#revells19

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Earth-2 Cisco Ramon/Earth-19 Harrison "HR" Wells Characters: Earth-19 Harrison "HR" Wells, Earth-2 Cisco Ramon, Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells, Cisco Ramon Additional Tags: Soulmate AU, Revells19 - Relationship, Panic Attack, Mention of Drug Addiction/Overdose, Minor Cisco Ramon/Earth-2 Harrison "Harry" Wells, Earth-2 Cisco Ramon Lives, HR lives Summary:

The universes between them don't matter. Their souls were built to be a perfect fit.

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Stranger Perspective

Words: 1,486

Reverb squints in the obnoxious sunlight. 

He couldn’t believe this would be his life now, in witness protection. He should be thankful to still have his life. He’s just bitter. He’s never had anything to be thankful for that wasn’t taken from him in the next breath.

His house is modest, with a small porch shadowed by the roof. He doesn’t care to put any furniture on it, but a small, sad plant hangs above the handrail. The porch next door features a table and chairs, a grill, and a plethora of vibrant flowers.

It’s disgusting. Even more disturbing is the bright rosy-cheeked man he’s until now only observed from his window. Reverb doesn’t quite buy that he’s real, he’s like an android specifically programmed to pierce Reverb’s cloud of rancor. It makes him want to lash out in a violent storm.

He stands at the edge of the sidewalk that splits his yard, finally forced to take the trash out that was piling up. He has been avoiding human contact. After watching the people he was attached to perish at the hands of the man who claimed to love him, he’s not eager for new connections.

His neighbor’s small mixed breed dog sprints down the fenced yard and starts to excitedly bark at him. He glares at it and drops the trash in the can. He turns on his heel back toward the porch.

“Hey!”

No. Damn it. Go away.

“Hi.” Reverb contemplates throwing the trash can lid at his neighbor’s blithe expression and dashing to his door so he can hide again. He stiffly walks over instead. Maybe his visage will be more frightening from a shorter distance.

“Sorry about Daisy, she just loves people!” 

The mutt yelps at him, her little legs surging as she all but bounces back and forth along the fence-line. His bland expression and scowl have no effect. HR smiles fondly at her. Reverb wants to wipe it off his face. No one has ever smiled at him like that. But an excitable fleabag earns it? 

“If she loved me she’d shut the hell up,” Reverb responds. He could lie that it was a slip if pressed. It wasn’t.

“Aw. Not a dog person huh?”

Reverb shrugs. Lively things shrivel away from him if he doesn’t destroy them first. Cheerful people tend to be the quickest to judge him. 

Reverb takes the chance to examine his neighbor up close. He’s tall. But not like a spindly giraffe, more like a retired racehorse sort of vibe. He’s probably never done anything backbreaking in his life, but Reverb has seen him run. His muscles are usually hidden under baggy sweats or sweaters. 

As of now, this lazy Sunday, he wears a tight black T-shirt that has to be murder in the heat and a pair of white boxers with hearts all over them. “Are boxers fashionable here as outdoor wear or is it just you?” 

HR laughs unperturbed and doesn’t answer. Reverb senses that it won’t be a simple matter to goad him. He’s utterly sickening but oddly charming. Reverb can see his biceps and abs, and he’s admittedly lowkey attracted. He stares longer than necessary to test the reaction. 

HR follows his gaze. “Being a writer doesn’t mean I have to be a homebody! There’s a great trail near by if you’re interested.”

A writer? Reverb narrows his eyes. What does he write? Poems? Sappy, prose-filled fanfiction?

“I think I’ll pass.”

HR nods and leans on the fence. “It’s not for everyone. Though it has other merits - lots of foliage for ah, disguising certain co-operative activities.”

HR’s gaze roves over Reverb’s crotch and snaps back to his eyes. Possibly Reverb has underestimated him. Upbeat and cautious aren’t mutually exclusive. However, his placid smile seems eternally stuck there. 

