#wakewheeler

t4t alanalice you wll forever be famous. subtop alan too. barry is genuinely just happy to be here 😌♥

Barry had always been an odd little man, but, Alice couldn't help but notice, lately he'd taken a new, curious habit.

Relationship: Alice Wake/Barry Wheeler, implied Alan Wake/Barry Wheeler ♦ Words: 100 ♦ Notes: For the May Drabble Challenge, Day 17: Loop

[Day 15: History] [on ao3] [day 25: Vibrant]

we have a

a traumatized, self sacrificing, emotionally repressed, self destructive stoic with mommy AND daddy issues. drenched in irony as a defense mechanism and only comes out of his serious shell for a chosen few. has a bestie whomst is the only person hes more comfortable being silly with but also makes unnecessarily cruel quips about and takes his help for granted. would do anything for his loved ones including killing himself or someone else no questions asked. hes rich and traditionally handsome and also the chosen one but hes also very much just some fuckin guy. has a harrowing experience where his own self loathing puts him through a personalized torture hell made flesh bc deep down he thinks he deserves to suffer

and also his

neurotic, allergic, hypochondriac martyr motormouth nerd. real verbal bulldozer with the cutting commentary who says too much and gets on people's nerves cos he hides his insecurities behind bluster and ego. a shameless coward, yet hypercompetent and loyal and always steps up when needed. weird about women in a horny way that would probably not fly in media made today and yet so openly desperate for the bestie's approval that hes visibly flustered when he gets anything resembling a compliment from him in a way thats real difficult to read as just platonic interest anymore. regular lookin stocky guy with blue eyes and a receding hairline and no fashion sense. has a harrowing experience where he thinks the bestie died and he never fucking recovers from the loss psychologically, dedicating the rest of his life to doing whatever he can to right this wrong

I've seen so much dramatic and homoerotic art of Trench and Darling I wanted to do the same for the Director Alan au, with his right hand man Head of Communications Barry Wheeler, of course 😤😤😤

(Disclaimer when I first cooked this au I didn't know the oldest house was still in lockdown after the hiss, so in this au the very first thing Alan does is to bring Barry in because there's NO way they're expecting HIM to run this place lmfao)

illustration this was based on and some other color variants under the cut!