Post by oliverqueen on Apr 14, 2013 8:25:35 GMT -4
The person behind the character:
Name/Nickname:
Nicole
Age:
25
Experience:
5 and a half years
Contact information:
PM
Character basics:
Real name:
Oliver Queen
Code name:
Green Arrow
Date of Birth:
May 16, 1985
Place of Birth:
Starling City
Age:
27
Known Family:
Mother: Moira Queen
Father: Robert Queen
Stepfather: Walter Steele
Sister: Thea Queen
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair:
Dirty Blonde
Eyes:
Blue
Height:
6'1
Weight:
180 lbs
Legal Status:
Adult
Occupation:
Owner of Verdant (nite club)
Affiliation:
Vigilante Archer
Abilities:
Oliver is skilled in parkour, survival, archery, technology, and different languages.
Parkour: The Arrow can just as easily climb a building without a safety harness as he can bounding from rock to empty crates. Flips, twists, feats of climbing, Oliver's sense of balance and strength is akin to a well-honed gymnast relying more on maneuverability instead of complex shapes and arcs.
Survival: Having survived five years on a deserted island, Oliver has learned to feed himself, train himself, and survive in some of the most dangerous environments known to man. Feasting on rabbit to quails, starting fires from a mere flick of his wrist with flint, knowing his poisons and antidotes, setting traps for prey, and creating weapons from his surroundings, Oliver can easily last years in a forest should he need to do so.
Archery: Oliver wouldn't be called Green Arrow without his finesse with a bow and arrow. Oliver is a natural archer knowing the fighting style for over five years. Capable in loading an arrow within a bow in under a second and firing it nearly instantaneously, he barely has to look at his target before landing an arrow with pinpoint accuracy. From being capable to disarming a gun from ten feet away to landing a shot in a pile of wood from over two-hundred feet away, his archery skill also translates to throwing weapons such as butter-knives or pens with the same level of accuracy and skill.
Technology: Oliver is very adept in using computer technology for his own uses. To scanning information using the internet to creating special arrows that can capture, poison, combust, or short-out electrical systems, Oliver's knowledge in the field does have a limit. Hacking information or finding classified information is beyond his means without outside resources.
Multilingual: Much to the surprise of those around him, Oliver knows and can speak English, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese fluently.
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Oliver is an accomplished hand-to-hand fighter, capable of going toe-to-toe with some of the best combatants. He's reached the level of master martial artist, capable in disarming, grappling, restraining, and fighting with his legs, feet, hands, and arms. He seems to prefer Eskrima, fighting with sticks or his bow, than to fight with blades. He also knows various moves that can stop a person's blood flow to make them appear dead.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality:
Oliver has two personalities: one he lets the world around him see, and the other he keeps hidden.
To the one he allows the world to see, he's a typical play-boy with parties, sex, and girls on his mind. He flaunts cash as he sees it, buys fancy toys when he feels like it, and runs around without a care when he wants to. His tongue can be as golden as Midas's touch to as acidic as nuclear waste. He prefers people to see him as to what he was before he was stranded: someone who only cares about himself and rarely cares about anyone around him.
To this day, Oliver still has his rebellious attitude.
Oliver is also a deeply passionate man, doing whatever he can to keep his friends and family safe. Not being able to tell his friends or family his secret in becoming the Arrow hurts him more than he'd ever let on. Because of this, Oliver has very few close friends, capable of counting those he truly cares for on a single hand. Because of his decision to become the Arrow, this often has him breaking engagements and disappearing for hours on end. While he tries to keep promises, he inadvertently hurts those he cares for while becoming someone who tries to help the world at large. He does become hurt by those who see him as a selfish human being, but he sucks it up, internalizes it all, and forces all his pent up anguish against those he aims to hurt.
For the personality he hides, Oliver has become a ruthless killer. Capable of forsaking the lives of those that decided to do harm to Starling City, Oliver has no mercy with his bow and arrow, but does try to give those who have wronged second chances. If intimidation doesn't work, he kills them. Oliver is also completely dedicated to the goal in righting the wrongs his father created. He meticulously goes through a list, finding information about various people, and uses that information against them.
With his killing nature, Oliver is also very perceptible and observant. Planning scenarios days before hand and manipulating those around him, Oliver can easily come across as a sociopath, but in truth, he's fully aware of his sociopathic tendencies. He considers his "dangerous side" as nothing more than the consequences of actions he promised his father he’d take on.
