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klaus hargreeves 👻 pre-canon history & episodes 5-10
Klaus at Umbrella Academy Wiki. This link only has Klaus-specific synopses of the first four episodes, so I'll list out other important details from before canon and the remaining six episodes below:
Pre-Canon:
• As stated in the wiki, Klaus was born to a mother who had not previously been pregnant, at the same time as 42 other children born to different mothers around the world in the same way. He and 6 other children were adopted by Reginald Hargreeves.
• The children were not treated as family by their adoptive father, but rather as complicated science experiments. They were well-educated, mostly cared for by an android 'mother' and Pogo, a monkey with the ability to speak (origin not explained). Their brainwaves were monitored as they slept, and every moment of their lives spent in the house were recorded by surveillance cameras placed around the house. One of the things that happened to Klaus as an adolescent was that he was repeatedly locked in a dark crypt to 'cure' his fear of the dead - this only succeeded in making him scared of the dead and of enclosed dark spaces.
• The siblings were debuted at around 13 as a superhero team called the Umbrella Academy that stopped crimes with their super powers, often violently. Through this, they rose to fame and were featured on TV, in magazines, etc. Throughout his adolescence, Klaus struggled with substance abuse, which he used to keep his ability in check and dormant, a pattern that continued into his adulthood.
• At an unspecified point, Klaus left home and the Umbrella Academy. All his siblings except Luther left in similar ways, drifting away from home and each other.
Episodes 5-10
• When the briefcase he stole from Hazel and Cha-Cha turned out to be a time machine, he accidentally jumped back in time and found himself in Vietnam during the war. While there, he became a soldier and joined the fight with the unit whose barracks he woke up in. He was in Vietnam for 10 months, during which time he fell in love with a soldier named Dave and had a relationship with him, and got a tattoo of the unit's insignia and name. When Dave was killed on the front lines in battle, Klaus used the briefcase to travel back to the present, where he destroyed it due to his grief over losing Dave before going home to the house. His time in Vietnam has added flashbacks of helicopters, gunfire, and Dave's death to his pre-existing PTSD symptoms.
• After returning to the present, he gets a ride with his brother Diego and ends up at a bar for Veterans of Foreign Wars, where he goes inside and finds a photo that includes Dave, and while he's tearfully looking at it, a veteran gets in an argument with him about whether he belongs there. After a bar brawl that Diego helps him get out of, the two talk about losing people before seeing Hazel and Cha-Cha at the donut shop and following them to the hotel they are staying in. After a short gunfight, the two steal an ice cream truck and follow the assassins out to where they've arranged a meet up with Luther and Five for the (fake) briefcase. Another gunfight ensues.
• One episode of the series is a day that is eventually erased via time travel. During the Day that Wasn't, Klaus asked for Diego's help to get clean so he can see Dave again by using his ability, and spends the day tied to a chair detoxing. At the end of the episode, he sees Dave's ghost coming toward him as time rewinds. Klaus won't remember the Day that Wasn't.
• During the Day that Was, which is the day Klaus will remember, he discussed saving the world with his siblings before they parted ways. Instead of asking Diego to help him sober up, he tries to ask Luther, who he finds drunk and depressed. After Luther goes into a rage and almost chokes Klaus to unconsciousness, Klaus comforts Luther and tries to talk him out of going on a further bender, with no success. Klaus and Ben follow Luther around, trying to find him because he's not suited to the bender lifestyle, and end up finding him at a rave, where Klaus almost caves in and takes drugs before seeing a hallucination of Dave's death, triggered by the bright lights in the club. Luther is almost attacked by some gangsters before Klaus intervenes and ends up hitting his head hard enough to send him into the afterlife.
• While he's in the afterlife, he has a short conversation with God before finding his father in a barber shop. While giving Klaus a shave, his father reveals that he had killed himself in order to bring the siblings back together, and confides that Klaus has barely scratched the surface of his abilities. Klaus wakes back up on the floor of the rave and Luther is gone - he finds Luther with a woman in his room the next morning and teases him before trying to tell Luther and Five that he spoke to their father and about the suicide. Neither believes him until Pogo confirms it.
