#flashfam

oh HELL YEAH. ignore the two other asks from weeks ago that i’m working on they’re going to take ages <333 BUT!!! i can do this quick & easy 🙂‍↕️

When you realize there's levels to this and fix one of the biggest pieces of misinformation about your fav character

Rant about this later btw cause idk how this got so bad

If anyone is curious what it said before this is what it said ahem, I quote

meanwhile dc wiki:

"Professor Zoom once gloated that Jai, jealous of his sister's connection to the Speed Force, would one day become the super-villain Turtle and kill his father"

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Character ask game: jai west

The little guy who deserves the world, I love him immensely

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

It definitely has to be D-TechnoLife, not just because I think he’d be a Bleach fan but because the lyrics fit his character so well with the theme of overcoming past trauma and being able to move forward and not give up. Even when he does let his insecurities and fears creep up on him, it’s never a deterrent to his goals even if he feels the weight of the world on him

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Besides people just straight up ignoring him, something that I’ve noticed recently that really gets on my nerves is people saying that he’d be a much more interesting character if he wasn’t a hero or was a reluctant hero. I feel like this trope would be interesting to explore with anyone but Jai, since he’s always had that desire to be a hero, it’s something that defined who he was when he was first introduced! Getting rid of that would just go against his character and wouldn’t make much sense at all and would be a pretty weak subversion

9. Could you be roommates with this character?

Yeah I think so! Our personalities aren’t that different and we share similar interests so it’d work out pretty nicely, plus having him as a gaming buddy would be peak I’d 1v1 him in EVERYTHING 😭

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

For some reason I’ve had this image of Jai just playing the drums and absolutely crushing a solo so I definitely do think he’d teach himself how to play the drums by watching tutorials and just doing trial and error to find the perfect rhythm

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

Honestly I could see him wearing clothing inspired by Korean streetwear, but at the same time I could also see him wearing graphic tees of different anime’s and video game franchises with baggy pants. Just something casual

15. What's your favorite ship for this character?

(Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)

It’s gotta be JaiLian, tbh before I got into the ship I lowkey didn’t ship him with anyone, for some reason I couldn’t see him with anyone but I do think Jai and Lian have that potential to be a really nice couple

20. Which other character is the ideal best friend for this character, the amount of screentime they share doesn't matter?

I really do wish dc would just give the poor kid his own friends 😭 because I so badly want to say a canon character but for now I think he’d be best friends with my oc Anthony, I think they’d bond really well over shared interests and them having different personalities would probably make them better friends. Anthony’s outgoing and playful personality would mesh really well with Jai’s more introverted personality, I think Anthony would help Jai feel more comfortable around others and help him come out of his shell more while Jai would help him feel like he has a sense of belonging among the group and give him that sense of peace that Anthony would really appreciate

21. If you're a fic writer and have written for this character, what's your favorite thing to do when you're writing for this character? What's something you don't like?

I genuinely do love writing him happy. Like just living life and being happy with his friends like he deserves. I don’t like writing angst with him because I genuinely feel bad when I do, he doesn’t deserve it he already goes through enough in canon for him to go through it in my writing (I still do it sometimes tho 😭)

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

Probably Yuji, idk for some reason they both give me similar vibes with them not giving up despite the hardships they face

26. What's something the character has done you can't get over? Be it something funny, bad, good, serious, whatever?

What really drew me into his character initially was his empathy actually! Just seeing how Jai initially reacted to the news of him and Irey potentially speed aging to their deaths and hiding that from her because he wanted to protect her which in turn led to his powers acting up because of the worry just made me care for him so much more. The lengths he’d go to protect those he loves even when it negatively affected him impacted me immensely

27. What is a color or colors that you think of when you think of this character, be it their canon color(s) or not?