Roy Harper

### Relatives

Mother: Mary Harper(dead)father: Roy william Harper sr. (dead)Adopted father 1: Chife Raymond Brave Bow(dead)adopted father 2: Oliver queenAdopted mother: Dinah Lance-QueenAdopted brother: Conner Hawkeadopted sister: Emiko Queenhonorary brother: Jason ToddDaughters: LI Harper, Harper RowGirlFriend: Nickaletta Sanders

### Affiliation

the Arrow squad, team arrow, titans, outlaws, outsiders

### Occupation

Hero for hire, head of board of directors of smoke industries

## Physical description

### Eye color

green

Roy Harper, Jr. is the son of Roy Harper, Sr., an Oregon State Forest Ranger, and his wife Mary Harper, who died in childbirth. The death of Mary Harper was not the only tragedy young Roy was destined to know. When Roy, Jr. was three, his father was killed in a forest fire, trying to evacuate members of a nearby Native American tribal reservation. After hearing of the dead ranger’s orphaned son, Chief Raymond Brave-Bow offered to adopt Roy, raising the boy like he would have raised his own sons, who had been killed in the same fire that claimed the life of Roy’s father. Together, Raymond and Roy became each other’s surrogate family, spending much of their time hunting in the charred remains of the same forest that took so much from each of them.

It was on these hunting trips that Raymond learned of Roy’s natural talent for archery, hunting, tracking, and wilderness survival. Raymond bolstered that talent, teaching Roy traditional tribal techniques and by the time he was twelve, Roy considered himself to be tribe’s greatest hunter and scout.

Because of Roy’s “personality” (for lack of a better word), several of Roy’s peers became tired of this white boy thinking he was better than them and on a hunting trip, two of the more troubled boys in the tribe conspired to teach Roy a lesson. They beat him unconscious, chained him to a tree, and left him to the elements for the remainder of the night. They planned to come for Roy in the morning, hoping to have instilled some humility in him, but when they returned Roy had escaped and fled to Star City, where a modern day Robin Hood character had been sighted. In Star City, Roy lived on the streets for two weeks before he managed to track down this vigilante archer and gain an audience with him.

Impressed with the boy’s tenacity, Green Arrow lent the boy his bow to see what he could do and was impressed with the boy’s incredible speed, though his accuracy could use some work. Since Batman had a teenage partner, why couldn’t Green Arrow? Naming Roy “Speedy” (a name that he did not car for), Star City’s quivered duo was born.

Roy became Speedy, the sidekick to the Green Arrow. Most of the JLA were doubtful of Speedy’s worth, suspecting that G.A. had just taken a random kid off the streets and given him a bow so he too could have a teenage partner like Batman and because of this, the JLA would not allow Green Arrow to admit Speedy into the Titans at the same time as Robin, Oracle, and Beast Boy and continued to deny him entry for some time.

In that time, Roy perfected his skill with a bow, learned to drive the various vehicles in the Arrowfleet, and became an incredible martial artist thanks to his training with Oliver, John, and Dinah. In the summer of 2008, the Justice League could no longer deny Roy his place among the Titans and so he joined the same year as the second Robin, Jason Todd. Roy and Jason hit it off and a bromance was born. In their two Titanic summers, their Titans destroyed much of the good publicity that the previous team had generated for costumed crime fighters. Still they did some good. Then, October of 2009 happened. Roy took it the hardest.

After the funeral, Roy quit the Titans by throwing his feathered cap in Green Arrow’s face at a press event. Roy turned up in Gotham, looking for the Joker, eating Big Belly Burgers at Jason’s grave site. One night, with a Bellybuster in hand, Roy stumbled on Cheshire. Though Roy knew the assassin from his time with the Titans, he did nothing to stop her; instead he started talking with her like an old friend. When Cheshire asked Roy to come with her, Roy did not say no.

Roy Harper had now become, for better or worse, a member of the League of Assassins, having joined quite willingly. Ra's al Ghul extended him the rite of entry, citing that since he had been trained by one of the League's greatest warriors, they were like family. This legitimately upset Nyssa so Roy was made a member of the White Glove faction within the League, pledging his services to Talia. But there was more to than simply Ra's keeping Roy away from Nyssa.

However, Ra's had been burned by bats and arrows one too many for his liking so he was still wary of Roy's presence in his camp. In order to keep tabs on Roy, Ra's tasked Jade Nguyen with seducing him. To this end, Cheshire covertly dosed Roy with a unique narcotic of her own making she simply called "Lotus." In a short time, Roy became addicted. The narcotic made his mind more pliable and open to suggestion, and whenever he would go too far between doses, he'd feel empty and hollow inside, every thought fighting through a fugue of wondering when he would get his next dose. Under these effects, Roy was easily convinced to join Jade in her bed and it was not long after that when Jade discovered she was pregnant. The League celebrated this news.

After learning of his child, Roy went cold turkey, kicking his drug habit for the most part he did however still drink and smoke. He feigned taking the following days' doses of Lotus until his head was clear again. It was then that he confronted Jade about what he had done and why he had done it. He told her he loved her, that in spite of all she had done to him, it was not just the Lotus that had made him be with her. He pleaded with her, for the welfare of their unborn child, to flee the League and go to Star City. When Jade agreed, she was then surprised that Roy would not be coming with her.However, Jade would not go. what she did not know was that Roy had been sneaking around the camp at night and had discovered the League's plans for Gotham. While Roy still intended to get jade to come with him, he felt the only way to do that was to cut off the Demon's Head.

