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luytenae · 4 years

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Johnny Joestar Headcanons

So, I was really bored and decided to write about my favorite Jojo, 𝓙𝓸𝓱𝓷𝓷𝔂! This is a mix of headcanons with some canon stuff.

So, here we go!

✰ Johnny was that typical doll-like perfect baby: curly blond hair, pale skin, pink cheeks, little freckles and big blue eyes that followed everything with curiosity. The clothes he used to wear also helped to mantain that look: in the Victorian era, babies from wealthy families used to wear dresses with plenty of ruffles, laces, ribbons, buttons and frills -no matter their sex- and bonnets. Nowadays he still has freckles; although not that many. They’re mostly on his cheeks and arms.

✰As we know, Johnny is the youngest of two brothers (being Nicholas 5 years older tan him). This, plus the fact that he also looked really fragile, made his mother really over-protective of him. This was usually seen as Johnny’s being Anne’s favorite, but she only wanted to protect his youngest son. The way his mom treated him made Johnny a shy, yet kind, child. That kindness made him adopt Danny, as well as taking care of Slow Dancer even if he knew that she was old and almost ruthless.

✰ His hair gets wavy in humid weather. When he was a child his hair was a curly mess after taking baths, but now it simply curls in soft waves, which he tries to straighten as much as possible.

✰He was born in Danville, Kentucky; so he has a heavy Southern accent. But since the Joestar family used to constantly travel to Britain -and actually lived there for some years-, Johnny added some British idioms to his vocabulary, thus resulting in a funny combo of British slang said in heavy Southern accent.

✰He grew up in a wealthy family -his father was tied to aristocracy, and also was a famous racer and breeder, having won the Triple Crown seven times and owning farms to breed racing horses-, so he’s a little bit of a spoiled brat sometimes. This status also made him picky over certain things, like food or baths.

✰Johnny was educated to be a “British gentleman” and, even if his own personality sometimes makes him fail at it, he still tries to behave as polite as possible. One habit that stayed with him was the one to note everything down, showing off his fine calligraphy and his accountant skills. The Joestar kid also knows Latin and Greek, as he was schooled. He even went to Oxford for a short period of time.

✰Johnny has never been fond of dark colours; he has always preferred to dress up in light ones. Luckily, they suit him.

✰Since he was a child, he has proved to be very perceptive of his surroundings, as well as being able to read the mood quite easily. Johnny is also good at focusing, what makes him a really good shooter -probably hunting would have been one of his hobbies, if he wasn’t kind and compassionate-. He has proved to being able to shoot at little and/or moving targets, even if firing from odd angles and perspectives.

✰Johnny loved his mother, and would try to follow her everywhere like a duckling would follow its mother. It wasn't surprising that his first words were "mama". His next word was "horsie", and would enthusiastically say it as he pointed to the horses in the fields when the family decided to take a walk around the farm.

✰In the Victorian era, it was common for toddlers to rarely be in contact with their parents; as they were mostly raised by a nanny. He did have a nanny -whom he loved deeply-, but his mother was still around at all times; she was always there for him. Despite breaking this usual thing, he was indeed raised to be like the stereotypical Victorian child: proper, polite and quiet.

✰The youngest Joestar loved to visit the horses in the family farms, enjoying their company. His fondness for these animals evolved into his skills as a jockey; as he also is well-versed in equine science.

✰Johnny was five when he first rode a horse, and his father quickly considered him a genius. The young boy quickly started to believe this as an irrefutable truth, his ego beginning to grow. Although he indeed is a genius with plenty of skills that allow him to ride across many types of terrain, or even challenge fellow genius jockey -ahem, Diego Brando-; having such a big ego ended up wounding him.

✰Even if George did praise his early horse-riding skills, the rest of Johnny’s childhood was marked by a strained relationship with him. His father was unnecessarily severe, to the point of physically punishing Johnny. He also favored Nicholas immensely, belittling the younger one with constant comparisons. After Nicholas’ death, George was convinced that “God had taken the wrong son” and took out his sadness and rage on Johnny. This cruel behaviour caused Johnny great pain, and an enormous feeling of inferiority.

