#but flash and flashfam dont know

[currentfandomkick]

Warning: this is a one-shot from me, feel free to add on.

Danny knew something had been off about Clockwork for a while. He also knew Ancients don’t get sick for no reason. So he did what he could to help the symptoms—iced rags for the growing fever, forced the ageshifter into the literal sands of time in the Long Now to keep him warm and calm the ever-chattering teeth. If this helped force Clockwork into not working and something equating sleep, that was between Clockwork and Nocturne.

Danny managed the timelines related to his home universe. If he dragged Dan into helping the more volatile ones as a cautionary tale, well. It was that or another session with Nocturne and Jazz about his feelings as the sole survivor of a tied off time knot.

Danny managed the butterfly affects and set up systems to alert him to when something was liable to harm a timebranch, and for possible timeknots. Detangling timelines was a tedious at best, but necessary to avoid time mattings. Those had to be destroyed and the timeline before the time matting diverted.

Dan was in charge of worst of the timeknots while Danny focused on preventing them. They were lucky to avoid any matts before Clockwork took a turn for the worse.

It started with a broken glass cough. Then he began to groan and thrash. Then Clockwork spewed what could only be described as ‘time juice’ that deaged him as Phantom but not Fenton.

Danny did not appreciate being a toddler again.

Dan said he wasnt adopting him if it was permanent before calling some shadow thing to help him cut off another timeknot and create another benign paradox loop.

Danny sat his toddler tail in front of his mentor and did the only thing he could think of: threaten him into confessing.

“Clocky,” he half sang, “if you don’t tell me what’s making you sick I’ll call Auntie Death and have her get all your exes meet at once.”

Clockwork glanced about the Long Now.

“… one of my, reflections shall we say(?), is badly injured.”

“Reflections?” phantom wrinkled his nose. “You mean mirror born?”

“No, more autonomous duplicates. They’ve all developed beyond what i needed initially. My own alternate developments, you could say.”

“So a not clone-clone is in trouble?” Danny leaned forward, tracing Clockwork’s eye scar with his eyes.

“It appears he was… indisposed until recently and awoke to a serious time matting.”

Phantom blanched at the thought of one of those. “And he can’t cut it off?”

“It appears he is in combat, and losing.” Clockwork shuddered violently for a moment. “Badly.”

Danny narrowed his eyes. Time mattings are beyond him, but he can save Clockwork’s reflection.

“Which timescreen do i go in to help?”

“Danny,” his mentor frowned. “You don’t have to—“

“I want to, fright means no one faces their thing on their own. So let me help.”

Clockwork muttered the time screen’s location.

Danny flew into the middle of a battle. Kronos was big, bad and obsession mad.

He did catch a few magic users and shot them with an ectoblast each.

He forgot his brain would catch up to his body’s deaging at some-point.

“Leave my daddy alone you buttheads!”

That did cause the colorful adults to turn around and look at him. He didnt care—his daddy was sick, really bad sick because a chunk of him went obsession mad because of how matted the timeline was and those are really bad and—and—

“How did a toddler get here!”

“When did Kronos have another kid?”

“Child, you are confused, your father did a bad thing and is being handled.” A woman with armor kind of like Mommy interrupted.

Then Daddy screamed.

Danny whipped his head back to Daddy. Daddy’s in a glowing circle snarling and scared and angry and—and these people hurt His Daddy!

The trenchcoat guy was chanting something and gold chains and Daddy was hurthurthurt.

“I said let my daddy Goooooo!” He wailed at trenchcoat.

The chanting stopped while the colorful meanies ran around and some green people put up bad shields.

“Daddy!” Danny flew up to this version of Daddy. “Daddy daddy daddy!”

Kronos hesitantly extended his large hand for Danny to land in.

“Other Daddy said you needed help an an i help! So can Perry-me since he does knot cuts an’ an other daddy’s all sick now an’ its real real bad! He has chest boogies an’ it got all on me an’ i’m little again but i know i’m supossed to be bigger than a big boy but not like,

An adult. Perry-me’s an adult and he’s like, a lot of sad and angry and Jazz says he needs the there-a-pee but i dont know what potty training has to do with his angeries. I think he need to do like, an ecto poo or something.”

Danny waited for this version of Daddy to say something.

“… which version of me do you belong to?” Kronos asked the boy incredulously. He glanced over the Justice League in the distance.


“He says you’re his, his re-flex-on”

Kronos eyed the speedsters responsible for the horrendous timematting that required a reset spanning back at least six generations to prevent. Possibly more for a thorough job well done.

“Origin then, i see.” Kronos returned his attention to the ghostling. “And why would he send you?”

“Daddy says i’m a hero but i think he’s trying to make up for my other mommy and daddy always forgetting me and that their stuffs want me on their, their wab, Wa, luh, lab. Lab! Words are hard.”

Kronos briefly debated killing the distraction. Or at least sending it away. That stupid bond to Origin getting in the way of fixing the clusterfuck that is his sector of the multiverse.

“Yes they are little one. Do you have any reason to stay here?”

“I help! We go to Perry-me and Other Daddy and they can fix it! Perry-me’s been covering for Daddy since he got sick. I make the, the portal and Perry-me’s good at fixing time problems where, where they start. Daddy’s good at listening an, an everyone de, deserves help so i help!”

Kronos glanced at the gathered Justice League with the Laughing Magician contest with… and the child before him both being outside of his omniscience.

Of course Origin would adopt the closest thing to the Laughing Magician in his sector.

“You’re not going to leave until i agree, are you?”

“Daddy is fright, and fright means no forgetting or ignoring or pretending the person isnt there and doesn’t need help or leaving them on their own when things are bad. And time matts are really, really bad!”

Kronos sighed. “Lead the way laughing magician.”

Kronos did give the Justice League a dark grin as they left in a portal the toddler clapped into being.

“Daddy! I found the hurt you! An’ it’s a, a super bad time matt! Worse than when Perry-Me killed the world!”

—

The Justice league stared at one another in horror after Superman finished relaying what the kid had said.

Kronos as his father is bad enough. There being multiple Kronos’s is worse. Then Kronos’ mystery kid having John Constantine’s inherited title and role as the laughing magician?

They are, in a word, fucked if the two return. And they will. Its only a matter of time.

Batman was twitching a storm while John downed his flask.

(Barry was oddly quiet.)

Time crisis

Clockwork looked sick, this was the first time Danny had witnessed something like this so he couldn't help but feel concerned for his mentor. However, no matter how many times he asked what was going on, the Ancient refused to answer.

The halfa was taking care of him and finally Clockwork revealed that he was under attack. Danny raised an eyebrow in confusion, he saw no one in Clock Tower and the Observants were not around, seeing his confusion the Master of Time explained himself more clearly.

Clockwork had multiple bodies, distributed in different dimensions. And while they didn't follow the same rules, their job was the same, "preserve the timelines". One of his other bodies must have sensed his timeline being altered multiple times and awoke from its rest to repair the error.

Someone must not have been happy about that, if the damage Clockwork was receiving was anything to go by. The Ancient had no doubt that if they kept attacking him they would cause him further damage, which would be a big problem for the timelines.

The reason he didn't want to tell the halfa that was because he knew Danny would want to help, but not all of his "parts" were good, nor did they have the same methods to "repair" and he didn't want to show the boy a bad part of himself. Although he doubted his other "self" would attack young Daniel, seeing how fond he was of him.

Danny of course, offered to solve the problem. Knowing the boy was stubborn, Clockwork sighed in resignation and opened a portal to the DC Universe, where the Justice League was facing Kronos, Danny stepped through the portal immediately and started running to the battlefield.

Wonder Woman was gritting her teeth in fury as she faced Kronos, who was scowling in annoyance, his gaze seemed to be fixed on the speedster for some reason; half of the League were injured but holding their ground, and John Constantine had almost finished preparing a spell to destroy the titan once and for all. He opened his mouth to tell the Titan it was his end when a teenage boy ran past him.

Danny, who had no idea what was going on, stood in front of Kronos not knowing what to say. He didn't quite know how to fix the situation. Kronos looked at him in confusion as John choked as he noticed the boy in the path of his spell.

