Ultimate One Universe
Character Application
Character Name: Oliver Jonas "Ollie" Queen, Green Arrow
Alignment (Hero, Villain, Walking the Line): Hero
Character Speech Font and Color: Bolded Green Fixedsys
Powers and Abilities:
Archery - 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 after seeing the Emerald Archer hit targets from multiple rooftops away. 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 pyrotechnic and EMP arrows.
Martial arts - Though not as proficient with his fists as he is with a bow and arrow, Oliver is a capable martial artist, having been trained thoroughly in unorthodox methods during his time on the island, and more conventional means after becoming an agent of SHIELD. Most notably, Oliver was a sparing partner of Dinah Lance and Bobbi Morse, and though they more than likely took it easy on him, Oliver likes to think he gave them a run for their money.
Physical Capabilities - 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 Sportsmaster 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.
Tracking, Hunting, and Stealth - 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.
Medical Knowledge - 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.
Multi-lingualism - Along with his superhuman archery abilities, Oliver was also taught how to speak fluent Mandarin and Japanese from his two mentors on Lian Yu, and received basic teachings in numerous languages during his time in SHIELD, most notably Spanish and Arabic. He also studied French during his playboy years but only remembers vague sentences and phrases and would more than likely offend most French nationals.
Supporting Cast and Rogue's Gallery
Team Arrow
Oliver Queen, Green Arrow - The prodigal son of Star City and the Emerald Archer himself, 'nuff said.
Wendy "Proxy" Harris -
Marvin Harris -
Star City Police Department
Commissioner Brian Nudocerdo -
Captain Maggie Sawyer - 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 efficient officers on payroll.
Detective Larry Lance -
Detective Dudley Soames -
Government Officials
Mayor Frederick Tuckman -
District Attorney Sebastian Blood - 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, and his fanatic, almost cult like followers have been a rather large factor in his becoming District Attorney.
Corporate Figures
Malcolm Merlyn - A central figure in Star City's hierarchy, Malcolm Merlyn is 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, an image that isn't helped by the fact Malcolm married Robert's widow some three years after the later went missing. For reasons unknown Malcolm left California in his teenage years and early twenties.
Theodore Kord -
Simon LaCroix - 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 Stellmoor International.
Isabel Rochev - 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 Patriarch 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 Stellmoor International.
Organized Crime of Star City
Solntsevskaya Bratva - A powerful Russian Mafia organization led by Anatoli 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.
The Star City Triad -
The Red Darts -
Notable Citizens
Bernell "Bowstring" Jones - A small-time sports journalist during the 1992 Summer Olympics, Bernell Jones is the everyday sort of person one would never assume to marry a Bonnie King type. Bernell met Bonnie a few months after her Olympic performance and eventually found his way into the woman's heart, becoming a loving father to a daughter soon after his wedding. Having been an archery enthusiast, Bernell is a self-proclaimed supporter of the Emerald Archer and one of the few friends Green Arrow has in Star City's press.
Bonnie King-Jones - Born into a family of circus performers, Bonnie King was trained in archery from a young age by her father, "The Magician" Arthur King. A former Olympic Gold Medalist, Bonnie was eloquently nicknamed Miss Arrowette in her prime, and 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.
Brian Durlin - The heir to the Durlin family fortune, Brian is a savant in every sense of the word. He graduated at the top of his class from an ivy league school at only twenty years old, actively plays five instruments, is an adept fencer and martial artist, and is a magician when it comes to business transactions. It is whispered that Durlin has big plans for when he finally comes into his inheritance, but what exactly they are is anyone's guess. Durlin is almost never seen without his servant, Aleksandr Creote.
Noah Kuttler -
William Temple Tockman -
Kate Spencer - A federal prosecutor,
Character Origin/Backstory:
Before the Bow
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. His father being an archer and treasure hunter himself, saw it as a potential bonding experience. After weeks of trying to teach his son archery, Robert Queen would give up and hire Bonnie King herself to do the job. She would quit after six months. His two teachers had one singular piece of criticism:
"You're wasting your talent."
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 brightest young minds of his generation. A freshman in an ivy league university 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.", bidding his girlfriend at the time Carrie Cutter farewell, Oliver saddled up and head out on a journey.
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.
