Post by Doctor Cyber on Jun 18, 2012 14:02:54 GMT -5
Real name: Roy Harper, Jr.
Alter Ego: Red Arrow (formerly Speedy I and Arsenal)
Status
Occupation:Adventurer; intelligence agent; musician
Martial Status: Married (to Donna Harper)
Legal Status:
Group Affiliation(s):Justice League of America, formerly Outsiders, Teen Titans, Checkmate
Origin
Place of Birth: Somewhere, United States
Known Relatives:Roy William Harper, Sr. (father, deceased); Brave Bow (adoptive father, deceased); Oliver "Ollie" Queen (Green Arrow- adoptive father); Jim Harper (Guardian- great-uncle); Lian Harper (daughter), Vandal Savage (ancestor)
History
Red Arrow is the current superhero identity of Roy Harper, Green Arrow's adopted son and former sidekick. He has also been known as Speedy and Arsenal during his long career. Though Red Arrow has no superpowers, his accuracy with projectiles is equaled only by his mentor.
The boy who would become Red Arrow was born Roy Harper, Jr.- the son of a forest ranger. Harper's mother died while he was an infant, and Roy, Sr. raised the child on his own for some time. Unfortunately, Roy, Sr. died while saving members of a Navajo reservation during a major fire when his son was barely two years old. The shaman of the reservation, Brave Bow, raised young Harper in gratitude for Roy, Sr.'s sacrifice. Under Brave Bow's care Roy Harper was raised as a traditional Navajo and treated as a member of the tribe.
Speedy
Brave Bow recognized in Harper an early talent for archery, and he was trained in that skill throughout his time on the reservation. With few friends and a lot of time on his hands, Harper practiced extensively, eventually developing the skill of someone twice his age.
After Green Arrow's public debut, Harper developed an immediate hero worship and followed the hero's exploits avidly. When Green Arrow visited the reservation in order to judge an archery contest Harper was participating in, eager Roy did his best to impress his hero, and succeeded in doing so. However, in the final elimination of the tournament Harper was given a magnetized arrow and missed his last shot. When he helped to stop a robber by quickly drawing and firing an arrow, Green Arrow noted that Harper had been "speedier" than he, and offered to take Roy in as his ward. Though publicly the two were known as Oliver Queen and Roy Harper, benefactor and foster child, in private Queen trained Harper to be his partner in crime. Roy Harper was extensively drilled in the use of both standard arrows and the trick arrows that Green Arrow had created for use in crimefighting, and when Green Arrow judged him to be sufficiently skilled, he was presented with his own costume and the super-heroic identity of "Speedy." Shortly afterward, Brave Bow died, and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow became the only father figure in Roy Harper's life.
As Speedy, Harper assisted his mentor during many of his cases. Just as Green Arrow had become a member of the Justice League of America, so did Speedy find his own colleagues when he joined Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Wonder Girl to become the Teen Titans. While serving with the Titans, he and Wonder Girl (aka Donna Troy) began a semi-serious teenage relationship that later developed into a close friendship.
After his stint with the Titans, several events occurred that made Speedy feel increasingly rootless and abandoned. His relationship with Donna Troy failed to progress past the "teenage sweetheart" stage, the Teen Titans disbanded, and Ollie Queen, the closest thing Harper had to a father, lost much of his fortune and abandoned him to travel America with Hal Jordan (the Green Lantern of Earth) and Queen's girlfriend, the Black Canary.
Increasingly alone and extremely depressed, Harper developed a heroin addiction. When Green Arrow discovered his addiction, rather than give Harper support or comfort, Ollie punched him and kicked him out, leaving him homeless. He was later found by Jordan, and with the help of Black Canary and others, Harper quit cold turkey.
Though Harper quit drugs entirely, partly in order to prove his strength to Ollie Queen, the latter's actions had already driven a rift between the two that would take years to heal.