✰Anne's death was a big shock for the youngest Joestar. He felt like he had lost the only support he had in the family; his mother would comfort him after his father scolds and punishments. She also happened to die a short time before Nick's accident. Johnny was 9 when his brother died; and around 7-8 when Anne died. His father cruel behaviour towards Johnny hurt him, and the little boy was upset because he didn't entirely comprehend why his mom wasn't coming back.

✰The only one who calls him by his full name -Jonathan- is his father, and he despises it. Nowadays, hearing his full name triggers something on him, reacting with some kind of fear. He was used to listen to his father call him only to point out his mistakes and scold him; so hearing “Jonathan” makes him have that kind of reaction.

✰He is a magnificent horse tamer, as seen with Slow Dancer: the horse was introduced as wild and ruthless, but she warmed up to Johnny, to the point of helping him get on her by hoisting him and rolling him down his neck and into the saddle.

✰After his father disowned him and threw him out of the Joestar household, Johnny, in shock, decided to shut himself off. With this, he also created a vain and narcissistic facade in order to hide the sadness this rejection caused him.

✰He tried to take Black Rose -Nicholas’ horse- with him when he was disowned.

✰After he was disowned, when Father’s Day arrived, Johnny used to spend the day in a sour mood, secluded and probably drinking, trying to forget his lame childhood.

✰With his pride harmed, he decided to prepare for the Kentucky Derby, winning it at the age of 16. He made it out of spite, trying to prove his father wrong and growing his own ego; maybe he couldn’t defeat Diego back in the UK, but he won the Derby. He still believes that winning the Derby was his greatest accomplisment.

✰When he was shot and paralyzed, Johnny felt his own pride crushing him: everything he showed off suddeny vanished. Unable to ride again, the horse-riding promise fell into oblivion; he lost all the friends and respect he had earned as a jockey. No one came to visit, leaving him behind; even his own father disappeared from his life, not even visiting him in the hospital. For that, Johnny is used to being abandoned: he forces himself to not get attached to anyone, since he believes that they’ll probably leave him.

✰During his stay in the hospital, the nurses used to dose him with morphine. They did it in order to shut him up –the poor boy was in terrible pain-, but for that, he got addicted to morphine. Luckily, it was only for a short time, since he managed to get clean several months after leaving the hospital.

✰Due to having such a big ego, now his past glory crushes him. He hates how he lost everything in such a pathetic way; but also believes he deserves it.

✰Surprisingly, his arms and chest are really strong; because he is always using them to crawl around and to lift himself.

✰Due to his light complex and weight, he is terribly ticklish.

✰He is a Christian, and believes in Fate and karma, but in a kind of wretched way. Johnny believes that, throughout the years, Fate itself was taking revenge on him for his misdeeds; and that he deserved every misfortune he received. His obsession with the Corpse showed his obsession with karma too, and how he wanted to reset it to a neutral state, paying off his negative debt. His beliefs in Fate explains his lack of confidence and constant panic of losing everything, since he firmly believes that Fate could at any moment take away his hopes.

✰Johnny has depression and, for this, a lack of confidence. He considers himself a useless person, a burden, and unworthy of love. This gloomy perspective of life came from his youth, making him a pessimistic man.

✰TW//suicide. He has considered -and tried- to commit suicide; but he couldn’t. He claims that it’s because he’s a “coward that hates pain, and doesn’t have the balls to finish everything”; but, deep down, it’s because he holds on to even the smallest hope.

✰TW//self harm. He has several scars: the ones on his arms are smaller, and were self-inflicted -self-harm and suicide attempts-. He also has some scars on his legs, caused by wounds he got by trying to stand up, walk and ride; but the biggest scar is the one covering half his back, as a memento from the accident. The bullet left a mark, surgery made it ugly, and the abuse he endured during his stay in the hospital made it worse. Therefore, he now is ashamed and self-concious of his back.

✰Seeing his legs makes him feel weak, and he hates that. He also despises feeling as defenceless as when someone picks him up to carry him without his consent. He truly hates feeling powerless, and it also makes him incredibly angry -and lowkey sad-. He can only tolerate this if it’s someone who he deeply trusts and knows, and only if he has asked for it.

✰At first, he wouldn’t let anyone touch neither his legs nor his back; but after warming up a little, he would tolerate caresses and gentle pats.

