Nefryt's garden.

They look like the most precious babies ever, sweet little angels that have never done anything wrong in their lives, not a single thought inside their pretty heads.

Everyone would love them, weren't for the fact that they are, you know (or, rather, you don't know, you don't know, you really don't know), completely rabid. Vicious. Messed up in the head. They'd happily tear apart anything that moves...

H i m .

SPOILER 2° SEASON OF THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY  TW: mention of abuse / non-con / drug use / consent issues

We can agree that even if the second season is great overall, some part of it are-- sliiighty problematic. Ben possessing Klaus to try and do sexual stuff with his crush (who's into Klaus and doesn't even know Ben exists!), right after he asked him not to, might be one of the worst ones, mostly because they decided to use it as a joke when it was a serious issue. Even more so, because Ben didn't seem to be fully aware of what was happening or really eager to do the kind of stuff Jill probabily expected from him (I mean, she had a three/foursome with Klaus, and Ben had just wanted to smell her hair for a start).

I can easily understand why a big part of the fandom is not happy about it, to the point that some people think it's OOC of Ben; and yeah, it could simply be because of bad writing (which is opinable), but that scene and that other when Klaus says they don't know anything about love made me think about their relationship with consent in general

We now know Ben died as a 17-ish years old virgin, became a ghost and then proceeded to spend the next 17 years with Klaus. There are many hints that Klaus sold his body / had sex in order to survive / could have been abused in jail, on top of him being a drug addict which by itself makes it impossible to give full consent to anything. So, I can imagine that neither of them have a solid knowledge of how consent really work (nor I think their dear papa would have taken his time to teach them)… but they aren't the only ones.

Luther lose his verginity to a girl he didn't know, after a rave. He was drunk and drugged. She could have been too, since she didn't even realize he wasn't a furry. We know that Allison used her power to make someone fall in love with her (Patrick?). Vanya was so disperate to find someone who would make her feel special that she fell for the lies of a serial killer.

There aren't many hints about Five so I can't talk for him, but then there's Diego; Diego, who never listened to Eudora, no, who seemed to find pleasure in doing exactly the opposite (and also kept talking about their past relationship even when she seemed upset about it).

So yeah, what Ben did was orrible (even more so because we can suppose he was  there with Klaus or at least that he should have known his issues), but I'm not enterely surprised. Still, I think they should have addressed the problem in a more serious way, but that's the problem with their entire relationship this season (and I'm touching this topic 'cause I don't think I'd be able to stop. Oh boy, am I bitter) am I right...?