#save barry allen

[spacedace]

Here have some snippets of the AU that’s taken over my brain (featuring Elle unintentionally dunking on both of Bruce’s identities, Clark realizing he passed his taste in partners on to his son, a bit of pre/unaware that they are dating Super Serious Chaos, and some blink-and-you-miss-it background Enemies to Lovers Dick/Dan)

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“Sorry, who’s Bruce Wayne?”

The room when quiet. All heads turned to look at Elle at the end of the table. Bruce didn’t visibly react, but Clark could make out the subtle indication of disbelief that his old friend was feeling - that they all were feeling at the interpreter’s question. Elle, suddenly aware she had the full room’s attention, had the look of someone who realized they’d said something wrong, but didn’t know what.

“You’re kidding.” John said, “You know Bruce Wayne. Everyone knows Bruce Wayne.”

Elle blinked. “I don’t.” She glanced from face to face, “Is he like a big deal? Does he work here or something? I haven’t been around that long so I might have missed him.”

It took every bit of self control Clark had not to laugh. His voice still came out a bit strangled from the effort as he offered, “No he doesn’t work here.” If Bruce was the type to do so in uniform, he’d be kicking Clark under the table.

“You live in Gotham. You have to know Bruce Wayne.” Barry said, voice going a bit high with growing bewilderment. “Mega ba-jillionair. CEO of Wayne Tech? Richest man in Gotham - in the world? Has like a hundred kids?”

Their interpreter’s nose scrunched. “So he’s like…in one of those fundamentalist cults obsessed with having a bunch of kids or something?”

Bruce actually twitched at that. The sound of utter disgust in Elle’s voice at the concept, the complete and total lack of any kind of recognition she had for the single most famous non-crime or crime-fighting related person in the city that she lived in, she truly had no idea who they were talking about. Clark had to get a recording of the room’s security feed, Lois would love this. Oh, wait no, Bruce’s kids. Maybe if he was fast enough he could text Dick to get there ASAP so he could see it all in person before it was over.

“No! Nothing like that! He adopted them - well most of them.” Barry tried to explain, looking utterly lost as he turned from Elle to the rest of them and back again. “You’re messing with us right? This is like a joke?”

Elle shook her head, looking just as lost as Barry did. “I have no idea who you’re talking about.”

“Do you know Dick Grayson?”

“I know of an officer Grayson who is a dick. Total tool. He’s been making my brother’s Dan’s life miserable for like a year now. Pretty sure not who you’re talking about though.”

“Jason Todd.”

“The library goon?”

“Tim Drake.”

“Sounds like a Dark Wing Duck character.”

“Cassandra Cain.”

“Isn’t that the author that started out writing incest Harry Potter fanfic?”

“Duke Thomas?”

“What’s he a Duke of?”

Barry snapped his fingers, pointing emphatically at Elle with a look of victory on his masked face as he shouted, “Damian Wayne!”

Damian, who had at that moment just walked into the meeting room with Jon at his heels paused in his place just behind Elle. He did pretty well at hiding his surprise at Barry seemingly shouting his civilian name and pointing at him upon walking in. Though the tense line of his shoulders suggested that if Barry was actually revealing his secret identity without warning or permission, there would be blood.

Stella Nightingale, unaware of the almost-kinda identity reveal going on around her, tilted her head in confusion at the speedster. “I’m assuming he’s related to that Bruce Wayne guy?”

“They’re all related to Bruce Wayne.” John said with open amusement now. The Green Lantern had given up on the research entirely, watching the entire debacle with a growing smirk he kept casting towards Bruce. “That man’s face is plastered absolutely everywhere in the news. How do you not know who he is?”

“If Lois Lane hasn’t written about him he can’t be that important.” Elle said with a casual certainty of one speaking a core tenant of their beliefs. Clark’s opinion of the young woman - already quite high considering her ferocious loyalty and fondness to Jon - rose sharply.

“You’re read the Daily Planet?” Clark asked, warmth curling in his chest at the mention of his wife and her work.

“I read articles by Lois Lane.” Elle said promptly, “I tried reading some articles that Kent guy she partners with sometimes wrote on his own but I couldn’t get past his writing style. Dude sounds like he’s from outer space with his word choice sometimes.”

Bruce, looking far too pleased, gave a quiet and not terribly convincing cough as Clark tried to will his soul back into his body.

It was going to be a long day.