✰He also hates when people look at him with sorrow or as if they were pitying him. He may be disabled, but he’s still perfectly capable of plenty of things. Usually, he will reject any kind of help as politely as possible, but his anger will show.

✰Meeting Gyro made him throw away his harsh facade. At first, he was uncaring of everyone else save himself, only maintaining a polite but cold demeanour towards people he met; but Gyro’s influence made Johnny slightly more friendly.

✰ Gyro also made a great impact in Johnny’s perspective of life; not all of a sudden, but in gradual steps. The Italian man gave him hope, helped him to knock out his lack of confidence, gave him some assurance and optimism and also was genuinely nice to him, making Johnny grateful for meeting him. He treasures their relationship deeply.

✰Johnny doesn’t belittles Slow Dancer for being old, as he knows that she has plenty of experience as a Racing horse, and plenty of stamina. He truly knows his mare, possessing great knowledge of her: he knows and perceives her abilities and limits, and is able to predict what Slow Dancer will be capable of. They have grown quite close to each other, and she ocasionally nudges and licks him gently. Johnny loves this.

✰Sometimes, to kill some time, he and Gyro will exchange curses and slang in their respective languages. Gyro finds American sayings strange.

✰Gyro and Johnny had a hard time understanding each other in the beginning of their relationship: the older man had a thick Italian accent, and Johnny had to decipher what the hell was he trying to say. After a while, they grew used to each other's accents, but Gyro still made fun of Johnny's.

✰ His determination doesn’t waver, despite having failed several times. Johnny focuses on his goals, and puts them above anything else. He is also willing to endure severe wounds in order to reach them. And if you also add his stuborness…

✰The man is REALLY stubborn. If he wants to get something, he WILL, no matter what. If he has to, he will be violent or kill his opponents. This is called as “dark determination flickering in his eyes”, indicating a ruthlessness which would make Johnny able to kill in cold-blood. For this, he may seem amoral and selfish, even extending this to the interest of his loved ones. Yet he isn’t truly amoral, protecting defenceless people and taking damage to protect the ones he cares about.

✰He’s rather impulsive and hot-headed, which makes him take action as soon as possible. Sometimes, he might end up regretting not thinking BEFORE acting.

✰ Johnny would do anything for his loved ones:

Even if he’s afraid of his father, he has always tried his hardest to live up to his expectations.

He loved Nicholas deeply and looked up to him as an idol, and blames himself for his death. After he died, he became guilt-ridden, believing that his brother’s death was his own fault and that he should have died instead.

He was willing to abandon the Corpse Parts he had to save Gyro.

(JOJOLION SPOILERS!) When Rina was struck with the Rock Disease, Johnny stole the Corpse to make it transfer the disease away from her, not caring who would receive it and suffer in her place. But when the disease transfered to his son, he healed him by transfering it to himself, dying in order to save his wife and son.

✰He’s the CEO of being done with everyone’s bullshit. He’s angry 85% of the time, and usually cries out of anger.

✰ He’s also a sarcastic little shit. Any stupid questions you make him will be answered with his fine sarcasm.

✰He’s HORNY! This is shown with his bug bite fetish and the fact that he has been involved in at least one threesome. He doesn’t mind empty sex either -as he slept with several girls who came to him only for his fame-. He’s also bisexual.

✰When it comes to affection, he prefers to show his emotions through actions. For him, they speak louder.

✰Regarding to affection, Johnny will deny it; but he is touch-starved. The man really loves hugs and physical contact. He likes to hold on tight and get as close as posible. Since he doesn’t usually speak out loud his emotions, he will show them physically. However, he would rather be held, feeling loved and protected.

✰He feels guilty when someone falls in love with him, since he believes he’s not worthy of happiness nor love. He tends to think that he’s making them waste their time on him, when they could be with someone who could provide them with what they deserve. He can’t help but compare himself to others, belittling himself.

✰When he has a crush, he will do anything to deny it. He doesn’t want to admit how someone began to be so important to him, and is afraid that “Fate” might take them away from him. If he has to avoid them, he will; just to get away and not face his feelings.

✰George does reconcile with Johnny, and feels ashamed of how he treated his own son. He claims to be proud of him now, and even gives Johnny Nicholas’ boots. At first Johnny was resentful and wasn’t planning on forgiving him, since he believed that his father was only coming back for his recovered fame. After a couple weeks he decided against that, forgiving George and honouring him by naming his only son after him.

