#non-plutonian-druid has good thoughts on this

[sharkneto]

five and luther moments where they are twins? it's canon that they're twins, do u have any concept of them?

Five and Luther being twins is actually a corner of comic canon I ignore! My opinion on that bit of canon is that it is only there to give Allison a reason to help Five because he's such a little bastard in the comics. She doesn't give a fuck if Five were to stop existing, but she does have a *vested* interest in keeping Luther around. How do we solve that? They're twins! If Five's mom is killed and he's wiped from existence, so is Luther! Better help him, then!

I also think the Hargreeves are more compelling as a completely forced family. That no one is actually related to any of the others but they're aggressively being siblings, despite how terrible their childhoods were and they've estranged themselves from one another. They could have treated it like a school situation, even around Reggie being "Dad", but no! They're a family! Plus, that Five, pragmatic and (surface level) self-centered, dedicated his entire life and survived horrors to get back and save these six people he's not technically related to. They're his family - not by blood, but through growing up together, being in the Umbrella Academy together, and because he says so.

#non-plutonian-druid has good thoughts on this #that we've talked about in relation to ''what if one of them (five) had biological family?'' #and the siblings are excited for five to go meet them #but five doesn't give a fuck about that because he's got his family right here what does he need these other ones for? #they share genes? alright whatever why should that matter? #anyway #not quite the response you were hoping for anon #but i just think the hargreeves not being related (outside of whatever the marigolds are) is The Best #that said - if two were going to be related #im glad its the Lorge and the Smol #luther being huge next to five being tiny is my favorite thing in the comics #and in the show #tua #number 1 #number 5 #ask response

[littlerit]

Writer tag!

Thank you @softforklave for this chance to ramble on about myself and my writing 🧡

Tagging: anybody who would like to take part 🧡

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Uh… 25 I think? *Checks* yes 25

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

147,014

3. What are you top 5 fics by kudos?

Quake

The Time Traveller's Life

Obedience Suite (in A minor)

Five's First Displacement - prologue to time travellers life

The Tails of the Umbrella Aquarium - a drabble-art Collab with @non-plutonian-druid

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! Always. I’m a chatterbox so I try to match the energy of the comment. I’m more than happy to ramble on about thought processes or simply have an emoji exchange.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

The Hunt mermay drabble where Ben dies, and Farewell which is a mermay drabble-art Collab with @juliusquasar where Dave drowns.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Finders Keepers a mermay drabble where Grace adopts stranded merboy Diego. The Tails of Umbrella Aquarium also has a good ending.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I write some fusion fics, but no outright crossovers which includes characters from both universes. I’ve done fusions for TUA with time travellers wife, hunger games, and Ella enchanted

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not to my face. If people haven’t liked my work they’ve been mature and decent enough to keep it to themselves or somewhere I can’t see which is great

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Nope I’m a gen writer, and often gen reader too, although I’m not ship averse.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I know?

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not as far as I know!

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have not, although I’ve collared by writing drabbles for art or vice versa for events

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I mostly read (and write) Gen, I don't get hugely invested in ships? I do love writing me some platonic-wife!Dolores though.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Hmmm. Time travellers life feels like it'll never end because it keeps expanding and I've been writing it over a year now, but the love and determination is still very much there even if RL means the pace has slowed. So I will finish it

To Kill a Gardener is now on hiatus. It's my fuck-it fic where I don't worry too much, but I've spread myself a bit thin to keep up with all my WIPs at the moment so that ones gone on pause. Hopefully I'll pick it back up sometime 2022.

15. What are your writing strengths?

I'm pretty good at writing a 100 word drabble. I'm also pretty good at keeping track of details for my long fic with all its time travel loops and temporal crossovers.

16. What are you writing weaknesses?

I struggle to write feel good, comforting and fluff type stuff. I worry that I can write too much angst and sometimes the balance isn't quite there.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

The odd word and phrase, as used in RL is fine if it suits the character.

I also don't mind if a character says a line in another language IF it's a) in character and b) the POV character doesn't understand it and we don't get a translation. I think it can actually add depth when used sparingly and with purpose.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The umbrella academy is the only fandom I've written for so far 😊

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Time Traveller's Life and Obedience Suite (in A minor) are my two longfics and I love them so much. Quake holds a dear place in my heart because it got me writing in the first place.

#tua #the umbrella academy #writers tag game

[sharkneto]

any random hcs/thoughts you have that dont fit in your JT/HT fics? something you think is cool but cant explore or dont have time for?

