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May. 2nd, 2019 06:39 pmSo, horrific AU idea that crossed my mind today. I was thinking about Episode 100, where it was implied EoWells knew that Cisco would become Vibe, either from his knowledge of history or from the season two encounter between Cisco and Original Recipe Thawne. Now, go back to season one and imagine that EoWells viewed Cisco as a valuable resource because of his forthcoming powers.
So, instead of shutting Cisco down over the Cold Gun, he nurtures Cisco’s doubts about Barry. “I’m not saying you’re wrong to be cautious. But he’s our only resource against the other metas right now, and we need to proceed with caution.” He sows doubt after doubt in Cisco’s mind, downplaying the way Barry cares about other people and emphasizing the way Barry can be careless and impulsive, and how that can lead to people being hurt. So that when Cisco starts to suspect that EoWells is behind the death of Barry’s mother, he’s reluctant to go to Joe, because what if it gets back to Barry? He doesn’t trust Barry to be rational about it, and if he’s wrong, it could put “Dr. Wells” is serious danger.
Since he never goes to Joe, they never find out that the real Harrison Wells was killed by Thawne. By the time he finds out that EoWells is the Reverse Flash, he’s primed to stop and ask why, and EoWells spins him some justification of how it was never his intent to harm Nora Allen, that he was there because he was trying to stop future Barry from damaging the timeline and he has such regrets about what happened, and now he’s trying to make amends by working with Barry, teaching him and hopefully curb his recklessness so no more innocent people get hurt...
And Cisco buys it and agrees to help EoWells, training secretly under him, to be what the Cold Gun could be. Away to stop Barry if he ever got out of control, but one that could never be used by someone else. And the whole time, EoWells is shaping Cisco’s views of his own powers, Barry, other metas... That left uncontrolled by those of a more pragmatic mindset, Barry will destroy those around him with the best of intentions.
Of course, eventually, Barry finds out and attacks EoWells, seriously hurts him, and all Cisco can think of is the warnings of how Barry is ruled by his emotions and that makes him dangerous, that’s why he has to be controlled... And Cisco steps up, sides with EoWells publically, prevents Barry from killing EoWells, breaches them away. EoWells is still Big Bad that hangs over everything, but now he has Cisco at his side. A Cisco who, if he ever encountered Reverb, would probably blast him across the room and scorn his little speech about being gods, because what our Cisco has is so much more than that.
So, instead of shutting Cisco down over the Cold Gun, he nurtures Cisco’s doubts about Barry. “I’m not saying you’re wrong to be cautious. But he’s our only resource against the other metas right now, and we need to proceed with caution.” He sows doubt after doubt in Cisco’s mind, downplaying the way Barry cares about other people and emphasizing the way Barry can be careless and impulsive, and how that can lead to people being hurt. So that when Cisco starts to suspect that EoWells is behind the death of Barry’s mother, he’s reluctant to go to Joe, because what if it gets back to Barry? He doesn’t trust Barry to be rational about it, and if he’s wrong, it could put “Dr. Wells” is serious danger.
Since he never goes to Joe, they never find out that the real Harrison Wells was killed by Thawne. By the time he finds out that EoWells is the Reverse Flash, he’s primed to stop and ask why, and EoWells spins him some justification of how it was never his intent to harm Nora Allen, that he was there because he was trying to stop future Barry from damaging the timeline and he has such regrets about what happened, and now he’s trying to make amends by working with Barry, teaching him and hopefully curb his recklessness so no more innocent people get hurt...
And Cisco buys it and agrees to help EoWells, training secretly under him, to be what the Cold Gun could be. Away to stop Barry if he ever got out of control, but one that could never be used by someone else. And the whole time, EoWells is shaping Cisco’s views of his own powers, Barry, other metas... That left uncontrolled by those of a more pragmatic mindset, Barry will destroy those around him with the best of intentions.
Of course, eventually, Barry finds out and attacks EoWells, seriously hurts him, and all Cisco can think of is the warnings of how Barry is ruled by his emotions and that makes him dangerous, that’s why he has to be controlled... And Cisco steps up, sides with EoWells publically, prevents Barry from killing EoWells, breaches them away. EoWells is still Big Bad that hangs over everything, but now he has Cisco at his side. A Cisco who, if he ever encountered Reverb, would probably blast him across the room and scorn his little speech about being gods, because what our Cisco has is so much more than that.