✰Nicholas’ boots were one of his most beloved possessions, and were passed down as a family relic.

✰If Rina had allowed him to name their daughter, he would have called her Anne, in honour to his mother.

✰In Japan, the Joestar-Higashikata family lived in a farm. Although the place is designed in the Japanese traditional way, Johnny couldn't help but give it some Western touches, specifically to the barns. These ones were designed to be as similar as the ones his father had in Britain and Danville. It made Johnny nostalgic, but in a gentle and warm way; he purposefully made them like that, so he could remember his roots.

✰They were quite wealthy: not only for the Higashikata's fruit business, but also for Johnny's connection with the Japanese government.

✰As a horse-riding teacher, his pupils loved and respected him deeply. Johnny liked discipline -as he took his profession seriously-, but was also very kind to them, treating them with the respect he never received.

✰Obviously, he taught his children to ride as early as possible.

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tomeandflickcorner · 4 years

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Umbrella Academy 1x07

1x01 1x02 1x03 1x04 1x05 1x06

So, thanks to Number 5, the reset button has been pressed, so just about everything that went down last episode has pretty much been erased. So what will the Hargreeves Siblings do with their mini-retcon?

But before we get to that, the episode gives us the big reveal of the identity of Harold Jenkins, who, according to The Commission, must be kept safe to ensure the apocalypse will happen on schedule. It turns out that Harold Jenkins, by coincidence, also was born on October 1st, 1989, the same day as those 43 miracle babies (seven of which became the Hargreeves Siblings). But because Harold had been the result of a completely natural pregnancy, he didn’t have any special powers. Unfortunately for Harold, his upbringing wasn’t very pleasant. Tragically, his mother passed away due to complications in childbirth, leaving him to be raised by his father, who, in his grief over losing his wife, became an abusive alcoholic that constantly blamed his son for Mrs. Jenkins’ death. Trying to seek an escape from his abusive home life, Harold often fantasized about joining the ranks of the Umbrella Academy Siblings, figuring that he should be accepted among them on account of him also being born on that fateful day. However, when he was 13-years-old, Harold tried approaching Reginald Hargreeves directly, when the Umbrella Academy Siblings were all returning home after a mission. He begged to be allowed to join the other Umbrella Academy kids, convinced that he must have some sort of power that hadn’t been discovered yet. But Reginald unceremoniously dismissed him, announcing that he didn’t have any special power and therefore should stop trying to pretend he was anything other than ordinary. To add insult to injury, when the rejected Harold returned home, his father slapped him for wearing his homemade Umbrella Academy mask. Pushed past the breaking point, Harold turned on his father and brutally killed him with a hammer. The murder of his father ended up landing Harold in jail for 12 years. When he was released from prison, Harold Jenkins ended up adopting a new alias: Leonard Peabody. Yes, that’s right, Vanya’s Leonard and Harold Jenkins are one and the same.

As this is revealed to the viewing audience, we also see Harold/Leonard had been secretly spying on the Umbrella Academy mansion on the day of Reginald’s funeral, which enabled him to see Klaus throwing away the contents of the ornate box he swiped from Reginald’s office in the first episode. Which explains how Harold/Leonard managed to get his hands on Reginald's journal that revealed that Vanya actually had an untapped power she was not aware of. This means he had only approached her in the first place because he knew she had her own unique ability and wanted to manipulate her into discovering it. Which makes it an even bigger shame that Vanya refused to listen to Allison’s hesitations about him. (We also get an explanation as to why he stole the action figure of Reginald in the last episode, as that was the only action figure he was missing from his boyhood collection).