• Klaus has a short conversation with Five and decides he wants to participate in saving the world. Shortly afterward, Allison is brought home in critical condition after her throat is slit in a moment of fury by Vanya. Klaus tries to donate blood to save her life stating that he loves needles, but is turned down because his blood is too polluted. After this, he goes looking for drugs again because his siblings don't take him seriously and he can't manage to connect with Dave, but Ben confronts him and ends up punching the drugs out of his mouth. This gives Klaus another reason to stay sober, as he starts training to try to recreate Ben's physical manifestation.
• After being threatened into helping his brothers save the world, Klaus goes with his brothers to Vanya's fake boyfriend's house, who they believe is the reason the apocalypse happens, only to find him dead. Assuming that the apocalypse has been averted, they part ways, though after asking Five how to start training with his powers and being rebuffed for being an addict, Klaus confronts Five about how they both have an addiction, Klaus to drugs and Five to the apocalypse.
• Vanya comes back home, grief and guilt stricken over having (she thinks) killed Allison, and Luther meets her. Instead of forgiving her, he tricks her and knocks her unconscious before locking her in a soundproofed room where he thinks she can't use her powers. Klaus, along with Allison and Diego, beg Luther to let Vanya out so they can talk about it, but Luther refuses. Vanya finds a way to use her powers and destroys the house, and all the siblings escape though Mom and Pogo are killed - Diego barely escapes with his life after Klaus allows Ben to materialize and pull him from under falling rubble. They realize that Vanya is the cause of the apocalypse.
• The siblings regroup at a bowling alley where Klaus tries to tell them that he can see, speak to, and have physical contact with Ben, but they don't believe him. The group is attacked by assassins from the Collective, and flee the bowling alley to go to Vanya's concert, where Klaus is left outside to be the lookout, as the others don't believe his abilities to be useful. After seeing Cha-Cha approaching the theater, he goes inside to warn his siblings and is almost shot. The group is pinned down and Klaus manages to allow Ben to manifest visibly, so the others can see him, and Ben uses his eldritch horror tentacles to take out all the assassins.
• After Allison stops Vanya from using her abilities to cause the apocalypse by deafening her with the sound of a gun, Vanya accidentally breaks off chunk off the moon while startled. The piece of the moon hurtles toward Earth and the siblings realize that this will cause the apocalypse. Together, they take Vanya's unconscious body and all of them start to travel through time with Five. This is where Klaus' canon point is.
Pre-Canon:
• As stated in the wiki, Klaus was born to a mother who had not previously been pregnant, at the same time as 42 other children born to different mothers around the world in the same way. He and 6 other children were adopted by Reginald Hargreeves.
• The children were not treated as family by their adoptive father, but rather as complicated science experiments. They were well-educated, mostly cared for by an android 'mother' and Pogo, a monkey with the ability to speak (origin not explained). Their brainwaves were monitored as they slept, and every moment of their lives spent in the house were recorded by surveillance cameras placed around the house. One of the things that happened to Klaus as an adolescent was that he was repeatedly locked in a dark crypt to 'cure' his fear of the dead - this only succeeded in making him scared of the dead and of enclosed dark spaces.
• The siblings were debuted at around 13 as a superhero team called the Umbrella Academy that stopped crimes with their super powers, often violently. Through this, they rose to fame and were featured on TV, in magazines, etc. Throughout his adolescence, Klaus struggled with substance abuse, which he used to keep his ability in check and dormant, a pattern that continued into his adulthood.
• At an unspecified point, Klaus left home and the Umbrella Academy. All his siblings except Luther left in similar ways, drifting away from home and each other.
Episodes 5-10
• When the briefcase he stole from Hazel and Cha-Cha turned out to be a time machine, he accidentally jumped back in time and found himself in Vietnam during the war. While there, he became a soldier and joined the fight with the unit whose barracks he woke up in. He was in Vietnam for 10 months, during which time he fell in love with a soldier named Dave and had a relationship with him, and got a tattoo of the unit's insignia and name. When Dave was killed on the front lines in battle, Klaus used the briefcase to travel back to the present, where he destroyed it due to his grief over losing Dave before going home to the house. His time in Vietnam has added flashbacks of helicopters, gunfire, and Dave's death to his pre-existing PTSD symptoms.
