Daniel West

**Secondary:**
The Hub
Premiere Building Floor 25 & 26
6838 Goode Boulevard
Jump City, CA

## Background

### 1996 - 2013: Daniel West

Daniel was a big surprise to the family. His dad was in with the gangs & went around with a new girl every week. Eventually the life caught up to him & one of the girls got pregnant. He immediately stepped up to be a father, wanting to emulate after his own dad. The girl gave birth to their son but soon left him with Daniel shortly after on Christmas day. Realizing it was just him & his son, he decided to name him after himself as Daniel Jr. Because he was a single parent & due to the street lifestyle he was living, DJ's grandfather helped out a lot.

He wasn't even three when his father was killed during a gang shootout. It was a hard time for the family & without any parents, DJ was immediately taken in with his grandfather as his guardian. Iris was still in college so she helped babysit but the responsibility mostly fell on grandfather & his Uncle Rudy. DJ began switching between living with his grandfather & visiting Rudy's house on weekends to hang with his older cousin Wally.

Similar to his father, DJ was a bit of a delinquent. He didn't respect authority & was a troublemaker in school. Deriving from his love of helping his grandfather work on cars, DJ started participating in street races. He quickly gained a reputation as a winner & other racers stopped wanting to face him but there was always someone stupid enough to try.

Eventually his cop of a grandfather found out about Danny's hobby & intervened. Even with all his family trying to help, they still couldn't keep him out of trouble. Iris started to worry about the dangers of Daniel's street races & complained her father was acting more like a "buddy" rather than like a grandfather. She attempted to talk some sense into him & even threatened to publish an article about street racing.

After one street fight, Daniel ended up accidentally crashing, leading to the car catching on fire. Everyone else ran, afraid they would get burnt but Danny was saved by none other than the scarlet speedster. He still ended up with injured by a glass shard & was taken to the hospital, where Joe had a serious conversation with him. After telling him how the whole family was worried about him, DJ began easing out of his rebellion & even started looking up to the speedster that saved his life.

It wasn't too long after when Daniel also gained a connection to the mysterious Speed Force. However, his superspeed was unpredictable & hard for him to control. He didn't tell anyone & tried to keep his powers under wraps due to its instability.

When he was sixteen, Danny claimed that the Speed Force called out to him. Upon "answering," his powers began to stabilize.. After gaining some control, he confided his family & to his surprise, they weren't surprised. It was then Daniel discovered that his uncle & cousins were all speedsters. His family had all believed that the Speed Force had skipped over him. Joining the Flash Legacy, he took on the codename Streak.

## Personality

Daniel can come off as a rather apprehensive & unsure young man but in fact, he is eager, reckless, competitive & somewhat angry. His anger comes from having grown up with no parents, feeling like he had to grow up fast & taking on far more responsibility than he might have had to if he'd been raised by both parents. Despite his rage, he deeply loved his grandfather for raising him.

His competitive side is seen not only in his racing career but also in his interactions with his cousins as he feels that are given constant praise for being the "ideal" kids. There was also the fact that he felt that the whole family was in secret club that he was not part of it. This all came to a halt after DJ gained superhuman abilities & the family revealed they all had superpowers as well. When Flash saved his life, he turned his life around & made up for the things he had apparently caused.

