Post by emmafrost on Jun 28, 2008 12:09:03 GMT -5
The Character
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Cannon or your own: Cannon
Copyright (Marvel/DC/ect): DC
Characters civilian name: Bartholomew Henry “Bart” Allen II
Code names/Aliases: The Flash IV
Class [Superhero, Vigilante, Mercenary..ect]: Superhero
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Gender: Male
Age: 10 (chronological)
Apparent Age: 21 (apparent)
Hair: brown
Eyes: blue
Height and weight: 6ft, 180 lbs.
Appearance: Bart’s Flash costume was initially similar to Wally’s costume, courtesy of S.T.A.R. Labs -- Keystone City, but created by duplicating the molecular structure of Barry Allen’s costume, which Bart was wearing upon his return from an alternate Earth during the Infinite Crisis. Since then, however, Bart has had it modified in appearance to look similar to the costume worn by Walter West as the “Dark Flash”, but retaining the standard scarlet and gold hues that mark it as the typical coloration of The Fastest Man Alive.
Bart’s Flash costume is stored in a specially-designed ring, originally invented by his grandfather, Barry Allen -- the second Flash. Upon activation, the ring opens up, instantly covering Bart in the Flash costume; when deactivated, the Flash costume retracts back into the ring.
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Super Powers: Super Speed: can run and move their limbs at superhuman speeds. Biologically inherited ability to tap into the energy known as the Speed force. As kid flash Bart was able to achieve speeds faster than Mach 10 , but after he returned as an adult ,Bart was fast enough to achieve speeds just short of light-speed and exceeding it when the need arised. Wally West the current Flash has stated that Bart was faster than all the flashes combined . Bart has also said he is the fastest man to ever live, whether these statements are hyperbole or not is unknown. Bart can lend speed to or borrow speed from moving objects, create objects of concentrated Speed Force energy, become intangible by vibrating molecular mass, perform both limited time and inter-dimensional travel and heal personal injuries by accelerating his metabolism. In recent years, with the knowledge and mastery of the Speed Force at his disposal, Bart has managed to reach the seemingly impossible speeds, reaching as fast as the speed of thought. Bart is able to run across the surface of large bodies of water such as oceans. Bart can create wind vortexes by running in circles or rotating his arms and legs.
Speed Force Avatars: He has the ability to produce "scouts", Speed Force avatars he could send through the timestream, but has infrequently used it since the death of one put him in a coma.
Time Alteration Resistance: He has also proven resistant to alterations in the time stream, possibly due to an oddity of his origin; his parents met only in post-Zero Hour continuity, but he actually arrived before the event.
Photographic Memory: Most recently, it has been discovered that, unlike other speedsters, his photographic memory allows him to recall everything from his speed-reading. For several issues after this revelation, Bart was shown spouting encyclopedic information concerning the situation at hand. This is inconsistent with known continuity as it had been previously established by Max Mercury that those with super-speed cannot permanently retain information if they acquired it through anything other than normal learning processes.
Superhuman Reflexes
Air Friction Reduction Aura: possesses an aura that prevents air friction from affecting his body and clothes while moving.
Speed Force Embodiment: Speed Force is a vaguely defined extradimensional energy force from which most superspeed-powered heroes draw their powers. The Speed Force serves as the ultimate measure of velocity in the DCU. They are often referred to in terms of barriers: Sound barrier, Light barrier, Time Barrier, Dimensional Barrier, and finally the Speed Force Barrier. Since Infinite Crisis, Bart's connection to the Speed Force has been more difficult to control. When he taps into the Speed Force, Bart appears to have electricity crackling around him, and has become so lethal, that he needs to wear the Flash suit while running in order to prevent it from killing him. However, he is no longer just a conduit he is now one with the Speed Force. This means that he and the Speed Force are one in the same. The result of this is that he could possibly be the most powerful flash in history.
Metabolize Wounds: Accelerating his healing factor while using the Force to sustain him, he could heal from grievous injury, however it should be noted that his injuries may not "heal right" and medical care may still be required.
Superhuman Stamina: Due to his connection with the Speed Field, Bart's stamina recuperates at an accelerated rate.
Molecular Control: ability to control the vibration of his molecules to the degree that he could vibrate through solid objects. West can cause whatever he vibrates through to explode .
Bio-Fission: Shortly before the Our Worlds at War event, Bart Allen developed the ability to create clone duplicates of himself. The clones always obeyed Bart's commands, and fused back with him once a task was completed. One of these clones was killed during a Young Justice mission to Apokolips, causing great physical trauma to Bart. After that event, Bart never used the power again.
Learned Abilities:Flashes and other super-speedsters also have the ability to speak to one another at a highly accelerated rate. He is capable of speed-reading at superhuman rates.
Equipment: Flash's Costume Ring is a small ring with a spring-loaded opening. Barry Allen, the second Flash, used this ring to compress and conceal his costume while operating in his civilian identity. By thumbing a small stud on the side, the top of the ring opened, releasing the costume, allowing Barry the ability to change clothes at super-speed. Barry's grandson, Bart Allen (the current Flash) uses a similar ring to hide his costume.
