<div class="floatright"><div align="center">(http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015321/rs_560x415-150421162411-1024.arrow-colton-haynes1.jpg)</div>(https://45.media.tumblr.com/e331eb3b95242d99d0ec2f009829de10/tumblr_nix5xybJ3O1r7lnigo1_250.gif)(http://static.pinkisthenewblog.com/uploads/2014/07/23/072314_arrowarsenalfirstlookfeat-250x250.jpg)(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/69/a0/26/69a026f4ce9e38db491d0618e8405620.gif)(http://49.media.tumblr.com/a26631960d0a8e73651ab84e6ee9bb99/tumblr_nil9imK8HF1tai218o1_1280.gif)(http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/arrow-roy-harper-7-1429184807.gif)</div>== Character Bio ==<br/><br/>== Personal Information ==<br/><strong>Legal Name:</strong>Roy William Harper, Jr.<br/><strong>Alias:</strong>Speedy (Age 20-22), Arsenal (Age 22-23), Red Arrow (Currently)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>24<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Straight<br/><strong>Part of Residing In:</strong><br/><br/>== Physical Description ==<br/><br/>Roy stands exactly 6'0 in height and 185 lbs in weight. Usually, Roy wares a costume modeled similarly to his mentors. A red hood conceals his top facial features with the aid of a domino mask. Most of his skin, save for the bottom portion of his face, is covered in a leather/Kevlar suit. Unlike his mentor's costume, this suit is designed to carry more equipment with hidden "goodies" all around. Naturally, he keeps a quiver on his back like the Green Arrow. On the inside of the suit, Roy is scarred as much as Oliver Queen with multiple stab wounds and gun shot wounds from his original work to his hero job. His build is more athletic and limber in nature which allows for more agility and speed. Despite nearly focusing all of his time fighting crime, Roy does manage to find the time to stay clean shaven. He keeps his brown hair short with the shade of color seemly both contrasting with his pale skin and blending in with his brown eyes.<br/><br/>== Persona ==<br/><br/>Roy originally was a troubled teen, but has bettered over the years. Still, his hard headness bleeds into his current personality all the while capable of rational thinking. He's the type that doesn't like to ask for help, but is not afraid to accept help. He does, however, remain prideful of his current list of accomplishments he has been capable of doing by himself after the "death" of his mentor. Every day, Roy is either training/working out in preparation for his hero activities with the rest of the time being for said activities. Barely does he get sleep as part of his thick headed. Due to the death of the Green Arrow, Roy was more driven to protect Star City than ever. He feels solemn at the thought of his mentor's death, but he sees his death as inspiration. Green Arrow paid the ultimate price without hesitation and Roy wishes he could do the same. Currently, Star City has recognized him for his deeds and to this day Roy is hailed as a hero of the people. A fact Roy uses to keep a steady flow of resources to aid in his crusade all the while influencing the people to stand up for themselves.<br/><br/>== Key Skills ==<br/><strong>Proficent Archer:</strong>Roy Harper learned under Oliver Queen and was trained ruthlessly in the art of Archery. Roy rarely misses, but he's still ways away from being a master.<br/><strong>Hand to Hand:</strong>Roy learned how to take care of himself during his time of crime as well as training with Oliver Queen. He's not the best, but he's leagues above professional fighters.<br/><strong>Weapon combat (Stick, Bow):</strong>Roy learned from Oliver Queen close quarters combat utilizing sticks and his bow. Roy took to these lessons better than Archery.<br/><strong>Free-running/parkour:</strong>Running all his life, Roy knows cities like the back of his hand. He knows how to maneuver through almost every knuck and cranny within the concrete jungle.<br/><strong>Arsenal:</strong>To make up the difference in power in comparison to Meta-Humans. Roy brings an unbelievable amount of trick arrows and gadgets to rival the Bat family. He prides himself for having a tool for every situation.<br/><strong>Pain tolerance:</strong>Roy has taken gun shot wounds and had to stitch them up himself long before Oliver found him. These experiences taught him to deal with pain.<br/><strong>Criminal Background:</strong>Roy has participated in various crimes before his hero work. He knows how gangs function, what they do for money, and how to utilize the skills they use as a crux against criminals.<br/><br/><br/>== Advantages ==<br/><br/>Roy has made many allies since he became a solo act. In Star City, he's gain public favor so much so that he has informants and individuals that fulfill his custom orders for his trick arrow arsenal. Being a one man right of terror, Roy had to maintain and even strengthen his body to new heights. He treats his body like a temple and thus became physically capable of taking on his daily routine of training and fighting crime without rest for long periods of time. Taking lessons for Oliver, Roy is capable of taking care of his own wounds through stitches, bandages, and proper disinfectants. It also helps that he has people capable of performing all these and more when he needs someone to heal him. Lately he hasn't need them since Roy has managed to lower crime rates.