#harold jenkins

the umbrella academy meme: [2/2] Deaths

Leonard Peabody/Harold Jenkins: Tragic childhood. Abusive asshole. Killed by Vanya Hargreeves.

Typically, i don’t make posts like these on this account, but the topic felt appropriate.

The creators of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” have absolutely no excuse for their graphic portrayal of the events that took place on the show. In this post I’m going to plainly break down some gruesome scenes from this show and another, so if you’re triggered by r*pe, sui*ide, ab*se, child ab*se, self h*rm, h*mophobia and intense bullying, please don’t go further. If you still want to see the point of the post, scroll down and find the divider I’m putting below this section of text (im on mobile and can’t put a cut)

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That said, 13 Reasons Why is a show about the sui*ide of a high school student, and the boy who fell in love with her. Romantic, right? I have a lot of personal feelings about this production, but I’ll remain as unbiased and neutral as possible. I’m not here to bash anyone’s hard work or comfort content, I only want to make a point.

During the production of the first season of this show, producers were told by sui*ide and mental health professionals to not show the sui*ide on screen. That’s entirely fair, as a show about sui*ide would attract victims of sui*ide and seeing it could cause panic attacks, relapse, etc etc etc. They did it anyway, having the main character found in her bathtub with her wrists [redacted].

And then they went further in season 2. I don’t know the exact nature of the situation, as i only watched this one scene, but… A male student was in the bathroom at school, and some jocks came in. The lone kid was apologizing to them, saying he didn’t mean to do what he did and that he was getting help. The jocks weren’t listening, and they accused him of ruining whatever sports season they were hung up on. The ringleader slammed the lone boy’s head against a mirror and then the sink below it, if i remember correctly. Then, they dragged him to a toilet and drowned him in it. Worst of all, they pulled his pants down and penetrated him with the handle of a mop, all while calling him h*mophobic slurs. And all of this was shown on screen.

A show that deeply explores mental illnesses and societal flaws shouldn’t go so far, as victims and the mentally ill view these things and are affected by them. I had just taken my anxiety medication before watching the final scene i described and i was still shaking by the end of it, i felt like i was gonna puke. It was horrific.

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Most people argue that the producers did it so we’d feel the full gravity of the situation. The point of this post is to counter that.

I recently have been watching another Netflix show that is rising in popularity, The Umbrella Academy.

I’ll try to keep this unbiased as well, but I haven’t seen such well presented in depth coverage of the mental illness of fictional characters in a long time. The characters are written beautifully, and their mental issues all make sense and their traumas are depicted in a way that heavily impacts the viewer without scaring them. The best example of this is with a character known as both Harold Jenkins and Leonard Peabody. There is a mild description of child ab*se below, so proceed with caution.

The guy’s mother died immediately following his birth. His dad turned to alcohol and you can assume what happened from there. He was physically and emotionally ab*sive to his son, Harold. But the ab*se was never explicitly shown. In two scenes, Harold was smacked in the face by his father. In the first, the frame froze as he drew his hand back. In the second, we merely hear the collision of the man’s hand coming into contact with his son’s face, and then we see the boy laying on the floor.

As a child abuse victim, it did startle me. I felt the full weight of what that boy went through. But i didn’t feel scared. I didn’t get anxious or panicked. I just felt sorry for the kid. And then felt less sorry later when he m*rdered his father with a hammer, which was also not explicitly depicted, but still hit me hard.

My point being, you can enjoy 13 Reasons Why. You can support it. But it does real harm to people that could have *very* easily been avoided, especially being a show that dives into such real, home hitting topics. And there isn’t any excuse for that whatsoever.

I’m gonna talk about my Umbrella Academy AU because I want to

Anyway Viktor gets hit by the car and gets put in the Hospital where he meets a man in the bed next to him, they talk and eventually get close

Viktor is slightly weirded out by the man but he gets used to him because they spend a lot of their time together, He misses the look that people give him when he talks to the man

Eventually when Viks let out and moves in with sissy he keeps thinking he sees the man nearby whether it’s at the side of his eye or in the back of a mirror. But he sets it off as just being an effect of getting hit by a car

As the 1963 apocalypse gets closer Viktor starts to see the man more and more, he dosent bring it up but he dosent stop seeing him

Now instead of it being occasionally he swears he can hear footsteps following him and Viktor sees him constantly in his peripheral vision.

He only confirms that it’s happening is when he’s interrogated by the FBI instead of being in the academy he’s in Leonard’s house with pictures of his siblings with their blacked out sneering down at him

That’s when he realised who the man is. It’s Leonard.

He hears the footsteps behind him and finally as he’s about to confronts him he sees Ben. The whole scene goes the same except for Viktor telling Ben about him. About him following Viktor, and Ben dosent believe him, thinking it’s some form of trauma or something

He believes it too

But it’s getting worse the more and more he’s seeing him the more grotesque he’s becoming, knifes sticking out of him blood matted into his hair, his eyes falling out but Viktor only realises just HOW bad it is when he feels Leonard grab his arm Viktor turns around and finally gets a good look at his body is half rotted and knifes and forks still stick out his chest, his eyepatch is gone showing his missing eye but his smile is still the same as it had always been as if he wasn’t dead

But this time he never leaves his vision, Leonard is always there now never leaving him alone, he can’t get one minute of piece, he can’t sleep or do anything cause his abuser is right there pulling him back into his web of lies, Viktor wants out but he can’t just go up and tell his siblings “yeah my dead ex is haunting me and being an abusive prick”

And now with the added fact that Leonard can occasionally touch him means that once in a while he’ll get shoved or hit or kicked and there’s nothing he can do about it, he wants to get help for something to know somethings wrong

But the thing is Viktors siblings KNOW that somethings wrong with him but they can’t do anything, they hate it, there here to help him but he won’t tell them what’s wrong with him, Klaus can’t see Leonard’s ghost btw he finds it weird but just guesses somehow he moved on. They’re constantly asking him to tell them that they won’t care they just want him to be ok but he needs to talk to them

He dosent and Leonard is just getting worse

Hi yes another friendly reminder to the umbrella academy fandom that because five found the eye in Luther’s hand means that Leonard went back to the academy and pissed them off so damn much that they ripped out his godamn eye, I feel like we all ignore this fact too much cause I wanna know how that went down

What Reg secretly thinks about Klaus

Klaus didn’t progress in his abilities to conjure whatnow?

Vanya wasn’t the only kid with secret, hidden superpowers.

He’s not even worthy of being whole number four! He’s just number 00.04. A fraction of a number four.