#iris has powers

[justaz]

need post magic reveal/ban repeal where magic is free and everyone grows in their knowledge of just what magic is and how it works etc, etc. merlin (isn't one for bragging about his powers) doesn't really mention much about his magic so people just assume he has enough to get by with like chores but not enough to catch the ire of uther EXCEPT for gauis, lancelot, and arthur bc gaius and lancelot have known about him for years and know what he's capable of and arthur sat merlin down and demanded all the stories so arthur knows he'd be a formidable opponent but he doesn't really get it yk? so he's like "yeah merlin has magic and he's capable of defending himself and camelot so he's probably on the more powerful end of the spectrum like every other sorcerer who is powerful"

and then i need merlin to be Different. like noticeably different. like idk a sorcerer is like trying out to be court sorcerer (bc merlin doesn't want another job dammit arthur give it morgana or someone-) and they perform this elaborate spell that captivates merlin and he starts asking all these questions and the sorcerer is like "yeah it's super difficult, it took me months to get it right and it takes years for some others-" and they cut themselves off bc merlin was just like "i wanna try" and does it perfectly first try. the sorcerer is seething.

camelot is hit with a heatwave and everyone is suffering and arthur is just like "morgana can you make it rain or something? it's too hot to breathe." and morgana is just like "no you idiot i can't just bend nature to my will. it doesn't like that." and merlin finally arrives with waterskins full of nice, cold, refreshing drink that the knights are frothing at the mouth to get. arthur complains again and morgana huffs and merlin is like "has he been like that this whole time?" and morgana nods with a groan and merlin laughs before going "i can try something" and leaves before anyone can say anything and arthur looks at morgana and is like "i thought you said nature doesn't like to be controlled?" and she's like "it doesn't" and then they all chase after merlin but he's chilling in the courtyard with his eyes closed, not even chanting, and then the sky starts to darken as black clouds roll in, the temperature plummets and then...snow begins to fall. in july. they all end up having a snowball fight.

a power hungry sorcerer comes along and is like "emrys....he's perfect....just what i need...teehee" and casts some spell over merlin and begins to siphon his magic and his power and merlin feels waves of his magic flood through the connection and into the sorcerer and like he's a mix of panic and concern bc yeah this mf is taking his magic but they're taking his magic. merlin tries to bargain or talk them down while the knights and arthur try to attack but the sorcerer keeps pushing them back and ignores merlin and is like "i want power, i want your power" blah blah blah monologue time and they swing another wave of magic out at the knights and knock many out while killing some and merlin is just like "ok no that's all folks thanks" and starts to push his own magic through the connection. the sorcerer has this wild gleam in their eyes and they feel more and more power fill them and it's like a high until it gets too much and they frantically try to sever the connection and their telling merlin to stop but merlin is just like "i thought you wanted my power? i'm giving it to you" and continues to flood the sorcerer with his magic until gold begins to trace their skin and they idk explode or smth and then all the magic flies back into merlin and he flexes his hands. unnamed knights 3, 6, 22, 53, and 55 still died so it's a tragedy.

a bunch of sorcerers are entertaining at a feast (kind of like the trickler) and they cast illusions all around the room that look real enough (unless you look too closely or touch it bc they are somewhat see through and your hand would pass right through them) and it's a fun and joyous night. later that week, the knights bring it up during their break while training and merlin is like "sure, what illusion should i cast?" and after some back and forth, he settles on the illusion of a dragon. it's around the size and age of aithusa bc that's all he has to go off of and it's gold since he took inspiration from the pendragon crest all around the area. it jumps around and flaps it's wings to get some air and it's all fine and dandy until elyan goes to poke his hand through it's ribs but meets physical scales and he jumps up into percival's arms. merlin looks closer and is like "oh. its real. whoops." and leon is like "whoops?? you make a real life dragon and all you have to say is whoops?" and merlin shrugs and is like "it was an accident" and leon about keels over from a heart attack "an accident? how do you accidentally-" the dragon is considered a gift from magic to camelot and helps further heal the wounds of uther's purge.

idk just like merlin being casually the most powerful sorcerer to walk the earth and unnerving people just by how little he seems to care about his shows of power but they're all like "well he's just doing all these small things that don't harm anyone and he doesn't even seem to realize just how powerful he is so what can ya do?" and they leave it be and make peace with merlin being Like That. and then camelot/arthur is attacked or smth idk and then everyone gets to see exactly how powerful and dangerous merlin is

[moonxpalace]

Even Power Couples need a small, private moment together before entering the grand stadium ✨💕

[justhereforsomethingnice]

Random thought: how much do the bat family shit, or the arrows, or any other non superpowered family. Or even superpowered like the Flash family, famous for their fast metabolism. They have to eat so much to keep up with their life style, it has to come out.