"Fate is not inevitable" the halfa told the Titan decisively. While he had been a hero and understood why the people around him would want to "stop" the other Clocky, he didn't want to see his mentor die (even if this was some sort of clone? Danny didn't quite understand), he was selfish, and he knew the other Clocky had his reasons. He looked at the wounded on the battlefield and took a deep breath before looking at the Titan again.

"Come home with me and we'll find another way to solve it" Danny offered, ignoring the heroes glaring at him. Kronos was still silent, he knew he could kill the boy in seconds but something in him protested at the idea.

Danny wondered if he could lock the being in front of him in a Fenton thermos.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I had to look this up because I dont usually read comics (I really want to tho) but apparently in Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps #28, Hal almost entered the speedforce.

I was wondering if he ever told Barry or Wally or any speedster.... Or anyone for that matter that he almost did?

(You might be asking yourself why im asking a flash fan a GL question? Its because, if he didnt, I want to know how the flashfam would react to that and given the fact that you know the family so well, I feel like youd be giving their reactions justice)

(Cant believe Im saying this but I learned about this through a halbarry fanfic where Hal tells Barry about that and Barry has a mini heart attack)

Hmm, off the top of my head I can't remember Hal telling any speedsters about that or any speedsters talking about that in general. So I don't think Hal has spoken about this to them in a comic.

However, if Hal did tell Barry about this it would be fairly accurate to say that Barry would have a heart attack. So hats off to whoever wrote that fic, that is extremely accurate.

It's actually not unheard of for non-speedsters to go into the speedforce. It's actually so common that there is a mini city inside the speedforce and there are several plants, animals, people and machines stuck in there.

This is because the bolt of lightning that struck Barry wasn't really that unusual. Barry forming a connection with the speedforce and developing superspeed was the unusual part. But there are several documented cases of the speedforce attempting to form a connection, failing, and either exploding/killing everything in the area or sucking everything into the speedforce instead.

(This is like a once every 50 years kinda thing but it adds up when you remember that the speedforce encompasses all of time)

So, yeah. Not super strange to enter the speedforce. The speedforce is always looking to make new connections. The real danger lies in what would have happened to Hal.

Falling into the speedforce as a non-speedster is like falling into the middle of the ocean without knowing how to swim. There's a chance you could find a floatation device or a friendly dolphin to grab onto, but it's an extremely slim chance. The most likely result is death.

Keep in mind that most speedsters don't even survive the speedforce.

(the risk also depends on what 'level' of the speedforce but that's a whole different thing)

And then, even if Hal did miraculously survive, he wouldn't be able to escape without the help of a speedster. Only highly skilled and extremely powerful speedsters with strong lightning rods can escape the tight grip of the speedforce.

Anyone can enter the speedforce, few survive it and only speedsters can leave.

[melonlthawne]

I’m laying down cause I have a killer migraine but here’s some baby!thad raised by Mel thoughts :

When they’re very little, Bart and Thad actually get along just fine. It isn’t until they’re around 5-7 that they develop their own personalities and stuff that they begin to bicker but in a normal sibling way not in a “kill each other way” and just like most siblings although they bicker back and forth both of them are willing to go out of their way to defend the other because they’re still family and deep down they care about each other

Bart and Thad love don of course but both kids definitely prefer Mel. It’s not even like for a real good reason it’s just probably because Mel smothers them with love and support and although don does the same Mel’s love is just so contagious to people

When the boys are first learning how to walk it’s an actual nightmare for Mel and don. Having speedster toddlers who have no idea how powerful or fast they can be ends up creating a lot of chaos. Don tries to keep up as best he can since Mel doesn’t have super speed but typically Bart goes in one direction and Thad goes in another. Eventually they use child leashes for them both cause it’s the only way to keep them from getting into trouble or possibly getting hurt

In this verse, I think that Don is the current flash since he didn’t die/wasn’t killed and takes over at least for their own time. Bart especially idolizes him and gets upset when he goes out fighting crime cause that’s his papa and he doesn’t want him getting hurt. SO SOMEHOW, Bart manages to tag along with don, wearing a cute little replica of the flash suit but for a kid and tries to help don out. Most villains get completely distracted and baffled about a 5 year old trying to fight them that they don’t even know how to handle it. Of course every time this happens don rushes to deal with the criminal and then scoop Bart up, take him home, and have a heartfelt conversation about how he appreciates Barts love and concern for him he just doesn’t want to get Bart hurt.

