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Player Name: Emily | Seventh Character Slot Purchase
Player E-mail: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
Instant message contact (AIM/MSN/etc): AIM – iluvroadrunner6
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Is the player at least 18 years of age? Yes.

Character's Full Name: Barry Allen / The Flash
Canon: The Flash (Super Flarrow of Tomorrow Universe)
PB/Actor: Grant Gustin
Character's Starting Level: Don’t know, I’ll figure it out when we build his sheet.
Character Age: 26
Physical Description: Barry is tall and lanky, 6’2” with a slim runner’s build. Due to his super fast metabolism it’s hard for him to put on weight so he’s basically perpetually skinny, the jerk. He has dark hair, dark eyes and pale skin. He usually is dressed in causal comfortable clothes, including jeans and button downs with sneakers.
Character's Species/Race (aka human, elf, dragonblood human, etc): Metahuman

Character History (Pre-Veil): History of Barry

Post Veil History:

After jumping into the singularity, Barry went falling through the Veil and came out tumbling on the other side, leaving him in the middle of San Francisco wearing a full body bright red leather suit adorned with yellow lightning bolts. I’m sure he doesn’t stand out at all. Eventually he manages to snag normal clothes and figure out what’s going on, and at first it’s weirder than even his weird, but he’s assuming that throwing himself through that singularity probably closed it (ahahaha Barry when are you that lucky), so he just sets up a place for himself in this brave new world working with what he has the best he can.

Eventually, he caves, unable to keep himself away from his superheroing, and six months after he drops through the Veil, he takes up the mantle of the Flash again. Eventually reports of a red and gold streak saving people in San Francisco reaches the attention of a certain blond hacker who is very familiar with his work and Felicity Smoak decides to head out to investigate it for herself, tracking him down, in which there is a joyous reunion and she brings him back to the knights to meet Wynn!

Chosen Canon Point: 123: Fast Enough

Personality and Psychology:

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 find 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.

All in all, Barry is a good person who wants to do good an while he may hold back on his personal feelings in order to make sure that the people around him are happy, he also knows how to do the right thing and make sure that the people of his city are protected, even if it comes as a sacrifice to himself. In the end, the most important thing is making sure that the people he loves are happy and safe. Even if he can get a little cocky in terms of his abilities, he knows that he still has a lot to learn and is willing to put in the time to learn. He still has a lot of growing to do, but at the end of the day he likes the person he’s growing into and the life he has and is ready to keep doing what he needs to do to save the world.

Memories Retained or Lost:

Most of the events of his life are going to remain intact, because he needs them, but the people are going to become a little hazy – Joe and Iris West in particular as well as Henry Allen. He’ll be aware that his father was in prison and that he lived with a family who took care of him, but he won’t remember the specific names and faces or else he would do really awful things to try and get back to them.

Really awful.

Barry, please do not break the universe.

Powers and 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 – this one he doesn’t actually know how to do yet at his canon point but it is a Thing He Can Do.

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 d20 rules when we build his sheet and therefore be less overpowered, 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.

Roleplay Samples

Link to a sample of your character in action: Adorable sunshine superheroes are adorable.

Link to a sample of your prose writing style: Barry and Iris are so important.

Any other important information (including special inventory items in their possession): His super suit! Which is that red leather thing with the lightning bolts. It has a bunch of features. Basically the people at STAR Labs use him as a metahuman science experiment and need to monitor everything he does.

Why do you think this character would join/work with the Knights?

Barry wants to help people. Full stop. It’s why he became a vigilante in the first place. He wants to be able to make a difference for people and help people who are outweighed by a system that has failed them because that’s the position he’s been in his entire life. But really, Barry just has a lot of emotions about people and wanting to help them, and this would be the way he could be the most effective in doing that.

Do you have a preference for which member of the Knights your character is squired to? Nope. Stick him wherever.