Oh boy, I have lots of little odds and ends that don't fit and probably won't turn into anything.

Lots about Rob and Sarah (some of these details can be found HERE) as I've figured out their backstories and history together. It's turned into quite the tooth-achingly sweet romcom.

Outside of general Rob and Sarah romcom, I think about random scenarios that just don't fit into HIT canon all the time. Amanda meeting our Five (touched on HERE). A fun one where Amanda gets kidnapped with Five (JT Five - Number), Five gets drugged heavily to keep him from doing anything, and Luther and Diego save the day through unwilling team-work while Five is drugged-up but actually pretty pleasant deadweight. Generally, more mixing and matching of siblings with Rob, Sarah, and/or Amanda are things that are thought about regularly.

And then there's the HIT canon stuff that just didn't make it. I should write a little one-shot or something sometime of Amanda running into Five at a house party before the whole Alley Incident because I've only written him when he's a sad, angry drunk but when he's just letting loose he's a chill, fun drunk. He drinks to not think and he is Not Thinking.

Random specific headcanons... - Sarah doesn't want kids and is bad at them, not a maternal bone in her body. She does her best but she just has no clue what she's supposed to do with them. This does extend to pets and she doesn't actually like Mr. Pennycrumb much outside of that he's good for Five and Five adores him. She thought she had a kindred spirit in Five with all this until he fell head-over-heels for his silly little dog. Rob is actually pretty good with kids but doesn't feel strongly about having any and he's a little... just this side of clinical when hanging out with them. How brains develop and kids figure things out is just so cool. He at least has experience with them with his nieces and nephews. - A tangent of the above is Rob's family. Sarah is an only child. Bam, easy, done. Rob is the youngest of three (brother 10 years older, sister 7 years older), and those siblings started having kids when Rob was in high school. Those kids are now starting to grow up and the first one now has a kid of her own. Christmas with Rob's family is A Lot and includes Rob's parents, his siblings and their spouses, his siblings' kids (two and three each, respectively), and his brother's first grandkid. The niblings all think Rob is Super Cool because he was Cool, Young Uncle Rob when they were little and that doesn't just go away. Rob's mom loves all the grandkids (and the great grandkid!) but would really love to have some grandkids from her youngest. Sarah is already overwhelmed by being surrounded by Walters and does not appreciate this pressure and how the Children Conversation is a conversation that somehow happens every time they see Rob's mom. Shout-out to @non-plutonian-druid for the deep dive we went in on this lol. There is a fun potential holiday fic somewhere in here. - Rob doesn't like classical music. It's on constantly at the hospital psych ward and at his office's waiting room for a Calm Mood and he's sick of it. I haven't actually thought about what music he does like. Sarah does 80s rock, but Rob... I like the idea of him listening to Dad Rock (despite not being a dad), but it could also be some truly random 90s stuff from his college days (of which I am not very familiar with despite being alive then because I was young and my dad was partial to the 70s and my mom was partial to classical). - Rob and Sarah broke up exactly once while they were dating, for three weeks. Sarah did the breaking up because she realized Rob was probably the Real Deal after they'd been dating for a year and a half and she Panicked. Rob was crushed but tried to respect her decision and space and hope she'd come back. She did in the form of falling off her bike and getting a concussion and Rob was still her hospital emergency contact. He takes care of her until someone else can come because he's still in love with her and their life is a romcom. Sarah cannot actually remember why she broke up with him because she's concussed. In trying to figure it out, trying to tell him he can be a little overwhelming in how there he is all the time, she says she broke up with him because he's "too Midwestern". Rob is understandably upset that they only broke up because he's from Iowa. They figure it out. - That post went around a bit ago about "what does your blorbo's phone look like" and that legit got me out of a no-words-funk thinking about Five's phone. I think it has exactly one catastrophic crack across the screen from when he first got it, went "I don't need a case", and was good without a case for like a week until he got too drunk and did drop it and it immediately cracked. It now has a Really Good Case - dark blue and slim but was really expensive so that you can practically drop it off a building and it will be okay without being obnoxiously bulky.

That's probably enough for now. I can ramble about my silly little blorbos forever lol

#thank you for the fun ask and the invite to ramble :) #ficblogging #sarah #i should have a rob tag #homemade blorbos #ask response #long post #i was going to put a readmore for the specific headcanons but tumblr isn't cooperating and i can't be fucked to figure it out