Similar to that other point, Bart and Thad are both mamas boys. They’ll still listen to don but sometimes he has to finagle it and plan in order to get Bart and Thad to listen to him

From the day Meloni brought home thad til he’s old enough to dress/style himself, Bart and Thad typically wear those precious matching clothes/outfits with maybe the color scheme being red and green for each boy

Thad is a late bloomer when it comes to talking. The way he was genetically engineered makes it hard for him to experience a normal life without all these expectations President Thawne basically programmed into him. He’s quiet a lot with a resting bitch face but he talks a lot for consistency around the family.

Baby Bart n Thad wear the cutest matchufn Halloween costumes ever and every single person in the flashfam us sent like 30 pictures of them becusde Meloni could NOT let people miss out on how cute her little babies are

DONT ASK ABOUT THE UNICORN TUMVLR MOVILE ID HARBAFE IT WONT LEF ME DLETR IT

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

God.. thinking about your "a better world" au and I’m going crazy omg this shit ROCKS. I can’t help but wonder how everyone else outside of the justice lords reacts to Wally‘s sudden "return". ESPECIALLY from any remaining flashfam members.

Like the public has absolutely no context whatsoever. would they think he‘s one of the weird androids that was shown in Arkham? Would they get clued in on how he‘s being held against his will?

This au has so much potential I love it !!

OOOUGH....u actually reminded me of that au. thinking thoughs. so hard. Im actually not sure the state of the DCAU flashfam fhwiefhew. i think we've seen jay in the comics? I guess im going to say hes retired and not keen in joining in on 'hero' society (until the opportunity comes that bodes well for resistance) considering there doesnt seem to be ANY other heroes in the justice lords universe. im going to go with the kinder version of events and say they were forced into inactivity and those with powers had their 'suspended' (repressed) for...however long the lords deem it necessary.

as for barry....I dont know tbh. he was probably flash at one point but imma go on a limb and say he isnt anymore, maybe something happened to his powers? Once Wally came into his own, maybe they fully transferred over or something like that, wacky speedforce shit ig. As for bart im going to say he hasn't shown up let.

Barry and Iris are for sure married and happily so. It probably hits the entire family horribly when Wally's killed and even worse when the justice lords well---become the justice lords. Linda too, technically she doesnt show up until later, past these episodes but I Love Her so im saying she met Wally earlier and after he. yk. she integrated herself into the family. shes friends with Hartley bc I Love Hartley too.

But yeah, they close off, form rank after all that business. Fun thing to chew on is one of the lords trying to visit and being completely shut out.

BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION! yeah, no one has context. like, at all. To them, he just re-appears and the lords refuse to answer any questions. even to their wally's family. See, Our Wally's kept under lock and key, leashed. He can't go anywhere on his own. Doesnt mean when hes forced on missions he doesnt try his HARDEST to actually help people. to everyone, it appears as if the flash isnt the most in line with his 'colleagues'.

As for the 'retired' heroes, his showing back up ignites a revival, especially once wally PUBLICLY refuses to abide the lords. this includes people like black canary, green arrow, cap. marvel, even lois, and yes, the flashfam. they will end up Very Aware that the flash Doesnt Want To Be There.

frofhwoif....thank u for kick starting my brainrot for this au again.