Even before he became the Arrow, Ollie's resolve was admirable, but now, it's enhanced to such a degree no pain can break him.
History:
During his childhood, Oliver grew up with a silver spoon, doing whatever he pleased without ever becoming grounded. He managed to graduate high school in 2003, but continued to drop out of four different colleges and became arrested four different times before 2007. During grade school, he met and became friends with two people: Tommy Merlyn and Laurel Lance. Both had become his closest friends, and in 2005, he began to date Laurel Lance.
In 2007, Oliver was on the Queen's Gambit, his family's yacht, with his father, his associate, and Sara Lance, the sister of his girlfriend Laurel, whom he had been cheating on with Sara.
The ship was sabotaged and ultimately sank, leaving only Oliver, Robert, and one other crew member surviving. There were not enough provisions to keep all of them alive, so Robert killed the other survivor then himself but not before telling Oliver that their wealth had been built on the suffering of others, and it was up to him to make it right.
Oliver came ashore on the island Lian Yu. There he buried his father and found a book in his pocket. Soon after, a hooded man shot Oliver with an arrow. The man brought Oliver to his camp and pulled out the arrow. When Yao had fallen asleep, Oliver tried to escape but fell into a trap. Yao arrived later, cut him down, and started walking away, leaving Oliver with no other choice but to follow him.
Over the next few days, Oliver spent most of his time gazing at a picture of Laurel until Yao brought him a bird in a cage. He did not understand what to do with it until he figured out that Yao wanted him to kill it so he could eat it in order to survive. He refused to kill at first but desperate to survive, he did. Later Yao told him that he would have to take more lives and held up the picture of Laurel, telling him to forget about her, or he would not survive.
One day Oliver and Yao were out hunting, Oliver began his archery lessons and missed his target--a rabbit. He went to fetch the rabbit Yao killed and was captured by armed men. They brought him to their camp and detained him in their leader's (Edward Fyers) tent. Edward showed him a picture of Yao Fei and asked if he had seen him. Oliver denied he had, but Fyers didn't believe him and sent Deathstroke into the tent to interrogate Oliver for information. Yao rescued Oliver and brought him back to the cave. He then reminded Oliver to survive. He then sealed Oliver in the cave to lead Fryer's men off.
Alone in the cave, he dreams that he had torn out a page from his father's journal to keep the fire going and of his father telling him that he had completely ignored his responsibility. When he wakes up, he indeed tore out a page from the journal, and just as he he was about to throw it into the fire, letters started appearing on the blank page. He proceeds to do the same with other pages, and the names of the people corrupting Starling City appears. He promises the hallucination of his father that he would live up to his responsibility.
When Yao returned, he had a captured Fyers and told Oliver that Fyers had a plane that could take Oliver off the island. They later made Fyers take them to the plane and while going through the woods, they ran into Deathstroke and his men. Yao then told Oliver to run and began fighting the men; unfortunately, he was defeated and knocked out by Deathstroke. From a safe distance, Oliver watched them take Yao and runs away
One of Fyers' men continues to search for Oliver after Yao Fei is captured. Armed with only a knife Oliver is eventually forced to confront him. The skirmish results in them tumbling and falling down to a stream. The soldier lands hard on a rock while Oliver ends up in the water. He manages to get out and dons the uniform of the dead man, where he finds a set of keys and a map in one of the pockets.
Oliver eventually finds his way to the camp where Fyers and his men are based on. As he goes to get food he is greeted by another soldier. Oliver asks about where they're keeping a captured prisoner in a green hood, and the soldier tells him he is headed to where Yao Fei is and offers Oliver a ride there. As they are about to leave, Fyers and several of his men join them and head for the other base together. Fyers questions Oliver during the trip and Oliver does his best to maintain his guise. When they get to the prison Fyers knocks down Oliver and puts him in one of the cells. He tells him he knew who he was through his eyes, which told him everything and is also the reason why his men all wear blaclavas. Fyers then rebukes Oliver for putting his trust in the wrong people, particularly his friend, Yao Fei. He then motions to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Oliver upon his arrival. The soldier takes off his balaclava and reveals himself to in fact be Yao Fei himself, who had been working for Fyers the whole time. However, it was revealed that Yao Fei helped Oliver escape the island by using a technique to fake Oliver's death.
