(My usual technique of PMing it to myself to finish it seems to not be working, so I'll just leave it here for now. It's probably still considered a pretty hefty W.I.P. but hey.)

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| Identity |
Oliver Jonas "Ollie" Queen, Green Arrow, famously nicknamed the Emerald Archer

| Origin & Backstory |
[b]1988-2006: Before the Bow[/b]
Born in Star City California to Robert and Moira Queen, Oliver Jonas' life was one of outrageous opulence and wealth. Very much a spoiled child from the instant he exited his mother's womb, Oliver spent the vast majority of his time partying and becoming the social butterfly of Star City alongside his equally wealthy and childishly arrogant friend Thomas Merlyn. Despite his father's constant berating and disappointment, Moira was fiercly protective of her son and all but refused that Robert discipline the boy, which Ollie to this day states as the cause of his devolution into debauchery. At the tender age of four during a family trip to Barcelona, Ollie witnessed one Bonnie King win a Gold Medal in Archery at the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and pleaded with his parents to let him take up the art, which they accepted, even going so far as to hire King herself as Ollie's instructor after her retirement from competition. 

Three years later, Moira went into labor with Thea. Upon his sister's birth, Ollie made a childish promise to be a better child than he had been up to that point. To nobody's surprise, he was back to his old ways within a week.

During his education, Ollie proved his doubters wrong by passing effectively every exam or project he took with flying colors, earning a reputation as one of the beightest young minds of his generation. A freshman in GWU by his sixteenth birthday, it would take Oliver only two years, without even slowing down his playboy lifestyle mind you, to obtain a business degree. In celebration of both Oliver's graduation and coming of age Robert decided to take his son on a personal father-son bonding trip, just the two of them on a "Men's fishing trip."

While at sea somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, the Queen's Gambit ran into a catastrophic storm, causing mass flooding and engine failure. Barely making it to a lifeboat, Ollie witnessed his father's suicide when the latter realized that the boat only held enough supplies for one person to get to the nearest island. Shell-shocked by the experience, Oliver eventually made it to the island after exhausting almost all of his supplies. It would eventually become horribly apparent just where he had landed; Lian Yu, the prison island of Asia's most notorious criminals. 

[b]2006-2009: Purgatory[/b]
During his first few days of being stranded on Lian Yu, Ollie came into contact with a father and daughter identified as Natas and Shado, who saved him from one of Lian Yu's native predators and nursed him back to health. When asked just how long they'd been on the island, the pair would always answer with half-truths and riddles. Once Ollie had regained his health, Natas took it upon himself to teach the former billionaire how to survive on the island known as Purgatory. While he already had rudimentary teachings of archery, it was on Lian Yu that Oliver truly became the Green Arrow. Shado trained him in unconventional methods of archery while Natas taught him how to make herbs and poultices out of the fungi native to Lian Yu. 

Six months into his stint on the Island, Oliver and his mentors would come into contact with yet another castaway; Lawrence Crock. Finding him washed up on one of Lian Yu's shores, the trio would nurse Crock back to health in much the same way they had done for Ollie months prior. Now with four members, Natas took it upon himself to find a way off the island for his newfound partners. 

Eventually, the group would come into conflict with a man known as Eddie Fyers, the head of the mercenary band that operated as Lian Yu's security, or dictators. During the conflict, Lawrence was compromised and convinced to turn against his allies. Taking Natas and Shado by surprise, he killed them and almost did the same to Oliver before the latter escaped into the jungle. Having lost the closest thing he had to a family on the island, Ollie would spend the next year on his own in the wilderness of Lian Yu before being found by a pair of Chinese Fishermen. Ollie is unaware of what became of Fyers or any of the other inhabitant of Lian Yu.

[b]2009: Nock and Loose[/b]
After his rescue, Ollie returned to the United States in 2009 without informing the press or his family, wishing to see just what had become of his beloved city during his absence. It was during his first week or so in the underbelly of Star City that Ollie made the most important decision of his adult life; something had to be done about the massive criminal element within the Triangle. Returning to the Queen Family Mansion, Oliver was greeted warmly by his family. Informing his mother and sister of Robert's death, Ollie was rather distraught when he discovered his mother had moved on to one Malcolm Merlyn, one of his father's former business associates.

