#wally probably bc he was the only one with a closer to traditional family- after all barry was still his aunts partner- anyway whatever the

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it just ticks me, how most birdflash fans constantly brush linda aside like it was nothing

it’s not about the ship per se, obviously- i am no one to tell you who you should and should not ship, especially if it makes you happy. but in an enormous amount of cases, to prop up dick and wally, linda and her relationship with wally is diminished, neglected or straight up erased. even if you cared enough to keep them close as friends.

and it’s not even to gatekeep or say “to be a fan you need to have read x amount of comics”, but in the best cases most of what people know about wally and his character comes from the young justice cartoon and the rebirth titans comic (don’t you even get me started on the way they changed wally’s lightning rod from linda to the team and how drastic it is to wally’s character).

trust me, i know that most of us are extemely discouraged from actually considering female love interests as characters with a complexity that can actually create interesting dynamics with their male equally complex counterpart. i mean, we literally talk about fridging, and that’s a problem that has affected comics, as a male dominated media, ever since their birth.

but i promise that linda is a compelling, interesting, complex, multidimensional and so wonderfully real character, especially during waid’s run; and i promise that her relationship with wally isn’t as simple as a classic male-superhero-and-his-woman-love-interest relationship is, but it’s gradual, and growing through lessons learned from each other is a process that goes both ways. in all honesty, linda is a character that stands on her own feet and is interesting to read, she’s independent and has so many flaws and virtues that balance each other and things she works on about herself. she fails and she wins and she makes mistakes and she grows up and she’s relatable and feels- again- real.

but you could probably grasp even a pinch of all of this, if before approaching wally’s story you tried to read even a few issues of the comics from, you know, before he got even lost and needed to come back into existance.

just say you can’t bother caring to even approach female characters if they’re not the protagonist, it’s much easier you know

#like... for real- linda was one of the best female non superhero characters we had around in comics #FOR ONCE we had a female love interest that wasnt just a doll for the male character to get his shit together and blah blah blah. ONCE #and you all manage to collectively forget about her and or act like she was the nth Strong Woman(tm). i cant i just cant #like.... i know it all started with young justice. that also has one of the most annoying wallys around. id spit in his eye. and then titan #TITANS. MY GOD. the way abnett himself managed to erase her and all that linda had meant for wally. i hate it here #also like... do any of you remember that wally was the most distant from the titans? like that his family had always been a priorities over #the titans? and not to say that the titans werent family but. unlike dick for example- who had much more of a family with the titans than w #with the bats- or roy whose child was literally growing up around those guys and always had a strong feeling of second family towards them- #wally probably bc he was the only one with a closer to traditional family- after all barry was still his aunts partner- anyway whatever the #reason may be hes alwyas had a strong separation between his traditionally meant family (even if not in the nuclear sense) and his friends. #anyways i kinda got lost in this last part and it looks like im saying he loves the flashfam more than he does the titans-which i dont mean #AT ALL- but. i think you get my point. which was actually about linda. look its like four am i dont know what im doing with my life #dc comics #flashfam #linda park #wally west #flash #the flash #nightwing #wallylinda #helene.txt #helene rants