William Queen

> *"This is the beginning of the future"* - **William Queen**
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Oliver Queen (father)
Felicity Smoak (step-mother)
Julie Queen (half-sister)

# Early Life

## Childhood

William Clayton Queen was born on August 9, 1397 to Samantha Clayton and Oliver Queen in Central City.

William was conceived during Oliver Queen’s affair with Samantha Clayton in 1396. Oliver shared the news with his mother, Moira, expressing that he had messed up. Thinking this could potentially ruin Oliver's life, Moira paid  Samantha one million dollars to pretend she had miscarried and "asked" her to move away to Central City and never to see Oliver again.

Although  Samantha never took the money, she agreed to lie to Oliver, and moved to Central City. She also denied Moira access to the child; as  Samantha believed the former would be a bad influence on her son.

William Clayton was solely raised by his mother with the aid of her parents Frank and Irene Clayton.

 Samantha loved him and did her best to make sure William lived a well adjusted, happy life. As a child, William was kind, caring and polite, like his father, he is a big fan of baseball, he is a huge fan of Green Arrow and  the Flash

#### Meeting his father

Eight years later, William's mother visited CC Jitters. She called him, promising to be back with a hot chocolate soon. A year later, William was running through CC Jitters with his action figure and ran into his father, Oliver, unbeknownst to both of them. He dropped it and Oliver went to give William back his figurine of  the Flash and he ran to his mother. The sight of him with his mother made Oliver start to mentally connect some dots.

On their way to see a Central City Diamonds game, William and his mother were briefly stopped by Oliver. While his mother was conversing with Oliver, William told his mother to hurry or they'd miss the game. Unknowingly, Oliver managed to get one of William's hairs so that he could run some DNA tests. Later, while playing with his action figures on his home patio, William and his mother were interrupted by Oliver once again. He was then told to go play with his toys inside the house. Unknown to him, his mother and Oliver got into an argument as Oliver had found out that William was his son.

William unknowingly meets his father for the first time.
The following day, William was formally greeted by Oliver, who told him he was an old friend of his mother's. He was asked if it was okay if he visited him once in a while and the two played with his Flash and Captain Cold action figures.

#### Kidnapped by Damien Darhk

On Damien Darhk's orders, Malcolm Merlyn kidnapped William from his home, where he was staying, and Damian brought him to the hotel where he, Damian, was staying, to be his daughter, Nora's playmate.Damian confronted Oliver and Felicity Smoak and demanded that Oliver get out of the race for mayor but Oliver refused. He then got a video on his phone of William. After Samantha was told the truth about Oliver's secret identity and the team received the help from Vixen, his action figure was used to try and magically track him. However, he was moved by Damian to another location before he could be rescued minutes prior to when they arrived.

At Darhk’s hideout, William heard the commotion made by Team Arrow as they fought against Darhkand his Ghosts. He ran outside to find Darhk was magically choking the Green Arrow. When Darhk’s magic was cut off he saw the Green Arrow begin beating Darhk in anger. William and the Green Arrow spent a moment staring at each other before he left when the police began to arrive. At the DCPD, he was reunited with his mother who had his Flash action figure. He told her that he was bored with  the Flash and now wanted one of the Green Arrow. She agreed with him that the Green Arrow was indeed amazing, not knowing that the actual Green Arrow was standing not too far off from them. After that Oliver sent him and his mother away to keep them safe, also making a recording that was meant for William to hear on his 18th birthday, revealing their relation and his identity as the Green Arrow to his son.

William and his mother soon began living in a new city under different identities where he started attending Cadena Hall Elementary under the identity Matthew.

#### His Mom’s Death

William was later tracked down by Adrian Chase at his bus stop who called him by his name, William, though he said that his name was Matthew. Adrian claimed that he was a friend of Oliver's and tricked William into going with him. When he was arrested, he sent a phone message to Oliver with a video attached of William screaming for help, which prompted him to try to free him from custody. However, the kidnapper didn't divulge where he was keeping William.

Soon after being kidnapped, William was put on a boat that was anchored off the shore of Lian Yu, which Adrian would attempt to use to escape the island. Arriving on the island, Oliver demanded Prometheus to give up William, but he evaded the answer and battled Oliver instead. The kidnapper claimed that William was dead so that he could convince Oliver to kill him, but the Green Arrow didn't give in. Later, Prometheus escaped the battle and headed to the boat in which William was in, but Oliver quickly chased after him and fought him for William's location. Prometheus grabbed William, who was kept inside the boat, and dared Oliver to kill him for William's safety, but it would also mean that Prometheus's kill-switch would blow the island up along with everyone on it.

William with his now revealed father watching the destruction of Lian Yu.
However, if Oliver chooses not to kill Prometheus, everyone on the island would survive, but William would not. Oliver shot Adrian in the leg and secured William who jumped to safety in the arms of his father. Prometheus told Oliver that William now knows who his father really is, though he is younger than Oliver was when he learned the truth. He explained that it was a good thing because he would now have to live without his mother. Oliver shielded William's view of Prometheus as he took a gun and then shot himself in the head. Soon after killing himself, the killswitch was triggered and the two of them look on as a series of explosions are set off all over Lian Yu, which resulted in Samantha’s death.

Following his kidnapping by Adrian and the death of  his mother, William had become emotionally traumatized and distant, he suffered frequent nightmares about Adrian and his mother's death, but put up a tough façade around Oliver, however, when his father was not around, he broke down crying. These problems of William's are symptomatic of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, fitting, considering the experiences he had endured.

