hihi and happy new year <333 for the 5+ headcanons game, can i ask Barrisco with Barry as Golden Glider while Cisco is either himself or the doctor of team Flash? pwetty please?
Happy New Year! Now that's an interesting idea, there's so many options for that one...
Wally's the Flash. Eobard did not take losing his powers and being stuck in the past very well and he decided to take it all out on the eleven-year-old child he blamed for all this instead of taking any responsibility for himself. By the time Barry's twenty, he's being arrested for a minor bit of trespassing (again) that was supposed to lead him to the Man in Yellow and instead ends with him being convicted of a lot of theft he didn't actually do (hard to prove the DNA evidence actually belongs to your twin brother when you don't know your twin brother exists)
Cisco Ramon could have done anything, but he liked helping people so he stumbled his way into medicine. Mostly the researching side, until Dr Wells asked him to look after this coma patient.
Caitlin Snow, for obvious reasons, did not take the loss of her fiancé very well. Cisco and Hartley are the ones left at S.T.A.R. this time, it's Caitlin who is possibly leaning more to the murder side of revenge than the prove Wells lied and Ronnie died for nothing
Iris is the one who introduces Caitlin and Barry. Iris probably doesn't know her brother is the Flash. Or that she has a brother. She might be doing crime with Barry at this point, she's probably a journalist and Barry's a source of hers (the crime thing did not stop them being best friends), maybe Barry just ended up owing Leonard Snart a lot of favours and that involved him building a Cold Gun based on Caitlin's powers, regardless, Caitlin and Barry end up as a Rogue double act. Maybe a triple act with Iris.
Barry is Golden Glider for the ice skating reason. He actually might still have superspeed (maybe not as much, but gold lightning, hence the name), or almost superspeed or something, but he grabs the ice skates because he's hanging out with ice themed villains and it's much easier to skate than run on ice.
Cisco is the one who dubs him Golden Glider. Barry is very smitten. They might still meet because Barry helps kidnap Cisco? Or Lisa still does that bit then gets a bit grumpy Barry gets the cool Cisco name, but she still gets a Gold Gun out of this, and Barry helps her rob several banks. Or Lisa gets a Heat Gun too and, post Leonard and Mick going off with the Legends, it's Caitlin, Lisa, and Barry who are the main Rogues.
Cisco still becomes Vibe. Literally all of Central knows Golden Glider goes and robs museums and science labs purely as an excuse to flirt with Vibe. The photo of them making out while technically waiting for the police to show up to arrest Barry (Lisa and Caitlin drag him off before this happens) doesn't even make it to the front half of Central's gossip magazines, that's just a normal Tuesday.
The Rogues do help with big things though, like fighting Zoom. They've protected the city loads of times. Lisa insists this is because they need there to be banks for them to be able to rob banks. Caitlin normally has some excuse about old friends and owing them that no one believes. Barry doesn't even pretend he needs any convincing, all it takes is Cisco saying please and he's there (he likes Wally too, especially now he knows that's Iris' little brother). He does like the breaking into places to flirt with Cisco though, and Cisco cannot convince him to stop doing that when Cisco also enjoys the breaking, entering, and flirting.
Henry does get out of prison (thanks to Wally). He and Joe can't say they approve of Barry's exploits, but at least his boyfriend is nice.
Thank you!
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