Post by Doctor Cyber on Jun 18, 2012 13:44:32 GMT -5
Real name:Wallace Rudolph 'Wally' West
Alter Ego: The Flash, the fastest man alive
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Status
Occupation: Adventurer, Crime Fighter, Mechanic for the Keystone City Police Department
Martial Status: Married (to Linda Park-West)
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States of America
Group Affiliation(s): Justice League of America; formerly the Justice League Europe; formerly the Teen Titans, and the New Titans.
Origin
Place of Birth: Blue Valley, Nebraska.
Known Relatives: Barry West (son), Iris West (daughter), Rudolph West (father, deceased), Mary West (mother), Barry Allen (uncle, deceased), Iris Allen (aunt), Ira West (adoptive grandfather), Mr and Mrs Edgar Rhodes (uncle and aunt), Inez Rhodes (cousin), Don and Dawn Allen (cousins), Meloni Thawne (cousin-in-law), Jeven Ognats (cousin-in-law), Bart Allen (cousin's son), Jenni Ognats (cousin's daughter)
History
Overview:
Wally West is the fastest man alive and possibly the fastest man ever. He is the third Flash, having grown up in the embrace of superspeed. He is one of the most experienced members of the Justice League and years ahead of other heroes his age.
The Flash has a direct line to the extra-dimensional energy source called the Speed Force, it is a form of speedster Valhalla. Time and time again Wally has brushed up against it, feeling it call him into its eternal embrace as it claimed his uncle Barry Allen. Yet Wally is linked to our world by an emotional bond with girlfriend Linda Park, and due to this link he always returns where other cannot or would not.
Background:
Junior high school student Wally West, president of Blue Valley, Nebraska’s Flash Fan Club, was visiting his aunt Iris in Central City and her boyfriend Barry Allen. Barry offered to introduce Wally to the Flash—in costume, he explained to Wally the accident which gave him his powers, when suddenly it reoccurred, granting Wally the same abilities! Barry took him into his confidence, and made him his sidekick, Kid Flash. Wally was a founding member of the Teen Titans.
Unfortunately, the accident had a slightly different effect on Wally’s adolescent body. He developed a disease which would kill him if he used his speed. A blast of energy during the Crisis on Infinite Earths—the same war in which Barry sacrificed his life—cured Wally of this disease, but left him with a top speed roughly that of sound.
In honor of his mentor, Wally took the name and costume of the Flash. He went through a difficult period of emotional instability during which he used his powers irresponsibly, developed a reputation as a womanizer, and finally sought psychiatric help, As he matured—much of which he credits to his now-longstanding relationship with reporter Linda Park—and learned to fulfill his responsibility, Wally slowly developed confidence and regained his earlier speed.
Finally breaking through his mental block of replacing Barry Allen, he achieved full speed, only to find himself changing into energy. In the midst of a battle for Keystone, he sacrificed his life and his humanity to save Linda—and became the only person known to return from the other side of the speed barrier. Wally now has a direct connection to the speed force, and subconscious knowledge of new ways to use it, including the ability to lend speed to other objects and people.
Wally now wears a costume made of concentrated speed force energy. Unable to wait for both broken legs to heal and inspired by a then-recent Justice League case, he gained enough control over the speed force to create a costume which would support him and enable him to run despite his injury.
Wally and Linda finally married, but Linda was kidnapped from the wedding by Abra Kadabra and retroactively erased from history. Wally’s sacrifice at the end of “Chain Lightning,” entering the Speed Force to defeat Cobalt Blue, appeared final. He was, in fact, drawn back into reality when Linda escaped her prison outside of time. Trapped alongside her in an alternate reality, battling first a blue-eyed version of himself driven over the edge by his own Linda’s death at the hands of Kobra, then Kadabra himself, he and Linda searched endless alternate realities before finally returning to their own and tricking Kadabra into reversing his spell. Restored to their own world at last, they immediately picked up where they left off, holding the wedding that afternoon.
