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Name: Miyou
Contact Info: poohsticks
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Requested Apartment: #1.3

Character Name: Wally West
Canon: Young Justice (animated)
Canon Point: "Failsafe" (1x16)
Background/History: Young Justice Wiki
Previous Game History:

Wally was in Haven twice before. The second time much longer than the first, where he developed most of his important relationships. Not much happened during his original three months, aside from learning that being a speedster in Haven is dangerous, and even with his powers, he's not always fast enough. Being powerless to assist those who raided the convenience store (if only he could just vibrate his molecules like the Flash), and dying of starvation shook him in ways he still found haunting when he returned for his second stay months later. He had already begun to form a relationship with Rosalina Nurumi before he left Haven the first time, and during the months that followed after he returned, it became a (mostly innocent) romantic relationship, and one he valued very deeply, even after an incident where she accidentally killed him when her powers went haywire.

Most of his first stay in Haven, aside from his failure in the raid and his death, wasn't all that bad, at least not for Haven standards. Many of his friends from home were also in Haven, though some of them came and went, which was difficult to cope with at first, but eventually got easier after the realization that at least they weren't in Haven anymore (as far as they knew then). But when Robin and Conner disappeared temporarily, Wally nearly lost it and ran himself ragged in an attempt to locate his friends, because being in Haven without them would be more torturous than being in Haven with them — or, at least, so he thought then.

During his second stay, Wally made numerous other friends, one of whom was actually family, which was confusing and complicated, but most of whom were apart of the group of scientists he affectionately called the Science Brogade. Together they were able to unlock clues from a stolen rebel phone whilst bickering amongst themselves, as is expected when you put that many greats minds in a room together. Fujimaru became a close friend (much to Fujimaru's chagrin), and the little girl from his world, Shirayuki, also became someone Wally cared for, almost like a daughter, but probably more like the little sister he never had. Cecil Palmer was one of Wally's roommates he had a complicated relationship with, as Cecil was working for Yao, though Wally always believed Cecil had good intentions. As a superhero, Wally was always willing to believe the best in people, and once gave Cecil a match to prove that sentiment, to prove that even those who are lost can find their way if they rely on science.

Even after discovering what his powers could do to him if he abused them, it never stopped him from trying to be a hero, and, consequently got him shot once while saving the lives of Newt and Hermann. However, he was always careful to avoid death in Haven because he'd been so traumatized by the first time it had happened and never wanted to repeat it. But, of course, something worse was bound to happen before he disappeared again, and in trying to help Cecil avoid having to collect volunteers for one of Dr. Kite's experiments by force, Wally attempted to volunteer himself, only to be abducted by Yomiel instead when Cecil insisted Wally should be helping his friends. The result of this was an experiment in which Wally became a demon, specifically a crossroads demon, as extracted from the king of Hell himself, Crowley. As a demon, Wally was desperate to victimize his friends, and even cheated Conner into a deal to sell his soul for Zatanna's tongue — in return, the demon gave Conner sixteen weeks to live, and Wally had to live with the consequences and the guilt of what the demon had done in his body. Thankfully for him, it wasn't for long.

Personality:

Wally, first and foremost, is a superhero. This means he actively commits his life to justice whether he has his powers or not and has a strong sense of what is right and wrong. He risks his life for people every day and is proud to do so. Helping people fills Wally's life with the excitement and attention he needs and craves, though at first he reasons for wanting to be a superhero are mostly superficial. He seeks attention everywhere he goes, wants people to notice him and remember him (and gets annoyed when people can't even remember his name; it's Kid Flash, how hard is that?)—which may also explain his flirtatious attitude: he just wants girls to notice him, so he plays it up and keeps playing it until it works (it usually doesn't, but that doesn't stop him from trying). However, this isn't to say that Wally doesn't enjoy doing his job, he just doesn't understand that it's not about him until he's deployed on a mission to save a little girl on his birthday when the rest of the team is off fighting ice villains with the Justice League. (This hasn't actually happened yet from his canonpoint perspective, but I mention it mostly as evidence that he can and will eventually mature.)

