In regards to Bart and Thad being twins, I can just picture Bart justifying it like “well you know there’s like identical and fraternal twins, so it’s like that! :)” And Thad being like “that’s not even remotely close at all”
oh man i love this but truly one of my favourite bits of Thad LoreTM is that between the two of them, the only one who seems to care even a little bit about Bart and Thad being brothers is actually Thad.
as far as i remember, the only people who refer to Thad and Bart as twins is 1) Iris, in the memoir she writes in the future (she specifically refers to Thad as Bart's "dark twin" which i think still counts) and 2) Thad himself. Four times.
(issues are: Impulse #53, The Flash: Fastest Man Alive #8, #12, The Flash (2016) #760)
He also calls Iris "grandma" in Impulse 52, and it's done ironically, but the choice for him to do so especially taken with the events of Mercury Falling really comes together to paint a picture of an extremely lonely, moody kid who is terrible at hiding just how much he wants to be part of a family.
On Bart's end... uh. Thad honestly doesn't seem to register much for him except in the moments where Thad is directly trying to attack him. In their very first meeting, Bart is thinking that they'll fight for a bit and then eventually become friends, but he's really not preoccupied with brotherly status at all. Bart isn't concerned with Legacy the same way Thad is, he loves his family, obviously, but he's not preoccupied with Allen Family Expectations or What It Means to be an Allen/Flash.
Thad on the other hand is obsessed with Legacy on both ends of the Thawne/Allen dichotomy. So I feel like in the ideal scenario of Thad's mythical redemption arc, all that obsessive fretting about living up to the Thawne family name and his role within it would just get projected full force onto the Allen name instead.
Meaning it'd be really important to Thad that he's recognized by the Allen family as one of them.
So I'm thinkin Thad "desperate to be loved" Thawne would take a stance of "so when president Thawne stole your DNA that was kind of like the egg splitting, basically, and then I got developed in a cloning chamber that was pretty much like a womb, so really if you think about it-"
Meanwhile Bart "read the entire San Francisco library including the sections on pregnancy and genetics" Allen is more on the "not sure if Thad is in denial or if he just fully doesn't know how twins work" thought train
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