Diego Alvarez || Flash Legacy || [Retcon + Resubmit] A/A

[Klayko]

Gaia Username: Klayko
Wanted Legacy/Villain: The Flash
RP Sample:
The fire trailed across the facility as the gun drew back. He cursed lowly as the streak still managed to tear across the floor, nearing them as it hopped over the beltways, a breeze trailing alongside it as the it offered a means to rid the place of flames.

"Cap! A little help!?" Heat Wave fired from afar once more, determined to not let the speeding figure get any close than he already was.

"Must I do everything myself?" He pushed back from the men attempting to tear through the safe. With a hand held, he fired in the opposite direction of the fire, ice trailing across the ground as he struck jackpot. The speeding figure was halted in his tracks behind a machine.

"We got riddya once, we can do it again!" He fired the flames from his gun again, melting away at the machine the figure fell behind, an explosion resulting afterwards.

The two smiled in relief as they hurried back to their men, but the feel of joy escaped their faces when their men were nowhere in sight.

"I am the Fastest Man Alive. You know this right!?" He tapped their shoulders, but when they glanced back, he was nowhere in sight, a red blur with streaks of lightning tearing through as the two found themselves being hefted away from various blows to the face and chest all before he finished with a leg sweep. The figure stopped running around, coming to a complete halt as he held a camera to their unconscious faces. "Say cheese!"

Are you a fan of the series, are you familiar with this character? Yes, I am familiar all too well.
Do you promise to be as active as possible if we grant you this privilege? I will try my best to be active.

 

[Klayko]

[General Information]

Name: Diego Jishwa Alvarez (see what I did there? emotion_awesome )
Nicknames: Diego
Titles: The Flash, The Streak
Age: 22
Birthday: April 7
Star sign: Aries
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Alliance: Hero clearly
Personality: An energetic youthful male full of passion and also stuck in a bit of his old habits from working in the criminal underground. Diego is a male in reform, so often times he's a bit conflicted. He will be the heroic male at times, but other times he may feel a bit overwhelmed to do things the "natural" way: that means he will often do things his way and say to the hero ethics and morals "to hell with them." He will deal with the consequences later if it means he's doing some good. Furthermore, he tends to differ from most of the usual Flash's. He's young, wild, and free. He's not one to abuse his powers, but is a bit more open with them just for pranks and other hilarities. He can get serious when he needs to be however.

[Personal Information]

Height: 5'8
Weight: 150 lbs.
Occupation: College Student / News Anchor part-time / Budding Social Media personality
Sexuality: Demisexual
Likes: Food, Video Games, The Media, Acting, Modeling
Dreams: Diego has plans of making the A-List in the media world. He blames Bruno Mars and Travie McCoy for instilling the idea of wanting to be a Billionaire.
Dislikes: Diego flat out dislikes attention whores. That ranges in other heroes that seem to have it set out that the job means they'll have a face planted everywhere on the news to just the simple figure that comes to help but causes more harm. The media is a very powerful tool to have. He also dislikes the buzzkillingtons of parties.
Fears: He fears Bane himself finding out about the situation.
Darkest Secret: Diego robbed from S.T.A.R. Labs to craft his power suit as well as robbed banks for college funds.
Favourite Food: Greek Gyros and the ever lovely Mexican cuisine. Taquitos and Chimichangas the most
Favourite Drink: Teas of any form and Coffee. Lots and lots and lots of coffee and energy drinks
Least Favourite Food: Okra!
Least Favourite Drink: Most forms of Soda published under Pepsi
Loyalties: Diego's loyalties lie with himself and whoever he is affiliated with, but nothing villainous clearly.
Intelligence Level: As a reporter, Diego carries a grain of salt with him (common sense). He prepares for any situation at hand. This compels him to acquire even a small amount of knowledge on a subject beforehand. He's smart, but not a Rocket Scientist.
Dominant Hand: Left handed, but he will argue that he's ambidextrous
Strengths:Diego is media oriented. His strengths come with being able to put others in a positive light as well as expand on his own growing career.
Weaknesses: The same strength will also become his weakness. He is a bit of a perfectionist at times. He is also capable of shaming others if need be, prompting many to possibly aim for him, especially the heroes. It is to these extents and purposes that he goes to cover his tracks from his civilian and alter ego status.



Cherished Items:

Media Awards: Awards he won for his current works in the journalist field, both on and off campus

Professional Camera: A camera he carries around with him almost anywhere. He is able to record and take pictures and with speed, he could take some embarrassing shots.


