Thea Queen

Thea Dearden Queen, also known as Speedy, is a protagonist on CW's Arrow and is a supporting character in the Arrowverse.
She is the daughter of Malcolm Merlyn and Moira Queen, and is the half-sister to Oliver Queen, Tommy Merlyn and Saracon, and the adoptive sister and stepsister to Emiko Adachi. After being trained how to fight by Malcolm, and being saved from the Lazarus Pit, she became a vigilante and member of Team Arrow.
She is portrayed by Willa Holland.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Thea Dearden Queen was born on January 21, 1995 due to an affair between Moira Queen and Malcolm Merlyn, and was the half-sister to Tommy Merlyn, Saracon, and Oliver Queen. Malcolm was unaware that Thea was his daughter, but Robert was aware of Moira's adultery, but still loved Thea like she was his own. When she was four years old, Thea found a stray cat and brought it home, and attempted to keep it. Robert told Thea that the cat was actually a tiger, and they couldn't keep it, and she understood.
In her childhood, Thea loved Robert dearly, and idolized her older brother Oliver, and the two had a close bond, with Oliver nicknaming her "Speedy" due to her always chasing him. Every Christmas, Oliver and Thea would compete to see who could eat the holiday candy canes the fastest, and Oliver claims she would cheat to win every year. Thea also became close to Laurel Lance and Tommy Merlyn, and didn't know that she was related to Tommy until they were older.
As she grew older, Thea became created and loved to draw and color, and even drew on the walls of their home. When she was young, she fell off a horse and broke her arm, and also attended her first boy-girl dance that her father disapproved of due to her dress, and terrified her date. In 2007, Thea learned that Robert and Oliver were both presumably killed when the Queen's Gambit sunk, leaving her devastated.
Moira became emotionally distant to Thea, causing the child to feel alone, depressed, and disconnected to the world. By the time she was fifteen years old, Thea fell into a life of drugs and partying to fill in the void of losing her father and brother. Unbeknownst to Thea, Oliver survived the sinking of the Queen's Gambit, as Robert killed himself to make sure his son would wash ashore to safety.
Around 2010, Moira had became close to Walter Steele, and Thea was scolded by Tommy when he saw her drug dealer came to her after she visited Oliver and Robert's graves. Thea later sneaked into Tommy's 25th birthday party, and witnessed her drug dealer fall from a balcony and die, but it was actually her brother having killed him.
==Arrow==
==Personality==
Initially, Thea was an arrogant, reckless, selfish, impulsive, and immature spoiled brat. She turned to a life of substance abuse and partying to fill the void of losing her father Robert and older brother Oliver Queen. However, when Moira tried to be a decent parent for the first time by grounding her for breaking into a store, Thea obeyed the punishment even though she called Moira out at first. She also has a good heart and often tries to do the right thing, and looks up to Oliver. When she meets Roy Harper, a young criminal, she quickly forms a strong romantic attraction, and she is shown to be extremely devoted to him, repeatedly bailing him out of jail. She also showed up to the auction for Unidac Industries to support Walter even though she said she had no intention of going at first. After Roy is saved by the Hood, Thea goes along with him to meet the man who saved his life. This shows that Thea, while young, reckless, and impulsive, has a strong sense of loyalty and camaraderie for those she loves. Thea is also shown to be unpredictable. One example was when she would intentionally show up late to school and sometimes be on time.
After working with Laurel, her partying and drug abusing days came to be exchanged for a more dutiful and emotionally responsible personality. After the quake, Thea became much more responsible, having to fend for herself financially from Moira's imprisonment, and Oliver's self-imposed exile. She eventually became the new owner of Verdant. Though Thea was originally opposed to Roy being a vigilante like the Arrow she eventually warmed up to it when Roy saved Sin, although Thea still tried to be involved as much as possible. When Roy is injected with the Mirakuru and becomes more aggressive, Thea begins to feel pushed away as Roy doesn't talk about it with her. When Roy later breaks up with her she becomes extremely depressed. Furthermore, when Thea learns that Malcolm Merlyn is her biological father from Slade Wilson, she becomes angry towards Oliver and Moira, for keeping the secret from her, branding them liars and disowning them as family. 
However, ultimately Thea's love for her family broke through and when Moira was murdered by Slade to protect Thea, right in front of her with her final words to Thea that she loves her, her rage completely vanished and was replaced with utter grief and regret over what had happened between them. Numbed with remorse over how she never managed to reconcile with her mother and how Moira died believing Thea still hated her, Thea was broken to the point she decided to leave Star City. Likewise, her bitterness towards Oliver completely disappeared as well, expressing regret how harshly she treated him, and even offering to keep in touch with her half-brother.
