Thinking about Barry Penelope friendship where she also reconnects with Chance in a platonic way to play GnG with the home owner and Dasha, and inviting Barry to play as well because like
He would get sooo involved in the fantasy of it all, character design, visualizing everything and then when the burnout hits, Chance is there to let him know the game is meant to be fun and if there's anything about it that's stressing him out or that he's worried about forgetting or not being able to keep up with, he's there to help! He wants the experience to be good for everyone involved.
And so on top of Penelope helping him colour code all his spell cards, chance is showing him dry erase sheet protectors and digital options so he can change things on his character sheet without worrying. About anything he writes being permanent or wrong, coming up with metaphors and analogies involving things he knows Barry hyperfixates on to make them easier to understand and stick in his head, making cheesy mnemonics to make the dice easier to identify (the d8 is 2 pyramids ass to ass legit helps me everytime)
But he also makes Barry feel involved in the game by asking for more descriptions of NPCs and characters in terms of appearance, clothing choices, smells and colours, he asks Barry questions about his areas of expertise for research in world building (if you've ever been a DM sometimes you will forget you can make up the world however you want and spend an hour researching how rice is cultivated to make sure it makes sense in the biome of your world)
Anyway queerplatonic/maybe romantic Chance and Barry anyone?
