Nora West-Allen


 * For other characters named Nora, see Nora (disambiguation)

Nora West-Allen, nicknamed XS is a meta-human speedster time traveler, as well as the daughter of Barry Allen and Iris West from the future.

Biography
Nora was born to Barry Allen and Iris West sometime after 2018 and was named in honor of her late paternal grandmother, Nora Allen.

Nora was raised solely by Iris when Barry disappeared into the Speed Force and never came out. As she grew up, Nora earned the nickname XS from her mother. She became known as the Fastest Woman Alive, a homage to her missing father.

Time travelling back to late 2017, Nora awkwardly greeted her father at his wedding to Iris West and told him to make sure he said: "I do". She informed him that she felt the wedding would be "one for the ages". Barry asked if they knew each other, to which she replied that they didn't and that she was no one special.

She reappeared sometime later in CC Jitters, after the defeat of the Trickster and Prank, and excitedly paid for Ralph Dibny and Cisco Ramon's drinks whilst babbling intellectually. Afterward, she wrote in a journal, using the same symbols that Barry Allen used when he returned from the Speed Force.

Nora later returned to Jitters to meet Harrison Wells and Caitlin Snow, unbeknownst to them. She knocked her drink over near them, causing Caitlin to reassure her that it was fine, before they left.

She later appeared at Barry and Iris' apartment where Joe West and Cecille Horton were having their baby shower as a delivery girl. She told Cecille that the baby was coming in 21 days and gave her and Joe a gift that was from "someone who cares". After giving them the gift, she spotted Iris and disappeared. She then ran away at superspeed.

As her father went to run at a satellite controlled by Clifford DeVoe in order to destroy it, Nora altered the original timeline and helped him, allowing it to be properly destroyed. Having made some sort of mistake, Nora went to the West house, where she introduced herself.

Personality
Like her father, Nora is a brilliant forensic scientist who happens to be bubbly and enthusiastic. She idolizes Barry and desires to be just like him, but struggles with the idea of going back to a time (her time period) where he is not there. She is also a notorious daddy's girl. Barry tells Iris their daughter shares too much about the future which could potentially mess with the timeline.

Powers

 * Speed Force connection/Meta-human physiology: Nora possesses a natural connection to the Speed Force, giving her the powers of incredible speed and superhuman reflexes. While she stated she isn't as experienced as her father Barry, and can only learn so much from her mother Iris and the Flash Museum.
 * Electrokinesis: Unlike other speedsters, Nora can produce both yellow and purple electricity from her body, commonly seen when running.
 * Bodily vibration: Like most speedsters, Nora can vibrate her body for various effects.
 * Intangibility: By vibrating her molecules at the frequency of air, Nora can physically pass through solid matter. Whilst only having learned this when she met with her father in the past, with the help of her father and uncle she vibrated an entire airplane and all of the passengers.
 * Superhuman agility: Nora has demonstrated flawless coordination, equilibrium and dexterity. She can change direction with immediate sharp turns without sliding or losing balance and instantly stop running on the spot.
 * Superhuman durability: Nora possesses inhuman resilience, most commonly seen from being unaffected by momentum build-up. She can take attacks and exertion, even survive impacts that would easily kill normal humans.
 * Superhuman reflexes: Nora’s reaction time is augmented to superhuman levels, allowing her to react to danger and events far faster than normal humans.
 * Superhuman speed: Nora can move at such vast speeds, undeterminable to the naked eye.
 * Superhuman momentum: Nora can generate great amounts of physical force through kinetic energy, simulating superhuman strength, even in a stationary position. Even little exertions from this build-up can generate tremendous, able to knock a person out.
 * Superhuman stamina: Nora can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting her function much longer than normal humans unhindered.
 * Time travel: Nora's speed can breach the temporal barriers, letting her enter different points in time like how she traveled back in time to see her parents.
 * Superhuman stamina: Nora can handle the stresses of extreme racing without noticeable distress, letting her function much longer than normal humans unhindered.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect: Like her father Barry, Nora has a high IQ of 6.5 and a keen-minded individual, from a young age, Nora quickly displayed a natural understanding and quick capacity to learn at a young age.
 * Expert investigator/Forensics expert: Like her father Barry, Nora is a highly skilled forensics examiner. From a single glance of the crime scene, she can quickly determine much of the events that transpired.
 * Bilingual: In addition to English, Nora knows the mysterious language that Barry learned when he was trapped in the Speed Force for 6 months.

Weaknesses

 * Negative Tachyon: Unlike other speedsters, Nora has Negative Tachyons in her which make her unable to travel back to her timeline.

Equipment

 * XS suit: Nora wears a protective suit as XS, to hide her identity when fighting crime, it was designed by Cisco Ramon for Iris when she was The Flash but was passed down to Nora when she started her superhero life.

Trivia

 * Nora is a fan of the computer game Oregon Trail.
 * Nora is unique in that she is the only known speedster to have dual-colored lightning.
 * Nora's alter ego name, XS was taken from the word "Excess" and was a nickname given to her by her mother Iris, because she overdid things when she was growing up.
 * Like her father, Barry, Nora is an only child.
 * The first reference to Nora's existence came in the shape of two quotes referenced by Barry and Cisco in the season 4 premiere, The Flash Reborn. The first was when Barry came out of the Speed Force and was mumbling "Nora shouldn't be here." The second was when Cisco unscrambles the Speed Force code and unveils the phrase "This House is Bitchin'".
 * Nora coined the phrase "This House is Bitchin'".
 * Nora seems to have a liking for coffee from CC Jitters because in her era, a cup of coffee costs 43 dollars.

Behind the scenes

 * In the main DC Comics continuity Nora Allen was similarly a time traveling metahuman speedster, who was a daughter of Barry Allen, the Flash, and Jessica Cruz, a Green Lantern.
 * Barry and Iris' daughter, Dawn Allen, is also a speedster, and a metahuman denizen of the 30th century.