#FINAL SEASON AU VILLAIN LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[speedprofessor]

FILE NAME: Rogue 0010. NAME: Ross, Virgil. ALIAS: Paradox. PROFESSION: Accountant (formerly). ABILITIES: Cosmic Awareness, Dimensional Energy Manipulation, Temporal Energy Absorption, Reality Manipulation. STATUS: DECEASED. PROFESSOR’S NOTES: It is all too easy for us speedsters to think of ourselves as gods among men. Many have fallen into that fallacy, many had to learn it the hard way. With our capabilities, I suppose I could hardly blame them. But we are not gods, we are beholden to universal laws same as any other living being. And as such, all our actions had to have an eventual reaction. Simple cause and effect, push and pull. 

     So, enter Virgil Ross. A simple family man, accountant, good at his job, never aspired for anything grand. But after the Particle Accelerator exploded, Virgil started noticing something peculiar. Things happening one way one day, another the next. A tsunami threatens Central City only to dissipate into nothing, red clouds loom over the sky only to disappear. History changing, in the blink of an eye. Things changed, but not for him, never for him. He lost his wife, he lost his kids, and despite all the alterations to the timeline, they remained lost. He never understood why, he never understood how.

     Until the day he watched August Heart run into the Speed Force in his attempt to fix the Force Barrier. 

     What made them better, he thought to himself, if the Flashes had the ability to change time on a whim, why couldn’t he? If the Flashes had the ability to reverse death, why didn’t he?

     No action is without consequence. The act of changing time, it leaves a wound in reality. It may mend in time, yes, but the scar tissue remains. The scar tissue of all our travels across space and time, localized in one spot where timelines had converged the most. 

     Where else would it be located?

     Like a scab that bleeds when scratched, he tore open the scar tissue of the universe, all the energies of the cosmos bleeding into him, changing him, morphing him, becoming paradox given form, able to shift and change reality at the move at a finger, and finally giving him the ability to break the wheel of time to save everyone. 

     Well, almost. 

     Reality does not like to be toyed with. While his motives were...admirable, his powers were-- unstable. He nearly shattered the time stream, nearly unraveled the fabric of reality. Nearly, were it not for the efforts of-- Well, all of us. The Rogues, the Heroes, the Flash Family. Foes and allies alike, all uniting for this one time. 

     If this was to be the end of our story, we had to make it a good one, after all.

#; villain logs. #; PROFESSOR’S LOG ( musings. ) #; REVISING MY INITIAL THESIS ( headcanon. ) #FINAL SEASON AU VILLAIN LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO