#was super important. like yeah it's a throwaway issue but in a greater context it means sooo much for clark to embrace his new role

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what do you think wally's experience was like suddenly switching from titan to JL member? i mean obv we see him talk about it in canon but i like how you word things :D also related to what you once said on twitter about nightwing being scarily competent to the point of reigning in his emotions even more than bruce who can become reckless from grief...i thought it was interesting bc wally doesn't even name batman (dick's natural JLA counterpart) as JLA's leader, he says it's superman!!

i think the fun thing about wally switching teams is that like. unlike some of the other members of the titans he's very well integrated with the older crowd (i would say roy is very close as well. and i am sure a lot of people would mention dick bc of the whole multiverse reliability factor but i think that has more to do with his skills and competency than him necessarily being close with every hero in the upper echelons). part of what makes him such a solid legacy character is the fact that he is actually entrenched in the legacy on a big picture level. inheritance of barry's mantle is not the only thing at stake rather it is wally's entire dream and perspective on what it means to be a hero that is at stake. the members of the league are people he has looked up to and aspired towards his entire life but they are also people his uncle would call friends. so there is a bit of pressure and exasperation there at having to prove himself to these people bc he's been nyooming within their circles for years upon years and has taken active interest in and admired them for a large part of that time only to be approached with some hesitation upon finally taking his predecessor's mantle

but as we can see that hesitation doesn't take long to wear off and wally does prove himself to be worthy of that title. i'm sure it's something every member of the league was secretly hoping for, though they may not say it aloud. bc he's barry's boy. and as much as they dread the pressure of this weight that falls onto wally's shoulders they also know the kind of person he is and they are also witness to the fierceness of his spirit. so he's young, he's a little brash, he's clearly drowning in despair for a while. but they dote on him. they give him space to grow. they take him in like one of their own bc he is one of their own, he always has been. and i don't think that's something you can say for any other ordinary new entry to the league. they don't have that connection. they don't have that automatic guarantee of guarded but simultaneously unabashed affection. the wonder of wally's legacy is that barry's lasting shadow is important in the most endearing ways. it gives way to a belief in duty, it gives way to hope, it gives way to this place for wally to always have no matter how lonely the world finds him. it allows wally to keep believing in heroism and that fledgling idea of what it means to do good when he was gifted powers at the tender age of ten

and i absolutely believe it's what makes clark the symbol of the league for wally as well. clark represents everything that wally believes in and everything that barry left him with. hope, love, perseverance, and most of all, the guarantee of a place to belong

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