Would You Be Interested In (girlboss) Harold Jenkins Appearing In Season 3?

What do you think it was like for Vanya when she was in that weird trance in 1x10?

Because I’m partial to autistic!Vanya I see her trance as kind of a sci-fi version of a meltdown: She goes completely nonverbal, displays out-of-character levels of aggression, wants to stick to her routine by attending her concert, and only shows signs of self-awareness when Alison is nice to her instead of trying to attack her like her brothers. I think internally it may have been a similar experience to the one they showed us in season 2 when she’s being electrocuted. The cataclysmic power just adds some  *✧･ﾟ:*spice.･ﾟ: *✧

Favorite Season 2 Vanya Moments

- lowkey mocking Carl at the dinner table

- playing hide and seek with Harlan

- "Is there any way tacos will cause the end of the world?"

- drunk finger guns

- her little hops into the group hug (big uwu)

- basically the whole salon scene with Klaus and Allison

- Vanya vs. Five standoff

- "oops" :3

- every moment of being gay with Sissy

- "Who I am is not a disease."

- learning to control her powers!!! strong independent woman!!!

- taking out a buttload of Commission agents at once

- The Scene With Ben (*sobs aggressively*)

- saving Harlan twice because she's just that badass

Feel free to add any of your favorites that I missed!

Vanya Hargreeves goes to therapy.

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Look, I made a sad! (Sorry! This already ruined some people’s day on Instagram yesterday!)

A little different on the format too - I’ve been pratting about with storyboarding lately, and with so many panels I wanted to try something new for a change for maximum impact and sadness!

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okay but like… autistic vanya?  god tier.

like, think about it!!

-hates the texture of oatmeal with a fucking passion

-doesn’t like it when people (reginald) yell at her

-auditory processing issues (she doesn’t do what daddy tells her to do because she can’t understand him)

-Strange Child

-hard time connecting with people, even normal people/strangers/people she’s known for a long time

-quiet as fuck

-epic meltdowns because of small/strange stimuli

-special interest in superpowers (reginald did his very best to suppress this) and music (violin specifically)

thinking about how the commission giving the swedes tube after tube of a new kind of hargreeve nightmare without them even completing one (1) kill will always be endlessly hilarious to me.....

anyway have a meme about it.

Fair warning, this is gonna be a ramble!

So I was just thinking about Vanya, and how sort of sweet and polite she was in the first season, and that got me thinking.

I fully believe Vanya is autistic, and from my own experiences, I was thinking about growing up. When I was a child I didn’t really know how to interact with the world. I grew up watching a lot of TV shows and movies (mostly ones that my sister would put on) but before I mirrored TV shows characters, I mirrored her. But Vanya didn’t watch TV growing up, so she didn’t have Disney Princesses or Thomas the Tank Engine or Arthur like I did. (For anyone who doesn’t know, mirroring is one of the ways that autistic kids may learn to interact with the world, through watching how NTs interact and then mimicking it to fit in or at the very least to be able to communicate with someone.)

The only people Vanya had to mirror were her family, and given their general attitude towards her it seems unlikely that she did. When I was a child I recognised which behaviours I never wanted to mimic: my parents screaming at each other or us, my sister telling me if I didn’t do what she wanted she’d never love me again/she’d hate me for the rest of our lives. I knew those things made me feel bad, so I knew they weren’t things I wanted to do to others.

In the same way, I think Vanya knew she didn’t want to mimic the negative behaviours of her siblings. So I think the person she mirrored most was Grace (and maybe Pogo a little). Grace was their mum, she was loving and nurturing and exactly the kind of person I would have wanted to mirror as a child. Except Vanya has added insecurities. It made me realise that growing up, Vanya was often softly-spoken and polite, because that’s how Grace was. But we never see Grace get angry... So Vanya never learned a healthy way of dealing with her anger, especially given that she was drugged up a lot of her childhood.

If anyone can word this more coherently than I did, or come up with a better analysis, please do, because I’m not sure my argument made much sense (or even had a point to it...?)

TL;DR - Autistic!Vanya mirrors Grace, and that’s why her personality is somewhat reminiscent of Grace’s.

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“I like to think that Vanya is autistic and that’s why she has troubles using her powers cause she hypersensitive to sound”

I like the way they were all stood at Ben’s funeral

Luther is standing closer to Allison but also Pogo and R*ginald, which we already know that he was closest to those three.

Allison is standing next to Luther and Klaus. Klaus and Allison definitely had little sleepovers in each other’s rooms as kids.

Diego is standing away from everyone else and is standing by Grace, which shows he was probably only nice to Grace. We know he is a Mama’s boy but it is Grace, who wouldn't be?

Klaus is far from the adults so he probably only spent time with his siblings. I feel like his relationship with Ben was just him annoying Ben, while he was trying to read.

Vanya is not standing next to anyone but the coffin and an empty space. This is to show she is fully alone now that Ben and Five are gone.