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Mark Grayson - Invincible

Flash!Reader

Enemies to Lovers

Mark Grayson x Flash!Reader moodboard for @l0s3rd0wnt0wn

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.