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What's five's favorite way to braid vanya's hair?

French braid!!! They can look classy or cute depending on how messy he makes them, which fits various occasions. Loose enough, the braid will also be wide enough to cover her soulmark without a scarf or high collar, so long as it doesn't glow! 🌟

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What makes you scared of s2? Pls share your thoughts

What’s up, Anon! I’m gonna bullet point this, and it won’t be half as eloquent as a lot of the theories/opinions I’ve seen, but oh well! This is just my opinion on the things I’ve seen, and other people’s speculations. If none of these come to pass, I’ll be THRILLED. I’d say sorry this is so long, but you asked for it lol

First and foremost, as much as I’m pumped for more representation and any form of queer Vanya, I can’t see her and Sissy’s story ending happily. I’m from the Southern US, and straight up don’t like the idea of making the first queer romance we see with Vanya set in such toxicity. 2000s homophobia is still real and kickin’. I don’t wanna think about it in the 60s.

While I’m on that - them getting together while Sissy still lives with her husband, separated or not, isn’t something I’m cool with.

Amnesia plot lines can be FINE, imo, but this one? Nope. She doesn’t get to remember shit, just like Reginald drugging her for years after forcing Allison to rumor her, and I hate it! If we’d had a few seasons in between, where she got to remember everything and expand on her powers and relationships with the others? Hella tragic, amazing potential, much better possible executions than this.

Klaus as a CULT LEADER? I’ve honestly not seen a post expressing my outrage at this, but what the HELL. Where did all of his empathy from the end of S1 go? He gets thrown back in time and instead of trying to find Dave, starts a cult??? Thanks, I hate it. I do not want to see such regression, esp if they try to play it off like he’s caring for these people.

I said the Amnesia trope can be Fine, and I feel the same way about the Asylum trope - to a much lesser extent. I am almost firmly in the Not A Fan category, but I try to stay open minded.

A lot of Allison’s motivations from S1 are now obsolete, I guess? Unless we get to see a breakdown over her still losing Claire after everything she did to get her back, I’m not gonna be happy. I’m alright with the new love interest plot, Alluther being a ship I can dig but don’t freak over, but again, she’s just lost a lot.

I guess I need to say I’m super scared of not seeing any of the Hargreeves deal with losing everything? How tf do they handle this in ten eps? I don’t like it.

Tom Hopper literally said it’s like Luther forgets about the Academy (and I am a lil like HELL YEAH bumbling but independent Luther! I’m also scared of this!)

Diego, in an asylum, because he was following Reginald’s motivations and trying to be the leader his dad wanted? I don’t even like typing these words together and now feel like I need to add a scene in MBH where he shit talks Reginald for a good, long while.

Reginald! I’m very, very eager to learn more about him, but also not ready to see him inflicting any more trauma on these kids! Hasn’t enough been done?

AND BEN. Klaus, what do you think you’re doing?? I’ve not seen much on Ben at all besides Klaus lying about him being there, and the snippet (Justin Min said this, not Sheehan, my bad guys! Thanks @sarahsharpe1231) about Ben and Klaus discovering halfway through the season that they’ve got some new powers together. I’m terrified they’ll use him as lowkey comic relief, and not give him any actual character advancement.

Have we seen any side characters from S1 besides old!Hazel? I liked a lot of them and it sucks they won’t be around.

SUPER SCARED of no more kiddo flashbacks?? None of the other 6 child actors are billed on IMDB for a second season and that sucks hard. (It was @263adder who brought the possible lack of fbs to my attention!)

Last bit, selfishly, I’ve got pretty specific ideas of Five/Luther’s parents (and I want them to be twins!!! Give me that!) and don’t want to see them on screen, tbh, cause I know they’ll be totally different. I DO love the idea of their birth mother(s) being threatened (saw this theory from @repeatinglitanies) though!

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I was wondering if you had any fiveya headcanons or aus that you really like. Also luv ya

Thanks for the ask, Anon! I’m always happy to talk about my fave murder couple, so here we go:

Five, pre-apocalypse, has a sweet tooth (this has a bit of canon support, the Twinkie story, he accepts a candy even after the bad Twinkie, frequenting donut shops and bakeries); Vanya prefers sour candies and it’s only sort of because the faces she makes always have Klaus, Five and Ben giggling behind their hands like gossipy housewives.

To Five’s great displeasure, Vanya loves musicals. She, Mom, and Diego know every word to The Sound of Music. She and Allison bond briefly over Wicked. When they’re older, Five develops a taste for dark musicals (specifically, Phantom and Sweeney Todd).

Winter evenings are best spent in the manor’s expansive libraries, curled up before a fire. Vanya likes to read novels Ben mentioned, if only so she can talk about them with him; she prefers historical and fantasy fiction over Ben’s usual sci-fi novels and comic books, or sheet music when she needs to be practicing. Five reads textbooks and works on his algorithms. He feels better when he can throw a frustrating problem into the fire.

(there are already whole posts dedicated to this but idc) Five 1000% knew the meaning of the name Delores when he chose it, and he picked Delores because her hair was similar to Vanya’s. (changemymind.jpeg)

Five shows affection like a cat. He can spend two hours sitting a few inches from Vanya and it feels just as intimate as holding her hand and stroking her hair. Vanya prefers the actual affection to sharing space. She reassures herself through touch, a brush of her fingers along his sleeve or the soft press of his lips to her forehead when he knows she’s upset.