He smiles, laughs too easy. Either someone really hurt him and it’s his way of coping, or he’s never faced difficulty in his entire life. And it has to have been a fairly high number so far, going by the laugh lines on his eyes and mouth.

His eyes. They’re a brighter shade of blue than Reverb could discern from the other side of his window. Bright colors aren’t usually his thing, but they’re beautiful.  

His neighbor steps through his gate. Oh no. Reverb slowly backs away, but he ends up tripping over the garbage. He holds out a hand. Reverb ignores it and reclaims his footing in a smooth movement. His neighbor grins, unaffected, and sticks out his hand for a shake.

He hates himself the way he flinches. HR’s eyebrows knit in concern. He glances at his own hand as though it’s a bomb ready to go off.

“Are you OK?”

Reverb reluctantly takes it. “I’m - I’ve recently gained freedom from my abusive spouse -”

Hunter Zolomon. If he ever sees his face again, Reverb would gladly strangle him with his bare hands. Possessive, cheating asshole lost his shit when Reverb got into a fistfight with his mistress. He should have seen it coming, Zolomon snapping and stabbing him in the chest. 

“Say no more! I apologize, I’ll be more careful in the future.”

Reverb rubs his chest at the memory onslaught. He missed Reverb’s heart by a few centimeters. He’s lucky he had earlier invited his brother over for a drink, as he called the ambulance. Any later, and he might’ve been toast.

When the police told him that Zolomon had been charged for several counts of murder, he wasn’t surprised. He didn’t struggle, didn’t debate. He was Tired. He was ready to escape.

Reverb sniffs with displeasure. “Don’t do that. Act like... like normal. My reactions are my problem alone.” 

“If that’s want you want. But I feel I should take some responsibility to respect your space if you need it.” HR strokes Reverb’s skin with his thumb. He supposes it’s meant to be a reassuring gesture. 

Due to that, he realizes he’s still holding HR’s hand. Not only that, but he’s squeezing his fingers so tight, it’s probably hurting him. He quickly shoves them in his pockets. Meanwhile, his dog crashes through the loose gate and charges him. HR grabs her in what appears to be a practiced move.

Reverb doesn’t embarrass easily. He’s simmering inside at his show of weakness.  HR displays no sign of being unsettled. He scratches his dog under the chin to stop her squirming.

“Name is Harrison Wells by the way, but you can call me HR. Sumptuous day isn’t it? Nice to meet you.”

“I guess. I’m... Reverb,” he deadpans. 

“Reverb? Well that’s an interesting name.”

“It’s not my birth name,” Reverb responds. 

He was explicitly instructed not to parade that fact around. He’s never been one for rules.

Everyone who knew him by this name is dead now, so he was able to wiggle out of a different alias. He found out his old gang, the only people who used to call him Reverb, were killed by Zolomon. They had been setup to appear as accidents or were just shrouded in total mystery. As a means of control, no doubt. So his precious Francisco would have nowhere to go. His parents were estranged, and his brother, well. They weren’t suited to sharing space. 

He doesn’t elaborate, but HR seems to just roll with it. 

“That’s cool. Maybe you could give Daisy a pat? I promise she’ll settle down if you only pet her a little. She’s a sucker for attention.”

Reverb’s nostrils flare. He looks at the dog still tucked under HR’s arm, her tail wagging and tongue hanging out. He awkwardly strokes her on the head. 

“So what do you do?”

Reverb wants to run for miles from this small talk. It’s exhausting.

“Nothing. I don’t know yet. I used to run a criminal enterprise,” Reverb admits tersely, gazing at a point over HR’s shoulder. 

“Oh. I’d love to hear the details someday. It could be useful for my next novel. I released the final in a trilogy almost two years ago... and now I’m working on something entirely different!”

Nothing seems to faze this guy. 

“So you’re actually a published author. Grand. I’m almost impressed.” 

He even ignores the jab. 

“It’s the best.” HR’s arm twitches. Reverb tenses. He seems to think better of probably trying to touch him in a friendly manner. “Would you mind if I base a character on you?”

