Barry's App

VOLUNTEER PROFILE

Name: Barry Allen
Age: 26
Physical Appearance: Here

Point in Timeline: Barry’s last interaction with his own earth was the end of season 2 The Flash. He has defeated Zoom but lost his father, and is now so desperate for the return of his family that he plans to run back in time and save his mother, causing major disruptions to the timeline.

World Description: http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flash

History/Background: http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Barry_Allen

Noteworthy Positive Characteristics:

• Determination - Barry is a driven young man. When he was eleven, he saw his mother killed by a mysterious man wrapped in yellow lightning. His father went to jail for the crime, but Barry knew he was innocent. He spent the rest of his school years and college training to become a CSI, both to free his father and to exonerate others wrongfully incarcerated.


• Courage - By the age of eleven Barry had already seen more than a child should ever have to witness, but he let this horror compel him to do good. He doesn’t back down from a fight or a struggle, especially when someone else’s well being is on the line. He has fought foes that could almost defy imagination to keep Central City safe, and has arranged to sacrifice his life for the greater good more than once, though thankfully that never came to pass. Growing up small and bookish, he’s learned to stick up for himself against greater foes, and that hasn’t changed now that he’s the Flash facing down giant gorillas and sharks that walk on land.


• Curiosity - Barry is a scientist. His chosen path of science was shaped by his mother’s death, but though his line of work is in a macabre field, it’s one he never would have been able to pursue if he didn’t love the science behind crime scene investigation. Barry loves to learn and to examine, and even after all the wonders he’s seen he believes the world still has so much more to explore.


• Optimism - Despite all that’s happened to him, Barry has a remarkable ability to see the best in people and in the world itself. He’s seen far too much death and been betrayed by close friends more than once, but Barry has never become bitter. He continues to believe that the world deserves to be saved from the evils within it, and he believes that with his powers, he has a duty to be a part of that. He has doubts, but he also has hope, and for him it’s so much more powerful than fear.


• Loyalty - Once a person has befriended Barry, they have a friend for life. Barry will work tirelessly to make another person happy, and this doesn’t require a romantic interest on his part. He is extremely devoted to both his birth family and to his foster family, as well as to his “lab” friends who make up Team Flash.

Noteworthy Negative Characteristics:

• Stubbornness - On the flipside of Barry’s determination and courage is stubborness. He believes strongly in what he’s doing, so strongly that it can be difficult to reason with him when his mind is set. At times the knowledge that he’s the most powerful member of his team goes to his head, and he has trouble listening to reason coming from someone he believes doesn’t support his end goals.


• Recklessness - Likewise, Barry’s optimism and courage can lead to recklessness. Barry might be a scientist who believes in a reasoned approach, but he’s also naturally impulsive, and often hurls himself into danger without stopping to find a way that keeps everyone safe, the Flash included.


• Selfishness - Barry would like to think he’s a person who only wants good in the world, but when some of that good doesn’t fall on Barry he can become listless, even bratty until he gets himself in check. When, after years of fighting to prove his father’s innocence and Henry Allen is finally free, Barry is despondent when his father wants to leave Central City and reclaim his freedom elsewhere. When Henry is killed, Barry is so destroyed that he willingly erases an entire timeline to get him back, allowing his grief to overrule his knowledge of what that could do to everyone else he loves.


• Appetite - This is purely physical characteristic, but Barry’s metabolism requires him to eat an extraordinary amount of calories a day just to remain conscious. On a normal day of work followed by patrol as the Flash, Barry’s body require twenty thousand calories. This can be difficult to supply if you don’t have an in with the pizza place around the corner.

Powers/Abilities: Barry’s powers are ever evolving, but at the time he leaves canon his primary abilities are all the result of the Speed Force, an extra-dimensional energy force that gives speedsters their powers. The Speed Force allows him to run at incredible speed and also gives him an accelerated rate of healing. He can run so fast, in fact, that he can go back in time. Barry can vibrate his molecules at a rate that allows him to phase through objects, and can modify his voice by vibrating his vocal chords. He can also move his arms at a rate that creates a vortex, and he can harness the Speed Force to throw thunderbolts. He has also recently learned to create phantom doubles of himself by moving quickly between two positions. Barry’s powers might be affected by the dimensions of a space station - without sufficient room to run, Barry won’t be able to create the energy it takes to go back in time, for example.

