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guruofspeed〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: July
AGE: 25
JOURNAL: JulyFlame
IM / EMAIL: JulyFlame@gmail.com
PLURK: JulyFlame
RETURNING: yes!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Max Crandall, aka Max Mercury
CHARACTER AGE: Math and speedsters, much less comics, never go in hand. He's probably at least in his late fifties. On the other side of things, his birthyear was sometime in the 1820s if we're being generous with time.
SERIES: DCU, primarily Impulse
CHRONOLOGY: After Impulse #44
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine!
BACKGROUND:
A handy link to Max's wiki page.
First off: the DC universe is a universe where people with skills beyond your ability to accept as real fight crime in capes and save the day. That's just in Gotham. On the rest of the planet, you have aliens in disguise flying around and using their strengths to help others, space police with fancy glowing rings and questionable-at-best life choices, and a set of speedsters that hurt the heads of everyone that tries to think about nearly anything involving them too hard, even the people who can ken Gothamites.
We're focusing on this last group.
To get started, we need to roll back to the late 1830s or so. At this point in time, even in the DC universe, the American government is fighting a long fight against the Native Americans that live in the various regions white settlers want to colonize. The Indian Removal Act's been in force for years, and the Trail of Tears is ready to happen if it hasn't already. US Army forts dot the west, ready to protect said white settlers and ready to quickly put down any of the local natives.
It's a hot mess waiting to happen.
Toss in one naive young man who is open enough to other cultures despite the xenophobia and racism of the era who joined the army to become a messenger, since he likes to run. Said young man proceeds to become friendly with a local tribe (despite the tension of the times) to the point that, in 1838, when the fort is assigned a new commander who proceeds to call for a full-scale massacre of said tribe, he ends up stepping in.
He's too late to warn them of the initial attack, but the shaman of the clan (these are the comic's words, not mine, let's just be pleased at the fact that they made some kind of effort here) calls upon tribal magic, which granted him enough speed and then some to not only be able to warn the tribe's hunters of the attack, but also allowed him to disarm both sides and prevent deaths from occurring to both sides.
After that, Ahwehota-'he who runs beyond the wind'- better known as Windrunner, the Whirlwind of the West, kept running and keeping the peace between the white settlers and Native Americans, until one day, he felt a drawing sensation that urged him to run, and faster than he ever had before. He pushed further and further before he stopped and drew back, finding himself a man lost in time— it was now the 1890s.
Going by Whip Whirlwind in this new era, and then Lightning when another brush against the strange force skipped him another few decades into the 1920s, a host of new names for each attempt at embracing the force that was pure speed that only resulted in him skipping ahead in time— Blue Streak, Quicksilver— until he finally became Max Mercury in the late 1940s and started to encounter other speedsters— The first Flash, Jay Garrick, and later Johnny Quick, John Chambers. It was also around this time that he began to interact with other superheroes.
By this point, his continued search and attempts to learn about what was calling and rebuffing him over the years led him to dub it the Speed Force, something that he was convinced was connected to all speedsters, regardless of their seeming origin, something that granted them their speed and sustained them for as long as they ran, well beyond the capabilities of any normal person or even other superpowered beings.
At this point in his life, at least in his thirties, and having spent most of it fighting crime and injustice in some form or another, Max makes a poor life choice.
After a fight against the supervillain Doctor Morlo in which Max is severely injured by the use of mustard gas, he is rescued and cared for by a small town doctor and the doctor's wife. The doctor is constantly busy. The wife is lonely. Isolated while recovering from his injury, Max forms a close bond with the doctor's wife.
He's caught in bed with her right before he runs himself off again into the late 1950s.
During the 60s, along with Johnny Quick, Max encountered the dangerous villain Savitar, a speedster supervillain who declared himself the god of speed. The fight ended with him skipping another decade into the 70s, when he finally gave up on his superspeed after trying to probe for Savitar through his now well-developed connection to the Speed Force and failing.
Max kept a lid on his powers for the next couple decades until it appeared that Barry Allen was alive and had returned, unstable and going insane. Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick forcibly pulled him out of his retirement to help Wally West against the menace that turned out to be Professor Zoom, thus starting his new interactions with the latest set of speedsters.
Max ended up giving Wally enough advice and mentorship on the Speed Force and the impact and importance of decisions that when Barry Allen's grandson Bart ended up escaping into the 20th century from the 30th and needed mentoring and a guardian— a task Wally both did not want or felt up to par for— Wally pulled Max in for the task.
