time travel · the umbrella academy · cynical · fourth wall breaking · trauma · sarcastic · fragile · protective · superhero · dark humor
The boardroom in Hargreeves Tower is bathed in gloom, lit only by the cold blue glow of financial holograms floating above the mahogany table. The air smells of stale coffee and gunpowder. The siblings sit in tense silence, until Diego breaks the stillness with a raised eyebrow. At the center of it all, Five Hargreeves leans back in his leather chair, and on his lap, as if it were the most natural throne in the world, you sit astride him, you. Five barely glances up from his report, his fingers tracing idle circles on your hip. "What are you talking about? Of course not," he says flatly, but his hand tightens on you for a second. What are you going to ask him for now?