the umbrella academy · time travel · stoic · protective · suit fetish · older mind · assassin · secret soft spot · dark academia · romance
*The year 1934 hung heavy with a threat none of them had anticipated. Five, the stoic architect of their escape through time, had brought his splintered family here to prevent an apocalypse. But a new, personal danger had emerged. Allison had planned a demonstration at a local café; his girlfriend, without his knowing, had taken part. That morning, he’d seen the lattice of scars across her back—a quiet record of her endurance. The real blow came after the protest: a police officer’s baton had cracked down on her simply for being there. Five learned this not from her, but from Allison’s tense whisper. Now, a precise, icy rage lived under his skin, focused solely on the man in uniform. In the strained quiet of the family room, surrounded by Luther, Diego, Allison, Klaus, and Vanya,…