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Pre-Apocalypse(1588)

Red = using the official/canon timeline

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• 1938

  • Commission Five leaves partial fingerprints at a scene – later picked up by Patch’s team investigating the shootout at griddy’s etc

• 1955 – commission headquarters

  • Commission Five is taken into the field by the Handler to kill Lila Pitts’ parents sometime oct-dec 1993

• 1963

  • November 22nd – 12.20-12.30pm Five breaks his contract and jumps from JFKs assassination to March 24th 2019

• 1989

  • October 1st – miracle births

• 1990

• 1991

• 1992

• 1993

• 1994

• 1995

  • Five (5) travels forward to Klaus’ 14 birthday

• 1996

  • Five (8.5) travels back to Klaus (6) in the garden, Klaus’ first experience with Five’s displacements

• 1997

  • Summer – Five (7) displaces from infront of Reginald during training, leading to Reginald finding out about his ‘Nuisance Side Efffect’

  • 1st October - 

• 1998

  • February – Five (9) displaces back to Klaus (8) and teaches him and Vanya(8) to make fluffernutter sandwiches, establishing the Monday Midnight Munchies club

  • Diego (8) tells Klaus (8) that licking a battery etc

• 2002

  • March/April – umbrella academy debut (12) bank mission

  • September – Five (13) working on homework jumps back to April and runs the bank mission for himself

  • November – Five (13) runs away and gets stuck in the apocalypse 2019

• 2003

  • 1st October – birthday – Children get their names

    • Five (5) has his first displacement and sees Klaus

    • Five (14) travels back to see Klaus, midnight snacks

• 2004

  • Christmas Eve – Five (15) displaces back to Reggie’s xmas party. Drinks wine and eats cake on the roof with Klaus (15)

• 2005

  • Reginald lets slip that Klaus and Five are twins??

  • December 

    • Klaus(16) looks after an old sick Five, paints the eye on his bedroom wall

    • Klaus gets sick, and then Ben catches the flu from Klaus and is ill in bed for nearly a week

• 2006

  • January  

    • 1st – Ben dies on a mission

    •  Bens Funeral (16) – Five (11) drops in and Klaus & ghostBen take him to Griddys for his first time

  • Does an older Five (post Ben reveal) drop in and steal reggies suit, and attend Bens funeral from the roof and then meet Klaus after he returns from looking after little Five, leaving reggies suit for the clothes bag?

  • Five (30) a week after finding out, drops in during a night storm and falls asleep at the base of Ben’s statue, grieving

• 2007

  • September – Vanya leaves for the conservatoire (17 nearly 18)

  • December – Klaus at a party (18) Five drops in (16)

• 2008

  • December – Allison leaves for Hollywood (19)

• 2009

  • Late January/Early Feb - Diego leaves for police academy (19)

  • February – Five (19) smokes with Klaus (19) and talks to Reginald about the Apocalypse, and Grace about his siblings

  • Summertime – Klaus (19) goes to get his hand tattoos done, takes Five (mid-twenties) with him for moral support

• 2010

  • Klaus (20) leaves the academy / is kicked out? 

  • Late February - Vanya (20) starts to get occasional gig work with St. Pluvium’s Chamber Orchestra

  • Early March

    • Five (22) bumps into Vanya (20) who is doubting herself after a bad rehearsal. Introduces himself as ‘Ed’ bc of Narnia book

    • First offered a position at the commission by an unknown agent

      • Turns it down!

• 2011

  • Klaus (21) living with his barber boyfriend – trims Five (40) hair and beard – breaks up with bf who walks in on them and thinks the wrong thing. Klaus gets thrown out

• 2012

  • Vanya (22) gets permanent seat in the orchestra after about two years of gig work, 2nd violin 6th chair/3rd desk

  • June 1st - Allison (22 / 23) marries Patrick (25/26)

    • Big wedding hoo-hah – Ben’s death revealed to Five, big argument, scandal

    • Five needs to go by Alias ‘Ed’ in case he bumps into Vanya, which he does

    • It’s Reggie who sets Five onto the Ben reveal, by asking him in the bathroom when he last saw his brother

• 2013

  • Vanya (23) starts to write her book

    • Is it prompted by the wedding scandal? Her therapist?

    • Confidence boost by being promoted to 2nd desk 2nd violin

• 2014

  • Vanya’s (24) book is published

    • Diego (24) goes to / works / lives at Al’s gym by this point, as he is seen punching the cover of her book taped to the punch bag

    • Klaus (& Ben) read it in group therapy/rehab

    • Luther (24) hasn’t had his accident yet

  • Helen Cho becomes first chair of St. Pluvium’s Chamber Orchestra 

    • Vanya (24) promoted to 3rd chair 1st violin, where she remains

• 2015

  • March – Luther (25) goes to the moon

  • May – Claire is born

  • New year’s eve – Klaus homeless (26) smoking in snowy alleyway, Five (13) drops in, they break into the academy/Klaus’ room to get warm

• 2016

  • February – Five (30ish) steals the black fur trimmed coat from a store for Klaus (26), makes up for punching him at the wedding. Young (15) Five is also there.

  • November – Klaus is in jail (27) Five drops in unconscious (17)

• 2017

• 2018

  • May – Patrick catches Allison (28) rumouring Claire (3), gains emergency full custody

  • Summer/Fall – Allison officially loses custody of Claire (3.5) & becomes divorced from Patrick

• 2019

  • Feb 19th – Klaus (29) starts 30 days rehab

  • March (generally)

    • Reginald dies

    • Vanya auditions for something (unknown) – assumed she did not get the part?