After years in absolute danger, Oliver was trained intensely having acquired high level of combat ability. Acquiring a skill and accuracy with unparalleled arch, he managed to spot a small fishing boat. Using improvised explosive devices, he drew the attention of fishermen who ultimately rescued him and took him to Starling City. Oliver went through several tests that diagnosed several serious injuries and scars, and finally, he returned to his home.
Code word:
Armegeddon
Name/Nickname:
Nicole
Age:
25
Experience:
5 and a half years
Contact information:
PM
Character basics:
Real name:
Oliver Queen
Code name:
Green Arrow
Date of Birth:
May 16, 1985
Place of Birth:
Starling City
Age:
27
Known Family:
Mother: Moira Queen
Father: Robert Queen
Stepfather: Walter Steele
Sister: Thea Queen
The Reflection in the mirror:
Hair:
Dirty Blonde
Eyes:
Blue
Height:
6'1
Weight:
180 lbs
Legal Status:
Adult
Occupation:
Owner of Verdant (nite club)
Affiliation:
Vigilante Archer
Abilities:
Oliver is skilled in parkour, survival, archery, technology, and different languages.
Parkour: The Arrow can just as easily climb a building without a safety harness as he can bounding from rock to empty crates. Flips, twists, feats of climbing, Oliver's sense of balance and strength is akin to a well-honed gymnast relying more on maneuverability instead of complex shapes and arcs.
Survival: Having survived five years on a deserted island, Oliver has learned to feed himself, train himself, and survive in some of the most dangerous environments known to man. Feasting on rabbit to quails, starting fires from a mere flick of his wrist with flint, knowing his poisons and antidotes, setting traps for prey, and creating weapons from his surroundings, Oliver can easily last years in a forest should he need to do so.
Archery: Oliver wouldn't be called Green Arrow without his finesse with a bow and arrow. Oliver is a natural archer knowing the fighting style for over five years. Capable in loading an arrow within a bow in under a second and firing it nearly instantaneously, he barely has to look at his target before landing an arrow with pinpoint accuracy. From being capable to disarming a gun from ten feet away to landing a shot in a pile of wood from over two-hundred feet away, his archery skill also translates to throwing weapons such as butter-knives or pens with the same level of accuracy and skill.
Technology: Oliver is very adept in using computer technology for his own uses. To scanning information using the internet to creating special arrows that can capture, poison, combust, or short-out electrical systems, Oliver's knowledge in the field does have a limit. Hacking information or finding classified information is beyond his means without outside resources.
Multilingual: Much to the surprise of those around him, Oliver knows and can speak English, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese fluently.
Hand-to-Hand Combat: Oliver is an accomplished hand-to-hand fighter, capable of going toe-to-toe with some of the best combatants. He's reached the level of master martial artist, capable in disarming, grappling, restraining, and fighting with his legs, feet, hands, and arms. He seems to prefer Eskrima, fighting with sticks or his bow, than to fight with blades. He also knows various moves that can stop a person's blood flow to make them appear dead.
What's hidden behind the mask:
Personality:
Oliver has two personalities: one he lets the world around him see, and the other he keeps hidden.
To the one he allows the world to see, he's a typical play-boy with parties, sex, and girls on his mind. He flaunts cash as he sees it, buys fancy toys when he feels like it, and runs around without a care when he wants to. His tongue can be as golden as Midas's touch to as acidic as nuclear waste. He prefers people to see him as to what he was before he was stranded: someone who only cares about himself and rarely cares about anyone around him.
To this day, Oliver still has his rebellious attitude.
Oliver is also a deeply passionate man, doing whatever he can to keep his friends and family safe. Not being able to tell his friends or family his secret in becoming the Arrow hurts him more than he'd ever let on. Because of this, Oliver has very few close friends, capable of counting those he truly cares for on a single hand. Because of his decision to become the Arrow, this often has him breaking engagements and disappearing for hours on end. While he tries to keep promises, he inadvertently hurts those he cares for while becoming someone who tries to help the world at large. He does become hurt by those who see him as a selfish human being, but he sucks it up, internalizes it all, and forces all his pent up anguish against those he aims to hurt.
For the personality he hides, Oliver has become a ruthless killer. Capable of forsaking the lives of those that decided to do harm to Starling City, Oliver has no mercy with his bow and arrow, but does try to give those who have wronged second chances. If intimidation doesn't work, he kills them. Oliver is also completely dedicated to the goal in righting the wrongs his father created. He meticulously goes through a list, finding information about various people, and uses that information against them.
