m basing this on the fact that all the same actors were used for these scenes as were used in the scene where Five leaves, so they can’t be much more than a year younger than that.
November 10, 2002 - Five leaves the Academy According to Pogo in episode 1, Five has been gone for 16 years, 4 months, and 14 days. The date in that episode is March 24th, 2019 (according to Vanya). That means that Five disappeared on November 10th, 2002, a little more than a month after the Umbrella Academy kids all turned 13. (This date is also confirmed on Aidan’s timeline)
(Side-note. Remember when Klaus mentions being locked in the mausoleum when he was 13? That means it probably happened not too long after Five disappeared. Holy Fuck Regi!)
2006(?) - Ben Dies OK, this is only a guess, BUT it’s a good one and if you scroll down to the additional notes at the bottom, you’ll see why.
2014 - Vanya publishes her book In episode 3, we learn that Vanya wrote her book 5 years earlier. (when they were 24) At this point, Ben is already dead and Luthor has not had his accident yet.
2014/2015 - Luther has his accident We’re not sure how long it takes Regi to send Luther to the moon after his accident (days? weeks? months?) so all we really know is that the accident happens sometime between Vanya publishing her book and the moon trip.
2015 - Luther goes to the moon In episode 6, Luther says that he was on the moon for 4 years, making him about 25 years old when he left. Aidan’s timeline also confirms that Luther went to the moon in 2015.
March 24th, 2019 - Reginald’s Funeral We know this because they tell Five the exact date.
April 1st, 2019 - Apocalypse (Dear Commission: Worst April Fools joke ever).
This Brings us to the present. The members of the Umbrella Academy are all 29, except for Five, who is 58, and Klaus, who spent 10 months in Vietnam and is therefore 30 now.
Additional Notes on the Timeline:
Five in the Future Five finds Delores pretty soon after the apocalypse (again, same actor, so I’m figuring a year leeway at most). He tells Klaus that he was with Delores for 30 years. That would make him about 43 when The Handler shows up. When Five gets back to the present, he gives a very specific amount of time he has been gone: 45 years. This means he spent 15 years working for the Comission, making him 58 at this point. Five also traveled through history extensively while working for the commission. His last mission had something to do with the Kennedy assassination, which would put him in 1963. (Quick note on this one - Someone commented on this post a while back with a correction and I was going to go back and do more research so I could correct these numbers, but now I can’t find the post and it’s been so long that I can’t remember what the correction was. So, if these numbers look off, let me know and I will fix it)
1968 - Klaus travels back in time to the Vietnam War Historical Context: This is 3 years after the first American troops arrived in Vietnam and 5 years after Kennedy was assassinated. Nixon was elected in 1968. This was also the year of the Tet Offensive, a massive campaign by the North Vietnamese Army to push the US troops out of the country and ferment rebellion among the South Vietnamese people. This was the big turning point in the war and marked the beginning of the US troops’ defeat. This was also the year of the My Lai Massacre, where the US Army murdered more than 500 civilians in the city of My Lai. This incident was covered up for a year before the American press found out about it.
Finally, the reasoning behind my guess that 2006 is the year Ben died:
Klaus mentions that Ben died “young and tragic”
Everyone left the house after Ben died, according to Vanya.
In episode 3, Alison says that they left their mom alone for 13 years. (13 years ago, they would have been 16) We don’t know how quickly everyone left, if it took days, weeks, or even years, so it’s possible that 13 years ago was when Alison left specifically. It could be that everyone was gone by that date. Or it could be that this is when everyone started leaving.
Diego mentions moving out at 17. Again, everyone left after Ben died, so it would have happened before that.
Ben’s statue does not have a date on it, but obviously he would have had to be at least the same age as he is depicted there.
We also have the following portraits sequence in episode 1 that was used to show Five’s disappearance and Ben’s death. Here are all 4 portraits.
Portrait 1 is done when they are all 12 or 13 years old. Everyone looks about the same age in portrait 2, so I’m assuming it Reginald had it commissioned right after Five disappeared. It would therefore make sense that portrait 4 was done right after Ben died. There are clearly several years age difference between portraits 2 and 3. It also looks like there may be another year or so age difference between portraits 3 and 4. Because of this, I would argue that the children are at least 15 years old in the final portrait. Therefore, Ben dies at age 15 or 16.
Last bit of evidence is Aidan’s timeline. Now, the year for Ben’s death is blacked out, BUT we can see the general shape of the numbers. The first number is clearly a 2, so we know that it’s not just a bunch of 0′s as a place holder. The last two numbers are rounded at the top and the bottom. In the font they are using, that gives us these possible years: 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009.
The placement between 2002 and 2015 is just a little past the middle point, so at first I figured that would mean the year was 2009. HOWEVER, that would mean he died at age 20. The other kids definitely don’t look 20 in the portrait after Ben dies and this doesn’t match up with the comments Allison and Diego make about leaving when they were still in their teens. Also, if you look at the timeline for earlier years, the same space between dates is used across the board, whether those dates are 4 years apart or 9 years apart.
Conclusion: I think Ben died in early 2006 (making him 16).
And that’s all I’ve got so far.
If anyone else has more clues for the timeline, please add them to this post.
this is what the wall art looks like “finished”. this is obviously a digital version of it, but this is basically the jist of how I plan to go about it traditionally. I wanted to experiment with plain uncoloured line art on a solid background! thoughts and prayers to the quality lol
I adopted a Mr. Pennycrumb the other day. I had 30 minutes of sunlight left and like hell was I going to lose it before I got these images.
Bonus:
Negotiations.
Convergence 2019; photographer @imaginary-gaming.
Why did Reggie not like coffee? Does Five like coffee because Reggie didn't like it?
Reginald doesn’t allow caffeine in the house because when Pogo drinks caffeine he gets hyper and breaks things. Five started off drinking coffee because it wasn’t allowed and fuck you dad, but now he’s addicted. He just makes sure never to drink it in the same room as pogo.
I can’t wait to see Cowboy in action
Someone on Reddit found out who the stunt doubles are needed for, as well as any new character not from the main s1 cast, and what episodes they are in. Of course, I don’t think we can really glean much from there being a stunt double for ‘Number 5′ for all 10 episodes because I’m sure they use Aidan’s double a lot for things Five is supposed to do. (Like, he’s not allowed to be on set if there’s gunfire it’s against the child actor laws, and other things that I’m sure are actual stunts) but the rest of this is very interesting.
bunch of tua resources i use for stuff
wanna see merch before it comes out? well ur in luck
screencaps? here you go
the pilot script? no problemo
transcripts for episodes in general? ofc (note: we only see each other at weddings and funerals is the pilot script too, idk if they have the actual transcript for that one)
definitely not links to the comics online. no. no. no.
heres were ive found a few behind the scenes/deleted scenes pics
Hey pals! It’s me @27-umbrellas and we will be doing another Netflix party TOMORROW at 3 EST. We’ll be continuing from episode four and will try to get in two or three episodes. SO PLEASE JOIN US even if you weren’t there for the last one or can only come on for a little bit, we’d love to have you. I’ll post the link tomorrow!!! Be there or be square!
Happy Pride Month from the Hargreeves siblings and the tua fandom!
We were robbed of so many hugs