I'm Rejecting The Narrative Where Umbrella Academy Takes Place In One Of Those Out Of Time Worlds Because

okay but like… autistic vanya?  god tier.

like, think about it!!

-hates the texture of oatmeal with a fucking passion

-doesn’t like it when people (reginald) yell at her

-auditory processing issues (she doesn’t do what daddy tells her to do because she can’t understand him)

-Strange Child

-hard time connecting with people, even normal people/strangers/people she’s known for a long time

-quiet as fuck

-epic meltdowns because of small/strange stimuli

-special interest in superpowers (reginald did his very best to suppress this) and music (violin specifically)

Watch this. And then watch it again. Focus on someone different each time

Teen Klaus: Allison, can I borrow your skirt?

Teen Allison: No!

Klaus: *walks over to Vanya’s room* Vanya, can I borrow your skirt?

Teen Vanya: Sure, if I can borrow your shorts.

-Later-

Reginald: Number Seven... what are you wearing?

Vanya, wearing shorts that are so long on her that they look like capris: Uh… my uniform

Klaus, Vanya and Allison: A relationship that is in the right time period

What I'd get for the Hargreeves siblings for Christmas 🌲🎅:

Luther: Therapy sessions

Diego: Therapy sessions

Allison: Therapy sessions

Klaus: Therapy sessions

Five: Therapy sessions

Ben: A life, then therapy sessions

Vanya: Therapy sessions

What would you get them? 🎄

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.

I’ve seen multiple posts saying Vanya is autistic (i agree) but Klaus is peak ADHD I mean he’s happily leaping around his room whilst there’s a fire 😆 also Diego with his speech impediment and robot mom helping is FEELS ! 😭 (I have ASD / ADHD / stutter when I’m stressed) I love the metaphors !

anon requested: tua x seven deadly sins

So like- at first I thought that Five being the only one who wasn’t killed instantly by The Handler was just very convenient, but this is The Handler we’re dealing with. She’s good. She knows how to shoot someone fatally, she simply chose not to, she wanted him to be last one alive, for him to know what she had done. She knows him and his biggest fears, she wanted him to suffer.

I spent like 20 hours on this, but it was worth it. I just wanted to make a poster for TUA S2! 🥰❤️❤️❤️

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Imagine a 100 Gecs song in The Umbrella Academy