Nov 5, 2024
I'm still on my post-Impulse, post-everything (New Earth), thoughts about Thad, so bear with me for a moment.
But there is just so much potential with Thad after his death. Dying is literally the best excuse you can give a character to reinvent themselves and it's untapped potential with Thad.
Reinvention also fits so well with his character's sort of inherent theme of identity! Also reinvention doesn't have to have a positive or end-all-be-all outcome for him. He doesn't have to stick with it because right alongside identity is topic/theme of self-discovery.
Genuinely, he can go in any direction. It makes him such and interesting character to play with!
#Thad Thawne#Thaddeus Thawne#Inertia#My son is as malleable as Craydl.#I mean I know the broad directions are: hero - villain - anti hero- civilian. But even within those broad directions there are different#avenues!#Personally and when it comes to fic I sort like a civilian adjacent Thad. Not 100% a civilian but in a way he's trying on a normal life#where he's not in the spotlight as a villain and can just live and figure out what he wants in life/experience the truest form of freedom#for himself.#But also I like the idea of him as a civilian in a way that just forces him to explore careers and identities and seeing what fits.#Lol I mean picture Thad as a baker or a musician or another career that you think would fit him as a person.#Admittedly it might get a little in AU territory i guess? But also it's just fun to think about what kind of life would he lead free from#the bonds of hatred/legacy/ & being perceived as a villain#or there being a social awareness that he's alive when the assumption is that he's dead. He's got the freedom to run around an in that case#Thad Meta