[antrunner]

So, I know it doesn't have much to do with it, but do you think it would be possible to have two characters carry the mantle of The Flash at the same time in the DCU? Specifically speaking of Wally and Barry, James Gunn will draw inspiration from young justice and there are two Flashes in the justice league (this is mentioned in passing in a season 4 episode and I just think it's such a cool concept overall)

hmm... i dont see why not! it happens a LOT in the comics so... yeah definitely this could (and honestly SHOULD) happen if they choose to follow any sort of correct timeline

upon barry's return from the speedforce him and wally both share the flash mantle. barry has also always shared it with jay. the flashfam isnt really stingy when it comes to sharing titles and outfits! with bart also taking on both the kid flash and flash title at different points.

a lot of different heroes can be weird about sharing titles. like batman (there can only be one batman at a time generally. people usually come up with their own original names i.e. nightwing, batwoman, batwing... etc etc etc.) or superman, even the lanterns kinda have moments where they fight over the title despite being part of an entire corps of people all named the same thing??? but whatever

i think it would be cool to see in the DCU :) especially if they (hopefully) fix the INSANE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE TO BARRY ALLEN. then they could totally bring in Wally and/or Bart CORRECTLY. please god DCU fix barry allen they have butchered his character beyond recognition please please please pl

[halion-halion-aito]

it just ticks me, how most birdflash fans constantly brush linda aside like it was nothing

it’s not about the ship per se, obviously- i am no one to tell you who you should and should not ship, especially if it makes you happy. but in an enormous amount of cases, to prop up dick and wally, linda and her relationship with wally is diminished, neglected or straight up erased. even if you cared enough to keep them close as friends.

and it’s not even to gatekeep or say “to be a fan you need to have read x amount of comics”, but in the best cases most of what people know about wally and his character comes from the young justice cartoon and the rebirth titans comic (don’t you even get me started on the way they changed wally’s lightning rod from linda to the team and how drastic it is to wally’s character).

trust me, i know that most of us are extemely discouraged from actually considering female love interests as characters with a complexity that can actually create interesting dynamics with their male equally complex counterpart. i mean, we literally talk about fridging, and that’s a problem that has affected comics, as a male dominated media, ever since their birth.

but i promise that linda is a compelling, interesting, complex, multidimensional and so wonderfully real character, especially during waid’s run; and i promise that her relationship with wally isn’t as simple as a classic male-superhero-and-his-woman-love-interest relationship is, but it’s gradual, and growing through lessons learned from each other is a process that goes both ways. in all honesty, linda is a character that stands on her own feet and is interesting to read, she’s independent and has so many flaws and virtues that balance each other and things she works on about herself. she fails and she wins and she makes mistakes and she grows up and she’s relatable and feels- again- real.

but you could probably grasp even a pinch of all of this, if before approaching wally’s story you tried to read even a few issues of the comics from, you know, before he got even lost and needed to come back into existance.

just say you can’t bother caring to even approach female characters if they’re not the protagonist, it’s much easier you know

[flashflashhundredyarddash]

flashfam and birdflash because im WEAKKK

so barry and iris take wally in because rudy is a FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT

lets imagine this happens early teens or so

wally never even comes out to his dad because he just. Knows exactly what his parents would think

he kind of. subtly tried to bring it up with his mom but she made her opinion Pretty Damn Clear so wally is like great this is awesome

as a result of both the superspeed + switching cities + adhd wally has practically 0 friends growing up which really concerns barry and iris

so barry is like, babe, i have a fantastic idea, im going to set up a playdate with batmans kid

and iris is like I GUESS

(also the way wally behaves in a relationship is 100% modeled after barry and iris because they literally have the perfect relationship. see exhibit a) babe as a pet name)

((this is also probably why hes a little upset when he finds out about barry and hal because its like. you think you understand your parents and then they hit you with this massive bombshell that kind of forces you to change your whole perception of them? and even though nobodys done anything wrong its still really upsetting? and maybe if wally had known earlier that barry was bi wally wouldnt have been so fucking stressed out about coming out?))

anyways. robin and kid flash playdate. a meeting for the ages.

wally gets a crush like. right away but doesnt realize so he oscillates WILDLY between being REALLY nice to robin and also being kind of fucking mean lol wally was very much pulling robins pigtails

like one day wally shares half his ants on a log that iris made him with robin and then the next he puts gum in robins hair and robin cries while alfred cuts it out

robin is like UGH kid flash is SO MEAN and bruce is like you dont have to hang out with him and robin is like NO IM GONNA

wally gets out of the mean phase quickly though lol

barry and iris realize right away its a crush and are like aw cute but then it... doesnt go away... ever...