    • Luther comes back from the moon

    • 24th March - Funeral

    • Apocalypse week

    • Helen Cho says Vanya has been stuck in 3rd chair for ‘years’

  • Apocalypse week (specifically)

    • March 21st/22nd  

      • Reginald kills himself

      • Klaus (29) leaves rehab and overdoses

      • Ben (ghost) presumably following Klaus around

      • Vanya (29) auditioning for something unknown playing phantom of the opera – assumed she did not get part

      • Diego (29) vigilante-ing

      • Luther (29) on moon

      • Allison (29) red-carpet event

    • 24th

      • Siblings arrive for funeral

      • Five(53/13) arrives from JFK

      • Memorial/funeral

      • Commission try to kill Five (58/13) at Griddy’s

    • 25th

      • Vanya (29) meets Harold (29)

      • The Commission send Hazel and Cha-cha to kill Five

      • Gimbels store shootout when Five(51/13) goes to get Dolores

        • Five from a few days later (library) displaces back to help

    • 26th

      • Morning: Five stakes out Meritech in the van with Dolores

      • Evening: Hazel & Cha-cha shoot up house and take Klaus (29)

        • Diego (29) ‘kills’ Grace after he realises she’s malfunctioning

    • 27th

      • Patch is shot and killed rescuing Klaus

      • Klaus (29) travels back to 1986 Vietnam

    • 28th

      • Klaus (30) returns from Vietnam

      • Vanya (29) stops taking her medication b/c of Harold

      • Pogo reactivates Grace

      • Five (58/13) requests a meeting with the Handler and she takes him to HQ in 1955

    • 29th – the day that was/wasn’t

      • Hazel and Cha Cha get orders to kill each other

      • Day that wasn’t

        • Klaus (30) gets Diego (29) to tie him up so he gets sober and summons Dave

        • Vanya (29) discovers Harold has Reggie’s journal

      • Day that was

        • Klaus (30) hits head in club meets god etc. Luther (29) takes the girl home

        • Five (from March 30th) displaces back and witnesses Klaus’ death

        • Vanya (29) unleashes power and kills two thugs in Harold’s arranged attack. Harold loses an eye

    • 30th

      • Klaus (30) wakes up Luther (29) and Five (58/13) to tell them their dad committed suicide

      • Allison (29) catches up with Vanya (29) at the cabin. They argue and Vanya slashes her throat

    • 31st

      • Vanya (29) kills Harold Jenkins

      • Late evening??? Vanya (29) returns home and Luther (29) chokes her and puts her in the isolation chamber?

      • ??Siblings try to get her out and Luther stops them all?

      • Ben (29) punches Klaus in the face & becomes solid for the first time

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    • April 1st

      • Vanya (29) escapes the isolation chamber, kills Pogo and brings down the house with Grace inside it

      • Vanya goes to her concert

      • Concert shenanigans

      • Moon goes boom

Post-Apocalypse

Red = using the official/canon timeline

• 2019

  • April 1st evening – Vanya causes the apocalypse

  • April 1st night/early morning 2nd – Five (old-but-looks-13) displaces and finds his own dead body

  • April 2nd – Five (13) arrives in the apocalypse and finds his dead siblings, greeted by his older self (30something)

  • April 2nd/3rd – Five (24 and 39) help young Five bury siblings in The Glade

• 2020

• 2021

• 2022

• 2023

• 2024

• 2025

• 2026

• 2027

  • Summer – Five(21) sits and drinks wine with Dolores, hints at practicing time travel again, has just seen grass for the first time and older self (22/23) tells him to go find a river and warns of dental issues (wisdom tooth)

  • Five (21) displaces back to Klaus, who introduces him to coffee shops and they discover Five is lactose intolerant

• 2028

  • Five(22) travels back to March 2010 and sees Vanya / gets offered a position at the commission

    • Turns down the offer by Bobbin

    • Commission up their sabotage of his calculations by stealing important notebooks/pages

• 2029

  • Five (22/23) wisdom tooth comes through

• 2030

  • Five (24) displaces back to the day he landed in the apocalypse and helps himself bury his siblings

• 2031

  • Five (25) jumps forward and helps his later 40s/early 50s self who is sick

• 2032

• 2033

• 2034

  • Spring-ish time - Five (27, maybe 28) has conversation about marriage with Dolores, and discovers bees are still alive in the apocalypse

• 2035

• 2036

  • Late summer - Five (29) finds a church with a clock and clock candles. Finally has a way to measure how much time has passed if he practices doing controlled jumps forward in time.

  • Winter – Five(30) successfully jumps forward a target amount of time. Bobbin from the Commission reappears to offer him a job with MAPS(commission) again. Five accepts (and he takes Dolores with him).

• Undefined time a couple of years prior to the Handler picking him up

  • Older Five (late 40s/early 50s) is sick and displaces back to 16yo Klaus

  • Five (25) displaces forwards and helps his sick older self

Undefined time pocket – The Commission

• Five (30) bought in and given a room to stay in for his training/probation

  • Bobbin takes him to buy clothes and get a barbers appointment

• Five spends two months in training

  • Fellow trainees are Jerome (goes to work for the late 20th century MaPS teams) and Barbara (special track for Significant Events Management branch)

  • Works on his own calculations in the evenings

• At 3 months Five is put into the early 20th Century team

  • Works on Alexander-Penicillin case

  • Titanic

  • Unspecified soldier in unspecified war (it’s Dave) – his first Significant Event case 

  • Displaces back to Allison’s wedding, and finds out that Ben died as a teenager

  • Displaces to Ben’s statue in the rain and gets sick

  • Wakes up to a note from his future self who has cared for him and got him Ben’s file

  • Cashes in a favour with Jerome to get information about where Ben’s file is stored