Oliver Queen (Green Arrow)

# Green Arrow

## Oliver Queen

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Insert description or quote for Oliver here ~ Alfie

## History

### Early Life

Oliver Jonas Queen was born on 16th of May 1988 and is the eldest child of Moira and Robert Queen, a pair of wealthy business partners who co-owned the successful business known as Queen Consolidated. The Queen family lived in Starling City where they made a name for themselves and it wasn’t long until the couple were well known for their philanthropy.

Oliver had a very bright childhood, being born into a wealthy family allowed him and his parents to live a life ridden with luxury. There was nothing too much for the Queens little boy, he was their everything. As Oliver began to grow up, his parents slowly began to drift further and further apart his father being particularly bad as he cheated on his mother several times with other women ~ though Oliver didn’t know this until his adolescence. As a retaliation to this, Moira cheated on Robert with one of his closest friends Malcolm Merlyn. During this short affair, the youngest Queen child was conceived. Despite Roberts wife’s cheating on him, it was the aspect of another child that gave the Queen family a saving grace and he was willing to take Thea in as his own. The youngest Queen child was soon brought into the world and while Oliver wasn’t too pleased to be having a little sister rather than a brother but as soon as the little boy met her, there was nothing more he wanted in the world to protect his little sister from harm. Besides he practically already a brother, Tommy Merlyn who was Malcolm Merlyn's only son. Ever since the two boys were very young, it didn’t take very long for them to befriend one another considering how close the Merlyn's were to the family. Even when Malcolm drifted apart from the Queens Tommy stayed a constant variable within Oliver’s life.

Oliver and Thea’s childhood was a very happy one. Things only began to get better as the two Queen children slowly began to grow up. The two siblings had a very close bond, Thea looked up to Oliver in nearly everything that they did. They were pretty much inseparable from one another. Oliver felt like it was his duty to protect his little sister, which made their relationship a little rocky the older they got. As Oliver grew out of his childhood and managed to get a taste of the reputation that came along with the Queen family name, he slowly began to spiral out of control. At first, it was simple things that neither parent had picked up on, whether that would be spending time with his friends in empty parking lots past. Though that was only the start as when Oliver reached his late teens there came the heavy drinking where he wouldn’t come home for days and when he did each time he would have another girl wrapped around his finger. This went on for quite a while, Oliver would find any excuse to get out of the house and stay away from his parents ~ his mother in particular. She would drone on and on about how he was slowly killing himself but the eldest Queen child didn’t care in the slightest. It eventually came to the point where Moira couldn’t stand sitting back and watching after her son had come back from an awful fundraiser, basically ruining the Queen family name. After speaking with her husband, the two decided to stick Oliver and Robert on a cruise with one another, hoping that maybe some time away from the hustle and bustle of Star City would clear his mind. curfew or letting his grades slip.

### Surviving the Queens Gambit

Though that was only the start as when Oliver reached his late teens there came the heavy drinking where he wouldn’t come home for days and when he did each time he would have another girl wrapped around his finger.

It was revealed later that the sinking of the Queen’s Gambit was no mistake but rather an event that had been purposely set up.

After watching the boat sink, never to be seen again, the two men were left to fend for themselves on the life raft with little to no provisions. Oliver and Robert floated out onto the Pacific ocean for what must have been hours until Robert Queen did what he thought was best for his son and took a revolver and shot himself hoping his son would make out of this on the other side. There was nothing the young man could do but watch his own father kill himself, from then on he made a promise to himself that he was going to live. His father’s death was not going to be in vain. After spending a while trapped out on the seas, Oliver washed up on an island known as Lian Yu. Only being barely alive Ollie dragged himself to the shore and collapsed from dehydration and sunstroke. When he woke up he wasn’t out in the sun but rather in the shade. Somehow he had been transferred from the beach to a cave located much further on the island. Coming to his senses, Oliver quickly tried to stand up but was stopped by a very mysterious woman.

