voice; UN: red streak

[sanicspeed]

Wow this is....this is a bit difficult. Exciting, don't get me wrong but I feel like I'm reading my journal out loud to everyone.

What else are you supposed to say?

Right, right, I remember.

[Regrets and hesitation here. Why did he even say all that outside of being a loser?

Oh right, that explains everything.]

Look, I'm not one for public advertising but with all this excitement, I'd like to help a bit. So...

...ugh, I forgot to introduce myself. Barry Allen, that's my name. I'm a forensic scientist and I kind of own a place called S.T.A.R. Labs.

Which means if anyone has a crime they need to be solved, just give me a ring. Or hit me up if you need anything else. It's what I'm good at. Which was the whole point of this. I want to help out but don't really have a place to start. So if anyone wants to point fingers, point away. My mind is open to all comers.

[Short sentences and awkward. Yep, he was having a bit of an issue.]

That's all, I think. Good bye? Signing off? How do people do this...?

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VOICE. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

[ for a moment there's a silence that would generally be filled with someone saying something. it's either held for drama, or held for brief confusion; it's not apparent which it is. ]

So ...

[ there's so much squinting going on here. ]

You know of all the terrible metaphors that I could think up using the phrase red streak?

VOICE

[sanicspeed]

It was the first thing to come to mind! No one can say they made good decisions based on snap judgements.

...especially me.

I'm kind of curious on those metaphors though.

[Which he'd probably regret.]

voice;

[hsalf]

Did you have a diary? That's adorable.

[WHAT A JERK. Of course he would know if Barry had a private journal, considering he stalked him for over a decade...]

If you want to help you, then doing what you know best is as good a route as any. If capable.

voice;

[sanicspeed]

Shut up.

[Wells, please. At this point, he's pretty sure Harrison has gone through his crap at least once. Especially with all those cameras around.]

I'm glad you suppose that, at least. Though I get the feeling you're laughing internally.

[Inserting bad memes into real talk? Yep, that's Barry.]

username: happybirthday

[adoube]

Point you where you need to start...........

Mmmmmmmmmmmm................................

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Did that work??

voice | un: rutherford

[officer]

[ What? Cullen waits for a few seconds to try to parse what that was all about, then gives it up as a bad job. ]

So a... [ A brief pause as he tries to remember what the phrasing was and almost gets it right. ] A frensic scientist is like a city watchman?

voice;

[hsalf]

[Wow what a harsh and most likely accurate assumption there, Barry.]

If I'm not laughing at you externally, be assured that I am definitely doing it in my head. [Like, say, during the entire six to seven months that he mentored Barry after he awoke from his coma...] Or do you not remember all the jokes I made at your expense without you realizing it.

["The future will be here faster than you think", "I hope we're not enemies", "We'll catch the man who murdered your mother", etc.]

voice; un: peridot

[runningjoke]

I have something I need solved.

[sanicspeed]

Text is a little hard to get. The sun, even harder. So no.

It didn't work.

[sanicspeed]

Not really. It's more...

[How to explain it.]

...I go to crime scenes, look around, and from what's there, tell you a lot of things about the criminal. If there was a murder, for example, I could tell you when it happened, what weapon was used, how many people were there, etc, etc. If I'm lucky enough, I can tell you who exactly committed the crime without even having seen the crime being done.

Then I let the equivalent of a city watchman know so they know who to arrest.

voice;

[sanicspeed]

I'll do what I can for you then. What is it?

voice;

[sanicspeed]

Hah hah. Yes, those were quite amazing.

[Deadpan.]

But I'm not getting mad. You see that? Not getting mad.

[adoube]

Do you need a corpse...

It could be dead! The sun...

Would t h a t work?

[runningjoke]

Why are you so awkward sounding??

[To which she then starts snorting-laughing at her own joke. ]

[sanicspeed]

I'd rather not see anyone dead. Because that means someone would have been killed, which is pretty illegal, the last time I checked.

[sanicspeed]

....funny.

I'm not a public speaker, I'm a scientist type person. What can you expect from someone like that?

[runningjoke]

I'm very funny.

You're saying you're a scientist type person, and you're having problems figuring out a piece of technology? That's even more funny!

[sanicspeed]

I'm not having trouble making it work. I'm having trouble figuring out how people normally end speeches.

[runningjoke]

Try "End Log." Duh.

[sanicspeed]

A lot easier said now. Not so easy thinking about in the middle of talking.

voice;

[hsalf]

Why would you get mad? We're having a perfectly civil conversation here. No need for you to be frustrated about anything.

[runningjoke]

Then plan what you're going to say before you start! That's what a smart person does!

voice;

[sanicspeed]

Oh, you know. The thought of being laughed at 24/7 might help.

[sanicspeed]

It's a real shame most of my smarts are in chemistry, some biology, and various others physical areas.

[officer]

[ That sounds like blood magic. He considers how best to approach this, then decides that there's no point in beating round the bush about it. ]

So you are a blood mage?

[ Dangerous business, blood magic. Even those blood mages that ostensibly work for the guard are suspect. ]