According to Ra's al Ghul's own admission, Roy Harper nearly killed him. Roy had the blade of a flaming dagger he had stolen from the League armory a mere inch or two from stowing it in the eye socket of Ra's al Ghul when jade grabbed Roy and prevented him from finishing the deed. As the other assassins split into two groups, one attempting to drag Ra's to safety and the other doing their best to turn Roy into a pulpy puddle, Ra's broke free and ordered his assassins to stop. Ra's then picked up the flaming knife and offered it to jade. jade gave a single nod and approached the battered and bloody Roy. Ra's ordered jade to take the traitor's life. jade knelt on Roy's chest and in a gruesome series of strokes, took the traitor's arm.

while the assassins and Ra's were staring at the arm, jade looked into Roy's eyes and whispered one word: "Run." That is exactly what Roy did, fleeing into the desert with scores of assassins in pursuit. Roy managed to escape by disappearing into a thicket and using all of the lessons of Brave-Bow to remain completely motionless and silent. When the chase was called off as the assassins needed to break camp and leave, Roy went deeper into the desert. He survived for two days on the brink of death when Quraci patrol discovered him and brought him to a hospital. By then Roy had slipped into a coma where he would remain for months, registered under a presumed name based off the incoherent rambling of Roy's sun-baked brain when he was found.

When Roy failed to come home Oliver, and the rest of Team Arrow believed the worst. Their fears were only played upon more when Ra's ordered David Cain to plant the remains of Roy's severed arm among the carnage of a Markovian bombing perpetrated by Prometheus a couple days after Roy was due to arrive in Star City. it was Oracle, who flagged Roy's DNA on a searching program. she got the notice in July of 2007, when the Markovian police had finally got around to testing the DNA of unaccounted for limbs. At that point, Roy had been missing for eight months. Oliver had already started drinking again and when he heard this news, he lost it. After his massive bender, Oliver Queen left his new ward, Artemis Crock, with Victor Stone in Happy Harbor and disappeared. He told everyone he was going on an African safari, but his private jet's flight logs indicated he went to Markovia.

Roy woke up from his coma too late to warn anyone about the Cataclysm. Having woke up in the middle of the night and having enough of his wits about him to realize what had happened, Roy escaped the hospital and made his way back to Star City. But when he finally returned home, he found the Lodge deserted. He found John and Lyla using Oliver's penthouse. John and Lyla accompanied Roy to the safehouse where Jade had left their daughter which she had named Li. She left a note for Roy telling him to take care of their daughter. Eventually, John got Oliver to answer his satellite phone. Oliver did not believe what John had told him and when John put Roy on the line, Oliver broke down crying and wailing. Roy tried to comfort him but the line went dead. Oliver returned the next day and though something was clearly distracting him, he was excited to see Roy back from the grave and see Lian for the first time. Word is that Oliver's face lit up when he first held Li.

But Roy's return from the dead was not all happy reunions. Jade had left him to raise a daughter by himself, his father was clearly distraught over something and drinking heavily as a result, he was still missing his arm (which came with a bunch of baggage in and of itself) As a result of all these things compounding, Roy chose not to return to the life of a hero. He tried to focus on raising Lian and to his credit, he did a fine job... for a year.

When Gotham was finally recovering from the devastation, Dick Grayson and Victor Stone came to see Roy Harper. Most of the crimefighting types were all busy with the upcoming return of the Justice League so Dick had to rely on recruiting his own closest friends and a few fringe hero-types that Bruce had recommended. Roy initially refused Dick's offer, but Dick convinced Roy, Roy paused to look at his missing arm. Roy sighed and told them he'd be willing to help them out as a consultant but without his arm he did not know how he'd be of any use in the field. Victor smiled and said he could help with that.

Taking the English translation of his assassin name as his new costumed identity, complete with a weaponized bionic arm, Roy became Arsenal and the Outsiders were born. Until recently, Roy moved to Blüdhaven to work as the full-time Leader of the East Coast Outsiders where he and Lian lived in the team's bunker. he admits he may have had three or four rendezvous with his ex, Jade - but now insists that ship has sailed.

Roy became a board member of smoke industry where he met me, NIckaletta, who was a tech support and software development worker. Roys life was going well until he had a mild relapse which led him to get kicked out of the outsiders. going sola he reported to a report at smoke industry where the dark archer was trying to steal and advanced AI system. while trying to stop him, Roy got shot with a poison arrow. he reported he did in fact die.

when Roy came to a few hours later he played everything off like he knows what was going on and completed his job. but he later told me that he was not on the right earth. Roy soon came and found me to help him get inContact with his earth. which i happily did. while looking over Roy's DNA i found that he had a teen age daughter, harper Row. who was currently and orphan. it didn't take long before i let them move into my three-bedroom apartment with me. we quickly formed our own team with Roy as our fearless leader, the arrow squad.

it took some time, but Roy was able to reconnect with his soul earth. he was happy to be reconnected with his friend and his daughter from earth 1616. he did however choose to stay on our earth. to raise both his younger daughters.