Klaus if he wore the skirt uniform like he should have!!
Fucking tomorrow
give me tua s2 reaction images right now
For when you’re feeling sexy
For when you’re feeling angry
For when you’re feeling cereal
For when bae’s lookin cute
For when bae’s spilling some tea
For when bae spills to much tea
For when you’re watching the couple next to you get in a fight for spilling to much tea
For loving your family
For watching your family fuck up some shit
And lastly, for committing war crimes
What if the umbrella academy was a novel series?
Ok so Vanya’s room is actually pretty interesting. Sadly we really don’t see much of her room in the show except for this tiny shot and it’s kinda hard to see anything besides the basics (bed, chair, books, violin, and so forth)
But!
Thanks to bts pics, we actually can get a better look at some of the props inside.
This is pretty much just a clearer/closer shot of the hallway scene, but I can see:
Some wall art
A completely white suitcase in the corner? (Maybe for extra storeage/clutter?)
A teddy bear on top of the suitcase
A clock and a small/book journal on the nightstand
There’s other little stuff on the nightstand and in the cubby below (like a little box?) but I can’t really tell what it is.
There’s a small stack of books on the radiator and some more on the floor next to it. 
I think there’s some stuff under her bed too
Now for the other side of her room that never actually appears in the show.
We have:
A wall mirror
Some hooks for clothes
Sheet music stand
Some books propped up in the corner on the floor?
A dresser behind the door
On the dresser:
A little metal cat statue
A white bowl with some stuff in it?
Some plain white books (I really like how they added in the white details, I think it’s a nice nod to her powers/alter ego)
There’s some other stuff on there, but I can’t really tell what they are besides more books and maybe a little picture?
There’s also a shelf above her dresser, but again, I can’t distinguish much of what’s on it besides:
Even more books
A little red box thing that’s sticking out
And a metronome! We also see a metronome appear on her character poster.
There’s also another very interesting detail about Vanya’s room, it eventually becomes apart of Klaus’s room.
If you watch the flashback scenes vs the 2019 scenes, you’ll notice Klaus’s room (which is right next to Vanya’s) is much bigger in the present than it was when they were kids in the 1x03 flashback.
That’s because at some point Klaus expanded his room and took down the wall (on the right) between his and Vanya’s.
Notice the gray bricks and the black radiator in front of the window.
You can also see the divide where the wall used to be (and that Klaus’s bed is still in the same spot)
I’m not really sure when it happened. One theory I had was that perhaps it happened because Vanya was sent away to school like in the comics?
But on the other hand, it looks like Klaus’s room had already been expanded in the 1x10 flashback where Vanya destroys the house. (And we know Vanya was still living there at least when Ben died at age 16.)
However, that flashback is *technically* a splice between the past and the present (because Vanya is remembering things but she’s also looking at their rooms in the present) so perhaps it doesn’t give us an accurate time frame? I’m not sure. 🤷♀️
But either way, I think it’s a very interesting detail. Vanya lost her room at some point and it’s kind of sad because the rest of the siblings still have rooms to come back to and even use them over the course of season 1...but Vanya doesn’t.
Could I maybe do an essay on autistic Luther? I wasn't involved in that discussion before but I would because I have many thoughts. Also I wanted to add that little Vanya barely speaks (I don't remember her ever saying anything?) and might have been non-verbal as a child to add to the autistic Vanya discussion. (I project too much onto all the siblings)
I love her being nonverbal as a child. Especially since I don’t remember her speaking in the younger scenes from before she lost her powers? I could be wrong
And by all means we need a Luther essay
Fair warning, this is gonna be a ramble!
So I was just thinking about Vanya, and how sort of sweet and polite she was in the first season, and that got me thinking.
I fully believe Vanya is autistic, and from my own experiences, I was thinking about growing up. When I was a child I didn’t really know how to interact with the world. I grew up watching a lot of TV shows and movies (mostly ones that my sister would put on) but before I mirrored TV shows characters, I mirrored her. But Vanya didn’t watch TV growing up, so she didn’t have Disney Princesses or Thomas the Tank Engine or Arthur like I did. (For anyone who doesn’t know, mirroring is one of the ways that autistic kids may learn to interact with the world, through watching how NTs interact and then mimicking it to fit in or at the very least to be able to communicate with someone.)
The only people Vanya had to mirror were her family, and given their general attitude towards her it seems unlikely that she did. When I was a child I recognised which behaviours I never wanted to mimic: my parents screaming at each other or us, my sister telling me if I didn’t do what she wanted she’d never love me again/she’d hate me for the rest of our lives. I knew those things made me feel bad, so I knew they weren’t things I wanted to do to others.
In the same way, I think Vanya knew she didn’t want to mimic the negative behaviours of her siblings. So I think the person she mirrored most was Grace (and maybe Pogo a little). Grace was their mum, she was loving and nurturing and exactly the kind of person I would have wanted to mirror as a child. Except Vanya has added insecurities. It made me realise that growing up, Vanya was often softly-spoken and polite, because that’s how Grace was. But we never see Grace get angry... So Vanya never learned a healthy way of dealing with her anger, especially given that she was drugged up a lot of her childhood.
If anyone can word this more coherently than I did, or come up with a better analysis, please do, because I’m not sure my argument made much sense (or even had a point to it...?)
TL;DR - Autistic!Vanya mirrors Grace, and that’s why her personality is somewhat reminiscent of Grace’s.
Klaus saying No 🤚 to drugs in 2.03
Diego, you’re not Commission material, all right? You got an obstinate nature to you.
The Umbrella Academy | 2.10 - “The End of Something”