Harper worked as a counselor for teens with drug problems following his recovery, while continuing to pursue a solo career as Speedy. He also joined a re-formed Teen Titans for a time, but the team once again disbanded and Speedy was left on his own.
Government Agent
While counseling teenagers and working as a superhero, Harper's obvious skills as well as his personal connection to the drug underground attracted the attention of the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), a clandestine government agency largely concerned with drug trafficking and terrorism. The CBI, led by Sarge Steel, trained Harper in undercover work, as well as the use of firearms (Harper learned he was as accurate with a gun as he was with a bow and arrow.) Harper became an official CBI drug enforcement agent.
On one undercover assignment, Harper was tasked with the job of gaining the trust of the sociopathic mercenary Cheshire. Though Harper was meant to eventually turn Cheshire over to the authorities, the two fell in love and had an affair. Harper could not bring himself to Cheshire in, but he was concerned that his continued presence would endanger her. That worry combined with his growing misgivings over Cheshire's disregard for life caused Harper to abandon her, unaware that she was pregnant with his child.
When Harper eventually learned that he was the father of Cheshire's daughter, Lian, he teamed up with his old friend Nightwing (formerly known as Robin) to track down Cheshire and prevent her from assassinating a group of diplomats. Speedy was captured by Cheshire but rescued by Nightwing, who brought the baby with him. Cheshire left Lian in Harper's care, and Roy assumed the duties of a single father.
Arsenal
No longer a member of the CBI or the Titans, and still estranged from Oliver Queen, Harper struggled for some time to find his place in the world. For a time, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he attempted a career as a private investigator. Though he assisted the latest incarnation of the Titans on several occasions, he declined to rejoin as a full member. Eventually, he resumed his working relationship with the CBI and then its successor organization Checkmate.
During this time, Speedy's old friends in the Titans were going through a crisis of their own. After being hunted by the Wildebeest Society, led by Jericho, the team had been shattered and reformed. The Titans Tower, their headquarters, was destroyed, and the Titans were rootless and mistrusted by the American government. After making a deal with harper's employer, Sarge Steel, to become officially supervised and sanctioned by the US Government, Nightwing voluntarily stepped down as leader. The obvious choice to fill the vacuum was Roy Harper, who had connections to both the Titans and the Federal government. Availing himself of Steve Dayton's technology, Harper decided at this point to abandon his identity as Speedy and become Arsenal. Now no longer simply using a bow and arrows, Arsenal's high-tech costume gave him several devices to use for crimefighting. He would soon abandon his original Arsenal costume in favor of a more streamlined one, but retained his new codename and leadership of the Titans. Unfortunately, the team suffered from a lack of commitment from its various members, and was dissolved yet again.
Arsenal took this opportunity to re-open a dialog with his mentor, Green Arrow. The two managed to forgive one another and bury their past differences, but the reconciliation was short-lived, as Oliver Queen died in an airplane explosion shortly afterward.
Soon, yet another team of Teen Titans emerged. This group consisted of a teen-aged Atom (de-aged by events in Zero Hour) and new heroes Argent, Risk, Joto, and Prysm. The team was funded by Loren Jupiter, once the benefactor of the original Teen Titans that Harper has been a member of.
Jupiter gathered together the original Titans (now going by the aliases of Nightwing, Tempest, Flash, and Arsenal) to combat the threat of his bitter, super-powered son Jarrod Jupiter (Haze). New and old Titans joined forces to defeat Haze, but at a price; Joto apparently lost his life, and Arsenal felt responsible for his death. Arsenal remained with this new group of Titans for a time, but eventually left the group before it, too, disbanded.
Arsenal later came into conflict with Vandal Savage. Savage had discovered that both Roy Harper and his daughter Lian were his descendants, and thus, their organs were suitable for him to harvest to prolong his life.
