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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 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.

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*cracks knuckles* For the headcanon ask…

1. She loves spicy food, to the point of cheerfully adding Scotch bonnets to the ingredients pile if someone else is cooking. (Roy is the only one who can eat anything she does. After years of eating whatever was most affordable, Roy’s tastebuds are slightly tougher than boot leather.)
2. She can charm anyone. It’s not sex appeal, although that’s an easy hook that she can use; she is just very very good at making people feel comfortable or interested or safe.
3. No-one gets to see Lisa Snart putting on makeup unless she wants them to know that at the current moment, they’re less important to her than getting her makeup right.
4. She is a lot meaner than her brother - I’m not saying her behaviour is more extreme, but she’ll show small cruelties well before he does. It’s a safety check. If she can be mean to you and you don’t push back, that means she’s still in control of the situation, even if you threw her for a loop. (This is not the best way to check, nor is it conscious; it is also the near-entirety of her motivation in Joyride.)
5. She’s not scared when Len’s around. Things will be as good as they can possibly be when Len’s around. Mick is almost as good.
6. She’s very good at letting other people make assumptions and running with them. She doesn’t usually do it, but she can totally pull off the kind of thing that Tara does in this clip from Leverage.
7. That said, I don’t think she likes it at all. It is much safer easier to not need to rely on people to decide to do the thing you need them to do, and simply make them do it. Len is not the only control freak in the Snart family, is what I mean to say.
8. She is also very good at picking up on people’s moods. She avoids being the den mother of the Rogues by generally not caring about their moods unless someone really needs managing, and she’s got a pretty high threshold for “that will sort itself out” before she starts to manage.
9. She has not lost a drinking contest since she was seventeen. Yes, sometimes she cheats. But she wins.
10. You know that perfectly dry possessed clarity you have when you look at the world and you aren’t mad anymore because none of it is worth you giving it the attention to actually be mad but you are completely out of fucks to give? That’s what it’s like inside Lisa’s head. The world, as I said here (links to a fantastic Twitter thread), has used up all the second chances with her a long time ago.

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tygermama:

I REALLY WISH MY COMFORTING SKILLS WERE BETTER THAN 

1 - I’M SORRY YOU’RE SAD

2 - PLEASE LET ME FEED YOU

3 - IS THERE ANYBODY YOU’D LIKE ME TO RUN OVER WITH MY CAR?

CAUSE I NEED MORE WORDINESS TO MAKE THE NICE FEELING HAPPEN

Good morning, and I am incapable of reading this except in Axel’s voice. XD

(I suspect the last would stress Hartley out. Lisa might need to explain that. Back, plot bunnies! Back!)