This woman had saved his life, Oliver owed everything to her but it seemed like she knew this because she wasn’t just going to leave Oliver be, despite Oliver wanting it to be like that. Even after coming close to death, he was still just an arrogant kid who wanted his own way. The woman revealed that she's been stuck on the Island for around two years. In exchange for saving Oliver’s life, she wished to train Oliver up in order to overrun the guards that guarded the island that was hunting for their prisoner that had escaped their confinement. The young man didn’t have much of a choice, it was either accept his teachings or be thrown aside to be left for dead.

So he agreed to this training, expecting some basic fighting but what he was greeted with made Oliver laugh. Shado wanted to train Oliver Queen in the art of archery, something he thought was ridiculous but he soon found out that he wasn’t joking. The two spent weeks training with one another and slowly but surely Oliver started to see some progress in his aiming and his physique. Soon he was able to hit a target’s bullseye and actually stand a chance in maybe getting one punch in against another amateur fighter.

### Escaping the Island

Weeks turned into months and the young man was getting tired of sitting around all day, just waiting for the right time or whatever he called it. Finally having enough, Oliver proposed that they escape tonight. The two made their escape by building a raft and leaving the Island. Sadly, Shado would die on it, being impaled by one of its pieces, and  all Oliver could do was watch in horror as his lover died. In his arms Oliver was stuck on that raft for what must have been hours, maybe days before he finally was found by ARGUS and Amanda Waller, that were  revealed the truth about the Island to him, a government project that they had lost.

When Oliver was proposed a mission by Waller, at first he declined simply stating he wasn’t a murderer. But these people weren’t taking no for an answer and threatened to kill the rest of his family and he couldn’t do that to his mother and sister, especially not if they still thought he was dead. Begrudgingly Oliver accepted, having little to no choice in his actions he did what he was told. ARGUS had Oliver travel the world, he spent some time in China where he picked up the language before moving onto Russia. Here he had to go deep undercover as a Russian mob operative which required him to do things he could never imagine a man would have to do to another human being. He did what he had to do though, Oliver knew he didn’t have much of a choice until it was over. After Russia, it was back to the US for him, scarily close to his home town Star City where he had a target that needed to be taken care of. Just being so close to his home, made him want to rebel so bad but he knew if he did that would be it. Everything would be over, not only his own life but those he loved as well. So he just stuck his head down and didn’t think twice about what he was doing, still hoping that he would eventually be let go to return to his family. But it seemed Oliver was almost as naïve as he was when he first arrived on Lian Yu because once ARGUS was done with Oliver they drugged him, to make him forget about it, and, to mock him, dumped him back on the sea on a raft.

### Coming Home after so Long Away

Thankfully, a fishing boat found him by miracle, half dead.  They drove to the land and granted Oliver access to a telephone where he rang his mother informing her that he was not in fact dead. Oliver Queen eventually made his way back to the States and Star city where he was finally reunited with his family once again.

The return of the Queen heir was plastered all over the news, everyone wanted an interview but he declined them. There was so much for him to do and the press wasn’t really on his agenda. As soon as Oliver returned to the ‘real’ world, he knew he couldn’t go back to being the man he used to, well boy. He had done too much, seen too much. Oliver had seen the world what the world really had to offer, something he hadn’t been able to see before because his wealth and power fogged his mind. Now that he was home he knew he couldn’t just sit around, especially after two good men had sacrificed their lives to get him to make something proper out of his. Though he couldn’t exactly do that as Oliver Queen, no to the world Oliver Queen was just some billionaire playboy who had no intentions to do anything good for the world, so he needed to be someone else. That was when Oliver donned the alter-ego the ‘Green Arrow’. A green hooded vigilante that prowled the streets of Star city at night, trying to fend off any crime that came his way. Of course, this lead to problems as the SCPD. For some reason, they weren’t exactly kind to the idea of a robin rood gallivanting around with a bow at night and for years he was deemed a threat rather than a hero. In particular, he had quarrels with one of the main detectives, Quentin Lance. He sort of had a vendetta against the Green Arrow, or as he called him earlier on the Hood. So during the day, he was Oliver Queen, CEO of Queen Consolidated but during the night he was the hooded vigilante known as the Green Arrow, or to some the hood.

