August Heart

## August James Heart

* Civilian
* Godspeed

**August James Heart** (born August 16th, 2021) he is the son of his father Unnamed Heart and his mother Caitlin Snow-Allen, she never married his dad but was still with him, he is the half-brother of Kallie Snow-Allen, and his brother brother Jorge Heart, He was nicknamed **Godspeed** by Lia Nelson, was a criminal speedster from 2049. In a previous timeline, he used tachyons to gain super speed and Velocity 9 to enhance it. He was stopped and imprisoned by his sister's cousin Nora West-Allen and his sister Kallie Snow-Allen after murdering Lia Nelson.

In the current timeline, as August Thawne due to Sam Thawne surviving, August became the archenemy of his cousin Bart West-Morningstar/Impulse, and his brother Henry Thawne/Kid Bolt after murdering Sam Thawne. By fracturing himself in time, August created dozens of duplicate "Godspeeds" and sent them to terrorize Team Flash. At some point, the clones split off into two factions, one faction that wanted to help August steal Barry Morningstar's speed and another faction that aimed to free themselves and kill August.

## Biography

### Original timeline

#### Early life

August was born on August 16, 2021, his middle name was thought of by thinking of Sam as he wanted to give one of their kids the middle name of James after his mother's first and last husband **Sam Allen** (on Earth-25). He had a brother, Jorge, who passed away at some point. He attended Central City South High School, graduating three years in advance with a grade point average of 5.2. In adulthood, August also attended Central City University and studied biochemistry engineering. He has held several jobs; from September to October 2043, he worked as a barista at the Windsor Heights branch of CC Jitters but was fired shortly after.

In April 2044, he worked as a janitor at Ollins Laboratories until he was fired in July of the same year. He worked once more as a janitor at Stagg Industries in August 2044 but quit for unknown reasons in December. He quit his job again as a barista at the Petersburg branch of CC Jitters after working from February to March 2045. After working as an inventory technician at Dayton Laboratory from May to June 2045, he was fired, and he worked once more as a barista at the Mounds View branch of CC Jitters from November to December 2045 until he was fired again.

In January 2048, he started working as an intern at Mercury Labs, but he was fired in August of the same year after being found guilty of administering tachyons on 17 different elderly comatose patients. While criminal charges were never formally brought against him, there were 4 civil lawsuits pending.

#### Career as Godspeed

In the year 2049, after having experimented with tachyons to give himself speed, August became Godspeed and began stealing chemicals to recreate the Velocity 9 serum. August visited the Flash Museum where he saw how Zoom used V9 and met Nora West-Allen.

Nora would go on to attempt to stop Godspeed's robberies, but he knocked her down the first time with a lightning bolt and defeated her the second time in speed combat, after which he murdered Lia Nelson for taking what he aimed to steal.

His identity was exposed when his DNA was found inside Lia's body, providing CCPD with the necessary evidence to obtain an arrest warrant.

After learning from Eobard Thawne and learning about his next target, Nora went to his next robbery where he was going to steal a device that would make his artificial powers permanent. There, Nora fought and defeated Godspeed by tricking him into getting in the way of radio waves that disrupted the V9 in his system. Heart was then taken into custody by the CCPD.

## Personality

In the original timeline, August is obsessed with his speed similar to the late Hunter Zolomon. Also like Hunter and Savitar respectively, August is extremely arrogant, to the point of having a god-complex, as he proclaims himself the "God of Speed" and believes himself incapable of being defeated by other speedsters and meta-humans, such as Nora West-Allen. August is arrogant to the point of underestimating his opponents, which ultimately led to his downfall as he underestimated Nora's capabilities, leading to his capture and incarceration for his crimes.

