(Part 4/4)

A Lie For The Ages: Grant loses his memory after an accident and goes to live with Slade while he recovers.

a seat at the highchair: A time-traveling trickster snatches a six-year-old Bruce Wayne from the past and leaves him with Jason Todd.

Heels Over Head: Young Don tries to impress Meloni with some help from his sister, Dawn.

Foster in the First: Lawyer Harvey Dent takes an interest in the son of a man he put away for life.

orange like me: Guy Gardner becomes a foster parent.

Bells and Whistles: AU where the Allens find out about Malcolm when he was a toddler.

Catch a Chill: Greta Hayes moves into Bart's house, but her unintentional haunts frighten his unsuspecting friends.

Dancing Without Music: Koriand'r enjoys dinner with a stranger. (One-shot)

cobalt blue and dark flash designs because i finished waid’s flash run the other day

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warning: Major Character Death

Relationships: Malcolm Thawne & Original Child Character(s), Malcolm Thawne & Original Male Character(s), Malcolm Thawne/Original Female Character(s), Original Female Character(s) & Original Child Character(s), Original Female Character(s) & Original Male Character(s), Nora West-Allen & Original Characters, Eddie Thawne & Malcolm Thawne

Characters: OC: Theodore Edward Thawne, Malcolm Thawne, OC: Laura Thawne, Nora West-Allen, Iris West, Barry Allen (mentioned), Eddie Thawne (mentioned), Eobard Thawne (mentioned), Team Flash (The Flash TV 2014)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Canonical Character Death, Implied/Referenced Suicide, (Eddie's sacrifice), Family Feels, Time Skips, ARGUS's bad future timeline, Barry dies in Crisis 2024, Time Travel, Comic Book Science, Theodore starting to grapple with legacy, Guilt, From both Malcolm and Theodore, Eobard is a manipulative bastard and everyone knows this even hundreds of miles away, The Speed Force as an entity appears briefly but ONLY briefly, Thawne Family Angst, Foreshadowing

Series: Part 1 of The Theodore Thawne AU

Summary:

When Theodore Edward Thawne is five years old, his Uncle Barry dies in Crisis and the world slowly starts turning against metahumans thanks to ARGUS and their machinations. As he grows up he learns more and more about superheroes and how his dad used to be one, and worries about whether he's gonna get powers because he knows ARGUS will come for him - so when they eventually manifest he knows the only thing he can do is get an inhibitor chip immediately, as much as he'd love to keep them.

Except it turns out his parents have had an escape plan for years, and within a week they're in Canada - Theodore will get to grow up free and eventually becomes the second Cobalt Blue by the time he's eighteen, but he regrets the way he left, and misses his childhood best friend Nora, and doesn't ever expect to see her again.

Then he starts hearing rumours of her visiting Eobard Thawne - one of the men responsible for his uncle's suicide - and things start going downhill from there, leading to one of the biggest decisions Theodore will ever make...

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Bart sees ghosts. And no, I don't mean that in the aspect of some sort of supernatural ability that only he has. I'm talking about his unique experience of being time-displaced.

From his time period of origin, his grandfather is dead, his friends are dead, all he has left are Meloni and Iris. Jenni is hardly ever in his time period despite being a few chronological months older than him.

His attachments to people are so different than what is "normal" because of this. He knows his grandfather doesn't live to see him be born let alone see Don grow up. Don died when he was an infant... And although Barry is alive and exists in the time period he now calls home, they rarely get to spend time together, and Bart knows that time will eventually come to an end.

Everyone that Bart knows in a way is a ghost to him, nothing more than a reflection of something that can only exist in those periods.

Like all his friends (Tim, Conner, Cassie, Grant, etc.) are long gone by the time he's born. The only reason they became friends is because he's been deliberately placed in that time. Then there's his mom. She doesn't even exist yet and she can't come back and forth to visit him or even stay in his time, and in a way he's forced to grieve the relationship he'll never have with her. So in a way he's so v alienated from his blood relatives in a way that the other flashfam members can't understand. The only person who can truly relate to the isolation from his birth family is Malcolm Thawne but he can't relate to the time displacement or how Bart chooses to navigate this strange displacement. So in a lot of ways as a Thawne he experiences this sort of curse where they are doomed to be isolated from people who would otherwise want to love them. Except he's isolated from them too bc the Thawnes' hatred of the Allens's keeps them from ever truly accepting him. So on top of time displacement AND age displacement he's both Thawne and Allen and neither Thawne nor Allen at the same time.

