the hall of villains. aka a rewrite* of the villains in the flash. ( * reverse flash — s1, zoom — s2, the thinker — s4, and bloodwork — s6 remain the same )
note: i don’t expect you to follow this canon, especially if you’re a flash - based blog. i’m happy to follow the show’s canon ( minus savitar!barry ), but as default, this is my timeline of events regarding the villains. this was also written with the help of @speedprofessor.
season 3:
during an archaeology dig in india, julian albert stumbles across an artefact known as the philosopher stone, rumoured to be created by the first meta human. unbeknownst to julian, the stone housed a great and powerful entity. in releasing the stone, julian also released doctor alchemy into the world. in flashpoint, julian albert is a villain, and when alchemy took over his body, he got access to that version of julian ( hency why earth-1 julian doesn’t remember events when they happen ). alchemy’s main goal after being released is to create a metahuman army using the stone, using the metas of flashpoint who’ve lost their powers as a starting point.
wanting to harness more power for his stone, alchemy tried to utilise star labs. in doing so, it opened a new portal and an individual escaped ( team flash were too busy fighting alchemy to notice the anomaly ).
cobalt blue made himself known after the defeat of alchemy. a speedster who gains his powers from the philosopher’s stone, he’s able to utilise the stone to create hard constructs ( similar to the green lanterns & their rings ). cobalt blue ends up being the flashpoint version of eddie thawne, who remembers the flashpoint universe due to the stone, and grows to resent barry for taking his life away. as a way to inflict the most pain on barry, eddie goes for iris.
barry defeats both alchemy and cobalt blue, and throws the stone into the speed force in hopes that with it being there for eternity, it can no longer be used to cause chaos. in doing so, though, he unknowingly releases another new threat into central city.
season 5:
when barry traps the philosopher’s stone in the speed force, he sets another speedster free. savitr ( @firstchosen ), the creator of the philosopher’s stone, is released from his speed force prison. after being released, he lays low for about a year ( during which the thinker reigns chaos the city ), getting used to being thrown into a new time / world.
the first time he meets barry is in prison, during his incarceration courtesy of the thinker. barry of course does not realise who savitr really is, and savitr pretends to be oblivious too. savitr remains in prison even after barry gets released, and it’s where he spends majority of his time during the thinker’s enlightenment.
then the thinker is defeated, and it’s a stormy night, and when a perfectly aimed lightning strikes savitr’s cell, he gets a vision from the future. an oncoming crisis, red colouring the worlds as they disappear one by one. when the dust settles from the storm and the world goes quiet, savitr’s cell is empty.
due to getting the vision of crisis, savitr believes that it’s his duty to prevent it from happening, and to do so he needs to create a metahuman army ( similar to alchemy, but where they differ is that alchemy wanted to destroy the world, and savitr believes that an army will help prevent the crisis ). however, unlike alchemy, who only gave powers to those who had them in a different timeline, savitr attempted to create new metahumans. his method worked with those that had a dormant metagene, but when he tried it on those that it didn’t, it ended in their deaths.
one of the humans that savitr killed in his quest was grace gibbons. this caused her uncle, orlin dwyer, a meta created by savitr, to become consumed with grief and rage, leading him to create the lightning dagger, a weapon that was used to destroy metahumans ( ironic ). he gave himself the name cicada, and managed to kill a few metahumans before savitr caught wind of what he was doing and ended his life.