Despite his hot-headed nature, he is a courageous young man whose heart is always in the right place. He is practically incapable of turning his back on the people he cares about. He has proven himself to be just like his grandfather in his sense of duty, bravery & need to be there for his loved ones. As a member of the Flash legacy & the Titans, DJ feels he has found his sense of belonging & purpose. His whole life he felt like an outcast & misfit. Though he retains his impulsive, cocksure attitude & his preference of simply speeding in & getting the mission done quickly, he has learned more patience.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Speed Force Conduit:** At the age of fifteen, Daniel gained a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time & space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up & needs to be released. DJ, along with all speedsters connected to the Force, act as a release valve for the Speed Force.
	+ ***Superhuman Speed***: He is capable of moving at vast superhuman speeds & can only be perceived as a blur to the naked eye, as well as run across water & up buildings. DJ is the slowest of his cousins, but is faster than Jenna.
		- ***Vortex Creations***: By running in a circular motion or spinning his arms at super-speed, Wallace is able to generate strong vortices of wind. He was also able to use his speed to generate enough differential wind to cancel out the force of a large tidal wave.
	+ ***Superhuman Reflexes***: DJ possesses reflexes far greater than a normal human being. This allows him to perceive the world in slow motion.
	+ ***Superhuman Stamina***: His body can handle the stress of moving at superhuman speeds for long periods of time without out getting tired or weak.
	+ ***Superhuman Agility***: His agility, balance & bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily make sharp turns and leap far distances while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ ***Speed Force Aura***: As explained by Barry Allen, a speedsters body is surrounded by a "friction cushion," which provides light protection from the nastier elements of their speed, including friction, airborne particulate matter, kinetic impacts, G-Force & the like.
		- ***Superhuman Durability***: DJ is capable of resisting tremendous kinetic impact forces that could easily crush or kill a human, without suffering any serious external or internal injuries.
	+ ***Accelerated Healing***: DJ is able to rapidly regenerate from injuries at rates much quicker than any normal human.
	+ ***Electrokinesis***: He is able to generate and manipulate the electrical energy he draws from the Speed Force. This Speed Force lightning emanates off of him as a red aura of electricity, especially when he moves at super-speed.
		- ***Electro-Blast***: Wallace has learned that if he focuses, he can project his Speed Force energy as bolts of lightning from his hands. By running in circles, he can build a larger charge and hurl much more powerful lightning bolts.
	+ ***Enhanced Senses***: The Speed Force grants Daniel enhanced senses that allow him to perceive the world at a rate attuned his reaction speed.
	+ ***Molecular Acceleration***: When he vibrates his molecules too fast, he can cancel out the molecular frequency of objects around him & destroy them.
	+ ***Speed Steal***: DJ is able to absorb the speed and/or momentum from moving objects. He demonstrated this by slowing a group of airborne bullets.
* **Drag Racing:** Taking after his father, he began acting out by participating in drag races & was well-regarded to the point where no resident residing in Central City would challenge him to races any longer. He is referred to by "Taillights" because his opponents only see his taillights during races.
* **Engineering:** Danny possesses fair engineering skills & was smart enough to work up a plan to create a turbine supercar that that would run on biodiesel & human stool while he was in college. He also has a well-lit background with certain fields & branches of engineering and mechanics.
* **Hand to Hand Combat:** Though DJ has never been trained in combat, he uses his speed alongside his reflexes to compensate. He has improved his skills after several training sessions with Barry, with Iris creating new lengthy combat simulators for him to improve.
* **Streak Suit:** His uncle Flash gave him a suit as a Christmas present. The color of the suit is red with black details. It was designed by Cisco Ramon to keep his clothes from burning off while he was running at Mach speed.

### Weaknesses

* **Hyper Metabolism:** While moving at accelerated speeds, DJ burns calories much faster than a normal person. While letting him break down food more efficiently than a regular human, this also requires him to consume large amounts of nutrients. Continued usage of his speed while deprived renders him disoriented and weak before ultimately passing from low blood glucose. Also, because of his accelerated healing, he is unaffected by painkillers, sedatives, or anesthetics, as he burns through them too quickly to have any effect.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 7 - Master / Elite
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Range:** 7 - Master / Elite
* **Strategy:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Combat:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **TOTAL:** 109 - Threat Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

* Daniel has never met his mother & doesn't remember much about his father.
* Though Jenna is his aunt, he treats her as a little sister due to growing up in the same house.
* Daniel likes street racing because when he's on the open road, he forgets the fact that neither of his parents are around.
* He took two years off before deciding to go to college.

## Notes

* To avoid confusion, his name was changed from Wallace West III to Daniel West Jr.
* *Earth-44 Explanation: The West family received inspiration from the Arrowverse & the comics. In Earth-44, Joe West is black & Francine is white. Therefore, Rudy, Iris & Daniel are all mixed (half Black & half White).* *Daniel's mother was Black so he is only ¼ White from his father's side.*
* Much of his backstory & characteristics are based on Wally West from the *Arrowverse.*