Philosophical/social viewpoint: Diego believes that in order to achieve any goal in life, a person has to work hard at it.

Religious viewpoint: Being taught for a better lifestyle by Iris, Diego's beliefs are that of a Nazarene Christian. Being raised in a world full of the supernatural and other things deemed impossible, he has a slight open eye towards the world, not one to be a judgmental figure, but also firm to his beliefs. He is no Puritan.


Romantic viewpoint:Diego is a slight helpless romantic. When he considers a relationship, he thinks of all the aspects, loving that person unconditionally no matter what. That is if the stars truly align. To these reasons, he believes in courting before dating before anything else.


Biography
Diego was abandoned as a baby, his actual parents deported back beyond the south of the American border. He was in an American orphanage for his parents believing he would have a better chance. Of course, he grew up and a family took him by the time he was one. Just not a family that was truly part of that picture perfect family idea. In this case, a family of drug dealers but not in the typical fashion in terms of the usual weed or cocaine and the likes. This was a family that worked for Bane and with proper papers and documentations as well as a clean appearance, the orphanage had no reason to deny such a thing. Diego was forced into the business at a young age. There went that idea, though truth be told, these figures themselves were also in quite the bind that caused them to work for such a figure. Didn't excuse the crimes they committed however.

As he got older, clearly he worked with being in the wrong crowd by living on the wrong tracks of Central City, often doing some tasks that Captain Cold and the likes designated whenever the big roided luchador of a hitman himself moved through Central. Diego was 17 at the time when the opportunity arrived to travel overseas. Bane was making a deal with some of the local cartels from Colombia. This product was new of the line, a new product of Velocity 9 courtesy of Deathstroke himself after the death of Inertia occurred. Bane "perfected" it so to say, adding a few more components to it with the Venom itself.

Of course, he needed people to test it out. There was no way he would use it on himself in case something went drastically wrong, so they were henchmen, but expendable. That included the young Diego. Of course with all this arising in Central City itself, it didn't take much for a certain investigative journalist to nosey her way into the situation. Iris was looking for means to sabotage this strain from getting out to a larger public. The thought of henchmen having these capabilities were catastrophic and would clearly change the game for organized crime. With a little help from the Rogues themselves, Iris giving them enough reason as to why this was a bad idea for their own careers, Heatwave crashed the deal, Weather Wizard assisting on the outside. Bane simply refused to let it go to waste however and used the strain to inject into someone nearby. That someone was Diego.

Everything felt like a blur in those moments. Slow, but still a blur. His body was reacting to the muscle twitches, his body expanding from the Venom strain, but not by much given how the Velocity 9 was also burning through. This entire moment left him in such a pained state that when Heatwave's reckless disregard to the environment caused a massive explosion to break loose, Diego himself was caught within it.

Iris herself felt bad, that a kid clearly died as a result, but also vindicated. This monstrous product was off the market for good. That didn't mean the disturbances however were any less. As the weeks pressed on, she had more stories to cover, all pertaining to the consequence of that explosion. Power outages here and there, soft and boring for her tastes. The Flash apparently making some outings. That was a lie as she knew the truth. She didn't know what happened, but they were just gone. There one day and gone another. She herself didn't even get the chance to say goodbye to Barry, which is what drove her to focus on her career so that she could in a way, forget. It made her become distant from anything else, naturally, That was until there was news of Ghost sightings in the same area from the explosion. Now that seemed to be interesting.

[Note:]the following is from the perceived idea I pitched. Therefore, if determined that it will not fit, removal and editing will gladly occur.

Iris looked at the scorched over facility. A far stretch from saying drugs like these were completely gone, but Bane had a major setback and that worked well enough for her. She went around, conducting man on the street interviews about the sightings. Some stated the figure would appear during some of the outages, the figure clearly male, but never being around long enough to actually last, hence the theory of a ghost. Other times, some stated they encountered him and whatever he spoke sounded completely garbled and in one of these individuals case, a mugger clearly that had to get told otherwise with a personal shock from her taser, they tried to touch him but phased through him. Iris could surmise a few situations from that alone, but she had no absolute way of being certain. After all, this wouldn't be the first time she came across a bogus case of myth to debug.

It was night when she witnessed it. He appeared like a flicker, orange electric surging around his body. His presence himself was transparent in form, orange in form, but it was the face alone that shocked her. This was no ghost. This was the male who was trapped in the explosion. Of course she tried to reach out to him, but it was true what was stated before in that she could not understand what he was saying and touching him was impossible. He was trapped between what she could only surmise to be the Speed Force and the actual reality around them itself, not quite in one spectrum to actually be pulled out entirely.