Not everything went as well as Oliver would have liked. At first, everything was just swell, everyone was happy to have their picture-perfect boy back. It all went wrong when he began to talk to his sister, slowly opening up to her but she didn’t really like what she heard not to mention that she had gone through her own narcotics problem while he had been ‘dead’. Realising that the truth hurt, he decided it was going to be best if he didn’t talk to anyone and push everyone away. It was a real ‘Oliver move’ isolating himself but that was what he thought would be best. After that, he didn’t properly talk to his family for years.

### Meeting Roy Harper

During his early adventures, Oliver came across a promising young man named Roy Harper. After hearing about what had happened, or the covered-up version, Oliver pushed some money in Harper’s direction but that wasn’t the end of their introduction. No rather he had heard from someone that would remain unnamed Roy could be quite handy with a bow and while Oliver didn’t mind working solo, there couldn’t be much harm on taking up an apprentice. So that was what he did, for a couple of months he and Roy fought the crimes of Star city with one another but it turned out that Oliver was a little too overbearing with his obsessive and controlling personality. Rather than showing him both sides of what it took to be a ‘hero’ Oliver managed to push him away to the point that he ended up going away to do his own thing. Though that was probably for the best, for both of them.

### Being on a Team

As time went on, Oliver gained not only enemies but also allies. He was eventually established as a member of the Justice League, a group of superheroes that were tasked with handling threats that were too big for ordinary protective services to fight against. Later on, Oliver teamed up with two other very wealthy men, Ted Kord and Bruce Wayne. His money was needed to build what was going to be called the ‘Hall of Justice’ where all these new ‘superheroes’ would have a base of operations. Agreeing, Oliver ended up financially supporting the Hall of Justice which would greatly help himself and his colleagues at the Justice League.

### Meeting Dinah Lance

Though as Oliver spent more time as the Green Arrow, he began to accumulate enemies and opponents some more familiar than others, \*Malcolm Merlyn\*. Though the most troublesome of them so far was Damien Darhk. A dark magic wielder who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. Oliver had been tracking the man down for months until he had finally caught up with him in Gotham. After running him down he bumped into Dinah Lance whom Damien threatened to harm. Oliver shot an arrow at him but it was only deflected with the use of his telekinesis and it was heading right for the doctor. He leapt in the way of the arrow and took it for her, not wanting for anyone else to get harmed. She was very grateful and patched him right up. Oliver was very lucky that it was Dinah he had bumped into, little did he know this wasn’t going to be their first meeting.

Years later Oliver met back with Dinah Lance, though this time she was dressed in something much similar to him. Once again the man that brought them together was Damien Darhk, maybe it was him to thank for their future relationship, as Oliver was chasing him. He nearly escaped but with the help of Ms. Lance’s powers, they managed to captured Mr. Darhk and finally lock him up. Oliver was more than impressed with Dinah's help in apprehending Damien so put in a good word at the League and before he knew it she was one of their best medics at the Hall of Justice that had been recently built. Having Dinah around more often lead to the two of them being with one another both around the Hall and also different missions that took them across the world. After asking Dinah to be his date of Mr. Waynes ball, the two shared a romantic kiss on the dance floor and their relationship blossomed from there. Though the couple kept their relationship close to their chest because it wasn’t exactly very professional of them to be dating one another but it wasn’t something Oliver was prepared to set aside. No Dinah Lance was his saving grace. If having her meant he might have to put his identity at risk it was worth it.

### Many more Adventures to come.

In recent years Oliver has been managing his double life fairly well. Not only did he now have to worry about his company but also he was now much more involved with the activities within the Justice League. It seemed that there were more and more bad guys from when he started. All that meant was he wasn’t going to be out of a job anytime soon so he wasn’t exactly complaining...

## Powers and Abilities

### Abilities

* **Master Marksmanship:** He learned and trained in years in Archery and Firearms.
* **Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**
* **Peak Human Conditioning**
* **Peak Human Durability**
* **Multilingual:** English, Russian, Mandarin Chinese/Cantonese

### Weaknesses

* **Judgement:** Can be known to have his Emotions cloud his judgement, and his hot-headed nature to have him act rashly.
* **Relationships:** He's strained a few of them over the years due to his emotions and judgement. Especially to the ones closest to him. He's putting his best foot forward but it's a journey.