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riverviewlogs2017-10-10 11:25 pm
otherflash) wrote in riverviewlogs2017-10-10 11:25 pm
(open) memory share
who: Wally West + you
what: Memory sharing and whatnot
when: Oct 9-23
where: Wherever needed
warnings: angst? Spoilers for DC Rebirth.
(one) Back when we thought we knew everything - First person
[ This memory begins with this guy looking back at you with a bemused expression. The fact he is soaked to the bone might have something to do with it. A quick glance to your right reveals a a third occupant in the room; a dark-haired teenage girl holding a bucket of water balloons.
The girl's free hand is covering her mouth in an attempt to stifle her giggles. Your own red-gloved hands come up as you try to placate the soaked young man while your body shakes from your own laughter.
"C'mon, Speedy. I was just showing Wonder Girl here how to have some fun. Can't you handle a little prank?"
Apparently, the answer to that question is no as Speedy mutters a quick "You're dead, West" and lunges towards you. All Speedy ends up grasping is air as you blur across the room in an instant. Speedy is undeterred by this, but before he can try something again, the girl steps in to play peacemaker.
"Okay, boys, that's enough. You're getting water all over the place, Harper."
The soaked teenager opens his mouth, to protest no doubt, but thinks better of it. He says something about having to change his clothes as he begins to grumpily walk back through the door; sending a final look in your direction to let you know there will be some prank payback.
Your eyes linger on the door after Speedy closes it behind him; which is why you fail to notice the water balloon headed in your direction until it hits you squarely in the chest, water splashing all over you. You sputter for a moment, before looking back at the girl who is wearing a big grin on her face.
"You were right, West. This was fun."
All you can do is offer her a thumbs up for a job well done. ]
(two) Lost outside of time and reality - First person; vision
[ The first part of memory starts with you in a void outside of time and reality. This void is known as the Speed Force -- an extra-dimensional energy source that speedsters draw their power from. It's also where a speedster goes when they tap into the source too much or push themselves beyond the limits. Not that you know any of this.
There's a sense of hope as visions from across time and realities flicker about with no real clarity. Something has happened, and the opportunity for this person to push against the barrier to make contact with someone back in the real world has finally arrived.
Their (first) attempt at contact takes you to what appears to be a cave that is anything but ordinary where a man wearing a strange costume is waiting. There is lightning crackling all around as the man asks who you are.
"I'm younger than you would remember. We all are. My name is Wally..."
The pain you feel is almost unbearable as the connection isn't strong enough. But this person named Wally continues on despite the pain.
"Remember how you got the letter! The letter you got from your father! It's how all this started!"
The man doesn't fully understand, not yet anyway. He tells you not to go as he reaches out for you. But, the Speed Force will not be denied its prize and it claims you once again. ]
(three) A love forgotten - Third person
[ Rain is falling as a young man, who can only be Wally himself in his Kid Flash uniform, stands before a young woman sprawled out on the ground with lightning swirling and crackling around him. The expression on his face is one of pure elation while the woman's was mixed with confusion and fear.
He should have noticed how scared she was. But, he had been looking for her for so long and was so certain of their love that he believed she was going to anchor him back to reality like she had done so many times before.
He sticks out a gloved hand, asking her to take it so he can come home. She doesn't. All she can do is stutter out a "You are..." while she scrambles to her feet. Further explanation from him is going to be needed.
"Someone who loves you very much. We helped each other. We will again. We'll help everyone. But it starts with us, Linda. You and me."
The words don't help to clear up her confusion, they lead to her uttering four words -- "I don't know you" -- that has his world come crashing down. He doubles over as he is hit with an excruciating amount of pain while the lightning begins to engulf him; the Speed Force is trying to pull him back.
All he has time for is one last desperate plea to get her to remember.
"Linda, it's me! It's Wally! Wally West! God, please let her remember me."
But it is too late. Lightning clouds his vision as the connection is severed for good. ]
what: Memory sharing and whatnot
when: Oct 9-23
where: Wherever needed
warnings: angst? Spoilers for DC Rebirth.
(one) Back when we thought we knew everything - First person
[ This memory begins with this guy looking back at you with a bemused expression. The fact he is soaked to the bone might have something to do with it. A quick glance to your right reveals a a third occupant in the room; a dark-haired teenage girl holding a bucket of water balloons.
The girl's free hand is covering her mouth in an attempt to stifle her giggles. Your own red-gloved hands come up as you try to placate the soaked young man while your body shakes from your own laughter.
"C'mon, Speedy. I was just showing Wonder Girl here how to have some fun. Can't you handle a little prank?"
Apparently, the answer to that question is no as Speedy mutters a quick "You're dead, West" and lunges towards you. All Speedy ends up grasping is air as you blur across the room in an instant. Speedy is undeterred by this, but before he can try something again, the girl steps in to play peacemaker.
"Okay, boys, that's enough. You're getting water all over the place, Harper."
The soaked teenager opens his mouth, to protest no doubt, but thinks better of it. He says something about having to change his clothes as he begins to grumpily walk back through the door; sending a final look in your direction to let you know there will be some prank payback.
