The children are crying

This blog is dedicated to me and my friend's OCs. This is set in two AUs of The Umbrella Academy. There's the coffee shop AU, and the Sparrow AU.The people who contribute to this blog and AUs are, @warmhugs4pugs, @otter-under-water, @the-aro-ace-arrow-ace, and @glitched-coffee, My main blog is @esspress0depress0

[superpowered-disasters]

The Sparrow Academy AU

So how do our superpowered children fall into the hands of vegetable harjeebs? Well imagine this as post season 2, except Ben is still with us as a ghost because fuck you I have a soul despite the amount of angst in this cannon. Our OCs are replacement Sparrows. This AU is a bit self indulgent, but it is very very angsty. There is a bit of hurt and comfort, but mostly just hurt lol Let’s give a summary of the characters :D

Number One - Casper: The ghost Casper’s power is to phase through anything. He can control how phased in or out he is making him either practically non existent, or like a thick fog. At 15 years old Vegetable forced him to phase out as much as he could. Even when he hit his limit Veggie forced him to go further, spread himself thinner. And when Casper stopped, too strained from the effort, he couldn’t phase back. He was completely out of energy and now roams around as a ghost. Still visible, but silent to those of the living, having to communicate with ASL [American Sign Language]. Though Casper does have some company. He’s on the same pseudo-plane of existence as ghosts. He can see, hear, and touch them. Ghosts can also hear him when he speaks.

Number Two - Zelda: The Static Sadly Zelda is one of the least developed characters. Her ability is technopathy. She can psychically control and manipulate electronics and their signals. Due to self esteem issues power related stuff she constantly wears a large TV-like helmet. It has a screen as a face which frequently displays emoticons, but can be connected to television networks.

Number Three - Daniel: The mutant Daniel’s power was once the ability to breathe underwater. When he was 7 years old Reginald sent him down to explore a wreck at the bottom of a lake. He found the mangled corpse of an old man, and parasite. Parasite latched onto Daniel, taking him as its host, but in the process stripped Danny of his power. Ever since the incident Daniel has lived with parasite in his body. Parasite can extend from Daniel’s body to create limbs, pseudo-pods, protective shields, the possibilities are endless. But parasite requires animal meat to sustain itself. Human is the most nourishing for it.

Number Four - Autumn: The Nova Autumn’s power is to harness any and all friction to form electricity. It’s stored in her body like a battery and is always constantly building up. Reggie frequently uses her like a battery for his experiments and machines. She’s had a history of anxiety and self-harm from an early age. When the energy inside her builds up it can be extremely painful causing a restless buzzing feeling.

Number Five - Jack: The Voice Jack’s power is telepathy. He has the ability to read and enter the minds of those within a 500-600 meter radius. Sometimes he just ‘hears’ people’s thoughts as if they were spoken aloud. This leads to many an awkward sputtering of, “I never said anything about that.” It’s easier for him to communicate with someone if they make skin to skin contact, but he can still create a mental link between himself and a few others without issue. Jack’s training and punishments often involve being in crowded places, hospitals, schools, or places of large distress. Regilald forces him to both try and block out every single voice, and then try and hear all of them at once, and understand what is being ‘said’. For a time Veggie also used Jack as a living baby monitor. He’d make Jack snitch on his siblings with threats of being locked in the mental hospital for hours or days. For a while Jack complied, but when after Six disappeared Reginald stopped making him do it. Also Jack is trans. poor child is afab :’)

Number Six - Six: The boy Y’all know who it is. BUT a bunch of angst writers are making this AU so the poor boy goes through even more :D Six’s power is space-time manipulation. Six is this universe’s Five Hargreeves. Six’s training is pretty much the same as his doppelganger. When Six is 13 he runs away. In about the same manner as his counterpart, but the apocalypse he arrives in is very, very different. In this universe Jack causes the apocalypse. All his pent up frustrations, anxieties, and guilt come to a head when he finds out how much his siblings truly lied to him. He has a complete meltdown and in the process scrambles the brains of humanity. Some died due to the damage, but most were left as soulless husks. Barely human lying in a vegetative state on the ground. Six arrives in the disastrous nightmare to find his siblings, alive and yet already gone. The only one that is somewhat normal is Daniel, but it’s not actually Daniel anymore. Daniel’s brain was rendered thoughtless and parasite took over the vessel. They just lost their best friend and now have to live in his husk. A couple days after Six arrived, Casper wandered back to the academy. He saw Six, but couldn’t talk to him so he followed him around. Six assumed Casper to be a hallucination, but went along with it, chatting to his not-dead brother. Six does everything he can to take care of his dying siblings, but slowly each of them starve to death within the first year. Parasite survives with Six for a while longer, but even they can’t hold on forever. Parasite dies when Six is 22. A few days after parasite’s death a commission agent offers Six a deal. Work for the commission and escape this hell. Six takes the deal and works for the commission for 14 years. All throughout his time there he worked tirelessly on his math. And then he did it! He time traveled back to March 22 2019, but landed in the courtyard in his 13 year old body. His siblings all ran to give him a hug and suffice it to say, the boy cried. A lot.