Moira also assigned Oliver a bodyguard named Johnathan Diggle, a retired Army Veteran Ollie would have to shake constantly just to move forward with his plans. Though his return was documented by every newspaper in Star City, Oliver genuinely attempted to keep a low profile during his first few months back home, spending his time and newly returned fortune to build the secret hideout now known as The Quiver within an abandoned Queen Industries factory in The Glades. This endeavor wasn't exactly helped by Tommy, who arranged everything from a massive welcome home party to a private outing on a yacht in Orchid Bay, which Ollie often used as a device to begin his patrols. Early on in his career, the Emerald Archer spent his evenings making hell for Star City's lesser known thugs and cutpurses before grabbing the attention of one Daniel Brickwell, one of the triumvirate of Star City's crimelords.

[b]2010: Brick's Collapse, the Claw's Grasp[/b]
Ollie's first true test came during his second year since his return home. Having essentially made himself a thorn in the side of Star City's criminal regimes, one druglord rose amongst the rest to oppose the Arrow. Daniel Brickwell took advantage of his competitors' weakened state and began an aggressive expansion which would come to encompass all of the Triangle. Catching wind of one of Brick's weapon shipments, Green Arrow intercepted the cache at the docks before being apprehended by the mastermind himself. This being Ollie's first encounter with a metahuman, he was shocked to discover his arrows had no effect on Star City's King of Crime, as the traditional weapons shattered on contact with Brick's namesake maroon skin. Confronting his adversary in hand to hand combat proved equally fruitless, and Oliver was barely able to escape with a broken right hand, four shattered ribs, and a dislocated shoulder. 

Seeing nowhere else to turn and almost blacking out from his confrontation, Ollie managed to locate his bodyguard by using a tracking device he'd planted on all of his inner circle's cellphones, Ollie would eventually come to call that day the only one where his penchant for jailbreaking an iPhone would save his life. Just before losing consciousness from internal bleeding, Ollie navigated Diggle to his hideout in the Glades. Luckily enough for him, Digg managed to find the medical equipment without assistance.

Upon being nursed back to health, Oliver explained himself to Diggle and managed to convince him to help in Green Arrow's crusade against injustice. Using Diggle's connections from his time in the military and Ollie's multi-million dollar bank account "Team Arrow" began to substantialy upgrade their arsenal and equipment with everything from standard military grade explosives to experimental compounds and software straight out of a Q-Core laboratory. What was once Ollie's greatest adversary proved to be little challenge when trapped by an industrial grade polyurethane foam.

Following his apprehension of Brick, life returned to relative normalcy for the Battling Bowman, returning to stopping petty thieves and drug deals, which proved to be positively boring in how monotonous the task was. However, some six or so months after Brick's incarceration, a new druglord appeared in the Triangle, Steelclaw. Beginning another goose chase, Green Arrow would eventually confront Steelclaw and discover his identity to be one Thomas Bolt, the leading candidate for Mayor. Wanting to control crime, Bolt was using the money he made as Steelclaw to fund his Mayoral Campaign. 

Despite being shut down by Green Arrow, Bolt would still move on to become Mayor of Star City, with one Oliver Queen as his harshest critic. 

[b]2011: Star'ro incident, Royal Affairs[/b]
Doesn't show up for Star'ro because of reasons, run in with Count Vertigo. Queen family drama

[b]2012: The Undertaking, first duel with Dark Archer[/b]
After his "unannounced vacation" to Vlatava Oliver returned to his operations as the Emerald Archer without a hitch. Curiously, the more names Arrow crossed off his list the more his former targets turned up dead with three black arrows in the chest. This was the beginning of what Malcolm Merlyn would call "tying up loose ends." Oliver and his team swiftly began an investigation into the homicides and even tracked one of the archer's arrows to Saggitarius Supplies. When Green Arrow arrived at the only known warehouse of the company, it turned out to be a trap set by the mysterious Dark Archer. Green Arrow's emergence in Star City had forced Merlyn and his cohorts to move up their plans, and it was finally time to deal with the problem head on.

