Who is Eddie Thawne really?

Who has been watching "The Flash"?  If you haven't and are into the whole superhero influx happening on TV and in the movies, you're missing out.  The overarching plot of Barry's hunt for the "Man in yellow" and slowly coming into his own has been a fun ride thus far. 

After watching this season I've developed a couple theories about things, given these theories are just that theories concocted by my often over active imagination.  All evidence I will site is circumstantial at best.  That said this post is also going to contain minor spoilers from the season.  So if you have not watched it, you may want to stop reading now and come back when you have caught up.

I have two theories I want to discuss.  The theories will center around Eddie Thawne and a possible relation to Barry Allen or Harrison Wells.  But before I get into the theories I want to take about the name Thawne and how that name relates to The Flash.  In the comics there are a pair of characters with that sir name.  Eobard and Thaddeus, Professor Zoom (aka Reverse Flash) and Inertia respectively.  Both of which were pains in the backside of various Flashs.  While I don't follow the Flash comics regularly I know that Thaddeus was a clone of Bart Allen and I believe is occasionally disconnected from the speed force.  Eobard's powers seem to have originated from the costume of Silver Age Flash, and a machine that was used to amplify the suits abilities giving him the powers of Flash when he wore it.

So onto the theories.  Anyone that saw this weeks episode will know that at the end of the episode The Reverse Flash reveled himself to be Harrison Wells, which is something we already knew.  In that scene he states that he "protects his own" meaning meta humans.  Which fits into the comics where some incarnations of the Reverse Flash are apparently trying to help Barry be a better hero (albeit I don't know if these versions are cannon or not).  Wells has been training Barry presumably trying to prevent some crisis.  With this paper and presumed knowledge of the future it is a safe assumption that wells is the very same reverse flash who killed Barry's mother.

Now if Wells is the same time traveling speedster who killed Barry's mother, then there must be a young him somewhere right?  What if Eddie is a young Harrison Wells?  What if something happens and Barry fails to save someone close to him and Eddie thinks this is because Barry was unwilling to kill.  Eddie then starts to think that he has to make sure the flash is ready to kill for the "greater good"  Maybe he finds Well's suit or that device he strapped to it and uses it to gain the powers of the Flash.  He has until 2025 to embark on this quest.  Again I realize this is a thin theory, but you never know.

Theory number two.  Does anyone else get the feeling that Eddie seems to know more then he lets on.  There have been a couple times when I have gotten that feeling.  Especially early on in the series.  What if somehow Eddie is the Barry that traveled through time.  If Barry disappeared in the future, then he must still be somewhere in the past right?  What if by some feat of TV magic Older Barry took on the persona of Eddie Thawne?  This I admit is an even more thin theory then the first one.  But again it is fun to think about.

Now it could just be that they used that sir name as a nod to fans just like casting John Westley Shipp as Henry Allen (as he played the flash in the 1990 TV series).  Those are just a couple random thoughts I came up with and lets be honest.  In a world with time travel, anything is possible.