Several months into Linda’s first pregnancy, Zoom attacked Linda to “teach” Wally about tragedy first-hand. Linda survived, but the unborn twins did not. In his grief, Wally made a deal with the Spectre to make the world forget who he was, hoping that Wally and Linda would be safe from the Flash’s enemies. What the Spectre did not tell him was that he and Linda would forget as well.
Wally and Linda have since regained their memories, though it took time for them to pick up the pieces of their their life and marriage. Miraculously, a time-travelling rematch with Zoom created a “fissure in time” that restored Linda’s pregnancy, just in time for her to give birth. The West twins, a boy and a girl, have not yet been named in print.
Crisis:
When Wally, Jay and Bart attempted to trap the murderous Superboy-Prime in the speed force, he found himself being pulled out of this reality once more, though it did not seem to be the speed force pulling him. He appeared to Linda to say goodbye, but she insisted on going along with him. She, Wally, and the twins (who probably carry super-speed in their genes) all vanished together.
The West family, along with the other speedsters and Superboy, were taken to an alternate Earth. After four years, their prisoner escaped, and Bart left to pursue him. As a result, Bart absorbed the speed force. It has been speculated that Wally and the others were absorbed as well, though at the time it was believed that they were inside the speed force. Wally may have been absorbed (effectively dead), or he and the rest may still be active on the other earth.
Wally, Linda and the twins returned when seven members of the future team, the Legion of Super-Heroes, traveled back in time to resurrect someone using 31st-Century technology called lightning rods. The Legion appears to have been recovering someone else, but Wally was “riding the lightning,” and brought his entire family back.
During the events of the JLA/JSA "The Lightning Saga" crossover, several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes travel to the present to resurrect an ally via lightning rods. The locations the Legion travels to include the spots where Barry Allen and Wally West gained their powers as well as the last spots on Earth where Barry appeared before his death. Both Batman and Hal Jordan realize this fact and believe Barry's return is imminent. However, they instead retrieve Wally, Linda and his twin children, Iris and Jai, who appear to have aged several years. Wally is immediately offered membership in the Justice League, which he accepts. Brainiac 5 implies West's return was a freak accident and that they still retrieved the correct person they wanted and he is encased in one of the lightning rods used in the resurrection ceremony.
After learning of Bart's death, Wally seeks those responsible: Inertia and the Rogues. He steals Inertia's speed, immobilizes him in stasis in the Flash Museum, and leaves him conscious to stare at Bart's statues as Impulse and Kid Flash for eternity.
Now Wally dedicated his time to being a father of twins with powers, similar to his own, plus teaching how to deal with how to control their powers along.
Characteristics
Age: 25
Height: 6 ft
Weight: 175 lbs
Eyes: green
Hair: red
Unusual Features: none
Personality: The Flash is frequently portrayed as being an everyman, a people’s superhero—unlike the others, the Flash is the one that the public is most likely to run into on the streets and interact regularly with. He’s also more approachable, spending his spare time talking to common people and visiting children in orphanages. On one hand, his friendly and easy-going personality serves as a bridge between the metahuman community and the common folk. While on the other, especially when dealing with members of the Flash Rogue Gallery…Wally becomes a serious, mature person who isn’t afraid to make the hardest of decisions.
Despite the trials that he has faced throughout his career and even through his return, still shows a form of optimism that often complements the darker demeanor of other League or team members. Often, he serves as a comic relief in some sorts, from his interactions with others to his high-maintenance metabolism.
Overall, Wally plays both sides of the curtain. He can be person that always comes out with a wise-crack or two that is also not afraid of apprehending rogues and quelling threats to his hometown and his home planet.
Powers
Known Powers:
Known Abilities:
Strength Level: Like that of a regular human being who regularly engages in moderate exercise.
Weaknesses:
Even though he is known as the fastest man alive, Wally is still human. Which means that he can still be shot, stabbed, poisoned and otherwise wounded. When running he could be tripped up if he doesn't vibrate through it, though depending on his speed it might rip the leg off the tripper. It should be noted that in order to keep the Speed Force under control, Wally must consume vast amounts of food to maintain his metabolism.