Your eyes linger on the door after Speedy closes it behind him; which is why you fail to notice the water balloon headed in your direction until it hits you squarely in the chest, water splashing all over you. You sputter for a moment, before looking back at the girl who is wearing a big grin on her face.
"You were right, West. This was fun."
All you can do is offer her a thumbs up for a job well done. ]
(two) Lost outside of time and reality - First person; vision
[ The first part of memory starts with you in a void outside of time and reality. This void is known as the Speed Force -- an extra-dimensional energy source that speedsters draw their power from. It's also where a speedster goes when they tap into the source too much or push themselves beyond the limits. Not that you know any of this.
There's a sense of hope as visions from across time and realities flicker about with no real clarity. Something has happened, and the opportunity for this person to push against the barrier to make contact with someone back in the real world has finally arrived.
Their (first) attempt at contact takes you to what appears to be a cave that is anything but ordinary where a man wearing a strange costume is waiting. There is lightning crackling all around as the man asks who you are.
"I'm younger than you would remember. We all are. My name is Wally..."
The pain you feel is almost unbearable as the connection isn't strong enough. But this person named Wally continues on despite the pain.
"Remember how you got the letter! The letter you got from your father! It's how all this started!"
The man doesn't fully understand, not yet anyway. He tells you not to go as he reaches out for you. But, the Speed Force will not be denied its prize and it claims you once again. ]
(three) A love forgotten - Third person
[ Rain is falling as a young man, who can only be Wally himself in his Kid Flash uniform, stands before a young woman sprawled out on the ground with lightning swirling and crackling around him. The expression on his face is one of pure elation while the woman's was mixed with confusion and fear.
He should have noticed how scared she was. But, he had been looking for her for so long and was so certain of their love that he believed she was going to anchor him back to reality like she had done so many times before.
He sticks out a gloved hand, asking her to take it so he can come home. She doesn't. All she can do is stutter out a "You are..." while she scrambles to her feet. Further explanation from him is going to be needed.
"Someone who loves you very much. We helped each other. We will again. We'll help everyone. But it starts with us, Linda. You and me."
The words don't help to clear up her confusion, they lead to her uttering four words -- "I don't know you" -- that has his world come crashing down. He doubles over as he is hit with an excruciating amount of pain while the lightning begins to engulf him; the Speed Force is trying to pull him back.
All he has time for is one last desperate plea to get her to remember.
"Linda, it's me! It's Wally! Wally West! God, please let her remember me."
But it is too late. Lightning clouds his vision as the connection is severed for good. ]
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there was this woman named linda and you were holding out your hand to her
you told her you two loved each other, but it seemed like she didn't recognize you at all?
you seemed pretty freaked out by that and you were all wrapped up in lightning
like idk. something was going wrong with the speedforce.
at least that's how it looked to me.
[ They still know so little about the speedforce and how it works, but Cisco at least knows what it looks like, could tell that something unusual was going on. ]
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You got all that huh.
Long story short is
I got stuck in the speed force and was trying to make contact with someone.
My memory was kind of a mess at that point.
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i didn't know that was a thing that could happen
so you were trying to get out?
[ Wally had seemed so hopeful, at first, holding out his hand to Linda. Like all his problems were solved. ]
how come she didn't remember you?
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We're not suppose to be able to get out but I got lucky.
[ The Speed Force was on the verge of stealing Wally's very essence before he was able to find a connection strong enough to anchor him back to reality at the last possible second. ]
Because she didn't know me.
Someone made the entire world forget I existed.
[ While that is true, it wasn't why Linda specifically didn't know him. There's a far bigger and more complicated explanation for that; one he hasn't even truly shared with Dick after he arrived here. ]
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but you did get out eventually?
how?
[ The news that someone had erased his memory from everyone in the world would, at some point, had sent Cisco into spirals of disbelief. But after some of the stuff that's happened here - amnesia spores and what have you - he can buy it. And that's not even getting into everything with the voidfish. If they existed in a world Lucretia and them had visited, they might exist on Wally's version of Earth. And then... him being erased from the memories of even his closest family and friends is not only possible, but easy. ]
how did they do that?
WHO did that?
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It's possible to escape if
we have someone to ground us back in reality.
Like a lightning rod.
[ Which might help Cisco piece together why Wally was so happy to see Linda in the memory. He had expected her to be his connection home. ]
Some whack job named Abra Kadabra.
He's a techno wizard from the future.
He said something about a spell.
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[ It explains what Wally had been trying to do, and also the possible motive for erasing him from everyone's minds. If a speedster's connections are his lifeline out of the speedforce, cutting them off would be a neat way to get rid of him. ]
he sounds like a motherfucker and a half
seriously is EVERYONE from the future just an evil psycho?
like level with me on this cuz right now it's 2 outta 2 that i know of.
did you get it undone? the spell or whatever?
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tried to do for an encore.
But those are the only two
future people you have to worry about.
At least that I know of.
[ But between him being out of the game for some years and his memory being fuzzy about certain things, Wally can't make any promises. ]
Not really. I've only gotten a few friends
and some other people to remember me.
