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you leave a first impression → sparrow academy [ben]
Warnings: Profanity
Imagine yourself having the powers of an Empath combined with the tracking abilities of Demetri Volturi [Twilight].
Ben || Number Two –– THE SCHEMER
⮕ Ben isn’t used to people staring at him the way your group does.
⮕ Is he used to star-struck admiration? Yes. Poorly concealed lust. Oh most definitely.
⮕ Fighting crime in the limelight for years had propelled the Sparrow Academy into celebrityhood overtime, to the point where it felt like they were more commodity than people most days.
⮕ With bus loads of fans gathering at their fence each day, and hoards of women and men throwing themselves at him for almost anything, all Ben had ever known was fan-crazed obsession and shallow affection.
⮕ So when he sees the mosaic of expressions that aren’t admiration or greed on your group, he’s already on alert:
⮕ The Big Guy and Stubble are wide-eyed at the back, almost slack jawed as the woman with the long coat stumbles back into them.
⮕ She’s quick to school her expression as she shuffles away, but Ben notes the way her hand trembles as her eyes rove over him in disbelief.
⮕ Their reactions has The Monster™ unfurling itself inside his stomach, but Ben ignores the sharp pain that follows in its wake as he turns to the smallest of your group.
⮕ Their faces are twisted with an expression he can’t quite decipher. It looks like grief, longing, and hope all mixed into one but the look is too fast and too fleeting for him to make sense of anything.
⮕ Short Pants, in particular, brings in his pointed finger into a clenched hand at his side.
⮕ Sundance, comparatively, looks the most at ease as he holds a hand against his chest with a dramatic flourish. It’s as though he’s already comfortable with what’s going on, comfortable with being in a room with them him, that Ben’s brow furrows.
⮕ In spite of his nonchalance and near-friendliness, he can’t help but think that Sundance’s smile could be bigger–all toothy or some sort of mischievous shit–and that the smile he’s wearing now is half-hearted at best.
⮕ Of course, it isn’t until he catches you hidden behind Sundance, eyes pinned to the floor that something that feels like desperation reverberates through him as he waits for you to meet his gaze.
⮕ The Monster™ pounds at his stomach lining, begging to be let out.
⮕By that point, Marcus and the rest of his siblings descend from the second floor, strategically mirroring your own formation as he addresses The Big Guy so Ben forces his attention elsewhere.
⮕ This shit can wait ‘til after, he decides with a huff.
⮕ With seven on each side, the confrontation becomes an even standoff. And while it seems the whole situation might come to a peaceful resolution at first, Stubble and Jayme fall into an argument that inevitably kicks things into gear.
⮕ Ben, naturally, unleashes The Monster™.
⮕ Only, instead of attacking Sundance or Shortstack–being the two closest to him–you side-step into view, now meeting his gaze for the very first time.
⮕ To his shock? horror? disbelief? The Monster™ stills just before it can tear into your side, stopping only for a few seconds before gently (what?) caressing (the fuck?) your dirt-stained cheek.
⮕ From behind The Monster™, you stare at its tendrils and at him with a look unlike the others. It makes him feel bare and exposed, vulnerable in all the wrong ways, like he’s a live wire waiting to be put out. The way you look at him… Ben would only describe it as reverence.
⮕ Complete and utter reverence.
⮕ Eyes wet and mouth trembling, the sharp intake of breath you take as you look at him, really look at him, makes him think back to earlier and how he’d felt a flash of–
⮕ “–I don’t want to hurt you,” he says, the words slipping out before he can bite his tongue.
⮕ At his words, your expression ripples into something more bitter, something more than words Ben can even come up with and louder than your group as you press your lips into a thin, resigned, line:
⮕ “Too late,” it comes out soft, barely a whisper. But Ben winces as though you’d screeched into his ear.
⮕ Before he can do anything more, say anything more, you dart around his tendrils and brush a finger against his face.
⮕ All of a sudden, his limbs grow heavy with fatigue, The Monster™ retreats back into his skin with a harsh slam and the world tilts on its axis.
⮕ White-hot betrayal washes over him as he hits the floor, and as he begins to lose conscious, just on the precept of going under, Ben realises one thing about the sensation as it settles and aches, an open wound:
⮕ The feeling does not belong to him.
Am I crazy or are all the cars in Umbrella Academy S3 backwards, as in, made as if they were British cars? Maybe it's just my screen
How did the Sparrow kids get their names? If I remember correctly, Reginald always called the Umbrellas by their numbers. They gave each other their names, or something like that.
Irrationally angry at how the Hotel Oblivion patrons' camerawork being for nothing.
How did Reginald figure out Klaus would come back from the dead? Did he just actually kill him? Did Klaus die on accident?
so excited to see them in s3 but i wonder what timezone does netflix follow tho.. it premiers june 22 but will it air at 12am where i live? around half a day before it premiers in the us? 🤔
I love that all the sparrows in the background are flying the same way except Fei’s that are mimicking her power
currently thinking about how klaus will *have* to get sober now that he doesn’t have his powers to magically bring him back to life when he overdoses or puts himself at risk while being drunk or high…
i imagine that after all the trauma he went through the urge to fall back into old habits must be massive, specially given he is -from my viewpoint- the most sensitive out of all the hargreeves siblings.
seeing ben alive once again, being forced to face his childhood trauma, getting betrayed by reginald and left to die alone in the apocalypse, luther being murdered… it’s a whole lot and he has to work through all those emotions alone, because the siblings have each parted their own ways once again.
now he doesn’t even have ghost!ben to be his voice of conscience in the face of chaos…
idk, i really hope they address klaus’ addictions next season and how everything that happened has impacted on him.
but most of all i really hope he gets a happy ending pls or i will cry thx
Not me "spoilering" myself for "The Umbrella Academy- season 3" because I needed to know if Klaus Hargreeves is dying or not. I cannot watch another one of my all time favorite comfort characters dying in front of my eyes! I am mentally not stable enough rn!!!