so then they go REALLY hard on the PFLAG thing and keep like brochures and pride flags EVERYWHERE which actually does make wally a lot more comfortable

when wally comes out they all cry lol

wally calls barry and iris uncle and aunt but when hes much older he switches between aunt/uncle and mom and dad

anyways when dick leaves bruce/is fired/complicated feeling stuff dick spends most of his time at titans tower BUT also spends a significant amount of time at barry and iris' place

because the westallen household is adhd central, dick actually learns a lot of tips for dealing with his own adhd from them

dick is trying to Figure out his place in the world so he actually gets really into the journalism scene for a while because of both iris and clark

iris: hi this is my nephew, dick, hes my intern :)

clark: no, this is MY nephew, hes MY intern :)

lois bugs bunny meme: OUR nephew-intern

wally Does Not get it at all bcus he is 100% a STEM kid but hes still like i support you babe :^)

barry and iris LOVE dick. dick doesnt really open up about his situation but they kind of get the gist so barry is like. really annoyed with batman whenever they have to work together

iris writes a very scathing series of articles about the batman of gotham and dick is very vindictively pleased

dick actually finds out about hal and barry first bcus he comes downstairs and theyre making out on the couch and and dick is like UHHHH and halbarry are like UHHHHHHHH and dick is like I AM CALLING IRIS RIGHT FUCKING NOW and halbarry are like NO ITS COOL

iris is like. Mom supreme. dick for the past decade has had like no mother figures (selina doesnt really count because her and bruce are messyyyyy) so he both really wants iris's affection and also gets really overwhelmed by it

also barry. like, isnt emotionally constipated? wally tells dick that the west allens have weekly dinners where they talk about whats up with them and their feelings and dick is like aw thats cute and then wally is like dick u should join us and dick is like WAIT NO THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT

so dick is now required to be at family dinners once a month and talk about his feelings which is both exhausting and liberating

barry cries at the wedding and iris is like I Am Not Crying How Dare You Imply That I Am.

bruce and iris. the most begrudging in-laws. everytime bruce sees iris hes immediately reminded of the phrase "The Batman is a violent, depressed loner who gets his thrills by beating up homeless people and drug addicts." and its like jesus fucking christ iris way to gut the man

iris 100% uses the fact that shes dick graysons mother-in-law aunt-in-law to get sources. its a dog-eat-dog world out there, kid.

dick adores the twins bcus he loves babies

wally gets SO annoyed by bart its very funny to dick. wally and dick both grew up as only children but dick has had more time to adjust to having siblings so hes much more fond of bart than wally initially is

[fourthwingingit]

So i just reblogged something about flashfam having adhd and not just as a "haha funny joke they fast lololol" thing and now i have headcanons (only with a few because im new to flashes sorry)

1) BART (the one im most familiar with)

Bart thrives in cleanliness. Bart also cannot clean to save his LIFE

Like he looks at a dirty shelf and his brain just

"Nope too much time to leave"

He tries to clean his room weekly.

And weekly he gets derailed about 10 minutes in because "OH MAN I HAVENT SEEN THIS IN SO LONG!!!" *starts reading old writing project*

He is a hyperactivity king

He cant sit still to save his life

Hes just constantly moving something

He bounces his leg so fast it blurs

Probably self medicates with caffeine because it gives his brain enough stimulation to Chill The H*ck Out

He interrupts people because he gets excited

2) WALLY (i know the least about him sorry)

Have you heard about our lord and saviour rsd?

Literally this boy has such bad rsd (rejection sensitive dysphoria) that like his best frieds could make a joke and hed be like "Oh :)...... okay,,, ill just,,,,,,,,, leave forever now."

From what i know about him his inattention is his worst trait

Like he would be in the middle of saying something Really Important and he jusr zones out and somehow when he comes back hes talking about dogs and has no memory of what he was saying previously

Also when someone is Telling him something Important (tm) he john mulaney's and just zones out against his will! Oh the doctor is giving me vital results? Well i guess id better wonder about the lifecycle of a snail.

