#Iris my beloved

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Character ask: Iris West + 12, 20, 25

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

A headcanon I am very fond of is that in addition to being a terrible gift-giver (canon) and a bad cook (also canon), Iris cannot sing at ALL. I just think it's so funny that like, Joe can sing. Barry can sing. Iris cannot carry a tune to save her life. She has none of Joe's musical talent.I have defo posted about this before but I love to imagine Barry walking in and hearing Iris singing in the kitchen or something, and it's the most awful, tuneless singing you have ever heard, so bad it could burst eardrums, and it's his favourite sound in the world. He loves it. Meanwhile, everyone else's ears are bleeding.

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

So I know allegedly Barry is Iris's best friend BUT to me her best friend will always be Cisco. I absolutely adore their dynamic. I especially love the closeness they develop between s3 and s4 when Barry is missing and they are both relying on each other and joining forces to find a way to bring him back. Also one of my fave moments, I can never remember what ep or season it's on, I wanna say s2? But iirc, Tony Woodward comes back as like a zombie or something and he's after them, and Cisco leaps in front of her all dramatic like "Get behind me!!" and Iris gets so cross and shoves him behind her and goes "YOU get behind ME!" and it cracks me up every time. It just fills me with joy seeing them share a screen in general. I think it's a very layered and supportive relationship between two very kind and loving characters who also aren't afraid to give each other a good telling off when the situation calls for it. I love them, your honour

I also kinda like the idea of Iris being friends with Shawna Baez. I don't know what it is, I'm pretty sure they never interacted, but I think Iris would give her good advice and they'd have a good time hanging out

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

You know, I honestly don't have clear memories of my first impression of most of the characters! My memories of watching the first season for the first time in general are very vague. I do specifically remember not liking Len at ALL which is so funny to me now skshsggss. But I don't remember much about my first impression of Iris. I do remember that I didn't care for Westallen when I first started the show, but I'm not sure if that was anything to do with disliking Iris, or if it was just the ship as a whole (and there are still aspects of their s1 dynamic that are not my favourite, much as I adore that season).That being said by s2 I remember being so on board with her and loving her! I do think she took a little while to grow into herself as a character, whenever I do a rewatch I find it a bit jarring revisiting her, she seems so different to me, especially in the first handful of eps! But yeah on the whole I barely remember my first time watching the early seasons which is so funny to me. My ex actually made me watch it. He was like "oh you'll love it". Anyways we broke up like 8 years ago and it's still my favourite show, so he clearly wasn't wrong lmao

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Iris ⚡

Race: Human

Class: Draconic Bloodline Sorcerer (Bronze)

Pronouns: she/her

Age: 27

Background: Guild Artisan

Romance partner(s): Astarion & Halsin

More notes under the cut (contains BG3 spoilers)

My notes:

Iris - my muse, my beloved. She's my D&D character from when I first played in 2018 and lives in my head rent free. I've fleshed her out a lot over the years, especially recently when I put her in BG3. I am working on a longfic for her though so I want to be vague on this character post so I don't spoil my own fic lol.

I said this on my Dark Urge character post, but I originally started playing BG3 in co-op with my spouse in splitscreen mode on her PC. We never finished that playthrough though due to my spouse's schedule getting busy. That run was when I originally put Iris in the game. Since we never finished that run, I decided to redo Iris on my own so I would have a completed run for her.

The main part of her story is that she doesn't know where her powers come from. She was raised by her adoptive mothers in a village where people are distrustful/fearful of magic. She had to run away as a teenager due to an incident where she couldn't keep the magic in and ended up settling in Baldur's Gate. She was there for about a decade before the events of the game. But with her past, it still scares her to use her magic.

Iris grew up in a tailor's shop learning the trade from her mothers. So once she settled on her own in the city, she made money from repairing and altering people's clothes. I have a cute moment planned in my fic between her and Astarion that addresses this.

I like to imagine that Iris' draconic scales get more and more apparent every time she levels up. They are also on other parts of her body, not just her face (if anyone knows of a BG3 mod for this, please let me know). She is very self-conscious of her scales and is careful about what she wears and when/where she changes clothes to hide the ones on her body. The ones on her face can't really be hidden very well though.

She was quite lonely on her own in the city and then suddenly was thrown into a group of weirdos with tadpoles in their brains. She comes to love them all dearly and grows more and more confident in using magic as her friendships deepen.

While I think Iris would have connected really well romantically with Wyll, Astarion got to her first. Being bitten had her realizing some things about herself.

Iris used the tadpoles initially, but resisted the astral tadpole. She had a strong sense of betrayal with the dream guardian/Emperor situation. This was only worsened after discovering what happened with Ansur. And so, for the third time, I chose to have Orpheus become the mindflayer in the end.

I think that her lifespan is longer than a normal human's due to having dragon blood. Probably more close to a half-elf's lifespan. She probably would find magical ways to prolong her life as well.

I did go the throuple route again with Astarion and Halsin, mainly because I have fic ideas for the three of them. But I also just really like Halsin if you haven't been able to tell from my previous character posts.

Post game, Iris and Astarion set out to look for a way for him to be in the sun again, but they occasionally visit Halsin.

A few more pics are below (I took too many screenshots and it was hard to choose).

Being Very Normal about being bitten by a vampire:

Iris was always kinda sus of the dream guardian. Probably because she looks a bit like Lily, her ex-gf:

After Astarion's confession ♥:

Yep, definitely still sus:

If you know, you know:

When you suddenly have two elf boyfriends:

Confronting the brain:

That's all I've got on her for now, I may edit to add more as I think of things!

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2 minutes into The Holiday and I still weep

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Accidentally dropped him into a nuclear waste and things happened

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Caitlin…..

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Selkie au

Iris, to a young Wally: my sweet little boy, your pelt is extremely important to you, if you are to give it to a human make sure it's your true love, or you'll never get your pelt back.

Years later

Wally, peaking from the waves only met Dick for 2 seconds: have my pelt!

Dick, shocked: we only just met though...

Wally, smiles: don't care, I like you a lot and I wanna be with you a lot so, pelt, take, now!

Dick, takes pelt: okay... Mom was wrong about you guys being skittish.