User blog comment:Eobard95/SAVITAR IS A TIME REMNANT OF BARRY ALLEN!/@comment-24152851-20170421022231

I never really got how time remnants worked. They sometimes seem to happen when history is altered, but other times the other copies just disappear, like how the post-Flashpoint Eobard and Barry did.

I'll admit, this theory is quite neat. Though the only way I can see this theory working is that time remnant Barry's meddling in the past somehow made the present Barry create Flashpoint to begin with. Otherwise, what could explain the absence of the Flashpoint timeline in the other time, but occurring in this one?