Also, when Flash gets excited or surprised, he tends to speak faster and faster. This results in Wally talking in a jumble of noise, sometimes affecting communication between he and another person.
Beneath his cheerful exterior is a man tired of the limelight, whose only desire is to save those in need. He's been known to doubt himself, and with the death of Bart Allen, Wally was sworn revenge on those responsible. This can often cloud his judgement upon brutally injuring or even killing a supposed foe. The effects of making the wrong decision, such as killing and becoming a criminal and avenging the loss of Bart creates a tension within Wally himself.
Misc (optional)
Equipment: His suit, based on Barry Allen’s “Flash” costume, with minor modifications. Compacted into a ring.
Transportation: His feet. After all, Wally is a speedster.
Weapons: none
Sample RP Post
Alter Ego: The Flash, the fastest man alive
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Status
Occupation: Adventurer, Crime Fighter, Mechanic for the Keystone City Police Department
Martial Status: Married (to Linda Park-West)
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States of America
Group Affiliation(s): Justice League of America; formerly the Justice League Europe; formerly the Teen Titans, and the New Titans.
Origin
Place of Birth: Blue Valley, Nebraska.
Known Relatives: Barry West (son), Iris West (daughter), Rudolph West (father, deceased), Mary West (mother), Barry Allen (uncle, deceased), Iris Allen (aunt), Ira West (adoptive grandfather), Mr and Mrs Edgar Rhodes (uncle and aunt), Inez Rhodes (cousin), Don and Dawn Allen (cousins), Meloni Thawne (cousin-in-law), Jeven Ognats (cousin-in-law), Bart Allen (cousin's son), Jenni Ognats (cousin's daughter)
History
Overview:
Wally West is the fastest man alive and possibly the fastest man ever. He is the third Flash, having grown up in the embrace of superspeed. He is one of the most experienced members of the Justice League and years ahead of other heroes his age.
The Flash has a direct line to the extra-dimensional energy source called the Speed Force, it is a form of speedster Valhalla. Time and time again Wally has brushed up against it, feeling it call him into its eternal embrace as it claimed his uncle Barry Allen. Yet Wally is linked to our world by an emotional bond with girlfriend Linda Park, and due to this link he always returns where other cannot or would not.
Background:
Junior high school student Wally West, president of Blue Valley, Nebraska’s Flash Fan Club, was visiting his aunt Iris in Central City and her boyfriend Barry Allen. Barry offered to introduce Wally to the Flash—in costume, he explained to Wally the accident which gave him his powers, when suddenly it reoccurred, granting Wally the same abilities! Barry took him into his confidence, and made him his sidekick, Kid Flash. Wally was a founding member of the Teen Titans.
Unfortunately, the accident had a slightly different effect on Wally’s adolescent body. He developed a disease which would kill him if he used his speed. A blast of energy during the Crisis on Infinite Earths—the same war in which Barry sacrificed his life—cured Wally of this disease, but left him with a top speed roughly that of sound.
In honor of his mentor, Wally took the name and costume of the Flash. He went through a difficult period of emotional instability during which he used his powers irresponsibly, developed a reputation as a womanizer, and finally sought psychiatric help, As he matured—much of which he credits to his now-longstanding relationship with reporter Linda Park—and learned to fulfill his responsibility, Wally slowly developed confidence and regained his earlier speed.
Finally breaking through his mental block of replacing Barry Allen, he achieved full speed, only to find himself changing into energy. In the midst of a battle for Keystone, he sacrificed his life and his humanity to save Linda—and became the only person known to return from the other side of the speed barrier. Wally now has a direct connection to the speed force, and subconscious knowledge of new ways to use it, including the ability to lend speed to other objects and people.
Wally now wears a costume made of concentrated speed force energy. Unable to wait for both broken legs to heal and inspired by a then-recent Justice League case, he gained enough control over the speed force to create a costume which would support him and enable him to run despite his injury.
