The Streak

The Flash, Godspeed, The Crimson Comet, Augustus Heart, Ahwehota (Aliases)

Jay (Nickname)

The Quick (Son)

Liberty Belle (Daughter-In-Law)

Miss Quick (Granddaugher)

## **History**

### **Jay Garrick: 1903 - 1921**

Jason "Jay" Garrick was born in the early 20th century in La Moyne (What is now present-day St. Roch) to a pair of French Immigrants who eventually moved to Keystone City. As a child, Jay's father was often gone exploring the wilderness. When his father was home, Jay would accompany him on day-long hunting trips or on trade missions with the local Blackfoot tribes. When his father was away, Jay would spent a lot of time with his scholarly mother, reading and studying the classics. They eventually move to Europe as Jay's father wanted to served in U.S Army and his mother worked as nurse. During the World War of 1914, Jay's father was killed and his mother was presumed dead, as he had never returned home since the beginning of the violence. At the end of the war, Jay assumed the identity of a dead British soldier in order to gain passage to Europe. Shortly after that, Jay did his best to look for any surviving family in France, but ultimately failed. He would live out the rest of his childhood as a well-read street urchin who was always on the move. He survived by stealing only what he needed to survive (Food, clothing, and the occasional book.)

After reading of the exploits of the Greek Gods and feeling a kinship to those tales, Jay made his way to Greece one summer, hoping to explore the ruins mentioned in those fantastical tales. While there, Jay took shelter from a sudden storm inside a cave along Mount Kyllini, but in his haste, he twisted his ankle and struck his head. Jay was knocked unconscious, but when he awoke, he found his ankle and head bandaged and a bowl of fruit nestled in a pile of rocks beside him. Even after he regained the strength to walk, Jay stayed in the cave waiting for his savior to return, but they never did. When Jay finally did decide to set out, he grabbed the empty bowl from the rock pile and found it was not a bowl at all, but a silver helmet with a golden wing on either side.

### **The Streak: 1921 - Present**

Jay was dumbfounded as he put the helmet atop his head and found himself transformed. Not only did Jay's entire perception of the world around him change, but Jay's muscles were rejuvenated. Most impressively, Jay found he could run to the horizon and beyond without tiring, Jay spent an incredible amount of time running and bounding over Greece, testing out his newfound power. With each step, his speed increased, as did his agility. When he did finally rest at the side of a natural spring, Jay was startled to find his father watching over him. Jay thought his father was a ghost, as he hadn't aged a day since Jay's fondest memories of him. In truth, this wasn't Jay's father but neither a spirit, but a being of flesh and blood—well, flesh and *ichor*: The divine messenger of Olympus itself, Hermes.

In Jay's childhood, Hermes had split his time between Earth and another new world the gods had settled. Hermes had been searching for Jay for some time and had only found his champion when Jay had literally stumbled into Hermes' own birthplace: The cave on Mount Kyllini. Impressed by Jay's intuition, Hermes had decided to bequeath his old war helmet to his surrogate son and trust Jay to uphold the heroic ideals of of Jay's namesake: The classical hero Jason of Iolcus.

## **Personality**

Jay Garrick is a righteous and honest man, an old-fashioned hero who knows no compromise in his crusade against crime and injustice. A brilliant scientist, he’s an expert in physics and chemistry, with a remarkable natural genius.

Jay is held in high regard by the younger speedsters, who see him as an almost elder-statesman speedster role-model for his great wisdom and experience and is frequently consulted by them for advice on opponents, training in mastering their powers or enlisting his help on important missions.

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

### **Powers**

**Metahuman Physiology:** Jay is magically enhanced metahuman who receives his superspeed from Mercury, a Roman god who sees bravery in Garrick and choose his as his champion. Now serving as mentor to all Speedsters and the first speedster of modern times.