<br/><br/><br/>== Disadvantages ==<br/><br/>Roy has had to do his hero work by himself through most of his two years of lone operation. Thus Roy is hardly a team player and prefers to work alone. With no one to watch his back, Roy has received multiple injuries that has left his body scarred more than Oliver Queen's when he returned from the island. Sometimes his anger gets the best of him with added adrenaline which ends up hospitalizing either himself or multiple assailants in an almost permanent manner.<br/><br/>== Background ==<br/><br/>Roy was born into a shamble of a home with a father who left and a mother who was addicted to every known narcotic she could find. Roy's upbringing was not the best, but it wasn't the worst considering his mother tried her best to raise him right. Despite all her efforts, Roy fell into bad elements like his father before him. First it was petty thievery which taught him how to run. Then, moving up the chain, it was drug pedaling which taught him how to protect himself from thieves. Joining a gang, Roy was given various tasks that allowed him to build an arsenal of skills. As a hobby and his preferred method of generating currency, Roy took up underground fighting. He was notorious for being one of the toughest bastards on the streets all the while gaining notoriety.<br/><br/>Roy had done all this and more, such as armed robbery and arson, throughout his life in order to pay for the bills between him and his mother. One day, his mother over dosed on narcotics and ended up killing herself. It was then that Roy ventured even further to the underground world performing armed drug trafficking, grand theft auto, and going as far as to assault specified targets. He was good at it, but it all soon began to weigh on Roy Harper. At one point, it was even questioned whether or not Roy has ever killed anyone, which he never has before.<br/><br/>In 2011, Oliver Queen returned from being stranded for five years on an island. To Roy, this was news he didn't care for, but would soon face the gravity of it. One night, during a caravan transporting a large amount of cocaine from one end of the city to another, a man in a green hooded leather costume single handedly caused the van to come to a halt and began pinning Roy's colleagues down with arrows. Running, Roy was soon caught up by the assailant and proceeded to engage in a hand to hand brawl. Roy held his own, but never once did he land a hit. He did, however, get back up and try multiple times to at least land a hit. This man admiring his tenacity, humored Roy as he played with him and continuously wailed on him with a bow. Roy would then pull a gun out which he hesitated to shoot the man with. That hesitation costed him and caused the gun to be hit outta his hands with a small swiss arrow. Roy was then knocked down to the ground. Feigning unconsciousness, Roy was left tied to a fence and was left alone. As soon as the green hooded man left, Roy immediately freed himself and found the small arrow to keep.<br/><br/>From that moment on, Roy idolized the archer who revealed himself to be the Green Arrow. Roy left the gang and began following the Green Arrow all over town in what appeared to be complete stalker form. Roy even began to admire the hero's ideals about protecting the city from it's criminal element and began to desire to do the same. In addition to him cleaning up his act, Roy began aiding in social work along with blood drives and charities for Star City's homeless. Some of the charity drives Roy helped with were held by Oliver Queen, who soon recognized Roy as the one he humored that one fateful night. Oliver did not know what drove him to do so, but he one day confronted Roy as his secret identity; the Green Arrow. Roy, in a moment of awe, was left speechless to the man who somehow turned Roy's life around without being directly involved in it.<br/><br/>It was at this moment Oliver made a decision. Lately, he has been hard pressed taking down hordes of criminals in bulk every time he was going after someone on the list or stopping criminal activity in the city. It even weight harder when Oliver was recently shot by a lucky stray bullet in his back just the day before. He realized that Roy was good and that he had a certain set of skills that could be used to help Oliver if trained correctly. Plus Roy proved that he was turning over a new leaf by continuously helping Oliver with his charity drives. So, with all these facts coming together, Oliver had decided he needed someone to watch his back and offered to train Roy into becoming a vigilante. Roy did not hesitate as this what he desired most of all at that point. So, for almost a year, Roy trained with Oliver and began his work as Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy before 2011 ended. During his training, Oliver took up another sidekick in the form of Artemis Crock.<br/><br/>Together Green Arrow, Speedy, and Artemis took to the streets of Star City. Roy was even getting better and better at what he did every day with a passion as he spent most of his time either training, increasing his physical capability by working out, or taking to the streets of Star City on patrol with Artemis. On the most important ops, Green Arrow assigned Speedy and Artemis as back up in order to increase livability rates. Through this line of work, Roy began to gain an appreciation for the people of the city more so than he did before. Originally, he wanted to do this hero work in order to make himself feel better for originally being a criminal. Now, he was doing it because he loved his city. For Two years this team Roy found himself in operated within and outside of Star City. Within these two years Speedy has faced criminals, thieves, and meta-humans along side his partners. All this was shattered in an instant.