Wally and Linda finally married, but Linda was kidnapped from the wedding by Abra Kadabra and retroactively erased from history. Wally’s sacrifice at the end of “Chain Lightning,” entering the Speed Force to defeat Cobalt Blue, appeared final. He was, in fact, drawn back into reality when Linda escaped her prison outside of time. Trapped alongside her in an alternate reality, battling first a blue-eyed version of himself driven over the edge by his own Linda’s death at the hands of Kobra, then Kadabra himself, he and Linda searched endless alternate realities before finally returning to their own and tricking Kadabra into reversing his spell. Restored to their own world at last, they immediately picked up where they left off, holding the wedding that afternoon.
Several months into Linda’s first pregnancy, Zoom attacked Linda to “teach” Wally about tragedy first-hand. Linda survived, but the unborn twins did not. In his grief, Wally made a deal with the Spectre to make the world forget who he was, hoping that Wally and Linda would be safe from the Flash’s enemies. What the Spectre did not tell him was that he and Linda would forget as well.
Wally and Linda have since regained their memories, though it took time for them to pick up the pieces of their their life and marriage. Miraculously, a time-travelling rematch with Zoom created a “fissure in time” that restored Linda’s pregnancy, just in time for her to give birth. The West twins, a boy and a girl, have not yet been named in print.
Crisis:
When Wally, Jay and Bart attempted to trap the murderous Superboy-Prime in the speed force, he found himself being pulled out of this reality once more, though it did not seem to be the speed force pulling him. He appeared to Linda to say goodbye, but she insisted on going along with him. She, Wally, and the twins (who probably carry super-speed in their genes) all vanished together.
The West family, along with the other speedsters and Superboy, were taken to an alternate Earth. After four years, their prisoner escaped, and Bart left to pursue him. As a result, Bart absorbed the speed force. It has been speculated that Wally and the others were absorbed as well, though at the time it was believed that they were inside the speed force. Wally may have been absorbed (effectively dead), or he and the rest may still be active on the other earth.
Wally, Linda and the twins returned when seven members of the future team, the Legion of Super-Heroes, traveled back in time to resurrect someone using 31st-Century technology called lightning rods. The Legion appears to have been recovering someone else, but Wally was “riding the lightning,” and brought his entire family back.
During the events of the JLA/JSA "The Lightning Saga" crossover, several members of the Legion of Super-Heroes travel to the present to resurrect an ally via lightning rods. The locations the Legion travels to include the spots where Barry Allen and Wally West gained their powers as well as the last spots on Earth where Barry appeared before his death. Both Batman and Hal Jordan realize this fact and believe Barry's return is imminent. However, they instead retrieve Wally, Linda and his twin children, Iris and Jai, who appear to have aged several years. Wally is immediately offered membership in the Justice League, which he accepts. Brainiac 5 implies West's return was a freak accident and that they still retrieved the correct person they wanted and he is encased in one of the lightning rods used in the resurrection ceremony.
After learning of Bart's death, Wally seeks those responsible: Inertia and the Rogues. He steals Inertia's speed, immobilizes him in stasis in the Flash Museum, and leaves him conscious to stare at Bart's statues as Impulse and Kid Flash for eternity.
Now Wally dedicated his time to being a father of twins with powers, similar to his own, plus teaching how to deal with how to control their powers along.
Characteristics
Age: 25
Height: 6 ft
Weight: 175 lbs
Eyes: green
Hair: red
Unusual Features: none
Personality: The Flash is frequently portrayed as being an everyman, a people’s superhero—unlike the others, the Flash is the one that the public is most likely to run into on the streets and interact regularly with. He’s also more approachable, spending his spare time talking to common people and visiting children in orphanages. On one hand, his friendly and easy-going personality serves as a bridge between the metahuman community and the common folk. While on the other, especially when dealing with members of the Flash Rogue Gallery…Wally becomes a serious, mature person who isn’t afraid to make the hardest of decisions.
Despite the trials that he has faced throughout his career and even through his return, still shows a form of optimism that often complements the darker demeanor of other League or team members. Often, he serves as a comic relief in some sorts, from his interactions with others to his high-maintenance metabolism.
Overall, Wally plays both sides of the curtain. He can be person that always comes out with a wise-crack or two that is also not afraid of apprehending rogues and quelling threats to his hometown and his home planet.
