Roy Harper

* Arsenal
* Roy Harper

**Secondary:**
Outsiders Bunker
Waterloo Docks, Blüdhaven, NJ

## Background

### 1987 - 2002: Roy Harper

Roy Harper Jr. was born to Roy Harper Sr., a forest ranger & an unnamed woman that Roy would never know. He was raised solely by his father until he died when Roy was 2 after saving members of a Navajo reservation from a major fire. The shaman of the reservation, Brave Bow, decided to raise Roy as his son as a way to thank Roy's father for all of the lives he had saved. Roy was then raised in the Tachini tribe as a traditional Navajo, become an extremely skilled archer. It was even said that the skill he possessed was of someone twice his age.

After Green Arrow's debut, Roy became a fan of his & stayed up to date on every news story printed about him. He stayed a fan of his from afar until Brave Bow passed away & the Justice League went public as a superhero team. Having nothing left for him on the reservation & everything else open for the future, Roy left the only home he knew & made his way to Star City to meet Green Arrow.

When Roy arrived in Star City, he had no clue where to even look. He figured he could wait for something bad to happen & hope for Green Arrow to arrive to stop the crime, But when Roy witnessed a man attempting a rob an older lady in a parking lot, he sprung into action. Taking his bow, he fired an arrow & pinned the man to the brick wall, allowing the lady to get away. Just as he walked over to confront the man, Green Arrow arrived. As they tied the man up & waited for the police, Green Arrow complimented Roy's marksmanship & quickness, having seen him take the shot just as he arrived. Believing this to be his only chance, Roy went into detail about his backstory & admiration for the vigilante. After hearing everything he said, Green Arrow was sold & decided to take Roy on as his sidekick on a probation period.

Trusting the boy, Green Arrow revealed his identity as the billionaire Oliver Queen. Roy then moved into the Queen Lodge, where Oliver also resided with his younger sister Thea & girlfriend Dinah Lance. For the following months, Roy trained extensively until Oliver decided he was ready to go into the field. As they were training, Oliver used his connections to legally adopt Roy as his ward, on the condition that Roy promised to continue his education.

After months of training in the use of both standard arrows & the trick arrows, Roy was ready to hit the streets as Green Arrow's new partner: Red Arrow.

### 2002 - 2005: Red Arrow

As Red Arrow, he assisted his mentor during many of his cases. When the sidekicks of the Justice League decided to make their own superhero group, Roy refused to joined as he believed it to be childish & he wanted to join the League. However, he joined anyways after both GA & Canary explained to him that his arrogant attitude would not help him down the line in joining the League.

For the first year among the Titans, he remained annoyed & quite overbearing to his teammates. Luckily for him, many of the members already knew him & were unfazed by his personality. He eventually changed his mind when he met the second Robin (Jason Todd) when Batman & Green Arrow teamed up for a mission. The two clicked immediately, constantly doing pranks & egging each other on in whatever antic they were pulling that day. When Jason joined the Titans that fall, Roy's mind about the team began to change. Unfortunately, this would not last for long.

On the night of Halloween, just two weeks after the induction of the latest class of Titans, Roy decided to go on a solo investigation into The Light by snooping around the facility of one of their dummy corporations. What seemed to be a peace of cake quickly turned into a tough pickle as Roy eventually became overwhelmed by the guards & was subdued. He assumed they might torture him or maybe hold him for ransom but they had some different plans in mind.

After drugging him to unconsciousness, they handed Roy over to Cadmus Labs so they could make the perfect clone of him. The idea was to place the clone back in his spot among the Titans, gain the trust of the Justice League then tear the heroes down from the inside. Cadmus' scientists severed his arm from the elbow down to retrieve his DNA. While the scientists worked the following two months cloning & programming, Green Arrow & rest of the hero community were searching for Roy. As he had told no one of his solo mission & kept no crumbs, it was hard trail to follow.

Eventually, Green Arrow & Black Canary found "Roy" in an abandoned warehouse outside of Star City. Due to heavy sedation, he was of no help to what happened to him & the test they ran made it appear as though everything was fine. With the clone himself & everyone else believing that he was the real Roy, things returned normal for them while the real "Roy" remained in the possession of The Light.

### 2005 - 2010: Roy Harper

While his clone blissfully live his life, Roy was tortured, sedated & put on ice whenever The Light deemed it necessary. To make matters worse, the guards kept him updated on everything that was going on in the outside world (i.e. Jason's death, Oliver & Dinah's wedding, The Cataclysm).

During the first year of captivity, Cheshire revealed to clone Roy that he was the genetic clone of the original Roy Harper. But due to his mixed emotions from this news, Jason's death & drinking problems, he joined the League of Shadows instead of telling anyone of this. After about two years with the Shadows, "Roy" left with Cheshire & told the heroes how he was a clone.

For the next year, the Justice League & the rest of the heroes conducted a search for the real Roy Harper but the Light always remained ahead of them, leading to them believing that he was truly dead. But "Roy," now going by Will Harper, kept looking for him & became consumed by the search. With Cheshire's intel, Will & Oliver found Roy Harper in the back of a Tibetan monastery five years after his disappearance.

