belphegor1982 replied to your text post: Oh, Roscoe ;__;
I'm afraid there are a few autobiographical elements in this story, and I ended up almost as screwed up as he did :] What I was aiming to convey with this story were the germinating seeds of frustrated egotistical perfectionism which set Roscoe on a very negative path, and frankly ruined his life. It's not a great way to raise kids.
(It's based on this page, which maybe should have been included in the original post.)
shadow-wolfhawk replied to your text post: Hmm. Interesting. I love Owen, but I can't see him becoming the Flash. (Although that would probably be better treatment than random af appearance he made in the last Suicide Squad run.) As a new Reverse-Flash, *maybe* that could work, but even then it might be a stretch. He has too much of the old man in him.
Owen's certainly of the Thawne bloodline, of course, so becoming the new Reverse Flash would be an interesting idea. It'd be at odds with the redemption arc he often (but not consistently) had going though, so for that reason I wouldn't want to see him as the RF for long. Maybe during a period of anger at someone, perhaps, and he later rejects it to go his own path...I think that'd be fun.
shadow-wolfhawk replied to your text post: 💔🥺 ... I'm not crying - you're crying.. *sniffle* love it! (Shameless plug time, but I wrote a similar story a while back: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20719700 Not sure if you've read it, but I'd like to know what you think 🙃
Holy smokes, I hadn't read yours before but definitely see what you mean! Seems like we were both channelling the same bit of grief and had the same ideas.
And thank you for your kind words! Your story is fantastic, and absolutely heartrending. Owen's pleading is so sad, and one can see how tough it is on his dad :( You really convey the emotion well.
purplecyborgnewt replied to your text post: I typed a lot of words, but I think tumblr ate them. Short version: vest-and-bell-bottoms look didn't weird me out as much as whatever-in-the-monk-hell else was going on on that page tbh.
That appeared in the story too, when Eobard showed up in the 16th century all old and wizened, though why he was old wasn't explained. It may have been a way to manipulate Magali (the Aztec woman seen in the page below, who he recruited for his Acolytes), as he got her to de-age him with her powers and then rescued her by killing the Spaniards who hunted her. We know that he deliberately manipulated all the Acolytes into joining his side by wrecking their lives, but her life was already at serious risk because of the Spanish conquest so he might not have had to do much to manipulate her.
purplecyborgnewt replied to your text post: (The design sketches I'm gonna love forever are the ones for "Running Scared".)
Those are pretty great too! Not sure if I've ever posted them here, so I'll do that shortly.
truxi-twice replied to your text post: honestly, I'd be kind of interested in seeing Owen try to take the mantle, at least for a while. He was always a character with so much POTENTIAL, just twisting himself into knots to find a place where he belonged and people who would love him. If circumstances shook out where SOMEone needed to put on the shiny red spandex and he was the only one available at the moment, there's a lot you can do
True. I'm just imagining the legions of Bart, Avery, Wallace, and Irey fans who'd understandably be a bit annoyed that their fave is being passed over for someone who was never a member of the Flash Family -- though making Owen the Flash would certainly be an unexpected surprise we wouldn't see coming if not for the leak/rumour. It's not that I think the concept is bad, just that there are more experienced people who've been groomed for the role and you'd wonder why they aren't stepping into it. But it could work under your scenario which needs someone to do it and he's the only one available.
What I'd definitely be curious about is how the writers would manage Owen's speed; as we know, he has bursts of it rather than sustained speed, so would they have to change his powers to make him the Flash? Or would he be a Flash struggling to maintain his speed? That'd be interesting.