For the first time in months, she set foot inside Barry's lab in the basement, looking for anything that could possibly help with the situation. It took her hours, but she found something similar and figured out the best probable solution clearly was to alter frequency around the male. Clearly, Black Canary was a possible choice for this and so she set out for the last known locations of this hero, which led her to the doorsteps of the Emerald Archer himself. She had no idea who he was, but clearly he wasn't anything like the stories Barry occasionally shared with her as well as the occasional team ups that occurred whenever the threats arised. In fact, he had no idea who she even was, which eluded to her that Barry, Wally and others were not the only heroes who had simply vanished. She clearly was working with a rookie who was probably in over her head as much as she was and thus they both had to work together to solve this issue fast. There was no telling if those certain men were still around. Through the research she gathered and the intellect he could off, Justin crafted an arrow specifically designed to hit the frequency around the figure. It was simply the timing of when he appeared, which thanks to the interviews she conducted, she could easily arrange.

They both were present in the destroyed facility. She created the scenario, causing some of the power nearby to surge by trying to have it be restored to a very much destroyed building. Lights flickered and drawn to it so to say, he appeared. With the given command as there was no telling how long they would have, the new Green Arrow fired the arrow. In a few minutes, Diego vanished, but soon he appeared, in full form, his body vibrating slightly before coming to a calm, his body eventually passing out.

The male had awoken hours later in a hospital. The preferred method was to clearly try and detox him from the effects of the drug, but there was nothing to be found within his body. Clearly however, he looked different from the images she was able to pull up on him. His body was clearly affected by the Venom in physical appearance, but did the Velocity 9 do something else? Her answer came when the doctor's mentioned needles. Diego insisted he had to get home or else he would get in trouble, which is normal seeing as the poor thing thought it had only been hours compared to weeks. He went for his clothes across the room and that was when it was revealed that clearly this strain had permanent effects. Diego was just in the bed when the electric surged around his body and he appeared at the chair for the clothes she brought for him so fast, she barely had time to blink. He was freaked out just as much as she was, but she had to do the thinking for them both or else they would have some explaining to do.

For the next set of years, Iris remained on the side, keeping herself distant from her usual dealings with any Flash, on the outside at least. She did everything in her power to keep the boy out of trouble, contacting this Justin Hartzler to get him relocated to a different environment discreetly and in a better location away from the supposed parents of his while she let the local police handle them. She even began to teach him how to handle a camera as well as take him to work with the news station. She could not however, stop the male from using his powers to do some very illegal things like robbing a few banks here and there for money or by far the worst one: stealing a suit from Star Labs. He had become the new Flash and at the very least, she could at least train him, but keeping herself out from the picture in case Eobard or Zolomon were still out there somewhere. For four years, Diego became the new Flash.

[Relationship information]

Friends:
○ Iris Allen | Good | Stand-in mentor
With all the heroes gone, only Iris is truly able to offer Diego some form of tutelage, especially since taking him under her wing given the lifestyle he had before. To this, she has taught him news related skills, got him into college, even gave him some hobbies like soccer as well as learning how to play a guitar. She even set him up in his own apartment, a means to keep her distance. She even signed him up for self defense classes like Wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts. No need for him to just rely on his speed, after all.

○ Justin Hartzler| Good (Green Arrow Legacy) | Ally
Justin helped him come back to the full reality and has occasionally helped him out of some situations

Enemies:
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Family:
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[Weapon Information]

• Power Suit Watch: As opposed to a ring, Diego crafted his suit into a watch he wears almost every day. When activated, the watch reacts to the Speed Force conduit (him), attaching the suit to him like electromagnetism.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Power Suit Mk. I: Thanks to the Speed Force Conduit, Diego was able to craft a suit of his own. This suit allows him to push past the normal peaks of a human in perfect condition, granting him strength to five times his size, but nowhere truly near the might of Superman. Someone like Bane may feel the effects. These are not the only feats the suit has to offer the male. Enhancing his Sustenance abilities, the suit provides him with more features to help survive harsh environments, offering him oxygen that stores itself within his mask conveniently in case none is provided. Next is his Kinetic feature, allowing him to absorb most forms of kinetic based energy and store it as well, helping produce the enhanced strength feature to his suit. It also adds a boost to his 5'8 height.
  

