[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/qzisSQ7.png[/img][/center][center][sub][color=DarkGreen][i]"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."[/i] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, [i]Emile, or Education[/i][/color][/sub][/center]
[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]Name[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen]Oliver J. Queen aka Green Arrow[/color]

[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]Alignment[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen]Neutral Good[/color]

[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]Affiliation[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen]Independent[/color]

[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]History[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen][b]1980 |[/b] Born into the wealthy life, Oliver Queen was the young heir to a billion dollar corporate dynasty at Queen Industries. His father, Robert Queen, was the CEO to the corporation and one of the most influential and wealthiest people in Seattle. His mother helped with the city's crime rates and donated some of the money has gone to charitable donations.

	[b]1985 |[/b] At a young age, Oliver had a love from Robin Hood and was said to be just like him, frequently practicing with his bow and arrows. Despite his age, Robert allowed his son to play with them and even helped out with his 'training'. He also find out that they loved the wildness, from pictures of their adventures in South America's Amazon rainforest to animals from Africa's savannas.

	[b]1988 |[/b] During his ninth birthday, he killed his first animal and was mildly traumatized by the event. His mother comforted her son as Robert went out to their jeep to put the dead animal away. The smell of the animal got the lions' attention and they attacked Robert, tearing him apart. Oliver hesitated to fire his bow towards the lions, costing his life.

His mother tried to stop the lions, but she retreated to the jeep and called for help as they surrounded the jeep. They were trapped in the jeep for a thirty minutes until help arrived and the lions retreated as they took parts of Robert with them. He had been mauled by them, leaving behind his son and wife. It was a tragic safari accident.

Moira Queen took over Queen Industries and care of her son until he was own enough to run it.

	[b]1993-1996 |[/b] Oliver soon was enrolled in the prestigious Excelsior Academy by his mother, wanting her son to have the best education that money can offer. His classmates at Academy were some of the best young minds in North America and the class was filled with individuals who would go on to change the world. These individuals included the likes of Alexander Luthor, Anthony Stark and Bruce Wayne.

At his teenage years, he had become a rich, thrill-seeking, and drunken playboy with no real sense of responsibility in his life. His behavior shamed his mother so much that he was relegated to clerical work on an oil rig in the Pacific. However, he had turned the rig into a hub for his parties within two weeks since his arrival at the rig. He had used most of the party drugs and drank almost all of the common drinks, putting shame in the family's name.

	[b]1997[/b] | During his eighteenth birthday, a helicopter that was supposed to carried a famous rock star was commandeered by oil-thieving terrorists and soon overtook the rig. Oliver among with his guests and close friend, Tommy Merlyn, were held hostage at the control room. Despite his friend's warning, he went head on against the terrorists and grabbed his father's bows, arrows, and knife. He had killed the guys in the control room and went from the office, where the other terrorists were at. 

They were armed with a detonator to a battery of explosives; however, Oliver didn't know that and went into the room with a careless attitude. He managed to kill most of them and got the detonator out of one of the terrorist's hands, but it bounced and activated, blowing up half the rig, killing the remaining guests on the other side of the rig. Fortunately for Oliver, his life was saved by Tommy - but his friend had taken the brunt of the blast, and was very badly burnt. They both fell off of the rig and Oliver was washed up ashore on the remote isolated Starfish Island, with his father's gear. 

	[b]1998[/b] | He had been spending a year on the island as he developed his skills as a hunter to survive and gained mastery over his bow. During his time at the island, he had taught his self self-reliance and realized that his past self was selfish and horrible. He had become a man.

His second test of his new self was the discovery of drug smugglers, ran by the famous drug cartel, China White. She supplied heroin imports for the West Coast and the entire Pacific rim. Oliver found one of her operations in the island, though he was unaware that it was apart of a drug cartel's business. Using his new skills, he attacked and destroyed the operation. 

After using one of the boats from the site, he delivered them to the authorities before returning home. He saw his mother for the first time in a year and half, now that she turned fifty. Oliver had to prove that he was a changed man before she could give the control of Queen Industries to her son. That was when he took up a job as the company's spokesman.

	[b]1999[/b] | During his time as a spokesman, he took acrobatics hand-to-hand, and martial arts training to improve his fighting skills. Then, he took politics seriously and decided to study the US government. That was when he saw how high crime was from Seattle, despite having strict laws on guns and other things. And then, he decided to do charity work and used his job as a way to help out the underprivileged.

	[b]1999-2002[/b] | After years of being the Queen Industries' spokesman, his mother soon retired and let her son become the CEO of his family's hard work. With the company's money near him, his first order was to invest in Seattle developing jobs for the unemployed and improving lives from the low-class. 

Despite his efforts, the crime rate didn't change that much to make an impact in the city. Which made Oliver devastated and went to his dying mother for help and advice. She told him that he must be brave and do things that bring fear to the bad and hope to the good. Later on, she died peacefully in her sleep and left behind a despressed son. She was buried next to her husband and Oliver had to move on, despite losing his mother and letting his father die.