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“You are at least aware of who Gotham’s vigilantes are, yes?” Damian asked with a raised brow behind his mask.

Elle shrugged, giving him a sly smile. “The relevant ones.”

Clark tried to hide his short laugh with a feigned cough. Elle at least was distracted enough with Jon and Damian’s attention to notice but Bruce was giving him a look over the tablet he was trying - and undoubtedly failing - to review files on.

Jon grinned eagerly from his spot beside Elle as he asked, “Aren’t they all relevant to you? You live in Gotham.”

“I live in Crime Alley.” Elle corrected, bumping his shoulder with hers. “We have different standards of relevancy there.”

“So what are the relevant ones then?” Clark asked, pointedly ignoring Bruce’s burning stare. They’d get back to the research. Eventually. Finding out if the Gothamite who had been spending all her free time with Phoenix and Flamebird for the past year and a half was as oblivious to her city’s heroes as she was its celebrities was too entertaining a notion to pass up.

“Phoenix, obviously.” She grinned cheekily at Damian across the table, ticking names off her fingers as she continued. “Red Hood. Spoiler. Uh…Orphan?” She trailed off, forehead scrunching in concentrated thought.

“That’s can’t be all the ones you know.” Jon gaped, eyes sparkling with amusement as he glanced over to were Bruce was seated, not five feet away before turning back to watch Elle try to rack her brain for any more Gotham vigilantes. Clark could see the moment that the words are taken as a challenge as Elle sat up and looked more determined.

“No, shut up, I know more. Uh…there’s the one, um Red Sparrow? It’s another bird one with red name, I’m pretty sure. And the one with the blue - fuck I should know his name. Nightjar? Wasn’t Nightingale I would have remembered that…shit, dude threw up on our couch once I should remember his name -“

“Nightwing threw up on your couch?”

“Nightwing! That’s the bitch! He got poisoned or something and Dan drug him to our place to patch him up since Doc Thompkins’ clinic was closed.”

Clark shared a look with Bruce and Damian. Dick had failed to mention that little event. Clark could see Bruce reaching for his wrist computer, undoubtedly typing out a message his eldest about what he’d just heard - possibly another to Alfred if he was feeling like pulling out the big guns.

At the other end of the table Elle ticked Nightwing off with a nod, even as Jon squawked that it shouldn’t count since he’d given her the name, “Then there’s…uh…oh! Harley Quinn!”

“Harley Quinn does not count.”

“She beat up a guy trying to mug me last week and got me a hot chocolate afterwards, she totally counts!”

“Someone tried to mug you?”

“Crime Alley, Nix, if someone doesn’t try to mug me while I’m out I get worried that I missed Hood calling in a Street Clear for something big.”

“We’re going to circle back on that later.” Jon said, sharing a pointed glance with Damian. It looked like young Miss Nightingale was going to be getting escorted to and from the Watchtower from now on.

Ah, Clark mused, falling head over heels for someone with no understanding of the concept of self-preservation and a stubborn determination to run straight into the heart of danger without a second thought. It brought back such fond memories. Of both Lois and Bruce. And Diana. And - Hmm. Kara might have been right. Clark might have a type.

Watching the three at the other end of the table and taking them in, Clark realized he might have passed his taste in partners on to his son. Well, at least he’ll be able to give Jon some advise on how to handle the heart attacks Damian and Elle will inevitably give him.

“Harley Quinn doesn’t count. You got any more?”

Elle rolled her eyes, muttering about Harley totally counts, before leaning back in her chair. “I think I’m out. I know there’s more but,” She gave a shrug, “I’m tapped out. Those are all the ones I can think of.”

It was, surprisingly, Bruce that spoke up at that declaration, a slant of amusement to his lips as he asked, “No one else comes to mind?”

Elle waved him off, attention turning to the mountain of alien script they needed her to translate for them. It was the reason she was even there rather than in her office trying to translate whatever incredibly dangerous magic tomb JL Dark had dropped off without accidentally summoning a demon or ending hte world in the process. J’onn was right, they really should give her a raise.“That’s all I got.” She said with a sigh, “Like I said, I know the relevant ones.”

“Hn.”

Twenty minutes of shared looks of amusement and suppressed laughter later Elle’s head shot up, a look of wide eyed embarrassment on her face. “Oh my god.”

“There it is.”

“About time Nightingale, I was starting to be concerned about your mental faculties.”

“Shut up, this so embarrassing!”

“Don’t sweat it kid, we all have our moments.”

