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IM: OndreaFireheart
E-MAIL: flamingchemist@aol.com
RETURNING: Veralidaine Sarrasri!
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Wally West
FANDOM: DC Comics
CHRONOLOGY: After The Flash (v2) #70, but before his first kiss with Linda
CLASS: Supahero!
SUPERHERO NAME: The Flash
ALTER EGO: Wally West, PD mechanic?
BACKGROUND:
Wally West grew up idolizing the hero of Central City, the Flash. Little did he know that his hero was in fact also his uncle! When the two finally met, Wally's aunt Iris told her husband, Barry, that Wally was a huge fan of the flash, and Barry decided to give his nephew a treat. Using his super speed as a disguise and claiming to be a good friend of the Flash, Barry introduced the young Wally to his hero. Flash was explaining to Wally how he gained his powers, showing him the array of chemicals that had given him his powers, when the freak accident repeated itself and gave Wally the same powers. Seeing that his nephew now had super speed and no knowledge of how to control it, Barry took him under his wing and Wally became Kid Flash.
Wally went on to become a founding member of the Teen Titans and fought crimes for years before hitting puberty, at which point a new, horrible problem arose. There were complications with Wally's body, and as he hit puberty every time he exceeded a certain speed he hit what runners call "the wall". When this happened, he suffered crippling pain that eventually stopped him from fighting crime altogether. Barry took Wally to his doctor, the one person he trusted with the kid's secret identity. The doctor's prognosis was not good. If Wally ever used his super speed again, he would surely die.
For years Wally gave up the mask in order to preserve his own life. He kept his problem a secret for the most part, alienating his friends and allies. When the Infinite Crisis on Infinite Earths threatened to destroy the very fabric of time and Barry, trapped in another dimension, was nowhere to be found, the superhero community decided that it was time for Wally to come out of retirement. Running again didn't kill Wally, at least not at the speeds he was using, but something worse was about to come.
While the other heroes were fighting the threat to the multiverse, Barry Allen was at the center of the problem, the device that was pulling the parallel universes into each other. When he finally escaped captivity, Barry ran like he had never run before and destroyed the device, tearing a hole in time that revealed his crisis to several friends in several times, before shriveling to nothing. The other heroes arrived far too late to find anything but the empty suit and the thoroughly psychologically damaged rogue who had seen the whole thing happen.
Wally was overcome with grief and anger at the feeling of being abandoned. For a long time he was mostly useless. Finally he found the strength to take up the suit again and become the Flash. He was met at first with anger, resentment, and disbelief, but over time he managed to make a name for himself, becoming The Flash we all know and love.
PERSONALITY:
Wally is a flirt and a showoff. He will shamelessly use his powers to pick up girls and generously make an ass of himself. The sad fact of the matter is that a great deal of his cockiness serves as a cover. Wally didn't become the Flash until after his uncle Barry's death, a loss that shook him to his very foundation. For a long time his psychological distress manifested itself physically in the form of his insane appetite, the occasional loss of his powers, even intense sickness after using his powers for an extended length of time. The biggest thing he has to deal with is the sense (perpetuated by the media for quite some time) that he was just a replacement for Barry. He wore the same costume for a long time, and even when a new costume had to be developed he designed it almost identical to Barry's. He feels as though he is single-handedly responsible for keeping his uncle's memory alive.
The other part of his cockiness comes from his powers. Wally thinks that he can do just about anything, and he isn't wrong. He has all the time in the world, and more power than any person should have.
Like most speedsters, Wally is the act first, think later type. Of course, when you think at nearly the speed of sound, this doesn't cause too many problems, but nobody has ever accused Wally of having a great deal of forethought. His relationships tend to go south because of his speed. Everyone else is just too slow for him, and they can't keep up. Of course, in actuality Wally is too much of a flirt and too "in-the-moment" to really settle down before he falls in love with Linda.
