hi

I FINALLY DREW A SNART

The next art must be with Coldflash 🙏🙏🙏

Hehehe, I actually have an unfinished series exactly about this type of AU. Visions While I Sleep - it's a series I want to get back to sometime this year, so fingers crossed that I actually will.

So in Visions While I Sleep, Cisco starts to get vibes slowly - voices first then full on visions - and he winds up learning about how Hartley was actually fired and saves Hartley from a fatal accident. The two of them team up to figure out wth is up with Harrison Wells and his obsession with Barry Allen + prove criminal negligence with the accelerator (which could open him up to manslaughter charges I'd bet).

If I were to another take on a 'Cisco gains powers before Barry Wakes' fic, I'd probably have a different aspect of his powers surface first.

Cisco's vibe blasts kick in when Farooq shows up waaaay earlier than canon. Cisco vs Farooq doesn't go well at first, but round two Cisco manages to use his powers to set off the fire suppression system, causing Farooq's powers to kinda implode on him.

Cisco and EoWells and Caitlin come up with a way to suppress Farooq's powers and EoWells, in a sign of 'good faith' chooses not to press charges. Farooq still hates Harrison Wells, but he's convinced that Wells - and Cisco and Caitlin - are all trying to make up for what they've done.

Afterwards Cisco starts learning to use his powers in earnest. He gets excited about the idea of being a super hero and comes up with the Vibe suit V1. Caitlin and EoWells are... less enthused but still fascinated with helping him learn to use his powers.

It makes sense that there were metas causing problems before Barry woke up, so Cisco gets to encounter some of those. Not everyone who got powers was a criminal or resorted to crime because of their powers, so I'd want to see Cisco dealing with more of that. Helping people with powers get their abilities under control. Sometimes the antagonist is just someone having a bad day who doesn't want to cause trouble but can't seem to stop.

Of course sometimes the antagonist is a criminal and Cisco fights them, much to Caitlin's dismay. in order to make sure they can put away metas legally and safely, Cisco and EoWells expand what they created for Farooq into a universal suppressant device. EoWells isn't happy about this, no doubt. But in canon I think it was actually Joe who instigated the idea of the pipeline prison, so here without Joe involved I think Cisco's instinct would be to do things legally, whereas in canon he's got two authority figures saying illegal incarceration is fine so he just kinda goes with it. So while EoWells would like the chance to study metas more closely and advises that making metas more well known is a bad idea, Cisco points out that the cat is out of the bag here. Trying to shove it back in will only make things worse.

By the time Barry wakes up, Vibe is well established as a hero, so he's excited when it turns out Barry has powers and wants to use his abilities to help too. The Flash becomes Vibe's side kick. Barry still establishes himself by taking down Clyde Mardon, but thanks to Cisco Clyde is captured alive instead of shot. Though Joe still finds out about Barry & Cisco's powers and has Barry promise to hide things from Iris.

Because Cisco's got his powers, he doesn't make the Cold/Heat guns. So when Len shows up and gets interested in the city's new heroes, he designs the Cold Gun himself - like he does in the comics. He also makes the Heat Gun for Mick later on and the Gold Gun for Lisa (girl deserves her glitter ^_^ )

i think Hartley would pop up a lot sooner. Not only is Harrison Wells not paying for his sins, but Hartley's replacement is a super hero now? He'd thus be entirely Cisco's enemy at first instead of splitting time between Cisco and Barry. But I think Hartley would manage to plant doubt in Cisco about Wells too.

Leonard: Thanks. Not only is there a plan, there are details that only I can understand, but they're all important, of course.

Cisco: That's weird, dude. What does it say here?

We’re nowhere. This team is nowhere and this is the team that got Barry out of a pan-temporal speed prison and we can’t spring him from a county jail?

but leonard never actually uses that leverage, he doesn’t even tell lisa, and so “barry” goes from an explicit threat to an empty threat to… barry’s nickname

and leonard can’t just be calling barry by the same nickname that his friends and family use. it sounds too much like he is barry’s friend or family. which he’s not.

and it’s so much more glaring because barry is still calling him “snart” like they’re acquaintances at best, while leonard is locked into calling him “barry” like he thinks they’re BFFs

but obviously he’s far too stubborn to clumsily retreat to “allen” to put them back on even ground, so he pivots to mockingly calling barry “the flash” even to his face, even when they’re alone with the masks off (like in infantino street: he greets him with “hello, flash,” “the flash, a thief?” “the flash should remain a hero”)

but interestingly he’s still “barry” when leonard is asking him to save him from king shark. he’s “barry” when leonard is talking him down from killing in cold blood. leonard is always so intentional about the way he uses barry’s names, it is such an interesting contrast to the way barry used leonard’s