#flash!reader

Out of all the heroes in the Guardians, yours is his favorite.

GDA!Mark hides the biggest nerd in the entire Global Defense Agency. He’s supposed to be one of the most disciplined agents on duty calm, collected, and professional. But the truth? He’s a total geek, and his favorite hero in the world just happens to be you the Blue Comet.

Mark can’t believe he’s working alongside his idol. Every time he sees you in action, his heart practically short-circuits. But he has to keep a level head. Cecil would have his hide if he caught him fanboying on the job. So, Mark keeps his cool front, voice steady, posture perfect, pretending he’s not internally screaming every time you flash that confident grin.

He loves your cocky attitude, the way you brag after every victory, the way your curls bounce when you toss your head back. You’re fast, fearless, and a little arrogant everything he wishes he could be. The rest of the GDA would probably get sick of him, but he wouldn’t care. To him, you’re the coolest, prettiest hero alive.

After a quick takedown of a D-level villain, you stand in front of a cheering crowd, basking in the attention.

“You know, I could always give you my autograph!” you tease, brushing your curls out of your face.

“No,” Mark says automatically through his mask, voice flat and professional. But under that helmet, he’s giggling and blushing like a fool. His favorite hero just offered him an autograph.

“Huh! I’m the fastest, you know!” you huff, stomping your foot like an impatient rabbit.

“You’re reckless, that’s what you are,” he replies before flying off, leaving you fuming in front of the crowd.

“God, I hate that guy!” you grumble, crossing your arms.

Meanwhile, inside his helmet, Mark’s losing it. Oh my god, oh my god, he thinks, practically vibrating with excitement. He can’t handle being this close to you.

Your relationship with him is a strange one. You’re used to attention after all, you’re the Blue Comet, Red Rush’s successor. But Mark treats you like you’re just another hero, sometimes even brushing you off entirely. It drives you crazy.

“He thinks he’s so cool just because he can fly fast! I’ll show him my speed’s the best there is!” you rant to your teammates.

“Don’t you think that’s a bit much?” Eve laughs, trying to calm you down.

“No way! I’m better than that stale piece of beard!” you snap, still fuming.

What you don’t know is that under his helmet, Mark is barely holding it together. He’s working alongside his favorite hero constantly thanks to Cecil’s habit of assigning him to Guardian missions. He gets to see your little pouts when he ignores you, your fiery temper when you lose your cool. He doesn’t want to ignore you; he wants to give you all the attention in the world. But he can’t. He’s GDA. He’s supposed to be composed, elite, untouchable.

Mark Grayson - Invincible

Flash!Reader

Enemies to Lovers

Mark Grayson x Flash!Reader moodboard for @l0s3rd0wnt0wn

—DICK GRAYSON

HE ALREADY DEALT WITH SPEEDSTERS AKA FLASHES BEFORE. BUT HAVING A CRUSH ON ONE? or EVEN DATING ONE??

Now that's absurd. Especially if you’re from the Flash family, I can imagine Wally side-eyeing dick everyone he’s on his phone.

“Are you texting my cousin?” he would ask which makes dick jolts and turn his phone off. “What? No….” like that all took place during when you guys were younger….

I MEAN WHO WOULD LIKE A FREE WILD SPIRIT SPEEDSTER?

Richard John Grayson would.

When years go by, he remembers the times when you would accidentally crash on him. Landing on top of him his face turns red.

Lord, puppy love is not a joke. But either wise, you and him are so cute!

You would speed over to romantic places so quickly, just to surprise him. Maybe he expected it and smirks, already dressed before you can confuse him.

There were times when you would just dead-ass “kidnap” him to a sweet date. Yeah, he cursed you out a bit for leaving him in pajamas, but hey! That’s just love for you as a speedster.

Dick always makes you cute things to just see you vibrate in excitement, it’s just so cute seeing you speed around happily.

Uses you as a massager.

You can’t blame him. It’s quite hilarious lmao

Wally still giving him side eyes seeing you and Dick cuddle, because why tf are yall so happy in love for? 🙁

Makes him SICK

(Jk he loves you both!)

—MARK GRAYSON

Being on the teen team, you had a tracksuit hero kinda suit. You looked cool with goggles and just boots/sneakers.

Hella badass don’t you think?

No one expected you both to date because you thought he liked Eve.

WEIRD ISNT IT?!!

He loves how energetic you are, you speed around a lot. Helping others carefully.

He loves to hear you yap, he doesn’t care if he can’t or can understand you when you start to speed up your talking a lot. It’s just the way you talk with your hands a lot and even act out some actions with stories.