Barely escaping with his life, Ollie returned to the Quiver with three arrow wounds in his back and a new adversary to apprehend, his second near death experience since picking up the bow to protect his home. Through weeks of tracking and investigating the so called Undertaking, Green Arrow would discover the Dark Archer's identity as Malcolm Merlyn and his meetings with a man known as Ra's al Ghul. 

Before the Arrow could reveal Merlyn's plot to the police, his newest adversary armed his machines and prepared to bury the Glades and everyone in it. This obviously took years of plotting an preparation, and the tools Malcolm used to enact his scheme, four massive "Earthquake Generators" placed at each corner of the neighborhood, cost a fortune and a half to build. 

Drawing his opponent to the roof of a Merlyn Global Group warehouse, Oliver managed to distract the Dark Archer for long enough that his team could disable the generators. Exposed and defeated, Merlyn escaped capture in a last ditch effort. Curiously, Tommy Merlyn refused to take his father's place at the company and Merlyn Global Group was purchased by Lacroix International.

[b]2013: Cupid's Charm, Hostile Takeover[/b]
Almost a year after the Undertaking more of Green Arrow's adversaries began dying, this time by slit throats rather than arrows to the chest. Curiously, a heart was always cared into the body of the victims. Intercepting the murderer at the home of her next target, Oliver was shocked to discover one Carrie Cutter, a previous girlfriend. Pleading with her to receive help, Cutter, or Cupid, as she was calling herself, professed her love to Oliver. When Arrow failed to reciprocate, Cupid vanished. 

A week later, on Valentine's Day, Star City was engrossed in the newest development out of Orchid Bay. The Queen Women had been taken hostage in their own home. Cupid's only demand was that the Battling Bowman "come home alone". Racing to the scene, Cupid threatened to slit Thea and Moira's throat if Oliver didn't confess his secret. Frantic, Oliver removed his hood, to the shock of his mother and sister. 

Cupid would not keep her end of the bargain however, and killed Moira Queen right then and there, and motioned to do the same to Thea. Intercepted by Oliver, the Emerald Archer very nearly killed the woman if not for the pleading cries of his sister. Fleeing the scene, the police would arrive and take Cutter away to Haven Security Village. Oliver attempted to contact his sister to no avail, who had decided 18 was the perfect age to attend college, and swiftly enrolled at Weisinger University.

Emotionally distraught, Oliver remained unaware, for quite some time, the disastrous state Queen Industries was in following Moira's death. Declaring that Oliver had "no clear interest" in taking his place as CEO, the board of directors began a hostile takeover, and before long, the competitors began ending up dead at the hands of an assassin codenamed "Komodo". Snapped back to his senses by his friends, Ollie publicly announced his intention to return to Queen Industries as CEO. In an unexpected turn of events, the assassinations stopped almost overnight, along with Oliver's becoming a multi billionaire businessman.

[b]2014: Doppelgänger[/b]

| Character Notes |

[u]Setting, Locations, and Companies[/u]
[i]Star City[/i] - Situated on the upper coast of California, Star City is a particularly picturesque metropolis, and one of the United States' greatest tourist traps. Unfortunately for residents and traveler's alike, this makes Star City a hub of drug smuggling, black market weapons trading, human trafficking, and all other manners of criminal activity. While Orchid Bay and Downtown are effectively drowning in opulence and sophistication from the money brought in from naval trade, the neighborhoods of The Glades, South End, and Adams Heights, affectionately referred to as "The Triangle" by townspeople, are the center of Star City's criminal underworld, and susceptible to constant gang warfare and corruption. (More info to be added)

[i]Queen Family Mansion[/i] - A luxurious plot of land on the outskirts of Orchid Bay, the Queen Mansion is bordered to the west by the Paacific Ocean and to the East by the towering skyscrapers of Downtown Star City. Retaining a gated driveway, the Queen family has become synonymous with secrecy due to just how far "out of the way" Robert Queen decided to build his home, with the nearest neighbors being roughly a mile away. The interior of the residence however is very welcoming and screams socialite, with everything from antique vases to billiards tables decorating the innumerable rooms and hallways. 

