I… need to know if you have more HalbarryOllie thoughts? Please and thank you!
HI OP. tysm for asking because i am actually Always filled with thoughts. they rotate in my mind like a microwave 24/7 :3
this is a mix of headcannons and observations, so i hope that's what you were looking for! sorry it's a billion long i got Invested...
hal and barry for some reason, love to carry each other. they will pick each other up just whenever, barry usually carrying hal in a bridal grasp or hal carrying barry either like a potato sack or creating s construct to carry him. ollie judges them heavily, what freaks. (the first and last time barry tries to carry ollie when it's not necessary, it ends with him taking a solid hit to the crotch. hal will not stop laughing.)
ollie and hal both have leftover habits and trauma from poverty. when one of them sees the other with negative food behaviour, or accidental hoarding they don't say anything because they know they behave the exact same way. another holdover they have, is the stubborn pride that you HAVE to do it yourself. a pipe bursts or something: cue hal and ollie covered in water, apartment flooded, water damage everywhere but Fuck if they aren't going to figure out how to do this! they are outraged when they realised barry called a plumber.
i don't think they will ever get married in anyway, gonna be honest. hal and his commitment issues go brrr and ollie i think just Doesn't like marriage (roy had to get this opinion from somewhere, see below). the only way i ever see them getting married, is because barry wants to (fucking midwesterner), but even then i don't think he actually would want it that badly. i think that paired with the fact that not all of 3 of them can be married, that they just dont bother. paper is not needed to make your love anymore real.
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ollie and barry at first, just get along for hal. like he is a child of divorce. i think they would start getting really close after a long mission. you know when you are just so bone tired you lose the will to fight? they are just lazing about, and someone says something that usually would start an argument and instead the other just laughs and it's history from there on. they still bicker and argue sure, but they both know it's playful.
another reason they might have to start getting along, is their kids! wally and roy are good friends and at the beginning, some of the only sidekicks. i think their initial dislike manifests in passive-agressive one upping each other. ollie buys the boys a full spread for dinner, barry takes them to europe to try authentic food. barry takes them out to a water park, ollie rents out a themepark for them. the boys probably encourage it, especially wally.
im not gonna start spewing roywally propaganda in this post, but just know that the parallels between them and ollie x barry have me in a deathgrip.
ollie is the Only cis person in this relationship. i hc barry as transmasc, and hal as either gnc or genderfluid. ollie's the diversity hire guys <3 (if you include dinah in this, she is also trans! its cannon dont @ me)
the first time there is ever a Proper Fight in the polycule, it's between hal and ollie. ollie's habit of calling people nazis and facists usually don't bother hal (he was in the army, he had to get over letting dumb insults bother him). but just at some point, he's having a Bad Day and he just loses it at ollie. logically he knows it's not targeted but calling the jewish guy a nazi just set him off. they are both too stubborn to break the silence after the fight, it takes barry dragging ollie like a misbehaving cat to hal's to apologise before they get over it. ollie is now very careful to censor himself like that around hal.
honestly if anyone wants me to expand on my thoughts on jewish hal, or transgender halbarryollie PLEASE ask. im a hairtrigger away at any given moment.
ollie and hal both LOVE boxing, they love going to matches and watching. at some point, they start trying to include barry and take him along to the fights. barry for the life of him Cannot enjoy this shit. somehow, at some point, they end up at a wwe match and they all become avid fans. date nights now include lazing on the couch with takeout and watching playbacks on tv.
barry runs so fucking hot, and ollie runs cold. leaving hal to fucking Despise sharing a bed with them. genuinely his worst nightmare. even the army was better than this. it is not uncommon to find hal on the floor asleep.