* **Speedster Physiology:** Jay possesses a connection to the Speed Force, a mysterious cosmic force that pushes time and space itself forward. As a conduit of the Speed Force, all aspects of Jay's physiology are accelerated and enhanced.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:** By having a connection to the speed force, Jay has an incredibly fast healing factor and can heal from most injuries in seconds and devastating injuries in minutes.
	+ **Accelerated Thought Process:** The Speed Force enhances Jay's senses, allowing him to perceive and process thoughts faster than the normal person.
	+ **Bodily Vibration Manipulation (Invisibility & Intangibility):** Jay can tap into the Speed Force to vibrate his molecules in a way to achieve intangibility for short bursts, allowing him to phase through objects. By vibrating his atoms and molecules at the right frequency, Jay can turn invisible, even when confided in shackles that he can't escape with his speed.
	+ **Speed Aura:** The Speed Force manifests an aura around Jay and whatever he is carrying, protecting him from adverse effects of his speed, such as friction with the air. The Speed Force Aura also protects Jay from kinetic impacts, which in turn, makes him much more durable and resistant to injury than any normal human.
	+ **Supernatural Stamina:** The Speed Force grants Jay with a great increase of stamina, allowing him to fight or run much longer than the average person. Although a great increase, it is not unlimited.
	+ **Supernatural Athleticism:** Jay's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to superhuman levels. This allows him to easily maneuver while moving at superhuman speed.
	+ **Supernatural Reflexes:** In conjunction with his enhanced senses, Jay's reflexes are heightened immesurably, allowing him to dodge or react faster than normal.
	+ **Speed Theft:** Jay can steal the momentum of any moving object or being, such as Superman. This gives him a boost in speed and slows the person or object he stole the kinetic energy from.
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** The Speed Force enhances Jay's physical strength to levels superior than the average human being. Jay has lifted and carried pieces of concrete from stone columns, over his head.
	+ **Decelerated Aging:**
	+ **Empathy:** Jay can sense when another Speed Force Conduit is troubled, and can be drawn to the location of that speedster. In addition, locating where other speedsters are in time as he found Barry Allen, who was five months in the future, and pulled him back to the present after Barry had been there for only a few minutes.
	+ **Absolute Speed:** The universal factor of being a Speed Force conduit grants Jay with imperceptible amounts of speed. Jay is able to run at phenomenal superhuman speeds, as shown when he ran through a breach back to Earth-2 with Harry and Jesse. He was fast enough to intercept Barry in the Speed Force when he tried to change the timeline again. All powers that Jay possesses derives from his speed. This also confers:
		- **Bio-Electricity Manipulation:** Jay produces orange electricity from his body when he taps into the Speed Force highlighting his natural, unaltered connection to it.
		- **Dimensional Travel:** Through the opening of a dimensional breach, Jay is able to push through the fabric of reality with his super-speed, letting him travel to different dimensions. Jay was shown capable of breaking the dimensional barrier with his speed to traverse between dimensions, after meeting The Flash.
		- **Speed-Based Strength (Enhanced Momentum & Speed Strike):** Jay is able to generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, notably allowing him to grab Barry while he was time traveling, and yank him out into 1998, causing Barry to be sent flying through the air and into a truck when he appeared. He was also able to send Savitar tumbling across the floor by striking him at super-speed, while the latter was freed from the Speed Force and was caught by surprise.
		- **Temporal Speed:** Jay has proven to be adept regarding time travel, capable of intertwining between the past, present, and future at will. Jay has told Barry that he is able to travel through time as he has done it before, and has proven to be highly proficient in this ability, to where he can intercept other speedsters attempting to time travel through the Speed Force, and pull them from different points in time.

## **Trivia**

* After hearing Izzy Bowin's musical eulogy at the funeral of his friend Isaac Bowin, Jay offered her help with securing a scholarship at the Central City's Academy of Arts. Izzy accepted the offer and became a world-class musician.
* He happened to be at a bank the Fiddler was robbing and he convinced her to walk away. After a moment of reflection, Izzy did just that.