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longbowhunter[PLAYER INFO] NAME: Yami AGE: 21 JOURNAL: birdplaneIM: kaizokuyacchan PLURK: undeadyami E-MAIL: kefkaknight@gmail.com RETURNING: returning. I currently play 5. Pietro Maximoff ( superspeeds), Stephen Strange (sorcerersupreme), Victor vonDoom (latveria), Jason Todd (undeadsidekick), and Gil Pender (hollywoodhack).[CHARACTER INFO] CHARACTER NAME: Oliver Queen / Green Arrow SERIES: DC Comics CHRONOLOGY: Green Arrow volume 3 #59. Just before the jump to One Year Later, vaguely toward the end of Identity Crisis. CLASS: Hero! BACKGROUND: Oliver Queen was born into wealth. As a child and eventually, young man, he had everything. His parents died when he was a teenagerleaving him the entire estate. Fortunately, Ollie was better adjusted than Batman and any grief he experienced, he merely drank andpartied away. He became a thrill-seeker and adrenaline junkie, hiring a man named Hackett, an ex-British military type to show him allthe world’s coolest and most dangerous spots. Hackett and Ollie became pretty good friends and one day, Hackett asked Oliver for a bunch of money to put toward a project in pacificislands. Ollie agreed, but didn’t think much on it. After all, they were friends. A few days later, Oliver made a royal ass out of himself at acharity auction. Prior to falling off the stage, however, Oliver paid a ridiculous amount of money for the bow used by Howard Hill, thestunt shooter in Errol Flynn’s famous version of Robin Hood. Deciding to lay low for a few days, Ollie insisted Hackett take him to thepacific islands to meet this developer he’d heard so much about. Reluctantly, Hackett agreed. As it turned out, there was no investor. When they were far enough from civilization on Ollie’s boat, Hackett revealed that his actual planwas to take Ollie’s money, scuttle the boat, and make a break for it. Instead, he’d have to kill Oliver as well. At the last minute, however,Hackett chickened out and merely knocked Ollie unconscious, dumping him overboard. He assumed that between being in the middle ofno where, and not really being awake, Oliver would just drown. As fate would have it, however, Oliver washed up on an uncharted island. Survival (finding clean water and food) became paramount.He wandered the island, eventually stumbling upon an abandoned, burned out village. In the village, he found a well and dived in, hopingto find a little bit of water at the bottom. Instead, Ollie found the bodies of several villagers. They’d been very obviously murdered. It wasthen that he began to suspect that something more sinister was going on the island. From the remains of the village, he fashionedtogether a bow to hunt and defend himself with, some cover from the sun, and some pots and pans for boiling water. A few days later, he spotted a low flying plane and attempted to flag it down. The pilots shot at him, and he used his bow to fight back.Thanks to some well placed shots a little bit of luck, Ollie was able to bring it down without an explosion. Going to investigate the crashsite (and hopefully find a radio), he discovered, surprise surprise… Fields and fields of opium. As it turned out, the island was being used by international drug lord Chien Na Wei (or as Ollie calls her “China White”) to grow opium,which was then to be refined by the native people who the drug runners had kept alive as a slave work force. Also investigating thecrash was young pregnant woman named Taiana. Taiana told Ollie all about Chien Na Wei and what she’d done to the island and itspeople. Eventually, Chien Na Wei’s people arrived to investigate. Taiana hid Ollie and Ollie was able to watch the conversation. AmongChien Na Wei’s men was Hackett. Ollie disappeared into the jungle and Chien Na Wei sent a task force (led by Hackett) to find the outsider. Finally, Ollie got to confrontHackett on his own terms, but found that he couldn’t actually kill his former friend in cold blood. They fought, Ollie held his own prettywell. Eventually, though, Hackett got the upper hand and the fight ended with Ollie breaking his arm. He got away and was found byTaiana. Over several weeks, she nursed him back to health, using opium as a pain reducer. Ollie developed a slight addiction andsnapped at her when she decided that he eventually needed to be taken off the drug. Taiana explained that prior to their island beingtaken over, she had been a doctor and that the reason she was helping him is that, despite his failures, he’d