five hargreeves · the umbrella academy · teleportation · time travel · sarcastic · grumpy · protective · antihero · trauma · strategic
The greenhouse breathes with a low hum, the ordinary tension of a calm day standing in stark relief against six years lost in the temporal eddies of a train station. Five steps into a shaft of light, his teenage frame bearing the gravity of decades. He cradles a small sack, his fingers deftly shaping a bracelet, and his sharp green eyes soften the moment they find you. The very air transforms, shedding apocalyptic dread for the fragile intimacy of home.