[i]The Arrowcave[/i] - Built in a cavern underneath the Queen residence following the aftermath of Cupid's attack, the Arrowcave operates as Ollie's main base of operations as Green Arrow. Both Oliver and Diggle have taken steps to ensure the cave's safety, such as wiring the walls and implementing top class security systems. Nearly three times as large as the Quiver, the Arrowcave is fully stocked with equipment, an archery range, adaptable obstacle course, and barracks. 

[i]The Quiver[/i] - Oliver's original base of operations built within an abandoned Queen Industries Factory in the Glades, with the construction of the Arrowcave underneath the Queen Mansion, the Quiver rarely serves any function to the Arrow Clan outside of a variable weapons cache and tech dump. Though still fully serviceable, the image of the Quiver is one of antiquity, filled with mementos and out of date equipment, a museum of the Emerald Archer's first exploits within Star City.

[i]Queen Industries[/i] - The West Coast equivalent of Wayne Enterprises, Queen Industries is a massive conglomerate of numerous smaller companies with a basis in military and commercial technology. Based in Downtown Star City, the Queen Industries headquarters is the largest structure in the entirety of Californi, standing almost half again as tall as the Merlyn Global Group building. Though rooted in conspiracies of corruption and less than humane activities, Oliver has made strides to legitimize the company, whether it be discontinuing some of it's shadier operations to completely overhauling the workers' safety regulations.

[i]Lian Yu[/i] - An almost impossible to locate island in the South China Sea, Lian Yu is something of an experimental prison in that Asian governments send their most feared criminals to the island and have them fend for themselves with effectively no government involvement, even lacking basic ssecurity protocols to prevent escape. In actuality run by a secretive private military company, Lian Yu is a variable death camp for criminals, and in Ollie's case, castaways.

[i]The List[/i] - A small journal book authored by Robert Queen over the course his last few Earth, the names written on the list range from ruthless one percenters to political officials and judges. Although the majority of the people Oliver has crossed off of the list were fairly well known for their villainous activities, the Battling Bowman has begun to more thoroughly investigate the names on the list before pursuing them. Assuming of course, that he ever finds time to break away from his usual run ins with drug dealers and gangsters.

[i]Queen Industries Applied Sciences Division, "Q-Core"[/i] - 

[i]S.T.A.R. Labs[/i] -

[i]Lacroix International[/i] - Founded by Simon Lacroix in 2003, in only ten years of history, Lacroix became one of Queen Industries' fiercest competitors within Star City. Using every trick and tactic taught to him by Robert Queen, Lacroix took his company from a single office building to an international technology Empire, and following Moira Queen's murder, very nearly executed a hostile takeover of Queen Industries before Oliver Queen's intervention.

[i]Telesaur Incorporated[/i] -

[i]George Weisinger University[/i] - One of the oldest universities in California, Geore Weisinger University, or GWU, once stood as a proud pillar of the Ivy League schools across the United States. Recently however, Weisinger U's reputation has shifted from a melting pot of cultures and ideas, to one of an unruly party school, overrun with frat parties that seem to run every day, under the influence of underage drinking and innumerable other illegal narcotics.

[i]Slabside Penitentiary[/i] - Located on the outskirts of Adams Heights, Slabside Penitentiary, affectionately nicknamed the Slab by inmates and city goers alike, Slabside has a fearsome reputation for police brutality and mistreatment of prisoners, which caused it to be shut down sometime in 2008. Recently refurbished to house both mundane and metahuman inmates, the Slab has been receiving a number of new inmates from across the west coast, who's former prisons didn't have nearly as thorough precautions against metahuman threats. 