Character Fears: Barry’s most pressing fear is losing those he cares about. He’s lost his father and his mother. He’s lost the love of his love’s life, which might sound strange, but knowing that Iris lost her fiance to a danger that Barry wasn’t able to stop eats at him. Every day he worries that he’ll lose his foster father too. Joe is a detective and in a dangerous line of work, but Barry is there for him as much as he’s able.

Personal Item: Barry would come with his Flash suit, which is made with a special polymer that resists friction - aka he won’t burst into flames from running too fast.


VOLUNTEER SAMPLES
Network Sample: Network
Action Log Sample: Log from a previous game

Hello! You've reached Barry Allen, leave me a message and I'll get back to you!

PLAYER

NAME: Sarah
AGE: 38
PREFERRED CONTACT: fahrbot @ plurk
OTHER CHARACTERS: none

CHARACTER

NAME: Barry Allen
AGE: 27
CANON & CANON POINT: final moments of season 2 of The Flash
RESERVATION LINK: n/a
HISTORY: Wiki

PERSONALITY:

Barry was a sweet natured boy in his youth, and that didn’t change when his mother died. His adopted father Joe expected Barry to be a sad figure in his household, but Barry made the place come alive, bringing light back to the Wests’ lives after the death of Joe’s own wife. That doesn’t mean he was ready to let the mystery of his mother’s death go, however. All throughout his youth, Barry was determined to exonerate his father, and it was this determination that led him to a job as a forensic scientist. If he could prove other people’s guilt or innocence, eventually he’d learn enough to be able to set his father free. Barry’s brilliance, his talent for science and his natural curiosity and tenacity made him good at the job.

When Barry gained his powers, he knew instantly that he had to use them for good. There were times when he slipped, when he relied on his powers to get him to work faster, or to impress people, but Barry quickly came to respect what he could do, and what he shouldn’t do even more. He takes his duties as the Flash seriously, often helping people to his own detriment. His double life has damaged his relationships both friendly and at work, but Barry never once thinks of stopping.

Driven but social, Barry relies heavily on his friends that do know who he is for support, both as The Flash and as a young man thrust into a world he doesn’t understand. He relies on Joe most of all, thankful that his adopted father is on the police force and can help him navigate the two identities Barry has to occupy. Barry feels a great sense of loyalty to Joe, and tries to be a better man in all things based on Joe’s example. Barry’s deep friendship with his adopted sister Iris is also a balm, and he keeps her in his heart always, using her as his moral compass when times grow hard.

That doesn’t mean Barry doesn’t have bad traits. He can lose his temper if tired or frustrated, he can be extremely stubborn and reckless when he believes he’s right, but he tries to do right by the people he cares about. Since the rift in time and space over Central City that he helped cause nearly destroyed all their lives, Barry has been extremely down on himself, doubting himself, doubting his powers. He doesn’t know if he’s strong enough, mentally or physically, to fight the endless flux of villains. These fears are proven right when his worst enemy, Zoom, kills his father in front of him. From that moment, a part of Barry gave up. Somewhere deep inside, Barry wants to be worthy of the power that’s been thrust on him, but he’s started to wonder if he’ll ever be. All he can think of now is going back in time to save his mother from ever dying.

And Barry’s got the power to do it.

ABILITIES/SKILLS:

Barry’s powers are ever evolving, but at the time he leaves canon his primary abilities are all the result of the Speed Force, an extra-dimensional energy force that gives speedsters their powers.

- runs at incredible speed (very often used)
- has accelerated healing (daily thanks to the dangers of fighting crime)
- can vibrate his molecules at a rate that allows him to phase through objects (rarely)
- can modify his voice by vibrating his vocal chords (rarely)
- can also move his arms at a rate that creates a vortex (occasionally to put out fires)
- can harness the energy of the Speed Force to throw thunderbolts (in combat but rarely needed)
- can create phantom doubles of himself by moving quickly between two positions (rarely)
- can move so quickly that he goes back in time, though he tries not to let the temptation get to him (just once)

INVENTORY/COMPANIONS: one Flash suit made of special friction resistant polymers

FACTION CHOICE: Court of Stars

REASON: It might seem counterintuitive since Barry is a scientist, but he trusts his gut over information. He believes in law and order, but he also believes in the good in people, and more than once has tried to rehabilitate an enemy rather than jail them. He's harbored the idea that he could exonerate his father for more than a decade, never once stopping his efforts no matter the obstacle, which is very much the actions of a dreamer. He knows in his heart what's right and wrong, whether it appears that way on the surface or not.