Weaknesses (Must Have): In the past, Bart has proven extremely reluctant to utilize his ability to create Speed Force “clones” of himself because of the fact that the death of one placed him into a coma. Extreme cold can also be problematic for Bart in that it requires more effort to utilize the Speed Force.
Background: Bart Allen was born to Don Allen, the son of Barry Allen, the second Flash, and his wife Meloni, the daughter of President Thawne of Earth and descendent of the evil Professor Zoom, in the late 30th century. Bart was born with his grandfather's speed. He had incredibly high metabolism and also aged at hyperspeed. When he was two years old, he physically looked twelve. The Thawne family had hated the Allen family for hundreds of years. President Thawne had the Dominators kill Don and his twin sister, Dawn. The Dominators kidnapped Bart, who was later captured by Earthgov for observation. The scientists of Earthgov raised him in a virtual reality environment so that he aged as swiftly mentally as he did physically. Bart was going to die of old age and Earthgov was not doing anything to fix his problem. His grandmother Iris took him away and brought him back to the 20th century, so that her nephew, Wally West, the third Flash, could show him how to control his speed. He adopted the identity Impulse.
After Wally helped him solve his problem and Bart helped him to defeat Kobra, Bart moved to Manchester, Alabama with Max Mercury. Wally had used his connections to supply Bart with a birth certificate, etc. Bart began the ninth grade at Manchester Junior High. He managed to make quite a few friends, chief among them Carol Bucklen. Max continued to train him in the art of superspeed, having him run obstacle courses while dodging axes and knives, solving jigsaw puzzles in mid-air, and the like. During this time, he became one of the founding members of Young Justice.
Following Max's disappearance, he was taken in by Jay Garrick, the first Flash, and his wife Joan.
Kid Flash
Following the breakup of Young Justice, Bart joined the new Teen Titans. He soon had his kneecap blown out by Deathstroke (who was at the time possessed by Jericho) and replaced with an artificial one. While recovering, Bart read every single book in the San Francisco Public Library and reinvented himself as the new Kid Flash. Even with the artificial kneecap, he could still run close to light speed.
After Superboy-Prime attacked Conner Kent (Superboy) in Smallville and injured or killed many Teen Titans, Bart joined with Wally West and Jay Garrick to stop the rampage of Superboy-Prime by running him at top speed into the Speed Force. Jay reached his limit before entering the Speed Force and Wally turned into energy and vanished, leaving Bart alone with Superboy-Prime. Barry Allen, Johnny Quick and Max Mercury, all of whom had previously been absorbed into the Speed Force, appeared and aided Bart. After taking Superboy-Prime into the Speed Force, Barry told Bart that "Wally is waiting for you". After they disappeared, Jay claimed that the Speed Force was gone.
A speedster wearing Barry's costume returned in Tokyo shortly thereafter to warn of the return of Superboy-Prime. This same Flash, still wearing Barry Allen's costume, would appear in the middle of the Battle of Metropolis against the army of escaped supervillains. Superboy-Prime reveals that the person in the Flash costume is Bart Allen, years older. Bart explains to the nearby Wonder Girl (who is suprised by her fellow Titan's transformation) that his grandfather's uniform was the only thing that could survive the trip back from where he had been, and that he was the only one there "who could still run". Bart then unleashed his anger against Superboy Prime for killing Conner Kent, pummeling him at superspeed and forcing Superboy to retreat from the battle. When the crisis is over, Bart explained to Jay that he spent years in an unknown dimension where he grew older. Bart confirmed that the Speed Force was destroyed and he used up the residual speed locked in his body fighting in Metropolis. He gave Barry's costume to Jay and says Jay was now the fastest man alive again.
Flash
Bart shunned his super-heroic past for the next year. He got a job working at Keystone Motors and began sharing an apartment with another young man named Griffin Grey. However, he was still connected to the Speed Force, but the connection threatened to kill him. S.T.A.R. Labs modified one of his grandfather's old costumes to help him control his connection. While at first he refused to don the costume, he finally gave in and became the fourth Flash. He also began a relationship with S.T.A.R. Labs employee Valerie Perez.
Bart decided to get a fresh start and moved to Los Angeles, applying for a job in forensics in their police department.
Personality :Bart has an innate curiosity about the world around him -- such curiosity (in addition to boredom) is part of why he read his way through the entire San Francisco Public Library. This natural curiosity has led to occasions where Bart can be unintentionally perceptive, such as when he helped to defeat Bedlam with Robin and Superboy by constantly repeating “reset” over and over again.
There is also a certain impatience and impulsiveness to Bart’s actions -- the Dark Knight didn’t call Bart “Impulse” without good reason. While there is still a residual amount of this inherent in Bart’s personality, much of his impatience and impulsiveness have faded due to his life experiences. Despite the prevailing thoughts of many of Earth’s heroes, the former Impulse has truly grown up, and slowly growing into the mantle of The Fastest Man Alive.
He is fairly impressionable and has a certain sense of wonderment at his life and at the world around him. He is kindly, but rather scatter-brained -- in that regard, Bart is very much like his grandfather, Barry Allen. He means well, but occasionally Bart thinks over so many different tangents that it appears difficult for him to concentrate fully on the task at hand. But when Bart is focused, he is second to none.
Other: Giving Emma away
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Brief Sample Roleplay See Iron Man