Purgatory
During his first few days of being stranded on Lian Yu, Ollie came into contact with a fellow inhabitant known as Natas, who saved him from one of Lian Yu's native predators and nursed him back to health. When asked just how long he'd been on the island, the man 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. Natas trained him in unconventional methods of archery and how to make herbs and poultices out of the fungi native to Lian Yu.
After about two months of training, Oliver and Natas would be found by the mercenary known as Eddie Fyers. During the intial scuffle, Oliver would be taken hostage while Natas escaped into the wilderness. During his captivity, Oliver would meet Shado, a prisoner of Fyers' and Natas' daughter. After about a week of torture and malnutrition, Oliver, with the aid of Shado and Natas, would escape Fyers' camp, though they were unable to recover any communication equipment. This would begin a long cat and mouse game between Oliver's group and Fyers' company.
A few days of walking into the wilderness later, and Oliver's group quite literally stumbled into a crashed military jet that served as the demesne of one Barbara Morse, an agent of SHIELD who had apparently been dispatched to Lian Yu to investigate Fyers' presence. If there was one thing the four agreed on, it was that they needed to work together to find a way off the island.
Oliver and his mentors would eventually come into contact with yet another castaway; Lawrence Crock, a former small-time crook turned assassin. Finding him washed up on one of Lian Yu's shores, the four would nurse Crock back to health in much the same way they had done for Ollie months prior. Now with five members, Natas took it upon himself to find a way off the island for his new-found partners.
During a raid on another of Fyers' camps, Oliver would rescue a woman by the name of Sandra Hawke, with whom he would begin a brief love affair. Unbeknownst to Ollie however, there was more to Sandra than met the eye. In actuality an agent of the League of Shadows, Sandra had been placed on Lian Yu in order to bring an offer to Crock. Natas and Shado were former operatives who had abandoned the league for the island, believing even the Demon's Head couldn't find them there. They were wrong. Sportsmaster would betray his group and murder both Natas and his daughter. Oliver would barely manage to escape with Barbara before blacking out somewhere in the wilderness.
Oliver would wake up in a small hut and meet his first native of Lian Yu; Taiana. During their recovery, Bobbi and Oliver probed Taiana for information. Fyers had supposedly been using Lian Yu as a mecca for drug smuggling operations for all of Asia. Most notable of Fyers' customers was a man known simply as The Mandarin, who had begun using the island's native population for slave labor. Believing he had a debt to pay for Taiana saving his life, Oliver would done a green hood and begin making moves against the Mandarin's thugs on the island. He was reluctantly joined by Morse.
This would culminate with Oliver and Bobbi leading a two man raid against the goons' main base of operations at the center of the island with Taiana simultaneously leading a slave revolt as a distraction once the duo arrived on the scene. Eventually coming out victorious, Bobbi managed to salvage some of the organization's communication equipment, and contacted SHIELD for a rescue. The two would be saved only a day later.
Oliver Queen: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Learning that his family had moved on after his isolation and persuaded to do so by both Nick Fury and Barbara, Oliver would decide to use his new-found skills for good and become an agent of the Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate, giving himself the call-sign of Green Arrow. During his time there, Oliver would become friends with many of his fellow agents, most notable among them being Clint Barton, better known as Hawkeye, with whom he started a friendly rivalry after learning he was both an archer and former partner of Mockingbird's, and Black Canary, who herself was a rival of Bobbi's.
Eventually, despite his astonishingly short amount of time as an agent, the Emerald Archer would find himself as something of a leader of a group of like-minded agents, though his tendency to forego the chain of command and ignore orders in order to do things "the right way" earned him a negative reputation with the higher ups in the organization.
- Somehow comes across top secret SHIELD files, possibly for Project OMAC?
- Confronts director Fury with his new evidence, the two reach a tense agreement.
- Leaves SHIELD for Star City, and publicly announces his return from the dead.
Current arc
What Makes This Version "Ultimate": He's got a number of intriguing connections with people from the League of Shadows to The Mandarin. It's an attempt to meld together a number of the Emerald Archer's numerous incarnations, from the live-action Arrow series to Green Arrow Year One to the Longbow Hunters. Plus he stopped being an unoriginal twit and called his base the Quiver. Who knows, I might even fit some Outsiders War stuff in there.
What can you bring to the RPG: A mean bowl of chili, really bad jokes, and one hell of a goatee.
Sample Post: Someone remind me to make one of these once I have time.