TATTOO: Cassiopeia on his right shoulder blade

SAMPLES

NETWORK: (providing screenshots to a locked game) Link (this is a little naughty, Barry was dared to let someone else send a message to everyone and the results were NSFW)

LOG: Link

NOTES, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS: nope!

PLAYER INFORMATION

NAME: Sarah/fahrbot
AGE: 38
CONTACT: discord @ fahrbot#9239 or plurk: fahrbot
CHARACTERS PLAYED: none currently, previously Laurent
RESERVED? Yes

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Barry Allen
CANON: The CW TV Arrowverse
CANON POINT: The last moments of season 2, before he goes back in time.
AGE: 27

HISTORY: History Note - this wiki is crazy detailed, here is a much shorter summary if you prefer:


When Barry Allen was eleven years old, he saw something impossible, and his life was changed forever. Until that fateful night, he was a normal boy in Central City, but then a man inside a ball of lightning murdered his mother right in front of him. His father went to jail for her murder, and though Barry told everyone he could what really happened, no one believed him, not even his new guardian, Detective Joe West. Everyone said it was impossible.

But then an accident made Barry himself into something impossible, and everything changed. When the particle accelerator at acclaimed S.T.A.R. Labs facility malfunctioned, Barry was struck by a supercharged bolt of lightning, one powerful enough to put him in a coma for months. When he awoke, he found he could move at superhuman speed, but that was only the beginning of how his life would change. Before the accident, Barry was an ordinary forensic scientist, working to help the CCPD solve crimes. After it, he became The Flash, the fastest man alive, and with the help of S.T.A.R. Labs' own Dr. Wells, Dr. Caitlyn Snow, and Cisco Ramone, Barry learned to control his superspeed and explore his new abilities, all to fight crime in Central City, and to finally discover the truth about what - or who - killed his mom all those years ago.

Barry's secret identity wasn't as secret as he'd like, but the people he told proved an invaluable help to him, especially when they discovered Barry wasn't the only one affected by the accelerator meltdown. Barry worked tirelessly to put these newly superpowered villains away, but more than anything, he wanted to find the man in that yellow streak of lightning that killed his mom. But the deeper Barry and his friends dug, the more likely it seemed that his own mentor, Dr. Wells, may not be the real Dr. Wells at all, and had instead been the Man in Yellow all along.

After months of preparing, Barry finally achieved the ability to run so quickly he could run back in time to save his mom, but when he got there, another Flash was waiting to fight the Man in Yellow. Barry chose not to mess with time, and instead of saving his mom, he comforted her in her final moment. He returned to the present time, and Dr. Wells was revealed to be time traveler Eobard Thawne, the Man in Yellow all along. He was erased from time by his ancestor, Barry's friend Eddie Thawne, who killed himself to save them all.

This created a rift in time, and through this rift came villains from other versions of reality. One such villain was another evil speedster, Zoom, far more powerful and faster than Barry. Zoom targeted Barry, sending villain after villain through breaches to hurt Barry. Zoom broke Barry's back and even temporarily took his speed, and though Barry recovered from both, his spirits were greatly damaged. The final straw was when Zoom kidnapped Barry's birth father, finally released from prison, and murdered him in front of him. Barry finally defeated Zoom by creating a time double of himself who raced so fast he disintegrated, saving Barry and his friends but at great personal cost.

With Zoom gone, Barry was faced with two choices - live in a world where both his mother and father were gone, or make the selfish choice to run back in time and reset the timeline, possibly destroying the lives of all that he loved.

PAST GAME MEMORIES: From zhautus. Barry knew that if he stayed on Earth, he wouldn't be able to resist running back in time to reset the timeline, a choice that could have devastating consequences on reality as he knew it. When someone from a mission called Zenith offered him a place in their research program on a far away planet, he leapt at the chance. Zenith's mission was to save the universe from an unknown contagion that could only be countered by oxytocin, produced by having copious amounts of sex with other volunteers.