With his killing nature, Oliver is also very perceptible and observant. Planning scenarios days before hand and manipulating those around him, Oliver can easily come across as a sociopath, but in truth, he's fully aware of his sociopathic tendencies. He considers his "dangerous side" as nothing more than the consequences of actions he promised his father he’d take on.
Even before he became the Arrow, Ollie's resolve was admirable, but now, it's enhanced to such a degree no pain can break him.
History:
During his childhood, Oliver grew up with a silver spoon, doing whatever he pleased without ever becoming grounded. He managed to graduate high school in 2003, but continued to drop out of four different colleges and became arrested four different times before 2007. During grade school, he met and became friends with two people: Tommy Merlyn and Laurel Lance. Both had become his closest friends, and in 2005, he began to date Laurel Lance.
In 2007, Oliver was on the Queen's Gambit, his family's yacht, with his father, his associate, and Sara Lance, the sister of his girlfriend Laurel, whom he had been cheating on with Sara.
The ship was sabotaged and ultimately sank, leaving only Oliver, Robert, and one other crew member surviving. There were not enough provisions to keep all of them alive, so Robert killed the other survivor then himself but not before telling Oliver that their wealth had been built on the suffering of others, and it was up to him to make it right.
Oliver came ashore on the island Lian Yu. There he buried his father and found a book in his pocket. Soon after, a hooded man shot Oliver with an arrow. The man brought Oliver to his camp and pulled out the arrow. When Yao had fallen asleep, Oliver tried to escape but fell into a trap. Yao arrived later, cut him down, and started walking away, leaving Oliver with no other choice but to follow him.
Over the next few days, Oliver spent most of his time gazing at a picture of Laurel until Yao brought him a bird in a cage. He did not understand what to do with it until he figured out that Yao wanted him to kill it so he could eat it in order to survive. He refused to kill at first but desperate to survive, he did. Later Yao told him that he would have to take more lives and held up the picture of Laurel, telling him to forget about her, or he would not survive.
One day Oliver and Yao were out hunting, Oliver began his archery lessons and missed his target--a rabbit. He went to fetch the rabbit Yao killed and was captured by armed men. They brought him to their camp and detained him in their leader's (Edward Fyers) tent. Edward showed him a picture of Yao Fei and asked if he had seen him. Oliver denied he had, but Fyers didn't believe him and sent Deathstroke into the tent to interrogate Oliver for information. Yao rescued Oliver and brought him back to the cave. He then reminded Oliver to survive. He then sealed Oliver in the cave to lead Fryer's men off.
Alone in the cave, he dreams that he had torn out a page from his father's journal to keep the fire going and of his father telling him that he had completely ignored his responsibility. When he wakes up, he indeed tore out a page from the journal, and just as he he was about to throw it into the fire, letters started appearing on the blank page. He proceeds to do the same with other pages, and the names of the people corrupting Starling City appears. He promises the hallucination of his father that he would live up to his responsibility.
When Yao returned, he had a captured Fyers and told Oliver that Fyers had a plane that could take Oliver off the island. They later made Fyers take them to the plane and while going through the woods, they ran into Deathstroke and his men. Yao then told Oliver to run and began fighting the men; unfortunately, he was defeated and knocked out by Deathstroke. From a safe distance, Oliver watched them take Yao and runs away
One of Fyers' men continues to search for Oliver after Yao Fei is captured. Armed with only a knife Oliver is eventually forced to confront him. The skirmish results in them tumbling and falling down to a stream. The soldier lands hard on a rock while Oliver ends up in the water. He manages to get out and dons the uniform of the dead man, where he finds a set of keys and a map in one of the pockets.
Oliver eventually finds his way to the camp where Fyers and his men are based on. As he goes to get food he is greeted by another soldier. Oliver asks about where they're keeping a captured prisoner in a green hood, and the soldier tells him he is headed to where Yao Fei is and offers Oliver a ride there. As they are about to leave, Fyers and several of his men join them and head for the other base together. Fyers questions Oliver during the trip and Oliver does his best to maintain his guise. When they get to the prison Fyers knocks down Oliver and puts him in one of the cells. He tells him he knew who he was through his eyes, which told him everything and is also the reason why his men all wear blaclavas. Fyers then rebukes Oliver for putting his trust in the wrong people, particularly his friend, Yao Fei. He then motions to the soldier next to him, who had been the first to talk to Oliver upon his arrival. The soldier takes off his balaclava and reveals himself to in fact be Yao Fei himself, who had been working for Fyers the whole time. However, it was revealed that Yao Fei helped Oliver escape the island by using a technique to fake Oliver's death.