[Ability Information]

• Speed Force Conduit:While all speedsters are powered by the force, Vega mainlines the power from the force itself and cannot be cut off from the source, unlike the others. Diego has become a contender for the fastest of all the Flashes perhaps rivaled only by his predecessor, Wally West. He is arguably one of the fastest beings that has ever existed. He is currently fast enough to easily break all the barriers and even enter the Speed Force. Diego has, on several occasions, traveled much faster than light and been pulled into and exited the Speed Force by his own volition. The Flash is considered to be one of the most formidable and powerful meta-humans on the planet. .
  
  
• Decelerated Aging: Along with every speedster that draws from the speed force, the loved ones of the speedsters will gain eternal youth like Jay's wife and Barry's wife ages have shown.
  
  
• Energy Construct Creation: If he concentrated, the Speed Force could be used to create solid constructs which he used to compose his costume as well as stand in copies of himself when he needs to run off and needs a dummy (literally) to give him an alibi.
  
  
• Sharing the Force: "Lending" velocity to objects or people already in motion. Since his interaction with the Speed Force, he may also lend his speed and angular momentum to another object or person. This may allow others to run alongside with the Flash.
  
  
• Steal Speed: He is able to "steal" speed and/or momentum from anyone or anything, including beings such as Superman or Inertia effectively turning them into living statues. Also can steal speed from bullets and other fast moving objects thrown at him or at others. This ability is so great, that he once took the speed from the entire planet, and its population, including the very fast beings such as Superman, Jay Garrick etc. He cannot, however, steal speed from speedsters such as Doctor Zoom, who creates his own negative Speed Force and is able to corrupt/negate the Speed Force and Barry Allen who is the Speed Force and its sole creator.
  
  
• Speed Force Aura: The Flash's body is surrounded by what he calls his "speed force aura". This aura protects him and anyone who is running with him or carried by him, from the effects of using his speed. This includes friction and airborne particulate matter. It also protects him from injury from high speed impacts such as punches he delivers and receives from his opponents. With this aura, he is able to absorb kinetic energy.
  
  
• Superhuman Stamina: The Flash possesses vast superhuman endurance that is nearly inexhaustible. He was able to run non-stop for over 10 days straight without tiring, through time and space across existence (Everywhere from the fourth dimension to the Big Bang was their track field.) at speeds so far beyond light and so unimaginable, he was constantly breaking through all the barriers and even brushed the true Speed Force itself directly.
  
  
• Self Sustenance: He has shown that he can survive in harsh environments such as space without any hindrance and has shown that he can gain all the energy he needs from the Speed Force's infinite storage of energy.
  
  
• Superhuman Speed: It appears that the Flash may run at any speed that he thinks is possible. Diego Alvarez is by far one of the fastest beings on the planet, and is arguably one of the fastest beings to ever exist (Although the title of "Fastest Man" has been given back to Barry Allen in his return in "Final Crisis"). Theoretically, speeds greater than Mach 10, are dangerous to both the people and to the environment. This speed would still be the equivalent to approximately 2 miles per second, allowing him to cross the United States in about 23 minutes, or circle the world in about 3 hours, but the Speed Force has shown that if needed, Diego can use it to prevent such effects from occurring, hence why he is able to run at speeds much faster than light on the planet Earth without it having devastating effects on the planet. He can also run across bodies of water and up the sides of buildings. Diego has shown that he can achieve practically any speed he wishes and that there are no limits to his speed. He has been able to casually move beyond the speed of thought, easily move so fast that even an attack moving at the speed of light seems to be standing still and at the same time scans the face of over five hundred thousand people for a specific expression in less than a picosecond. He is able to easily save and carry over half a million people 35 miles away from a Nuclear Warhead that had already detonated including the ones at ground zero in only 100 picoseconds, and even move so fast that he exists everywhere at once. He is able to casually reach speeds such as 500 times the speed of light. He has moved and ran so fast, that he was capable of outrunning and defeating death itself (the Black Flash) by outracing it to the end of time/space, past entropy, the next Big Bang and into the next Universe. His speed is so immeasurable that he has moved and reacted by the attosecond (an attosecond is one quintillionth of a second. To put this in perspective, one attosecond is to one second, what one second is to the age of the universe.), and has even reacted and calculated by the zeptosecond (Which is one trillionth of one billionth of one second.) and has other feats of speed that are immeasurable.
  