For all his faults, Wally really is a good person. Ever since he was a little kid, before the accident that gave him his powers, he looked up to the Flash more than anyone else. He's the type of person who is literally living his dream, the dream of being a superhero. All he really wants to do is help people. Money and fame get in the way and distract him, but at the end of the day saving lives will always come first. He doesn't even mean to hurt people when he's being a jerk, he just hasn't learned yet how to deal with the pressures of life as a full-time superhero and the loss of a large guiding force in his life.
He's also a very loyal friend, loyal to the end. Once he attaches himself to a person he has complete and utter faith in them. Piper, especially, is proof of this. The Pied Piper was one of the Flash's rogues before he turned more or less good, and although Wally was skeptical at first, he eventually gave him a chance. The two became fast friends. When he first found out that Piper was gay, he was upset only because he hadn't noticed. He felt he had let Piper down by not being in on the big secret. Even when Piper goes to prison, and eventually goes rogue again, Wally refuses to believe the evidence and searches endlessly for an explanation to help his friend.
Wally also isn't too proud to admit when he's wrong, either. Usually. When he makes mistakes, really big mistakes that could get people killed, he is unreasonably guilty about it. Almost everything he does is inspired by his desire to please his dead uncle. Not a bad thing, of course, considering what a great person Barry Allen was, but not particularly healthy. For a long time Wally struggles with the need for validation from someone who isn't there anymore.
POWER:
(All Canon)
Super speed, and all of the physics issues that come with it.
A Superman-esque forcefield while running that somehow stops him from being burned alive or ripped to pieces but doesn’t stop him from getting hurt when he runs into things.
Accelerated metabolism/healing.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[ Video ]
[ The City gets a face full of red latex as the Flash takes the screen, fully outfitted in his cowl. If for some reason you were eerily familiar with it, you’d notice that the costume is Barry’s. The eyes, however, are green. ]
I have to say, this is the warmest welcome I’ve had into an alternate timeline and-or dimension in a long time. I’m not sure the dog tags are a necessity, but different strokes for different folks, right?
I understand there’s a need for superheroes around here. Well, ask and ye shall receive! I’m the Flash, and I’m here to set things right and then high-tail it back home.
[ And there it is, that patented Superhero Smile. ]
So what seems to be the problem?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
The first thing he did was run. That was usually the first thing Wally did in any situation: take off running. It took moments to get the layout of the city and assure himself that he really wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Of course, he was in such a hurry to find out where he was that the people were all but ignored. He returned a man’s wallet from a pickpocket on his way back to the room that was assigned him, but he failed to notice that there were people here he knew. People who would recognize him.
Picking up a newspaper was his next step. That was how he figured out what was really going on here. People were brought here, people called Imports. It wasn’t exactly a pleasant name, but it wasn’t outright offensive either. Apparently he wasn’t the first to be brought from a different world. That was altogether new.
He’d traveled through time before with Barry, even traveled through dimensions. Some of his best memories with his uncle and mentor were in different time-streams. But when they went somewhere, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, it was usually just the two of them. Him and Barry against the world. Or at least whatever evil lay in wait wherever they landed.
It wasn’t the first time since Barry’s death that he’d traveled through time. In fact he’d recently returned from the future, the future of Abracadabra and clocks that controlled the world. In that world, one of his greater enemies was the leader of a revolution, practically a hero. A mentally unstable hero, but certainly on the right side in Wally’s book. In this world it seemed like anyone would do. Briefly he worried that he might be spending more time stopping mentally unstable ‘heroes’ than the actual bad guys, but hopefully there would be enough help to go around.
The biggest concern at the moment, apart from finding food, was how long he was going to be stuck here. It seemed he didn’t have a choice in the matter. He would be trapped in this dimension until he either found a wormhole to send him back or this world was done with him. He’d done a lot of time travel, but it had never really worked to his benefit.
You see, the problem was a girl. (Of course.) He was going to ask Linda out on a date tomorrow. Or some tomorrow. It was hard to say when tomorrow was when you didn’t quite know when you were. He was going to ask Linda out, and if he was late she was going to murder him.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Y’all know Wally.
