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OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Emily
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IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Barry Allen
Character journal: supertardiness
Series name: The Flash (DCTV-style)
Canon notes: From Mid-309: The Present, after Jay starts to yank him back into the present.

Species: Metahuman.

History: A wiki for you.

Personality:

Barry Allen is always late. Always. Even when he has super speed he is perpetually late.

This may not seem like an all-encompassing personality trait, but it is. Barry is known for getting caught up in the moment, letting himself get carried away and allowing other things to slip to the wayside. When he is given a goal or a purpose, he can become almost single-minded in that pursuit, not allowing himself to partake in things that may distract him. With this focus comes an incredible patience, and a trust that with time, the information he needs will come to pass again. He spent fifteen years trying to find the means to free his father from prison and the person actually responsible for his mother’s death, and he never wavered for a second. Becoming the Flash didn’t hamper that desire, in fact it only made it stronger. He finally had answers for the pieces of his mother’s murder that he couldn’t explain, and ways to find answers that he can act on.

The downside to that patience, however, is that he can occasionally wait too long. This is particularly prevalent in his relationship with Iris. He has confessed that he has essentially been in love with her from the moment he met her, but he keeps holding himself waiting for the right moment, until the time he does, and it’s unfortunately too late and she’s in love with someone else. While his nine month coma to after he was struck by the particle accelerator brought this into a sharper relief for him, when he woke up and his entire world had changed. Barry’s patience also has a finite limit, and when he gets too frustrated that determination to do right by those he cares about can crack, but it takes a great deal of convincing to deter him entirely. Barry has determination and drive that keep him moving forward, both literally and figuratively, and he will always do his best to do right by the people he cares about.

At his core, Barry is also a good person. Oliver Queen sites him as being the hero that Oliver himself can’t be because Barry is being a hero for the right reasons. He exists to give the people of Central City hope and that’s a role he takes seriously. Barry lives in a city infected by metahumans, and being a metahuman himself and working with STAR Labs makes him exclusively equipped to handle things, better than the police are. While Barry has great respect for the police, and they are all people he cares about and works with on a day to day basis. Having been raised by a cop in Joe West, Barry has a deep appreciation for the law and he wants to do things the right way. He also knows the danger that metahumans pose to the community, and wants to do what he can to keep everyone safe. EVERYONE. Even the bad guys he’s been holding to prevent them from hurting Central City. When Eobard Thawne activated the particle accelerator again, threatening to kill the metahumans they had imprisoned there, Barry misguidedly tried to move them with the help of the Rogues to save their lives. In the end, the Rogues betrayed them and released the metahumans back into the world again, but Barry was still able to prevent them from being killed by Thawne.

In a lot of ways, however, Barry’s still trying to figure out who he is as a hero, and unfortunately he doesn’t have a very good role model to do it. Oliver Queen is the kind of vigilante who is willing to do whatever it takes, and the ends always justify the means. Barry tries to be that same kind of hero, thinking that that is the way he needs to do things, but it doesn’t work the way it’s supposed to because Barry needs to do what’s right before he needs to do what’s necessary. He’s slowly learned that even if he’s going to be a hero, he needs to be the kind of hero that makes moves he can live with at the end of the day.

He is also the kind of hero that thrives with a team. Barry doesn’t do well when he’s working alone. He’s actually thrilled when he gets to team up with other people, and without his support system at STAR Labs he wouldn’t be able to do half of what he’s able to do for Central City, and he knows it. Cisco, Caitlin, Joe, Eddie and Iris are people he will protect above all else because a) they’re his family and b) he knows that without them, the Flash would flounder. He’s well aware that his metahuman abilities make him the fist in the field, but without the feedback from Cisco and Caitlin, he wouldn’t be nearly as effective.

This isn’t to say that Barry is simply the dumb muscle. Barry is incredibly intelligent and also incredibly clever. A lot of his means of catching bad guys in the field involve clever tricks and exploiting weaknesses rather than brute force. Super speed, while allowing him to put a lot of force behind his punches, doesn’t necessarily mean super strong, and given that he’s going up against metahumans, it wouldn’t always be effective to begin with. Barry is good at using the materials around him, as well as other aspects of his speed to wear out and disable the metahumans in question to keep them from hurting anyone else. He also an incredibly intuitive scientist, able to pick up minute details on evidence from crime scenes to draw conclusions, even before verifying them in a lab – for example, he’s able to match tire treads by eye to identify the kind of escape vehicle that fled a scene.