“I don’t care. But you barely know me.”

“Hopefully that can change,” HR winks and says, “in due time.”

“Maybe.” Reverb’s stomach flips. “If you can play your cards right. But take note, I don’t play fair.”

“You’ll find neither do I,” HR replies mild and affable, but Reverb can sense a weight behind his words. “I’m an infamous hustler, I’ve been kicked out of a dozen bars.”

Despite himself, Reverb chuckles. “Is that so? Perhaps we have more in common than I thought.”

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Revells-19 Musician!AU Moodboard.  (This probably only makes sense to me and @harrywells at the moment.)

Images I have sources for ( x, x, x )

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Lovely commission I got of my ship Revells-19 (Reverb/HR) by @majorlaurens. 

Their commissions are still open if you guys want to check them out, they were great to work with!

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Reverb knew this feeling, even though he’d never actually experienced it before.  He and his doppelgangers were all too familiar with the agony that came from a speedster delving their hand deep into their chest faster than a normal human could even blink.  He’d just never thought it would ever happen to him.  In that moment the multiverse stretched in an infinite moment around him. All the lives he hadn’t personally lived.  And he could feel the power inside of him, ready to flow free from the wound and decimate everything around him if he just gave in.  But he couldn’t do it, for all he draped himself in the label of villainy, he couldn’t.  The last thing he thought of as his world went black, there wasn’t anyone to tell HR what had happened.

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For the OTP ask meme: HR/Reverb :DDD

Yessss, my Revells-19!!!  Alright, lets do this:

Which one cried during a fucking disney movie?

Generally it’s HR, but Reverb gets really emotional over Big Hero 6.

Who put a goddamned fork in the microwave?

HR, he completely forgot he needed to take it off before putting the food in the microwave.

Who does the silly hands-over-the-eyes “Guess who” thing?

They both totally do this.  Reverb especially when he pops over to surprise HR on Earth-19.

Who puts their cold hands/feet on their partner?

HR does this and complains about it being cold.  Reverb proceeds to wrap HR in his leather jacket and plonk a cup of warm coffee in his hands.

Who had that embarrassing Reality TV marathon?

HR is weak for dating or dancing reality TV.  Reverb teases him about Vibing spoilers to them.

Who laughs more during sex?

HR, definitely.  Though in Musician!Verse it’s a pretty even split.

WHO IS THE LITTLE SPOON?

They swap, but Reverb really likes having someone hold him like that though, not that he’s likely to admit it openly to others.

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Reverb & Revells-19 Headcanons

These are gathered from a discussion with @harrywells​, who was so helpful in coming up with ideas for why Reverb ended up how he is.  The more I’ve thought about headcanons, the more I like HR & Reverb as a ship.

Earth-2 Cisco never got his foot in the door for a science career.  He sees his classmates getting all these great opportunities and he can’t catch a break.

The constant rejection wears him down, it leads to him getting angry and bitter over time.  He knows he’s good at what he does, so why is he overlooked when so many people he knows aren't?

He tries for YEARS to find a good science job.  Meanwhile he's working in some shitty restaurant/bar/whatever. FINALLY he catches a break. It's his dream job. It's going amazingly, he has great coworkers. It's everything he could hope for.  And then it's only a couple months later that the project they initially hired him for has its funding fall through.  The particle accelerator happens and the people that were funding his research get skittish and withdraw their funding.  So he had it but now he can't get even the tiniest bit of it back. Everything depended on that for Cisco to move on.

So he had it but now he can't get even the tiniest bit of it back.  Then here come these powers... it's amazing. He throws himself into mastering them and then he's just so much better than everyone else.  He can do these amazing things and they can't.

Just this bitterness builds up over time because he knows he deserves better but the world didn't give him a chance, it took away his chance. So now that he has all this power why should he give it a second chance after all it's hurt him.