This mission quickly proved shady, and Barry grew to distrust his new masters, even attacking one. The lead researcher quickly brought Barry back under heel by temporarily removing his powers via the chip in Barry's head. Mollified but still determined, Barry quit trying to overturn the scientists and instead focused on protecting his fellow volunteers. He endured a lot of indignities, including having his hormones altered which resulted in a giant orgy, as well as being made to participate in another hormonal incident that made volunteers feel that if they didn't immediately copulate, they would die.

Barry found refuge in his relationships with other volunteers, developing deep affection and even love for some of them. In a terrible time, these relationships were the only thing that got him through. He was especially thrown for a loop when someone else from home arrived on Zhautus. Leonard Snart was from Barry's future and let slip that Barry and Iris were engaged. This news meant Barry never had to leave Earth and join this mission at all, that somehow, despite Barry's actions, everything was okay at home.

Barry was on Zhautus for seven months before leaving for Ainmhian. At the time of his departure, Zhautus was plagued by portals to other dimensions that volunteers could fall through. Despite his welcome explanation from the fae, Barry will assume that one of these portals somehow brought him to Ainmhian.

PERSONALITY:

Barry was a sweet natured boy in his youth, and that didn't change when his mother died and his father was falsely imprisoned for her murder. When he took young Barry in, his adoptive father Joe West expected Barry to be a sad figure in his household, but Barry made the place come alive, bringing light back to the Wests' lives after the death of Joe's own wife. That natural sweetness didn't mean he was ready to let the mystery of his mother's death go, however, for Barry is far too driven for that. All throughout his youth, Barry was determined to exonerate his father, and it was this determination that led him to a job as a forensic scientist. If he could prove other people's guilt or innocence, he reasoned that eventually he'd learn enough to be able to set his father free. Barry's brilliance, his talent for science and his natural curiosity and tenacity made him good at the job, but a CSI is not the role he was truly meant to play.

When Barry gained his powers and became the Flash, he knew instantly that he had to use his gifts for the greater good. There were times when he slipped, when he relied on his powers to get him to work faster, or to impress people, but Barry quickly came to respect what he could do, and what he shouldn't do with his powers even more.

Driven but social, Barry is now a person who relies heavily on his friends. Being your city's hero is a lot of work, and Barry couldn't have done it without support. Likewise, he couldn't have endured Zhautus without his friends. Barry is naturally friendly and cares deeply about those he cares about. He would do anything for a friend or a lover, even if it means hurting himself. He's been very depressed lately, missing both his parents and his adopted family at home, doubting whether he was ever really worthy of his powers if he couldn't even save his parents, his city, or his friends.

Barry can be just as driven by his bad traits. He can lose his temper if tired or frustrated, he can be jealous, but he tries to do right by the people he cares about. He has impulsive moments, and at times can be arrogant - he's the one with powers, he should make the call, right? This recklessness has led to more than one bad decision, and when Barry left his canonpoint, he was still trying to atone for his mistakes. He's naturally chipper and optimistic, but he's been down on himself, doubting himself, doubting his powers. He doesn't know if he's strong enough, mentally or physically, to be a hero. Somewhere deep inside, Barry wants to be worthy of the power that's been thrust on him, but he's starting to wonder if he'll ever be.

POWERS/ABILITIES: Barry's powers are ever evolving, but at the time he leaves canon his primary abilities are all the result of the Speed Force, an extra-dimensional energy force that gives speedsters their powers. The Speed Force allows him to run fourteen times faster than sound and also gives him an accelerated rate of healing. Using this speed, Barry can vibrate his molecules at a rate that allows him to phase through objects, and can modify his voice by vibrating his vocal chords. He can also move his arms at a rate that creates a vortex, and he can harness the Speed Force to throw thunderbolts. He has also recently learned to create phantom doubles of himself by moving quickly between two positions. Though it's difficult to control, if Barry has enough room to run, he can create breaches in time and space itself, running to the future or even to a different version of the Earth. And, since this is a sex game, I should add that your boy is a human vibrator.

SAMPLES: The following are screenshots due to being taken from a locked comm. The image is large and should expand for you but please let me know if you have trouble!

Network style text to action sample (for context's sake, this was directly after the fuck or die event)

Prose log



ANYTHING ELSE? I don't know if it's important, but I'm excited to return here with a character that will actually allow human contact!