Of course, because Wally is a speedster, he is very impulsive (though he was impulsive before he became a speedster considering he just decided he wanted to blow himself up to become a superhero), and often speaks his mind or acts without thinking about the consequences. He also just talks a lot, and tends to ramble, especially when he's explaining things. Again, he likes to be the center of attention. Of course, his mouth is particularly uncontrollable around females, who he flirts with relentlessly, regardless of whether they seem interested or not. He's constantly trying to impress the ladies (and will go to great lengths to do so, like pretending to believe in magic when he most definitely does not), gives them nicknames ("Megalicious," for example), and even if a girl seems slightly repulsed by or indifferent to his advances, he continues flirts with them anyway. This usually gets him in trouble with Robin, who tends to reminds Wally how forward/rude he's being by hitting him. Wally also tends to respond to Robin's hitting/joking with his infamous, indignant "dude!" Of course, this isn't to say that Wally is a creeper. Sure, he tries a little too hard, but no means no—and in the case of Megan, the main reason Wally continues to flirt with her is because she hasn't rejected him openly or given him any indication that she isn't interested. And while it may seem obvious to everyone else, Wally's obliviousness is simply a product of his naivety. Sometimes you have to be very blunt with him before he gets it.

However, he isn't stupid, just slow sometimes. He may be a speedster, but he can be pretty slow on the uptake sometimes, and he's almost always late to things. This is mostly due to the fact that time passes different for speedsters, so he always thinks he has more time than he actually does. This makes school particularly boring, because sitting in a chair and only moving to change classes every fifty minutes is extremely taxing for a speedster, though this is mostly on applicable to classes like English and History, or classes where he's not actively doing anything with his hands or brain, like in any of the science or math classes. Science is, of course, his passion, and he truly is a man of science—he got his powers by re-recreating the Flash experiment after finding his uncle's notes; he correctly identified the chemical makeup of Kobra-Venom; he's tried multiple times to explain why magic can't exist because science explains everything (pocket dimensions, using science to simulate magic etc.); he even walked Robin through how to make an EMP emitter. He may act dumb sometimes (coming up with a truly dumb idea literally helped them on their mission to locate Red Tornado), but he really is quite intelligent, you just have to give him the right opportunity.

Despite his seemingly large ego and confidence in his intelligence and abilities, Wally is actually hiding a number of insecurities: that he isn't fast enough, that the Flash doesn't really want or need him as a partner (Flash was never looking for a partner; Wally essentially forced/guilted the Flash into taking him on as a partner due to the way he got his powers), that he'll never get a date. He plays it all up and acts like he's all that to cover up the fact that these things do in fact bother him and he'd rather ignore his issues than confront them. He even admits in a later episode that he's comfortable staying in denial about his outburst to Artemis' "death" (which Black Canary suggests might be due to his possible feelings for her).

That being said, he does have a temper—his near-violent reaction to Artemis' "death" (vowing to kill every last alien if it was the last thing he does) as well as his confrontation with Dick in the second season where there was violence in response to the fact that Dick almost died and in the process endangered all the members of his team. He can also be passive aggressive (as he was during 90% of "Alpha Male" when he was annoyed that Kaldur hadn't told the team about the mole) and holds grudges, and because he'd rather ignore the problem at hand, these grudges can last a while—he held a grudge against Artemis for at least a month for lying to him just as he was beginning to accept her as a legitimate member of the team.

Being the butt of jokes doesn't help either, though he's mostly used to being teased and plays it off like it's nothing because he's the comic relief character. But sometimes it bothers him that people don't always take him seriously—part of the reason why he bickers with Artemis so much—and that's when he starts to get indignant and sarcastic. He can be quite the sassmaster when he wants to be. Plus, being a sidekick, it's basically written in his nonexistent contract that he must make stupid puns and throw quips and snark at people, which he does frequently. He's got a great sense of humor, and usually has witty comebacks to things, unless he's around Robin who tends to outwit him. He also tends to make pop culture references—from Harry Potter to Planet of the Apes—and he has a good deal of nerdy memorabilia/merchandise in his room (as seen in the Young Justice side comics). Before he was a superhero, he was a nerd, which makes him passionate about the things he loves and unafraid to show it—and that bleeds into his superhero lifestyle as well. He loves being able to help people, even if he feels like he doesn't always get the credit he deserves, but he will continue to do so until the day he dies because it's something he believes in—and when Wally believes in something, he's far too stubborn to back down.

