Hartley. And, sure, why not - OC?
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Ohcrap things got away from me. Rightthen. For the headcanons meme:
For Hartley (this is going to be TV!Hartley);
He has known Thea Queen forever. He has known her since before her idiot elder brother went missing (and didn’t he have something to say when he figured out what said idiot older brother had gotten her involved in). He draws parallels between her family and Star Wars when he wants to tease her.
He also hugs her. Casually, comfortably, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. It weirds out everyone who’s used to his usual body language the first time they see how it changes around her. (I have an entire post on hugging headcanons for him here.)
The unspecified sixth language that he speaks is German. He picked it up because a lot of foundational physics (Heisenberg, Hertz, Plank, Einstein) was discussed in German, and he wanted to catch the nuances.
When he’s been working for a day straight or longer, you can get him to fall asleep by getting him to take his glasses off. Lisa figured that one out. She usually just asks him to pass them over because there’s a smudge on them, and then he just rests his eyes for a second, and boom.
He has (very carefully; he is extremely careful about what gets on to his hearing aids) loaded a collection of music and scientific lectures onto his hearing aids and he listens to them when he wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep.
When he was a child, he kept a journal. In Latin. So that people wouldn’t read it.
His first pet rat is named Squeaks. This is an explicit shout-out tokatzedecimal‘s excellent comics!verse fic “Out of the Silence”, which I highly recommend. (That poor kid…!)
He accidentally started a… a community foundation, I guess? Initially it was just to keep the diner where he liked going from closing, but it sort of spiralled. He funds it from heists and embezzling from his parents, and calls it the Lewis Hamelin Community Preservation Society.
Of all the people at work, he was most comfortable around Caitlin. She usually shrugged off the needling, and her area of expertise wasn’t physics or engineering, so he wasn’t competing with her for Wells’ attention.
He figured out Barry’s secret identity before Len did. (Remember those files he grabbed from STAR Labs? I believe that Caitlin was conscientious about not putting Barry’s name in them, but I bet you Cisco wasn’t.)
For Virginia, OC;
Ray does meet her, eventually. He thinks Ginnie smells like a barbecue at a drive-in theatre (it’s the only context he has for the cooked meat and popped corn and cigarette smoke), and finds it cute.
The strings of her guitar are not gold, but they shine gold.
(This is absolutely a nod to another character, from some quite old stories, and no it’s not Fflewddur Fflam from The Black Cauldron.)
She is always respectful of cats. Sometimes they talk to her; sometime they simply take it as their due.
She used to be right-handed. It depends, now, on what kind of mood she’s in.
Whether she punches left-handed or right-handed, she punches hard. Unusually so.
She is always losing doorkeys. Can’t help it. It’s not quite so bad with vehicle keys, but after years of dealing with this nonsense she has actually gotten very good at hotwiring older models of car.
She wouldn’t call it magic, obviously, but she knows… small things. Never turn your back on the altar when inside a church. Put a silver dime in each shoe to keep from getting lost. When you speak in accidental chorus with someone, hook your little finger with theirs. Cut off all the peel of an apple in one piece and drop it over your shoulder, away from your shadow, to learn a name.
She is both very good at starting fires and very cautious about doing so.
She’s of two minds over which kind of music she likes best (the top contenders are rock music and hymns), but she’s got an amazing ear for most things, and can pick songs up very quickly.
She is not fond of either roses or barbed wire. The way they catch and tear is very uncomfortable.
Ohcrap things got away from me. Rightthen. For the headcanons meme:
For Hartley (this is going to be TV!Hartley);
He has known Thea Queen forever. He has known her since before her idiot elder brother went missing (and didn’t he have something to say when he figured out what said idiot older brother had gotten her involved in). He draws parallels between her family and Star Wars when he wants to tease her.
He also hugs her. Casually, comfortably, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. It weirds out everyone who’s used to his usual body language the first time they see how it changes around her. (I have an entire post on hugging headcanons for him here.)
The unspecified sixth language that he speaks is German. He picked it up because a lot of foundational physics (Heisenberg, Hertz, Plank, Einstein) was discussed in German, and he wanted to catch the nuances.
When he’s been working for a day straight or longer, you can get him to fall asleep by getting him to take his glasses off. Lisa figured that one out. She usually just asks him to pass them over because there’s a smudge on them, and then he just rests his eyes for a second, and boom.
He has (very carefully; he is extremely careful about what gets on to his hearing aids) loaded a collection of music and scientific lectures onto his hearing aids and he listens to them when he wakes up in the middle of the night and can’t sleep.
When he was a child, he kept a journal. In Latin. So that people wouldn’t read it.
His first pet rat is named Squeaks. This is an explicit shout-out to
katzedecimal‘s excellent comics!verse fic “Out of the Silence”, which I highly recommend. (That poor kid…!)He accidentally started a… a community foundation, I guess? Initially it was just to keep the diner where he liked going from closing, but it sort of spiralled. He funds it from heists and embezzling from his parents, and calls it the Lewis Hamelin Community Preservation Society.
Of all the people at work, he was most comfortable around Caitlin. She usually shrugged off the needling, and her area of expertise wasn’t physics or engineering, so he wasn’t competing with her for Wells’ attention.
He figured out Barry’s secret identity before Len did. (Remember those files he grabbed from STAR Labs? I believe that Caitlin was conscientious about not putting Barry’s name in them, but I bet you Cisco wasn’t.)
For Virginia, OC;
Ray does meet her, eventually. He thinks Ginnie smells like a barbecue at a drive-in theatre (it’s the only context he has for the cooked meat and popped corn and cigarette smoke), and finds it cute.
The strings of her guitar are not gold, but they shine gold.
(This is absolutely a nod to another character, from some quite old stories, and no it’s not Fflewddur Fflam from The Black Cauldron.)
She is always respectful of cats. Sometimes they talk to her; sometime they simply take it as their due.
She used to be right-handed. It depends, now, on what kind of mood she’s in.
Whether she punches left-handed or right-handed, she punches hard. Unusually so.
She is always losing doorkeys. Can’t help it. It’s not quite so bad with vehicle keys, but after years of dealing with this nonsense she has actually gotten very good at hotwiring older models of car.
She wouldn’t call it magic, obviously, but she knows… small things. Never turn your back on the altar when inside a church. Put a silver dime in each shoe to keep from getting lost. When you speak in accidental chorus with someone, hook your little finger with theirs. Cut off all the peel of an apple in one piece and drop it over your shoulder, away from your shadow, to learn a name.
She is both very good at starting fires and very cautious about doing so.
She’s of two minds over which kind of music she likes best (the top contenders are rock music and hymns), but she’s got an amazing ear for most things, and can pick songs up very quickly.
She is not fond of either roses or barbed wire. The way they catch and tear is very uncomfortable.