Some of his anger gets directed at Harrison Wells, because if it weren't for him this wouldn't have happened.  His life would have started looking up, and so that leads to him agreeing to work with Zoom.

I picture Reverb and HR meeting during the time where Earth-19 is being invaded by another earth?  Not sure if this lines up with the established timeline so shhhhh  HR tries to stake out breach locations as research for his writing.  There's some breaches that are constant, which are restricted areas.  But there are also inconsistent breach appearances.  HR has been watching those for a pattern, and he uses it as a basis for where he tries to watch for potential breach activity.

Reverb’s dislike for e2! Wells is why he takes interest in HR watching the breaches. And he wants to hate him too. But this Wells hasn't done anything wrong. He's trying so hard, and Francisco can relate.

HR catches his attention because he's not a scientist like so many of the others.  And at some point while Reverb is observing breaches he gets attached. He doesn't realize it, until suddenly this defenseless version of Wells gets swept up in danger and that's not okay with him. And he's powerful enough now that if something is not okay with him he can do something about it.

So he ends up snatching this Wells over to his Earth for safe keeping, Or maybe to a completely other earth that's tranquil and he likes to retreat to, and is just like, "shit, what do I do now? What do I do with him, he's so excited and asking so many questions?!  He's being so grateful and nice to him. And when was the last time someone was so happy to see him and not afraid or disdainful or angry or wanting something?"

He gets to be normal around HR. This Wells is so excited and intrigued by his powers, he's not afraid of him, he's not dismissive of him. And so he starts going off Earth 2 to see him and get some sense of stability and normalcy that has been completely lost to him on Earth 2.

Reverb likes to take HR places on different earth's. Places he's found that interest him. He gets less drama when they go out on earths that aren't Earth-2.   Reverb lets HR do his makeup sometimes, and will also do HR's if they're going out. Reverb is better at makeup then him though.

Since Reverb is HR’s only way to travel through breaches, especially after the breach travel ban is put in place, when Reverb dies, he has no way of knowing what happened.  Contact just cuts off.  So he’s almost certain something bad happened, but he doesn’t learn what until he comes to Earth-1.

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So, apparently post-assignment 1am me thought this ship would be interesting?  I am calling it Revells-19.  And now I'm attached and have headcanons.  But it can basically be summed up by saying, Reverb is deadly and will kill you if you mess with his innocent ray of sunshine boyfriend HR? 

 Sooooo much masking guys.  *flexes hand* 

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My favorite manips from my Revells-19 video. (with a pretty coloring added)

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ship: reverb/hr. prompt: when reverb finally meets hr!

HR shut his eyes at the impending impact of a weapon, cataloging the reckless decisions that had placed him directly in the firing line of Earth-19′s enemies, and light flared suddenly, but not in a light at the end of the tunnel kind of way.  He registered the feeling of arms, wrapping securely around him, and then felt the dizzying pull of something he’d only read about, breach travel.  He drew in a startled breath, one more breath then he ever thought he’d take only a few moments earlier, as his feet made contact with what must be the ground of a new earth.

Stumbling as he was released, his eyes opened to the gentle glow of sunlight, and fell on the person who had saved him.  His hand was still lingering on HR’s elbow, an equally stunned look on his features, apparent even with the gently glowing blue goggles covering his rescuer’s eyes.

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Ship: reverb/hr. Prompt: first kiss :D

As a writer, HR knew all the cliches and poetic language there was when it came to kissing, and there were certainly many ways to make it even more so when you consider that the person he was kissing could see through the vibrations of the universe.  But in the moment, he didn’t want to over-complicate it, simply relaxing into the gentle sensation.  It had been a long time since he’d felt this happy and safe, something he was pretty sure was true for both of them.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Earth-2 Cisco Ramon/Earth-19 Harrison "HR" Wells Additional Tags: Witness Protection AU, Revells19 - Relationship, past abusive relationship, Originally Posted on Tumblr Summary:

He has to face the inevitable.

Reverb couldn't avoid his neighbor forever.