#Not inherently good or bad but a jumbled mess n ofc there's anger there after everything. holy fuck
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Hey...
Has anyone considered the thought of like. Maybe some of the anger Wally displays towards Barry is because he came back from death a different person kinda?
He had an entirely different upbringing and went from "Knows a Guy" (that's so many of his old stories it's fantastic. Why does he know the local gorilla actor? He's just like that) to being isolated and alienated and then also had depression on top of that.
Imagine your dad comes back from the dead after leaving you with such a dark and thick shadow to crawl out of- that he only comes back AFTER you crawled out of- and then he's not even the same guy. He's not even the man that you remember because not only have you and everyone else built him up in your memory but half his life before becoming a hero was different.
And then. y'know. The whole "accidentally trapped most of the speedsters in the speedforce" thing. And also depression can change a person. And- there's a lot okay??
Barry after Flash Rebirth and especially after the new 52 reboot is a very different character to how he started/the man Wally knew as a kid and even now like. They look the same age??? Sometimes??? that's gotta be weird. I know they're speedsters but STILL...
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Uhhhh anyways
TLDR: Some of Wally's anger at Barry is because he's irrevocably no longer the same as he was before his death
#the flash#wally west#barry allen#kid flash#ig#speedsters#dc comics#Barry being different after Flash Rebirth isn't inherently good or bad in the long run it's just... he's different now#lotta people love that new version of him#But Wally's dad was a man who had so many friends from like... as far as I can tell?? Just being a really nice friendly guy???#and now he's constantly struggling with friends and stuff#also doesn't Wally canonically remember all the old flash comics that got retconned after the new 52#that's gotta fuck him up#How do you even process that???#ofc boy has a bit of a grudge against the man who left him a heroic legacy in a heroic sacrifice#technically Barry also stole a normal childhood from him by making him into a speedster depending on how you look at it#it's just. there's so much there okay#Not inherently good or bad but a jumbled mess n ofc there's anger there after everything. holy fuck#dc treated Wally like shit 😔
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