ach. like where do i even start!! she’s sixteen and three quarters. she’s low-key a kleptomaniac. she loves to play poker. she blew off a front page headline about her own father’s death in order to find the newspaper crossword. she is SILLY.

i am screaming at the walls into the void you’ll LOVE her i promise.

vagueposting about my stupid little freak <3

and what if i said that i made a silly little creature and she was soooo not related to my tua obsession and she has the same name as that freak from criminal minds.

literally what then

bringing her back!!

happy birthday to the freaks <3

paper girls as the onion headlines p1 | twt

happy birthday to the freaks <3

Something I wish was shown more is that like, while Viktor is undeniably more dangerous than his siblings in a unique way, his siblings are… most definitely deadly in a way he isn’t. Like…

Viktor’s violence comes from suppression. We can argue about if him killing the nannies as a kid means he’s sociopathic or whatever, but the fact remains most of his danger comes from the fact he has absolutely no fucking clue how to process things, be it his powers or his emotions. He’s so used to just not having them that they wind up bursting out in the most deadly way possible, like world-ending apocalypses, just because that’s how his powers work. It’s unintentional.

But every single one of his siblings has one key difference: their deadliness, their violence, was intentional. It was taught to them. Right from age 11 we see them killing the bank robbers in their debut in S1, and that gets us a clear idea of what their childhood was like. They were taught to direct their powers, taught to control them to a degree, taught to be desensitized to all that. Of course there’s exceptions - Five also has his assassin training that did the same thing just to a more extreme degree and Klaus definitely doesn’t have the control over his powers the others do, but still.

The other Umbrellas, 1-6, were raised with violence. It was always present in their lives and the only thing they could do was control it. They are comfortable with it in a way I’d argue Viktor really doesn’t seem to be because again, his violence is uncontrolled. If he can or can’t stop when his powers cause the end of the world doesn’t matter, because even if he doesn’t he still has absolutely no idea what he’s doing. All he knows is ‘he was wronged, suppress the anger and the powers that come with it, let them all burst out and hurt’. I doubt he even really comprehends just how much hurt it causes.

But with the others, they all know what they’re doing!! They know they can knife someone in the chest or cut off their finger; the know they can smash people through walls or just hit them hard enough for a public fight. They know how to massacre entire hit squads or rooms of robbers. They can rumor someone to eat broccoli or to kill their brother. There’s a line they all very knowingly walk between violence and death, just how much control they need. And that’s it’s own type of deadliness! Like, we don’t typically think of Diego or Luther as controlled in the way we do Allison or Five but the fact remains they all are! They’ve all been raised with violence as a given and have only learned to moderate it. They have all been raised to kill and have had to draw their own lines in the sand, learn to live with that in a way Viktor never has.

But it’s never gone. It’s still there. They are all able to kill and they can all get through torture without saying anything worthwhile even without a motivation (Klaus in S1). They can also make the conscious choice not to. But then…

Then they can hurt anyway. They can manipulate entire groups of people into destroying their lives on a whim (Klaus’s cult); they can make a man burn themselves and smile (Allison), they can fight and live violence all over again even if it isn’t deadly because it’s what they recognize (Diego S1, Luther S2).

That type of smaller, controlled violence is something we don’t see from Viktor. From him it’s always all or nothing; mass murder or Just A Normal Person. And the existence of that, of that ability to dish out smaller but just as damaging bits of the killing they’d been raised with their whole lives, is a really interesting thing I wish was explored more.

The Umbrella Academy + text posts

TRUE AND REAL

THEY ARE BOTH INSANE

klaus drinking that whole bottle of mouthwash and five pouring copious amounts of some sort of alcohol in his enormous bowl of cereal have the same energy and i can’t explain it

my favorite brand of five hargreeves moments is him visibly losing grip of that one (1) piece of sanity that’s left in him

In honor of the new clips we were so graciously fed today !!!

I'm actually so excited for season 3. prepare to be SICK. OF. ME.

i made a thing

that little chunk of chocolate at the bottom of the drumstick cone reblog if you agree

i made hargreeves-themed valentine’s day cards :)

*taps mic in vacant auditorium* what's up tua fandom

how to: five apocalypse

bonus - when one apocalypse isn’t enough!