What I mean by fooling the readers is showing how the character changes via that quickly instead of slowly over a period of time. I never believed that Damien changed that quickly to accept the morals of the Batman family that quick when He tried to get their approval of him despite how he acted before.
Calling an African American Rudy just feels off to me as for HOW Wallace comes to this time make him the Kid Flash of his world, but the events of Flashpoint and Convergence force him to the main DC Earth and regression, loss of his memory and the new 52s time reset have him become the new Wally West while the old one was lost to the time stream thanks to Flashpoint. At least that’s what starts it.
They already came up with a fix for Wallace and Wally to co-exist in the same continuity. They're cousins, he was Daniel's kid all along. Why make it more complicated than that? Isn't one retcon enough? Do we really need another Donna Troy scenario?
There's already a character called Rudy West.
look, I can appreciate that train of thought, and I'm a big proponent that almost anything can be a good development so long as the creatives producing it have the drive and creativity to make it happen; I just don't see that move being good for Wallace with the current state of DC. if DC retcons him to another Earth more likely than not it'll weaken his position in the DC landscape, making him likely to get shipped off to said Earth never to be heard from again or killed or just fade into obscurity before they introduce a new Kid Flash. truthfully, the best way to further differentiate him from Wally is to grow his character organically until people stop pretending one guy being called Wallace and the other being Wally is somehow "too confusing". The cousins, Wallace/Wally retcon was the best for the situation, his origin doesn't need to be messed with right now, he just needs to grow more into his own.
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Then they should have changed his name the moment pushing him as the "real" Wally was no longer the plan. The amount of things DC changes and retcons all the time doesn't make it impossible or even difficult to do, but they wanted to keep that TV show synergy I guess. Him going by Wally West will just serve, to me at least, as him being a failed idea in DC trying to replace the original Wally with this New 52 version. I don't fault people for liking the character or wanting to support the character, but his name and what the character was created to be originally isn't something I can move on from.
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It is them trying to work around a failed situation. If he is called Wally or Wallace it is the same to me. He still represents something DC did that really bothered me. I can't look past when DC tried to push him as the real Wally in the New 52 and erase the original version, and every time they call him Wally or Wallace it is a constant reminder of that to me which was such a big turnoff. Others can be fine with it, and I don't begrudge them for it, but for me it isn't something that I can move on from when I see the character or read stories with the character in it.
Well that's pretty much the point of writing stories to show their development. Some writers will tell multiple stories and show slow development over time and sometimes it's just one with the character going through a change towards the end. I'm not exactly sure what Damian stories you read that made you feel that way about the character, but Damian's been Robin for years now so at this point I think it's best to let it go and just accept Damian has adopted those morals and in your case you feel the writers failed to prove his development.
All the character needs is consistently good characterization & writing, as well as an appropriate and consistent place in-universe. The retcon that the West family always had Wally and Wallace should have been the story from the start. It would have been much better and far less polarizing than creating a new character and calling him Wally West. I think that instead of creating him, the better approach would have been to permanently bring XS to the present day. She had an accepted backstory and likable characterization. She could have been the fish out of water character as she adjusted to the present being her new home. Retention of her Legion-issued flight ring and transuit would give her a few things unique to her. She would have checked off the same diversity box Wallace does while adding a female speedster as a regular part of the Flash family. Like Bart, she's Barry's grandchild. So, there is that as well.
That being said, the furthest I'd go is say that he would have been on an alternate Earth pre-Flashpoint similar to the Infinite Crisis revelation that several characters would have been on another Earth had the multiverse never been wiped out. It didn't seem to harm any of those characters.
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They don't need to send him to another earth. Just need to change the name. Call him "ace" west the fastest kid alive. Problems solved.