Powers
Known Powers:
- Superhuman Speed: The Flash can run at any speed that he thinks is possible, but there are physical limits to his speed. Speeds greater than Mach 10, are dangerous to the people and to the environment. This speed would still be the equivalent to approximately 128 miles per second; allowing him to cross the United States in about 23 seconds, or circle the world in about 3 minutes. The Flash rarely achieves such speed in populated areas due to the effects of sonic disruptions and air displacements. His cruising speeds are probably around 90-150 miles per hour. This is fast enough to move through most cities and around people without causing too much disruption to the population and slow enough for him to register everything he sees clearly. He can also run across bodies of water and up the sides of buildings.
- Infinite Mass Punch: traveling near the speed of light acquired the relativistic mass of such speed to impart blows which could hit with the force of "a white dwarf star", Flash's own durability regulated by the Speed Force in such cases. Realistic effects take over as a body approaches light-speed. Visual input will begin to blueshift and his body's mass will increase towards infinity. With this discovery, he was able to knock a Superman-level martian from Mount Rushmore to the plains of Africa, all with one punch.
- Time & Dimensional Travel: West has shown to be able to traverse time and dimensions with his own powers, like Allen. However, Wally now accelerates to the point that he is skirting the very edge of the Speed Force dimension. He can traverse along the time-stream to specific points as they become visible, much like watching a movie in fast forward or reverse (however he must have a particular speedster's vibratory signature to search for and lock onto, or be very familiar with the vibration of that time period). In order to enter the Speed Force and time travel to different periods, he must reach light speed, which he can easily do.
- Regeneration: Accelerating his healing factor while using the Force to sustain him, he could heal from grievous injury, without prematurely aging like his alternate version, Walter West.
- Phasing: The Flash has always possessed the ability to control his speed and angular momentum at the MOLECULAR level, and control his molecular interactions to allow his body to pass through any substance. There have been only a few superdense materials that the Flash has not been able to penetrate with this power. Certain forcefields also seem to negate this power. While in an intangible state, Flash is immune to any airborn viruses and can breathe regularly.
- Limited Flight: By spinning like a helicopter, he can even perform a limited kind of flight. Since his power is a quantum/molecular phenomenon, it is theoretically possible for the Flash to be able to fly just as other metas do, because he can control his absolute molecular energy and direction and force it in the direction he wished to move without running. Though he doesn't make use of this ability.
- Increased Perceptions: The Flash possesses the ability to alter his perceptions so that falling objects can appear to be standing still and can be caught and moved back to their normal position. He can do this so quickly as to have it happen invisibly to the normal human eye. He can strike a single opponent hundreds of times in a second or multiple opponents two or three times in a second. He can disarm or jam any number of opponents weapons before they are even aware of his movement and can hurl small projectiles at hypersonic velocities.
- Supercharged Brain Activity: The Flash's mental abilities are also increased in speed, simple computations can be done at lightning speeds, and his ability to perform normal feats at increased speeds has allow him to build hundreds of force field generators in a matter of hours, move sandbags to cover a beach or search an entire area for something as small as a paper clip. Wally can also read as super-speed, but rarely takes advantage of his ability to learn at increased speeds, although, Jay Garrick has done so and has become a jack of all trades in several disciplines and languages.
- Vortex Creations: By running in a circle at a certain speed, Flash is able to create a vortex with a variety of affects. One effect is pulling the air away from the center in order to suffocate an enemy. Another effect is levitating whoever and whatever was in the center. Also, able to send anyone or anything into another dimension when running around them. Some other effects are acting as barriers to movement or funnels for toxic gas's. The Flash also can spin his arms to create directed funnels of hurricane speed air that can knock down barriers or reduce the speed of a falling object.