At the same time, however, there is only so much one person can take emotionally, and with Barry that comes out in his more selfish (and almost villainous) tendencies. After the loss of his father at the end of Season 2, Barry found himself unable to cope with the profoundness of that loss and ran back in time to fix the world so that it was “righted” in his mind. He saved his mother’s life, capturing Eobard Thawne and setting off a series of events that would later be dubbed “Flashpoint.” In this universe, he wasn’t the Flash, he had both his parents, and his life was pretty near close to perfect. Still, when he starts losing his memories of his old life and his speed, he realizes that there’s an emptiness to this world and he doesn’t want to forget everything he did have in the original timeline. In the end he releases Thawne to course-correct the timeline, but when he returns to 2016, he realizes that there have been devastating consequences for the world around him. Cisco’s brother Dante was killed in a drunk driving accident, Caitlin has metahuman abilities, and Iris’ relationship with Joe is incredibly strained. This fallout also included the release of a villain named Savitar (who would later be revealed to be a future version of Barry, though Barry doesn’t ICly know this yet). In the process of trapping Savitar in the Speed Force, Barry accidentally travels to the future and sees Iris, the love of his life, dying in his arms.

Losing Iris, even the threat of it, is Barry’s true breaking point, and we see a lot of the little traits that when seen previously in Barry make him a hero, show small hints of Barry’s villainous nature. He tries to manipulate events in his favor (proposing to Iris when he sees that she’s not wearing a ring in the future moment), desperate to do everything he can to change the future and save the woman he loves, even at the expense of his friends, particularly Wally West and Jay Garrick. Barry often wavers between self-sacrificing to the pointing to the point of self-harm (he was willing to take Wally’s place in the Speed Force after Wally inadvertently released Savitar) to forcing others to risk themselves in the face of figuring out who Savitar is so they can stop him (forcing Julian to use the device Cisco created in order to channel Savitar). He finds himself running out of time, and not being able to be fast enough to save the life of the woman he loves. This is one event he can’t afford to be late for, and he still isn’t sure how to avoid it.

When Barry arrives in game, he’ll still be processing what he saw in the future and hasn’t begun walking the teetering razor’s edge that I mentioned above, but it will be something he’s likely to be grappling with on his own, rather than bother the friends he does have in the Fleet. Depending on how game events go, I think this could be a very interesting line to watch him walk – especially with all eyes watching. While Cisco and Iris are here, the only other friends he has from home are Kara and Winn, which could provide a different and much needed perspective to his current issues. Basically, coming back from the future is a literal flashpoint for Barry, in trying to decide what sort of hero he wants to be, and whether he can make up for the mistakes of the past before he twists himself into the villain of the present.

Abilities:

Barry has super speed! His body has been imbued with the speed force so his cells are supercharged which allows him to move at incredibly fast speeds. He is also capable of the following as a result:

Faster healing – he can heal a broken arm in three hours instead of three weeks. His body can also withstand more trauma as a result, but it’s not exactly something he’s a fan of.

Increased metabolism – Barry needs to eat an ungodly amount of food to make sure he doesn’t pass out embarrassingly when using his speed.

Phasing - Can isolate parts of his body to move at increased speeds and if he moves fast enough, can allow his molecules to move through solid objects like walls or windows or … people. (That last one would be fatal.)

Time Travel – should Barry get enough speed going, he has the ability to travel back in time. Granted, if he does he is forced to repeat the timeline which means he could change things – for better or for worse – but it’s a thing he can do.

Throw lightning

Superhuman agility and reflexes

Accelerated perception – He can take in information and process it faster than most.

He can do this with his voice.

Speed mirages – if Barry moves fast enough, he can make it appear like he’s standing in two places at once.

Obviously as far as the superhuman stuff is concerned, he will be nerfed/adjusted according to game rules, but yeah. That’s what he can do on the show.

As far as non-superhuman abilities are concerned, Barry is an incredibly gifted scientist and crime scene tech, able to process information form a scene quickly and efficiently to form conclusions. He’s trained in chemistry and engineering.

Augment Skillset: Lab Support!

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