Velocity

Wally (Nickname)

Joe West and Nadine West (Paternal Grandparents)

Iris West-Allen (Paternal Aunt)

Barry Allen and Daniel West (Paternal Uncles)

Max West, Jessie Allen, and Bart Allen (Paternal Cousins)

## **History**

### **Wally West: 1990 - 2003**

Wally West was born on January 16, 1990, in Blue Valley, Colorado. Since he first heard reports of a masked vigilante in a cape in Gotham City, Wally has a herophile. In 1997, when Wally visited Central City to attend his aunt’s wedding, Wally prayed for Trickster to crash the wedding so he could have a chance to see the Flash. When the wedding was over and done, without so much as a drunken argument between relatives, Wally was bummed, so his new uncle, Barry Allen, approached Wally to see if he could cheer the kid up. When Wally said he was hoping to see the Flash, Barry let Wally in on a secret, saying that because he was a member of the CCPD, he knew The Flash personally and would arrange for Wally to meet him, the next time he visited.

That next summer, Wally talked his parents into letting him go back to Central City to spend the summer with his Aunt Iris and Uncle Barry. Wally’s first meeting with the Flash was everything he ever wanted and so Uncle Barry would “arrange” other meetings for Wally, in exchange for helping his aunt with the infant twins. Of course, Wally did just that.

When Wally was thirteen, his dad got a job in Keystone City, just a short drive from Central City and the family moved. After that, Wally was over at the Allen household almost daily to mow the lawn, organize the garage, babysit, whatever the Allens needed done so that Barry would arrange another meeting. It was while doing laundry for the Allens that Wally found a note in a pocket of Barry’s that was reminder to a code to a special door of Central City’s STAR Labs. Due to Wally’s obsession with the Flash, he knew that the Flash had been known to use STAR Labs equipment so Wally expected this to be where Barry and The Flash would meet, or possibly be the Flash’s lair.

While both guesses were more or less correct, what Wally wasn’t expecting was to see his uncle dressed in Flash’s costume (sans mask) talking to a team of scientist about whether Flash’s powers were a fluke or could be repeated. When Cisco Ramon mentioned he had set up equipment to test that theory inside the particle accelerator, Wally rushed down the halls of STAR Labs on a collision course with his destiny.

### **Kid Flash: 2003 - 2011**

We now know that if Wally was not lucky, he’d be dead. Wally had no way of knowing that his aunt has some weird ability to adapt the DNA of those around her to make them better candidates for developing a speedster meta-gene. Because Wally had been spending so much time in the home of the Allens prior to his incident, he lived.

After winning the genetic lottery, Wally somehow fast-talked (or blackmailed) his uncle Barry into letting him train after school to be Flash’s sidekick. In true Wally fashion, the day that Cisco made his training costume, Wally took it for a literal test run out and about in Central City. By the time The Flash caught up to him, Wally had already caught Weather Witch robbing a bank, saved a depressed teenager from jumping into the Missouri River, and had crashed no less than two news reports to announce that he was Kid Flash, Central City’s newest hero.

## **Personality**

Wally West is a lively and enthusiast young boy, who’s living the absolute joy of fulfilling his everlasting dream of becoming The Flash (sort of). After being a taciturn and shy kid, frustrated by his parents’ dampening of his dreams, Wally is now a cheerful teenager, rushy and constantly surprised of the new world he’s embraced. Kid Flash is still an inexperienced hero, who’s only but tapped all the infinite potentialities of the Speed Force… but this is more than enough to give him quite a thrill.

## **Powers, Abilities, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:** After he was struck by a bolt of lightning and doused in chemicals, Wally gained a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As it does this, the Speed Force creates excess energy that builds up and needs to be released. Wally, along with all speedsters connected, acts as a release valve for the Speed Force. When Wally uses his powers, he taps into that built up energy and expends it. Being a Speed Force Conduit radically accelerates all aspects of Wally's being. Due to his time trapped in the Speed Force, Wally has since gained a much stronger connection to it, and can tap into it much more than before, due to being adrift within its cosmic energies for so long. Wally has a deep, spiritual understanding of the Speed Force. As years go by his powers grew, allowing Wally to become more powerful as time passes. Wally's connection to the Speed Force grew even stronger after he was hyper-energized with a incredibly powerful surge of energy from the Speed Force itself. This granted Wally a raw connection to the Speed Force, meaning he cannot be cut off from its energy, due to his mainline-connection to it.