given her people hope andthat they’d started referring to the outsider as “the green arrow”, after his crude weapons. Taiana told Oliver to steal away with a shipment headed for the US. She figured that in the states, a rich, white man would be able tobring attention to her people’s problem. He agreed, but as they parted ways, Chien Na Wei’s men found them. Ollie again disappearedinto the jungle this time stumbling toward the beach where he found (surprise, surprise) his yacht, the PacificQueen scuttledout and washed up on the beach. After a shower, shave, and some good food, Ollie planned on using it to sail to the nearest populatedisland. As he prepared to sail, he had a change of heart, however. Figuring that it was by random act of God that he’d managed to live, but knowing that he wouldn’t be the one to face the consequencesfor it, Ollie decided to go back and fight for Taiana’s people. On the deck of the boat, he found Howard Hill’s old bow exactly where he’dleft it. Knowing that they’d be out looking for him, Ollie torched his yacht and took over the scouting boat that came looking for him. Usingthe boat, Ollie snuck into the abandoned sub-pen Chien Na Wei was using as a makeshift base. He planned to free the slaves and tryand radio for help, but unbeknownst to him, Taiana had decided to free her people herself. Using the distraction Ollie caused, she wasable to free them and they together they gave Chien Na Wei’s men something to deal with. In a matter of ten minutes, Ollie had the boat with the shipment to the US trapped within the walls of the sub-pen-base and was using theradio to send a general distress call to anyone who would listen. Just then, however, Hackett appeared to cut the power aboard the shipand try and confront Ollie one last time. The fight ended in a standstill with Taiana holding a gun to Hackett’s head. Chien Na Weistepped in, attempting to use Taiana as a hostage, but it backfired. Ollie shot an arrow into the air, bringing down a crate that had beenleft hanging via a crane over the deck of the shipment. In the aftermath of the excitement, Taiana’s baby was born and the US Navy arrived. Foregoing any mention of Chien Na Wei, Ollie toldthem he’d brought down a simple drug running operation with the help of the natives and headed back to Star City to begin his “shadowydouble life”. In Star City, Ollie quickly became known as the Green Arrow. He fought crime, took names, in a very Batman-inspired fashion. On oneof his first adventures, Ollie remet an old girlfriend, Brianna Stone who warned him that if he kept carrying his bow, he’d eventually haveto use it for real, regardless of his “more evolved” ideology. Soon into his crime fighting shenanigans, he even took on a kid sidekick. Green Arrow met the young, orphaned Roy Harper at anarchery contest he was judging. A would be villain attacked, and Roy helped defend the other contestants. Impressed at how quick hewas to the draw, Oliver Queen made Roy his ward and Green Arrow took on the new sidekick, Speedy. Over the years, the two had anumber of adventures. Green Arrow was also invited to join the Justice League. During his adventures there he fell in love with the second Black Canary,Dinah Lance (even though he was way too old for her. As Oliver Queen, he also offered significant financial backing for the league’s activities.But the good times couldn’t last forever. Ollie rather publically lost his fortune and, in order to regain his attachment to the common man, left on an epic road trip with Hal Jordan(aka the Green Lantern). In a stunning display of parental skills Oliver also abandoned his adoptive son, Roy, who was 16 at the timeand developed something of a heroin addiction, ostensibly due to the loss of his parental figure. Upon learning that his ward and sidekickhad become a junkie, Ollie also kicked him out in yet another stunning display of parental skills. Seriously, world’s best dad. Dinahended up being the real adult figure in Roy’s life at the time and helping him through his addiction, since Ollie was unable to get over hisown bullshit enough to do it. Eventually, Green Arrow left the Justice League along with Black Lightning. This was approximately during the Identity Crisis era. Olliereturned to superheroing on his own, but accidentally ended up killing a villain. The incident disturbed him to the point that left the outsideworld and went to live at an Ashram monastery for a while, only leaving at the request of Dinah and Hal. Returning