āāSOMETHING ABOUT A MOVIE NIGHT IN A PLACE like this..excited montana. she loved late night movies like this, she loved the idea of being scared. there was a cigarette between her lips; the tip a bright orange as she took a drag.Ā ā M A Y B E.. ā she exhaled a puff of smoke.Ā ā the dead was some entertainment too..so why not ? ā her brows wiggled as she slipped her wild hair out of her face.Ā ā want me to hold your hand ? ā she smirked before motioning forward.Ā ā youāre up N E X T. ā
benās argument fell flat at her words.Ā she had a point, but that didnāt make ACCEPTING it any easier. ānah, iām good ..ā he replied with a roll of his shoulders; a weak attempt at hyping himself up. be an ADULT,Ā ben. it wouldnāt kill you again.Ā āyeah iām ... going.ā & he actually was ! one foot in front of the other, shoes crunching on the graveled path.
āitās not that gross.ā mal reassured the male as she headed into the fron entrance of the cemetery.Ā āit might be because iām from the isle and iāve seen grosser, but itās not half bad here.ā
āthe isle ?ā people had been throwing around a lot of strange terms around lately. & he was honestly getting tired of information, that couldnāt be found in books, beingĀ SPEWEDĀ at him.Ā āthatās a fairly ambiguous name.ā
carol didnāt really celebrate halloween or any other human holiday, to be precise.. back then, when she lived monica and maria, she had.. a reason to do it. she had a family and now she didnāt and.. why should she do any of that? she mostly occupied her time between work, between training and being with goose and.. if you asked her, sheād say she had a pretty fantastic life. still, sometimes.. it could be⦠pretty lonely, so much that she found herself standing right in front of the cemetery, curious about what everyone else was doing there.Ā ānot pretty smart. what if the movies are true and.. they all come back and eat them at the end?ā she shrugged, grinning a little bit.Ā ānah, iām just messing with you, kid. i think itās pretty in the halloween spirit, even if i donāt really celebrate it myself.ā
brown eyes ROLL ( as the comment is reminiscent of something klaus would say ) & ben mightāve comeback with a snarky comment if he knew her better. her smile helped, though, as it gave off a friendly enough vibe for ben to interact. āi just wouldnāt want someone stomping all over my bones. it kind of makes us obnoxious neighbors in an upstairs apartment,ā he confessed, still hesitant about entering.Ā āi guess youāre right.ā
jason looked at the guy ādonāt tell me your a pussy and too scared to be around a bunch of dead bodies?ā he smirkedĀ āits not like they are gonna object. i mean its just basically dirt.ā he rolled his eyes
āno, i just used to be one of those dead bodies & iām a little offended,ā ben grumbled, eyes falling down onto the ground. he could handle it when his family were acting like assholes -- but it was different with strangers.Ā āi wouldnāt want someone sitting on top of ME while theyāre watching a movie.ā
itās strange; being on his own. it isnāt the loneliness that bothers him so much, but the not knowing what to do. after a handful of years being klausā shadow, ben had become accustomed to the spurts of quiet. heād been a quiet boy himself, never saying much when he was alive & simply doing what he could to please ( albeit reluctantly ). & death wasnāt always lonely.Ā occasionally, when his brother wasnāt fucked up on pills, heād get to see other spirits; but, that was rarer than their dad actually giving a shit about them.Ā still, he almost always had something to do -- he KNEW what he wanted to do. so, coming back from the dead hasnāt been so great. there isnāt any klaus to follow around and try to help & you can only shove your nose in a book for so long before even that gets exhausting. often itās aimless wandering around the island, questioning if the umbrella academy was ever real. having a fake family who subtly fucks with your memories hasnāt been helpful either. though there was ONE benefit to a second chance at life -- heād come back the same age as he died. at least, thatās what his real memories told him. those memories also told him that the person he was looking at was his BROTHER on the street corner before him. had one of his wandering sessions really been succesful ?Ā YES.Ā from his stupid quirks, to the look on his face, ben could recognize him from anywhere. ā...five ?ā he called out, hurriedly approaching his sibling.