**Speed Physiology:** Wally's body is adapted towards the rigors of high-speed running. His cardiovascular and respiratory systems are many times more efficient than those of a normal human being. He metabolizes an estimated 95% of the caloric energy content of foodstuffs (normal humans use about 25%). The chemical processes of Velocity's musculature are so highly enhanced that his body does not generate fatigue poisons, the normal by-products of locomotion, which force the body to rest. Rather, his body constantly expels waste products during his accelerated respiration through exhalation. His joints are smoother and lubricated more efficiently than those of a normal human being. His tendons have the tensile strength of spring steel. His bones contain unknown materials significantly more durable than calcium to withstand the dynamic shocks of his feet touching the ground at speeds a human could never achieve or withstand. Velocity's lachrymose is more viscous than normal, thus preventing rapid evaporation and replenishment of surface fluids on his eyeballs under the influence of high wind velocity to occlude his vision.

* **Absolute Speed:** Wally is capable of moving at incredible superhuman speeds. He was able to cover 7,000 miles in 6.25 seconds, and even accelerate far beyond lightspeed to the point of entering the Speed Force dimension. He is far faster than Superman and even faster than Barry Allen, having beaten both in separate races. Wally is so fast that he had no problem moving at superspeed, even when time was frozen. He was even able to hit Overman hundreds of thousands of times before he could react. After pushing himself, Wally was able to accelerate faster than thought, light, and even time itself. His mainline-connection to the Speed Force makes Wally the fastest being in existence. According to Tempus Fuginaut, Wally is the fastest being in the multiverse, and his speed is essentially infinite. By reciting the Speed Force Formula, Wally can tap into the Speed Force in a different way to boost his speed even more. This allows him to move at beyond lightspeed with no effort, making it appear as if time was frozen. He has only used the formula twice, as a last resort.

## **Trivia**

* Bart Allen is the one who told to come up with and became the 'Flash' for Wally to use when Wally passed his Kid Flash mantle onto him.
* When alone, Wally likes to talk to himself, especially when he's trying to work out a solution to a complex problem. If caught doing this, he will deny it adamantly, except to Linda who he has admitted this is a behavior he had stemming from his childhood imaginary friends. He fully realizes that he doesn't have actual imaginary friends, he just finds it helpful to vocally express his thoughts and try to look at them from a different perspective.
* Wally prefers "pleather" to the real thing. His favorite possession in the entire world is the pleather recliner Linda bought for him as an engagement/Christmas present.
* Wally has mastered the art of salesmanship, especially when he gets talking fast. I swear, he could sell a glass of milk to a cow.
* Wally has a crappy short-term memory. He cannot memorize phone numbers to save his life.
* While Wally used to be an adamant skeptic about magic, even after he met the likes of Wonder Woman, Dr. Fate, Aquaman, and John Constantine, he was always a big believer in things like Bigfoot, alien abductions, conspiracy theories, and the Loch Ness monster. Nowadays, Wally believes in magic, but he still remains a skeptic of how versatile it can be and refuses to put his faith in it.
* Wally is one of those grown-ups that will never grow up. He loves playing with kids (babies are a different story) and toys for all ages.
* Wally dreams of being a successful MeVideo star. So far he has made three attempts. A cooking channel, a movie review channel, and a news channel. None of them have ever produced anything that has gone 'viral', unless you count the links being floated around the Team and the Justice League for a good laugh.
* Like his Uncle Barry, Wally West refuses to kill but he does support the lawful application of the death penalty. But on more than one occasion, when his loved ones (particularly his Aunt Iris or Linda) were put in danger, Wally has become very aggressive with the assailants and has admitted that in that moment he *could* have killed them.
* Wally's favorite restaurants are Chicken Whizee and Big Belly Burger. He claims it is just for the sheer amount of calories packed into their food. Seriously, though, Wally often licks the grease off the wrappers...
* Wally collects souvenirs from every mission he goes on. He started this habit during his tenure with the Titans and beyond. The notable souvenirs he has collected include:
	+ Robotic eye
	+ A Kobra Cultist's hood and mask (which Wally likes to sometimes wear around the Sanctuary)
	+ Speedy's arrow (An arrow that Artemis used to save Wally from Amazo). Speedy later removed it and reused it to fight Red Inferno and Red Torpedo; but she later placed it back, now with a molten tip.
	+ Cheshire's old mask.
	+ Monsieur Mallah's beret
	+ Count Vertigo's cape
	+ A sippy cup
	+ A medical backpack
	+ Sportsmaster's mask
* Wally is a big comic book fan. His favorite comic series is 'Deus Ex Machina Man'.
* Wally is studying Automotive Mechanics at Midwestern University.