So anyway, now that he’s once again reunited with his siblings, Number 5 discusses what he found out at The Commission, with how The Commission is trying to do whatever it can to ensure the apocalypse will happen in three days, and had therefore tried to send orders to Hazel and Cha-Cha to protect Harold Jenkins. He theorizes that Harold Jenkins must be the person responsible for the apocalypse, and if they can find out who he is, they can save the world. Initially, his siblings are all incredulous, with Allison declaring everything he’s saying sounds crazy. Number 5, in retort, reminds her that everything about them, from the fact that he’s a 58-year-old man in a 13-year-old body to their own individual abilities, sounds impossible. He urges them to try to band together and save the world. Because since they know who they’re looking for now, they might just have a chance. Of course, he manages to get Allison on board by pointing out that Claire is one of the people they’ll be saving, and he’d like to live long enough to meet her. (The fact that Number 5 knows her daughter’s name seems particularly moving to Allison.) Diego is also on board, deciding he’s not willing to lose anyone else. As for Luther, he speculates that he should try and locate the reports he’d sent Reginald from his moon mission, still believing that Reginald must have sent him to the moon to ‘look for threats’ for a reason, and it might all be connected. However, Klaus bows out, on account of him starting to feel the pains of withdrawal. So Allison, Diego and Number 5 head out together to search for Harold Jenkins, with Allison casting a sad glance back at Luther, who stays behind to try and find the reports from his moon mission.

Diego, Allison and Number 5 head down to the police station, with Diego speculating that Harold Jenkins must have some sort of record on file. Number 5 suggests the option of him just teleporting into the station and grabbing the file, stating he’ll be in and out in about two seconds, but Diego rejects that idea. Instead, Diego contacts Detective Beeman, who had been Detective Patch’s partner in the police force, in the hopes that he can get the file on Harold Jenkins for them. However, when they meet up in a secluded alleyway, Detective Beeman warns Diego that he needs to get out of town, as the police are out to arrest him for Detective Patch’s murder. Diego, it seems, ended up leaving his fingerprints all over the crime scene. Detective Beeman assures Diego that he knows he and Detective Patch used to be close and therefore knows Diego didn’t kill her, but he still can’t help him. Nor can he secure him the requested file, as doing so could cost his job. Diego isn’t deterred, however, assuring Detective Beeman that, while the file won’t bring Detective Patch back, it could help save the lives of billions of people.

While they’re waiting for Diego to get back, Allison tries to call Vanya, but the call goes right to voicemail. So Allison leaves a message, telling her that all she wanted was to be a good sister to her, but she realizes she botched that up. She urges Vanya to give her a call, also saying that she loves her. Seconds after Allison hangs up, Diego returns with the file on Harold Jenkins, which Detective Beeman managed to get after all. Naturally, Allison is quick to recognize Harold’s photo, realizing that he’s Vanya’s boyfriend, Leonard. So they now know Vanya is in serious danger.

They head straight to Leonard’s house to try and find either Harold/Leonard or Vanya, but nobody is home when they arrive, so they break in to search the place. During the search, Diego finds a flyer announcing Vanya’s upcoming concert. But Allison also finds something alarming in the attic. No, it’s not Helen’s body, which Harold/Leonard must have moved at some point. It turns out he also had an entire display of mutilated and defaced Umbrella Academy memorabilia stored up there. They realize with a sickening jolt that this was never about Vanya. Harold/Leonard had simply been using her as a pawn to take out the rest of the Hargreeves Siblings in a misguided quest for revenge. At that moment, however, Number 5 collapses down to the ground. It turns out that he had actually been shot by The Handler during his escape from The Commission’s headquarters, but had been trying to hide his injury from the others. But he can no longer ignore the pain from his gunshot wound, which is probably getting infected by now. Despite his physical pain, Number 5 insists they have to keep on going.

Of course, it turns out hunting down Harold/Leonard might be easier said than done. Because this time around, he’d overheard Number 5 telling the others that they had to find Harold Jenkins. So, knowing that it’s only a matter of time before they figure out who he really is, he ends up taking Vanya out to a secluded cabin in the woods in order to keep her isolated while he continues to try and manipulate her into discovering the full extent of her once-dormant powers.

Meanwhile, Luther has once again made the discovery that Reginald never bothered to look at any of the files he’d been sent from the moon mission. But this time, Allison isn’t the.re to try and cheer him up, so he instead tries to drown his sorrows by drinking. Which is how Klaus finds him when he tries to look for someone to tie him up so he can get sober again. In a drunken stupor, Luther tries to force Klaus to use his ability to conjure up Reginald’s ghost. But of course, Klaus can’t as he still has drugs in his system. When Klaus realizes that Luther is having an existential crisis, believing that he dedicated his life to Reginald and the Umbrella Academy for nothing, he does his best to comfort his brother. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work, and Luther ends up deciding that he wants to just be as carefree and reckless as Klaus. Klaus immediately tries to dissuade Luther from this thought process. After all, unbeknownst to Luther, Klaus has matured somewhat during his time fighting in the Vietnam War, and he knows how destructive his lifestyle was before. In spite of Klaus’ best efforts at stopping him, Luther still heads off.