to the world at large, Ollie got a job as a columnist in a Star City paper which he used to bring light to various Social JusticeIssues he couldn’t directly tackle as Green Arrow. As Oliver Queen, he also ran for Mayor of Star City, but lost in a very tight race.Though it was believed that the election had been fixed against him, he chose not to fight the final vote. Around this time, Green Arrow’snow-prolific villain, Count Vertigo first appeared. Green Arrow died toward the beginning of Crisis on Infinite Earths, but itwas never spoken of again and is widely considered to be another Earth’s Green Arrow that happened to somehow slip into themainstream DCU during the event. Seriously, it was never discussed again. Following the events of Crisis, DC wanted to develop a line of more “adult” comics and it was decided that Green Arrow would be aguinea pig. To facilitate this, Ollie and Dinah moved from the fictional Star City to the very real Seattle. Ollie shed most of his trappingsas a superhero and began life as a much darker, more vigilante style character. Dinah was the only DC character to regularly feature inthe book. Other characters were given cameos, but referred to almost exclusively by their real, government names, and notany fruity superhero identities. During this grimdark era, Ollie and Dinah became tangled up in the strange crimes o the Seattle Slasher and a very dangerous drug ring.As it turned out, the Seattle Slasher was psychotic war vet. Ollie confronted him, but it looked like the soldier would get the best of himbefore he was killed by a mysterious archer with a large dragon tattoo using a Japanese bow. As fate would have it, Ollie had stumbled into the revenge plot of a Yakuza group operating in the US. The father of Shadow, the tattooedarcher, had been imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in World War II. In the camp he’d been tortured and had revealed thelocation of a treasure trove of Yakuza gold to his American tormentors. Shado’s father killed himself upon release, but his daughter wasforced by the yakuza to seek revenge upon coming of age. Upon hearing that the drug runners Dinah had been tracking were dead, Ollie freaked out and went looking for her. Finding her in anabandoned warehouse being tortured, Ollie killed her attackers with very little hesitation, solidifying the new grimdark tone of GreenArrow’s adventures. Shado killed more of her marks and on one occasion, left a note for Ollie to meet her at Mt. Rainier. Ollie tried half-heartedly to stopShado from killing her remaining targets, but she succeeded with relatively little effort. He confronted a CIA agent involved in the Yakuzaconflict and was given a great big suitcase of money by the agent who knew there was no way he’d get it out of the situation since theauthorities would now be involved. Resigning himself to putting the dirty money toward righteous goals, Ollie took it and headed back tobe with Dinah as she recovered from her attack. Over the course of his grimdark series, Ollie "made friends" with a mercenary, and that same CIA agent begantracking his activities. The grimdark period ended with Dinah dumping Ollie. The DC imprint, "Vertigo”"wasestablished shortly after this point, and Green Arrow was returned to the more mainstream DC Universe. Hisgrimdark Seattle adventures were seldom mentioned again. During the events of Zero Hour, Ollie was forced to shoot his buddy Hal Jordan, after Jordan had been taken over by asinister entity known as Parallax, gone crazy, and essentially declared himself God. Around this same time, ConnorHawke was revealed as Oliver’s long lost son. At the time, (in another exceptional display of parental skills) Ollieclaimed to have no idea he’d even had a kid. Soon after Connor’s revelation, Ollie was killed during a skirmish with agroup of eco-terrorists. Connor took over Ollie’s role as Green Arrow fulltime. Years later, a completely out of it Ollie turned up in Star City. He was found by Stanley Dover, an elderly gay man.Using a makeshift bow and an arsenal of trick arrows fashioned from bits of junk, Ollie saved Stanley from a gang ofattacking thugs. Recognizing the bearded hobo as Star City’s former defender somehow miraculously returned fromthe dead, Stanley took Ollie home and nursed him back to health. In the ensuing weeks, Ollie started patrolling asGreen Arrow again, but it became very obvious that not all was completely well. Ollie seemed to be missing greatlengths of time and