Dear Son: Regarding life, I know that some things happen purely by chance, but other things are within our control.
A childhood in which his mother was murdered and his father was imprisoned had been haunting Barry Allen like ghosts. When he became the Flash, he got rid of them and regained his life.
He found love, he found a family, and he found friends like never before (ps).
Barry felt like he had let go, but someone didn't want him to escape, and that's where Flashpoint came from. When he came to me for help, I initially planned to shut him out.
I am not the protagonist of this story, nor do I want to be.
I'm just a poor man stuck in the pain of the past.
I have too much blood on my hands to be called a good person.
I don't even have any nostalgia for life, even if the Atlanteans destroy Europe, even if the world faces a doomsday crisis, and Cyborg finds me and hopes that I will join his team of heroes, I will have no interest.
Until The Flash calls out that name, Bruce.
I have rediscovered the meaning of life. No matter what, I want to let the reality of your survival come back again.
From your friend, I learned something. From your story, I understood a truth - our lives should not only be lived for those who have passed away, but we must also live well for those who are still around us.
Thank God for giving me a second chance. In the rest of my life, I will live like you.
All parents want the best in the world for their children.
I want you to be happy, and promise me you'll try your best. I will too, wherever I am.
Love always your dad, Thomas
There are actually two letters home from Thomas to Bruce.
A letter from the Flashpoint comic, which appeared in 2011.
Because "Flashpoint" was a huge success and became a rare DC classic - it was not rare at that time, and there were quite a lot of DC classics at that time. Now. It's hard to describe it now. DC can only rest on its laurels and put the Flashpoint incident in 2022. I pulled it out and wrote a "postquel", which is "Flashpoint: Beyond".
"Flashpoint: Beyond" is not as stunning as "Flashpoint", but it is still above the passing line. If read together with "Flashpoint", the experience can reach 80 points.
In "Flashpoint: Beyond", Thomas's home letter appears again. Compared with the last time, the sentences have been slightly adjusted.
In fact, the content of the two letters is not much different. The core meaning is actually the first sentence of the letter: Life is very messy, and accidents often happen that we cannot control, but we can also control the rest and choose to make life happy.
In order to fit the plot of this novel, I made slight adjustments to the letter again - there is still no essential change, after all, the ending of the novel is different from the original plot.
Finally, PS also appeared in the letter, which is the sentence "Unprecedented. I have found a friend."
These are the original words in "Flashpoint: Beyond". I personally think Thomas is talking about more than just Barry Allen. Barry Allen's experience of losing his mother is very similar to Thomas and Bruce. On the surface, Thomas is talking about Barry, but in fact
He is also talking about himself.
Before meeting Barry Allen, Thomas had no friends, was a loner, closed-minded, and alone.
After meeting Barry and knowing the reality of his son's existence, Thomas came back to life for the second time.