<br/><br/>Green Arrow learned a disturbing revelation that caused him to push Speedy and Artemis away. Forcibly shoved away, Roy was left unable to perform his heroic duties for a brief moment of time. Then, beaten and bloodied, Oliver came back to Roy and Artemis requesting their help. Roy, angered by their last encounter, came back on the premise that this was his last time he would work with Oliver. Little did he know, that promise held more weight than intended. On that night, team Arrow failed to save Star City from an artificially generated earthquake that destroyed a large chunk of it's residential area. To make matters worse, the Green Arrow was killed by the mastermind behind earthquake; Malcolm Merlyn. With the Green Arrow dead and Star City left in ruins, Roy was left with a pair of shoes he desperately tried to fill.<br/><br/>For an entire year, both Roy and Artemis began helping the people of Star City heal from the terrorist attack as best as they could. But Star City's morale was dwindling along with their faith in it's protectors. Roy, driven to be the hero Oliver Queen once was, shut out every piece of social life he had left and went into a state of focus. Every day Roy was either training himself to get better in hopes of one day putting an arrow through Malcolm Merlyn or he was on the streets of Star City thwarting drug trafficking, theft, and murder that continued to plague the beaten city. Artemis, unable to bare witness to what Roy was becoming and too struck with grief over the lost of her mentor, left Star City on the Christmas of 2014. Once again Roy had found himself alone in his grief.<br/><br/>One day, Roy received a message requesting a meeting between him and the person who messaged him. Cautious, Roy attended to this meeting under the guise of Speedy. On a lone rooftop covered by the darkness of the city, Speedy was confronted by the messenger; Moira Queen. She reveals to Roy that she knew about Oliver being the Green Arrow and that for the past year Roy had been fighting the never ending battle that Oliver fought to his last breath. Whether it was grief or conviction, Roy would never understand, Moira offered to fund Roy's en devours and even upgrade him both financially and in tools for his trade. Roy, desperate for help and barely able to manage for the past year with the dwindling supply of arrows Oliver left in his wake, accepted without hesitation.<br/><br/>Roy was given the rights to Oliver's club which even got an upgrade unbenounced to him. Even the lair they used to hide all their gear was given an upgrade to where Roy would be able to monitor Star City simply and effectively all the while given many resources to build his arsenal of weapons. With all this change and more, Roy had decided he will no longer refer to himself as Speedy. Instead, he took up the moniker Arsenal. Thanks to the upgrades, Roy was able to access gear that Oliver had kept hidden in the event that one of the three Archers went rogue or a doomsday type event were to occur. Taking these special tools and the newly built arsenal he garnered, Roy was cleaning up Star City better than he was. Slowly but sure over the year, Roy was earning the trust of the people once again.<br/><br/>Within that year though, a sinister plot to terrorize Star City unfolded itself in the form of a group of rogues Roy faced when Oliver was still around. This group of villains continued to combat Roy at every step for months on end until their plan to bring Star City to it's knees revealed itself. Before he knew it, Roy was left with Star City under siege by this group of criminals. Just when all hope seemed to be lost, Arsenal was given help by the most unlikely of aids; the people of Star City themselves. Tired of living in fear and continuous terror spreading across the city, the people of Star City threw themselves at the criminals in a desperate attempt to regain their city. Arsenal, taking this opportunity that the people of Star City have afforded him, threw everything he had and countless Arrows against the rogues. In an event that was forever marked in Star City's history, the city itself had won it's freedom from their oppressors with Arsenal standing as their inspiration.<br/><br/>The people hailed Roy as a hero and even dubbed him with a new name as praise to him and his lineage. Roy tried to have his name remain as Arsenal, but the people believed that it was appropriate to name him as the Red Arrow on the media. Roy did not want to bring up memories of the fallen Green Arrow by taking such a name, but in the end Roy caved and now remains to this day known as the Red Arrow of Star City. Tales of his accomplishment as he single handedly faced off nefarious villains alone with only his gadgets and wit to guide him spread across the country. This garnered the attention of other heroes; some old and some fairly new. Despite being a capable hero who saved a city from major threats, Roy has came to the conclusion that he can't remain alone as the sole hero of Star City. Whether he liked it or not, Roy needed allies.<br/><br/><br/>== Character Extras =<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Quiver and Arrows</div><div class="spoiler_body">(http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/a/ae/Trick_Arrows_and_Hawkeye's_Quiver.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130203225334)</div></div><br/>= Face Claim: =<br/><br/>Colton Haynes<br/><br/>Ons: Same as player (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=170360.0)<br/><br/>Offs:Same as player (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=170360.0)