believed pretty much everything to still be somewhere in the early 80s. Physically, he seemed tohave lost time as well. While he’d definitely been in his mid-to-late 40s at the end of the “grimdark” era, this rebornOliver was only around 35. In his first major adventure, Ollie took out a corrupt politician who was taking money from an afterschool program forunderprivileged kids to line his own pockets. In a lucky coincidence, but completely unknown to Ollie, the guy alsohad a penchant for underage hookers. As fate would have it, Mia Dearden, a 15 year old forced into prostitution by anabusive father and then an abusive boyfriend was with the politician at the time. Unable to help her while in costume,Ollie gave Mia the number to the after school program he’d set up with Stanley to pick up the slack from thepolitician’s money grubbing. A day or so later, Mia got into a fight with her pimp/boyfriend and ran off. She ended up at the afterschool programand quickly figured out that the guy with the Robin Hood beard was probably the guy who ran around in green tightsshooting arrows at people at night. Not quite blackmailing Ollie, she got herself a job and a place to stay with Ollieand Stanley under the strict requirements that she’d work at the program in the afternoons and go to school duringthe day. Around then, Batman caught wind of the new archer in town and thanks to some clever Bat-analysis, he figured outthat it could be no one other than Ollie (or someone of a very very similar size and strength). Curious to see exactlyhow Ollie managed to come back to life, Bats traveled to Star City. Later that day, Ollie ran into Aquaman entirely by chance. Together with Aquaman, he fought Black Manta and Arthur too him back to theWatchtower to check in with the Justice League. Finding that all of his friends had been replaced by these new kids,Ollie declared them all fascists and impostors and generally proceeded to have a freakout. He was punched out byBatman and taken back to the Batcave for study. Bats caught Ollie up on everything he’d missed in the past tenyears or so and then the pair returned to Star City to look for more answers. Around the same time Jason Blood and the demon Etrigan attacked Ollie. Together with Batman, Ollie fought him off.As it turned out Etrigan was attacking because the Oliver that had come back to life was a “hollow” or a the soullessshell of a human. Jason Blood attempted to kill Oliver’s body because “hollow”s have the potential to bring about theapocalypse or something, but Ollie was whisked away at the last minute by Hal who had become the new Spectre. In the afterlife, Hal revealed that he was the one to bring Ollie back to life with the consent of Oliver’s soul. Ollie wasthen introduced to his soul-self who explained that while Ollie’s physical body had all of Ollie’s memories to a point,he had only agreed to let Hal restore his life if he could be taken from the best part of his life. In this case, both Haland soul-Ollie agreed that the “best part” of his life was somewhere following he and Hal’s epic roadtrip. Apparently tothem, that was when Ollie was the most idealistic and pure. Despite the dangers of Ollie’s physical form runningaround soullessly on Earth, soul-Ollie refused to rejoin himself and sent Ollie’s body back down to reunite withBatman, Jason Blood, Dinah and Roy (who had appeared in Star City while Ollie was busy with the League andBatman). Channeling himself through Jason Blood, Deadman explained Ollie’s situation to them and the behest of Hal. Days later, Ollie returned to Stanley Dover’s brownstone and explained what had happened to his friend. Very keen tolearn that Ollie didn’t have a soul, Stanley clocked him over the head with his own bow and proceeded to try andtransfer his soul into Ollie’s soulless body. As it turned out, Stanley was a Satanist who had begun practicing as ayoung man in the 50s. Due to his devotion to his religion, he’d lost his family, but had reunited with his daughter andher new family relatively recently. Hoping to use his grandson to achieve immortality, he’d summoned a demon thathad fixated on his grandson instead. Because of his grandson’s kindness the demon of fire and brimstone had becomelittle more than a super interesting looking house-pet. Enraged at what had become of the demon he’d worked so hard to summon, Stanley kidnapped his own grandsonaway from his daughter and her husband until such time as the boy could transfer the demon to him. To