• After returning to the present, he gets a ride with his brother Diego and ends up at a bar for Veterans of Foreign Wars, where he goes inside and finds a photo that includes Dave, and while he's tearfully looking at it, a veteran gets in an argument with him about whether he belongs there. After a bar brawl that Diego helps him get out of, the two talk about losing people before seeing Hazel and Cha-Cha at the donut shop and following them to the hotel they are staying in. After a short gunfight, the two steal an ice cream truck and follow the assassins out to where they've arranged a meet up with Luther and Five for the (fake) briefcase. Another gunfight ensues.
• One episode of the series is a day that is eventually erased via time travel. During the Day that Wasn't, Klaus asked for Diego's help to get clean so he can see Dave again by using his ability, and spends the day tied to a chair detoxing. At the end of the episode, he sees Dave's ghost coming toward him as time rewinds. Klaus won't remember the Day that Wasn't.
• During the Day that Was, which is the day Klaus will remember, he discussed saving the world with his siblings before they parted ways. Instead of asking Diego to help him sober up, he tries to ask Luther, who he finds drunk and depressed. After Luther goes into a rage and almost chokes Klaus to unconsciousness, Klaus comforts Luther and tries to talk him out of going on a further bender, with no success. Klaus and Ben follow Luther around, trying to find him because he's not suited to the bender lifestyle, and end up finding him at a rave, where Klaus almost caves in and takes drugs before seeing a hallucination of Dave's death, triggered by the bright lights in the club. Luther is almost attacked by some gangsters before Klaus intervenes and ends up hitting his head hard enough to send him into the afterlife.
• While he's in the afterlife, he has a short conversation with God before finding his father in a barber shop. While giving Klaus a shave, his father reveals that he had killed himself in order to bring the siblings back together, and confides that Klaus has barely scratched the surface of his abilities. Klaus wakes back up on the floor of the rave and Luther is gone - he finds Luther with a woman in his room the next morning and teases him before trying to tell Luther and Five that he spoke to their father and about the suicide. Neither believes him until Pogo confirms it.
• Klaus has a short conversation with Five and decides he wants to participate in saving the world. Shortly afterward, Allison is brought home in critical condition after her throat is slit in a moment of fury by Vanya. Klaus tries to donate blood to save her life stating that he loves needles, but is turned down because his blood is too polluted. After this, he goes looking for drugs again because his siblings don't take him seriously and he can't manage to connect with Dave, but Ben confronts him and ends up punching the drugs out of his mouth. This gives Klaus another reason to stay sober, as he starts training to try to recreate Ben's physical manifestation.
• After being threatened into helping his brothers save the world, Klaus goes with his brothers to Vanya's fake boyfriend's house, who they believe is the reason the apocalypse happens, only to find him dead. Assuming that the apocalypse has been averted, they part ways, though after asking Five how to start training with his powers and being rebuffed for being an addict, Klaus confronts Five about how they both have an addiction, Klaus to drugs and Five to the apocalypse.
• Vanya comes back home, grief and guilt stricken over having (she thinks) killed Allison, and Luther meets her. Instead of forgiving her, he tricks her and knocks her unconscious before locking her in a soundproofed room where he thinks she can't use her powers. Klaus, along with Allison and Diego, beg Luther to let Vanya out so they can talk about it, but Luther refuses. Vanya finds a way to use her powers and destroys the house, and all the siblings escape though Mom and Pogo are killed - Diego barely escapes with his life after Klaus allows Ben to materialize and pull him from under falling rubble. They realize that Vanya is the cause of the apocalypse.
• The siblings regroup at a bowling alley where Klaus tries to tell them that he can see, speak to, and have physical contact with Ben, but they don't believe him. The group is attacked by assassins from the Collective, and flee the bowling alley to go to Vanya's concert, where Klaus is left outside to be the lookout, as the others don't believe his abilities to be useful. After seeing Cha-Cha approaching the theater, he goes inside to warn his siblings and is almost shot. The group is pinned down and Klaus manages to allow Ben to manifest visibly, so the others can see him, and Ben uses his eldritch horror tentacles to take out all the assassins.
• After Allison stops Vanya from using her abilities to cause the apocalypse by deafening her with the sound of a gun, Vanya accidentally breaks off chunk off the moon while startled. The piece of the moon hurtles toward Earth and the siblings realize that this will cause the apocalypse. Together, they take Vanya's unconscious body and all of them start to travel through time with Five. This is where Klaus' canon point is.