After years in absolute danger, Oliver was trained intensely having acquired high level of combat ability. Acquiring a skill and accuracy with unparalleled arch, he managed to spot a small fishing boat. Using improvised explosive devices, he drew the attention of fishermen who ultimately rescued him and took him to Starling City. Oliver went through several tests that diagnosed several serious injuries and scars, and finally, he returned to his home.
"So let me get this straight. You expect me to go with you. On that. Out there. In public?" Ollie's finger pointed to a bright green mini-van with painted flames streaming across its sides. He glanced at the van, closed his eyes, shook his head, and continued to bounce a tennis ball to himself. "Sorry. That's not going to happen." Honestly, did he look like a walking tool? He wasn't just going to "test drive" a vehicle some kid drove up to his house while trying to make a buck. Obviously this was a joke by someone. Tommy? Thea? Probably Thea. Only she could get away charming some college kid saying Oliver Queen wanted to buy his sorry-looking van after a test drive. "Good luck though." Giving his best fake smile, he closed the door in the student's face and turned away with a roll of his eyes.
He knew his mom was behind him. Best to keep up his charade.
"It was nobody," he said before she even asked. He bounced his ball again. "Though you might want to talk to Thea about talking to strange kids still in college. Those kind," he caught the ball and threw a thumb past his shoulder toward the door, "don't exactly cure cancer." Kissing his mom on the cheek as a passing hello, he strolled up the stairs to his bedroom, bouncing the ball along the way.
He slid into a chair at his desk facing the door, opening his laptop before he threw the tennis ball in the air and caught it in his palm. He normally trained with the spheres, throwing them against a wall and pinning them against the surface with his bows. But this one had been special--it had gotten away from him one evening. Not because he missed, but because of what he saw in mid-attack. Apparently in his five years away, someone with the last name of "Paola" had been manufacturing tennis balls, or so said the name built into the yellow fur of the ball. If he recalled right, Terrance "Paola" was on the list.
It was time to see if they were connected.
Face stern as he looked up information, there he was, Terrance Paola, a high-class business man located in none-other than Starling City. By some loop hole in the union, he shut down a factory and managed to escape paying severance packages, forcing hundreds of employees to lose their homes in The Glades. Clenching his jaw, it seemed he outsourced the manufacturing to China, and now specialized in "Paolo Products" while he made thousands of dollars every day over-looking the poor in The Glades. Oliver looked at the tennis ball in his hand and spun the ball until he saw the tiny words: "Made in China." Forcing the sides of his jaw to bud from his cheeks, he threw it to his side. Something shiny followed suit.
The ball stuck to his corkboard after one bounce, stabbed in the center with a simple, metallic letter-opener.
He knew his mom was behind him. Best to keep up his charade.
"It was nobody," he said before she even asked. He bounced his ball again. "Though you might want to talk to Thea about talking to strange kids still in college. Those kind," he caught the ball and threw a thumb past his shoulder toward the door, "don't exactly cure cancer." Kissing his mom on the cheek as a passing hello, he strolled up the stairs to his bedroom, bouncing the ball along the way.
He slid into a chair at his desk facing the door, opening his laptop before he threw the tennis ball in the air and caught it in his palm. He normally trained with the spheres, throwing them against a wall and pinning them against the surface with his bows. But this one had been special--it had gotten away from him one evening. Not because he missed, but because of what he saw in mid-attack. Apparently in his five years away, someone with the last name of "Paola" had been manufacturing tennis balls, or so said the name built into the yellow fur of the ball. If he recalled right, Terrance "Paola" was on the list.
It was time to see if they were connected.
Face stern as he looked up information, there he was, Terrance Paola, a high-class business man located in none-other than Starling City. By some loop hole in the union, he shut down a factory and managed to escape paying severance packages, forcing hundreds of employees to lose their homes in The Glades. Clenching his jaw, it seemed he outsourced the manufacturing to China, and now specialized in "Paolo Products" while he made thousands of dollars every day over-looking the poor in The Glades. Oliver looked at the tennis ball in his hand and spun the ball until he saw the tiny words: "Made in China." Forcing the sides of his jaw to bud from his cheeks, he threw it to his side. Something shiny followed suit.
The ball stuck to his corkboard after one bounce, stabbed in the center with a simple, metallic letter-opener.
Code word:
Armegeddon