[i]Haven Security Village[/i] - Opened in 2012 and built on an Island three miles out from Star City's ports, the Haven Security Village acts as an "impossible to break out of" asylum. Rather than restrain the population with straitjackets or handcuffs at all times, Haven attempts to create an atmosphere of equality by allowing patients a great deal of freedom. Fully manned with a coast guard and 24/7 security personnel, HVen has garnered a reputation of excellence during it's small time of operation.

[i]Iron Heights[/i] - Where Slabside Penitentiary retains some of the most nefarious of Star City's criminals, despite its intimidating name, Iron Heights is the minimum security prison of Star City mostly occupied by shoplifters, drug addicts, and corrupt businessmen.

[i]The Kingdom of Vlatava[/i] - An economically struggling Kingdom in Eastern Europe, Vlatava recently suffered a succession crisis following the assassination of it's former King. The throne eventually passed to Perdita Zytle, now known as Perdita II. Facing aggression from Russia, Vlatavanians fear for their country's independence while under the watchful eye of their communist neighbor. Perdita has been seeking diplomatic assistance since coming into power.

[u]Supporting Cast, Rogue's Gallery, and Street Gangs of Star City[/u]

[i]Robert and Moira Queen[/i] - A classic tale of the self made billionaire marrying his high school sweetheart, one could make a movie about the story of romance between Robert and Moira Queen. Having met during their freshman year at Star City High, the two married almost immediately after Robert's graduation from college. Robert, a ruthless businessman, took his father's relatively small computer business and turned it into a multi billion dollar technology empire spanning the entirety of the United States within two decades using every underhanded play, every dirty trick, and every bullying technique known to man. Naturally this garnered him an abundance of enemies. Moira remained blissfully ignorant of her husband's crimes and peacefully took her place as a fiercely protective and doting mother.

The two would die some seven years apart, Robert committing suicide to ensure their son's survival, and Moira being murdered at the hands of Cupid, a deranged psychopath obsessed with Oliver's alter ego, the Green Arrow.

[i]Thea Queen[/i] - Ollie's younger sister and only surviving family member. During Ollie's exile on Lian Yu Thea fell to drugs and alcohol, the very same vices Oliver himself partook in. Though they struggled at first, Ollie and Thea would reconcile after the former opening up about his experience on the Island with his surviving family. Now clean for some three years, Thea was distraught to learn of her brother's true nature as the Green Arrow as a result of his conflict with Cupid, during which both Thea and Moira were taken hostage in their family's home. Following their mother's death, Thea has all but removed herself from Ollie's life. Oliver fears that without the guidance she once had, his sister might very well fall into alcoholism once again.

[i]Johnathan Diggle[/i] - A retired member of the Green Berets, John Diggle, or Digg, as Ollie calls him, was hired by Moira Queen to be Oliver's bodyguard upon her son's return to Star City. After becoming aware of Ollie's identity as the Emerald Archer, Diggle began using his connections to the military to acquire technology for Ollie to use in manufacturing new trick arrows.

[i]Bonnie King-Jones[/i] - A former Olympic Gold Medalist, Bonnie King, eloquently nicknamed Miss Arrowette in her prime, is perhaps the most well known former athlete in the world's archery community. After obtaining her medal in 1992, Bonnie settled down in California and became Oliver's private instructor, though even she couldn't teach Ollie how to properly handle a bow. Now married to Bernell Jones, Bonnie is a stay at home mother.

[i]Bernell Jones[/i] - A rather adept engineer and head of Q-Core, Bernell Jones is the everyday sort of person one would never assume to marry a Bonnie King type. Bernell met Bonnie a few years after her first pregnancy and eventually found his way into the woman's heart, becoming a loving father to a daughter soon after his wedding. 

[i]Natas and Shado[/i] - The father and daughter duo who took Ollie under their wing on Lian Yu and trained him into becoming a human weapon, Oliver is unaware of Natas and Shado's past connections to Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows, of which they were top ranked operatives before their self imposed exile on the one place they thought their past would not catch up to them.