Following his liberation, Roy was taken to the Watchtower & watched over by Doctor Mid-Nite as to keep the events of his condition a secret. He was watched over by Oliver like a hawk, as he felt guilty more than anything for assuming he had died for all these years. When Roy finally woke up, he thanked Will for continuing his search for him then ripped Oliver a new one. According to Will, he did nothing but put his head down the entire time as he felt nothing other than sorrow & guilt. When Roy finished his rant, the two left his room to go get Jason Todd, as they figured his former best friend would put him in a good mood. But when they returned, the room was empty.

Roy deduced that Lex Luthor was behind his kidnapping (as that's what the guards would say) & took a zeta-beam down to Metropolis to confront him. Just as he was about to shoot the man inside his office, Oliver & Will arrived to explain that Lex had nothing to do with it. He was not convinced until Jason appeared behind him, confirming what they had just stated. Seeing his best friend after watching the news of his death & hearing it from the guards made Roy put his guard down. As a way to make amends, Luthor decided to give Roy a robotic arm. No longer wishing to return to his former life as Red Arrow, he took on the name Arsenal.

## Romantic Relationships

* Aresia Prince: Lover (2012 - 2013)
* Lori Lemaris: One Night Stand (2015)
* Koriand'r: *Unknown*

 Powers & Abilities

* **Cybernetic Enhancement**: When he was kidnapped by Cadmus Labs, they severed his arm from below the elbow for the cloning process. After being freed, he received a cybernetic arm. The arm has a missile launcher, a grapple, a teaser & a powerful laser activated through cylinders inserted in the red ports on the arm.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength*:** Using this arm, Roy easily ripped off a truck door.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts:** Roy was trained by Black Canary & Green Arrow, both masters of a variety of martial arts, with the former being one of the most skilled martial artists on the planet. He has also been tutored by Hal Jordan, a skilled boxer & regularly spars with Jason.
* **Weaponry:** He can take virtually any object & use it in combat as an effective weapon.
	+ ***Archery*:** As the former protege of Green Arrow, he is a marksman of incredible accuracy. He is extremely adept at the use of the bow & arrow.
	+ ***Firearms*:** He is highly skilled with firearms & various other ranged weapons.
	+ ***Marksmanship*:** During a mission, Roy hit a bullseye of a standing target from 200 meters away.
	+ ***Stick Fighting***: Roy has shown to be skilled in stick fighting, as shown during his time as Arsenal, when he carried two escrima sticks as one of his many weapons
	+ ***Throwing*:** Roy is highly skilled in the use of throwing weapons. He has used Bolas, balls, knives & other various weapons & hurled them with amazing accuracy.
* **Investigation**: Roy possesses keen analytic skills and deductive ability.
* **Leadership**: He is fully capable of leading missions but his personal demons get in the way.
* **Multilingualism:** Roy is fluent in English, Navajo, Japanese & Russian.

### Weaknesses

* **Drug Addiction:** Since his return, Roy has battled with drug addiction. He originally was addicted to heroin but kicked the habit.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Speed:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Occult:** 1 - Nonexistent
* **Weapons:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Range:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Strategy:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Combat:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 120 - Threat Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

#### General

* After he was rescued, his clone began going by Will which is Roy's middle name. Ironic enough, Oliver later discovered he had son by the name of Will.
* Roy has various tattoos he doesn't remember getting.
* He once claimed Deathstroke was "the world's greatest tactician."
* Lilith Clay is his addiction counselor.

#### Missing Years & Return

* He has a cybernetic arm as a result of Cadmus Labs using it to clone him.
* Shortly after being saved by Will & Oliver, he became an alcoholic. He got clean but then developed a drug addiction two years later.
* Roy has always been bitter & impulsive but the years of being kidnapped heightened it.

#### Relationships

* His best friend is Jason Todd. There is not a better & worse mixture in the world than them. They're both hotheads, impulsive, brash but brothers before anything.
* Though he openly says that Mia is favorite sibling, he won't say it in front of Simone.
* He had a crush on Thea upon first being adopted by Oliver.
* He also liked Donna Troy upon meeting her. Him & Jason fought on who got to ask her out. Roy won but Jason asked her out anyways.
* When Roy returned from the dead, he developed an interest in Aresia though she was too busy feuding with Donna all the time. Eventually, he asked her out for drinks & she agreed. Aresia thinks it was the bad boy persona about Roy that led to her being attracted to him. While it mostly was sexual, they both later stated that it was a genuine relationship the whole time. They fueled each other’s bad habits & were prone to bad tempers. Aresia began acting out more, similar to her adolescent days & unknown to her, Roy had fallen into a drug addiction. They got in plenty of fights, probably stemming from his drug use & her volatile personality. Things could occasionally physical, as both were fighters but in the end, they would make up with sex. It was Jason that eventually intervened after constantly seeing his best friend & younger sister tearing each other apart. Roy made the first move, ending it after a year by saying the relationship was even too toxic for him.
* Roy had a one night stand with Lori Lemaris at Kaldur's birthday party.

## Notes

* The Will Harper clone storyline is from *Young Justice.*
* Roy being from the state of Washington is a nod to the fact that sometimes Star City is located there.
* His relationship with Aresia is a nod to his relationship with Donna Troy, another Amazon, in the comics.