“I can’t believe I forgot Signal.”

“What.”

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Context of this snippet if anyone is interested:

This is actually the same AU as the Steph & Jason sibling bonding Anger Management snippet from a bit ago (I’m calling it my Ghosts in Gotham AU in scrivener so I guess that’s what I’ll call it here lol). This time focused on Elle and her misadventures as a Totally Normal Civilian (TM) working for the Justice League with her two besties Jon & Damian (none of them realize yet that they’ve been dating for months).

No idea when this is supposed to take place in terms of timeline with the other snippet, but kinda vibing the idea that while Steph & Jason are having a heart to heart on a rooftop over their shared background and Jason’s future as a dad, Elle is up in the Watchtower telling Bruce Wayne to his face that she has no idea who he is and forgetting Batman is a Gotham vigilante while he’s sitting at the same table as her.

Anyway, this AU has taken over my life. Expect more nonsense to come lol

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dani phantom #danielle phantom #super serious chaos #superseriouschaos #jon kent #jon el kent #Damian Wayne #clark kent #justice league #bruce wayne #barry allen #john stewart #ghosts in gotham au #batfam #elle doesn't pay any attention to the famous people in gotham unless they're trying to kill her or save her #and she might not even pay attention then #and yes this is more of my headcanon that the Justice League is the world's biggest polycule #no i will never let that headcanon go i love it too much #there's a version of this world where Elle never figures out that Bruce Wayne is supposed to be kind of a big deal #years in the future she Dami & Jon are married & she has a new friend she's made over for lunch #and they see some of the family photos and are like #is that fucking Bruce Wayne at your wedding? #Elle - oblivious: oh you know my father-in-law? #Bruce gets unmasked before Elle knows about everyone's identities & he's freaking out while she's just #full lex luthor moment: I have no idea who this is #Bruce: you know who I am now #Elle - does not know who he is but doesn't want to admit to it guessing: Clark Kent?

[adhdslugcrimes]

Barry: so, need help with Robin? I might have a little fix for ya.

Bruce: at this point if it's sacrificing a virgin to make him a little less murder hungry I'd be sacrificing Clark as we speak, so go on.

Clark: hey!

Barry: I have a wonderful nephew, he's as sweet as can be and I think a good influence of my kid to yours will help with the stabbing.

Diana: or be a man and teach him the way of the sword so he can stop playing with little butter knives.

Bruce: he love the butter knife, he enjoys inflicting dull pain ... But we'll try your idea Flash.

Barry: wonderful!

Oliver: I have a teen if your nephew can fix that little gremlin.

One play date later

Wally and Dick: *being chaotic one braincells bestie, fast friends, partners in crime*

Barry: *watches them terrorize two face making him cry* huh, your kid a strong bad influence...

Bruce, sitting on the roof, knees up crying: there's two of them now!

Barry: maybe we can fix it! Add Roy and kaldur they should help this mess... I hope... Iris gonna be so mad at me making our kid a war criminal future husband.

Bruce: NO, they get married!? Oh what did I do to deserve this! *Cries harder*

#dick grayson #wally west #birdflash #bruce wayne #barry allen #oliver queen #clark kent #spoiler alert Dick had a small army of faithful friends to do crimes with #Bruce crying in the back harder #barry checked the future it couldn't be saved #diana prince

[emeraldwarriors]

releases these into the wild like freeing caged birds

#hal jordan #john stewart #guy gardner #kyle rayner #barry allen #the flash #green lantern #绿灯小丑 #not halbarry but it can be if youre delusional enough #the prompt i got for those was 'blue lantern barry mentoring rookie lantern hal' so dont put my head on a pike for ooc hal ok . smiles #save me homophobic dog barry homophobic dog barry save me #OK SORRY FOR SPAMMING THE TAG GOODNIGHT!!!!!!

[xyrw]

Coldflash art from 2023 archives😭 also I have a suspicion I drew one of them in 2022 when the war just started and the *only* thing that got me through the first weeks of it was my bad connection and Flash series I watched in 480p

This is so funny to me idk

I literally never posted these arts before lmao but I was uploading tons of old art on the disk to save some space and saw them. And I just knew it’s the time

#coldflash #flash series #barry allen #leonard snart #I loved them so much in 2022 #like I was obsessed #they got me through the war #we’re still fighting for our freedom #but at least they saved my mental health #< a rant

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Soooooo Knight Terrors just has Raven, Gar, Vic, Star and Donna in it.... and they're all 'sharing' the nightmare.