As for Hazel and Cha-Cha, they both still end up getting the fake orders from Number 5 to terminate one another, so that part from the last episode hasn’t changed. Like before, Cha-Cha drives Hazel out into the woods, making him think their missing briefcase had been located out there. But this time, we see that Hazel was also teetering on the edge of killing Cha-Cha. But they both end up having second thoughts. This time, we see Cha-Cha initially decided against killing Hazel when she heard him talking about finding a simple life with a partner, as she seemed to think he was talking about the two of them. Of course, we can surmise he was actually thinking about himself and Agnes. Which is confirmed when he goes to see her at work. When Agnes steps outside to see him, Hazel asks her to run away with him, as he’s done following orders from The Commission and wants to settle down with her, so they can have a peaceful life together. Agnes agrees without much hesitation. She asks him how Cha-Cha took the news that he was planning on quitting, so Hazel admits he still hasn’t told her, as she considers the job her life and he’s not sure how to begin to tell her that he’s planning on leaving. Agnes urges him to tell her, as it wouldn’t be fair to his partner if he just disappeared without a word. Hazel agrees to try and talk to Cha-Cha, and the pair decide to meet up after dark to begin their lives together. They then seal their promise with a passionate kiss before parting ways, with Hazel driving back to the motel, not realizing that Cha-Cha had spotted him and Agnes together.

As night falls, Klaus, at the urging of Ben’s Ghost, heads out to find Luther. Klaus, due in part to the fact that he’s now feeling really sick from withdrawal, seriously considers giving up and just letting Luther experience life in the real world, as it might be good for him. Ben’s Ghost, however, argues that Luther isn’t ready for the real world yet. In the end, Ben’s Ghost tells Klaus that, if the situations were reversed and Klaus was the one in trouble, Luther wouldn’t hesitate to try and save him.

Now, I have to pause a moment to explain my personal feelings on this statement. While it is a noble sentiment, and it does convince Klaus to continue looking for Luther, we’ve pretty much already seen that this wasn’t true. Remember the time when Klaus was being held hostage by Hazel and Cha-Cha? Nobody even realized he was gone. And when they got word from Detective Patch that Klaus was in trouble, Luther didn’t lift a finger, simply sending Diego out while he stayed put. Granted Luther was busy keeping an eye on the drunken Number 5 at the moment, but the point still stands.

Anyway, Klaus and Ben’s Ghost eventually track Luther down at a rave somewhere. Klaus tries to coax Luther to come home, but to no avail. To make things worse, the pounding music is not helping Klaus with his withdrawal symptoms. And worse comes to worst when the constant loud noises forces Klaus into another PTSD flashback, with him seeing Dave’s dead body lying on the floor in front of him.

Elsewhere, Allison and Diego carry the injured Number 5 back to the mansion to get the shrapnel out. Upon arriving, Diego sees Grace walking around and is visibly shocked to see she’s been activated again. However, Diego doesn’t really get much chance to talk with her, as they need to treat Number 5′s injury. As Grace tends to Number 5, Allison continues to try and contact Vanya, but in vain, as she’s currently in that isolated cabin. Allison begins having doubts that they can continue on in trying to prevent the apocalypse with Number 5 out of commission. Instead, she starts to feel that maybe she should just focus on spending her remaining time alive with Claire. But Diego insists that they need to stick together, admitting that maybe Luther had been right when he said they’d all been wrong to go their separate ways in the past. Diego goes on to say they have one chance left, as the file on Harold Jenkins had a grandmother listed as a relation, and she lived in a cabin near Jackpine Road. He states it’s possible Harold/Leonard took Vanya there. But as they start to head off to try and follow that lead, Diego and Allison are forced to split up, as the cops show up to arrest him for Detective Patch’s murder. So Allison has to head off to the grandmother’s place alone.

