Drifting_Embers
Thanks for the chapter. I can see Thawne is trying to feed Nathan's paranoia of not being fast or powerful enough. It's pretty obvious he's doing this because he's seen Nathan touch both the speed force and negative speed force. But what benefit does Thawne gain from this? He's already gotten a bunch of speedforce infused dark matter, so is he truly just doing this to turn Nathan into an antagonist against team flash?
In the show, it's only shown that Thawne is looking at the newspaper article of the flash vanishing in crisis. It's his way of making sure the timeline is going as planned, but Thawne probably does also have access to other newspaper articles and just never bothered with them. It's entirely possible that Thawne could use those to guide Nathan along the path he wants.