[ Cisco isn't sure if Barry had been talking about that incident with the time remnant - but that had been a one-time thing, hadn't it? A freak anomaly that didn't really mean anything? They'd sent him back to the future and then Cisco had done his best to entirely forget about it - enough that he didn't even mention it to Eddie.
But what if there's something else? An Eobard from Earth-2? What if he'd come through in addition to Zoom. ]
he must be i mean this timeline stuff's never made any sense to me in the first place but he's got to mean that probably unless he's from further in the timeline and something's changed but i don't see how that's possible. you killed him.
[ Cisco wants to leave it at that, but then he thinks, what if Barry and Eddie keep talking about Eobard? What if he mentions the time remnant? Barry wouldn't have an reason NOT to. And hearing from him would blindside Eddie, and he would be hurt and miserable thinking his death was somehow meaningless now. And if Barry were specific enough about the date, Eddie, in all his detective-y wisdom, would be able to easily deduce that Cisco had known and kept it from him. And then it would be a whole huge thing.
So even though if it was up to him he would never mention all of that - for his own peace of mind but mostly for Eddie's - Cisco finds himself backed into a corner. He needs to say something now and do damage control. ]
i mean i should probably tell you that a while back... during those few months i was back in central city after being here, there was kind of an incident. with something called a time remnant - basically an echo of him that was stuck in the speedforce when you erased him. he showed up and we freaked out but there was no threat like it was an earlier version so we thought it we locked him up we could change things, change the whole timeline, save you and barry's mom and ronnie and everybody but it didn't work like that.
but barry can't have meant that because that was just an echo, just an afterimage... we couldn't do anything to him and he couldn't do anything to us, really. so it was nothing.
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But what if there's something else? An Eobard from Earth-2? What if he'd come through in addition to Zoom. ]
he must be
i mean this timeline stuff's never made any sense to me in the first place but he's got to mean that
probably
unless he's from further in the timeline and something's changed but i don't see how that's possible. you killed him.
[ Cisco wants to leave it at that, but then he thinks, what if Barry and Eddie keep talking about Eobard? What if he mentions the time remnant? Barry wouldn't have an reason NOT to. And hearing from him would blindside Eddie, and he would be hurt and miserable thinking his death was somehow meaningless now. And if Barry were specific enough about the date, Eddie, in all his detective-y wisdom, would be able to easily deduce that Cisco had known and kept it from him. And then it would be a whole huge thing.
So even though if it was up to him he would never mention all of that - for his own peace of mind but mostly for Eddie's - Cisco finds himself backed into a corner. He needs to say something now and do damage control. ]
i mean i should probably tell you that a while back... during those few months i was back in central city after being here, there was kind of an incident. with something called a time remnant - basically an echo of him that was stuck in the speedforce when you erased him. he showed up and we freaked out but there was no threat like it was an earlier version so we thought it we locked him up we could change things, change the whole timeline, save you and barry's mom and ronnie and everybody but it didn't work like that.
but barry can't have meant that because that was just an echo, just an afterimage... we couldn't do anything to him and he couldn't do anything to us, really. so it was nothing.