Max, under the identity of Max Crandall, proceeded to take the young, Impulsive and sometimes clueless Bart Allen under his wing in Manchester, Alabama.
In the short time since he accepted guardianship of Bart, he's dealt with trying to keep Bart under control enough to not spill the beans about their secret identities, Bart's mother Meloni Thawne traveling through time to meet and spend time with her son, along with the reappearance of Savitar, who kidnapped Max, forcing the other speedsters into a confrontation that led to Savitar's defeat, but also the loss of Johnny Quick into the Speed Force and acceptance of its existence, decades after Max's first attempts to convince Johnny that it was real. He has also had to deal with future superheroes showing up on his doorstep, the supervillain family headed by retired nemesis Dr. Morlo, and the (inevitable in Flash-related comics) very temporary transformation into apes thanks to the abuse of time travel in what thankfully became a closed loop.
He also, on the more mundane side of things, dealt with accepting and dealing with the creation of one of the more weird family units in comics with his daughter— only a little younger than he himself is— joining the Impulse team and family, and having to deal with trust issues brought about by not including Bart in a plan (letting him be part of the group of people conned by Trickster) and an overly intrusive guidance counselor.
Most recently, on Halloween, Max and Bart ended up looking for robbers— right after Bart had showed up to his school's Halloween event declaring he was Impulse only to find out nearly every other kid had the same idea). Max by following clues, and Bart by looking everywhere. By chance they ended up at the right location, right before the would-be robbers - high school students that one of Bart's classmates, a kid who very insistently went by "Evil Eye" in hopes of becoming a villain like his dad and grandfather, hung out with— showed up and tried to use the gadgets Evil Eye had grabbed for them only to find out that Evil Eye's dad had installed safeties to prevent them from being used against him. One of the teens, to Evil Eye's horror, pulled out a handgun and shot at his dad.
Max caught the bullet, preventing a possible death from happening. On the other hand, Max caught it with his chest.
PERSONALITY:
Max, in a nutshell, is called the zen guru of speed for a reason. Over the years— spread in leaps and jumps- that he's spent learning about the Speed Force, he's become an expert on it (as much as anyone can be on such an unknowable force), and has tried his best to teach other speedsters about it as best as he can. In this sense, he's a natural mentor.
He's open to other cultures to the point that it is the cause for how he gained his speed powers in the first place— without that friendship he had with the local tribe, he would've remained a normal man. Repeat examples of this are shown through canon through the number of languages Max is shown to know— he keeps a journal in Korean and knows both Cantonese and Mandarin as well as Japanese, along with Russian, and it isn't a far stretch to assume he knows a variety of European languages too— and his methodology in reaching and probing the Speed Force. Max, a man whose youth was in early 19th century America, practices a form of Indian meditation.
All of this plays into his interactions with the other speedsters— he plays a mentor to Wally and Bart, is a peer to Jay Garrick, and grouses about Johnny Chambers' reluctance to believe in something that doesn't meet Johnny's view of the world.
That isn't to say everything about Max is the greatest— he has a repeated history of running away from his problems instead of dealing with or solving them, which ends up ricocheting him through the years and away from the cause. This is something that, as a grown man with a few decades of an attempt at a "normal" life behind him, he finally makes attempts to rectify in his own life while keeping on Bart's case to prevent the teen from following a similar path. Even then it usually requires outside parties to prevent him from turning his back on issues— Max had to be tricked into revealing his superspeed and cajoled into returning into the superhero business by Jay calling in a decades old favor, and only finally revealing the true reason he had moved himself and Bart to Manchester when their neighbor was being harassed and bothered by her ex-husband, interfering and telling the man to stay away from his daughter.
Max's life, stretched out over roughly one hundred and fifty years of time in skips and jumps, is one he personally considers one with little regrets. However, it is also one that outside of his superhero career has left very little sign of the man himself in any of the times he's lived in, and he is willing to admit that his life has been "one long train wreck". His original name and earliest past, along with his family and friends of the early 19th century were all left behind due to the nature of his life shaping him to be someone who can only look forward.
When he finally had gathered the courage enough to contact the married woman he had fallen in love with—Laura- he instead found she had died, and that the two of them had a daughter. This being Max, someone who had already formed the habit of living a life that did little to affect the others who lived around him except when in costume, he kept it to himself, despite Helen's repeat attempts at flirting with someone who she saw as handsome and in her age range, and Bart massively shipping it.