āgross,ā thatās the only word to leave benās lips as he stands in front of the entrance to the cemetery. feet shuffle uncomfortably where he is, his body acting like crossing the threshold would be some sort of violationĀ against it. then, he glances over at the person beside him. āwho thought it was smart to have a movie night where deadĀ people are buriedĀ ?āĀ
āWell my family has made a blood oath hundreds of years ago to always look out for each other. Always and Forever. No matter what comes our way we have the strength of family and we will always be there if one of us falls, we will have another be able to pick us back up. I guess that is one of the good things about my family though, not all families can be as we are. Then again not all families have had hundreds of years together either.āĀ
ādoes your family have a time traveler too ?ā once the words left his lips, it felt like a stupid question. was all that time spent with klaus ( his brother )Ā finally getting to him ?Ā āthatās...a long time. sounds complicated.ā
āSorry to burst your bubble but I have never heard of you. I am pretty sure that no one from where I am from has even heard of your family or whatever academy you go to. I mean it would help if I found them around. So far it is just my little sister that has been here with me. I am sure that my other siblings will find their way here soon enough.āĀ
ben shrugged.Ā āno bubble to burst, itās not the first time someoneās said that to me.ā & they were lucky, if you asked him -- a world where the umbrella academy was never needed was probably peaceful.Ā ātheyāre probably here...itās just harder to find the ones who donāt remember as much, i think. or they donāt want to be found.ā
āAs your family? What are you talking about? Who even are you?ā He asks in confusion before downing some of his drink.Ā āNot a rough day, just wanted to come here to relax. Maybe see if I could remember something about my pastā¦anything about who I am besides my family.āĀ
ben didnāt talk about them much, but it felt like the world had been giving him constant reminders lately. if he had a chance to acknowledge the life he remembered, then why not go for it ?Ā ( he was definitely going to regret this later ) āyeah, my siblings. the umbrella academy ? weāre all grown up now, but our faces used to be on everything when we were kids. iām ben hargreeves -- the dead one.Ā ā well, he wasnāt so dead anymore -- but he couldnāt really explain that bit. the only information he could find on coming back from the dead were some books aboutĀ āaccidental burialsā. definitely NOT his situation.Ā āshit, dude, that sucks. but your family can probably help, right ?ā
Klaus had been sitting in the bar contemplating many things. His memories and mind had been fuzzier than usually lately and he couldnāt figure out why. The hybrid figured that it would be best to just get himself a drink and not think about it too hard. When someone sat down next to him, he ordered another drink.Ā āRough day?ā He asks them before looking over at them.Ā
rough day; that was a gross understatement when you considered all of the WEIRDNESS october had brought to truman island. ben glanced over his shoulder,Ā eyeing the suspiciousĀ man who had sat down next to him. āitās just been a while since iāve seen people dressing up as my FAMILY for halloween,ā he confessed, brows furrowing as he turned his head back to look down at his rum & coke. technically speaking, were they even his family now ? he wasnāt entirely sure how this shit worked anymore.Ā āwhat about you ?ā
ā Ā ( KIM MINJAE ) Ā ā Ā dude, shut up ! BEN HARGREEVES from THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY is on screen. their fans swear theyāre just COMPASSIONATE & INSIGHTFUL, but weāve all seen their VULNERABLE & APPREHENSIVE side ! according to TRUMAN WIKIA, theyāre 22 years old, BISEXUAL, & identify as CISMALE ( HE/HIM ). theyāre currently a LIBRARIANāS ASSISTANT & are OPTIMISTIC about life in truman. luckily they have HIS BLACK LEATHER JACKET, HIS FAVORITE BOOK, AND HIS EYE MASK with them & can visit THE ACADEMY whenever they want. penned by ROSE.
- ben remembers every little thing about the academy and his siblings, especially their powers
- not much is known about number six, other than his affinity for reading books & the whole āmonsters from another dimension coming out from a stomach portalā thing
- even his death is a mystery & itās something he refuses to talk about if asked
- while his memories with his siblings are crisp, he also remembers a life where he was adopted, at 15 years old, into a family that couldnāt have children. before that, heās told, he grew up in an orphanage & it seems that he does NOT have superpowers.Ā
- ben doesnāt mind that last part too much ( at all, really ) and, so, he pretends to believe his perfect life as the truth.Ā yet, something in the pit of his stomach tells him itās wrong to live such a lie; he should be dead, after all.
- for now he busies himself with his job at the library, sorting returned books and enjoying the silence. after dealing with klausā endless talkingĀ for so long, while he was a ghost, he honestly needs it
- he goes to the academy whenever he needs a reminder of his real past, hoping one day heāll find his mom, pogo, or his bickering siblings there.
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- iām a sucker for family plots, so bring the rest of the hargreeves !
- someone he has bonded with over being back from the dead
- i prefer plotting & hatching an idea together, or just good olā chem, the most though ! so donāt be afraid to hit me up if you want to create an idea or two !
āyou know what the worst part about being dead is? youāre stuck. nowhere to go, nowhere to change. thatās the real torture, if you gotta know.āĀ
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