3) Barry (my og boy)

He is "high functioning"

Which is fancy talk for "calm on the outside and screaming on the inside whenever he does anything"

Can he do paperwork? Allegedly.

Has anyone seen him do it? Of course not.

Does the Captain somehow get fully completed documents moments before the Absolute Deadline when he knows mere minutes before they werent even started? Absolutely.

FAMILY ACTIVITIES (aka family wide symptoms and coping activities)

This is a caffeine dependent household

It messes with barrys powers but the others use it So Much (i know thats not how it works but my city now)

Every morning they ask someone to help them do one (1) basic chore

Wally: "iris can you watch me do the dishes so i cant leave before its done? I promise ill pay you back."

Barry: "hey jay i need to mow the lawn come talk to me while i do it or ill end up running over to different stores to compare fertilizers or something equally barely related."

Bart: "tim please. I NEED to go grocery shopping but i Will buy so many things that we dont need if you dont come with me. And that is a threat."

Since they need to eat a lot and they need to have stimulation they constantly have cliff bars and stuff on them. All different flavors too! Cant get boring or it wont help with anything.

Robin: i need a snack, i havent eaten in like, a whole day

Kid flash: what flavor cliff bar do you like? Or do you prefer nature valley? What about [weight gain bar]? Oh! You dont eat bars do you? Stupid kid! No worries man, ive got just the thing! Trail mix!!

Robin: you.... dont have pockets??.?.?????? HOW???????

They all have special interests and love infodumping to their friends, but the way they do it is different

Barry: Flash Fact(tm)!

Wally: hey, did you know?

Bart: hey! Guess what i just found out!!!!

[bartallen]

alright manthts it im gna start officially reading flash comics. u got any recs fr frst time readers ? i trust ur opinion on flash greatly lol

AH OK SO:

⚡ The Flash Vol. 2 (1987) (by many writers, but recognizably by Mark Waid, Mike Wieringo & Geoff Johns) is a very essential comic run if you wanna get into Flash comics. It’s Wally West’s main run as The Flash and establishes most of the Important Flash Lore and Characters not to mention it just Slaps and has so many good story arcs pros: everything i said above. basically every other Flash comic (or Flash media in general. looking at you CW) is going to be taking inspiration from this comic run. cons: its so long. it is so very long. it has over 200 issues but listen to me- you have to do it. you gotta. its so good. and everything else will make more sense if you read this one first (you dont have to read all of it though, there are specifically some story arcs that i think are very essential to it that if you’re interested in i can try to make that a list as well).

⚡ The Flash (2012) by Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato is a pretty good introduction to Barry Allen as The Flash if you’re a first time reader pros: good art, easy to digest if you’re new to Flash comics (and new to comics in general), good characters and stories cons: doesn’t feature pretty much any other flashfam characters (Iris and Wallace are in it, but the focus is always Mainly Barry), is a little... simple? is my best way of describing it. BUT it’s genuinely very good and I like it.

⚡ The Flash (2016) by Joshua Williamson is also a really good introduction, again featuring Barry as The Flash pros: Incredible writing, art and characterization. This might be the best characterization for Barry Allen that I’ve ever read (my opinion!). Lots of interesting new characters & older flashfam characters being reintroduced. Really good storylines all the way through cons: its very long (and ongoing- a new writer just took it over and I’m not sure what I think of his style yet), while its mostly new-reader friendly there’s some of it (as with any long running comic) that’s gonna be confusing. most comics are and that’s just an issue with the state of things right now.

additional notes: to make sense of continuity between Flash v.2 and anything after 2009, reading The Flash: Rebirth (2009), The Flash (2010), and (sighs) Flashpoint (2011) isn’t a terrible plan. they aren’t like. essential reads though. also i do want to clarify that i don’t personally enjoy Flashpoint but a lot of stuff is like... affected by it so its kind of important to continuity. although it gets recapped a lot so you might be fine without it, its really up to you! also please watch the Justice League Unlimited episode “Flash and Substance”.