Needless to say, the fact he didn't tell her resulted in a very tumultuous start to their new father-daughter relationship, with Helen telling him off for his passive behavior and generally upset at the fact he hadn't said anything. Fortunately for both of them, they worked out the kinks, enough so that Bart and Max moved in with Helen.
Bart was already familiar with Max making decisions and generally sticking with them against all his pleas, but another adult in the household really emphasizes Max's stubborn nature and grumpiness when he has to give in, proving that sometimes it wasn't just Bart's youthful opinion.
He also has a tendency to get frustrated and impatient with Bart's inability to catch on at times or inability to slow down— impatience meeting impatience, despite knowing exactly what he was getting himself into when he accepted and took Bart into his care. As a result, he sometimes doesn't take Bart as seriously as even the young speedster deserves and allows himself to make comments that as often as not end up flying over Bart's head.
Despite this, he still cares for the younger speedster, treating Bart like a son and wanting the best for him.
POWER:
Max's speedster abilities are granted by the Speed Force, something that grants every speedster in the DCU (and pretty much each alternate Earth in the DC multiverse, for that matter) their speed, and the ability to survive it. It can also sustain them, allowing them to run well past the point of what would be fatigue in a normal person.
Superspeed: DC speedsters can go ridiculously fast. Up to and past the speed of light, if they don't mind running the risk of entering the Speed Force. They're able to survive running at these high speeds without being torn apart by friction and going faster than should make it possible to breathe. Their senses are also able to match these speeds, enabling them to actually be able to process what's going on at a normal speed to them. As a result, to DC speedsters, the world around them definitely seems to be on the slow side. Max is probably the only one of them who seems to actually enjoy jogging. This superspeed effects everything from their metabolism to their rate of healing.
Speed conduit: (This I am listing as a separate item because it's in a different category from the above and isn't one Max really has canonically like this anyways.) The ability to drain or grant superspeed initiated through mainly physical contact of some kind. With this power, Max can't actually make himself *faster* than his baseline if it's pulled from another speedster, and the speed given to another party comes from his own. This power can also be activated when Max is meditating in the way he usually does to probe the Speed Force (floating and with a distinct kind of aura because of the Speed Force, canonically), but if other characters come nearby they might end up in for a surprise in the form of superspeed either being drained, given to them, or even increased from their usual base level by getting within a couple feet.
Bartholomew Allen Sense: A terrible chill up the back when persons by that name are about to do something dumb. This has been okay'd by the players of Barry Allen and Bart Allen.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[If there's one thing the superhero life enforces, Max's life by being what it was enforces, it's how to get familiar with strange things quick. Like the communicator devices here. Or the fact that this version of Earth has floating cars and everything seems to be a mix between styles he remembers from the 50s and the much more modern.
Modern libraries are a blessing in disguise for the wayward time traveler- and world hopper, for that matter.]
The strange lack of news media covering the 80s still existing aside, has anyone considered looking at everything coming before the Cold War started here? I can't say I'm an expert since Native American history is my focus, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's anything to examine in the run-up. This sort of thing doesn't just happen in complete isolation.
[He suddenly shivers, like someone just walked over his grave. Not the greatest feeling in the world, especially when it makes him wonder at the specific cause.]
In the mean time, could someone tell me if they know a kid named Bart Allen?
[He has a suspicion.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Max has always been a runner. Even before the lightning symbol was drawn on his chest the day he tried to prevent a massacre from happening well over a century ago, he was a messenger for the fort for a reason. There were plenty of other youths who were strong and healthy, but he could run, and keep running. It's a habit he's kept in his own years since, whether running through the American west after he was given his superspeed or even now, in exercise clothes, jogging at one of the local parks on an entirely different Earth.
He's definitely the only speedster back home who can manage to enjoy running at normal speeds for any period of time. The rest get itchy feet enough that he can't call how Bart reacts to it just Bart's way of taking impatience with anything to a new level.
Unless he wants to tease the boy, but there's only so much of that that can happen without becoming meanspirited.
The high pitched alarm of sirens takes his attention off the pace he's set, a firetruck speeding off somewhere, with an ambulance chasing behind.
In a blink of an eye the exercise clothes are gone and replaced with his costume, and in the next Max Mecury is racing off next to it.
FINAL NOTES: I would like to bring Max in from immediately after he was shot, meaning he will need medical attention the moment he arrives.
