#i put my silly little wallinda goggles on and tunnel visioned on them

[babyflash]

I’ve been trying to sell my happy death day AU for years!!! It’s my favorite AU outside imaging yj wally becoming JLU Wally after he creased tbh. I love that movie and honestly Tree reminded me a lot of early flash years Wally…plus imagining Wally doing tree’s emotionally tired and angry screaming tour across the quad after she’s been through this day waaaaaaaaay to many times. With Linda and Hartley by his side (who despite being dragged along every cycle don’t remember) watching this maybe stranger loose it but are sorta down to be part of this scifi comedy plus I think it works for the tone of how I like Wally’s stories to be “uts fun, it’s scifi camp, but with a really strong emotional core” plus I love imagining weird speedforce puberty problems causing time fuck ups.

However outside the loop the justice league, team, and Barry (who was on a mission somewhere else) are freaking out. Though I go back and forth on whether the Villain would be Christina/Lady Savitar or Hunter Zolomon or just fucking Reverse Flash, the prick himself.

My ideal yj Linda would have been the semi overachiever no nonsense student who takes the school paper way too seriously and tries to get “real” stories landing herself in the way of super villains way too often for a normal 17 year old (she’s a grade older than Wally tbh), she figured out Wally was kid flash all on her own and told him she wouldn’t tell anyone so long as she gave him some stories and cue a weird friendship between the science geek and weird news girl (and that’s not all, when you include voted most likely to be a future rogue rebel rich kid Hartley R. who is totally a band theater kid and extreme overachiever freshmen Jesse Quick who is practically Wally’s little cousin, who likes to pretend they don’t know each other) I also am partial to Linda being on the school’s hockey team and Wally wears her jersey sometimes or well, he made himself one to support her. They aren’t cool kids by any stretch of means and they are completely goey and overly cute with each other but they are on the same wave length. Like Wally unironically uses “hot sauce” as a nickname for Linda in canon in the newest flash issues. They are so sweet it rots your teeth. However, unlike Artemis and Wally in the show, in my AU, the orbit each other for a lot longer before they get together officially…

Linda is sorta Wally’s girlfriend from Canada that the team doesn’t think exists until M’gann accidentally instagram sloothes her way to wally’s civilian account where he is always posting pics of him and her. And she’s like holy shit she’s real.

ANON ARE YOU IN MY FUCKING BRAIN OR WHAT holy shit you just PERFECTLY summed up all my thoughts.

1. HAPPY DEATH DAY AU!!! tree and wally are so similar it's not even funny!!! you're absolutely right!! this scifi, camp, weirdly emotionally deep movie is everything wally's stories should be and more! wally accidentally creating a westview-like time bubble around central and everyone else on the planet freaking the fuck out as he is freaking the fuck out over the whole thing but from the inside. employing the help of linda (who loves wally but is really worried about him... hart he's acting weird and talking crazier than usual) and hart (linda i'm sure it's fine you know how stem kids are) to help him figure it out (and him and linda end up together like tree and carter <3333)

2. HOW DID YOU KNOW I HC YJ!LINDA AS OLDER THAN WALLY in my mind he skipped a grade so she's older than him but they're in the same grade!! also science dweeb wally and journalism dweeb linda and theater dweeb hart <3 just unapologetic weirdos!!! wally west and his Gang of Losers represent for the weird kids!! just like the kids in the top ten of the class who actually study for the SAT and ACT and genuinely care about APs and getting into a good college and are also just like. odd. thats ME i'm HER no im not projecting fuck off. i also have a specific hc that wally is a hobbyist/amateur photographer and that he has like different digital and film cameras and he's the obnoxious friend who's like "wait no don't move stay exactly like that you look amazing" and so his ig is just a crazy puzzle of all his closest friends (but he doesn't tag ANYBODY! the jerk.) and so meg is like detective hat on combing through his ig and trying to piece together who hart and linda are because robin and artemis are CONVINCED they aren't real but she wants to give wally the benefit of the doubt

3. wally and linda definitely don't get together until college (they go to the same school and meet up for coffee all the time, despite having completely different areas of study) and their brains are always going at like 100%. i feel like she can keep up with him in a way that a lot of people can't and she listens to his silly rambles and lets him explain things to her and she falls in love with him when she's ranting about a professor and a project and the ethics of journalism and the moral responsibility an author has to their audience and the death of true journalism and later he sends her a bunch of articles and essays about it asking if they're good reading material and she's like "oh. oh" and then she like kisses him one night outside her dorm building because he walked her home so he could listen to her talk some more and he tastes like coffee and her nose mashes into his face uncomfortably and she opens her eyes before its over and she can count all the freckles on his face and like. it's objectively the worst first kiss ever but it's so them that she can't help but smile and he's smiling too and then the rest is history.

4. she was definitely the first non-super he told his identity to.