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I love this Origin Ending in Break in 2šš

I EVEN MADE A FANART OF THESE.
THEY LOOK SO COOL AS A HIGH SCHOOLERS!!

"I know evil, Barry... And you're not evil."

āI think youāre the problem, Barry.ā
ello im back from the dead *dies again*
i canāt believe there are people out there who donāt know about noho hank. heās a drug lord, heās gay, his favorite ice cream flavor is rocky road, he loves little shop of horrors, heās an optometrist by nature. he is my most special little guy


Drew Barry from guts and black powder and Hyperlaser!
Im BEGGING so hard they make Rarry happend (rafe and Barry) BECAUSE LIKE EVEN THE CAST SHIPS ITTTT
IM THE BIGGEST RARRY SOLDIER ON EARTHHHHH I LOVE THEM SM LETS DISCUSS THEM.
The thing is that if one of them was a girl everyone in the fandom would go insane over them, but since they are boys it probably wonāt even happen.


THESE ARE NOTā¼ļø PLATONIC LOOKS. The eyes, chico, they never lie

Topper is me asf
They would literally make so much sense. The thing is Barry is so special to Rafe in so many ways. Notice the way Rafe lets Barry talk to him (sassy, making fun of him, Barry literally going ālet me lead and SHUT UPā and Rafe just going āokš„°ā, Barry going āIāll knock that J-Crew lookin ass outā and Rafe just smirking and blushing). Rafe would NOT let people speak to him the way he lets Barry speak to him⦠like ever š Also when Barry told him heāll lead it was when they went after the Pogues and itās something Rafe very much cared about. HEāS A PROACTIVE TYPE OF PERSON, he would not let someone he doesnāt 100% trust ālead,ā heās a control freak. Yet here he was, just going āokay,ā trusting Barry with something so important to him.
Barrys presence is so important in Rafes life and I feel like neither of them really realises but it genuinely is. RAFE ALWAYS RUNS TO BARRY FIRST. He would NOT let anyone know he killed Peterkin (Topper and Kelce are his closest friends and heād never tell them), yet here he was on Barrys floor, confessing to him, allowing him to see his breakdown AND ā
BRO DONāT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THIS SCENE OMFG ā

He slept AT BARRYS when he had probably the worst day ever (Ward screaming āRafe you fucked us!ā at him, him drowning Sarah and Topper beating him up happened in the same day) and the next scene we get is Rafe waking up on Barrys couch. I imagine him going into absolute panic in the middle of the night and not wanting to go home to his dad, the only place he can think of being Barrys⦠so he goes to Barry. We were so, so robbed of a scene where Rafe shows up in the middle of the night saying āI didnāt know where else to goā with a beat up face and Barry going āShit, country club.ā
Iām just convinced Rafe felt safe enough with Barry so he always ran to him.
Their first meeting in S3 as well. Iām pretty sure that was the first time they saw each other since Barry betrayed him in S2 and Rafe was just okay and calm and ASKED BARRY FOR HELP AGAIN. Rafe holds grudges like crazy, yet he trusted him enough after his betrayal to seek him out again. Like nothing ever happened. And Barry helped him again. Because Barry always helps him (he claims itās just for the money but the thing is he was willing to murder for Rafe and that is not something he was comfortable with the entire show, Iām genuinely convinced he would not accept that offer from anyone, murder being over the line for him⦠yet for Rafe? Yeah).
We could see Barry being uncomfortable by Rafes murderous temptations in a few scenes (especially the one where he tried to drown Kie), but the second Rafe asked him to kill Ward he was like ALRIGHT IāLL DO IT FOR YOU. Also Rafe was so hyperfixated on his dad, it was the most important person in the world to him, so him asking Barry to do it just shows the level of trust. He asked Barry to free him of this burden.
Also Barry DOES NOT do it only for the money. In Season 2 when Rafe comes over to pick up his drugs and asks Barry for āa pieceā (a gun), Barry giggles and makes jokes UNTIL Rafe says āDo you realise itās either me or him (John B) in this situation, right?ā and in that very moment Barry switches and goes full angry protective mode and pulls out an entire bag full of guns š And is fully ready to go with Rafe and to protect him and shoot a Pogue for him. But Rafe did not ask for help. He didnāt offer him money. He just asked for a gun. Barry did all of that on his own and he went with him on his own. I think thatās also why Rafe told him āYou know Iāll take care of you,ā he himself was surprised someone was willing to protect him and go with him out of their own free will.
At the end of S1 Barry went with Rafe after the Pogues because they owed him money, but he still handled Rafes mental breakdown pretty well (NO other character ever managed that, not even his family), he cracked some jokes and got Rafe out of the panic state by motivating him to go do something about it, and joining him.
Also the shit they say to each otherā¦
āYou know Iāll take care of you.ā
āI own you now.ā
āTranquilo?ā
āTranquilo, baby.ā
Barry casually saying āHow does that feel, babyboy?ā in S1
THE WAY THEY LOOK AT EACH OTHER?!

