A Nightwing and Wally West story, part 1 of 2! When it’s easier to go buy bagels as Nightwing than as Dick Grayson because everyone is either trying to get him for his money or kill him for the price on his head, Nightwing realizes he’ll need to enlist the help of his Teen Titan friends as his bodyguards, and the first to volunteer is of course his best friend…Wally West, a.k.a. the Flash!
IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING! THE BOYS ARE BACK!!!! LET’S GO!!!
I love how these two don’t give a flying fuck about their own safety but when it’s about the safety of their best friend? Their childhood buddy? Their good-time pal?? Their brother in arms?!
You better goddamn believe they’ll take that seriously.
Dick’s all ‘oh a bunch of assassins and mob bosses are after me and I’m injured but it’s fine, I got this handled-’ and Wally already has the man tucked into the pullout couch bed at his house before he’s finished the sentence.
Wally’s all 'okay so I know that the future version of me is dead on the floor and I’m supposed to die after fighting a fire BUT I can’t not help if there are people who need me, so I’ll just fight this forest fire and-’ Meanwhile Dick already has 60 tranq darts locked and loaded and the floor lined with anti gravity beams.
We’re gonna take down Forge. I’m gonna show Marlamin and the Elk tribe they were fools to let me go.
I love that they love each other. I love that Ed knows it’s gonna be painful for her to go see her ex and face another round of rejection and loss of family. I love that he waits for her outside, patiently, and has a song ready to cheer her up. I love that I actually believe they care about one another deeply and that the move takes the time to show their friendship.
This is what I’ve been saying this whole time. Central City and Keystone are on a whole different level.
The Rogues survive Central City and Keystone because they are a team. They have each other’s backs and they have rules and they know the game.
Trying to pull off a solo crime in the Flash’s territory? Good fucking luck. I’ll make you a reservation in Iron Heights 0.003 seconds from now.
I think, also, what people tend to forget is that the villains who do target Central City are themselves are ridiculously OP too, and that their gimmicks are pretty much tailored to fighting a speedster.
The Rogues specifically, I mean, Captain Cold is basically using the Flash’s kryptonite as their main weapon. Heat Wave’s heat gun isn’t just a normal flamethrower but reaches heats as hot as active volcanoes and he uses it to create deadly distractions and area denial when combating speedsters. Mirror Master, Weather Wizard, Dr Alchemy, and Abra Kadabra are all basically gods with no upper limit to their abilities. Trickster, Captain Boomerang, and Golden Glider have such a wide array to their gadgets they can basically pull out the same kind of ‘prepared for anything’ shit as Batman and are mean enough to be particularly humiliating. And, they are all wicked smart. Snart especially is a very skilled strategist, but each of them are experienced and skilled at what they do and specifically on how to fight the Flash. Even aside from the fact they fight as a team, the reason they can be effective on their own is they’ve had just as much power creep as the Flash has had, and are smart enough to know how to use it.
People who don’t follow Flash seem to underestimate them because they have extremely comic booky names that makes them easy to assume are joke villains, they mostly don’t kill (Abra aside), and they mostly just hit banks and jewellry stores, but there’s a reason it takes an OP power like the Flash’s super speed to handle them.
Something, something, the brighter an animal is, the more dangerous it, something something
Yeah, pretty much this. I mean hell, this was the plot of Hell to Pay, which, as an aside, is one of my dream stories to make a Flash film out of, but also demonstrates that if the Rogues went on the warpath, with no restraint, there would be no stopping them.
They did get suped up by Neron’s demons to be even more powerful, but what’s funny is the power level they had in that story is actually tame compared to what they’d later be written with during Johns’ run onward. IRRC they were spawning ‘elementals’ with their power, but that’s something Mirror Master can now just do. They’re now probably even more deadly than they were back during that story.
This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I’m never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn’t make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn’t use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.
man sometimes i really want to get back into welding but then i remember that the guys from the first course i took won’t be there and change my mind
comprehensive list of things that happened to me in my welding course with The Guys:
- was the only one to get an A the first grading period. had to stop them from putting me on their shoulders
- became the official classroom mascot on account of i was the only girl. this meant i was an integral stop on any and all workshop tours. was referred to as “Our Lady Helena” on these occasions
- almost set myself on fire once bc my prof stood behind me watching me try a skill he’d just demonstrated and he shouted very suddenly very loudly. restarted my heart and asked WTF WAS THAT FOR JOHN and he called me a “goddamn wonder”. i almost got third degree burned over a compliment
- mentioned offhand ONE TIME that swords were cool. also mentioned my birthday offhand ONE TIME. one of The Guys remembered both instances and also happened to find a sword in a dumpster so he gave it to me for my birthday
- came in fifth in an arm wrestling competition
- french braided my hair in class bc i didn’t have time to do it beforehand. ended up with an audience of like 5+ guys trying to figure out how tf i was doing it
- told The Guys my college friends call me barbie. Mistake. suddenly had all 12 of them calling me Barbarian
- had some down time and made a silly little sculpture with some scraps. The Guys were endlessly intrigued by this and demanded to see some of my art school stuff. had a small crowd around my phone cheering loudly every time i swiped to a new picture
- accidentally mentioned the cafe i worked at. Mistake. several days later all 12 of them came in to bother me
- offered someone a haircut. Mistake. had to retract the offer bc suddenly Everyone wanted a haircut and it would Not Be Fair if i only did one
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