#### Moving in with Oliver

Following his mother's death during the explosions on Lian Yu, William was taken in by Oliver. Oliver enlisted the help of his former nanny, Raisa, to care for William as his grueling schedule of being the mayor of Washington, DC and Green Arrow left little time for child care. For the next five months, William had trouble adjusting, coping with the loss of his mother, starting at a new school, and getting to know his father. At first, William had frequent nightmares, however, he slowly started warming up to Oliver. Initially, William blamed Oliver for what happened to him and his mother,  Samantha, due to this, despite knowing that Oliver was his father, he referred to him by his first name and mostly ignored him as he display signs of anger whenever he talked to his father, calling him the "bad man", William also refused to talk to Oliver about his problems in school, but he eventually forgave Oliver for what happened to him and  Samantha, knowing that his father did his best to protect them from the individual who was truly responsible for his mother's death. According to Raisa; William had difficulty fitting in at school - much like Oliver did at his age. William had also come to despise Oliver's vigilante career; fearing for his father's life

#### Standing Up to Bullies

When it was revealed Oliver was supposedly the Green Arrow to the world, at his school, William was bullied by eighth graders that claimed Oliver was not there for him, receiving a black eye in the process. Oliver picked up William in his limo, and attempted to get him to open up. He gave a lesson in self defense. This resulted in William punching the largest of the group next time in the nose, ultimately getting the rest to back off. When being called to the school, Oliver needed to leave before to leave due to conflict with Cayden James, before having a chance to talk to William, leaving William alone, angry, and to be taken home by his driver and security. That night, Oliver attempted to reach out to William and apologize. William was scared of losing his father and becoming an orphan, and Oliver promised his son to be the best father he could be and to do everything in his power to ensure he comes back, leading to father and son playing video games together as William accepted his apology.

Oliver eventually decided to give up being Green Arrow in order to take care of William. Jon Diggle took on the role of Green Arrow in his absence. However, though improving, Oliver still had trouble connecting with William, particularly because he has never been any good at school, while William excelled at it. At Oliver's request, Felicity stepped in and became William's math tutor. Seeing how good she was with William prompted Oliver to reconsider his relationship with Felicity, and ultimately led to them getting back together.

#### Meeting Auntie Thea and his Parents Wedding

William celebrated Thanksgiving with his father. At this time, Oliver's sister, Thea awoke from her coma, and William got to meet his aunt for the first time. When Oliver and Felicity celebrated their wedding with a party, William got to know his aunt Thea. William asked her if he could have champagne, to which Thea promised him a sip, but only during the toasts at the party, to which Oliver agreed was alright for Robert and Moira had allowed the two of them to do the same at that age. William later danced with Thea.

## High School

#### Attack of Helix

William later took a field trip outside Washington, DC, and on his bus bullies attempted to mess with him but he ignored them. Later, the tunnel was being attacked by Cayden James' hack attack, and he bravely got the other kids of the bus, but was later saved by his father as Green Arrow. Though angry at his father for turning back to vigilantism, back at his father's bunker, William reconciled his own desires of wanting his father to stay safe, and with help from Felicity and as he saw Oliver be a hero on the Overwatch cameras. Later back home, William encouraged his father to be a hero. William then was kidnapped by Cayden James as revenge. William saw Cayden's detonator on the floor and started strolling towards it. A firefight broke out inside and Cayden took the detonator from William and revealed to Oliver that he intends to level the city. William is recovered and taken home.

#### Moving in with the Grandparents

When Oliver was being arrested for being the Green Arrow, Oliver explained to William why he must go and told William to be strong and look after himself and Felicity. William was then raised by Felicity during Oliver’s incarceration.

While away at Cambridge boarding school in 1411, William gets into a fight and expelled. His resulting anger and confusion was something William took out on Oliver for never being around and all the bad things that happened. Believing Oliver couldn't understand him, William called his grandparents, hoping they could give him a normal life. After Stanley Dover nearly killed him, Oliver agreed to send him away for William's own safety

#### Coming Home

William only stayed with his grandparents for a couple months before realizing that despite his anger and longing for a normal life, he missed his parents and their crazy life. He returned home, and shortly after, his parents told him that he was going to be an older brother.

#### Siblings

William’s younger half-sister, Julie, was born in 1412. The two were very close despite the 15 year age difference. William tolerated and loved Julie despite mischief she got into.

Eventually, given everything that had happened in their life, Felicity had a tracking device implanted within both her children’s arms in case they fell into danger

#### Kidnappings

William has been kidnapped three times as a child, all of which were connected to his father.

* he was kidnapped by Malcolm Merlyn (under the orders of Damien Darhk) to blackmail Oliver into stepping down from his mayoral campaign.
* he was kidnapped by Adrian Chase in his plan to make Oliver suffer and force the latter to kill him on Lian Yu.
* he was kidnapped by John Byrne to get revenge on Oliver for arresting him.

## University

With influence from his mom, Felicity, William continued to foster his interest in technology.

His favorite ice cream is rocky road

# Mid Life

## Career

William was recruited by Zoey Coulson to join SPEAR as a tech consultant/ hacker.  Zoey knew of William, not only through  his father’s reputation, but also William had made a name for himself in the vigilante world. With SPEAR’s connection to SHIELD and the semi-approval from the government, William was able to continue his mission and legacy of helping people in danger and protecting them from the crazy dangers out there. William became known by the codename Black Wing.

### Parenthood

William and Lisbeth had one daughter, Cynthia Queen in 1428