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I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!! I’M THE HAPPIEST  PERSON ALIVE :D :) :D

Mood for today

Sky blue + onyx

Nightwing #100 written by Tom Taylor art by Bruno Redondo

reblog to beat the joker to death

Bro things

THIS

batfam being cryptids: boring, over done, theyre just some people in masks if you shot them theyre done-zo

flash fam being cryptids: new, exiciting, they are intrinsically tied to an eldritch multiversal force that gives them the power to change the very fabric of time *by Accident* and that when not harnessed properly will Kill them and possibly destroy entire universes 

So you guys remember how Barry created the speedforce, right? And how it expanded out through time and space from the point of origin of one Barry Allen? And how his movement generates more speedforce and causes it to expand? And how he's called 'the avatar of the speedforce'? And how when Grodd drained the speedforce out of Barry, he couldn't fully do it no matter how hard he tried because there was always speedforce in his cells? And how Barry screamed in pain when Wally fractured the speedforce but Wally was fine? Or how Barry called down the speedforce to strike Wally and give him powers?

Do you remember how Wally mainlines the speedforce? How Wally has the strongest speedforce connection of any speedster? How Wally has the strongest relationship with Barry out of any speedster? How Wally is able to do things with the speedforce that other speedsters could never do by focusing on his love?

Do you ever think about how Bart became the speedforce? How it's in his blood? How he doesn't have as strong of a connection with the speedforce as Wally does, but he's still stronger than literally any other speedster because it's his birthright? About how Barry barely knows Bart but he loves him anyway because he's his grandson?

Sometimes I think about how the people that Barry loves are favored by the speedforce and how the people Barry loves love are as well.

Scrolling through AO3 and saw something I wasn't expecting: Hal and Jason fics. And usually, the Jason Todd-ification of DC fandom is not my cup of tea. But. There's an interesting concept there. Just not one I've ever personally seen addressed.

And that's:

Hal actually fucking did it.

Every single thing Jason fantasized about at the height of his wrath? Hal actually did it. Hal killed his mentor and his tormentor, Sinestro, with his own hands. And he decimated the friends that didn't stop his tragedy, killed the comrades that didn't care for his grief, and reduced his all-mighty masters to nothing. He actually ripped Henshaw to shreds.

Hal is the dog that bit back. The dog that not only bit the hand that fed, but went for the throat next.

Hal is the League member that went bad. There's many parallels there to Jason's narrative, should one want to look for them.

Moreover, Hal's pain became a palpable, all-consuming thing that devoured everything. Hal's tragedy, his grief and his rage and his pain, was so great it caused a literal Crisis (the second crisis ever! Out of only seven!), tore reality apart, erased entire timelines. It had long-lasting effects on the entire universe for years to come. (On a more personal note for Jason: It hurt Batman. On a deep, psychological level.)

It mattered.

But it also did not help. It didn't make Hal feel better. It didn't fix anything, despite how desperately Hal believed it would. It, in fact, made everything worse. Hal regretted all of it.

And I think Jason Todd reckoning with that tale would actually be a genuinely interesting way to explore his character.

I'm not caught up enough to know whether these two characters have ever interacted in canon, but I think I'm well-read enough to say: probably not. And if they did, probably only superficially.

But I think there is room for a very interesting conversation between these two characters.

Hal being basically the embodiment of Vengeance for a time is also an interesting element, if the timelines were shifted around so that Jason crawled out the grave before Hal's rebirth. Like. There's a foundation for one hell of an interesting dynamic here.

A03 this, Wattpad that.

What about my hyper specific self insert maladaptive daydreams?