NAME: Alex
AGE: 19
JOURNAL:
flamingchemist IM: OndreaFireheart
E-MAIL: flamingchemist@aol.com
RETURNING: Veralidaine Sarrasri!
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Wally West
FANDOM: DC Comics
CHRONOLOGY: After The Flash (v2) #70, but before his first kiss with Linda
CLASS: Supahero!
SUPERHERO NAME: The Flash
ALTER EGO: Wally West, PD mechanic?
BACKGROUND:
Wally West grew up idolizing the hero of Central City, the Flash. Little did he know that his hero was in fact also his uncle! When the two finally met, Wally's aunt Iris told her husband, Barry, that Wally was a huge fan of the flash, and Barry decided to give his nephew a treat. Using his super speed as a disguise and claiming to be a good friend of the Flash, Barry introduced the young Wally to his hero. Flash was explaining to Wally how he gained his powers, showing him the array of chemicals that had given him his powers, when the freak accident repeated itself and gave Wally the same powers. Seeing that his nephew now had super speed and no knowledge of how to control it, Barry took him under his wing and Wally became Kid Flash.
Wally went on to become a founding member of the Teen Titans and fought crimes for years before hitting puberty, at which point a new, horrible problem arose. There were complications with Wally's body, and as he hit puberty every time he exceeded a certain speed he hit what runners call "the wall". When this happened, he suffered crippling pain that eventually stopped him from fighting crime altogether. Barry took Wally to his doctor, the one person he trusted with the kid's secret identity. The doctor's prognosis was not good. If Wally ever used his super speed again, he would surely die.
For years Wally gave up the mask in order to preserve his own life. He kept his problem a secret for the most part, alienating his friends and allies. When the Infinite Crisis on Infinite Earths threatened to destroy the very fabric of time and Barry, trapped in another dimension, was nowhere to be found, the superhero community decided that it was time for Wally to come out of retirement. Running again didn't kill Wally, at least not at the speeds he was using, but something worse was about to come.
While the other heroes were fighting the threat to the multiverse, Barry Allen was at the center of the problem, the device that was pulling the parallel universes into each other. When he finally escaped captivity, Barry ran like he had never run before and destroyed the device, tearing a hole in time that revealed his crisis to several friends in several times, before shriveling to nothing. The other heroes arrived far too late to find anything but the empty suit and the thoroughly psychologically damaged rogue who had seen the whole thing happen.
Wally was overcome with grief and anger at the feeling of being abandoned. For a long time he was mostly useless. Finally he found the strength to take up the suit again and become the Flash. He was met at first with anger, resentment, and disbelief, but over time he managed to make a name for himself, becoming The Flash we all know and love.
PERSONALITY:
Wally is a flirt and a showoff. He will shamelessly use his powers to pick up girls and generously make an ass of himself. The sad fact of the matter is that a great deal of his cockiness serves as a cover. Wally didn't become the Flash until after his uncle Barry's death, a loss that shook him to his very foundation. For a long time his psychological distress manifested itself physically in the form of his insane appetite, the occasional loss of his powers, even intense sickness after using his powers for an extended length of time. The biggest thing he has to deal with is the sense (perpetuated by the media for quite some time) that he was just a replacement for Barry. He wore the same costume for a long time, and even when a new costume had to be developed he designed it almost identical to Barry's. He feels as though he is single-handedly responsible for keeping his uncle's memory alive.
The other part of his cockiness comes from his powers. Wally thinks that he can do just about anything, and he isn't wrong. He has all the time in the world, and more power than any person should have.
Like most speedsters, Wally is the act first, think later type. Of course, when you think at nearly the speed of sound, this doesn't cause too many problems, but nobody has ever accused Wally of having a great deal of forethought. His relationships tend to go south because of his speed. Everyone else is just too slow for him, and they can't keep up. Of course, in actuality Wally is too much of a flirt and too "in-the-moment" to really settle down before he falls in love with Linda.
