I apologise
i have a lil canon divergent trans vanya story that’s been on the slow cooker in the back of my mind, here’s what i’ve got so far. his name is ivan bc vanya is a diminutive of ivan and also ivan is a cool name that slaps hard
- he sits down to write the book and does actual introspection for the first time in his life and he’s like ohhh my god im not a girl. idk for sure what i am yet but it sure as hell isn’t a girl. so he calls up diego and is like “hey so you’re trans” and diego is like “…….hello to you too” and ivan’s like “okay so fun fact! so am i” and diego is popping bottles
- diego comes over and mayhaps they both get a little drunk and diego’s like so what’s up? and ivan is like “okay so i was writing this tell all memoir about our childhood-” and diego goes i’m gonna stop you right there. no you absolutely are not. so the book doesn’t get written, ivan and diego get a lot closer, and ivan doesn’t burn bridges with the rest of his siblings
- after a while ivan is like fuck it……hrt time. he goes to the doctor and the conversation goes a lil like this: doctor: are you on any prescription medications? :) ivan: uhhh yeah 500000 milligrams of fuckshit, take twice a day and supplement as needed :) doctor, picking up the phone: okay so we’re checking you into the hospital right now immediately. also i think you need to fire or maybe kill your psychiatrist
- so he gets off the meds way sooner! this has two major impacts: he learns about his powers, and he gets more in touch with his emotions. his powers scare the hell out of him but he’s got diego, and klaus too when he’s reachable (he/they solidarity)! klaus is the one who puts it together that allison must have rumored him and it’s a good thing she’s on the other side of the country bc in that moment ivan may have killed her. but she’s not, and he has time to calm down and process how he feels about it.
- he gets a lot more confidence and self esteem and starts going to Real Therapy. he becomes much closer with his coworkers at the orchestra, he gets second chair, the kids he tutors LOVE him. one day he and allison are able to have a (mostly) civil talk about it and they start rebuilding that bridge together, allison even invites him to a couple movie premieres. there are still setbacks and bad days and things aren’t perfect but they’re getting better and god they could be so much worse
- so all in all things are going pretty well! the Conflict would come from reginald somehow realizing that ivan’s off the meds but like i don’t actually have any more details, i just think it would be interesting
- i think the apocalypse could still happen, but it would be a result of reginald himself trying to contain ivan rather than what actually happens in s1. it would be interesting though bc five wouldn’t have ivan’s book in the future and wouldn’t know anything about what happened after he left
well deserved hugs
What do you think it was like for Vanya when she was in that weird trance in 1x10?
Because I’m partial to autistic!Vanya I see her trance as kind of a sci-fi version of a meltdown: She goes completely nonverbal, displays out-of-character levels of aggression, wants to stick to her routine by attending her concert, and only shows signs of self-awareness when Alison is nice to her instead of trying to attack her like her brothers. I think internally it may have been a similar experience to the one they showed us in season 2 when she’s being electrocuted. The cataclysmic power just adds some *✧・゚:*spice.・゚: *✧
Diego, you’re not Commission material, all right? You got an obstinate nature to you.
The Umbrella Academy | 2.10 - “The End of Something”
The Basics: Who are they?
The Sparrow Academy is another version of the Umbrella Academy. They are another group created by Reginald Hargreeves, or The Monocle in the comics, to help save the world. In the comics, they are top-secret, and exist at the same time as the Umbrella Academy. They recruit Vanya in the comics to be part of their team. Grace, or Mother in the comics, is in charge of them. In the show, it seems to be implied that they overwrite the Umbrella Academy, and are the only superhero group.
2. Their powers
Here are some of their powers in use at the end of Hotel Oblivion:
- Turn into sparrows
- Voodoo (Attack self, others take damage)
- Super strength
- Eye beam
- The cube guy?
- Rumor power
The other powers are unknown.
3. What happens next?
Lester, who is supposedly with the United States government, is tired of all these superheroes and villains nearly destroying the world. He is going to do something to regulate it. We don’t know yet, but I have a feeling it will have Captain America: Civil War vibes.
I hope this answered some questions you all have! Feel free to send some asks!
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luther
cis and doesn’t really get the whole gender thing, but hes supportive
diego
honestly, im conflicted but im going to tentatively say cis
has definitely thought about his gender in depth before, especially after like all his siblings started coming out as trans (so around the age of 15 right until he was 22)
but, eventually, he knows that he’s, without a doubt, a dude
allison
nb
pronouns are she/they
will steal clothes and makeup and just like. anything and everything from klaus
feels a disconnect from womanhood, but also a connection? its complicated
once they tried to explain their gender to luther and he really didn’t understand anything but he was like ‘i have no idea what that means but i support you and youre still my best friend : )’ and allison is like. yeah okay good enough
will call themself a woman, and is fine with with other trans people calling them a woman but no one else
wlw and nblm
is open about her gender and doesnt really make a big deal about it, but the first time she called herself trans or nonbinary there were so many articles published about it and everytime someone interviewed her they asked her about it and she just -_-
klaus
nb
pronouns are he/him
will steal clothes and makeup and just like. anything and everything from allison
honestly doesn’t feel particularly connected to womanhood or manhood or any specific label, he’s just vibing
nblm and nblw
five
age twelve he told everyone he was a boy and then proceeded to completely ignore anyone who slipped up
came out at the same time as vanya
they were pretty much the same size so grace swapped his and vanya’s wardrobes
really he only knew people could be trans because vanya came up to him and was like ‘i think im a girl?’ and he was like ‘you can do that?’ and shes like ‘i think so?’ and hes like ‘oh. me too then’(but abt being a boy) and then he proceeded to find as many books on the subject as he could and shared them with her
grace had actually given him a name but he decided he likes five better
ben
well. five and vanya came out and ben immediately started reading everything he could find about trans stuff and while reading he was like. huh that sounds like me.
so, two and a half weeks after five and vanya come out ben is like ‘okay me too.’
he decided on the name ben for himself
vanya
she kind of always hated being referred to as a boy. like she hated it so much, it was one of the few things that could actually elicit a strong emotion out of her and for the longest time she has no idea why
then one day, someone refers to her as a girl and shes like !!!! holy shit!! im a girl!!
a few years later, after holding onto this and mulling it over, she approaches five bc hes her best friend obviously
they read so many books about being trans and gender and shit and shes a little @_@ but! shes having fun and five is using the right pronouns for her and its the most comfortable shes ever felt
she told five that she wanted to come out, but was really nervous about it and he offered to come out with her (he was kind of already waiting for her to be ready for that anyway but she doesnt know that)
unlike ben, she did not want to change her name! she really likes the way vanya sounds and its very much her name
tag any of this as ship and i will eviscerate you ❤ they are siblings and they love each other siblingly
☂️ the umbrella academy:
allison & vanya reacting to men saying wild and unexpected shit