#chillblaine

[gorogues]

Rogues (and a few other Flash villains) news headlines.

[supercap2319]

It’s snowing and reader asks Barry and Chillblaine to keep him warm.

"Aren't you cold? I'm freezing." Y/N said. He walked into the living room to find Barry in the kitchen, and Mark by the window shirtless.

Barry looks up from his cup of hot chocolate. "Umm... Speed force keeps me warm."

"And I love this weather." Mark grinned. "Seriously, if I open up this window and stand here in the cold shirtless, I'd be good."

"Glad you're enjoying the snow, but it's so cold. I need something to warm me up." Y/N's teeth were chattering.

Mark and Barry noticed this as they shared a look before Y/N found himself caught up in a vortex of yellow whirlwind, and suddenly he was on the couch sandwiched between Barry and Mark. His head was against Mark's shirtless body. And Barry's lightning was keeping Y/N warm underneath his fluffy blanket.

"Better?" Barry asked.

"Better." Y/N smiled.

[thedarktowerdames]

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

idk if it's just because i'm a raging bisexual but i actually didn't mind cecile and mark's (once he learned to SHUT UP) additions to the flash

i actually adore cecile. was she kinda op??? yeah...but i honestly didn't care. and mark was definitely annoying at first but once he stopped, i liked him just fine. now this might be because i haven't read the comics (and don't plan on it so shush) i don't know, but from a cw-only perspective, i liked them as characters and what they brought to it, but then again maybe i'm just blinded by how pretty they are

[awhjensen]

Random The Flash Icons {9x13] Made by me

[yoshimickster]

I think we're all agreed, Hartley for Team Flash, and Mark for Team nothing because he sucks.

[phoenix]

A pair of images for episode 11, A New World Part 2

[turboacek-blog]

The Flash: The thing with Caitlin's “Death”…

In season 9 episode 2 reveals that Caitlin Snow is dead

Khionne/Snow has the physical body of her but no memories knowledge etc of Caitlin or even Frost as she didn’t know anybody and had no ice powers or medical knowledge

Meaning Caitlin is effectively dead

The thing is partly due to the nature of the episode of trying to bring her back they didn't grieve this character of 9+ years

And part of it, besides the writing and that the actress wasn't leaving or anything like that

Is that I think the technicality is that this is just Caitlin 2.0/3.0

As they say, this is basically what her father wanted in his initial experiment to make a Caitlin 2.0 but he ended up with basically two daughters (Caitlin and Frost) instead

So in a way, Caitlin is Khionne just without the memories, and such as her body is still there

Which brings up the question of if someone loses their memories are they still them? As in if you lose your memories but you don’t know your parent's siblings' friends' skills likes dislikes etc and you don’t get them back are you still you?

As before they made the split Caitlin and Frost were kind of like new Caitlin

And when Frost was in control for a while it was treated as Caitlin before they got more understanding of the two different personalities

But again I think the problem is how the characters reacted

Caitlin can be killed unceremoniously that's not the main problem (still a problem)

But the characters reacting the way they did was weird, like when it was time to vote a majority picked Frost over Caitlin when this should have been a Caitlin death episode

And when they decided to keep Khionne it’s not like they finally grieved Caitlin they went partying

Again they wrote it in a way that it’s less Caitlin is dying and more this Caitlin 2.0 but it just never felt right to me (and from what I see online others as well)

And when you add Hartley’s and Red Deaths' plot it never felt real

Granted it’s episode 2 they can make this feel right as the story goes on

Like people are already theorizing they’ll bring Caitlin back somehow which is why they didn’t treat it as a permanent goodbye as she might come back

And I think narratively there is something here

Over the whole show, Caitlin has been this tragic character, dead fiancé twice, evil boyfriend, jerk boyfriends, dad died, twin sister died, never really found love, etc she was hurting the whole show then finally found love in her “new” sister but when her sister dies she spirals

So when this character essentially decides to kill herself to bring back someone she loves or in this case to give a new one a chance to be happy it’s a sad happy ending as the tragic character can finally rest and this new character can have joy that she couldn’t

The thing is the characters didn’t see Caitlin as a tragic character

Chester and Allegra are newer and didn’t experience most of it and were closer to Frost in all honesty

Similar with Cecile

Iris despite stuff like Caitlin being her maid of honor weren’t like best friends

But Barry (and Joe) knew her story and they didn’t really see her as a tragic character if anything outside of the recent death of Frost they kinda saw her story as normal stuff for the most part still sad but it’s not like they saw Caitlin as this character that was struggling or stuff like that the whole show

This is where I think the disconnect is, it seems the audience cared and reacted more appropriately than the characters as we’ve known her for 9 seasons, whereas Chester Allegra Cecile Mark didn’t and Iris and she wasn’t the closest to, and so on

They treated her as if she was on the same level as Allegra for example but to us, she’s basically on the same level as Barry and Iris

I understand that Caitlin isn’t dead the same way Frost died as Caitlin technically transformed into Khionne but when they constantly use the word dead and the machine hurt Khionne it’s hard to see it differently

They can “fix” it with a funeral or memorial or something but yeah just felt odd to think Caitlin’s dead and when they were trying to bring her back most wanted her sister more and when neither happens they didn’t take time to grieve her properly and even went partying afterward

I don't know I'm just confused and my thoughts are incoherent right now