Five and Lila survived seven years lost between timelines. Now they're back, caught between the lives they left behind and the future neither of them expected.
Bonus One-Shots: She's Crazy but She's Mine and Strawberry Day.
Give Me Your Memories
Diego wants his wife back and is willing to do anything. Or what might happen if Lila and Five forgot their years on the subway? (Chapters 1-18 of Survival serve as a prequel to this story.)
Parallel Lines 🖋️
When a client who looks exactly like her husband walks into Lila and Five's detective agency, she knows she's never worked a case like this before. Takes place years after the events of Survival.
Chaotic Stories (Series)
Post-Season 3, Canon Divergence, Aged-up Five
Pre-Wedding Chaos, Runaway Chaos, Till Chaos Do Us Part
This series in a nutshell? Lila leaves Diego on their wedding day, she and Five run into their alternate selves, and after a few wild escapades on an unexpected joint vacation, they end up getting drunk-married in Las Vegas. Yep, it’s pure chaos!
The Beginning of the Chaos 🖋️
A prequel set in an alternate timeline, where Five and Lila met as children and it’s a completely different story from the canon.
One Way or Another (Standalone Stories)
A collection of standalone stories built around the same idea: different ways Five and Lila could have ended up together in an alternate story... or found their way back to each other.
Rewritten in Time 🖋️
Post-Season 1, Canon Rewrite, Aged-up Five. Five and Lila met years ago at the Commission. The thing is... he doesn't remember any of it.
Bonus One-Shots: Gossip in the Commission and The Handler’s Puppets
Wrong Number
Post-Season 3, Canon Divergence, Aged-up Five. As Lila's marriage falls apart, she and Five finally give a chance to something that has been quietly growing between them for years.
The Book Club 🖋️
Post-Season 3, Canon Divergence, Aged-up Five. Five and Lila have one unexpected thing in common: they both love books. Who would've thought that would bring them closer than they ever planned?
What If: The Second Turn of Time
Post-Finale, Canon Divergence. A second chance, a rewritten finale, and memories that refuse to stay buried.
Still Need You 🖋️
Post-Finale, Canon Divergence. They were forced apart once again, only to find each other years later.
Beyond the Apocalypse
Post-Finale, Canon Divergence. A crossover between The Umbrella Academy and Loki. Or: How my favorite ships found their happily ever after after the finales of both series.
Alternate Universe
Nightmare Boss 🖋️
Lila is perfectly happy being a drummer in a small band, sleeping through mornings and consistently alarming her relatives with her life choices. But, unfortunately for her, her family imagines a more conventional future and schedules a job interview she never agreed to attend.
They Met in the Subway 🖋️
Five is a promising actor stuck in a creatively hollow role on a never-ending daytime romcom, while Lila is a florist with big dreams working in her parents’ flower shop. Their carefully routine lives are thrown completely off balance thanks to a chaotic morning in the subway.
My Survival translation revision reached another milestone today. I've now finished 14 out of 32 chapters.
Hopefully I can keep up this pace...
A few thoughts after rereading it:
I honestly don't think I had any real plan for this story. 😅 I just wrote whatever came to mind. That said, I don't think that was necessarily a bad thing. It was fun writing at a time when I genuinely didn't care what anyone else would think and simply followed my own instincts.
Every now and then I catch myself thinking I'd write something differently today. Then I keep reading, and I realize it actually fits the story exactly the way it happened.
Honestly? Some of the dialogue is so good that I can hardly believe I was the one who wrote it. 🤣 But let's not get carried away. There were also a few lines that I ended up rewriting because they sounded really awkward... Some sentences just sound better in my native language than they do in translation.
Diego and Allison definitely didn't get the best hand in either Survival or Give Me Your Memories, and I completely understand why that might bother some readers. But if everything had gone smoothly for everyone, those stories probably never would have existed. Sometimes I think people must assume I don't like Diego and Allison because of the way I write them, but that's honestly not true. 👀
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
I think I’m going to keep spamming you now and then with old fics that have been given a fresh translation. But there's an exception here, the second chapter is new. 🤭
All I could focus on was that defiant expression. And her eyes.
Maybe I was having some kind of psychotic break. I couldn't think of any other reason why I was studying every tiny detail of her face.
She was crushing my hand. I didn't care. I wouldn't have traded that moment for anything in the world.
With the spirit of "We're tiny, but we refuse to die," and to celebrate two years since the end of The Umbrella Academy TV series—along with the birth of the most controversial ship in modern television history (according to me, anyway)—Five × Lila, I'm excited to announce a writing competition!
Participants may submit one Five × Lila story in any genre, with a maximum word count of 20,000 words—and it must consist of a single chapter only. Whether your entry is 3,000 words or 20,000 words, that's entirely up to you. The one-chapter rule simply makes judging more manageable.
Each contestant may submit only one entry.
All entries must be submitted to our AO3 Five × Lila 2nd Year Anniversary Collection. You can submit your work here:
"AO3 Five × Lila Writing Contest 2026 Collection"
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
All genres and ideas are welcome. However, this is a Five × Lila competition, so your story must center on that pairing. Entries focusing on another pairing will be disqualified.
Everyone is welcome to participate, whether you're an established member of the fandom or have never written for it before. We'll judge each entry solely on the quality of the writing.
There will be two judges:
- Alexa_K3S (me)
- Lokinightfury
We'll each score every story independently, then combine our scorecards to determine the winners.
To ensure fairness, all submissions will be anonymous during judging, so neither of us will know who wrote what.
There are five categories, each with a USD $100 prize:
- Best Original AU
- Best Literary Prose
- Best Tragedy/Angst
- Best Comedy
- Best Smut
Make us laugh. Make us cry. Make us swoon.
Prize money will be paid via PayPal after judging has concluded and the winners have been announced.
There will also be a USD $50 bonus prize for the person who participates in the author guessing game at the end of the competition and correctly matches every story to its author.
The winners will be announced on Tumblr, AO3, and Discord.
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