William Clayton

William Clayton (formerly known as Matthew when in hiding from H.I.V.E. and William Harris in an erased future) is a supporting character in the Arrowverse being the main protagonist of the Season 7/deuteragonist of Season 8 flash forward storylines. He is the son of Oliver Queen / Green Arrow and the late Samantha Clayton, the stepson of Felicity Smoak, the paternal half-brother of Mia Queen, the grandson of the late Robert Queen and Moira Dearden Queen, Frank and Irene Clayton, and the nephew of Thea and Emiko Queen. He is also the step-grandson of Donna Smoak and Noah Kutler, and, in an erased future, a member of the Canaries and Team Arrow. 
After his mother's death on Lian Yu when was destroyed by the explosives on the island, William went to live with his father. However, he and his step-mother were forced to go into hiding from Ricardo Diaz and the Ninth Circle. After growing exhausted by this excitement, William went to live with his grandparents, Frank and Irene who subsequently ceased their grandson's contact from Oliver and Felicity. This, unfortunately lead William to believe that both of his parents abandoned him and growing up alone. In an erased future, William joined his now adult half-sister Mia in defeating the Deathstroke gang but found himself in 2019 before the Monitor Crisis. 
In the new Multiverse created by his father and the paragons, William was raised by his stepmother alongside his sister and got a chance to know his grandmother Moira and his aunt, Emiko
== History==
===Background===
When Oliver was in college, he had a romantic affair with his classmate Samanthantha Clayton in a one night stand and got the young woman pregnant.  He confided this to his mother, Moira about the incident and believed he had screwed up.   Moira feared this ruined her son's future. She offered to pay Samantha one million dollars to lie to Oliver about miscarrying and another million to move back Central City and never have contact with her son again. Samantha took the money and told Oliver about the lie over the phone.  She later gave birth to William but never cashed in the two million dollars Moira paid her. Not wanting her son to grow under the influenced of the Queen family, Samantha raised her son on her own. 
== Personality==
William was a bright and brilliant as a child. He wasn't aware of his relationship to the Queens and loved being raised by Samantha, despite their small family. He used to be a fan of the Flash, immediately befriended Oliver despite not knowing their relationship at the time. They shared a love of baseball. After Lian Yu, William partially blamed Oliver for her death because he had not been able to save her. However, after a heart to heart with Oliver, William and his father reconciled. After some time, he grew accustomed to calling Oliver "Dad," showing William was getting used to Oliver being his father. He later feared losing his father when he became the Green Arrow once more. Overtime, William also grown close to his father's girlfriend, Felicity Smoak, who became a mother figure to him. He was willing to accept her as a second mother, who would later become his guardian in the new multiverse. However, when he lost contact with both of his parents, William thought Oliver and Felicity had abandoned him when in reality, his maternal grandparents ceased contact with the couple. 
As an adult, William was close with his sister, Mia, with a relationship similar between their father and their aunt Thea. The future version of Mia had saved him from a man who wanted to exact vengeance on Oliver's son because the man had apprehended him seven years prior. In the original multiverse, William was not raised with his sister and didn't meet her until adulthood.
==Relationships==
=== Family=== 
*Moira Queen - Paternal Grandmother
*Robert Queen † - Paternal Grandfather
*Franklin Clayton - Maternal Grandfather
*Irene Clayton - Maternal Grandmother
*Donna Smoak - Maternal Step-Grandmother
*Noah Kuttler - Maternal Step-Grandfather
* Oliver Queen † - Father
*Samantha Clayton † - Mother
*Felicity Smoak - Step-mother
* Mia Queen - Half-Sister
*Thea Queen - Aunt
*Emiko Queen - Aunt
*Roy Harper - Future Uncle by marriage 
*Maternal Step-Great-Grandparents
===Allies===
*Nora Darhk - Playmate
*Lyla Michaels/Harbinger
*Team Arrow - Former Teammates 
**Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog
**John Diggle/Spartan
*Canaries
**Zoe Ramirez/Black Canary
**Laurel Lance/Black Canary
**Dinah Drake/Black Canary
*Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific
*Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
*Conner Hawke
*Raisa - Former Caretaker
*Mari McCabe/Vixen 
*Quentin Lance
*Anatoly Knyazev
* Mar Novu/The Monitor
*Yao Fei Gulong
===Enemies===
*Adrian Chase / Prometheus - Abductor and Attempted Killer
*Evelyn Sharp/Artemis 
* Malcolm Merlyn - Kidnapper
* Damien Darhk - Former Captor
*Digger Harkness / Captain Boomerang
* Deathstroke's Gang 
**J.J. Diggle/Deathstroke
**Grant Wilson/Deathstroke
*Edward Fyers †
*Billy Wintergreen †
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*The Anti-Monitor - Killer (undone)
* Eden Corps/Galaxy One (erased future) 
**Keven Dale - Ex-boyfriend 
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==Trivia==
*In the future, it is revealed he had an ex-boyfriend in the past. It is also shown he is homosexual and his biological father Oliver and adoptive mother Felicity, have known about that since he was a teenager. In the new future, William was dating Keven Dale, who was ironically his sister's enemy in the erased future until the latter cheated on him and broken his heart. 
*Despite not being related, William and Felicity both mutually consider each other to be mother and son. When Mia first meets William and assumes that he is one of Felicity's former lovers, he is disgusted by the thought of it. William immediately states Felicity is his mother (using the term "step-mother" only shortly after.)
*He is similar to his aunt Thea: both were illegitimate children whose fathers were, at one point, Ra's Al Ghul (Oliver briefly became Ra's after defeating the previous one in battle and passed on the title to Thea's father, Malcolm.) and are the sibling of the Green Arrow (Oliver and Mia). They also have some form of resentment towards their mother or maternal figure (for William he believed his stepmother abandoned him when he was a teenager and didn't contact him until 2040 and Thea was driven away by her mother Moria's secrets, mostly in regards to her true parentage). 
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