Roy Harper

**William Roy Harper** (born as **Roy Harper, Jr.**), was the son of park ranger **Roy Harper, Sr.** and store manager **Mary Harper** (secretly the assassin **Nyssa al Ghul**). He would grow up to become a number of vigilantes, such as: **Arsenal**, **Red Arrow**, and **Speedy**. As Speedy, he served as **Green Arrow**'s protégé and as a member of the **Teen Titans**. In later occasions, he would serve on the **Justice League** and **Outsiders**, when he wasn't being a father to his daughter, **Lian**.

## Arsenal

### Real Name

Roy William Harper, Jr. (Real Name)William Roy Harper (Legal Name)

### Aliases

Arsenal (Moniker)Speedy, Red Arrow, Al Tirsana (Former Monikers)

Will (Nickname)

### Relatives

Jim Harper (Great Grandfather, deceased)Roy Harper, Sr. (Father, deceased)

Nyssa al Ghul (Mother)

Jamie Harper (Brother)

Lian Harper-Nguyen (Daughter)

Violet Harper (Adoptive Daughter)

Oliver Queen (Legal Guardian)

Team Arrow (Adoptive Family)

Al Ghul Family (Relatives)

### Affiliation

Justice League, Marv Wolfman High School, Outsiders, Team Arrow, formerly Gotham Knights, League of Shadows, Outlaws, Seven Soldiers of Victory, Teen Titans

### Occupation

School Counsellor, Substitute Teacher, Vigilante, Writer, formerly Assassin, Criminal, Mercenary

### Marital Status

Dating (Artemis Crock)Separated (Jade Nguyen)

Bromance (Jason Todd)

Former Lovers (Donna Troy, Lilith Clay)

## History (Submitted by Sub-Monitor 2814)

### Early Life (2001-2014)

Roy Harper, Jr. was born and raised in the American state of Oregon on the Oakwood Indian Reserve. His father was a park ranger known as Roy Harper, Sr., who worked on the reserve. His mother, Mary, ran a convenient store off the reserve, although she would disappeared in early 2003 after giving birth to Roy's brother **James**. Later that year their father would die in a fire. **Chief Raymond Bravebow**, the reserve's leader and their father's friend would take them in.

In his youth, both Roy Harper and his brother would be trained by their adoptive father in bow hunting. Roy would become so proficient in the art that his skills would surpass everyone else on the reserve. Due to his ability in archery, this would lead to the native boys growing jealous of him.

Into his teens, Roy Harper would spend one afternoon with a couple of his friends drinking alcohol. This would lead to the boy blacking out and waking up with a bow in his hands, and his adoptive father dead in front of him. Unsure of what to do the boy ran away, leaving his brother in the hands of a boy's home off the reserve.

After travelling for a time, he would arrive in Star City in the state of California. There he would come across the Green Arrow where he swiftly aided in defeating a few thugs. Impressed with the boy's skills, the vigilante would take to boy as his protégé and give him the moniker of Speedy.

### Becoming Speedy (2014-2015)

After joining **Team Arrow**, he would grow close to each of it's members. **Oliver Queen**, the Green Arrow, would grow to become a surrogate father to him, while Oliver's partner, **Dinah Laurel Lance**, also the vigilante known as **Black Canary**, would grow to be a surrogate mother to the young vigilante. Aside from them, the team's information gatherer and strategist, **John Diggle-Stewart** would grow to become a surrogate older brother, and would often serve as the primary person that he would confine in. Though, their interactions would decline after John became Sector 2814's **Green Lantern Bravo**.

While being a vigilante, he also attended **Mort Weisinger High School**, where he excelled in history and English.

For a brief time, Roy Harper, alongside Dinah Lance and Oliver Queen would join the **Seven Soldiers of Victory** led by the **Vigilante** and **Shining Knight**. Though they would go their separate ways after the Green Arrow and Black Canary accepted membership to the **Justice League**. As such, Speedy would begin to spend time with the protégé's of the Justice League, and they would compose of the second roster of the **Teen Titans**.

While a member of the team, he would grow to have a brotherly bond to the **Robin** at the time, **Jason Todd** where the two would often partake in various adventures that would result in their need of saving. Harper would also begin an off-and-on romance with **Donna Troy**, the **Wonder Girl** at the time, although this relationship would never go anywhere.