after hal's death, ollie doesn't cope with it very well. killing his bf fucks him up so greatly, he ends up really clinging to barry. barry also isn't handling well but he can't let himself fall apart, he needs to be there for ollie. they start living together basically full time, until one day barry's grief just builds up too much and he ends up saying something he regrets in the heat of an argument (probably something along the lines of blaming ollie for hal's death or he's only staying with ollie because of hal). ollie storms off and barry is just... Gutted. before they have time to reconcile, ollie dies. (if im getting my timelines wrong don't look at me, i will sob)
not a single one of these men have fashion taste. they all dress like the loser middle aged men they are. fucking fashion crimes against humanity! hal steals their clothes quite frequently, which is controversial considering he is the largest person out of the three of them and their shirts and stuff are definitely Too tight. (ollie and barry aren't complaining though, except for when they get their clothes back and they are so fucking stretched)
i love picturing them as cheerleaders. not like, in the actual getup, but just as them being the PROUDEST boyfriends. hal and barry bragging about how ollie is the best shot in the world (hes not but its fine :3), green arrow and lantern standing to the side on a mission and just watching flash adoringly because they know he doesn't need their help, ollie and barry smugly parading around hal like "yeah. this is my bf. hes so hot i know. he's so smart as well." none of them have any idea they are doing it though. they are gag worthy.
ollie's love language is gifts but not always monetary. more like making them food, taking them out places and stuff like that. its the thought and effort that goes into it, that's why does it. barry's is touch, this man LOVES hugs and draping himself over his bfs. hals is acts of service! he wants to help and just do whatever he can for them whenever possible. you could see that hal bases his selfworth off of how much he can do for others, which is so horrible and sad. so yknow. brainworms.
ollie's house accidentally becomes their usual meeting place, but only because he fucking HATES the zeta tubes. whenever he meets them anywhere, he will always whine about how they make him sick. barry does offer to pick him up, but it's a point of pride to him at this point, he can't just admit defeat to the zeta. barry and hal make a silent agreement to just meet him instead. (this was based off an actual comic panel, but i cannot for the Life of me remember which one).
none of them show up on time to dates. it actually becomes so incredibly common that when they miss them, no one takes offence anymore. cue one time where they all missed a date, and are sheepish around the others and keep trying to make it up to them. it takes 3 days before they realise that none of them were there.
and that's it for now! thanks for reading mwah maah
This motherfucker....... Bastard cat was the only correct answer despite my searching, pretty sure it's been head of his team when I made one more than once
Body surprisingly fit for movement, but not as much for raw strength, moody beast
He's going to knock soooo many cups off of countertops
[Edit] T-t-t-trainer caaaard
Pokemon he think are cool and would be shocked pikachu when he got his shit rocked by a well put together team
Could he take the time to build a competitive team? For sure
It's going very nice! back from spring break booo but I haven't gotten homework yet so :D
📃 for a snippet from a wip
“You have given away too much of yourself against your will. A broken music box, desperately trying to sing. You are riddled with gaps. Who will fill them?”
💖 for a reason (or reasons) i love you
oh!!!! it's so cool that one of ur names is the same as the ancient greek dude who inspired my url <33 thats so cool i didnt even realize that. n e ways i just love seeing your posts!! youre so funny and nice and we should definitely talk more bestie <333 ilyyyy /p
☀️ for something that makes me happy
oooooh shirts that have little flowers on them they r soo nice
choose 1 bestie only. who is the best of besties, barry or ollie
op youre asking me to choose between my sons. this is so farked!!!
ollie and hal's friendship is such peak white guy friendship, it's long trips and bickering and arguments but in the end it's them showing up for each other no matter what, it's that unconditional support even if they think the other is being an idiot. these two are really quite different but they still make the effort to maintain such a close friendship!!!
whereas barry and hal are constantly pushing each other to be better, they both respect and look up to the other so much. their friendship is made up of mutual dedication and affection to the other, it's a more of a stereotypical friendship but no less impactful to read
i think, in my humble opinion, that while halbarry is more interesting to read i do think that halollie are the besties ever. because HOLY FUCK i will never recover from ollie killing hal.
like that is so fucking traumatising??? especially considering it wasn't fucking nesscary in the end. ollie is not able to look at hal and not remember having to kill him, but even though their last moments were so horrid ollie always remembers hal as this almost larger than life figure when he's dead.
and then when they both came back to life, they share that trauma. that unsteady feeling of lifw and people have kept moving this whole time while theyve just been out of the picture. i think it must be uniting in someway.
but yeah. hal has two hands. for holding both of his bfs (do i mean bestfriends or boyfriends? up for debate) hands.
