Alchemy

"I'm preparing this world."

- Alchemy to The Flash

"Alchemy", nicknamed Dr. Alchemy by Cisco Ramon, is the alias of an unnamed individual in Central City with a number of meta-human abilities without being exposed to dark matter. He is somehow associated with Savitar. Alchemy seeks to "prepare" the world for a currently unknown reason. Part of this includes transforming individuals from the Flashpoint timeline "back" into their meta-human selves including Edward Clariss, Frankie Kane, Wally West, and an unnamed man.

Biography
At some point, Alchemy transformed four individuals into meta humans, leaving behind husks of skin from each individual.

Dr. Alchemy communicated with Edward Clariss through unknown means and led him to his lair where he and his followers awaited him. Alchemy also forced Clariss to remember his Flashpoint life and manipulated him into agreeing to serve him in exchange for restoring his powers, allowing Clariss to become "The Rival" again. After the Rival's first encounter with The Flash, Rival led Flash to a sawmill where Dr. Alchemy attacked Flash. Dr. Alchemy claimed that he is helping people achieve their true potential to prepare the world, and had Rival fight Flash again. However, Rival was defeated by the joint efforts of Flash and Vibe. When Clariss was imprisoned, Dr. Alchemy scolded him for his incompetency and something with a metal arm came into the cell and punished him for his failure, though to the cameras, it was as if an invisible force thrashed Clariss around his cell before dying. It is later revealed that the metallic arm was Savitar moving so fast he appeared invisible to the naked eye when killing Edward, as evidenced from his fight with the Flash.

Dr. Alchemy later awakened another Flashpoint metahuman, Frankie Kane, recreating her Magenta persona as a split personality. After Magenta attacked her foster father and was confronted by the Flash at CCPD, Magenta came to Alchemy's lair, complaining that Frankie was fighting to gain control. Alchemy then told Magenta that once she showed Frankie's foster father that Magenta was in control, Frankie would also. This led to Magenta to attempt to destroy the hospital her foster father was in with a tanker, but the Flash managed to coax Frankie back to the surface, repressing Magenta.

In the wake of another failure, Alchemy decided to target the Flash directly. Sending another of his transformed meta-humans, dubbed "Shade", to spread fear and panic and attract the Flash's attention, Alchemy reached out to Wally West through dreams/visions and his telepathy, imploring West to seek him out so that he could restore West's Flashpoint powers. As the pain of Alchemy's communications worsened, Team Flash and the CCPD used West to infiltrate Alchemy's lair and then stormed it with the Flash's help. The Flash went to grab Alchemy's stone from a pillar but Alchemy telekinetically stopped him from moving and summoned the stone to blast Flash repeatedly with beams of blue energy until it was shot out of his hand by Joe. Forced to his knees, Alchemy derided their efforts as the Flash moved to unmask him. Suddenly, an earthquake shook the lair and Alchemy bowed his head to the floor in reverence as a mysterious and unfathomably fast speedster slaughtered the CCPD cops and beat the Flash down. Meanwhile, Alchemy used his telepathy to reach Wally West once more and succeded, turning him into a cocoon. His fast minion saw a distracted Flash and pinned him to the ceiling, declaring himself as Savitar, the god of speed. As this was happening, Alchemy got up, watching Savitar finish him off.

Personality
Not much is known about Alchemy, though he is shown to be short-tempered. He has a low tolerance for failure as he harshly expresses his disappointment to Edward Clariss about his loss to the Flash (though whether he knows about Vibe and the Flash teaming up on him is unknown) even after Alchemy enhanced his speed, and has him attacked.

Alchemy does seem to have a sense of honor. He gives the Flashpoint individual a choice whether they want to reclaim their powers, though in most cases the individual ends up reclaiming those powers due to his telepathic attacks and repeated questioning. He tells Wally West that whatever his decision is, he will respect it. Though it appears that Alchemy is desperate to restore the Flashpoint powers to individuals as he repeatedly blasts Flash with energy beams and says Wally is "chosen", preventing him from interfering.

Powers

 * Psychokinesis: Dr. Alchemy has shown multiple times to be able to carve his name into mirrors and other surfaces without touching them, or even being present for that matter. However, it is implied that this may be a hallucination, as Iris wasn't able to see it when Wally was during while being called on by Alchemy. By extending his arm, he stopped Flash's super speed, keeping him in a standing position unable to move long enough to summon his Philosopher's Stone to his hand to blast him across the room. He then sent Flash sliding across the floor with a wave of his hand.
 * Retrocognition: Dr. Alchemy is able to remember the Flashpoint timeline and is capable of making people, such as Edward Clariss, remember their alternate lives. Dr. Alchemy was able to perform this despite the fact that the Flashpoint timeline was reset by Barry.
 * Telepathy: Dr. Alchemy is able to communicate with anyone regardless of where they are.
 * Transmutation: Dr. Alchemy is able to biologically alter individuals to give them meta-human powers, the individuals leaving behind a "husk" in their place after being granted their powers. Said powers are also greatly amplified if Alchemy chooses to. Whereas The Rival in the Flashpoint Timeline could only match the much slower Flash/Wally and struggled to keep up with a weakened Flash/Barry, in the new slightly altered timeline The Rival's powers were increased to the point that they could practically compete with The Flash.

Abilities

 * Master manipulator: Dr. Alchemy is very persuasive as he convinced Clariss to join him and become a metahuman.

Equipment

 * Stone: Dr. Alchemy uses a stone to project concussive energy blasts that could send opponents flying through the air. It's unknown what it is made of. It also turns Alchemy's "chosen" ones into cocoons should they choose to reclaim their Flashpoint powers by touching it.

Behind the Scenes

 * In DC comics, Doctor Alchemy is the alias of a criminal named Albert Desmond who used an object called the Philosopher's Stone to physically reshape objects into any form of matter he desired. However Desmond also suffered split-personality disorder and has haunted by a "good" side named "Alvin Desmond." One of his other villainous identities was "Mister Element", in which he could generate any chemical element to help him in his crimes. Desmond also had a number of successors, such as Alexander Petrov in the guise of Mister Element, and Curtis Engstrom in the guise of Dr. Alchemy. He also had a precursor named Zobar Zodiak, nicknamed "the Alchemist", who was one of the original wielders of the Philosopher's Stone.