#its MY jetpack joyride hyperfixation and I get to choose the headcanons!!!!

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A List Of Headcanons Regarding Barry Steakfries Because No One Can Stop Me

this’ll be updated over time the more headcanons i either adopt or pull outta my ass :D

Starting off neat with this one, Barry is a raging bisexual. In a bonus episode in Age Of Zombies (Barry’s first official appearance in a game), Prince Runingunin (amazing name) dresses as a saloon girl who initially calls him for help. Barry, upon seeing him, kisses him (adorable), and after learning he’s actually the prince, he initially panics but then asks “Wait... why are you dressed as a confusingly hot saloon girl?” and “Wait... are you wearing Cherry Lip-gloss?”. Like the dude’s not even that panicked about it, just a little confused, even pretty interested haha. I’m also one of those fuckers who ships him and Craig HARD!! Barry does show an attraction to women as he did have a girlfriend at one point in Robot Bird (but that was before she dumped him for being too cool to show up to dinner). As a fellow gay I also have the tendency to have a lot of gay headcanons because men are cool and I just think LGBTQIA+ headcanons are neat :)

Short answer: Barry is autistic because I’m autistic and I  said so. Not-so-short answer: When I watched Shirt Sleeves for the first time, I interpreted Barry’s urge to rip his sleeves as something he does for sensory stimulation, like if he’s understimulated or really excited or nervous. Barry is very easily excitable (see: literally any media he’s in) and impulsive which can lead to him unknowingly ripping his sleeves. I mean, he even says it himself: he often feels compelled to get really excited and to yell and rip his shirt material. Also he’s just.... so autistic??? I can’t explain it properly but he’s just like me fr i feel like Barry would tug at his sleeves when feeling real insecure i do the same thing i dont know

Another headcanon related to shirt ripping and this one’s more of a theory but his shirt ripping thing could also be something similar to Trichotillomania, which is a disorder in which the person pulls at their hair either from stress or because it pleases/satisfies/may ease anxiety for them. Barry may have something similar but for like... sleeve ripping. He describes his impulsive shirt ripping as a “disease” and that he thinks he’s unwell for it (i mean he even goes to therapy because he believes it’s affecting him that much that he’s concerned about it). In one part of the video, we see Barry as a little kid ripping at his sleeve and visibly becoming more relaxed and pleased (also the detail of him looking around as if looking to see if someone’s there is really interesting to me just a note to self) which to me says that this behaviour may be both a form of stim or another disorder which,,, yeah

Anyway enough about shirt sleeves, Barry has ADHD and there’s SO MUCH EVIDENCE!!! I wrote this all down in my notes and I am SO ready to infodump it okay so: In Rainbow Barry, he shows traits of desiring instant gratification and impulsiveness as he becomes progressively more frustrated about the order of his new jetpack taking forever (me too buddy) and he tries to get his mind off of it. Feeling super impatient, he runs to Legitimate Research’s lab, seemingly not noticing the truck coming towards him and proceeds to make anOTHER HOLE IN THE WALL HE ALREADY BROKE THROUGH (this reminds me of how whenever Saxton Hale jumps through a wall it’s in the shape of fucking Australia) (Barry is just the tinier Saxton Hale change my mind). Anyway, he also is forgetfull and has trouble with distractions, as again in Robot Bird, he misses dinner with his ex-girlfriend due to getting distracted and finding a robot bird that shits shoots money (but who needs a partner anyway when you have a sick ass robot bird that shoots money) (and a robot dragon that breathes fire) (and a robot dog that is awesome) (that you stole from a poor struggling scientist)