Number Seven - Sage: The prophet Sage’s power is to see into the future. She’s able to see the outcomes of situations, but only if the outcome is bad. Her training had a lot to do with premeditated events that Sage had to describe. Regineld pushed her to look farther, to see more than just a few seconds. This did work, but not without consequence. Sage has seen many gruesome events that never transpired. Many deaths narrowly avoided.  Sorry for how sloppily written this is, it’s 1am lol

[rongrii]

how it shouldve gone

[girlballs]

chronic pain is the opposite of peak cock. this is so not penis

[the-haiku-bot]

chronic pain is the

opposite of peak cock. this

is so not penis

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[superpowered-disasters]

The one to be forgotten

Alone. Cold, and squishy. The floors are white, but yellowed with years. The padded walls are too close together but so far away. He can’t move. Jack can’t move. The floor is mockingly soft, too cold and foreboding too sleep on. He lay on his back, staring hazily at the padded walls. LOUD It’s all so loud and yet so eerily silent. The screaming and crying and incoherent ramblings. The anxiety, the insanity, we want so desperately to just die. In the quiet. The silence so still he can feel his pulse in his ears. The air is stale and sickly, smelling of vinyl and chemicals. The bulb above is steady and unchanging. A harsh white glow beating down on him all hours of the day. So here Jack lies. On the floor so hard yet soft; strapped up in a straitjacket. They already used whatever willpower they had to try and knock down the door. That damn door. The door of false promises. The door that beckons him to leave, to just get up and it will all be fine. You can go home! It says mockingly. But all Jack can do is stare.

Jack has almost made it out before. He learned a trick which made him feel so smart. He thought he was a step ahead; he could finally show dad! He dislocated his own shoulder to escape the straitjacket. It worked! It worked, he was free! Jack could go home, he could sleep and he would be okay. He wouldn’t have to hear the noise, noise NOISE. All the screaming and agony, the mental anguish surrounding him. The chaos thrumming in his mind, washing over him again and again like waves of the rising tide. He was so close, Jack was almost out, he held his throbbing arm and pounded the door, kicking and punching it. He yelled to be let out, “I did what you wanted! I escaped! Please let’s go home!” But father walked down the hall and looked through the small window, “You have not escaped Number 5. If you are going to be so childish as to throw a tantrum in a locked room then at least do it quietly.” And he left. Father walked back down the hall and shouted, “4 MORE HOURS.” Number Five kept yelling until his throat became hoarse. Kept pounding at the door, pleading to go home. Crying, sobbing just wanting to stop all the thoughts that weren’t his. All the wants and needs and knowings of people it feels like he is, but isn’t. People who don’t even know he exists and yet somehow are taking over his whole being. People in pain and are confused, people who can’t even remember themselves. But that was before. Here Jack lies, on the cold hard floor. Silently he waits to be released from this hell. This silent prison that no one cares about. The boy no one cares about. Was he ever Jack? Jack was someone who was loved. He was loved and cared about by his siblings. Jack was someone who was trusted. Jack was someone who the others liked. Here Number Five sits in his own mind. Five is adrift in the thoughts of those is this god forsaken hospital. Number Five is not loved, or missed. His siblings continue to play without him. His siblings are afraid of him. They don’t want him to Know them. They don’t want Number Five to Know what they’re thinking. To Know their secrets. So here is the boy left forgotten. Sitting in a cell. Unable to move. Unable to speak. Unloved, unwanted, and not to be missed.

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The disgusting door finally opens. Number Five doesn’t even flinch. He is awake, but not there. His eyes glassy with disinterest. The fog behind them betraying the muddy waters of his brain. His own thoughts tainted by hours upon hours of others’. The click clack of Father’s shoes as he takes purposeful strides towards the door rattle through Five’s head. “What are you doing? Get up! Go get one of the nurses to take that thing off.” Father was angry today. Number Five figured it was because of him. He didn’t try to escape today. Father was nicer when he tried to escape. He slowly clamored to his feet, shuffling slowly out the door. He tripped and fell flat on the cold tile floor. Five’s head made a loud ‘thunk’ as it hit. He’s not sure when he fell asleep, or when he got home.

Number Five awoke in the Academy infirmary. Mother hummed sweet nothings by his bedside. What was she singing? He couldn’t tell. Five can’t read Mother’s mind. It’s comforting. To have someone who he knows is very real to not have thrumming thoughts intruding on his own.

Wait, there are some. At first like a tickle. A whisper in the back of his mind. Five turned his head to see Sage in the doorway. Mother was saying something to her. Number Five smiled, and he tried to say, “Hello”. A gentle invitation into his own mind for his sister. But he felt her recoil, a look of pity on her face.

Oh. No one likes a snoop. No one will ever miss the one who Knows their secrets. The mere presence of them dangling the threat of Father knowing them too.

Once again the boy sits. He lays in the bed warm and comforting, and yet so cold. So lonely and tired. Mother holds his hand to comfort him, but it lacks the familiar thrum of emotion. Just a cold, lonely, silence.

There the boy lies. Surrounded by love and yet completely alone. Alone in a bed that is still not his own.

Isolated, silent, and forgotten.

[superpowered-disasters]

The children have tattoos! These are the arms of our characters in the Sparrow AU. In order from left to right we have, Number One - Casper Number Two - Zelda Number Three - Daniel Number Four - Autumn Number Five - Jack Number Six - Six and Number Seven - Sage