Back at the motel, Hazel arrives back with the intention of telling Cha-Cha that he’s quitting and going away with Agnes, but finds she’s not there. He’s about to leave her a letter explaining everything, but instead finds the charred remains of Cha-Cha’s orders to kill him. As such, he realizes they were both ordered to kill one another. So he lays a trap for Cha-Cha, making it look as if he was taking a shower while he hides and waits for Cha-Cha to return. So when Cha-Cha returns to the motel and tries to shoot him in the shower, he comes up behind her and knocks her out. Cha-Cha later wakes up, finding herself handcuffed to the radiator, with Hazel standing over her. He informs her that he’s quitting The Commission, as he knew he couldn’t continue on with working as a temporal assassin once he’d received the order to kill Cha-Cha. He requests that his former partner respect his wishes and let them go their separate ways. But when he removes her gag, Cha-Cha makes it clear she is not going to accept this, refusing to allow him to throw away everything for a woman, especially when the world will end in three days, anyway. She then tells him that if he doesn’t kill her now, then she’ll just come after him and Agnes so she can kill them both. However, Hazel is unable to kill her and simply walks out, leaving her chained to the radiator.

Meanwhile Luther, Klaus and Ben’s Ghost are still at the rave. When he sees some thugs making their way over to the oblivious Luther in what seems to be an attempt to beat him up, Klaus tries to stop them, only to get thrown to the ground. Upon hitting his head on the hard floor, Klaus has some sort of out-of-body experience, in which he finds himself in this surreal black and white world, with the only color coming from his tropical tanktop. There, he meets a little girl on a bike, who is apparently is supposed to represent God, I guess. (In case you haven’t figured it out yet, this show is weird.) Anyway, after a bit of back-and-forth, the little girl directs Klaus to a nearby cabin, stating ‘he’s waiting for you.’ Thinking the little girl is talking about Dave, Klaus runs over to the cabin. But inside, he is greeted by Reginald, who scolds him for not trying to contact him sooner. As Reginald proceeds to shave Klaus (they’re in a barber shop, for some bizarre reason), he tries to justify his cruel treatment of the Hargreeves Siblings by saying that he was only trying to push them to reach their true potential, In the process, he hints that Klaus’ abilities might actually go beyond simply communicating with the dead. But he doesn’t embellish on that. Instead, he goes on to say that he know the Hargreeves Siblings were meant to save the world. But he know they couldn’t do that unless they were together. Which is why he took his own life, in order to force them all back together. But before Reginald can tell him something he states is very important, Klaus is brought back to the real world. By the time he comes out of his out-of-body experience, Luther is already gone, having been thrown out by the club’s bouncers.

Out at the cabin, Harold/Leonard tries to get Vanya to move a boat floating in the lake out back. But try as she might, Vanya can’t tap into her powers. Still, Harold/Leonard urges her to keep trying. Though he ends up changing his tune, suggesting they go get some dinner instead, as he knows a great place nearby. Sometime later, they leave the restaurant. But their way back to the car is barred by a bunch of drunk toughs. When Harold/Leonard tries to stand up to them, they gang up on him and begin beating him up. Vanya, due to the high stress of the situation, inadvertently ends up activating her long-dormant powers. The explosive burst of power ends up throwing the men backwards. In the aftermath of that incident, Vanya brings Harold/Leonard to the hospital. There, the doctors are able to save his life, but it’s revealed Harold/Leonard lost an eye. Meaning the glass eye Number 5 had been carrying around was supposed to go to him.

Final Thoughts/Questions

How’s Diego going to get out of his current predicament?

Will Allison reach Vanya in time to warn her about who Leonard really is?

What was Reginald about to tell Klaus? Does it have anything to do with Vanya’s recently revealed powers?

I still say it doesn’t matter how much Reginald tries to justify his actions. At the end of the day, he is nothing but a manipulative, abusive monster who had no business raising kids.

I might as well say it now. I really enjoy the romance that developed between Hazel and Agnes. It’s just really sweet, and you seriously want things to work out for them. And, of course, hope they can successfully get away from Cha-Cha, who is making it clear she isn’t capable of being redeemed.

#umbrella acedmy #umbrella academy 1x07

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