Barry shows more ADHD traits in The Very Last Minute, wherein the entire thing is about Barry procrastinating on this thing he really needs to do which is blasting monsters in the streets and whatnot. Y;know, just a regular Friday night. So anyway, Barry is shown trying his best to actually start training, but he just can’t seem to stop geting distracted all the time. Like, he’s excited about being able to blast shit into pieces, but he just can’t seem to get started actualy training for it and jumps from task to task and distraction to distraction, which struggling with focus is a trait that many people with ADD/ADHD have, me included. What’s intersting to me is how this links back to autism with a thing called “Demand Avoidance”, in which the person may like doing the task at hand, but when faced with a set time or deadline, they just can’t seem to get started and may feel overwhelmed. Barry, whilst procrastinating, appears to be visibly overwhelmed whilst skipping (which is apparently a thing necessary for training) (and why wouldn’t it be) which is probably just a joke but I really like overanalysing things and providing my own interpretation to stuff so,,, Barry likes training, the man is ripped as fuck and he has a lot of equipment in his house for it. However, because of the deadline, he feels overwhelmed and suddenly feels “lazy” and distracted by everything (even painting which he is REALLY good at!). There’s some lyrics in the song that go “Gotta keep focused, gotta keep training but I just can’t seem to stop procrastinating” and it relates to the feeling of “i really need to do this task right now, i know it’s important and i need to do it, but i just can’t” and it’s just both so relatable and so accurate to how it really is to be so procrastinated and/or overhwlemed when you really gotta do shit.

Barry’s need for instant gratification extends to Level 2 in which, after reaching the end of the lab, Barry feels unfulfilled that there’s no sort of reward, and he feels frustrated and empty. That’s... really all I got. There’s tons of other ADHD things related to Barry but I think I’d just be repeating myself if i wrote ‘em all down and i think i got my point proven

not a barry headcanon but Flash (his dog) has .wav files of normal dog barks which is why he sounds robotic in Shirt Sleeves thank you

you know how in the trailer, Barry has glasses? Yeah uh he actually needs those to see properly, so when he ditched them after breaking into the lab, he immediately realised that he couldn’t quite see certain obstacles like missiles from a good distance, so he went to the department of one of the scientists (via breaking through their wall) and was like “hey uhh.... you got any tiny non-nerd looking glasses that are invisible or something?” and the scientist was like “you mean contact lenses?” and Barry was like “yeah those” and now Barry has contacts :) (reminds me of how Jon has contacts in the Garfield strip.... i wonder why) (maybe Doc Boy punched him in the face one time i dunno) (EDIT: this was actually talked about in one of Barry’s vlogs! someone asked him about it and he explained that his poor eyesight was “cured” when a laser shot him directly in the eyes. this did cause side effects though, as Barry says that he occasionally “tastes colours” and sometimes has trouble controlling his bladder. which brings me into my next somewhat “canon” headcanon...)

Barry has synesthesia, more specifically he tastes colour. As mentioned above, Barry says this was caused by a laser to the eyes which... goddamn if the lasers at the lab have the ability to completely re-wire parts of your brain to experience synesthesia if shot into your eyes then i don’t even want to know what it’s capable of if you point it directly at your cranium.....

Stealing the jetpack wasn’t the first time Barry caused copious amounts of destruction and chaos, he is in fact a chronic and professional chaos causer, is banned from several establishments in Australia and that’s the reason he worked at a department owned by really Bad Corp (yeah its kind of implied he worked there in the trailer? its confusing) (EDIT: he was going door to door and selling gramophones and that’s why he rocked up at the lab. he doesn’t work at LR.... i dont know how i came to that conclusion)

When Barry first started his vlog, he was actually pretty nervous about it at first because he didn’t go online much (other than youtube to watch cat videos) (barry canonically watches cat videos and i think that is amazing) and definitely hadn’t started anything like a vlog to such a large group of people before. This is why he sounds more quiet, down to earth and has a lot more stutters and pauses in his speech, cause he was kinda nervy and hadn’t done this before. As the series went on though, and the more Barry got to learn his audience, he quickly became a lot more confident and loud as he got more comfortable and thus you don’t hear him stammer as often in the later episodes. Call that subtle character development!!!

thankyou for  reading i’m going to play roblox now :)