Do you know what that means?? Wally and Dick are not there. Dick has his own nightmare situation and Wally was in the Flash.

YEAH. The little baby child Wally in Barry's nightmare WAS ACTUALLY WALLY.

HOLY FUCK I LOVE THAT.

Barry's worst nightmare is Wally dying and not being able to save him and Wally's worst nightmare is disappointing Barry.

This is Good Place levels of insane to me. Wally is dying from an injury he got in a fight and all he wants is Barry to stay with him and not be disappointed. But Barry won't because he's too busy time traveling to try and save Wally. But by time traveling Barry is taking speedforce energy away from Wally during the fight, causing Wally to slow down and get injured in the first place.

Barry can never save Wally because he caused the event to happen and Wally was never actually to blame but he will always blame himself.

Barry is the monster in the speedforce that Wally saw.

#its a goddamn unbreakable loop. if barry never time traveled to save wally then wally would be fine #but he won't do it. he has to save Wally. and because of that wally will always be fatally injured #and Wally. god. poor Wally. he thinks he slowed down and messed up and that its all on him. #he thinks barry watched him go down said nothing and left. he didn't know barry couldn't speak #he didn't know the speedforce pulled barry away #then all he wanted was to talk to barry in the hospital. for barry to be proud of him and with him as he died #but barry left to save Wally #its an awful awful loop. barry will never save wally #Barry WILL become that twisted monster in the speedforce #dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #wally west #barry allen

[tacagen]

just.

just noticed this

#def time to continue reading rebirth flash and reread these issues. like. WHAT THE FUCK #WHY IS BARRY WEIRDLY CLOSE TO THAWNE IN THIS ARCCCCC #i remembered only him suddenly calling thawne by his first name in contrast to every other interaction except for the first meeting #but this!!! OH MY FUCKING GOD #No Wonder thawne decided to save paradox after all. No Wonder he cringed later deciding to kill godspeed to make up for it #eobard thawne #professor zoom #reverse flash #barry allen #the flash #eobarry ig? #yeh no #eobarry

[ftl-faster-than-life]

Commissioned from safairrot

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did you let me die in your arms in the time loop

#I think a lot about how there are probably timelines where Eobard tried to save Barry #he's seen Barry die again and again and again #and while part of him hates Barry there's always that part of him that wishes that Barry would live a long life #and wants to save him #and I think with all of these timelines they've run over and over and over #there's at least one time where he let himself try to save him #and he failed #barry allen #not my art #the flash #eobard thawne #eobarry #reverse flash #the reverse flash

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Twice Barry had Eobard defeated but released him. Both times for very different reasons. Which of the two do you prefer?

Once again thanks for the inspiration for this poll to the anon who suggested Eobard defeats.

#eobard thawne #tom cavanagh #matt letscher #the flash cw #barry allen #cisco ramon #not gonna lie fellas i'm confused about the earth-x one. alwasy have. always will be. the pipeline was right there why'd you let him go!! #but him (technically) playing a part in saving cisco's life will always be top tier for me. so that's the winner to me #the flash #dctv

[kent-farm]

—The Flash, “The Man Who Saved Central City”

#The Flash #Barry Allen #Grant Gustin #2.01 The Man Who Saved Central City #Caitlin Snow #Danielle Panabaker #Hug | Barry and Caitlin #Iris West #Candice Patton

[spacedace]

The world burned back to life in sharp relief. The dream. The room. Cold cement. Projections of unreachable places on the walls. Chrome and green machinery in a configuration meant to contain. It looked larger on the screen. Maybe it was how small the figure held prisoner inside it was.

Barry's been having trouble sleeping recently.

#dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #the reluctant war #ghost king danny #reluctant war au #barry allen #the speedforce #ancient of the speedforce Elle #amanda waller #flashfam #justice league #dani phantom #danielle phantom #elle phantom #shout out to the waffle house employees of the DP X DC universe #they are gonna save the world i swear lol #if you know you know lol

[icedteaandoldlace]

(Because @shrinkthisviolet's post made me think of it) I've mentioned before how Dante's death was the biggest and worst consequence of Flashpoint, and how that puts Barry in the extremely uncomfortable position of wanting to go back and fix things so Dante's alive and Cisco isn't grieving his brother, but knowing that he can't and it's because his actions indirectly caused his death in the first place (and he also can't explain his reasoning to Cisco without telling him that Dante is dead because he altered the timeline). But the reigning headcanon that I've somehow never brought up before is that, when Barry tells Cisco he can't change the past because something just as bad as what happened to Dante might happen to someone else instead, he's thinking of Cisco. He's already dealing with the fact that he got Dante killed without meaning to, and I think he's scared that if he saved Dante, the timeline might take Cisco instead, and he can't risk that.