Abilities/Powers:

① SUPERSPEED: Ability to run at superhuman speed, reaching maximum speed at around 700mph (just under the speed of sound). However, unlike The Flash (and Impulse), he still has to accelerate and decelerate to reach any speed. He can also create wind funnels by running in circles at high enough speeds.
② ACCELERATED METABOLISM: Wally's body metabolizes energy much faster than an average human, which is why he is almost always seen eating something, and why, if he ever needed prescription drugs, he'd need a much higher dose than normal or it wouldn't affect him at all. The same goes for alcohol or any other brain-altering substance.
③ ACCELERATED HEALING: Not instant, but slightly faster than normal, though this may only apply to minor injuries, as his broken arm took about the average time to heal (about six weeks).
④ ACROBATICS: Though not as skilled as Dick, Wally has been shown to pull off a number of acrobatic maneuvers with relative ease. He still runs into doors and walls from time to time, but that's a side effect of his inability to decelerate properly.
⑤ SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES: He reacts much faster than a normal person would, and can usually dodge most anything you throw at him, if he's paying attention. (He'd be great at dodgeball if he could actually use his powers in gym class.)
⑥ ACCELERATED BRAIN FUNCTION: He thinks and processes information much faster than normal humans, however, he does not have an eidetic memory. If he speedreads something, he will only remember it long enough to put it to use immediately after, and even then he won't understand it entirely. For example, if he speedread The Great Gatsby, he could tell you exactly what happened, but he wouldn't be able to give you an analysis of its underlying meaning.
⑦ NATURALLY HIGH IQ: Wally is smart, he just doesn't always act like it. He's not quite a science prodigy, but he has a very high aptitude for science and math (examples mentioned above), and even mechanics (he offered his 'expert help' in fixing Superboy's motorcycle and did actually fix it).

Items/Weapons: Just his Kid Flash uniform and goggles.

Sample Entry: HAVEN NETWORK POST
Sample Entry Two:

To say that Wally is whelmed would be an overstatement. He isn't exactly overwhelmed, but he's definitely not just whelmed, either. If there was a word between whelmed and overwhelmed? That's what he'd be right now. Because Wally, much to his shock and horror, has returned to a place he never thought he'd see again — never wanted to see again. But it doesn't make sense ... he remembers Haven, but the memories he has now don't match up. The last thing he remembers from home is everyone dying, himself included. He and Rob — they'd just blown up the alien mothership. He knows how death doesn't work in Haven, how people who should be dead are alive, but he while it all feels so real that everyone he knows and loves is dead back home, he knows that can't possibly be true. His memories of what Conner and Bart had told him of the future ... none of those things included the total extinction of everyone on Earth.

And, yet ... it feels so real. He feels so convinced it must be an alternate timeline of some kind, if only to account for the blatant discrepancies in his memory — and for the fact that he's pretty sure he's dead. He can still feel the heat from the explosion, see the look in Robin's eyes just before the timer hit zero, but the one thing he doesn't feel is afraid. It was an honor, rings in his head, the last words he'd ever said to anyone. He'd accepted his fate with Robin, and he wouldn't have wanted to go out with anyone else. They've always been there for each other, always had each other's backs — and, in the end, when it counted the most, they were together. Wally only sometimes imagined what it might be like to go out in a blaze of glory, but he's not so sure if glory is exactly what they'd achieved by blowing up that mothership. He can't possibly know what happened afterwards, not if his timeline is an offshoot of the timeline all the rest of his friends are from.

But they're still his friends, his teammates, and regardless of how he got back here or why, the desperation that twists at his stomach when he thinks of the possibility of seeing Robin again, or Conner or Zee or Rose — his chest hurts just thinking about it, he can barely breathe, barely concentrate on anything but running, even though he knows he shouldn't. He knows his powers and Haven aren't exactly compatible, but, more than anything, he needs to see familiar faces, even if this is the last place he'd like to see them. He needs to know that they're okay, that even with the mess inside his head, jumbled memories he can't seem to sort out, things will make sense if he just finds his friends. They have to.