User blog comment:Wales8450/Is Eobard Thawne (Matt Letscher) fully alive again???/@comment-3221148-20161005175353

We've seen the 2000-Eobard outright dissolve like a time-remnant that served his purpose (remember how Barry-2014 dissolved in Season 2's finale?). So the question of "Who was Wellsobard?", that was seen in the flash of Barry's memories when Flashpoint-Eobard was bringing him back to 2016, is on the table. Either Wellsobard was ANOTHER time-remnant that... was willed into existence to explain Barry's memories and the general course of events. Or, Flashpoint-Eobard actually went through the whole Wellsobard act after hearing "hints" from Barry about the future, and ended up preventing his death.

Maybe he got Eddie thrown into prison, and that's why Iris hates Joe? Maybe he kidnapped Eddie and thrown him into a prison? Who knows.

For now, I would assume that Wellsobard was retroactively a time remnant, and since Post Flashpoint-Eobard was traveling through the Speed Force from the year 2000 to 2016 (which, as we know, "protects the Speedster like a bunker from changes in timeline"), he wouldn't be affected by the Thawne Paradox, allowing him to appear as if he was a being from another universe/timeline. Supposedly, in this case he wouldn't have Wellsobard's memories of his time with Barry though, only his pre-2000 and Flaspoint timeline memories (as evidenced by him comparing the Barry-2016 as inexperienced to the now definitely non-existent Barry-2020).

Son, in a way, this is not Wellsobard, but a "rebooted" Eobard from 2000, who also spent months imprisoned by the Flash. He probably won't have much love for Barry, unlike the previous Wellsobard, who watched him grow with pride.