#The Flash #Barry Allen #Cisco Ramon #Paradox #Barrisco #(sort of) #tbh I kind of pictured his attempts to right the wrong timeline going like Cause and XS before I even saw that episode #and he would just be stuck trying to save one person after the next and hating every possible outcome #I think that's exactly the kind of situation he was afraid of happening #so he had to just accept the timeline he was in before he could go and make things TOO bad

[zeroducks-2]

twf your man wants to adopt you

(Panels from Batman: The Button)

#btw Barry is running after Eo to save his stupid rat bastard ass from killing himself #literally #(he doesn't manage) #barry allen #eobard thawne

[amelia-queen-black]

Oliver: I can’t believe you carried me off like that in front of everyone! They all saw how weak I was!

Barry: You were dying…

Oliver: I’m not a damsel in distress, Barry!

Barry: You’re right, next time I’ll let you bleed to death.

Oliver: Good!

Barry: Good.

#that was an actual argument between them #oliver is an indestructible force #he doesn’t need an insufferable speedster to save him #stubborn Oliver #Barry to the rescue #Olivarry #oliver queen #barry allen #arrow #the flash #arrowverse #incorrect arrowverse quotes

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

The parallels between Eobard's first time donning the Reverse Flash suit and his last are spectacular.

Here's the scene: You have a young 20 year old Wally facing off against Eobard Thawne. This was Eobard's first time travel adventure and he fully descended into madness. Eobard attempted to take over Barry's life but the Flash family stopped him. Enraged, Eobard took them all down one by one until it was just him and Wally left. It was a bloody showdown and an unfortunately placed pothole cost Wally critical seconds. Eobard was about to murder him when, out of nowhere, a bolt of lightning struck him. Wally thanked Barry, who had been dead for years at this point, and proceeded to kick Eobard's ass into the next century.

Then you have Eobard's last time as the Reverse Flash. Eobard had tried to take over Barry's life but the Flash family had stopped him. Enraged, Eobard sent the Rogues after them and went to go kill Barry once and for all. It was a bloody showdown between Thawne and Allen. Eobard got into Barry's head and shocked him with new information. Unfortunately, Barry's shock cost him valuable seconds and Eobard took that time to knock him down. Eobard was about to murder him when, out of nowhere, a bolt of lightning struck him. Barry could hear Wally, who had been missing for months and was halfway across the universe, and he made a promise to go find him.

I just think it's fantastic that Eobard's first and last time running went the exact same way. So much so that Eobard flipped out that it had happened again.

Not to mention Barry and Wally's love for each other in the form of strategically thrown lightning bolts that transcend life, death, and reality.

That bastard went out the same way he came in, being physically harmed by Barry and Wally's love for each other.

#god they're so fucking extra though #they never do this. literally barry had been dead without a trace and he had never done this before or done it again #but Eobard was threatening his KID goddammit #Barry wasn't gonna let a silly thing like death stop him from saving Wally's life #also i stg i think Wally just thought itd be funny #he was right #i mean he had dr wallyhattan powers at the time #so he really could've done anything #but he went 'you know what'd be REALLY fucking funny?' and I love him for it #dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #wally west #barry allen #eobard thawne

[trickostars]

oh what your morals are so weak you can't even do one itty bitty murder without going mad with the power of it? grow the fuck up.

#batman #doodles #bruce wayne #green lantern #hal jordan #green arrow #oliver queen #diana prince #wonder woman #barry allen #the flash #flash #justice league #dc comics #bruce: i can't be judge jury and executioner #everyone: okay so can i kill the joker for you? nothing good happens when he lives soo #bruce panicking: what no! (resurrections him) (saves him) (saves him) #there's more dead robins than dead jokers batman reevalute your priorities Tree

[reverseflashes]

barry allen fans are we feeling defeated yet again

#hey look another new dc media where barry dies #but this time he actually does save the world so it should be fine right?? #yeah fuck no #the flash #barry allen #dcau #anti james gunn #anti wb