When Malcolm appears during the Siege, protecting her from Slade's super-soldiers, saying he was her father, she at first rejected Malcolm, was disgusted by him and even tried to shoot him, (Thea is more like her biological father, then she realizes). However, after Thea learned of Roy working with the Arrow, this was the last straw for her and so she went back to Malcolm. Determined not to feel weak or hurt ever again, Thea sought training from Malcolm, to teach her how to defend herself.
After six months' training under Malcolm, Thea has become a much more confident, disciplined, emotionally stronger person and can physically fend for herself as well. Despite Malcolm being a murderer, she has accepted Malcolm as her father and calls him "dad". However, she has also become manipulative in lying about not knowing Malcolm, his training her and avoiding any conversations about him with Oliver. Malcolm's harsh training has turned her in a capable fighter as she is able to act quickly and decisively when cornered. This was shown when confronted with the Arrow, she threw glass in his face and kicked him in the groin after which she escaped. Later on, when Thea finally learns of Oliver's identity as the Arrow, she showed great maturity in accepting her half-brother's vigilante identity, she went back to looking up to him and gracefully praised him for all of the lives he'd saved, for all the good he'd done for Starling City, knowing everything he did was to protect her.
However, when Thea learns from Oliver that Malcolm had drugged and brainwashed her with Vitura (a drug that made her extremely susceptible to suggestion) and had her murder Sara Lance under his manipulations, Thea is devastated. She is beyond horrified at what she was forced to do. She begins to unravel, holding Slade Wilson at gunpoint on Lian Yu, and viciously turns against Malcolm. When faced against the League of Assassins, Thea arranges for them to kidnap Malcolm so he faces justice. When Oliver points out, she will feel guilty for what she did, she tried to brush this off, however, her conscience catches up with her, Thea realizes she tried to have her own father killed while wracked with guilt over Sara and coming to regret every decision she's made since accepting Malcolm. She even attempts suicide by Nyssa's hand. 
When Oliver returns with Malcolm, Thea, feels remorse for what she did to her father, but covered it up, when she said she would turn him over to the league all over again. She laments she doesn't know what she's doing, who she is anymore.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Former Powers===
*Dark Magic Immunity: After going through the Lazarus Pit, she gained the magical ability to be immune to dark magic, notably Damien Darhk's powers. However, since she's been cured of the pit's effects, she no likely has the dark magic immunity.
===Abilities===
*High Intelligence: Thea show herself to be intelligent and resourceful, and later became a successful businesswoman and run a night club perfectly.
*Indomitable Will: Thea was trained by Malcolm to withstand pain by having hot water poured over her hand, and later didn't flinch when someone accidently spilled hot coffee on her hand. She has also shown great mental strength, being able to overcome the brainwashing effects of H.I.V.E.'s drug with her brother's encouragement.
*Peak Human Physical Condition: After five months of training from Malcolm, Thea reached her physical peak, and became a vigilante alongside her half-brother Oliver when joining Team Arrow.
*Honed Senses: Thea's senses became more acute and sharp, and deduced something was wrong when brought to Tevat Noah by Alex Davis for a vacation.
*Master Acrobat: Thea's flexibility and agility reached her physical peak after receiving training from Malcolm. She was able to escape from Oliver by jumping off her balcony, and is able to scale buildings and do parkour.
*Archery: Thea is a master archer, and has won multiple archery contests. After receiving training from Malcolm, she became better with archery, being able to quickly shoot three arrows into Sara's chest and Oliver's arm.
*Master Martial Artist: Trained for several months by Malcolm Merlyn, Thea became skilled in martial arts and Kenjutsu, proving a formidable fighter. After becoming Speedy she further honed her skills and became more experienced, being able to hold her own against Talia Al Ghul's acolytes and could defeat members of the Thanatos guild, who were all former League Of Assassins members. By the end of the series her skill had reached such a point of mastery that she could duel Talia Al Ghul herself on equal grounds, even eventually defeat her, though this was by using dirty tactics.
*Multilingualism: Thea is able to fluently speak English, Spanish and Arabic.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*She is a fan of the Harry Potter series.
*Thea's middle name "Dearden", her codename "Speedy" and her going by "Mia" during her time on Corto Maltese, is a reference to the DC superheroine Speedy (Mia Dearden).
*She is similar to Sara Lance and Buffy Summers who were ex rebellious teenagers who become superheroes.
*Thea would serve as the inspiration for the later addition of Emiko Queen in the comics to adapt the concept of Green Arrow having a half-sister who would later fight alongside him in his vigilante crusade against crime.
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