Arsenal was able to save his daughter from Savage. After this ordeal, he adopted a new look to reflect his Navajo heritage. Shortly after, the original five Titans decided to form yet another incarnation of the team. Arsenal served as a full-time member on the team, and chose to reside at the new Titans Tower with his daughter, Lian. He hired Rose Wilson to be Lian's nanny, and also attempted an adult relationship with Donna Troy, but broke it off when it became clear that Troy was dealing with an identity crisis of her own. Arsenal, who by that point had established a reputation as something of a "ladies' man," went back to his philandering ways.
At roughly the same time, Oliver Queen reappeared, having been resurrected earlier by Hal Jordan (in his identity of Parallax). After Queen sorted out his own issues, he and Harper's relationship resumed.
Leader of the Outsiders
When a mysterious conglomerate known as Optitron offered to sponsor the Titans and Young Justice, members of both teams encountered a cybernetic girl from the future (known as Indigo) at their complex. The android attacked both teams and disabled nearly half of the group. Those members who could teamed up to track down Indigo, but instead encountered a rogue Superman robot that Indigo had somehow reactivated. The Superman robot made quick work of Lilith, killing her by snapping her neck, and then killed Donna Troy with a heat vision blast to her chest. Though Indigo returned to shut down the Superman Android, the rest of the Titans and Young Justice were left to mourn their fallen friends. Once again, the Titans were parted ways.
Arsenal took this opportunity to accept Optitron's offer and formed a new team: the Outsiders. Harper conceived the team as professional and proactive, with none of the "family" connections that seemed to doom various incarnations of the Titans. He began by buying a massive secret underground headquarters beneath New York City. Roy outfitted the shelter with state-of-the-art equipment and began recruiting members for the new team. He successfully coaxed the veteran Metamorpho, as well as Grace (a superhuman bouncer whom Harper had a physical relationship with) and Thunder (daughter of Black Lightning) into joining the team. He also decided to accept Indigo as a member. Even though she had been responsible for activating the Superman android, and ultimately for Lilith's and Donna Troy's deaths, her memory had been wiped clean, and she convinced Arsenal that she wanted to atone for what she had done.
Indigo's presence would prove to be a major sticking point for Arsenal's last recruit: Nightwing. The Titans' former leader was completely unwilling to renew his involvement in a team after such a devastating loss. Arsenal argued that the Outsiders were the next logical step for them beyond the Titans, and that perhaps a team of strangers would operate more efficiently than a team with so many emotional attachments. Nightwing, while still reluctant, agreed to join and became field leader of the Outsiders shortly after the team defeated Gorilla Grodd.
On a later mission, Arsenal was shot in the chest while attempting to stop Brother Blood from activating a global network of sleeper agents. He survived, but was sidelined for months. In the interim, he assigned the Huntress to be his replacement. He was hesitant to resume active duty, feeling afraid of his own limitations, but returned with encouragement from Nightwing.
Not long after his recovery, the Outsiders took on a case which involved a child-slaver and molester named Tanner. One of Tanner's informants recognized Harper from years prior, and led Tanner to Lian Harper. Lian's nanny was killed and the girl was branded with Tanner's mark. The Outsiders arrived just in time to save Lian and other children from being flown out of New York.
Oddly, Arsenal's near-death from gunshot wounds later saved his life when he met Deathstroke. The villain, Arsenal discovered, had been posing as Batman and feeding him information since the Outsiders began. Deathstroke and Arsenal fought, with Deathstroke intending to kill him, but when the mercenary discovered the bullet scars on Arsenal's chest, he figured Arsenal had suffered enough and gave him a "pass." About the same time, Arsenal was also kidnapped by Green Arrow's nemesis Constantine Drakon. Drakon was working with the Riddler, and slit Arsenal's throat so that he would have to apply constant pressure to the wound or die. The Outsiders helped search for Arsenal and rescued him.