- Speed Force Aura:
The Flash's body is surrounded by what he calls his "speed force aura". This aura protects him and anyone who is running with him or carried by him, from the effects of using his speed. This includes friction and airborne particulate matter. It may also protect him from injury from high speed impacts such as punches he delivers and receives from his opponents. He does seem to possess some level of superhuman resistance to injury but this does not extend far past normal physical interactions, as received from normal combat. - Molecular Control:
The Flash's powers allow him to perform a number of speed-related feats. The Flash has always possessed the ability to control his speed and angular momentum at the MOLECULAR level, and control his molecular interactions to allow his body to pass through any substance. There have been only a few superdense materials that the Flash has not been able to penetrate with this power. Certain forcefields also seem to negate this power. His power allow him to run along the surface of bodies of water and up the sides of buildings. - Sharing the Force:
Since his interaction with the Speed Force, he may also lend his speed and angular momentum to another object or person. This may allow others to run alongside with the Flash. He may still allow his molecular structure to pass through object but now after he passes through an object, the object is now supercharged with a chaotic energy, and explodes seconds after his passing through it. His range of powers seems to have been increased significantly and he is now the fastest Flash to have ever lived. If he shares the Speed Force with another meta with superspeed capabilities such as Superman, that metahuman can now exceed the speed of light but does not become aware of the Speed Dimension. - Speed Feats:The Flash can also perform a variety of superspeed feats such as:
- He can strike a single opponent hundreds of times in a second or multiple opponents two or three times in a second.
- He can disarm, or jam any number of opponents weapons before they are even aware of his movement.
- Hurl small projectiles at hypersonic velocities.
- Pluck speeding projectiles from the air.
- The creation of wind based vortexes that can act as barriers to movement, funnels for toxic gasses, or vacuum chambers.
- He can spin his arms to create directed funnels of hurricane speed air that can knock down barriers or reduce the speed of a falling object. Now with his control of inertia, he can probably reduce the speed of a falling object directly by applying the speed force in reverse, to leech momemtum from the object.
- He can run across bodies of water, up the sides of buildings, and by spinning like a helicopter, he can even perform a limited kind of flight. Since his power is a quantum/molecular phenomenon, it is theoretically possible for the Flash to be able to fly just as other metas do, (and there have been other flying speedsters in the past, such as the deceased Johnny Quick,) because he can control his absolute molecular energy and direction and force it in the direction he wished to move without running.
- He can also impart molecular energy to a target to increase molecular movement, as he did against the water being called Flow, boiling him into steam for a short time.
- He can strike a single opponent hundreds of times in a second or multiple opponents two or three times in a second.
Known Abilities:
- Intelligence: Wally is extremely intelligent, and has knowledge in certain areas, such as inertia and psychics.. Due to Wally's irrational and childish behavior, appears to have a very low intelligence.
- Fast Talker: Wally is a talker, a lot of the time he cannot shut up. He talk faster then anyone sometimes he makes sentences like one long word. When he starts to speed up talking the bridge of understand between him and the person he is communicating with becomes strained.
- Joker: Wally can make anyone laugh, it is just what he does. Behind it all people just want to be able to laugh and enjoy life to the degree they are able to, so Wally strives to lighten the mood everywhere.
Strength Level: Like that of a regular human being who regularly engages in moderate exercise.
Weaknesses:
Even though he is known as the fastest man alive, Wally is still human. Which means that he can still be shot, stabbed, poisoned and otherwise wounded. When running he could be tripped up if he doesn't vibrate through it, though depending on his speed it might rip the leg off the tripper. It should be noted that in order to keep the Speed Force under control, Wally must consume vast amounts of food to maintain his metabolism.
Also, when Flash gets excited or surprised, he tends to speak faster and faster. This results in Wally talking in a jumble of noise, sometimes affecting communication between he and another person.
Beneath his cheerful exterior is a man tired of the limelight, whose only desire is to save those in need. He's been known to doubt himself, and with the death of Bart Allen, Wally was sworn revenge on those responsible. This can often cloud his judgement upon brutally injuring or even killing a supposed foe. The effects of making the wrong decision, such as killing and becoming a criminal and avenging the loss of Bart creates a tension within Wally himself.
Misc (optional)
Equipment: His suit, based on Barry Allen’s “Flash” costume, with minor modifications. Compacted into a ring.
Transportation: His feet. After all, Wally is a speedster.
Weapons: none
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