#not as a hero necessarily...but at least so reyna can control her powers once she starts manifesting them

[shrinkthisviolet]

The thing that drove me nuts about Cisco giving up his powers is it could have been fixed with one scene. Cisco mentions he wants kids... "And Nora got your powers. How can I risk passing mine along? What kind of parent gives their kids visions of awful things?" Suddenly, it makes sense. He loves his powers... But wants something else more, and it's worth the sacrifice to him.

That is a good point! Also, per this post, I will add that it’s hard to nail down a definitive reason for why he actually wanted his powers removed, because the show seems to jump from “these powers are the only thing giving me worth” to “I want a family” (notably before he meets Kamilla, so he must’ve just had a general idea in mind) back to “these powers are the only thing giving me worth here” to “I want to discover myself outside of these powers”. And they do it so incoherently that it’s a mess.

There’s also the fact that we don’t know why he feared starting a family with his powers. Was it because of his kids possibly inheriting those powers? Or was it because he didn’t want to become the kind of dad who spent more time at “work” than with his family? Either is likely, especially since we know Cisco felt emotionally neglected growing up.

I absolutely agree that adding that line that you mentioned would’ve helped…if that’s actually the reason. The problem is, we really don’t know. The writers adding a line like that would’ve helped clarify it though! And I absolutely would’ve been fine with it if it felt coherent (which it, unfortunately, was not).