During the period of turmoil known as the Infinite Crisis, Indigo was revealed to be a plant of Brainiac's, and almost succeeded in destroying the team. Later, Arsenal and the Outsiders were among the heroes gathered to defend Metropolis from an invasion by the Society. After the disappearance of Batman, Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman, the Outsiders continued to operate, but found themselves handling low-level criminals and making little difference in the world. When Nightwing and Red Hood discovered that Black Lightning, former Outsider and father of Thunder, had been arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the Outsiders attempted a rescue. Ultimately, they failed in their attempt, and ended up believed dead by the outside world. Though the team saw this as an opportunity to operate covertly, Arsenal soon realized he was not made for the life of a cloak and dagger hero and left the team, returning full command to Nightwing.
Red Arrow
After watching the world go through much chaos, from Black Adam killing millions, Superman disappearing, and the rise of the villain known as Triumph and the day now being referred to as the lobal Crisis", four heroes have risen up to reform the Justice League of America, which had been disbanded during the Crisis. Captain Comet, Wonder Woman (Donna), Hal Jordan, and Dawn Granger rebuild the Hall of Justice and selected new members. Among those members was Roy Harper.
In a sign that he had finally "made it," Arsenal was asked by the four to join the latest incarnation of the team. In their first meeting, Hal Jordan referred to Harper as "Red Arrow". Though Harper was surprised by this new nickname, he soon embraced the identity with the help of a new costume, given to him by his former mentor, Green Arrow. His new name and costume became symbolic of his "coming of age" and the end of his troubled relationship with Oliver Queen.
Red Arrow continues to serve with the Justice League. However, lately…with the rise of a new (and often troubled) relationship with Donna Troy and the revelation of her son being Connor Hawke’s child, Roy felt betrayed at first. Once the two began talking once more and Donna’s explanation of the situation (she was under a love spell, as with Connor), Roy decided to take on the responsibility of being the under born child’s “father” and taking Donna’s hand in marriage.
Characteristics
Age: 23
Height: 5’11’’
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Unusual Features:Harper has a Navajo tattoo band around his right bicep, as well as six bullet wound scars on his chest and a surgical scar running the length of his sternum.
Personality:
Powers
Known Powers:
Aging/Deaging Defense: The one power that Roy has, and this doesn't come up very often, is that as a result of an early Teen Titan adventure, the archer's aging process, along with the original Teen Titans', was slowed down. This effect also prevented him from being aged, or de-aged, easily by others.
Known Abilities:
Strength Level: Neark Peak Human
Weaknesses:
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
Transportation: His feet
Weapons:
Please Note: The Red Arrow is the only one who can tell them apart from one an other.
Sample RP Post
Alter Ego: Red Arrow (formerly Speedy I and Arsenal)
Status
Occupation:Adventurer; intelligence agent; musician
Martial Status: Married (to Donna Harper)
Legal Status:
Group Affiliation(s):Justice League of America, formerly Outsiders, Teen Titans, Checkmate
Origin
Place of Birth: Somewhere, United States
Known Relatives:Roy William Harper, Sr. (father, deceased); Brave Bow (adoptive father, deceased); Oliver "Ollie" Queen (Green Arrow- adoptive father); Jim Harper (Guardian- great-uncle); Lian Harper (daughter), Vandal Savage (ancestor)
History
Red Arrow is the current superhero identity of Roy Harper, Green Arrow's adopted son and former sidekick. He has also been known as Speedy and Arsenal during his long career. Though Red Arrow has no superpowers, his accuracy with projectiles is equaled only by his mentor.
The boy who would become Red Arrow was born Roy Harper, Jr.- the son of a forest ranger. Harper's mother died while he was an infant, and Roy, Sr. raised the child on his own for some time. Unfortunately, Roy, Sr. died while saving members of a Navajo reservation during a major fire when his son was barely two years old. The shaman of the reservation, Brave Bow, raised young Harper in gratitude for Roy, Sr.'s sacrifice. Under Brave Bow's care Roy Harper was raised as a traditional Navajo and treated as a member of the tribe.
Speedy
Brave Bow recognized in Harper an early talent for archery, and he was trained in that skill throughout his time on the reservation. With few friends and a lot of time on his hands, Harper practiced extensively, eventually developing the skill of someone twice his age.