NAME: July
AGE: 25
JOURNAL: JulyFlame
IM / EMAIL: JulyFlame@gmail.com
PLURK: JulyFlame
RETURNING: yes!
〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Max Crandall, aka Max Mercury
CHARACTER AGE: Math and speedsters, much less comics, never go in hand. He's probably at least in his late fifties. On the other side of things, his birthyear was sometime in the 1820s if we're being generous with time.
SERIES: DCU, primarily Impulse
CHRONOLOGY: After Impulse #44
CLASS: Hero
HOUSING: Anywhere is fine!
BACKGROUND:
A handy link to Max's wiki page.
First off: the DC universe is a universe where people with skills beyond your ability to accept as real fight crime in capes and save the day. That's just in Gotham. On the rest of the planet, you have aliens in disguise flying around and using their strengths to help others, space police with fancy glowing rings and questionable-at-best life choices, and a set of speedsters that hurt the heads of everyone that tries to think about nearly anything involving them too hard, even the people who can ken Gothamites.
We're focusing on this last group.
To get started, we need to roll back to the late 1830s or so. At this point in time, even in the DC universe, the American government is fighting a long fight against the Native Americans that live in the various regions white settlers want to colonize. The Indian Removal Act's been in force for years, and the Trail of Tears is ready to happen if it hasn't already. US Army forts dot the west, ready to protect said white settlers and ready to quickly put down any of the local natives.
It's a hot mess waiting to happen.
Toss in one naive young man who is open enough to other cultures despite the xenophobia and racism of the era who joined the army to become a messenger, since he likes to run. Said young man proceeds to become friendly with a local tribe (despite the tension of the times) to the point that, in 1838, when the fort is assigned a new commander who proceeds to call for a full-scale massacre of said tribe, he ends up stepping in.
He's too late to warn them of the initial attack, but the shaman of the clan (these are the comic's words, not mine, let's just be pleased at the fact that they made some kind of effort here) calls upon tribal magic, which granted him enough speed and then some to not only be able to warn the tribe's hunters of the attack, but also allowed him to disarm both sides and prevent deaths from occurring to both sides.
After that, Ahwehota-'he who runs beyond the wind'- better known as Windrunner, the Whirlwind of the West, kept running and keeping the peace between the white settlers and Native Americans, until one day, he felt a drawing sensation that urged him to run, and faster than he ever had before. He pushed further and further before he stopped and drew back, finding himself a man lost in time— it was now the 1890s.
Going by Whip Whirlwind in this new era, and then Lightning when another brush against the strange force skipped him another few decades into the 1920s, a host of new names for each attempt at embracing the force that was pure speed that only resulted in him skipping ahead in time— Blue Streak, Quicksilver— until he finally became Max Mercury in the late 1940s and started to encounter other speedsters— The first Flash, Jay Garrick, and later Johnny Quick, John Chambers. It was also around this time that he began to interact with other superheroes.
By this point, his continued search and attempts to learn about what was calling and rebuffing him over the years led him to dub it the Speed Force, something that he was convinced was connected to all speedsters, regardless of their seeming origin, something that granted them their speed and sustained them for as long as they ran, well beyond the capabilities of any normal person or even other superpowered beings.
At this point in his life, at least in his thirties, and having spent most of it fighting crime and injustice in some form or another, Max makes a poor life choice.
After a fight against the supervillain Doctor Morlo in which Max is severely injured by the use of mustard gas, he is rescued and cared for by a small town doctor and the doctor's wife. The doctor is constantly busy. The wife is lonely. Isolated while recovering from his injury, Max forms a close bond with the doctor's wife.
He's caught in bed with her right before he runs himself off again into the late 1950s.
During the 60s, along with Johnny Quick, Max encountered the dangerous villain Savitar, a speedster supervillain who declared himself the god of speed. The fight ended with him skipping another decade into the 70s, when he finally gave up on his superspeed after trying to probe for Savitar through his now well-developed connection to the Speed Force and failing.
Max kept a lid on his powers for the next couple decades until it appeared that Barry Allen was alive and had returned, unstable and going insane. Jay Garrick and Johnny Quick forcibly pulled him out of his retirement to help Wally West against the menace that turned out to be Professor Zoom, thus starting his new interactions with the latest set of speedsters.
Max ended up giving Wally enough advice and mentorship on the Speed Force and the impact and importance of decisions that when Barry Allen's grandson Bart ended up escaping into the 20th century from the 30th and needed mentoring and a guardian— a task Wally both did not want or felt up to par for— Wally pulled Max in for the task.
