Jay Garrick - Blog Posts

Boys of Flashfam connections but as D&D alignments.

Barry and Wally: Lawful Neutral. They share the same need to serve justice And Wally’s the “golden child”.

Wally and Bart: Chaotic Neutral. Bart annoys Wally, Wally makes Bart consider murder, at the end of the day they tolerate each other at most.

Barry and Bart: Chaotic Evil. Barry doesn’t believe in Bart, Bart’s trying his best and he will throw hands with his grandpa. Barry is just a tyrant. They have some kind of feud because Bart is also related to Eobard.

Barry and Jay: Lawful good. Ever heard the expression apple doesn’t fall far from the tree? In this case it’s more like that tree was genetically cloned to make a new tree and those two trees make it Hell for the apples trying to roll far away from them.

Wally and Jay: Lawful neutral. They have a decent standpoint on each other. Jay sometimes has old man wisdom but ehhh well-

Bart and Jay: True Neutral. Oh boy where do I begin. Outside if the suits, they are just like a boy living with his uncle. In suits, it’s like a constantly angry bird telling off another smaller bird for wanting to fly.

Bart and Max: Chaotic good. This, this right here is father and son. They have wholesome and domestic lives and a dad trying to teach his kid about heroism. Nothing to see here.

Wally and Max: True Neutral. Max babysits the kids sometimes. They have nothing against each other but they’re also not close. No one’s as close to Max as Bart is.

Barry and Max: Chaotic Neutral. Picture if you will. “Hey old man I hardly talk to. I know you’re basically retired and all but take this kid that’s my grandson, raise and teach him.” Says Barry dropping off Bart like he were a puppy. Sorry Max, Barry can’t teach Bart cause he doesn’t feel like it.

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

My collection grows

Happy holidays, everyone, and thanks to my family and friends for funding my autism!

This is the best family in Dc 💯

I feel like Joan and Jay's relationship isn't focused on enough so I can't tell you how happy this makes me to see it being acknowledged

I love you, Jay Garrick, even though you're a horrible liar.

Jay & Joan then and now in Jay Garrick: The Flash (2023) #1

(Jeremy Adams, Diego Olortegui)

Part 2 of random Flashfam headcanons !

- When someone points out the weird color of Bart's eyes, they just invents a stupid story each time to explain it ("this is what happens when you become blind and then regain your sight" "I am half dragon" "a wizard cast a spell on me" "it's a sign of higher intelligence"...)

- Bart's hair make them look taller than Thadd, and he don't like it.

- Wally has a dinosaurs phase when he was a kid.

- Literally every speedster passed Jay and Joan off as their grandparents to other people. (Barry: Yes Jay is my grandfather. Yes he is also my nephew's and grandchild's. No none of this is weird.)

- All speedsters are somewhat capable of cooking.

- It remains to be seen if their cooking is really edible for non-speedsters...

- The best way to woo a speedster is to offer him food.

- A speedster only offers food to people tey likes.

- Bart learned to knit to keep their hands busy and started giving away what they knit for Christmas and birthdays.

- They still have problems with sizes. But everyone loves the effort. (Max wears his every Christmas)

- Because of their metabolism, all speedsters give off a lot of heat and resist the cold very easily (being able to wear t-shirts even below 5°C) So, for many, speedster = radiator.

- Thadd tricks Bart into doing his chores for him.

- Despite being super smart 'cause he was basically raised on a giant computer, Thadd tends to believe a little bit of everything he reads on the internet.

- Bart likes to make fun of conspiracy theories (even if he himself is convinced that the center of the earth is made of nougat.)

my headcannons on how the flash fam uses their powers

jay- didn't have the speedforce until later in his career so doesn't really use it much in his fighting instead he'll quickly disarm someone or skid across the ground to trip someone up - his fighting style consists of tackling to subdue and sidesteps to dodge as he was a college American football player

barry- had the speedforce but didn't understand it as well as wally did so he could vibrate through Walls and make them explode with the correct frequency he'd do the spinny hands tornado thing and other tornado-y things more than the other flashes he would often throw lightning by getting a good run up and then stopping suddenly and whipping his arms forward to have it flow past him

wally- taking inspiration from young justice he couldn't really phase through walls and wasn't as good running up walls or with the tornado-y stuff so when he became the flash and became so powerful with the speedforce he never really learned he's the best with the lightning and can produce it at will and since he's the fastest he can go around buildings faster than the others can phase which is always amusing

bart- because he was born with the speedforce and spent his whole (three years of) life developing it it's the most defined- he doesn't cause explosions by phasing he just vibrates his hand puts against a wall and channels the speedforce into the wall and then there's these pulses (heh see what I did there) that go through it before it explodes- Bart has the most creative ways of using the speedforce hence the speed clones- sidenote his powers manifest as pulses rather than lightning (except for the lightning trail behind him) e.g when he throws the speedforce energy it is in these circular blasts until it makes contact with a target then it turns into electricity

Wallace- he's the newest with the speedforce so his lightning is the least refined and the most red and it crackles off of him in the largest amounts when he uses even the slightest amount of his powers- he can control his friction in a way the others can't making it so he can slide against the ground like an ice skater (which is how he runs mostly so he's the most elegant) or he can become completely immovable at a moment's notice (not like he can't be pushed but when he'd be running at full speed he can just stop completely) so he can run on walls the best and when he runs he leaves sparks behind him and even after his lightning there's a glowing red trail of sparks that follow him everywhere and because of this he grafts his emblem wherever he stops a crime as his signature - also as older wally can steal speed Wallace can imbue things with the speedforce temporarily giving his allies a speed boost or making a vehicle a speedforce construct (like older wally does for his suit or hot pursuit has his bike)

I'm gonna make a part two later with irey jai the tornado twins Jesse etc

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