After Green Arrow's public debut, Harper developed an immediate hero worship and followed the hero's exploits avidly. When Green Arrow visited the reservation in order to judge an archery contest Harper was participating in, eager Roy did his best to impress his hero, and succeeded in doing so. However, in the final elimination of the tournament Harper was given a magnetized arrow and missed his last shot. When he helped to stop a robber by quickly drawing and firing an arrow, Green Arrow noted that Harper had been "speedier" than he, and offered to take Roy in as his ward. Though publicly the two were known as Oliver Queen and Roy Harper, benefactor and foster child, in private Queen trained Harper to be his partner in crime. Roy Harper was extensively drilled in the use of both standard arrows and the trick arrows that Green Arrow had created for use in crimefighting, and when Green Arrow judged him to be sufficiently skilled, he was presented with his own costume and the super-heroic identity of "Speedy." Shortly afterward, Brave Bow died, and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow became the only father figure in Roy Harper's life.
As Speedy, Harper assisted his mentor during many of his cases. Just as Green Arrow had become a member of the Justice League of America, so did Speedy find his own colleagues when he joined Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Wonder Girl to become the Teen Titans. While serving with the Titans, he and Wonder Girl (aka Donna Troy) began a semi-serious teenage relationship that later developed into a close friendship.
After his stint with the Titans, several events occurred that made Speedy feel increasingly rootless and abandoned. His relationship with Donna Troy failed to progress past the "teenage sweetheart" stage, the Teen Titans disbanded, and Ollie Queen, the closest thing Harper had to a father, lost much of his fortune and abandoned him to travel America with Hal Jordan (the Green Lantern of Earth) and Queen's girlfriend, the Black Canary.
Increasingly alone and extremely depressed, Harper developed a heroin addiction. When Green Arrow discovered his addiction, rather than give Harper support or comfort, Ollie punched him and kicked him out, leaving him homeless. He was later found by Jordan, and with the help of Black Canary and others, Harper quit cold turkey.
Though Harper quit drugs entirely, partly in order to prove his strength to Ollie Queen, the latter's actions had already driven a rift between the two that would take years to heal.
Harper worked as a counselor for teens with drug problems following his recovery, while continuing to pursue a solo career as Speedy. He also joined a re-formed Teen Titans for a time, but the team once again disbanded and Speedy was left on his own.
Government Agent
While counseling teenagers and working as a superhero, Harper's obvious skills as well as his personal connection to the drug underground attracted the attention of the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI), a clandestine government agency largely concerned with drug trafficking and terrorism. The CBI, led by Sarge Steel, trained Harper in undercover work, as well as the use of firearms (Harper learned he was as accurate with a gun as he was with a bow and arrow.) Harper became an official CBI drug enforcement agent.
On one undercover assignment, Harper was tasked with the job of gaining the trust of the sociopathic mercenary Cheshire. Though Harper was meant to eventually turn Cheshire over to the authorities, the two fell in love and had an affair. Harper could not bring himself to Cheshire in, but he was concerned that his continued presence would endanger her. That worry combined with his growing misgivings over Cheshire's disregard for life caused Harper to abandon her, unaware that she was pregnant with his child.
When Harper eventually learned that he was the father of Cheshire's daughter, Lian, he teamed up with his old friend Nightwing (formerly known as Robin) to track down Cheshire and prevent her from assassinating a group of diplomats. Speedy was captured by Cheshire but rescued by Nightwing, who brought the baby with him. Cheshire left Lian in Harper's care, and Roy assumed the duties of a single father.
Arsenal
No longer a member of the CBI or the Titans, and still estranged from Oliver Queen, Harper struggled for some time to find his place in the world. For a time, he relocated to Los Angeles, where he attempted a career as a private investigator. Though he assisted the latest incarnation of the Titans on several occasions, he declined to rejoin as a full member. Eventually, he resumed his working relationship with the CBI and then its successor organization Checkmate.
