HOWEVER. x would be both terrified and elated to meet any of them. i usually play x pretty late in the series so he's fairly jaded at that point. not without hope but basically resigned to being a war machine
asch is the older twin so he's gonna take over dad's business; luke is a dumb kid who doesn't know his purpose in life and grows up selfish because of it
guy is the sweet boy down the street who looks after all three of them because he's very mature for his age, only showed up with his grandfather a few years ago, what happened
(asch also has a complex regarding luke because his father is very strict with asch since he's taking over the business, he feels like crimson doesn't love him as much as he loves luke)
guy stays in the city for almost two years looking for luke but no matter who he asks nobody knows anything, and one day some turks come by his shitty little apartment and tell him to stop asking questions
long story short, guy doesn't find luke but hears something about him being spotted in nibelheim, but when he gets there everybody swears up and down that they didn't see a thing, not a thing
so basically guy has 0 leads on luke and everyone thinks he's dead, probably got eaten by a monster on the way and shinra didn't bother telling his family because he was technically a stowaway
and barry absolutely takes advantage of that. he takes wally to MUSEUMS and ICE CREAM SHOPS and all these great places and wally eventually comes around and loves the guy
mom and dad, they love him but they're kind of immune to him babbling on and iris is always so busy with work now and barry always seems strangely busy too but he's also grown guy wally can talk to
so wally really starts to love barry so, so much as his uncle, really looks up to him even if he thinks he's a huge dork and kind of annoying sometimes tbh
HE FINDS OUT BARRY IS THE FLASH. and the flash, lord, wally idolized. practically worshiped the guy like a god, almost. and he finds out that HIS UNCLE BARRY is also THE FLASH
and wally knows for sure that he absolutely has to be at his side as his partner, like no doubt about it. there's absolutely no stopping this kid; he gets told no and turned down left and right but he's
determined to become barry's partner. HE HAS TO. HE HAS TO. barry is like him, barry can't be great WITHOUT him, it's like being left behind and wally wants to MEAN something, like barry does, like flash
wally's too high on his achievements and then he's learning, but in those two years he spends training with barry he gets some crippling self-doubt like "i'm not good enough" or
wally's relationship with barry as an uncle is really solid, but as a mentor it can be kind of push-and-pull; sometimes they get along REALLY GREAT and sometimes it's strained
partially because wally keeps trying to measure himself up against barry and feels like he's constantly falling short, and partially because barry just REALLY DOESN'T WANT THIS GINGER KID HURT.........
revved up his metabolism in a way that was highly unusual, even for flash standards, and put this developmental wall in front of him that he's afraid to touch
i'm working off the assuming that wally's gaining maybe five or so MPH every few months as he continues practicing, but when you're going over 700 mph that's not all that impressive a gain
but he's also working on a childhood where the traits he had weren't held in high esteem. he was a nerd in school and it's VERY OBVIOUS that he hates school now, probably because he's
he doesn't have any friends in school either; if he does, they're not close friends (which isn't unusual since he'd be keeping his most time-consuming extra curriculars from them)
so wally presents himself as this mad popular, super confident jokester badass because he DOES believe in a lot of that but at the same time, he looks at himself and goes "so what"
he was okay being slower than barry because barry's his mentor and also he's still technically smarter than barry (sorry dude) BUT then bart came along and he's smarter AND faster
he did that HIMSELF, against eveyrone's wishes and stuff but he's starting to consider that maybe he did the experiment wrong and yeah he's devoting a lot of time not thinking about it
i will be honest i think the speed force is so fucking stupid but like....NO HE JUST...EATS A LOT AND THEN RUNS REAL FAST....like that explanation is even dumber
"In what?"
"Anthropolog--"
PUNCHING INTENSIFIES