It’s so passionate

Don’t get him started on doing races with you, you speeding off and him somehow tackling you down. Both tumbling as you giggle, because you know he won’t ever hurt you.

I think that literally any speedy character has adhd due to fast thinking in their brains and having trouble focusing and hyperactivity (like me fr…)

Cause Mark doesn’t mind having you stimming and having you play with his fingers. He finds it adorable.

He does admire you a lot and keeps you on track. He makes sure you don’t accidentally crash into anyone or a wall.

Mark also uses you as a massage gun, I mean sure he probably won’t feel it will depend on how fast you are going to your hands.

But the moment he groans, feeling all the tension in his muscle goes. He’s falling asleep.

And now you’re just here massaging this half-alien boy with a deadpan face cause you have comic books to read, a scheduled procrastination day, watching your fixation on a cartoon or anime.

And here you are massaging your beloved boyfriend who is smiling in his stupid dream about you and him marrying.

They have no self control or restraint...

FULLMASK MARK

Many people think that Full Mask Mark is the most normal among the Marks, which is highly incorrect. This man can be just as unhinged if not more than the rest. He just hides it very well, which is surprising, to say the least.

In his Universe, you'd died before he could even confess his feelings before he could tell you how much he loved and cared for you, before he could kiss or cherish you, before he could do anything he’d be devastated. So when he sees Mainstream Mark fumble you like no other, he’s absolutely fuming.

Sure, in the mainstream universe, the two of you have a rivalry, but that doesn’t mean a beautiful relationship couldn’t blossom from that. Full Mask is completely jealous while also going through the five stages of grief after seeing you alive in a different universe and still the same person he fell in love with.

A part of him is selfish and wants to take you back to his world. Another part feels bad for the other Mark… but then again, he doesn’t. In his own words, “Other me can thug it out.”

You’d go through serious whiplash after arguing with your Mark, only to have another version of him who looks almost exactly the same, just a little more tired, with a faded beard confess his love to you.

“I know we’ve argued in the past. You probably hate me more than you do now, but I love you, [Name]. And before you think this is some joke or a prankI would give up this entire invasion, I would give up everything, just to let me love you…”

There’s so much sincerity in his voice that you don’t even know what to do. I mean, what can you do when your superhero rival is talking to you like this?

MOHAWK MARK

His relationship with you in his universe’s timeline is pretty confusing really confusing. It’s a situationship, the kind you see on reality TV: fight, break up, get back together, fight, break up, get back together. The cycle repeats again and again until it finally stops.

But that’s Mohawk’s problem he thinks toxicity is normalcy. When a cycle ends, he doesn’t know what to do with himself. So when the two of you break up, he self-destructs by joining the Viltrumites and siding with his father, all in an attempt to impress you and win you back. Of course, it doesn’t work.

You put on your superhero persona to try and stop him, but it ends in a bloodbath. Mohawk kills yes, he kills his first love, his only love. And just like the other Marks, he goes scouting for you in the mainstream universe, literally dropping to his hands and knees for you.

“[Name], did you know I burned down Paris and wrote our initials on the Eiffel Tower? You should see it it’s fucking amazing,” he tells you with complete confidence, laughing like a psycho while his bloody hands cup your cheeks with so much gentleness and love that it almost makes you forget he drove his arms through the flesh of one of your teammates.

All you have to do is say yes, and he’ll drop all of this if you say yes.

OMNI MARK

Omni Mark is probably the weirdest among the Marks well, as weird as he can possibly be. He takes after his father a lot, especially with the hairdo and the outfit, but mostly in his speech and bluntness.

Around the time you were considering joining the Teen Team, he had already joined the Guardians of the Globe under Omni-Man’s watch (for their little secret plan). And because he had a major crush on you, he couldn’t express it at all. This man has literally no game and by no game, I mean zero.

You caught him staring you down once. He was trying to act cute and seem sweet in front of you, but it came off as… murderous. “I wonder what it’ll take for her to notice me…” he muttered. Meanwhile, you were sidestepping him every chance you got.

Of course, when it was time for the Viltrumite expansion, he almost automatically assumed you’d join him. Can you believe this poor guy was in shock when you didn’t? What part of “enslaving all of the human race” did he think you’d agree with? He still believed you’d be his partner at the end of the day not as his equal, but as his partner.

Naturally, you ended up joining the resistance, just like he thought you would. You’re a strong-willed woman he knows that, and that’s what he loves most about you. But still, you’re going against his plans and making things much more difficult for him. He might as well put you “in your place” six feet under, of course.

