#the speed force

[nobodys-hekatonchires]

The Speed Force is fascinating. It's bond with Barry equally so.

[nobodys-hekatonchires]

What if the Speed Force wasn't so forgiving of Barry hurting it?

[digitalwizard01]

The first time Barry got trapped in the Speed Force, they had it personified by taking the forms of a bunch of people in his life, using we/us pronouns and being super stoic and cryptic. It was such an interesting choice and actually made it feel like Barry was talking to a manifestation of an infinite otherworldly being beyond comprehension. Why on earth did they decide to just have it taking on the form of his mom and use she/her all the time in later seasons?? They literally just made it his mom with extra steps

[thatpersonwhosaidtheywouldnt]

People need to read Si Spurrier's Flash run just so I can have more people to talk about the Speed Force's baby with.

Oh that dog? Yeah, that's the Speed Force's baby.

[hook-on-fandoms]

Speed Force

With the expanded lore on the speed force that the number of speedsters in a universe actually affects a speedster's max speed I'm now imagining a universe that is made up of only speedsters. Sapient and non-sapient life alike. Due to that though everyone actually moves slower than regular humans do on our planet.

The Justice League gets sent here due to insert superhero show logic here and suddenly The Flash goes from going too fast to slow mo and everyone is confused on why. Since the speed force is something to be tapped into on their universe and not the default setting he does eventually think to untap from the speed force and goes back to normal human speed. They eventually find the people of this universe and the Justice League is all considered speedsters to them. No matter how hard the others try they can't slow down enough to blend. Even Superman has a hard time. The Flash has to keep on tapping in and tapping out of the speed force to be the bridge in between.

At the end of it the Flash is torn between hating it for how slow everything was and loving that for once his metabolism was so slow he wasn't hungry for like 3 days straight.

[evilhorse]

Stop.

(The Flash #2)

[garcia-allen]

Sanity

A translation of my fic Sanity

Also available on AO3

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Barry sees a stele in the Speed Force. Surrounded by silent, unruly grass, with the distant outlines of trees and the shadows of houses intertwined. The stone monument looks dilapidated, like a broken tile from some ruined places, with a corner cracked on the right side, the sand blurred the engraved marks on it, only vaguely visible at the beginning of an irregular capital letter “B”. “Whose monument is this?” Barry asks, running his hand over those cracks and nicks. “It doesn't matter,” says the Speed Force. “It's just some ghost from a distant past.”

Savitar built a cenotaph with Barry Allen's name in the Speed Force. There was no forethought, but it also wasn't a spur-of-the-moment notion; rather, he seemed convinced and went into the task with a serious and earnest attitude, which was a welcome change from the monotony of passing the time in the endless Speed Force Prison. The prison took away his speed, but kept his armor. He traveled through long-ago memories in Savitar's suit, searching for the right materials and tools. The illusion of Central City as his prison, he moved a piece of stone from the abandoned exhibition hall on the first floor of S.T.A.R. Labs, rummaged through Henry's cabin to find a carving knife, and selected a piece of barren land not far from the Allen family's old house. H He knelt and used the shovel he'd brought back from the cemetery to dig out a square pit, into which he placed the neatly folded Flash uniforms that were rightfully his. He shifted his gaze to the stone laid aside and, even though the metal spurs on his armored arms would have made quicker work of the task, picked up the relatively small carving knife. The scene shifts around him, one sound after another from all directions. He heard Barry's tired and distant words, Joe's cold but guilty sighs, Wally's, Cisco's ... He heard Savitar's echoing voice in the endless loop: Join me, become a god, keep on living. But he was so focused that he couldn't really hear a thing, and couldn't see anything beyond the first few feet of the stone's surface. His hands were full of shocking wounds from all the carving he did, and each scar grew and cracked as he worked. Speed Force, who had the look of Barry's mother, passed by him at some point. The two exchanged indifferent glances, then turned their respective heads.

In this infinite illusion, the stone was his sole fulcrum. Outside the Speed Force, he existed in countless corners of time and space with the philosopher's stone; inside the Speed Force, he fell into his first long sleep, resting on the freshly erected cenotaph.

Years later, he was in the past, through the voice of another person, to Barry, who still knew nothing of the future, told his own drowned in a vast history of the past. "How long have you been imprisoned?" asked this younger version of Barry. “Long enough,” he replied. “Long enough to lose my mind several times over. “It’s only my will that keeps me on this side of sanity.”

[therezastarman]

EDDIEEEEEEEE