Max, under the identity of Max Crandall, proceeded to take the young, Impulsive and sometimes clueless Bart Allen under his wing in Manchester, Alabama.
In the short time since he accepted guardianship of Bart, he's dealt with trying to keep Bart under control enough to not spill the beans about their secret identities, Bart's mother Meloni Thawne traveling through time to meet and spend time with her son, along with the reappearance of Savitar, who kidnapped Max, forcing the other speedsters into a confrontation that led to Savitar's defeat, but also the loss of Johnny Quick into the Speed Force and acceptance of its existence, decades after Max's first attempts to convince Johnny that it was real. He has also had to deal with future superheroes showing up on his doorstep, the supervillain family headed by retired nemesis Dr. Morlo, and the (inevitable in Flash-related comics) very temporary transformation into apes thanks to the abuse of time travel in what thankfully became a closed loop.
He also, on the more mundane side of things, dealt with accepting and dealing with the creation of one of the more weird family units in comics with his daughter— only a little younger than he himself is— joining the Impulse team and family, and having to deal with trust issues brought about by not including Bart in a plan (letting him be part of the group of people conned by Trickster) and an overly intrusive guidance counselor.
Most recently, on Halloween, Max and Bart ended up looking for robbers— right after Bart had showed up to his school's Halloween event declaring he was Impulse only to find out nearly every other kid had the same idea). Max by following clues, and Bart by looking everywhere. By chance they ended up at the right location, right before the would-be robbers - high school students that one of Bart's classmates, a kid who very insistently went by "Evil Eye" in hopes of becoming a villain like his dad and grandfather, hung out with— showed up and tried to use the gadgets Evil Eye had grabbed for them only to find out that Evil Eye's dad had installed safeties to prevent them from being used against him. One of the teens, to Evil Eye's horror, pulled out a handgun and shot at his dad.
Max caught the bullet, preventing a possible death from happening. On the other hand, Max caught it with his chest.
PERSONALITY:
Max, in a nutshell, is called the zen guru of speed for a reason. Over the years— spread in leaps and jumps- that he's spent learning about the Speed Force, he's become an expert on it (as much as anyone can be on such an unknowable force), and has tried his best to teach other speedsters about it as best as he can. In this sense, he's a natural mentor.
He's open to other cultures to the point that it is the cause for how he gained his speed powers in the first place— without that friendship he had with the local tribe, he would've remained a normal man. Repeat examples of this are shown through canon through the number of languages Max is shown to know— he keeps a journal in Korean and knows both Cantonese and Mandarin as well as Japanese, along with Russian, and it isn't a far stretch to assume he knows a variety of European languages too— and his methodology in reaching and probing the Speed Force. Max, a man whose youth was in early 19th century America, practices a form of Indian meditation.
All of this plays into his interactions with the other speedsters— he plays a mentor to Wally and Bart, is a peer to Jay Garrick, and grouses about Johnny Chambers' reluctance to believe in something that doesn't meet Johnny's view of the world.
That isn't to say everything about Max is the greatest— he has a repeated history of running away from his problems instead of dealing with or solving them, which ends up ricocheting him through the years and away from the cause. This is something that, as a grown man with a few decades of an attempt at a "normal" life behind him, he finally makes attempts to rectify in his own life while keeping on Bart's case to prevent the teen from following a similar path. Even then it usually requires outside parties to prevent him from turning his back on issues— Max had to be tricked into revealing his superspeed and cajoled into returning into the superhero business by Jay calling in a decades old favor, and only finally revealing the true reason he had moved himself and Bart to Manchester when their neighbor was being harassed and bothered by her ex-husband, interfering and telling the man to stay away from his daughter.
Max's life, stretched out over roughly one hundred and fifty years of time in skips and jumps, is one he personally considers one with little regrets. However, it is also one that outside of his superhero career has left very little sign of the man himself in any of the times he's lived in, and he is willing to admit that his life has been "one long train wreck". His original name and earliest past, along with his family and friends of the early 19th century were all left behind due to the nature of his life shaping him to be someone who can only look forward.
When he finally had gathered the courage enough to contact the married woman he had fallen in love with—Laura- he instead found she had died, and that the two of them had a daughter. This being Max, someone who had already formed the habit of living a life that did little to affect the others who lived around him except when in costume, he kept it to himself, despite Helen's repeat attempts at flirting with someone who she saw as handsome and in her age range, and Bart massively shipping it.