For all his faults, Wally really is a good person. Ever since he was a little kid, before the accident that gave him his powers, he looked up to the Flash more than anyone else. He's the type of person who is literally living his dream, the dream of being a superhero. All he really wants to do is help people. Money and fame get in the way and distract him, but at the end of the day saving lives will always come first. He doesn't even mean to hurt people when he's being a jerk, he just hasn't learned yet how to deal with the pressures of life as a full-time superhero and the loss of a large guiding force in his life.
He's also a very loyal friend, loyal to the end. Once he attaches himself to a person he has complete and utter faith in them. Piper, especially, is proof of this. The Pied Piper was one of the Flash's rogues before he turned more or less good, and although Wally was skeptical at first, he eventually gave him a chance. The two became fast friends. When he first found out that Piper was gay, he was upset only because he hadn't noticed. He felt he had let Piper down by not being in on the big secret. Even when Piper goes to prison, and eventually goes rogue again, Wally refuses to believe the evidence and searches endlessly for an explanation to help his friend.
Wally also isn't too proud to admit when he's wrong, either. Usually. When he makes mistakes, really big mistakes that could get people killed, he is unreasonably guilty about it. Almost everything he does is inspired by his desire to please his dead uncle. Not a bad thing, of course, considering what a great person Barry Allen was, but not particularly healthy. For a long time Wally struggles with the need for validation from someone who isn't there anymore.
POWER:
(All Canon)
Super speed, and all of the physics issues that come with it.
A Superman-esque forcefield while running that somehow stops him from being burned alive or ripped to pieces but doesn’t stop him from getting hurt when he runs into things.
Accelerated metabolism/healing.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[ Video ]
[ The City gets a face full of red latex as the Flash takes the screen, fully outfitted in his cowl. If for some reason you were eerily familiar with it, you’d notice that the costume is Barry’s. The eyes, however, are green. ]
I have to say, this is the warmest welcome I’ve had into an alternate timeline and-or dimension in a long time. I’m not sure the dog tags are a necessity, but different strokes for different folks, right?
I understand there’s a need for superheroes around here. Well, ask and ye shall receive! I’m the Flash, and I’m here to set things right and then high-tail it back home.
[ And there it is, that patented Superhero Smile. ]
So what seems to be the problem?
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
The first thing he did was run. That was usually the first thing Wally did in any situation: take off running. It took moments to get the layout of the city and assure himself that he really wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Of course, he was in such a hurry to find out where he was that the people were all but ignored. He returned a man’s wallet from a pickpocket on his way back to the room that was assigned him, but he failed to notice that there were people here he knew. People who would recognize him.
Picking up a newspaper was his next step. That was how he figured out what was really going on here. People were brought here, people called Imports. It wasn’t exactly a pleasant name, but it wasn’t outright offensive either. Apparently he wasn’t the first to be brought from a different world. That was altogether new.
He’d traveled through time before with Barry, even traveled through dimensions. Some of his best memories with his uncle and mentor were in different time-streams. But when they went somewhere, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, it was usually just the two of them. Him and Barry against the world. Or at least whatever evil lay in wait wherever they landed.
It wasn’t the first time since Barry’s death that he’d traveled through time. In fact he’d recently returned from the future, the future of Abracadabra and clocks that controlled the world. In that world, one of his greater enemies was the leader of a revolution, practically a hero. A mentally unstable hero, but certainly on the right side in Wally’s book. In this world it seemed like anyone would do. Briefly he worried that he might be spending more time stopping mentally unstable ‘heroes’ than the actual bad guys, but hopefully there would be enough help to go around.
The biggest concern at the moment, apart from finding food, was how long he was going to be stuck here. It seemed he didn’t have a choice in the matter. He would be trapped in this dimension until he either found a wormhole to send him back or this world was done with him. He’d done a lot of time travel, but it had never really worked to his benefit.
You see, the problem was a girl. (Of course.) He was going to ask Linda out on a date tomorrow. Or some tomorrow. It was hard to say when tomorrow was when you didn’t quite know when you were. He was going to ask Linda out, and if he was late she was going to murder him.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Y’all know Wally.