How many times does poor Alfred have to unclog toilets? Does Iris think that’s the worst about dating a Flash? Do I want to know?

[pretendthisisaname]

Sure hope this isn't some kind of foreshadowing

[radiantmists]

binged both chalice of the gods and the hidden oracle in the last few days and tbh i don't care if zeus would blast me to bits, if he were real it would be on sight

[relicsongmel]

The Hawthorne twins suffered more than Jesus

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Anyway, Barry murdering Death is the funniest fucking thing that's ever happened I've decided

Barry: I heard you like death so I brought death to your death

[fezwearingjellybananas]

is it okay if i ask you the same question you asked me? i'm really curious and i'd like to know more about your take on Barry and Cisco and their powers and how they connect and work together. if it's okay?

Yes definitely!

Usually I headcanon Cisco's powers come from the Speed Force, and almost in two parts? So, there is the general in dctv canon metahumans are created at exposure to some unnamed dark matter, established in series 1 but not a constant requirement of exposure at a moment that would otherwise result in death, almost like a rapid evolution in a single organism instead of over generations (which might have a name but I can't think of one right now). And dark matter might just be everywhere, so presumably there is a specific particle or something that activates an existing metagene, and the most likely source seems to be the Speed Force? It's opening the Speed Force in s4 that creates the bus metas, the Philosopher's Stone in s3 is from the Speed Force, even way back at the start the purpose of the particle accelerator is to channel a path for the Speed Force to reach Barry. Which actually what you said the other day about Cisco's powers coming from Barry first travelling through time fits so well, I have been writing them in fic as starting to develop slowly from the initial explosion, but travelling through time is sort of the first time Barry accesses the Speed Force rather than just draws power from it if that makes sense? And he doesn't know it yet, but that moment, that surge of power Barry unknowingly lets out being what triggers Cisco's metagene, again with the end goal of saving his life... Yes, I like this idea, I'm going to stick with it after I talk about the second half of how I headcanon Cisco's powers are connected to the Speed Force.

Which is Cisco's powers are literally from the Speed Force, he's connected to it just like Barry is, it just manifests in different ways. Barry when he travels through time intentionally sees things in the Speed Force, in a similar way to Cisco's vibes, they can both access different universes through their powers, both their powers are linked to vibrations, so maybe the Speed Force is impossible to truly say what it is, but it's somehow connected to the vibration of the multiverse. And I think maybe Cisco's powers might also be linked to the other Forces too- the Speed Force uses plural pronouns in their early appearances, then stops after the arc with the other Forces, after they become separate entities, so with Cisco's abilities meaning he sees through time maybe he draws from the Still Force a little at least, I think it could have been fun to have Cisco's powers glitching after Crisis and at first they think it's because the multiverse is gone and then it goes into the Forces arc and they slowly piece together the Forces are no longer together and that's what's causing Cisco's problems, when they get them to work together again Cisco's powers are fixed too.

Anyway I got distracted. There is a line in episode two "[Cisco's] the eyes and ears, and [Barry's] the feet", and I think that almost later sums up their powers? Or at least how they use them together- Cisco gets his vibes and can tell Barry where to be, Barry can run through time and Cisco can see through it, he can see the changes and other timelines. Barry can share his speed through Flashtime, and Cisco can stop a speedster in their tracks, and I think Barry's probably glad it's Cisco that ended up with the power to stop a speedster, Cisco and Iris are probably the only people he would trust with it if he had to give it to someone.

So now I want to go back to Cisco's powers being triggered by Barry changing time. If Cisco's powers come from the Speed Force, it's by Barry accessing it at that point, giving it that path into the world, and by the Speed Force deciding that is the point Cisco needs them. He gets his vibes so he can see his death, knows what happened, can learn how to avoid it this time around. And his death came at the hand of a speedster, eventually he'll get the powers to stop a speedster, to cut them off from their powers, it's like they were tailor-made so if Cisco had had powers in that moment he would have been able to stop Eobard and save his own life, like the Speed Force knows they can't protect him exactly, but they can give him the tools he needs to protect himself.

(And, well, pulling a little from the comics, Barry is the Speed Force, or it came from him, either way there's an echo of Barry within it, of course the Speed Force wanted Cisco safe, and maybe it was a part of Barry that chose to give Cisco the powers to stop him should they ever need it after all)

[solmints-messyocdiary]

Pardon... but... Indigo in an 80s inspired outfit.

Click for a better image.

