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Chronology

Wally discusses the nature of his power with The Phantom Stranger, and puts the advise to the test.

( Chapter Three: The Kindness of Strangers )

Iris West by batfan_sarah

Thingses...

So in The Flash, specifically #165, Wally's thrown in a nasty alternate reality, with no Flash. And Captain Cold is with him.

Without speedsters, various incarnations of super-hero groups all fail, and all superheroes fall from grace soonafter. Just now, I went back to look at all that, because I remembered it was some kind of bad mirror-world-thing... but now I'm seeing all kinds of parallels, heh.

Also, you may be seeing hints of Flash comic continuity coming through strong here. But there's no Max Mercury, so the Stranger played stand-in. I wondered what would happen if they amped Wally's powers after his brush with the Speed Force in JLU, so... I'm answering my own curiosity, heh. Because they sure did in the comics.

My Speed Force is a little different than that, though. But unless you're like me and read piles of The Flash, you might not even really notice. The Speed Force is cool the way it is, I just made it a little more... invasive, I guess. I tweaked the way Wally was able to find his way back out of the Speed Force in his occasional getting-lost-in-it episodes; in the comics, it was the hopelessly romantic idea that his true love would always draw him home. As cool as that is and all... I had the Speed Force itself having more to do with it.

Max, guru of speed, known for his glowy-eyed communing with the Speed Force. And... not in my universe. But I'm totally stealing from him and putting him everywhere anyway. After all, it was Wally, and not Max, in the DCAU, that discovered the Speed Force for the first time; at least, that we know of.

I could say more about this past chapter, but I won't. I've already babbled enough as it is.

Oh, and yeah, this one's coming out fast. I'm hopelessly addicted, you see.

And, because The Flash #165 had some... interesting... visuals...



( Jay & proof that alternate reality + Wally = imprisonment )

::explodes again::

OMG yazzle killed me again.

It's art, from the first chapter of Chronology. And it's beautiful.

I'm trying and failing to find other things to say because... BruceandBartandTerryandSEPIA! And the rose! ::flail::

I need a moment.

Adds: Now can't stop listening to Nick Cave's No More Shall We Part.