Roy Harper

Roy Harper as Arsenal

 A Quick Summary

Roy Harper is the sidekick of Green Arrow in the TV show Arrow. In the show, despite his youth in the comics, in the show he is portrayed as a teenager and the love interest to Thea, Oliver's younger sister. He starts out as a low time criminal, steeling Thea's purse. As he gets to know Thea, they fall in love. As time progresses, he becomes Oliver's sidekicks of sorts, but only after he is injected with Mirokuru. Now he fights along side Green Arrow to save the city.

Roy Harper

                                                                   





        Roy and Oliver  

 

Roy first became obsessed with the Green Arrow in the second season after the Glades had been destroyed. He began to go out late at night a pick fights with thugs, trying to stop them from committing crimes. Thea, of course, becomes worried about him, and begs him to stop, however his obsession to fix the evil in the city keeps him from stopping. One night, when he was trying to stop a rape, the Black Canary swooped in to help him. 

Oliver tracked down Roy when he heard of the new vigilante to ask him if he could uncover her identity. Roy agreed, and the alliance between him and the Green Arrow began. Over the next couple of weeks, Roy became Oliver's eyes and ears, he would report to The Arrow every couple of nights. 

When Roy was asked by his friend Sin, to search for her friend Max, he stumbled upon Brother Blood. Brother Blood injected Roy with Mirakuru, giving him maximum strength, speed, endurance, and reflexes. Oliver, knowing what the Mirakuru can do, takes him under his wing. At first Roy refuses to listen, his anger getting the better of him, however eventually learns how to control his emotions. Roy is eventually given the cure to Mirakuru, but his alliance with the Arrow remained. 

In season three, Roy is filled with doubt about his relationship with Oliver. He demands that Oliver never abandon him, and Oliver replies by saying never. This shows that Oliver really cares about Roy, and that he is willing stay by his side no matter what. This scene is also important because is shows that Oliver is extremely important to Roy. I think that their relationship is well established, Oliver sees Roy as a little brother, almost.Oliver is also a good role model for Roy to look up too, something that Roy never had before. 

"Last year you saved my life, and I don't mean from the guy who kidnapped me, I mean you saved me, you gave me purpose."

—Roy Harper to Oliver Queen

 

 

Roy and Thea

Roy first meet Thea Queen when he stole her purse. Laural tried to press charges, however Thea decided to have them dropped. She later visited Roy at his house in the Glades to get her purse back. She tired to talk to him, asked if he needed anything, but he told her to go away, and that he didn't need her charity. This annoyed her. 

Later, Roy and Thea accidentally met up at a coffee shop. Thea offered Roy a job at Oliver's club if he would show up for an interview. Although he said he would think about it, he didn't show up. Thea went looking for him, to ask him why he blew it off. Again, Roy said that he didn't want her charity. Upset, Thea left, but two men tried to mug her. Roy stepped in to help her, but he was stabbed in the process. While at the hospital, Thea kissed Roy to detract him from the shot he needed to get. They soon began to date. 

   

Thea didn't approve of Roy helping The Arrow, in fact she begged him several times to break off all ties the the Green Arrow, however he refused. He lied to her and told her that he wasn't trying to a hero, but he was. When he discovered that Oliver was the vigilante, he asked Roy, for the sake of Thea, to break up with her. And Roy did. 

Personality 

Roy has had a rough life. His father was killed when he was young, and his mother was a drug addict. He had a lot of bad luck, and he never liked to steal, but he was put in bad situations and needed a way out. When he stole Thea's purse, it was because his mother needed money for rehab. He despises the rich, because of their selfish ways, however Thea shows him that they are not all bad. 

Roy is prideful, but he tries to do the right thing. He sometimes has bad judgement, but with he the help of Oliver, he is getting better. 

                                                         

Oliver's Arrows

The Green Arrow, aka Oliver Queen, has many different types of arrows he uses to save the day.
Each one has it own special way of helping Oliver save the day.