	[b]2002-2012[/b] | Ten years had passed since his mother had died, the city of Seattle and their crime rate has increased because of the economic crisis. Oliver's hard work was from nothing as crime rose again, taking away more lives. His views on politics had changed as terrorism increased and immigrants were coming to America from around the world. Since Washington was a liberal state, Oliver had some liberal ideas; but, he also had conservative ideas as well.

Despite his obsession with politics, he haven't thought of becoming mayor of Settle and rejected the idea because the people won't like his conservative views on some points. While he was looking around his attic, he found some Robin Hood comics inside a box of childhood collections. He decided to take a look at them and similares with him, wanting to protect and avoiding orders for the poor.

With his training in archery and acrobatics, he decided to use the company's money to developed his gear and update his father's bows. He was going to become a crime-fighter, like Robin Hood.

	[b]2013[/b] | A year since he had the idea of becoming like Robin Hood, he has learned several skills: disguise, stealth, and throwing. He was able to finish updating his father's bow and made some trick arrows to used in battle. Then, his design on his outfit was finally done and he decided to try it out. He knew from the moment that he had become [i]The Green Arrow[/i]. 

His motivation was to save the citizens caught in the middle of the criminals' terror. 

	[b]2014[/b] | There were more mutants and other superheroes than there was two years ago. This, of course, worried Oliver Queen as he views mutants with caution. He was a supporter of the The Mutant Registration Act and voted for Robert Kelly to become president. Oliver just wanted to protect the powerless from the powerful.

That was when he met his first villain, Onomatopoeia. A serial killer who targeted non-powered, vigilante superheroes. His ability was that he could imitate noises around him, such as dripping taps, gunshots etc.  Green Arrow soon defeated him, but he was able to escape. The citizens of Settle had finally met Green Arrow from the first time. 

A symbol of hope had come to the city for the first time.

	[b]2014-2016[/b] | Now that Green Arrow has become well-known in the city, the city's underworld are starting to worry about him. That was when Brick, a brilliant criminal mind and metahuman, showed up and soon became the leader of half of the crime empires. Saying that he would take care of the Green Arrow before he collapses the empires and end his terror for good.

This was the start of Green Arrow's first test in protecting his city.[/color]

[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]Supporting Cast[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen][b]Andrew Lopez[/b] - A detective in the Settle police force, who Green Arrow saved during a police crash. Lopez is unsure about Green Arrow, but he often gives information about the underworld and criminals of all kinds.

	[b]Evan Gibso[/b] - A reporter for the Washington Post. Wrote a post about the Green Arrow and his background since he arrived at Settle. Green Arrow is questioning whether or not he should use Gibso to his advantage. Plus, they haven't met in person yet.

	[b]Felicity Smoak[/b] - A hacker that changed her life after being arrested from hacking into a government database. She got a job in the the I.T. department at Queen Industries and met Oliver Queen. Felicity became suspicious of Queen's true intentions after strange requests from him increased; yet, she trusts in Oliver despite all of his sketchy requests. 

	[b]China White[/b] - A leader of a drug cartel that dominated the South Pacific. Oliver Queen stopped one of her operations at Starfish Island. He hasn't met her yet, but it's rumored that she has operations at Settle.

	[b]Brick[/b] - A metahuman super-villain and crimelord in Settle. His skin is thick and brick-like, making him almost impervious to damage. Beginning his career as a low-level enforcer, his ruthlessness allowed him to rise through the ranks. 

	[b]Onomatopoeia[/b] - A super-villain who only speaks in sound effect words and his own name. His origins are mysterious, but he uses expertise in martial arts to kill super-heroes. The costumes of his victims are taken as trophies.

	[b]Billy Tockman[/b] - A ruthless crimelord in Seattle He controls the city's waterfront and operates out of the Midnight Lounge.[/color]

[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]How (if at all) does the New Frontier version of your character differ from the original?[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen]The New Frontier version of Green Arrow is based on Prime Earth, Arrow, New Earth, and Justice League Unlimited. I want him to be skeptical of organizations like The Justice League or mutations like Superman and Magneto. And I want him to be interested in politics, not to the point where he's running for President (#Queen2020). Also, I want for him to kill with reason if he has no other choice or the villain becomes too powerful to stop him and then put him in jail.

If I would to become a hero, I would based my hero on the Green Arrow. I like the idea that he thinks that heroes shouldn't become too powerful and that the government should have programs that would stop Superman from going crazy or stop the formation of the Justice Lords. If this roleplay would have a secret division of the United States government (similar to Project Cadmus), then Green Arrow would support it. I also like how the fact that he thinks that he wouldn't fit in with an organization like the Justice League, because he just wants to help the 'little guy' and an organization would just 'forget about him'. 

And, he has some [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2U5BHxBRMI][color=DarkOliveGreen]interesting[/color][/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WjvOUa6trs][color=DarkOliveGreen]things[/color][/url] that he says. 

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[color=Olive][sub][h3][b]Post References[/b][/h3][/sub][/color]
	[color=DarkOliveGreen]DC Universe: Gods Among Us - Catwoman [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2857096][color=DarkOliveGreen][1][/color][/url]

	Teen Titans: Divided We Fall - Static Shock [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2859390][color=DarkOliveGreen][1][/color][/url][/color]