Nice try mf I know love eyes when I see them




Another thing is their dynamic is absolutely perfect. Rafe, a bit psychotic, always taking everything seriously, grumpy asf and Barry, sassy mf that takes nothing seriously and is quite literally the only person that knows how to handle Rafe and how to talk back to him.
PLUS the actors shipping them is so wholesome and funny tbh (at least we wonāt have another Jiara accident uhmā¦)
They also ADMITTED VERY PROUDLY that they send Rarry edits to each other š āYou know, whenever I miss Drew weāll run back the tiktoksā dnsjskks
Drew literally going āNick Cirillo who plays Barry in the show, my right hand⦠also my loverā

Thatās boyfriends right there
One more thing Iād like to add is Barry was so judgy of Ward when he came to see Rafe (in S2 right before Rafe tried to run away and Ward came to warn him from the police), now it might be because Ward beat him up in S1 orrrrrr because he simply saw Rafes state (Rafe probably told him that his dad yelled at him that day when he slept over) and didnāt like his dad a single bit. I choose to go with the protective bf option.
Again, if one of them was a girl it would be one of the most popular ships just bc of their dynamic and banter and chemistry (JJPope situation all over again).
I hope Drew and Nick manage to sneak in a little bro kiss in some of the upcoming seasons (like that scene from Deadly Class when Marcus is randomly bro kissed), feel like itās something they would 100% do šā¦ Imagine drunk Barry going āCountry cluuubbb, mwahā and Rafe just š§š»
And Iād love to continue with more pics and edits but Tumblr wonāt let me add more so weāll end it here.
But they genuinely mean the world to me. I think a lot of people are shipping them as a joke but Iām IN LOVE with their ship and dynamic and the bond between them.
Thatās all ty for reading š
yk the cast āshipsā rafe and barry as a joke right?⦠pls be serious not everyone has to be shipped
I know they do, I literally said "Ik most people ship them as a joke" at the end of my post.
And I agree with not everyone has to be shipped. JJ and Kiara didn't have to be shipped and yet the fans forced it so much that the creators decided to make it canon and now look where we are, the actors stopped talking because of it and it makes everyone uncomfortable. And Rafe and Kie CERTAINLY don't have to be shipped, I personally hate that ship with a burning passion but look at everyone on tiktok trying to make it a thing yet again.
Not even gonna start on shipping Rudy and Madison, those are real people. But fans spam their social media telling them to get together all the time. Which really should stop, those are not fictional characters that we can debate about, those are real people with real lives and their very real ruined friendship.
So yeah, not everyone has to be shipped, but Rafe and Barry really is harmless, the cast ships them too (even if it is as a joke, still better than making them so uncomfortable to the point where they don't talk anymore), so yeah. You can also just ship them as bros and enjoy their friendship bond, that's fine too. Plus it's exactly as I said, people hate on it only because they are guys. If Barry was a girl ya'll would go insane over them.
(Also I saw your other message and dw about being rude, it's okay, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and we all have different tastes)
Did you give Emmet a green scarf because Barry normally has one?

lol thatās because Emmet takes on the role of Barry in DxP REWRITE as the rival character! Different teams, certainly different circumstances, but yeah! Part of it was for the plot, but part of it was based on my own playthrough of Shining Pearl where I just decided to name the rival āEmmetā & pretended all his running around was Emmet looking around Sinnoh for clues about Ingo:

It is funny; I gave Emmet his messenger bag & green scarf, but they both already wear stripes & both are always battle-ready, so it wasnāt too much of a stretch on the imagination! š
![(GIF) Camera moves invasively to left side profile of actor Barry Keoghan. He wears a crew-neck white t-shirt beneath a bottega veneta khaki-green wool suit jacket with curved sleeves. He quickly 'catches' the 'eyes' of the camera which was moving in for close-up.
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![(GIF) Camera moves invasively to left side profile of actor Barry Keoghan. He wears a crew-neck white t-shirt beneath a bottega veneta khaki-green wool suit jacket with curved sleeves. He looks of the camera which was moving in for close-up.
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BARRY KEOGHAN šø Nick Thompson | Wonderland Magazine | Winter 2023 Issue