Especially if you look at the time Linda was ?erased? or disappeared from the timeline and he was the only one who remembered her. Like imagine how that shaped the way he thinks of people during this crucial time where his brain is developing.

His adolescent mind already has to function completely different from everyone in his physiological age group and now he has to either block out or accept the fact that no matter what time he exists in he will always have "ghosts".

Barry wanted a brother

But wally refused

The Thawne family is so interesting!

I’m rereading the Chain Lightning arc of The Flash comics and I’m realizing how similar Malcolm and Thad are in their upbringing.

Both are a part of a family dynamic in which they are not loved or considered family.

Both desired to be accepted by a family in which they could have belonged, but because of their hatred/rage/anger could not.

And they are both envious and hate their good twin, and are desirous of their life which is so much better than their own.

It happens not once! But twice in the same family!

I was doing some rereading and I think that Bart Allen acted more like a Thawne than an Allen at times when he was The Flash in The Flash: Fastest Man Alive. And particularly so when he was fighting Thad because he was tapping more into his anger and rage which are very explicitly associated with Thawnes in the comics.

It’s seen with Malcolm Thawne (Barry Allen’s twin brother), who began the Allen-Thawne feud and also created the Cobalt Blue gem due to the immense amount of rage and wrath he held:

(The Flash (1987) #145)

It’s seen with Eobard, Thad, President Thawne, Meloni even states she had a desire to smother her father in his sleep (which is great and I support her), and generations of Thawnes who are able to tap into the power of the Cobalt Blue gem which is based in hatred.

This hatred with regard to Malcolm’s descendants is associated with the Thawne ideology and is a learned hatred, but I think interesting that his character also has instances of following this pattern and characteristic associated with Thawnes despite being raised as an Allen and as a hero. I also think it’s interesting because Bart’s character and writing surrounding on him has never personally touched on or associated him with Thawnes except for stating that his mother is a Thawne and that his grandfather, President Thawne, wanted to convert him to the Thawne side. Bart has never weighed in or commented on this half of his lineage.

But even despite that Bart doesn’t seem like he’s an exception to this pattern/characteristic associated with Thawnes because he also displays this intense rage too at times such as seen when he is The Flash. He breaks his knuckles on Thad’s face and when he sees the Black Flash, a certain sign of a speedster’s death, he actively tries to kill Thad. It is a kill or be killed situation, but typically heroes and Flashes specifically tend to stay away from killing. And similarly in Teen Titans Bart wants to get revenge on Thad after his death (and for context Thad has already died himself due to the fact he killed Bart), even despite this being a simulated version of Thad feels very Thawne like as well because he’s not just punishing this version of him, but is once again actively desires to kill him.

So while it does seem unlike Bart to give into rage or anger this intense it’s interesting to think that Bart also holds a tendency toward anger or rage at times that connects him back to the Thawnes and this prominent theme/characteristic associated with them with regard to his character, and is also ironically used against them.

(Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #13)

(Teen Titans (2003) #98) (This occurs after Bart comes back to life).

Indeed, Malcolm Thawne. Indeed...

Some highlights of binging and finally finishing DC Rebirth Flash

Emo Tornado Twins, my beloved~

Yes officer, this image, right here. It's triggering my bisexualitiness.

oh look, it's that part of Bendis YJ that didn't feel slow af

Oh my god, thank goodness they're alive. It's a bit fucked up that he murdered his own ancestor but at least when he did it, he'd still be alive

You're all blind to the truth. There's only ONE person living in Central City with the last name Thawne. ONE SINGLE PERSON.

AND GUESS WHO FUCKING APPEARS IN FUTURE STATE: JUSTICE LEAGUE

THAT'S RIGHT, THAT MAN WITH THE JACKET AROUND HIS WAIST IS MALCOLM THAWNE AKA COBALT BLUE. BARRY'S ALLEN'S OLDER BROTHER!

colbert blue, whoever that is

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: The Flash (TV 2014)

Rating: General Audiences

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Eddie Thawne & Malcolm Thawne, Eddie Thawne/Iris West, Barry Allen/Eddie Thawne, Barry Allen/Eddie Thawne/Iris West, Barry Allen & Malcolm Thawne, Malcolm Thawne & Iris West

Characters: Eddie Thawne, Malcolm Thawne, Barry Allen, Iris West

Additional Tags: Fluff, Family, Friendship, Humor, Light Angst, (literally just a few sentences when Eddie reflects on his past), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Eddie Thawne Lives, Set a few years after S1, Mild Language (literally just one swear word at the end)

Series: Part 3 of Fluffspring 2024

Summary:

It's spring cleaning time in the Westhallen household and Eddie asks for Malcolm's help in sorting out some of the stuff they've accumulated over the years - Malcolm wonders how he's been roped into this.

So, Guy and Barry both had evil brothers introduced in the 1990s

I admit, I've never read anything with Cobalt Blue. I'd thought him extremely unpopular. I was surprised, when looking on DC fandom, that he only had 2 fewer appearances listed than Mace Gardner. Was also very surprised to see he showed up in Prime Earth (guess I was wrong about the unpopularity). I do not like his existence, myself.

I did read the Mace backstory. I did find the backstory with Guy quite good. I liked it. I didn't care for him coming back as a supervillain. Relatives as enemies just bores me 99% of the time these days.

So, what say you, oh people of Tumblr - do you like either of these characters or not?

What Fic Should I Update?

The Flames That Burn The Brightest: Donna starts working at the high school (Chapter 3)

Almost There: Thad spends the weekend with the Ognats (Chapter 4)

Space Oddity: Roy pays Garth a visit after hours (Chapter 7)

silence of your song: Malcolm enrolls Thad in high school (Chapter 2)

Daily Planet Classifieds: Conner and Cassie go for a run (Chapter 4)

A Yellow Ribbon: Bart's family finds a specialist in Manchester, AL (Chapter 8)

The Brother Trap: Meloni and Axel have a sick day (Chapter 16)

Would It Kill You?: Thad and Terry discuss sleeping arrangements (Chapter 5)

Wally taps in the rest of the Flash family to deal with the Cobalt Blue problem The Flash vol 2 #143-145

Barry Allen, The Flash, is the Fastest Man Alive...isn’t he?

Son of convicted killer Henry Jay Allen and his wife, Nora Thompson, Barry and his twin brother, Malcolm, grew up in the Keystone-Central Metro Area. Barry went to live with family friend Joe West and his partner Ira while Malcolm was adopted by their mother’s cousin, Charlene and her husband Hugo Thawne, going so far as to change his last name to Thawne as well. Despite being separated at home, the two continued attending school together, often with Joe’s biological son Daniel tagging along with the older boys (Joe and Ira’s other adopted child, Iris, never wanted to admit she had a crush on a boy she lived with).

Barry, Mal, and Danny would often spend their time together goofing and trading the same few old issues of All-Flash between the three of them. Barry always thought Jay Garrick looked like their dad, but Mal and Danny always thought that was just Barry projecting his own need for Henry to be innocent onto a fictional character.

As adults, they all drifted apart. Barry left for school, coming back to Keystone-Central to work as a CSI; Mal got a job as a janitor while trying to get his “Cobalt Blue” fantasy series off the ground; and Danny struggled with addiction issues and trouble with the law, driving a wedge between him and his father. On a rare night when all three were free, the brother met for drinks and celebrated Nora’s birthday.

Then, a bolt of lightning--seemingly the result of a test at the new STAR facility downtown--destroyed a window and struck the three of them.Variously blessed or cursed with superhuman speed via a semi-mystical “Speed Force” that would come to transform all of Keystone-Central into a hotbed of metahuman activity, Barry stole the name of his favorite fictional speedster and his brothers agreed. Thus...the Flash was born. All three of them: Red, Blue, and Gold.

Things were good for a time. They got their own museum. Iris moved back home and she and Barry got together. They started taking care of Daniel’s kid, Wally, as Daniel started taking steps to get clean. Malcolm finally felt able to tackle everything he didn’t feel like he had time for.

But nothing lasts forever, especially at the speed of light. Years after the fact, Wally would remember his dad and his uncles as the greatest heroes he ever knew. He tried not to think about what happened after. What Mal did...what his father did...how they lost Barry.

Even when the world was ending, seeing his Uncle Barry again was the hardest part...knowing the Flash was never going home...