Needless to say, the fact he didn't tell her resulted in a very tumultuous start to their new father-daughter relationship, with Helen telling him off for his passive behavior and generally upset at the fact he hadn't said anything. Fortunately for both of them, they worked out the kinks, enough so that Bart and Max moved in with Helen.
Bart was already familiar with Max making decisions and generally sticking with them against all his pleas, but another adult in the household really emphasizes Max's stubborn nature and grumpiness when he has to give in, proving that sometimes it wasn't just Bart's youthful opinion.
He also has a tendency to get frustrated and impatient with Bart's inability to catch on at times or inability to slow down— impatience meeting impatience, despite knowing exactly what he was getting himself into when he accepted and took Bart into his care. As a result, he sometimes doesn't take Bart as seriously as even the young speedster deserves and allows himself to make comments that as often as not end up flying over Bart's head.
Despite this, he still cares for the younger speedster, treating Bart like a son and wanting the best for him.
POWER:
Max's speedster abilities are granted by the Speed Force, something that grants every speedster in the DCU (and pretty much each alternate Earth in the DC multiverse, for that matter) their speed, and the ability to survive it. It can also sustain them, allowing them to run well past the point of what would be fatigue in a normal person.
Superspeed: DC speedsters can go ridiculously fast. Up to and past the speed of light, if they don't mind running the risk of entering the Speed Force. They're able to survive running at these high speeds without being torn apart by friction and going faster than should make it possible to breathe. Their senses are also able to match these speeds, enabling them to actually be able to process what's going on at a normal speed to them. As a result, to DC speedsters, the world around them definitely seems to be on the slow side. Max is probably the only one of them who seems to actually enjoy jogging. This superspeed effects everything from their metabolism to their rate of healing.
Speed conduit: (This I am listing as a separate item because it's in a different category from the above and isn't one Max really has canonically like this anyways.) The ability to drain or grant superspeed initiated through mainly physical contact of some kind. With this power, Max can't actually make himself *faster* than his baseline if it's pulled from another speedster, and the speed given to another party comes from his own. This power can also be activated when Max is meditating in the way he usually does to probe the Speed Force (floating and with a distinct kind of aura because of the Speed Force, canonically), but if other characters come nearby they might end up in for a surprise in the form of superspeed either being drained, given to them, or even increased from their usual base level by getting within a couple feet.
Bartholomew Allen Sense: A terrible chill up the back when persons by that name are about to do something dumb. This has been okay'd by the players of Barry Allen and Bart Allen.
〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉
COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:
[If there's one thing the superhero life enforces, Max's life by being what it was enforces, it's how to get familiar with strange things quick. Like the communicator devices here. Or the fact that this version of Earth has floating cars and everything seems to be a mix between styles he remembers from the 50s and the much more modern.
Modern libraries are a blessing in disguise for the wayward time traveler- and world hopper, for that matter.]
The strange lack of news media covering the 80s still existing aside, has anyone considered looking at everything coming before the Cold War started here? I can't say I'm an expert since Native American history is my focus, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's anything to examine in the run-up. This sort of thing doesn't just happen in complete isolation.
[He suddenly shivers, like someone just walked over his grave. Not the greatest feeling in the world, especially when it makes him wonder at the specific cause.]
In the mean time, could someone tell me if they know a kid named Bart Allen?
[He has a suspicion.]
LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:
Max has always been a runner. Even before the lightning symbol was drawn on his chest the day he tried to prevent a massacre from happening well over a century ago, he was a messenger for the fort for a reason. There were plenty of other youths who were strong and healthy, but he could run, and keep running. It's a habit he's kept in his own years since, whether running through the American west after he was given his superspeed or even now, in exercise clothes, jogging at one of the local parks on an entirely different Earth.
He's definitely the only speedster back home who can manage to enjoy running at normal speeds for any period of time. The rest get itchy feet enough that he can't call how Bart reacts to it just Bart's way of taking impatience with anything to a new level.
Unless he wants to tease the boy, but there's only so much of that that can happen without becoming meanspirited.
The high pitched alarm of sirens takes his attention off the pace he's set, a firetruck speeding off somewhere, with an ambulance chasing behind.
In a blink of an eye the exercise clothes are gone and replaced with his costume, and in the next Max Mecury is racing off next to it.
FINAL NOTES: I would like to bring Max in from immediately after he was shot, meaning he will need medical attention the moment he arrives.