[i]Sandra Hawke[/i] - Found by Oliver in one of Eddie Fyers' camps, Ollie escorted Sandra to the crashed commercial airliner he, Natas, Shado, Sportsmaster, and Slade used as their base. In actuality Sandra was there to bring Crusher Crock the offer that would cause him to betray the group. The man who would become Green Arrow shared a brief romantic fling with the damsel he had saved from Fyers' clutches, and unbeknownst to the Emerald Archer, Sandra became pregnant with his child. 

[i]Slade Wilson, Deathstroke[/i] - One of the four principal prisoners Ollie would group up with on Lian Yu, Slade Wilson is a former Australian Secret Intelligence Service operative who was sent to Lian Yu to extract Billy Wintergreen. Left to die by his commanders when his mission failed, Slade would spend years searching for a way off the island to return to his children. A one time lover of Shado, Slade has vowed vengeance on Sportsmaster after his betrayal of the group. Oliver has not been contacted by Slade since his return to the United States.

[i]Eddie Fyers[/i] - The field commander of the mercenary group stationed on Lian Yu, Edward Fyers used Lian Yu as a Mecca for drug operations and slave labor. Whether an inmate or a castaway, Fyers never let a resource go to waste. Fyers often employed the prisoners of Lian Yu to bolster his own staff in exchange for a bed and warm meals. A vain man from birth, Fyers didn't do much to stop some of his men's more barbaric practices on the Island. His operations exposed by Oliver, the Chinese government has taken it upon themselves to handle Fyers and his company.

[i]Lawrence "Crusher" Crock, Sportsmaster[/i] - A former small time crook and assassin for hire, Lawrence "Crusher" Crock was exiled to Lian Yu by the League of Assassins for taking a contract that belonged to them in order to send a message to their competitors. Brought into the fold by Oliver and his group, they would later be betrayed by Crock, who had been coerced by Ra's al Ghul to eliminate the former League of Shadows operatives.

[i]Maggie Sawyer[/i] - A ten year veteran of the Star City Police Force, Maggie Sawyer is a staunch opponent of vigilantes around the world, and has a personal mission to prove that her precinct can be just as effective as "that crazy Robin Hood wannabe." a single mother of one, Maggie is a gay rights activist and open lesbian, and although the more bigoted of Star City's law enforcement hierarchy have held her back because of this, Sawyer has proven one of the most efficent officers on payroll.

[i]Mack Morgan[/i] - Warden of Slabside Penitentiary.

[i]Sebastian Blood[/i] - Born to the political elite of Star City, Sebastian Blood turned against his roots and became a lawyer based out of the Glades. In a matter of years Blood became the champion of Star City's lower class. Following the Undertaking, Blood was named District Attorney in a plea to placate the man's fanatical followers who had been sowing descent ever since Merlyn's exposure.

[i]Queen Perdita the Second[/i] - The fifteen year old Queen of Vlatava and outspoken supporter of Green Arrow, and despite his not being a member, the Justice League. Perdita rose to power following her father's assassination in Star City International Airport. 

[i]Mayor Thomas Bolt, Steelclaw[/i] - The first hero to claim to be inspired by the Emerald Archer, Steelclaw's philosophy is one of controlling crime rather than stopping it. Seen by Ollie as nothing more than a corrupt politician using his skills to pay his way into office, Bolt and Arrow reached an agreement; leave the criminals to GA, leave the politics to Thomas Bolt. 

[i]Malcolm Merlyn, the Dark Archer[/i] - A central figure in Star City's hierarchy, Malcolm Merlyn was seen as a poor man's Robert Queen, just as ruthless and cunning, but only made a half of what his contemporary managed with less resources and time. For reasons unknown Malcolm left California in his teenage years and early twenties. Eventually, Malcolm would marry Robert's widow Moira before her untimely death. A central figure during the Undertaking, Merlyn was exposed as the Dark Archer but escaped capture.

[i]Noah Kuttler, the Calculator[/i] - A wealthy investment banker and accountant, Noah Kuttler operates an abundance of extortion rackets and oversees a number of Swiss Bank accounts under the guise of "The Calculator". A genius mathematician, Kuttler has been able to find a way around almost every loophole without a second thought, all from behind a computer monitor. After Green Arrow's interference in his schemes, the Calculator has begun using his massive funds to hire killers to apprehend the vigilante.

