Okay But Vanya's S1 Arc Is So Off-putting From An Outsider Perspective Tho. Like, Imagine You're A Violinist

Umbrella Academy sketch dump!! I love this show

AU where Sissy and Vanya get to be the parents Harlan deserves

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.

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

More LGBT Umbrella Academy Icons

Vanya’s mind

"Lila joins him when he breaks out, but can she be trusted?"

I don't like the sound of that...

We've already been betrayed by Leonard...

We don't need to be betrayed by Lila too...

Sorry to bother you but could I request some headcanons for autistic!Vanya? Thank you so much and have a wonderful day!

aaaaahhhhh I didn’t realize other people hc’d Vanya as autistic!! As an aspie, this makes me very happy.

She learned to read sheet music overnight. Actually playing the violin was a different story, but within a few days she could sight read better than many adults.

Unexpected physical contact makes her very nauseated! Do not!

Long sleeves keep you safe.

If someone starts talking or the music playing has words, she can kiss her train of thought goodbye.

Allison has to train her on how memes work.

She only writes her name in all caps, because VANYA is made with all straight lines.

Only verbal when she absolutely has to be.

She wrote her entire book in five days: No leaving the house, only sleeping when she couldn’t physically stay awake, etc. Her orchestra director even called to make sure she hadn’t died.

Often completely misses sarcasm when other people use it, but can sling it herself left and right. Even she’s confused by this.

She’s incredibly reliable. With a memory like a steel trap and an intense fear of letting people down, she has no choice but to be.

Rock concerts seem like they would be her worst nightmare, but she loves them. She just has to have time to prepare herself for that much stimulation.

Dissociation Queen

She wasn’t diagnosed until her twenties, when she actually went to therapy.

At first she was very upset by it.

“Great. So not only do I suck at everything, but my brain is messed up on a fundamental level. Love that for me.”

She’s since learned to identify and manage her symptoms. She can now avoid situations that would cause extreme distress, and somewhat keep track of Social Mistakes™ and learn from them.

She even joined a group for autistic adults at her therapists suggestion. She related to them more than anyone in her life.

“They’re just people. There’s nothing wrong with any of them. Maybe that means there’s nothing wrong with me either.”

White Violin because we didn’t get to see Vanya play this season