My goodness yall loved this fic and I was just playing

To be honest, Flash!Reader could probably never ignore Mark. They want his attention way too badly like, way too badly. He’s the only person who doesn’t indulge their cocky, arrogant pursuits, and that just makes him even more irresistible.

But if Flash!Reader ever did ignore Mark? It would be catastrophic. Mark would spiral into a full-on catatonic state. His favorite hero of all time, the person he admires most, refusing to even look at him? It would crush his heart into a million tiny pieces.

No glances. No teasing smiles. Not even that cute little pout that always gets him to cave. He’d be devastated probably praying to the little shrine he secretly made of them, begging for forgiveness.

And when he finally tries to get their attention back, Flash!Reader would crumble instantly. Because, really, how could they resist him for long?

A little note on Flash!Reader: they wouldn’t actually be called “Flash” or anything like that. Their name would be Blue Comet, because we already have Red Rush of course we’d have Blue Comet. Flash!Reader is very popular within the Invincible world. I like to think that in this universe, there’s a hero popularity poll similar to the one in My Hero Academia, but a bit different. It’s divided into two categories for example, older heroes like Omni-Man would be in the Pro Hero Poll, while younger heroes like Mark would be in the New Hero Poll.

I imagine Mark would be the runner-up in the new hero rankings right next to her. Picture this: Mark is new to the Teen Team, and everyone assumes he won’t even place in the rankings, that he’ll be at the very bottom. Flash Reader thinks he’s a total loser, not a threat at all, since she’s number five on the Teen Hero Poll. (I think Robot would be number one no one really knows his age at the time, so we’ll allow it.)

But then, suddenly, this “loser kid” Mark starts rising through the ranks, getting dangerously close to her number five spot and she’s furious about it.

Flash!Reader, known as Blue Comet, is confident both in and out of costume. With her charm, charisma, speed, and agility, who wouldn’t be a little arrogant? She’s a top college track star she is that girl. I like to think she bullies a lot of the Teen Team members, but not in a cruel way more like slick, cutting comments that no one can really call her out on. After all, how do you reprimand your star player?

She might throw shade at Dupli-Kate or Eve just for fun, and they can’t say much because she’s ranked higher.

“Listen, Eve, how about fewer barriers and more weapons? Or are there no ideas in that head of yours?”

And Eve can’t really clap back because her powers are struggling.

“Are you going to keep dying, or actually help? I don’t think little kids want your blood splattered on them while they’re asking for help.”

Can you really blame her? The girl’s confidence is unmatched her costume’s weak points are probably the only thing that could trip her up.

Flash!Reader is also close friends with Rex the two constantly talk shit, even to each other.

“Really, Dupli-Kate? You could do so much better and by better, I mean Eve. But maybe your lack of brains was too much for her.”

Rex can’t even be mad, because she’s right.

Mark, on the other hand, has been bullied before but never by a girl, and definitely not by a pretty one who’s stronger, faster, more experienced, and more popular. Her criticism cuts deep

“Can you stop blocking with your face? Did you forget you have muscles, or are you trying to give yourself brain damage?”

And yet… he kind of likes it. Maybe he’s just weird like that.

When Mark enters his black suit era, though, he stops putting up with Flash!Reader’s nonsense. They go toe-to-toe every chance they get though, if we’re being honest, it’s more like unresolved sexual tension they both refuse to acknowledge.

After the Omni-Man massacre in Chicago, everything changes. When the world learns that Omni-Man was the killer of the Guardians of the Globe and the murderer of Red Rush Flash!Reader’s hatred for Mark grows. She wants nothing to do with him. They were close back when they were on the Teen Team, if you could even call it that, but now that they’re Guardians, it’s different.

Flash!reader who speeds around Tim to mess up his hair. Tim actually loves how energetic his speedster is.

Flash!reader who makes their hands into a massage gun for Tim when they don’t have a mission and are relaxing.

Flash!reader who Tim jumps on their back whenever they need to get somewhere during a mission.

Flash!reader who Tim gets a little jealous when seeing Bart and reader spending time with each other. He wishes he could speed around with you.

Flash!reader who is just in the Wayne manor because Tim is spoiling them with unlimited food.

Tim who runs his fingers through the speedster’s hair when they are asleep.

Tim who makes devices to tell him when your body is vibrating more than what it’s use to.

Tim who makes sure you ate how much you’re supposed to eat so you don’t die.

Damian: Why are you on the floor?

Tim: I'm depressed.

Tim: Also I was stabbed, can you get Flash!reader, please.