SORRY THIS GOT VERY LONG!!! if you have any more questions pls let me know and i hope u have fun getting into flash comics! i really love them so. yea

(also if anyone wants to add things onto this list be my guest)

[dykerachelsummers]

what's the flash fam like on earth 82? (also sorry for spamming your like while going through the whole tag)

oh man don’t apologize!! you going through my tag made my day 🥰🥰🥰🥰

ok so imma be super upfront about the fact that i’ve barely read any flash comics and that my main knowledge for them comes from the first three seasons of the cw flash showw (before i jumped ship), various dc cartoons (primarily jlu & yj), justice league/teen titans/young just us comics, fandom osmosis, and lots of wikipedia dives. so. take what i say with a grain of fucking salt aisgsjshsjsh

so after eobard kills nora and henry gets the blame, barry ends up being fostered by a kindly old couple, jay and joan garrick (and also jay’s longtime boyfriend alan scott, which is unknown to most people). he’s best friends with iris west and he spends so much time at her place that the wests (joe, frankie, and wally) are basically a second family for him. he gets chosen by the speedforce when he’s twenty-one years old, while working on a project for one of his chemistry classes (i dont know science, man). he goes into a coma for almost a year and when he wakes up, he has superspeed. this is when jay and alan reveal to barry that jay was the original flash and alan the first human green lantern (both had retired years ago when the jsa retired).

barry becomes the new flash, after intensive training from jay (and alan. and ted grant). he also begin researching the resurgence of metas in modern society - which is how he comes across “the lady in black”, seattle’s unnamed vigilante with a sonic scream. he ends up a founding member of the justice league, alongside his newfound friends dinah and zatanna.

wally west was twelve years old when he realized his favorite aunt’s best friend had superpowers. he weaseled it out of barry how he got said powers and was thirteen when he decided to recreat the scene. he also ended up in a nearly year long coma (something barry still hasn’t forgiven himself for) and woke up with almost matching powers. barry ended up introducing him to the rest of the league’s sidekicks and sooner rather than later, the teen titans formed.

i’m still working on the rest of the flashfam but ik bart, don & dawn, irey & jai, jenni, jesse, and avery are all gonna have huge parts of the flash stories (and various team ups) !!

[biterflies]

which superhero fam is the best in your opinion (excluding flashfam who are obviously the best, of course)?

uhhh excluding the flashes,i dont really know lol. im thinking the arrowfam though theyre pretty cool from what i know of em

[chaisexuality-archive]

flash mutual a: i know absolutely nothing about comic canon but imma just roll with it

flash mutual b: dont talk about wally west, dont breathe in his direction. dont even think about him. bc either way you’ll be wrong, dc hates him just enough

flash mutual c: lemme talk to you about my lord and savior bart allen (and jenni ognats)....

flash mutual d: i love my goddamn idiot son barry fucking allen and his origin has been SLANDERED *sobs bitterly at his wasted potential* *probably cries over how badly the non-speedster flashfam ladies are treated* (bonus points if they cry about halbarry, ralphbarry, and newsflash a lot)

flash mutual e: *only cares about cw barry allen and/or dceu barry allen*

flash mutual g: *doesn’t give a fuck about cw barry allen and/or dceu barry allen*

flash mutual h: *forever screaming about the Golden Age Speed Grandpas even though we havent seen them in decades*

flash mutual i: stans the lesser known/appreciated members of the flashfam but loves them with their whole Heart (aka jesse chambers, avery ho, danica williams, etc...)

[halion-halion-aito]

anyways idk i just find it interesting that bart only had two canon and explicit love interests (i'm not counting rose in this, since they were only hinted at in the main continuity and married in some elseworld???), of which one was his best friend and the other was her copycat but older.

[chaisexuality-archive]

ughhhh i'm thinking of stopping watching the flash bc they did wally so dirty but i'm so far up westallen's ass rip... dctv series are honestly becoming messes :/ at least the flash is still so much better compared to the two demon shows

i dont blame you. im really attached to the flashfam so if one char gets treated like shit i have a few other chars to latch onto but i know a lot of ppl have wally as their #1. if it makes you unhappy, you could take a break for a while or at least watch it w/o social media bc sometimes, the environment ur in makes in worse. and yea, tf is a lot better than the other shows...