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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
What would happen if the world was a little less fair to some and a little better for others? Just enough to change their paths?
Leverage AU happens, baby!
All of the moodboards combined and room for more in the future!
Compiled for @coldflashevents & @mock-arts
Let's Steal Something AU
PT 4 @coldflashevents @mock-arts
Thieves so clever they steal without knowing.
They steal with little looks, with little moments. A smile, a barb or quip, serve just as well as lockpicks. In the thrill of the heist and the quiet of a home. A home they've made together, so they're not alone.
Together they'll steal the world a little better and maybe a little something for themselves too.
Let's Steal Something AU
PT 3 @coldflashevents @mock-arts
Barry Allen and Leonard Snart were two very different people with surprisingly similar pasts, who want both very similar and very different things.
Both they and the team are willing to steal a better future, for themselves and others. They're both good enough to do bad for the right reasons.
That's all they thought they needed to know about each other.
But we all know found families don't stay that way, don't we?
Let's Steal Something AU
Pt 2 for @coldflashevents & @mock-arts
Life was rarely fair. Len learned this the first time his father went to prison. Again the first time he was struck. Again when he went to juvie over and over. Again when he went into the system with his baby sister.
But it could be better.
He learned that when light shined on him with the opportunity the Stein family presented him.
He stopped being Leonard Snart and became Leonard Stein. For himself, for his sister, for a better life. Even if it meant leaving others behind and denying parts of himself to fit into this brighter world.
Then Lisa got sick.
And the company he had dedicated nearly half of his life to was ready to let her die.
If Leonard Stein can't work the system to save his sister in an unfair world, maybe Leonard Snart can break it.
But for that he'll need a team.
He'll need leverage.
Let's Steal Something au
Pt 1 @coldflashevents
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
These moodboard sets and drabbles are the gifts I pinch hit for @mock-arts <3 I chose your awesome idea for a thief/leverage au!
The world is rarely fair.
Barry Allen learned this at the age of ten when his mother was murdered in front of him and his father was framed for it.
The lesson was further enforced when the system opposed him becoming a part of the West family.
He relearned it through many foster homes, both good and bad. He learned it when the only way to survive and get what he needed was to steal it.
He had a knack for it, he quickly worked out. He was fast and smart. Especially with art and tech. After getting emancipated, he managed to put himself through college by painting forgeries.
Unfairness hit him again when his contact rolled on him and others, made him the fall guy, and he was picked up by Joe West. Again.
Now he's walking out of prison; expecting nothing, no one, and having to start over on his own. Again.
Instead there's a man waiting for him with an offer.
The world is rarely fair.
But maybe he can steal it a little better.
Compromise
Barry rubbed his sweaty face against the sheets as the bed jostled. Len was putting space between them, stretching out on the far side of the bed. Barry reminded himself not to take it personally.
A minute later, a hand appeared on his head. Short blunt nails raked over his scalp, leaving pleasant tingles in their wake.
Barry smiled into his pillow. He loved this little compromise of Len's for him.
Len, as he loved to remind him, despised the heat. This included post-sex sweatiness with a dire need for space and a wipe down immediately after a round, no matter how mind rattling good and tiring it was.
Barry could relate a little. He didn't like being sticky either. But he hated the irrational panic he would feel at the thought of rejection. Every time Len pulled away for any reason just made his throat tighten up.
It had been a relief when they had talked about it, like the calm and awkwardly stunted adults they were.
Now Len had his space when he needed it and Barry had that little reassurance that everything was okay.
Compromise.
In the morning, Len would wake up first to turn on the coffee maker and make himself a cup of hot cocoa and use up the last of their mini marshmallows. He would have the skillet laid out and ready for Barry to cook breakfast and take in the quiet for a while before Barry's third alarm went off.
Len used to dislike eating breakfast. He didn't like the activity of cooking so early. It brought back memories he preferred not to remember but that were never far off.
Barry didn't like eating alone or having to make his own coffee. "It never tastes right," he would say. When asked which one he meant, he'd laugh.
They filled in for each others' differences.
Compromise.
TBC
(Getting back into moodboards, here's a warm up. Might continue it!)
My second moodboard for @achangeinpriorities 's Tam Len of The Elves, our contribution to @coldflashevents Coldflash Big Bang!
Sub!Barry coming home from a bad day at work. He's restless and irritable until Len gets him a comfortable change of clothes, ties his wrists, and blindfolds him. Len strokes his hair and neck until Barry falls asleep with his head on his lap.
I love Len using kink to just help Barry when he's out of sorts, not even sexual kink (tho that's nice too), but just using a few tactics to help put Barry's head to rights again.
Blindfolds and quiet when he's irritable, headphones and closed eyes when he's over stimulated, a gag when he doesn't feel like talking at all.
Never all three at once as it makes him anxious.
Loves wearing ("No, it is not stealing, Len! I'm gonna give it back! ...Eventually.") Len's biggest softest sweater and some boxer briefs and nothing else.
In my eyes it is all but canon that Barry is autistic/has ADHD (I notice way too many signs as someone with both myself), plus with his powers I believe sensory overload is definitely a thing. (Cold is good for sensory headaches like that, fyi :3)
Imagine Len enjoying taking care of Barry (because trust kink is his jam, fight me). Helping him calm down, work through sensory or emotional overload, cooking together to make sure he eats good food and not just what's cheap and easy. It helps with his own anxiety and depression issues.
Sexy kink is good. Nonsexual kink for mental health/disability support IS AMAZING!