Post-apocalypse-prevention, the other Academy kids had a betting pool in place for literal years. Klaus was the first one to bring up the possibility of their relationship, when he and Luther talk about Five’s new “Grow up, I kill ppl to save ppl” attitude. Klaus says it would’ve been a lot easier to just kill Vanya, but he risked an unknown jump to save her. Allison spends the next month stalking them to the point that Five threatens to jump her to the Neolithic Age and leave her there. It’s Luther that wins the betting pool, with his guess being that they got together roughly nine months after the averted world-ending. (It was seven months, two weeks, and three days.) However, the other Academy members don’t find out about their relationship for nearly three years. (Five didn’t want Luther to win, but Vanya’s a poor liar.)

Vanya is the one who proposes to Five, long after they’ve affirmed their feelings and merged their lives. They have a spacious apartment together, an extra room for Five’s office as well as a guest bedroom for the revolving-door they called Klaus. She planned out a lovely dinner for the weekend on the roof of their building, near the garden, but he wakes up later than her one morning, padding out onto the terrace and leaning against the rail with his morning coffee while she and her violin ran through their morning warm up. He watches her, expression so soft no one but Vanya would believe it, as she puts everything back in the case covering the entirety of their little patio table, and her hands are shaking from the affection in his eyes, so she shoves them in the pockets of her robe and there’s the ring box, a tiny red velvet box with a simple silver band, and when she drops to one knee his elbow knocks his coffee mug right off the rail and they don’t even see if it smashed against something or someone, because she can’t even ask before he is saying yes, yes, Vanya, i will always say yes - an infinite string of acceptance pouring from his lips before they’re crashed against hers.

They get a house and a yard and a dog; Five tries to grow things in the little garden patch by the shed. Nothing but the white-blooming spirea bushes nestled against the front of the house survive his attempts. Klaus stays with them for a summer and grows tomatoes bigger than the dog’s head.

As for AU’s, I’ve got an extensive list of stories I’m interested in reading or writing (...one day....), but here’s some highlights:

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist AU: This is my favorite romcom and I will write it. Already in the works, even if I changed some things up. Five is the heir to a famous recording studio, poised to take over if only he can resist murdering his father before he retires. Classic workaholic, would have gone full hikikomori at the age of 22 if it weren’t for work, only friends include his twin brother, sister-in-law, and the best PA in the world, Delores. Coincidentally, all Three™️ of his friends think he needs to get out more. Vanya’s just broken off a two-year engagement and lost her best friend in the same day, due to the same incident of infidelity she stumbled upon, and her brother Klaus needs her to quit moping and cover his drummer’s spot for this hella important show tonight. They end up at the same club. Where Vanya’s ex happens to be. And someone gave Luther some pills that make him feel awesome. Chaos ensues.

I really want a Hogwarts AU. I’m HP trash. Absolutely LOVE the art I’ve seen for the kids in their houses (everyone’s seen @just-themys-fanarts‘s take right? I’ll reblog it again after this in case y’all live under a rock)

On the subject of crossover AU’s, I can think of so many wild AUs I wanna see these kids in (as competing Kingsman recruits, talking about living together in hellishly mundane eternity a la Nadja and Lazlo in What We Do in the Shadows, meeting at Camp Halfblood (though I’d have to brush up on my PJO to write or read this one, it would be a lot of fun);

Look call me basic but Five’s love of coffee is begging for a coffee shop AU. Vanya and Klaus open up a coffee shop with an expansive bakery and Five falls in love with the espresso, the apple cinnamon danishes, and the beautiful, constantly-stressed-and-on-the-verge-of-murdering-her-entire-mess-of-a-staff owner.

Assassin AU. Five’s already there, canonically, and I think I’ve seen some of these on AO3. Look forward to reading them one day.

I’m trash for soulmate AUs, if you didn’t notice, all varieties, not just the soulmark AU I’m writing. First words, can’t see color until you meet your soulmate, dream sharing, the marks on your skin appears on theirs, etc.

I also love a good canon-divergence; Five doesn’t time travel, he takes Vanya with him, he comes back after a couple of days, the possibilities are endless.

wow I am so sorry this is so long. I appear to be long-winded no matter what I’m doing. Thanks so much for the ask! It was fun to share some hcs.

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There was none of the old, grand, wood furnishings of the Academy, nothing gilded or engraved or embroidered, no sweeping staircases and stained glass murals.

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"Doesn’t it sound fascinating to watch the entire world go through the cycle of death and rebirth, a phoenix that you helped raise from the ashes yourself?"

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Thank you for the lovely art!!! ❤❤❤

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aHH Hello! I know you have an AO3 account, and I was thinking about starting one up myself! Any tips on how to actually get started with this? :") (Lmao, I'm still trying to figure out what they meant when they said add do-not-reply@archiveofourown to something???)

Hello! I'm always pumped to see someone joining AO3, and their lovely community. 🥰

Its pretty easy to set up, especially if you have someone to invite you (and if you don't, feel free to message me if you're comfortable sharing an email, I'm more than happy to send you an invite!). If you don't, you'll just have to wait a few days for an email saying AO3 is ready for you to set up an account, which is why they recommend adding their no reply email to your contacts. There's a good chance the email will end up in your spam (or you'll forget to look for it, like me).