facilitatethis, Stanley had become the Star City Slasher. In order to save Mia, Ollie overcame Stanley’s control and ended upfreeing the monster, which then ate him. In a last minute bit of growing up (from the afterlife even) Ollie’s soulreturned to him, ensuring that Stanley would be entirely unable to use Ollie’s body. The monster returned to beinglittle more than Stanley’s grandson’s imaginary friend while Ollie and Mia were left to return Stanley’s grandson to hismother and father. Since he figured he’d be able to take over Ollie’s body, Stanley had independently had his entire fortune and estatetransferred over to Oliver Queen upon his death, and as such, Ollie found himself independently wealthy again. Hedecided to stay in Stanley’s house, using it, as a base of operations for Green Arrow and assuring that nothing terriblewould ever happen there again. Life returned to the super heroic norm for Green Arrow. Reunited with his old family and his son, Connor Hawke, thesecond Green Arrow, Ollie soon faced off against Onomatopoeia , a sound-effect themed villain. In the conflict, Connor was shot and Ollie was faced with the idea of losing the familyhe’d only so recently regained. Still Ollie faced off against Onomatopoeia holding him hostage in the middle of thehospital as the doctor’s operated on Connor and everything ended up for the best. Still, jumping back into actual life after being dead for a long time can be a chore, and there were still a lot of missingpieces. Reunited with his former sidekick, Ollie set out on a mission what was left of his most precious superherorelated belongings. From the Flash Museum, Ollie stole the ring given to him by Barry Allen, from the Watchtower, hetook his old arsenal of trick arrows, from an abandoned Ferris Aircraft facility, he found the old truck he and Hal hadused on their cross-country adventure. Ollie also learned that while he’d requested a former adversary dispose of hisstuff, Shade had actually asked Catman to handle it for him. Upon gathering up all of his belongings, Ollie decided tohandle it correctly this time, and let Roy take care of disposing of his stuff when he finally died again. This time, Olliealso left a photo of him and Connor shortly after Connors birth in the pack for Roy to find. Prior to this Ollie hadmaintained that he had no idea he’d even had a son. Wanting to retrain himself, Ollie had Connor and Mia dump him off at a pacific island for a month where he could learnto hunt for himself again and live off the land. While Ollie was doing his retraining, his old adversary, Count Vertigoappeared to try and kill him, but found that he couldn’t kick his old nemesis when he was down. Vertigo had movedon from the supervillain racket and his obsession with Green Arrow was his last remaining resentment from that eraof his life, but he discovered that in the end, facing old resentments like that wouldn’t help him move on. During a high profile legal battle against a drug company operating in Star City, Ollie became involved with BlackLightning’s niece, Joanna. Her uncle had introduced her to Oliver Queen, hoping that while he couldn’t contributeanything to her case, Oliver would be able to, since he’d always been a bit of a bleeding heart for hyper-liberalcauses. Sure enough, Ollie took on funding the case both on the books and helped out with the research as GreenArrow. Tragically, Joanna’s involvement with Green Arrow would prove fatal to her. The company Joanna was suingand Green Arrow was investigating hired Constantine Drakon, a very skilled, very small assassin to make GreenArrow’s life hell. Discovering Ollie’s connection to Joanna, Drakon killed her and planned to do the same to Connorand Mia. Connor was able to escape Drakon by blowing up their home’s kitchen. The following adventures had Ollie and Mia finding the Arrow-Mobile up for auction on eBay and Connor spending anevening of brotherly bonding with Roy. Overall, the family grew closer together with the exception of Ollie and Dinahbetween whom had developed something of a rift. Ollie felt guilty over sleeping with Joanna while he was still semi-involved with Dinah and even guiltier over what had become of her and refused to speak with Dinah for a long time.Frustrated by his silence, Dinah punched him in the face before dumping him. Ollie wasn’t allowed to mope for long, however. Shortly after his falling out with Dinah, he and Connor discovered thatthe Riddler was working in Star City, stealing various objects