Nathaniel Graves

**Nathaniel Graves Jr.** (born circa 2049) is a Metahuman and the current holder of the mantle of **The Flash** formerly known as the villain **Reverse Flash** and former head of Doom Inc. He operates in the year 2069 as a member of the Neo Justice League, taking over for his sister who became paralyzed by his actions as Reverse Flash.

## History

Born in 2049 to the Daughter of Barry Allen, Nora West-Allen and a wealthy Metahuman male named Nathaniel Graves Sr, Nathaniel and his twin Alie'e were gifted with their meta abilities quite early with Nate having Kinetic Energy Acceleration and his twin having the opposite of Kinetic Energy Nullification.

## Powers and Abilities

**Metahuman Physiology and Speed Force Connection**: While not always connected to the positive Speed force, Nathaniel has had a connection to one of the forces starting in his teen years. When his parents were targeted by a vengeful supervillain and killed. Nate tried everything to bring them back, even resorting to using Velocity XII to give himself speed in order to travel back in time. He would try so many times losing a piece of himself each time until he tapped into the Negative Speed Force and lost himself to madness. Becoming it's avatar, he would create Doom Inc. following his attempt to create a Reverse Flashpoint event. While using either force he was gifted with immense speed, amplified by his own Meta powers, allowing him to reach feats only reserved for seasoned speedsters or ones using artificial means such as Savitar. Once he was defeated by his sister and shown there was another way he was able to tap into the positive Speed force and thus realize his legacy and destiny.

* **Super Speed**: As a general application of his power, Nathaniel is able to run at sub-light speeds (about 299,792,458 meters per second), which result in a yellow and white trail to follow him as he moves. His dual-colored lightning is attributed to the fact that he draws his power from the usage of his Meta abilities to augment his speed. Due to his higher rate of motion, Nathaniel has gained the ability to shift his lightning to a black coloration by reflecting it through his suit and this results in what appears to be instantaneous travel to a non-speedster, however, even to a speedster, this travel is as if he is in two places at the same time. When confronting another speedster, Nathaniel perceives them as moving in slow motion even if they are moving at their own top speed.

* **Inter-dimensional Travel**: By puncturing breeches in the fabric of space-time, Nate is able to run through them and travel to different earth's using the Speed Force.
* **Speed Force Sense**: Nate is able to sense other users of the Speed Force and track their movements when using their speed. This acts as a Speed Force GPS in his mind.
* **Bodily Vibration**: By vibrating his molecules at high speeds, Nathaniel is able to pass through physical objects. This can be used to dodge bullets or pass through buildings.
* **Seismokinesis**: While not a direct power, Flash is able to produce earthquakes while he runs by moving at supersonic speeds. These quakes are more of the aftereffect rather than being generated by him, so he cannot control them directly.
* **Invisibility**: By vibrating his body faster than the eye can perceive, Flash can appear invisible, however, he cannot run while doing so because of the focus it requires.
* **Speed Clone**: By dividing his speed force energy, Nate is able to create doppelgängers. These clones have a speed equivalent to the total speed force energy used by Nate divided by the number of clones, meaning that the more clones he creates the slower they are. He typically limits this to 2 or 3 clones. these clones have access to all of his abilities and are more durable than Speed Mirages and less risky than Time Remnants.
* **Speed Force Sharing/Stealing**: Nathaniel is able to manipulate the Speed Force in order to donate its energy to non-speedsters to grant them a brief link to the Speed Force, or to other speedsters, increasing their overall speed temporarily. When donating speed, he is able to bring others into what was dubbed "Flash-Time" by the Flash when he first witnessed it. Flash time allows Nathaniel and any other speedster (temporary or regular) to slow down time by drawing on the Speed Force, allowing for them to operate quickly and plan to stop events in effect. This power is very taxing and requires intense focus. The most notable example was the instance where a villain had captured the Team and was about to unmask them on national Television, Nathaniel managed to with Kid Flash's help, rescue the captured heroes before this could pass, taking about 1/10th of a second to do so in regular time. The other side of this skill is that Nathaniel is able to siphon off the speed of other speedsters, slowing them down to a crawl or even temporarily shutting down their connection to the Speed Force while increasing his own speed. This is done by draining the lightning they produce when they run an channeling it into Nathaniels own field.
* **Accelerated Healing**: Due to his cells being charged with extra-dimensional energy, he is able to heal from injuries quickly, even those which would render a normal person paralyzed such as a spinal injury. He is able to heal minor injuries in a few minutes to a few hours, while extreme injuries require a day or two to heal fully.
* **Time travel:** By moving at an insane amount of speed, Nathaniel is by extension of the Speed Force, able to travel through the time stream. This requires conscious effort to perform and carries with it the potential to overwrite the timeline. If he were to travel back a short distance, such as a few days, he would merge with his past incarnation, however traveling further, risks him causing potential damage to the timeline as he'd exist in two places within that time.
* **Temporal Dilution**: By moving his body at high rates of speed, Flash is able to reverse time in relation to himself. In doing so, he is able to relive events where he can then work to change them. This ability is however, limited as the Speed Force is able to interfere with it and limit how far it will safely allow him to rewind.
* **Superhuman Mental Prowess**: Due to his cells being supercharged, his mind is able to operate a rate 10 times faster than a normal human, allowing him to learn at a higher rate.

**Kinetic Energy Acceleration**:

## Trivia

This character is an alternate version of Velocity another speedster I've created on the site.