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Look, I made a sad! (Sorry! This already ruined some people’s day on Instagram yesterday!)

A little different on the format too - I’ve been pratting about with storyboarding lately, and with so many panels I wanted to try something new for a change for maximum impact and sadness!

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Klaus is probably telling them his why I don’t date twins anymore story

yay sisters?

Reginald and Vanya have the same taste in girls; southern women who wear a lot of skirts.

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.

Special shout out to the conductor for having to make eye contact with her that whole time

absolute king his lead violinist came in looking like she took Forbidden Benadryll and he said you know what we don’t have time for this can you violin? yes? good we’re going on

The people in the Mental Institution after getting Diego’s joke:

The people in the Mental Institution after realising that Star Wars hadn’t come out yet and he predicted the Kennedy assassination:

Just remembered that J Edgar Hoover (who was the first director of the FBI) was hostile to homosexuals as well as black people and communists

If Vanya came to the FBI’s attention because someone (I’m thinking sissy’s husband) reported her for homosexuality and incidentally coming into knowledge of Vanya’s abilities, it might make a logical pretext for bringing vanya in as an insane and dangerous person because (at that time) they think there’s something wrong with your mind if you’re gay

If the fbi arrests vanya for homosexuality in front of Sissy my fear is that sissy might not be able to put up much of a fight even if she wanted to. In fear of being arrested/sent to an asylum herself and be away from her son who appears (at least from spoilers) to might have special needs

That might explain why there’s an orderly behind vanya in that snippet where she’s being interviewed and subsequently chloroformed

And remember the white light that Allison and Ben were facing, what if it’s vanya after being subjected to torture?

TUA s2 Bloopers