They'd laughed about it.

Ridiculous villains are a dime a dozen in Darrow, which would be worrying if they weren't all so preposterous, but this one had been above the pack. Pontificating endlessly, making sweeping declarations while shooting his gun - in the end, it had almost worked. Barry had been so bored during Villain Speech #38 that he'd nearly missed the gun cocking, and when he finally intercepted the dart, he'd had no choice but to let it sink into his fingertip.

The poison inside - as declared by Mouthy Villain - was meant to erase a person's mind, but Barry felt nothing at all, turning in the next moment to finally wrap him up in the poles of several traffic signs to leave him on the sidewalk for the authorities, his gun speed cannoned down to mulch. It had been a long, silly evening's work, but now the Flash and the Alpha are free to indulge in a few dozen burgers.

Barry's just finishing his sixth when his head begins to swim, the usual telltale sign of Not Enough Calories. "Can I get another six burgers with extra cheese?" Barry calls towards the kitchen, who are so used to it he doesn't wait for answer. The world lurches again, and Barry blinks, pushing from the booth to his feet.

Maybe he needs more than six? Maybe he needs...

Something.

He stood up for something.

He can't remember.

Where is he again?

"Why - " he starts, staring hard at the ground as it suddenly rushes upwards to meet him.

It's nearing the end of Derek's shift at Semele's. It's barely the end of Barry's at the precinct, but the fun part about being a speedster means there's no need for time to prepare. When the clock sounds, he's out of his work clothes and into his Flash suit in no time, racing towards the bar.

He's in and out so fast that no one could see, though some of the regulars must be used to the telltale crackle of electricity by now. In his wake is a note taped to Derek's office door.

Corner of Parliament and Girard. Use your nose!

Pleased, Barry races off to the spot, ready to affix his next note.

Ever since the breach, Barry takes care not to run too fast. The odds of him tearing a rift in time and space are low, but tonight he measures his steps in moderation, never letting them outstrip the frantic pace of his heart.

He reaches the loft in moments with Derek in his arms, who he deposits on the spartan couch and races off again. His fingers fumble with the medkit even in the Speed Force, and Barry tells himself it's with rage, not fear. Fear is for children. Rage is for heroes and vigilantes, and righteousness, too, and Barry is righteously angry.

There'd been no need for Derek to step between Barry and the knife the last perp had thrown. There'd been so little need that Barry didn't even hurry to get out of its path, which is why he'd been so astonished when Derek jumped into it instead. How Oliver's fucking suit had deteriorated so much that it could let a blade through, Barry doesn't know, but when Derek is patched up Barry is taking his suit to the lab and examining every polymer.

He appears with a crackle at Derek's side and strips him to his waist, finally kneeling to press the bandage to the hole in his side. He doesn't look at him.

If he looks at him, he's going to lose it.

Barry's near the end of a long patrol that he tacked onto an already long workday, but he still takes the long route home. Whether one can actually sail away from Darrow or not, the view of the ocean and the smell of the salty air is too good to pass up, and Barry races along the shore, enjoying the way the sea mist seems to hang like a fog within the speed force. He leaves a crackle of red electricity in his wake, delighting a few of the children playing in the sand, and nearly pauses to help one little boy with his sandcastle when he spies something moving along the cliffs above.

It's a...robot...thing, he decides when his eyes can make sense of the large white and orange ball, flying across the bermuda grass in pursuit of - "Aw, a butterfly!" exclaims Barry with a grin, wondering what the little guy intends to do if he catches it. Collect it? Examine it? He has his hands on his hips and ready to behold whatever happens next, but then the robot begins to streak dangerously close to the cliffs' edge.

"Hey!" Barry calls up, "Hey! Robot...sphere! You're too close to the - "

But it's too late, the robot catches up with the butterfly just as the ground beneath it runs out, and for one second, it looks as if the robot will crash to the sand far below.

But one second is all Barry needs.

He races forward in a burst of electric light, running straight up the cliffside until he reaches the robot, suspended almost motionless and hovering in the air. It's heavier than Barry expects, but it's easy enough to put his arms around it and carry it a safe distance from the edge. "There we go," says Barry, depositing the machine onto a safe, marked path. "We almost lost you there."