You’ve spent your whole life locked in libraries and studies, learning about the world around you without ever entering it. You’re filled with jealousy of those who do. Your past sins are sloth and envy. How do you plead?
sloth/envy strikes me really hard as code for depression/anxiety disorder double whammy u feel me? Griffin also describes Barry as ‘always nervous.’
also the implication that a middle aged dude who’s lived a pretty sheltered life is suddenly going into space? sounds a LOT like a mid life crisis.
Barry: *literally hops onboard a rocket ship to escape the fact that he spent 20 years collecting degrees not leaving any meaningful impact on the world*
Contrast with Lup’s “I did this world and kind of… crushed it?” *leaves this stink planet*
LOVE THAT CONTRAST! that dynamic! Lup who’s older and experienced and has done things, seen things! Barry saying he looks up to her, calling her the love that defined and redeemed him! it’s so GOOD
i’m working on my Barry character study rn and he’s just a MESS…i love him so much. he’s never been particularly good at people or emotions but he becomes defined by the love he feels for his family and it literally sustains his humanity! the growth! is so good
His character arc is to become an undead monstrosity powered by love and i think that’s beautiful
Barry J Bluejeans is a lich necromancer, capable of casting the paladin/cleric spell Command, who is fluent in thieves cant and identifies as a fighter when his memory is wiped.
Barold what the absolute fuck
Barry J Bluejeans, on top of all of this, is also an item artificer (just like everyone else on the Starblaster), a bond and interplanar scientist, and plays the fucking piano, so at any point in time this motherfucker could class as a bard if he really wanted to.
What isBarry?
All the power is in his jeans. He’s just possessed by them.
sildar hallwinter is a fighter/bard multiclasser
barry bluejeans, sentient pair of pants possessing sildar, is the weird wizard/paladin multiclasser.
Actually, in 5e, none of that is even weird, even if you stick to just the Player’s Handbook, no extra guides. His ability to play the piano is probably from his background, which would have to be Entertainer or Outlander. Barry’s a Human, so he can get a feature at first level, but if he didn’t, he gets the option again at 4, 8, 12, and 16. When he gets that option, he can take Magic Initiate, choosing Cleric, so since Command is a first level spell, he can cast it once per day for free, and using wizard spell slots otherwise. He can use another of those features to take Linguist, which allows him to gain three languages, one of which could be Thieves’ Cant. Another feature gets him Weapon Master, allowing him to wield any four types of weapons, and then he can take Lightly, Moderately, and Heavily Armored, to completely pass himself off as a Fighter by wearing any armor he wants. So no, Barry’s not multiclassed, he’s just built by someone who really knows their way around the PHB
kravitz: your blouse is just a bit too dark for the rest of your outfit, so you should change it to something more pastel. also, with that skirt you might want higher heels – this would be a good excuse to wear those boots we got last week. while you do that, i’ll go change my shirt so we aren’t completely clashing.
taako: thanks babe i love you
[later, on their double date]
taako: lup what the fuck are those cargo pants
lup: i don’t want to hear it. we’re at a trashy bar and you two look like you just stepped off the runway.
Kat told me about the theory that Angus is Lup and Barry’s child and I gotta say as there’s nothing I can recall that definitively disproves this, I dig it. Yeah it’s cute as shit but mostly because of the possibility that dear sweet precious Ango was created via mad science and/or black magic.
people seem to forget that barrys first thought when he wakes up naked in his newest body post wonderland is to assume that he had a wild fucking foursome with THB and honestly………. in terms of forgotten fandom facts its a tragedy this is one of them
just moving along like everyone else 