  
• Infinite Mass Punch: Traveling near the speed of light acquired the relativistic mass of such speed to impart blows which could hit with a force greater than that of "a white dwarf star", Flash's own durability regulated by the Speed Force in such cases. Realistic effects take over as a body approaches light-speed (His control over his powers and the Speed Force is so great, that he can choose to ignore these realistic effects if he wishes to). Visual input will begin to blueshift and his body's mass will increase towards infinity. With this ability, he is able to knock out a martian as durable/tough as Superman from Mount Rushmore to the plains of Africa, all with one devastating punch.
  
  
• Dimensional Travel: Diego Alvarez has shown to be able to traverse time and dimensions with his own powers, unlike Barry Allen, and the other speedsters. However, Diego now accelerates to the point that he is skirting the very edge of the Speed Force dimension or even entering it. He can traverse along the time-stream to specific points as they become visible, much like watching a movie in fast forward or reverse. In order to enter the Speed Force and time travel to different periods, he must exceed light speed, which he can easily and instantly do.
  
  
  
• Regeneration: Accelerating his healing factor while using the Speed Force to sustain him, he can heal from any injury instantly, without prematurely aging.
  
  
• Phasing: The Flash has always possessed the ability to control his speed and angular momentum at the molecular level, and control his molecular interactions to allow his body to pass through any substance. If he chooses, Diego can excite the molecules of whatever substance he vibrates through to critical mass causing it to explode. While in an intangible state, the Flash is immune to any airborne viruses and can breathe regularly. He can also vibrate so fast that light does not reflect off him, rendering him invisible.
  
  
• Flight: By spinning like a helicopter, he can even perform a limited kind of flight. Since his power is a quantum/molecular phenomenon, the Flash has been able to fly just as other metas do (and there have been other flying speedsters in the past, such as the deceased Johnny Quick) because he can control his absolute molecular energy and direction and force it in the direction he wished to move without running. Though he rarely makes use of this ability as he enjoys running. The Speed Force also allows him to run in frictionless environments, as he was able to run in space itself, as casually as he was running on the ground without any outside assistance.
  
  
• Increased Perceptions: The Flash possesses the ability to alter his perceptions so that falling objects can appear to be standing still and can be caught and moved back to their normal position. He can disarm or jam any number of opponents weapons before they are even aware of his movement and can hurl small projectiles at hypersonic velocities. His ability to alter his own perception of time is so great, that if he wishes, the tick between a second can pass for millions of years. He can even push this ability to the point, that to him, it's as if the Universe is standing still. It does not truly stand still, it is his own perception of time that seems to stand still, and his body automatically adjusts to his perception, hence, the slower he views the world, the faster his body moves through time/space to adjust to his perception. He can even all together, break time through the time and dimension barrier, to truly be beyond time/space. He can do this so quickly as to have it happen invisibly to the normal human eye. He can effortlessly strike a single opponent or multiple opponents million of times in a second.
  
  
• Supercharged Brain Activity: The Flash's mental abilities are also increased in speed, simple computations can be done at lightning speeds, and his ability to perform normal feats at increased speeds has allowed him to build hundreds of force field generators in a matter of minutes, move sandbags to cover a beach or search an entire area for something as small as a paper clip. Diego can also read at super-speed, but rarely takes advantage of this ability to learn at increased speeds, although Jay Garrick has done so and has become a jack of all trades in several disciplines and languages.
  
  
• Vortex Creations: By running in a circle at a certain speed, Flash is able to create a vortex with a variety of effects. One effect is pulling the air away from the center in order to suffocate an enemy. Another effect is levitating whoever and whatever was in the center. Also, able to send anyone or anything into another dimension when running around them. Some other effects are acting as barriers to movement or funnels for toxic gases. The Flash also can spin his arms to create directed funnels of hurricane speed air that can knock down barriers or reduce the speed of a falling object. When putting out forest fires, what the Flash does when he runs around the perimeter is create a pocket tornado. The updraft lowers the temperature inside the funnel and raises the fire off the ground which takes away its fuel source. .
  
  

[Weakness Information]

• Human: Diego can take just as much damage as the next person or regular human being. To these extents, his suit offers him some defense from most forms of physical damage, but he is still susceptible to attacks like Magic, lasers, or energy to name a few.
  
  
• Physical limitations: He may he the Fastest Man Alive, but he is not the strongest, the smartest, etc. Diego has his own limitations just as well as the next person.
  
  
• Appetite: Diego has a huge one. He has to eat a lot to make up for any energy he uses while tapping into the Speed Force.