The Grappling Hook Arrow: It is an arrow that had has a hood that sprouts out and it latches to a flat surface such as a roof top. Then Green Arrow and be lifted into the air and onto the roof within a matter of seconds.

The Voice Recording Arrow: This arrow is small, it usually sticks to a wall and is activated when then it hits it's mark. It is used mainly to record confessions.

Voice recording arrow

The Explosive Arrow: This arrow is basically a bomb. Once the arrow hits is mark, it allows a few seconds before it explodes. This arrow is often used when Green Arrow is trapped or when he needs a distraction to get away.

Bola Arrow: This arrow release a set of connected ropes that tie around a moving object.

Non-lethal Arrow: This arrow is designed to injure a target by piercing the skin, however it will not do deep enough to fatally injure a person.

Double Arrow:  This arrow splits in two and can hit two different targets.

You can read about more of Oliver's Arrow here:  http://arrow.wikia.com/wiki/Trick_arrows

Felicity Smoak

 Background

Felicity Smoak was the second person to know about Oliver Queen's secret, and is usually the comic relief in the show. She worked in the I.T. Department at Queen Consolidated. She was first approached by Oliver when he would come to her and ask her to run test on things, and crack computer codes. He would make up lies, horrible lies, that usually went like this:

Oliver Queen: I'm having some trouble with my computer and they told me that you were the person to come and see. I was at my coffee shop surfing the web and I spilt a latte on it.
Felicity Smoak: Really?
Oliver Queen: Yeah.
Felicity Smoak: 'Cause these look like bullet holes.
Oliver Queen: My coffee shop is in a bad neighborhood. 

However, despite the horrible lies, Felicity did as he asked.

Felicity was added to the Arrow Team after Oliver was shot, by this mother, and went to Felicity for help.

 Personality

Felicity is extremely intelligent, she started working with computers when she was seven. This makes her an asset to the Arrow Team, however it's her compassion, trustworthiness, and her ability to  make people smile when things get stressful are what makes her emotionally valuable to the team. 
She often says things at the wrong time, and in appropriate manners, but she usually backtracks after realizing what she said, and begins babbling.

Her relationship with Oliver Queen 

In season one their relationship was strictly friendship. In season two, however, the relationship  began to deepen. It was starting to become clear that Felicity began to form feelings for Oliver, but Oliver didn't seem to return those feelings. However, when Felicity hit it off with Barry Allen, it is obvious that Oliver holds a little bit of jealousy.

The relationship that Barry Allen and Felicity Smoak had was short lived. They both realized that they were in love with someone else. Felicity was in love with Oliver, and Barry was in love with Iris. Barry went back to Central City, where he was struck by lighting, and later became The Flash.
At the season two final, Oliver tells Felicity that he loves her, but it is just a ploy to trick Slade, the villain of season two, into taking Felicity as hostage so she could help defeat him.
 But Felicity then confronts Oliver, saying that he was so believable that he had her fooled. Oliver didn't dene that his feelings were real, but he didn't confirm them either.

 In season three Oliver finally asked Felicity out on a date.
 The date started out great, the order the food, Oliver talked about his past on the island, it was going good, but then the restaurant was bombed. Oliver realized that while he was focused on Felicity, he failed to notice that someone had put a tracking devise on him. Oliver broke off the relationship, but not before he begged her to not make him say that he

doesn't lover her.

“Don’t ask me to say, ‘I don’t love you,'”Oliver Queen.

Then when Oliver is about to leave to face Ra Al Ghul is tells Felicity two things; first is that he will do anything to save his sister; second, is that he loves her.

I love the idea of Oliver and Felicity dating. I usually don't get caught up in the love lives of fictional characters, but I have fallen hard for "Olicity". If they do not end up together, I just might cry. I am fairly confident that they will end up together, but I can't help but be doubtful, especially with all the obstetrical that they have to go through to be together.

The fate of Oliver and Felicity's relationship is unclear as of now, but we can always hope that they will work things out and live a happily-ever-after!