Boy, do I miss the crop tops and short shorts men wore in that time period. 😔

[coldflasher]

the flash should have ended with barry quitting his job at ccpd to become a stay-at-home husband and that's on that

[iris-nonsense]

So you're telling me that there's this girl

who can just control people's emotion through paint without having eaten a devil fruit and nobody has questions? Okay

[vixthefantheorist]

Chase theory : He's a Psychic

Sort of. Maybe. I dunno it's a theory.

Anyway, last night in the wee hours of 2am CST I typed out a smallish theory while half asleep. Now the theory is still in the works of being worked out as we just had Project IRIS happen yesterday of Halloween~! So it won't be as refined, or at least still just left loosely there to leave room for new information that may come our way in the future.

Anyway, I gave a rough draft of the thought of why Chase is a psychic of some kind. One of those reasons was his talk of energies. Which I found a bit odd, given his character, you wouldn't think of him saying, "Not like that but there's a certain energy in this room that I felt before." But rather say something along the lines of, "I dunno, just feels like I was here before." We have painted Chase as the sad dad, the man that tried his best to be a good father, a good husband and overall good man, doing videos for youtube for a living, being the goofball dad for his kid. Granted his attitude and outlook in life evolved very differently to be a bit more down to earth and less childish. Whether that as a change to his character from the get go or reflecting his view of life after the loss of Stacy and their child. So he would grow more cynical and cautious around people with his seeing of Anti haunting him everywhere.

Anyway, it still makes it odd to have Chase say something like that. But it could be something of a slip of the tongue, likely used to talking about it to Stacy during their early days of marriage or dating... who knows. So you wouldn't think he was "special" and given his answer to Echo, he didn't realize either... at least not aware of it as much as he should have. It's likely he wasn't aware how much of a psychic he is. Probably thought he only had the ability to have premonitions, just weird deja vu dreams and and a feel for energy... just low spectrum of stuff. But didn't know how powerful he could be in actuality or has a certain, rare ability that Anti wants. Like Channeling certain energies... or connect to others on a wider scale that is useful to Anti and AI (maybe, dunno about the eyeball blob). Or perhaps has an ability to touch time in a certain way... (not likely but its on the table). Speaking of premonitions, Chase had one. Back in Dark Silence, Chase was wandering around lost in a dark space but stumbles upon a red lit hallway with Anti (whom he doesn't know who the heck he is) standing at the very end of the hall. And we all know how that went, but Robin had confirmed that scene in Dark Silence was a dream. Thus, Chase had a premonition and eventually experienced something like this himself when Stacy and their child were killed. ((By Anti by his own hands, warping Chase's family's perception into making them think they were killed by him and warped Chase's perception into trying to make Chase believe he killed his own family. Or Anti forced Chase into killing his family by warping Chase's perception and senses into thinking he was harming Anti or some other enemy when it was in fact his own family. We don't know for certain which one. All we do know is Anti torments Chase by repeatedly showing him the images of their deaths and how it's his fault. His two treasures ripped away from him and all happiness visibly drains from Chase.)) And he sees this very same hallway when he was taken from his current room to be moved elsewhere for safety (jokes on IRIS... no where in the facility is safe) and drag him out of the room to go. But to get where they need to go... they have to pass this hallway... bathed in red light. Chase recalls his dream and begins to panic about it, insisting to (I don't know Arin's character's name so I'm going to call him Arin for now) Arin that they have to leave this area, to NOT go into that hallway. He screams that he HAS been here. That He's been in this exact spot. But how? He knew he never set foot in this facility. Arin confirmed that Chase has never been here before at all, no records whatsoever of him being here prior to the recent days of interviewing. So... how did Chase know that going down that one hallway will lead to disaster? How did he know he was here before? His dream. He had a premonition of this area, bathed in eerie red light and someone at the end of the hall, dressed in dark clothing and glowing eyes... and that man is stalking towards him. He doesn't know if he dies in it or what but he knows things will not end happily if he's forced there. Sadly, he was forced across... and sadly like he knew... things did not go well. Those around him were killed, being the only one left to face the terrifying nightmare that has haunted him for months... possibly years... stalking toward him... just like in his dream.