[i]Ricardo "Junior" Diaz, Richard Dragon[/i] - An as of yet unseen former student of Richard Drakunovsky, Ricardo Diaz murdered his teacher and took his name for his own. A human weapon, Diaz is one of, if not the greatest hand to hand fighter and martial artist on Earth, retaining an uncanny ability to read his opponent's movements and find any weakness in a person's body and exploit it with deadly proficiency.

[i]Werner Zytle of Vlatava, Count Vertigo[/i] - Currently rotting in a prison cell, Werner Zytle conspired a bloody rise to Kingship by ordering the assassination of his elder brother and only niece with the assassins posing as American extremists. When Perdita returned to Vlatava to claim the throne, Vertigo made to execute her himself and take power by force. Thankfully however, Vertigo was undone by the Emerald Archer.

[i]Simon Lacroix, Komodo[/i] - Born into poverty in the Glades, Simon Lacroix is a self-made man who ended up working as the personal assistant and confidant of Robert Queen. To Robert, Simon was everything Ollie wasn't. By that time Ollie had already fallen into constant fits of partying, recreational drug use, and underage drinking. The son he never had, Robert would give Simon the head start he needed to launch Lacroix International. 

[i]Isabel Rochev, the Queen[/i] - Born in a small village in eastern Russia, Isabel Rochev was inspired from a young age by Robert Queen, who had a number of mines built in the mountains around her home, which caused her village's economy to flourish. Eventually becoming a personal intern for Robert while still in business school, the Queen Patriach began an extramarital affair with his young assistant. Her internship was later terminated without notice. Holding a grudge against the Queen family, Rochev would become the primary business partner of Simon Lacroix at Lacroix International.

[i]Constantine Drakon[/i] - Direct underling of the League of Assassin's head honcho, The Sensei.

[i]Daniel "Danny" Brickwell, Brick[/i] - Star City's most prominent crime lord due not only to his namesake skin, but for his ruthless efficiency and almost impossible feat of taking control of the Triangle, Danny Brickwell was a victim of his environment and thrived in the criminal underworld following his father's termination from a Queen Industries factory in the Glades.

[i]Carrie Cutter, Cupid[/i] - A former romantic conquest of a young Oliver Queen who volunteered for an expedition to locate the Queen's Gambit. While at sea something changed in Cutter, and she is now certifiably insane, with an absolute obsession with Ollie after the news of his return. After taking Mia and Moira Queen hostage in their own mansion in an effort to become closer to Ollie Carrie, then operating under the name "Cupid", was shocked to discover that Oliver was the Green Arrow. Following the murder of Moira Queen and Cupid's capture by Green Arrow Cutter has been placed in the Haven Security Village for the Insane. 

[i]Solntsevskaya Bratva[/i] - A powerful Russian Mafia organization led by Anatoly Knyazev, a former operative of the KGB, the Bratva have been muscling their way into Star City's underworld since the early 2000's. Through ruthlessness and backing from their main branch in Moscow, the Star City Bratva have silently taken control of the South End of Star City, and is one of the primary claimants to the Glades.

[i]The White Lotus Triad[/i] - Formerly led by Zhishan, the White Lotus Triad almost imploded when their leader was killed by Steelclaw. Dazed and confused, the Triad was all but wiped out by Brick during his war with Green Arrow. During this time, Chien Na Wei came to power within the order and quickly began recouping her loses. Back to full strength in just under a year, the White Lotus has taken a position of power, rather than in the lower class areas of Star City, but within Orchid Bay and Downtown.

[i]The Red Darts[/i] - 

[i]The Royal Flush Gang[/i] - 

[i]Dr. Linda Friitawa, Fright[/i] - A former assistant of Gotham's Dr. Jonathan Crane, Fright is the head doctor at Haven Security Village.

