#only difference is bart had massive youngest sibling energy and went 🥺 or 😡 everytime

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I've been thinking about this and I think that Judy Garrick could be the perfect parallel for Bart.

Picture this, a young preteen Judy Garrick shows up in the modern era. She's brash, she's inexperienced, she's uninhibited. She's just a kid trying to fit in and figure it all out and trying to have fun along the way.

And then you have Bart. He's older, he's wiser. He isn't the kid he used to be. He's grown in so many ways. He's entering young adulthood. He's trying so hard to forge his own path in life while balancing the family legacy. He desperately wants respect but not at the cost of having fun.

Suddenly, Bart's faced with a time displaced little kid. A time displaced little kid, who insists she isn't a kid, with the last name of his mentor. Bart's face to face with a walking reminder of everything he worked so hard to grow past and he's trying so hard to keep this kid alive out of respect for Jay but there's also some resentment there that Judy is Jay's real family. Not Bart.

Judy of course wants nothing to do with Bart. Who is this guy trying to tell her not to jump on power lines? Why did Jay say that she had to listen to him? It's so unfair. All he ever does is tell her to stay behind him. She knows how to fight, thank you very much.

The parallels. You gotta think about the parallels.

(*also to preemptively combat this, no I'm not ignoring Max but we can acknowledge Bart's father-son relationship with Jay without discrediting his father-son relationship with Max. Bart has two dads.)

#i just think itd be neat to explore this #bart sees wallys side of it for once #which like #was wally rude? yeah but also bart provoked the hell out of him so it was on both of them really #bart literally attacked wally when they first met and wally punched him back and bart was like 🥺 'how could you do this to me' like sir #or that time Bart almost killed himself with lasers and wally threw him through a wally to save him and wally literally thought he'd die #because of what bart did but still chose to sacrifice his life to make sure Bart was okay and then Wally did survive and bart was like #'you threw me 🥺' #and 'stop trying to get rid of me' #so anyway im ranting but basically what im saying is that bart gave just as good as he got #only difference is bart had massive youngest sibling energy and went 🥺 or 😡 everytime #again nooooot saying that wally wasn't a jerk cause he was but it was not unprovoked #dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #impulse #bart allen #jay garrick #judy garrick