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[adultflash]

OOC Info
Name: Riley
Age: 34
Contact: keytone8/ saintlucifer#7230
Current Characters: N/A


IC Info

Name: Bartholomew Henry “Barry” Allen
Canon: DCTV/The Flash
Age: 29
Appearance: as Barry, as The Flash
Canon Point: 5x07, O Come, All Ye Thankful
Background: wiki link

Personality: Barry is first and foremost a superhero. His drive to protect people comes from his sense of hope, ability to love and his optimism. He’ll try his hardest to protect his city, the people he cares about, and even total strangers. He’s also occasionally stubborn, reckless, and self-sacrificing. Sometimes literally, like when he took Savitar’s place in the Speed Force prison for six months to save Central City, or like his current canon point, when he dies trying to stop the explosion of an experimental power source.

He’s also a genius and uses his intellect to help people when he can, not just his abilities. He pursued a career as a CSI to get justice for his mother’s murder, but also because he genuinely cares about helping innocent victims. He’s highly moral (sometimes even a little judgmental about it) though he has been known to break the law or do questionably moral things for the sake of those he loves.

Barry holds a lot of respect for his mentor figures – Oliver Queen, Harry Wells, Jay Garrick, etc. Even the ones who betrayed him (Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon) still imparted knowledge that affects him sometimes. He’s also learned to be a mentor himself, first with Jesse and Wally, then with Ralph. He tries to inspire him to be the best version of himself he can be.

With his friends and family, as much as he loves for them and fights to protect them, he can sometimes be closed off, trying to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders. He would prefer them to lean on him, not the other way around. It’s sometimes difficult for him to talk about how he’s feeling about things, unless it’s prodded out of him. He’ll often say he’s fine when he isn’t. But he’s also extremely loyal, protective, and caring. He has a big heart, and his friends are as much a part of his family as Joe, Iris, and Wally are. Joe took him in at 11 when his father was framed for his mother’s murder and raised him as if he was his own. Much of his childhood, teen years, and young adult life was spent trying to cope with and avenge the loss of his mother.

He’s been in love with his wife, Iris, most of his life (despite not being aware of that love for a long time), though he’s had previous girlfriends. He will go to ridiculous lengths to prove himself to his love interests, like the one time he ate a ghost pepper to prove his feelings to Linda. However, he can also be a little oblivious about his own feelings, or other people's feelings for him. He also loves his daughter Nora, who has visited from the future, and is learning how to be a dad (albeit in the reverse order). He feels guilty knowing he won’t be there for her when she grows up.

Despite dealing with crisis after crisis with Team Flash, Barry is kind and empathetic. He feels things strongly in general and goes above and beyond to show that he cares. He has a bit of an identity crisis sometimes, because he doesn’t know what he’s worth when he’s unable to help people as the Flash (something he confesses when he’s in prison, framed for murder). He’s overall a good person, but sometimes he lets his emotions, or his guilt overwhelm him with dangerous results.

Weaknesses/Temptations:

- As mentioned above, if anyone he loves is in danger/threatened in some way, he’s more likely to agree to questionable things to save them.

- He can be overemotional, easily prodded into anger or vengeance

- He’s easily tricked/manipulated if he’s made to think he’s helping others

- Someone else having future knowledge/being literally one step ahead of him is a major source of frustration

Sins: Give us a list of sins your character will be entering the game with. There is a minimum of three.

- Selfishly altering the timeline
- Stealing Leonard Snart from his timeline
- Lying to friends/family/law enforcement
- Lusting after/having feelings for his friends (men and women) while married
- Marrying his adoptive sister after breaking up her potential marriage to Eddie Thawne
- Responsible for several deaths and sacrifices on his behalf, including his own time remnant
- Impulsive and reckless decision-making
- Violence
- Vigilantism
- Breaking criminals and himself out of prison
- Keeping meta-human criminals locked in the pipeline
- Vengeful when provoked (Zoom, Thawne, etc.)
- Breaking laws while working for the CCPD (Stealing, breaking and entering, searching without a warrant, violating a restraining order)
- Abandoning his wife and future daughter

Powers/Abilities: See wiki linked above.

Items: The picture of himself and Iris from their loft, his CCPD badge, a picture of his parents, a copy of the kids’ book The Runaway Dinosaur, a STAR Labs t-shirt

SAMPLES

Network:

[Barry turns on the camera and waves.]

Hi everyone, Barry Allen here. Apparently I was here before, but it might have been a me from a different timeline or something, because I don’t remember anything about it. Not actually the first time that’s happened. Anyway. I have a lot of questions.

Are we all dead here? I mean, I remember dying, but I don’t know if everyone died to get here. Also if we’re dead, why am I hungry? Does anyone here who isn’t a Hell demon have special abilities? Are they affected down here? Is there a Big Belly Burger? Is anyone else from Central City here?

…I should probably stop there, huh. [He looks a little sheepish.]

Log: from the TDM

FYI: Barry and Thirteen start with “Arrival” and we combined it with “Just a Little Cut” so same warnings for that.