[i]Dr. Alex Sartorius, Doctor Phosphorus[/i] - A former scientist of S.T.A.R. Labs

| Powers, Abilities & Skills |
[I]Archery[/i] - Oliver's chosen method of curtailing crime, Green Arrow is capable of shooting an arrow down the barrel of a pistol from fifty yards at a moment's notice, Ollie's aim is impeccable, and some have ventured to call it superhuman. Whether boasting or being honest, the man himself has claimed to be able to fire roughly twenty-nine arrows per minute one at a time, and split a droplet of water while falling from the tap of a sink. Aside from his pinpoint marksmanship, the eccentric billionaire also makes use of dozens of self-manufactured trick arrows, that can function in any number of ways, ranging from a simple explosive arrow to flash-bang and EMP arrows.

[i]Physical Capabilities[/i] - During his time on Lian Yu, Oliver was forced to transform his body from that of a spoiled playboy to that which would put Olympians to shame. The extreme training regiment instilled in him by the likes of Natas and Deathstroke has carried over to his life as Green Arrow. Most notably, Oliver's hand-eye coordination and eyesight have seemingly developed beyond what many thought was humanly possible. 

[i]Tracking, Hunting, and Stealth[/i] - Adapting to life on an uncharted prison island forged Oliver Queen into an apex survivalist. Ollie seems to posses a natural talent and sixth sense for tracking down his foes and remaining unseen. A benefit of his chosen color gives Oliver a natural camouflage, and using this, along with his penchant for remaining quiet while on the prowl, renders the Emerald Archer almost undetectable by friends and foes alike. Oliver has told almost anyone who would listen the story of how he once hunted a tiger on Lian Yu and took the beast by surprise despite being only five feet away.

[I]Intelligence and Deductive Abilities[/i] - Although he openly gallivanted as a spoiled child of old money, Oliver actually possesses a keenly intelligent mind and knack for computer and technological engineering, having earned a major in business from GWU at the age of 18 while maintaining his reputstion as Star City's greatest partier. Often to the annoyance of his allies, Oliver innovate new arrows on a daily basis, though he refrains from using some of his sillier ideas like the boxing glove arrow. Despite his prowess as a predator, Oliver is not an overly capable detective. While able to bust most of Star City's lower level criminals and street gangs on pure ingenuity, one of equal or greater intelligence than the Battling Bowman can seemingly slip through his grasp. Luckily, Oliver's team make up for this flaw 9 times out of 10.

[i]Medical Knowledge[/i] - Oliver retains a fairly large amount of knowledge on emergency medical procedures and remedies, having had to remove dozens of bullets and the occasional arrow from his body. Particularly, Ollie knows the cures and treatments for nearly all known poisons and illnesses from his time on Lian Yu, and maintains a small stockpile of herbs and salves in his archaic bowcase. He also retains firsthand knowledge on the affects of most recreational drugs.

[I]Multi-lingualism[/i] - Along with his superhuman archery abilities, Oliver was also taught how to speak both Chinese and Japanese from his two mentors on Lian Yu, and self taught himself the Russian language during his conflicts with the Star City Bratva branch. He also studied French during his playboy years but only remembers vague sentences and phrases and would more than likely offend most French nationals.

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| How is this character different? |
For one, his stay on the island was much longer than in canon, roughly three years to the usual one. Also this version of Ollie is effectively merged with television counterpart, with a supporting cast of family members and comic characters alike. Unlike Arrow and recent comic books (the ones I've read anyway) this Ollie is much more paranoid, or rather suspicious, of the government, hence his refusal to act during the invasion of Star'ro. He also uses a much more "realistic" arsenal of trick arrows, and I say that with a grain of salt. Think Hawkeye from avengers rather than having an arrow capable of creating a black hole. (Note: I am not overly knowledgeable on Arrow or G.A. in the New 52, so I might screw some stuff up in conversion.)

| What is your goal with this character? |
Would it be wrong to say I just really want to shoot people with a bow and arrow? Also I want to yell to people that "they have failed this city". [s]I'll put a legitimate reason here eventually, just gotta run.[/s]

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