may old acquaintance be forgot

[eyething]

Who: Damon Salvatore, Peter Parker, Clementine + everyone
Where: a l l o v a h
When: a l l d e c e m b e r & j a n u a r y
Rating: PG-13ish. Maybe R.
Summary: Catch all for all my characters. If you'd like a surprise starter, find me on plurk at varymydays or PM a journal. :)
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they say, I'm a sometimes hero, sometimes zero

[accelerate]

[ this is a crossroads, one that's so very defining of how he's similar or different to the barry allen of the future. how many times does he need to think of his future self, of the comments thawne has made, for him to feel like that person is a complete stranger, a separate person to who he is? smart and strategic, quick-thinking and possibly not emotionally-driven, the barry of the future is someone who wouldn't feel his name almost slip off the tip of his tongue just because someone he knows confessed to their own secret identity. ]

[ but that future barry allen trusts his gut. he has to, if he's chasing reverse flash to the past, turning his past self away from saving mom, slipping himself out of that living room, entrusting iris west-allen's safe ten years from now. he has to learn that lesson now and make it stronger as the years trickle by if he's to come anywhere close to being that person. ]

[ it's not a long pause, but given he's the fastest man alive, it sure does feel like one. that echo to his voice drops when he says, ] Yeah.

[ his hand reaches for the base of his mask, and he pulls it over his head, hair a bird's nest. it's barry allen standing in his flash suit, looking slightly sheepish. ] I do. Hey, Peter.

they say, I'm a sometimes hero, sometimes zero

[saved]

[peter stares at him, shakes his head like he can't quite process it. it's different. other super powered people here, he knew they were super powered when he met them, but barry gave him pizza when he was struggling. he met him outside in a hallway when peter was trying to balance out what he'd let happen versus what he shouldn't have any control over, and he gave him good, solid advice regardless of peter's ability to take it like he's doing now too.

regardless of peter's ability to learn it. responsibility has been so drilled into his head for so long.]

...Barry?

Woah. Hey. [he waves and then reaches up to slide off his own mask with an awkward, half smile tugging across his face.] Small world, huh?

they say, I'm a sometimes hero, sometimes zero

[accelerate]

[ he smiles, a little sheepish. the last time he'd pulled he mask off, linda had looked at him in the same manner, but had made a comment about their relationship that was completely different to peter's. after all, he hasn't made out with peter. ]

[ how is he meant to react when it's a friend beneath the mask? peter's not a speedster who wants his speed. if anything, he doesn't behave in the same way thawne and hunter had, almost knowing him instantly. perhaps this is how it's supposed to be, meeting people like him: completely and utterly innocent. barry likes feeling this good. ]

Yeah. [ he gives him a shrug, smile widening. then he breaks out of the awkwardness, now settling as he acknowledges to himself that revealing himself hasn't been a bad decision at all. he becomes more animated, ] I can't believe you got bitten by a spider. Dude. That's insane! Can you do the whole web thing? Do you eat bugs? [ his hands make a movement, as if his fingers are knitting needles. ] Wrap them up in web cocoons?

they say, I'm a sometimes hero, sometimes zero

[saved]

[peter snorts in amusement, waving a gloved hand abruptly to quickly dispel any notions or thoughts about webs or bugs or any-of-the-above tbh.]

No. Definitely no to the bugs. Well, right after I got bitten, there was this one moment where I caught a fly mid air, and y'know- Let's just not talk about that one moment. I let it go. It's fine. No other gross bug urges. That was just a very intense time right after first getting my powers when they were hard to control. I mean, you didn't know how to use yours straight off the bat, did you?

[he waves a hand like it's totally a casual thing to almost eat a freaking fly, and then he slides out one of the web shooters to show it off.]

And uh, for webs, I just made my own web shooters. I'm really grateful no webbing comes out of my body, cause yeah. Awkward.

they say, I'm a sometimes hero, sometimes zero

[accelerate]

[ if his brows could catapult off his face, they'd possibly be tangled up in peter's web shooters right now. ]

You're not, you know, a little disappointed? About the lack of natural web thing. [ he moves his fingers, as though that's where peter's indicated the webs shoot out from. he does wonder where they'd come from if he could make them naturally. perhaps that's a question to run by cisco one of these days. ] It's kind of gross, but it's also kind of awesome to think about?

[ this, coming from the guy who's set the shirts of two women on fire. is he afraid of his ability to set his company on fire? he should be. ]