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Cisco Ramon is the biggest hype-man and the most encouraging person anyone could have on their team in this essay I will

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Which of these two highest ships for Cisco is your favourite?

(based on amount of ao3 fics)

My plane lands and i'm still riding the amazing high of the onlyoneof concert and i turn off airplane mode to discover that in 2023 thomas grant gustin was asked "if barry wasn't with iris who would he be with and why is it leonard snart" and this fucking guy answered "i think barry would be with cisco. Barry loves cisco like no one else" what the fuck is going on

now you got me curious and i have to ask, what would the angstified version of my hc be? i really need to know now, i think.

Referring to my tags in this post

Oh I was just thinking about one of them (specifically Barry for reference) getting kidnapped/going missing and the other waking up alone. Cisco opening his eyes to the other side of the bed empty, the initial moment of ‘oh it’s fine he’s just out somewhere’ to ‘no no no’ and remembering whatever happened the previous day. And when they inevitably rescue him, Cisco wakes up and the first thing he sees is Barry, safe, sleeping across from him.

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Cisco doesn't know why he keeps dreaming of Barry - their patient in Star labs. Sure, it could be the guilt for what happened to him, and he's been spending a lot of his waking hours looking him up and talking to the man's family.

Barry sounds exactly like the sort of person Cisco would love to hang out with, but it doesn't explain why Cisco has such specific dreams of the two of them watching Star Trek and placing bets on who can eat the most Belly Burger nuggets (spoiler alert for himself: Barry always wins, the man is a bottomless pit).

It gets very worrying when the dreams slowly grow into strange, waking visions of Barry moving at superspeed, fighting a man in yellow, and into very creepy flashes of Doctor Wells standing over Barry's comatose body.

Cisco can't explain it, but he knows Barry is in very grave danger at Star labs and he's determined to save his future best-friend-maybe-something-else. He also really hopes Barry wakes up soon, because this will all be a lot to explain.

(In which Cisco gets his vibe powers before Barry wakes up from his coma. Set in the CW Flash show.)

(Fake fic ask game!)

I can't get my brain to cooperate for anything remotely more elaborate than a headshot for weeks but someone mentioned Barry in croptops...

I'll probably clean that up eventually, but for now, happy to have gotten something more done.

Okay so imagine S2 the Flash where Eddie didn't die so he and Iris are engaged and planning their wedding. Barry of course has a +1 for whenever the wedding is and here comes Patty who is clearly interested in him. So Iris is not so subtly pushing Barry in that direction and so is Cisco, leading to that scene at Jitters where Cisco's all 'see how easy it is to ask out someone you like' and then much deservedly crashes and burns for asking out a food service worker at her place of employment. (Sorry, Cisco, love him but asking out Kendra while she was at work was totally inappropriate.)

And Barry is just relieved that Cisco didn't get the date. Because Patty is nice and all, but she's not Cisco and Barry's started to realize that he's kinda head over heels for Cisco.

Except then Cisco does get the date with Kendra after all, so Barry makes his 'why breakfast?' joke (so many ace vibes there, I swear) but it's a bit more stilted than in canon and Barry heads off to be alone afterwards where he asks himself how he manages to get into these situations where he's interested in someone who isn't interested in him back.

Things with Kendra go as per canon, Cisco ditched for my least favorite version of bird-boy (give me the tortured soul who depends on Blockbuster for his pandemic social interactions, mmkay? I like him, he needs hugs but isn't condescending or controlling) and maybe feeling a bit upset about the whole thing. And perhaps a bit more invested in Barry/Patty happening because at least someone in their friend group deserves a successful romance and Caitlin is still grieving Ronnie (again). So it's gotta be Barry.

So Barry has his first date with Patty and it goes okay but he's just not... feeling that spark. And he doesn't want a repeat of Linda so he ends the date by admitting he'd just rather be friends. Patty takes this stoically, Cisco on the comms is like "Dude???" (because remember, Barry started the date blind with Cisco guiding him and his sight was restored by the adrenaline rush of Patty kissing him which here would just upset him over being kissed unexpectedly, contributing to the panicked 'no further dates please' reaction)

Barry avoids like a pro because he didn't spend 15 years avoiding telling Iris how he felt to start being chatty about his feelings to his crush now, but after the fake fight with E1 Linda fails, Cisco finally corners Barry and pushes the right buttons to get a confession that Barry didn't actually ask out the person he likes when he asked Patty on a date. He asked Patty because Cisco made it clear he wasn't interested in Barry when he asked out Kendra.

The mental gymnastics Barry's RSD goes through sometimes bewilders Cisco, but he does see how this one happened. Of course Cisco's still in 'did I hear correctly' and 'brain rebooting' mode when Zoom takes Linda hostage. So the last thing Barry says to Cisco before running off to save his ex is something along the lines of "the person I like most is you".

Cisco proceeds to spend the rest of the night in a low key panic over what he's going to say to Barry when he wakes up because does he acknowledge it now or later? Does he put it aside until Barry's recovered enough to be in a good headspace for relationship discussions and date planning?

Being Cisco, what happens is he rambles himself into a corner and Barry demands cuddles once he processes that yes, actually, Cisco does want to date Barry too.

i think it's hilarious that everyman assumed caitlin was into barry just because she touched his arm since, as oliver points out in elseworlds, team flash is so goddamn physically affectionate in a very casual manner and it just makes me wonder what he would have thought if it was cisco squeezing his arm or eddie patting his back or iris wiping food off his lips. one right after the other. would he have realized that none of them were dating barry or would he have assumed the guy whose form he was stealing was just a whore

is there a ship name for Barry x Cisco x Hartley? if not I propose Vibrato

Can't spell BARRY without... (5/5)

The two have a strong bond from the start of the show and faced some challanges. Do you prefer the pairing together romantically, see them more platonically or dont like to see the two togehter at all?

hihi hello :) i have a question after your tags on your reblog, i totally agree that Barry standing up for Cisco is the best, and i was wondering what your favorite instance of it happening in the show is?

Admittedly it’s hard to choose because there are many more canon instances of Cisco standing up for Barry compared to the other way around (which I think is a shame tbh, justice for Barry taking care of/standing up for Cisco!!). It happens more often in fanfics at least, and I lean in that direction more often when it comes to writing them.

My favorite one is Barry reassuring Cisco that he'll never become like Reverb in 2x18, and also just generally any time he hypes up Cisco's powers. It’s so sweet 🥰

(Also, this is more headcanon than outright canon, but I like to think when Barry’s yelling at Future Barry in 3x19, he’s angry about him abandoning Future Cisco too. Future Cisco seems so skittish around Future Barry, and that’s gotta hurt 😔 we even see later in 3x19 how sorry Future Barry is about abandoning everyone…and that’s gotta include Cisco)

I also didn’t even realize it until I saw this video, but Barry sees at least two timelines in which Cisco is badly hurt or killed, which surely makes him extra protective over Cisco :( we see in s6 how insistent he is that he should die while Cisco lives, and that’s probably a major reason why.