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what did he try to do for an encore?
[ Two evil guys from the future is still two too many as far as Cisco's concerned. But he's more worried now about what Wally's saying. ]
seriously?
that sucks.
[ A small part of Cisco wonders if maybe that had contributed to Wally coming here. After all... most of the people pulled in here were feeling disconnected from their own world in one way or another. Being erased from everyone's memories, taken out of his own story like that... if anything was going to be isolating, it would be that. ]
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He went after my friends
and Linda to get to me after I got back.
It almost ended badly.
[ What was Kadabra's motivation for everything? A belief that Wally was the one person standing in the way of him becoming famous. ]
Tell me about it. I spend most of my time
stuck in the tower while my friends have actual lives.
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i'm glad it didn't end badly.
it sucks that it came close.
[ As far as Cisco was concerned, it was only the really bad ones that went after friends and family. Guys like the Reverse Flash or Captain Cold. ]
wow that's relatable
i spent most of my time stuck at star labs not having an actual life
and i DIDN'T get erased from people's memories so actually that's pretty pathetic if you think about it
hey so this is gonna sound weird but what's linda's last name?
[ It... can't be the same Linda, can it? ]
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into the timestream. Not sure it really
means anything for someone who time traveled
but it felt good.
[ A small victory after everything Kadabra had done and tried to do. ]
Her last name is Park.
She still talks to me after everything
if you can believe it.
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& i don't know man
even if u know how to swim, somebody pushing you into a river isn't gonna be fun
[ He hopes it was disorienting and unpleasant at the very last, because fuck that guy. ]
i can believe it
and also this is probably weird to hear but i knew her doppelganger a little
she and barry went out a couple times
she was fun, i liked her a lot.
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headache out of it. If I ever see that maniac
again it will be way too soon.
[ But he'll come back. They almost always come back. ]
Wait. Are you saying Barry
dated Linda? Dude that is just.
You have no idea how messed
up that is to me.
[ Cisco's world has officially become weird. ]
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nothing too serious, just went out a couple times then decided they were better as friends.
he was pining for iris in a major way and everybody knew it, including linda.
and iris's boyfriend at the time. who... i'm now dating....
it's kind of a hot mess.
but like i said linda was totally fun.
she a journalist in your world too?
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Yeah, she's a reporter. About as tenacious
as they come. I had to give her an exclusive
to make up for all the scares. It was only fair though.
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[ First Barry and Iris, now Wally and Linda... Cisco is starting to detect a pattern. ]
you must miss her
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[ Despite sharing the same profession, Linda and Iris are quite different as people. ]
Like you wouldn't believe. Not that her
and I are anything. It's complicated as you can imagine.
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amen to that
oh yeah.
were you something before the whole speedforce thing and now you're not?
[ In the memory, Wally had said they loved one another. True, that didn't necessarily mean they were together, but... ]
might never amount to anything, but for what it's worth, i'm starting to work on a device for sending messages back home.
i know you're probably on that list of people who's waiting for them to find your world with the portal but
just in case i manage to get this working before then, if there's any messages you want to send back...
i really can't promise anything i just wanted to let you know i'm trying
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It's been difficult to let go of that.
[ But Wally knows him holding on to what they had isn't good for either of them. All they can do is move forward with their own lives, and if they are meant to be again, then they will find their way back to one another. ]
It's worth a shot.
Science has always been more of Barry's thing, but if
there is anything I can do to help, just let me know.
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that sucks out loud, dude.
is there any chance of making it work a second time?
[ Maybe Cisco's just a hopeless romantic, but he thinks that if she'd fallen in love with him once she could do it again. And second chances are so important. ]
i will for sure
right now i'm still working on understanding multidimensional energy
not like there's textbooks for this stuff so i'm starting from scratch
but i managed to get in contact with another universe by accident, once, from here
so it should be possible, eventually.
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We're a long way away from anything like that
but we still keep in contact and stuff.
[ The fact Linda is even giving him a chance to be part of her life in some capacity is amazing. ]
I don't think I have to tell you to be careful.
Also, how do you accidentally get in contact with another universe?
Was something weird going on here or was it an unintended side effect of something?
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i will be
which you should believe despite the fact that the answer to your next question is 'my friend and i were dicking around and seeing what happened when we combined some of my tech and some of his magic'
[ Cisco leans in to the whole irresponsible friendly experiment angle. The truth is a little more complicated - he and Taako had been quite serious, when they accidentally contacted Earth-2. Tech had been involved, but it had really been his powers that they were exploring. But... he still isn't sure how to tell Wally about those. He's going to have to do it, sooner or later, but... not today. ]
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I will choose to believe it if
only for my own peace of mind.
[ He does trust Cisco will handle this particular project in a responsible way. Mostly. ]
So your Barry hasn't had any problems with the speed force?
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and he lost his connection with it once, temporarily
but he's never gotten sucked into it or whatever
i didn't even know that was a thing that could happen
you gotta keep in mind that minus the coma
he's only been a speedster for a little more than a year where i'm from
that's not all that long
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