What it Says on the Tin

So now, anything he wants, he'll steal or otherwise acquire all on his own. He's never expressed interest in gifts, as an adult- So when Lisa or Mick want to get him something, they plan a heist with him so he can steal it.

He spends precious little on luxuries, even when he can, brain so focused in survival that getting little trinkets or gifts beyond what-we-need-for-what-we're-doing doesn't really cross his mind

Barry Allen making a cool character, who has a husband in his lore

Said husband is a cool, smooth-talking ex-conman turned community leader called the Lord of Ice and uses near-exclusively ice spells

imagine how his interests, from science to the supernatural, or dismissed or ignored unless they somehow benefit the people around him, today

imagine him spending his entire adolescence and young adulthood apologizing for everything. for being late, for not being neurotypical enough, for not begin "properly professional" (which is the same issue as the previous one but no one likes to talk about it), for being too fast, too needy, to nerdy, too passionate, too driven. for caring too much

imagine henry allen seeing how his son is developing from the other side of the glass. imagine the grief he feels for the parts of himself his son is starting to lose due to the judgement of others

imagine henry, being out of prison, and seeing barry and leonard snart interacting for the first time. joe and iris are extremely disapproving of their relationship. but henry is not. and barry can Tell that he isn't. that he supports this. he just doesn't know why

Barry is in the cortex with someone he finds kind of annoying but harmless, Snart walks in for Definitely-Not-Flirting-While-Doing-Business Reasons, and starts lowkey acting like this guy is an Immediate Threat that he's trying to act cool around to not set him off. And Barry immediately knocks like 5 points off of the "how much do i trust this guy" ranking. Subtly starts telling him less things, looks into what he's doing on the downlow, treats him as potentially suspicious And turns out... The guy does have bad intentions

Leonard comes in and meets some of Barry's new friends/coworkers, and clearly seems to mark one of them as more trustworthy/less of a threat than everyone else. And when Barry needs help or someone to confide in, he goes to that person over everyone else

Barry comes in to Saints and Sinners and sees a regular he's run into before, but hasn't seen interact with Snart. He thought the guy might be pretty cool. But today he walks into them talking, and Immediately sees that Snart is closed off, jumpy, does NOT like that guy in his space. And Barry immediately takes cues off of that, turns the guy down when he later asks to have drinks together next time Barry drops by Saints

If Snart seems unnerved by someone Barry knows, Barry trusts his instincts. Even if Leonard never says anything to Barry out loud, he still takes note of that. If Snart likes someone, or just thinks they're reliable, Barry will trust that instinct.

what if barry gets so good at reading snart throughout their relationship that if he walks into a room and a snart that isn't His -from another dimension/timeline or the wrong part of the timeline (aka pre-barry)- is there, he will know IMMEDIATELY that this isn't His Leonard Snart

The man doesn't even have to open his mouth

Everyone: Wow, Snart and his Doppleganger are so hard to tell apart! I don't know how you do it

barry is a very touchy person, snart Doesn't Do Physical Contact for a lot of very understandable trauma things

so i feel like they have had to find alternate methods of communicating safety and affection, given this clash, where no one is pressured to do something they feel uncomfortable with

trans woman barry au where barry doesn't truly process she's trans into well into being the flash (bc she never really analyzed her gender like that and just thought Every Guy felt weirdly odd about being called a man)

and also coldflash happens

so mick notices changes in snart's behavior and things, as well as him spending less time with mick but also putting a lot of energy into jobs and showing off, and thinks to himself, "oh, snart must have got himself a girlfriend"

meets barry when she's still in the closet

is mildly surprised, even though he knew snart dated both men and women, so he didn't know why this time he'd been so sure snart was seeing a woman. but he likes barry so accepts he got it wrong and moves on, never mentioning it

And it works, for Joe, he's denying like his life depends on it and eating that cover story UP