### Speedy's Downfall (2015-2017)

As he grew older, it was clear that his physical prowess did not match that of his teammates. During a mission, he was captured and tested on with an enhancement drug known as the Crucible Serum. After being rescued, he would encounter the same drug on the street, but under a new name, Mirakuru. Though after a time, those around him began to notice differences, and so Stewart and Queen would confront him.

Roy Harper would be caught in the act of injecting the substance into himself, this would anger Queen and he would strike the boy. Angry, Harper would retaliate, striking his mentor. He would run away and live on the street until Stewart and Lance would help him get back on the right path, until the events of Robin's death and the Judas Contract.

After his best friend's death, he would become an alcoholic vigilante, fighting crime in hopes that some villain would kill him. All would be futile. Eventually, he would come face to face with the mutated criminal known as **Killer Croc**. Hoping that this man would be the one to kill him, they fought until Croc realized what the boy was doing. Instead, of fighting, Croc hugged the boyand instead became his sponsor, aiding him in recovering from his alcoholism. During the time, he would begin a romantic relationship with his former Titans teammate, Lilith Clay.

### Into the Shadows (2017-2019)

During his rehabilitation, he took up the tradition of bringing he and Todd's favorite fast-food, **Big Belly Burger**. Although, on one occasion he came upon the criminal **Cheshire** digging his friend's grave. He would confront her, until she revealed that the **League of Shadows** intended to revive Jason.

Following this reveal, he would join the criminal, aiding her in digging the grave and transporting it to the secret city of 'Eth Alth'eban. There he would immediately be arrested and sentenced to death, but this would be stopped by Nyssa al Ghul who would reveal herself as Harper's mother. Instead of killing the boy, they decided to incapacitate him and place him within the Lazarus Pit alongside Todd. This would result in the boy gaining six inches in height as well as his hair turning red and his eyes turning green.

Following those events he began to be trained by both Cheshire and Nyssa in various forms of combat and weaponry. He would grow to be so proficient in these forms that he would be given the honorary name of **Al Tirsana** (Arabic for "the arsenal"). During this time, he and Cheshire would grow to be romantic, thus the two would be married in League of Shadows tradition.

In late 2019, the League of Shadows would put their secret plan in motion. Phase One involved the individual known as the **Red Hood** taking over Gotham City's criminal underworld as well as revealing himself to **Batman** as Jason Todd. Phase Two involved **Bane** freeing the criminals from **Arkham Asylum**, as well as breaking Batman's back. Phase Three involved **Azrael** killing whatever criminals that would serve no use in the League of Shadow's future for Gotham. And Phase Four involved destroying any ability of outside forces interfering with their plans (e.g. bridges).

Feeling like he should have seen this coming, Harper would defect to the **Gotham Knights** who were aiding Batman take Gotham back. In the final battle for Gotham, he would reunite with Jason, aiding him in remembering his path. Together they would go after **Talia al Ghul**, the mastermind behind this event. They would follow her to her yacht where they would cause an explosion sending them into Atlantic Ocean.

A few days later, the two would find themselves on an island in the Caribbean being nurse back to health by an orange figure.

## Threat Assessment

### Powers

* **Lazarus Enhancment**
* formerly **Mirakuru** **Enhancement**
	+ **Superhuman Strength**
	+ **Superhuman Durability**
	+ **Superhuman Stamina**
	+ **Superhuman Agility**
	+ **Aquatic Adaptation**

### Weaknesses

* formerly **Alcoholism**: Following Jason's death, he fell into a deep depression that lead him down a path of alcoholism and drunken superheroism.
* formerly **Drug Addiction** (Mirakuru): Feeling unhappy with his physical prowess, he began using Mirakuru to augment his abilities.
* **Misophonia**: He hates loud chewing and sucking/slurping sounds. It gets him anxious and angry.

### Abilities

* **Acrobatics** (Poor)
* **Equestrianism**
* **Hand-to-Hand Combat** (Expert)
	+ **Martial Arts**
* **Leadership**
* **Multilingualism**: He can speak Arabic, Atlantean, English, French, Japanese, Russian, Tamaranian, and Themysciran Greek.
* **Weaponry**
	+ **Marksmanship**
		- **Archery**: He learned archery from many individuals including: Chief Bravebow, Green Arrow, and Nyssa al Ghul.
		- **Firearms**

## Notes and Trivia

### Notes

* Roy loves history, so when he got his own house in Star City with Lian and Artemis, he began building mock battles in the basement.

### Trivia

* Roy Harper is a composite character of the comics Roy Harper and Will Harper from *Young Justice*. He also serves as a self insert for the wiki's creator.