S1E01 “We Only See Each Other At Weddings And Funerals” // S2E10 “The End Of Something”

8 Days to see this spooky image

Cool Beans

well deserved hugs

Merry Christmas 🎷🐛

thinking about how the commission giving the swedes tube after tube of a new kind of hargreeve nightmare without them even completing one (1) kill will always be endlessly hilarious to me.....

anyway have a meme about it.

Favorite Season 2 Vanya Moments

- lowkey mocking Carl at the dinner table

- playing hide and seek with Harlan

- "Is there any way tacos will cause the end of the world?"

- drunk finger guns

- her little hops into the group hug (big uwu)

- basically the whole salon scene with Klaus and Allison

- Vanya vs. Five standoff

- "oops" :3

- every moment of being gay with Sissy

- "Who I am is not a disease."

- learning to control her powers!!! strong independent woman!!!

- taking out a buttload of Commission agents at once

- The Scene With Ben (*sobs aggressively*)

- saving Harlan twice because she's just that badass

Feel free to add any of your favorites that I missed!

What if the umbrella academy was a novel series?

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 !

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? 🎄

David answering the important questions

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.