2020-09-09 14:31:05 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

sargent-major-jane:

> edettethegreat:

> > sargent-major-jane:

> > > edettethegreat:

> > > > WAIT. So I finished watching The Umbrella Academy a few weeks ago, but I just had a thought. Could Allison go up to one of her siblings and say “I heard a rumor that I got your power” and just.. take their power? And keep it? And use it? Because if so she’s wayyyy more powerful than I originally thought.

> > > wait

> > Ok ok wait let me explain why I think I may be right about this-

> > In the episode where it has the flashback from when she made Vanya believe she didn’t have powers, she phrased it like “I heard a rumor that you thought you were ordinary”

> > Which implies that if she would have said “I heard a rumor that you were ordinary” or “I heard a rumor that you didn’t have powers”, Vanya’s powers would have been gone. For good. And wouldn’t be able to return.

> > Which means that Allison’s ability is powerful enough to cancel out/ take away other abilities.

> > And if she can take them away, why not also be able to give them to yourself?

> ok discussion time

> fyi, i fully support this idea, but honestly the fact that allison just made vanya forget her powers didn’t make me think she could’ve taken them away - it actually made me think the opposite

> (im putting a cut bc this got long im so sorry)

> Keep reading

You’re 100% right, I’m mainly basing the theory off of what I already said and off of the wiki page that says something like “her ability is to manipulate reality through saying “I heard a rumor””, so since it says “manipulate reality” and not “control people”, she might be able to do more than just get people to do what she wants.

( and also the phrasing- that’s still what I’m caught up on. If he really wanted Vanya’s powers to be permanently gone, why would he have Allison say “that you thought you were ordinary”? He could have just had her say “that you have no powers”, and if that would have only caused her to believe she had no powers, then so be it, but if it actually worked, then even better.)