#HEHEHEHEHEHE ALL DE SHIPS SO MANY SHIPS:3c

[frosty-the-killer-doll]

hey you should tell me about your arrowverse polycule au

SO GLAD YOU ASKED SO OKAY

crisis on infinite earths, right? right. So everything up to the death of the multiverse, canon to the AU, BUT ALSO. once the multiverse is rebirthed, thats where my shit starts. everything is different, everyone is closer (emotionally, anyway). those who died pre-crisis are suddenly resurrected in 2020, having still technically died in this timelime but jsut being, yknow, abruptly back, INCLUDING OLIVER. doppelgangers like Black Siren are running around without that meaning the sacrifice of their counterparts. only some characters remember the previous timeline(s), but everyone knows that this is not the original multiverse.

In my AU, Oliver saw all the lost and pain and loneliness the heroes have been forced to endure, and also saw the pining and repressed feels they had for their friends. So, he, all Spectre like, decided to give the heroes a little extra comfort in their lives, a little more love.... thus, the polycule!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!

(im insane rn)

IT STARTS. With Caitlin and Ronnie, because Caity is my fave and it's my fucking AU. Caitlin and Ronnie were a privately polyamorous couple, and when they met Cisco at STAR Labs, Ronnie and him became quick boyfriends and Cisco eventually became Caitlin's queerplatonic partner. They remain that even when Ronnie dies and they become Barry's coma caretakers. Iris becomes their friend during that time, and eventually their girlfriend, bringing Eddie into the polycule shortly after. Barry wakes up, they try to hide their relationships from him but, yknow, he catches Iris and Eddie together and also Caity spills the beans when she's drunk off her ass, so he knows now.

And he tries to deny his own feelings to himself, and tries to force himself to get over Iris--- it does not work! It's not until Barry meets Kara that he accepts that he wants in on the whole polyam thing, and while venting to Kara, he basically introduces her to the concept of polyamory. Kara's still going through the James/Lucy/She love triangle when they meet, you rememeber, and finally Kara has an answer to her problem: her own polycule!!!

(the Kara/James thing still goes down like it did canonically, with her ultimately rejecting him, but her date with Lucy goes well and they become girlfriends, with James remaining Lucy's boyfriend)

Anyway, after Barry comes back from Kara's, obviously, it's Zoom shit going down, Caitlin gets kidnapped, so, yknow, i think during that whole ordeal would cause Barry to wait to confess his feelings, BUT. he does get with Cisco and Iris before season 3. and obvi, there's no Flashpoint on Earth-Prime, so Barry doesn't pull that bullshit! yay!

Now, Flash s2 takes place during Arrow s4, with Darhk. It's Laurel's death season, which still happens (sorry Laurel i love u), but its also a real magic-heavy season. So, Oliver is forced to lean on his impossible friends for help defeating the impossible.

Basically Oliver, Barry, Iris and Felicity have one of those "didnt know they were dating" type dynamics where all four get real close, real quick, and get confused for who is dating who so much that it becomes something of an inside joke until, oopsie, these whores caught feelings, and yknow how good Felicity is at hiding her crushes!!!! So, all the s4 Olicity angst still goes, but there's four of them in it now, and eventually, they get spiritually married (officiated by John, just like in Crisis On Earth-X) as a polyamorous quad.

ALSO, Barry and Kara get together during Duet!

The timeline of relationships is confusing as fuck (which is why I haven't gone into Sara or the Legends lmao) but it is my confusing as fuck au,,,,,,,,,,,,, it is extremely self-indulgent,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, read abt it on archive of our own @pastelglitchesxx <3

#HEHEHEHEHEHE ALL DE SHIPS SO MANY SHIPS:3c #arrowverse polycule au #frosty answers #arrow #the flash #supergirl #superlane #westallen #olivarry #smoakwest #barricity #superflarrow #i am not tagging all this sorry babes<3