OH! I almost forgot about two more things! Echo and Arin. Echo briefly appears to speak with Chase, warning him of Anti and him needing to escape before he's found. But it also vaguely told him that the reason Anti was hunting him down was because he was special. How special? Hell if we know, but still special enough for Anti to catch interest and stalk him everywhere. Thus he has a use to Anti... if not then our walking nightmare with a knife would have offed him long ago. And then we have Arin who oddly points out "Mr. Brody there are powers in this world that seek to harm individuals, such as yourself, that we are trying to protect you from." See that there? Individuals. Why not just say, "There's powers in this world that seek to harm the public"? Or the world? Why specifically say individuals? This further leads me to believe that Chase has a power that Anti wants for himself or seeks to destroy but do it slowly and methodically to cause as much suffering all for the sake of his own entertainment. Perhaps Anti is seeking individuals out to become his puppets but Chase, despite being battered repeatedly by mental and emotional assault of the deaths of his family, remains as himself, if just as cynical and guarded to protect himself. So this intrigues Anti and keeps hunting him down. Like a cat playing with a mouse, curious of what it will do next. Hell, Anti could be hunting him down to be Argentum Inanis' vessel or something. I don't know for sure but that's about as much reasoning as I have currently that makes me believe Chase is something of a psychic or someone of a great dormant power within him. For all we know Chase could be of a bloodline that can open and close gateways to other realms so those like Argentum Inanis can crawl on through. Don't know but that would make it more fantasy than Sci-fi horror but then we have Marvin and the AIMC running around so hey, magic exists! But I do understand this is not a lot to go on but like I said, it's not completely refined. Perhaps the whispers in the clips video would give more answers. What do you guys think? In fact, what do you guys think Chase's "specialty" is that Anti wants?

[thedeadthree]

that, “my father is the worst man alive and i am his favorite daughter .” quote is SOO cypha and emmy coded 🌞🪞✨😵‍💫

[kerryweaverlesbian]

This is old news for fans of the CWs the flash and presumably the rest of the extended arrowverse but this fucking crisis on earth x crossover across 4 shows having the WEDDING of TWO MAIN CHARACTERS that has had a season and a half of build up and a PROPOSAL of two DIFFERENT main characters from a DIFFERENT show all in SUPERGIRL. OF ALL PLACES. Which none of those 4 characters are from. Is INFURIATING!!!!!!

I bought the fucking DVD. I bought the goddamn DVD of season 4 of The Flash so I could watch all of the events of season 4 of The Flash and the important things that happened to the people in season 4 of The Flash such as. Say. Getting fucking married. So I watch season 4 episode 6 of The Flash and they say "next episode we are going to get married :)". And then I click on episode 7 and it is called Crisis on Earth X part 3 and I go that's weird. Well maybe this is just where The Flash joins the crossover. During their wedding. Because it would be crazy for them not to put the wedding of two main characters including THE titular Flash on the DVD. And Barry's cheerful little voice goes "previously on Crisis of Earth X" and it shows me a clip of their wedding.

So I go. Fuck you, for one. And for two okay I guess I will find???? Supergirl?? (ew) and watch them get married :3. And find that Supergirl is only streaming on fucking. NowTV. because nobody wants to watch Supergirl. To which I obviously don't have a subscription. So I am reduced to looking up "Barry and Iris wedding" on YouTube dot com of which there are only two scenes. Neither of which feature Cisco for more than a brief cut to him as best man. So what's even the point.

Anyway now I'm watching the DVD part 3 and I am once again asking where is Cisco. Why am I seeing conflicts between Supergirl's sister and (?) A guy from Legends? Or maybe he's a new guy from Earth X? And then cutting from them to an old guy and the guy who had to ask what a pink triangle represented on a human person in a concentration camp (jesus christ?????? Why are they tackling this?????????). And THEN to MORE people from different shows. I haven't seen someone from the Flash for 5 scenes in a row let alone had them be a main character in the scene. Where are MY friends from THE FLASH. The Flash, the show I bought the DVD for!!!! SO I COULD WATCH THE FLASH!!!

Like surely. The appeal of crossovers are to show "here is how the people you already like hang out with people from other shows you either already like, or could like, if you give it a chance". This isn't letting me get to see any of that.

It is nice to see Snart again though. And oh he's a man loving man?? that's nice. Why did they make this like this. Why didn't they put all the episodes on my DVD 😭

[ask-iri-and-widdle]

"Copy?"

"Indeed! After observing Kirby and talking to Meta and Prisma, Astrals have the ability to copy things in nature and different weapons. Iri can do this, but it seems that the copy abilities...become different looking. They appear to be cosmetic changes for now, but we have yet to discover any other differences."

[shidoukanae]

Sketchpage of Iris ft. Leo, Tilt, and a little of my headcanons about the bomber gal

Leo is my current High Card fave but god is Iris such a treat. She may only have a minute of screen time total throughout all 12 episodes but there's so much to be curious about. I want to know more about her and her relationship with Tilt and why she's so loyal to him but also the fact she's Leo's foil in the Klondikes makes me very :Dc about her too

(also the rightmost drawing is from my lil fanfic "I Hate You (I Know)" because im very self-indulgent lmao)