of mystical significance. Through the clues and riddlesleft behind, Ollie and Connor were able to figure out that the Riddler had an atomic bomb and planned on holding thecity hostage. The mayor of Star City didn’t quite believe their costumed defenders, however, and refused to evacuate.While the Riddler worked his own angle, however, his employer (the reason he’d been stealing all those mysticalobjects) set about using them. With absolutely no warning, all modern technology went dead in Star City. The blackouts led to looters, but people quickly discovered that any breaking of the law would result in a visit fromvery large, very scary demons. Finally willing to listen to Green Arrow, the mayor allowed Ollie to assemble a taskforce of some of the city’s worst gangsters and best cops. During the conflict, Mia asked to be allowed to help.Although she’d been begging Ollie to train her as Speedy since shortly after she’d moved in with him, this was thefirst time Ollie had actually let her participate in any of their fights. Led by the arrow-fam, the ragtag group ofdefenders attacked the source of the mystical demons. As it turned out, the demons had been summoned by a mannamed Albert Davis, whose family had been killed in a violent crime. Although Davis had intended the demons to beStar City’s protectors, his spell had backfired and they’d used the opportunity to come to the physical realm and takeover any land they could. Upon breaking into Davis’s mansion, the arrow-fam discovered that he was, indeed, aprisoner. Davis begged for someone to kill him saying that it was the only way to put a stop to the demons. WhileConnor and Ollie hesitated, Mia shot Davis through the heart, breaking the spell. Star City returned to normal for a time, but peace never really manages to last long there. Soon after, a newcrimelord moved in and began stealing territory. A metahuman, Daniel “Brick” Brickwell couldn’t be killed byconventional means due to an impressively thick, stone like skin. Kidnapping the District Attorney’s daughter, he ranboth Green Arrows and their would be sidekick ragged looking for her. In one of the altercations, Mia was injured andneeded to be taken for medical treatment. At the hospital, it was discovered that she had HIV. Slightly freaked out over the crime wave hitting his City and the revelation that his adoptive daughter had thishideous, very life threatening disease, Ollie marched into Brick’s home base and demanded a fight. The winner wouldtake Star City, and the loser would disappear forever. At first, Ollie got the crap kicked out of him, but after somevery carefully placed punches and trick arrows, he gained the upper hand. Ollie left Brick’s house and was confronted by Mia upon returning home. She asked that he let her be Speedy,explaining that she wanted to do something important with whatever time she had left and didn’t want to be treatedas any more fragile or breakable because of her HIV. After some deep thoughts, Ollie agreed, but told her itwould be a heck of a lot of work. During her first few weeks as Speedy, Mia met the Teen Titans and started a crime fighting relationship with them.Hearing about Ollie’s new sidekick (and immediately knowing who it must be) Roy (the original Speedy) rushed backto town to try and talk sense into his adoptive father. Their chats were cut short, however, when an android with asouthern accent attacked a Star City bank. The entirety of Team Arrow swooped in to stop him, and while the twoGreen Arrows and Speedy took on the android directly, Roy stayed behind to disarm a bomb. The bank ended upexploding anyway, and Roy was taken hostage by Constantine Drakon. As Ollie, Connor, Mia, and Roy’s team, TheOutsiders all looked for him, they were confronted by the Riddler. Clearly an obscene amount of bad people wereflocking to Star City. With the help of The Outsiders, though, and the power of friendship, Ollie, Connor, and Mia wereable to rescue Roy and put a stop to the baddies. Returning to Star City, they set about licking their wounds andgetting ready for the next fight. Just as they wandered up to their brownstone, however, the place exploded. Quiteliterally in their faces. After finding a new base of operations, in a newly renovated skyscraper, Ollie had some adventures with themysterious pseudo-villain Anarky, but other than that, it was a relatively quiet time. Grateful to The Outsiders for allof their help, he also began quietly funding their operations, despite the team’s less than stellar reputation. Ollie andAnarky parted ways on a very positive note, Ollie taking away that although his politics were still relatively liberal,he’d mellowed a lot in his old age. The good times again weren’t meant to last, however, and Ollie caught wind that Dr. Light had stumbled on his secretidentity and the identities of his entire. Ollie’s paranoia ended up being justified. Contacting his old friend BlackLightning, Ollie and BL went looking for Dr. Light. Unfortunately, they found him, but not before he was able to stealthe second Dr. Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)’s powers from her. Dr. Light then proceeded to use Killer Frost and Mirror Masterto attack Ollie and Black Lightning. Meanwhile, in Star City, Dr. Light attacked Mia at her school. Attempting to lurehim away from her innocent and entirely defenseless classmates, Mia unwittingly led him to their home base. WhileConnor and Mia fought Dr. Light, Ollie and Jeff (Black Lightning) rushed back to Star City to help. They made it, butwere attacked by Merlyn, an archer with a grudge against Green Arrow before they could offer any help. As Black Lightning tried to help the kids, Ollie faced off against Merlyn and ended up impaled on two of his ownarrows. Dr. Light destroyed their new home, trapping Mia and Connor under the debris, and Ollie bled out on a StarCity rooftop as Dr. Light continued to destroy Star City. It’s at this spectacular moment that Ollie passes out and wakes up in the City! PERSONALITY: Ollie is a pretty emotional guy. He’s blustery, and tends to want everyone to know his opinions at all times. Yougenerally will always know where you stand with him, even if it’s not in the most positive light. However, he knowshis opinions are a little extreme, particularly in regards to politics, and not everyone will share them. As such, he isperfectly cool with disagreements between friends. In Ollie’s universe, good friends should be able to have “livelydiscourse” and disagree while still remaining just as great friends. Freedom of speech and all that. He has a good, if slightly inappropriate sense of humor and will crack wise whenever he damn well pleases despite thesomberness of a given situation. The only time this shifts is when his family is in danger. Ollie is well aware that hehasn’t always been the best or the most responsible patriarch and at this point in his life, is dedicated to making thatright. His kids (Connor, Roy, and Mia) are what matter most to him and he will do anything (absolutely anything) toensure that they are safe, happy, and provided for. Still, he fears responsibility to a certain degree and still tends to self-sabotage when he feels things are going to well.This is particularly evident in his relationships with women (IE the whole thing with Joanna and Dinah). Still, if Ollie isin love with anyone, it’s Dinah. He’s proposed to her twice on panel in various degrees of seriousness and wouldhappily spend the rest of his life with her. He also promised her that he’d wait however long she needed. Whether he’scapable of following through on that is debatable, but he definitely meant what he said and that’s the more importantthing here. It wasn’t just idle talk to chat up a pretty lady. Despite his general good humor and strong positive feelings on family and life, Ollie can have something of a darkside. Following the events ofThe Longbow Hunters, the assassin Shado told Ollie that he’d developed the eyes ofa killer. That’s not entirely inaccurate. He is capable of being exceptionally cruel and brutal, especially to people whothreaten his family or his ability to protect Star City. Ollie generally doesn’t let himself fall into this behavior or thisline of thinking, but that’s also due to his family ties. Connor and Mia (and to a lesser extent, Roy and Dinah) are thebrightness in his life and what keep him from developing a more Batman-type personality disorder. Bruce once saidthat the fundamental difference between them was that Ollie still believed people to be inherently good, his family isprobably to thank for that. POWER: Ollie has no canonic powers. He’s a very skilled archer with a pull weight of 103lbs (average pull weight being around60-70 lbs). He keeps in excellent shape, but is in no way superhuman on his own. For the game, I’d give him superhuman accuracy and the ability to always keep his stupid little Robin Hood hat on hishead. Like. No matter what.
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