## Powers, Abilities, and Weakness

### Powers

* **Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology:** Through his research into Tachyons, August was able to grant himself a natural connection to the Speed Force, giving him the powers of incredible speed. He noted Zoom's use of V-9 at the Flash Museum, and used it to try permanently enhancing his speed.
	+ **Accelerated healing factor:** As a speedster, August regenerates faster than humans do.
	+ **Bodily vibration:** Like most speedsters, August can vibrate his body for various effects.
	+ **Electrokinesis:** Unlike other speedsters, August produces *White* electricity from his body, commonly seen eradiating from him even when he stood still. August also mastered harnessing his lightning to a greater extent that any other known Speedster, able to fire at target even when stationary in a Hadouken-like manner.
	+ **Superhuman durability:** August possesses inhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. He can take attacks and exertion, even survive impacts that would easily kill normal humans.
	+ **Superhuman speed:** August can move at such vast speeds, indeterminable to the naked eye. He boasts that he is "The God of Speed". His speed is proven to be so great, that even a camera able to capture a *trillion* frames per second, can barely capture his lightning trail.
		- **Superhuman agility:** August has demonstrated flawless coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. He can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance and instantly stop running on the spot.
		- **Superhuman reflexes:** August's reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing him to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans.
		- **Superhuman momentum:** August can generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. Even little exertions from this build-up can generate a tremendous amount of force, able to knock a person out.
	+ **Superhuman stamina:** August can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting him function much longer than normal humans unhindered.

### Abilities

* **Expert of deception/Manipulator**
* **Master engineer**
* **Master physicist/Chemist/Scientist**
* **Expert mathematician**
* **Master hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist**
* **Expert swordsman**

## Equipment

* **Godspeed suit**
* **Velocity 9**

## Appearances

### **Part 5**

* "Godspeed" (flashforwards)
* "Snow Pack" (vision)

## Trivia

* Interestingly, even after being given organic speed, Heart's lightning color remains white.
* As August visited the Flash Museum, he seems to have taken cues from each of the Flash's three most prominent speedster enemies.
	+ Heart artificially granted himself speedster powers through the use of Velocity 9, the serum utilized by Zoom to enhance the latter's existing speedster powers. Furthermore, he shares the same desire to be the only fastest speedster alive, as he pointed that even though he developed a Velocity formula, it wasn't enough. Even more, those words were the exact same ones Hunter said to Joe.
	+ Heart introduced himself as the "God of Speed", a title previously used by Savitar. Nora also notes that his plans of making a perfected Velocity 9 would make him "the most powerful speedster", another title that Savitar used. After Crisis, he forgoes the "God of Speed" title and considers himself a god. Albeit unintentionally, he also fractures himself in time, which was one of Savitar's goals. In addition August's unique speedster physiology was able to make him immune to meta-human dampening tech, same with Savitar when he was using the Philosopher's Stone while imprisoned in the Speed Force.
	+ Godspeed used his vibrating hand to murder Lia Nelson, a signature move utilized by the Reverse-Flash.
		- On a side note, the revelation of his own life is similar to Eobard Thawne: both wanted their own wish to be true (Thawne being the Flash, August getting his memory back) only for them to learn that they'll be the entire reverse of who they wished to be (Thawne becomes the Reverse-Flash, August becomes Godspeed). Furthermore, both Thawne and August created their own means to acquire super speed (Eobard duplicated the conditions Flash gained his powers and also created his own negative version of the Speed Force, August created a Velocity serum to gain speed, just as Zoom did with Velocity 9).
	+ In the new multiverse, August also takes cues from Zoom and the Rival, sporting a harsher voice and more sadistic personality.
	+ Interestingly, August seems to have made a lasting impression on Barry. He commented that Flash had "leveled up" from the boost he received from the Speed Force. Barry would continue to use this term as his speed reached new heights after the Godspeed War, and his repeated usage led other members of Team Flash to adopt use of the expression as well.
* August also appears to take some inspiration from Flash himself, as he sports a nanotech mask similar to Flash's fifth suit.
* When killing Lia, his lightning briefly turned blue, which is a side effect of using Velocity 9.
* August's Godspeed clones are a reference to the Speed Scout power he has in the DC comics. However, unlike the DC comics, having clones only slows him down and it does not appear to cause him pain.
	+ Also, unlike his comic book counterpart, who can only create one clone of himself, the TV equivalent of August can create multiple clones at once.
* August is the only main antagonist of *The Flash* to be from the future and not get erased from existence. He is also the only speedster main antagonist to not have a secret identity and to not be a member of Team Flash.
* It is unknown why one of his clones did not look like him.
* August is the first main speedster villain to appear on *The Flash* since Savitar in Season 3.
* August is the third main villain who was defeated but hasn't ended up being killed/erased (after Bloodwork and Mirror Monarch).