During this time, Speedy's old friends in the Titans were going through a crisis of their own. After being hunted by the Wildebeest Society, led by Jericho, the team had been shattered and reformed. The Titans Tower, their headquarters, was destroyed, and the Titans were rootless and mistrusted by the American government. After making a deal with harper's employer, Sarge Steel, to become officially supervised and sanctioned by the US Government, Nightwing voluntarily stepped down as leader. The obvious choice to fill the vacuum was Roy Harper, who had connections to both the Titans and the Federal government. Availing himself of Steve Dayton's technology, Harper decided at this point to abandon his identity as Speedy and become Arsenal. Now no longer simply using a bow and arrows, Arsenal's high-tech costume gave him several devices to use for crimefighting. He would soon abandon his original Arsenal costume in favor of a more streamlined one, but retained his new codename and leadership of the Titans. Unfortunately, the team suffered from a lack of commitment from its various members, and was dissolved yet again.
Arsenal took this opportunity to re-open a dialog with his mentor, Green Arrow. The two managed to forgive one another and bury their past differences, but the reconciliation was short-lived, as Oliver Queen died in an airplane explosion shortly afterward.
Soon, yet another team of Teen Titans emerged. This group consisted of a teen-aged Atom (de-aged by events in Zero Hour) and new heroes Argent, Risk, Joto, and Prysm. The team was funded by Loren Jupiter, once the benefactor of the original Teen Titans that Harper has been a member of.
Jupiter gathered together the original Titans (now going by the aliases of Nightwing, Tempest, Flash, and Arsenal) to combat the threat of his bitter, super-powered son Jarrod Jupiter (Haze). New and old Titans joined forces to defeat Haze, but at a price; Joto apparently lost his life, and Arsenal felt responsible for his death. Arsenal remained with this new group of Titans for a time, but eventually left the group before it, too, disbanded.
Arsenal later came into conflict with Vandal Savage. Savage had discovered that both Roy Harper and his daughter Lian were his descendants, and thus, their organs were suitable for him to harvest to prolong his life.
Arsenal was able to save his daughter from Savage. After this ordeal, he adopted a new look to reflect his Navajo heritage. Shortly after, the original five Titans decided to form yet another incarnation of the team. Arsenal served as a full-time member on the team, and chose to reside at the new Titans Tower with his daughter, Lian. He hired Rose Wilson to be Lian's nanny, and also attempted an adult relationship with Donna Troy, but broke it off when it became clear that Troy was dealing with an identity crisis of her own. Arsenal, who by that point had established a reputation as something of a "ladies' man," went back to his philandering ways.
At roughly the same time, Oliver Queen reappeared, having been resurrected earlier by Hal Jordan (in his identity of Parallax). After Queen sorted out his own issues, he and Harper's relationship resumed.
Leader of the Outsiders
When a mysterious conglomerate known as Optitron offered to sponsor the Titans and Young Justice, members of both teams encountered a cybernetic girl from the future (known as Indigo) at their complex. The android attacked both teams and disabled nearly half of the group. Those members who could teamed up to track down Indigo, but instead encountered a rogue Superman robot that Indigo had somehow reactivated. The Superman robot made quick work of Lilith, killing her by snapping her neck, and then killed Donna Troy with a heat vision blast to her chest. Though Indigo returned to shut down the Superman Android, the rest of the Titans and Young Justice were left to mourn their fallen friends. Once again, the Titans were parted ways.
Arsenal took this opportunity to accept Optitron's offer and formed a new team: the Outsiders. Harper conceived the team as professional and proactive, with none of the "family" connections that seemed to doom various incarnations of the Titans. He began by buying a massive secret underground headquarters beneath New York City. Roy outfitted the shelter with state-of-the-art equipment and began recruiting members for the new team. He successfully coaxed the veteran Metamorpho, as well as Grace (a superhuman bouncer whom Harper had a physical relationship with) and Thunder (daughter of Black Lightning) into joining the team. He also decided to accept Indigo as a member. Even though she had been responsible for activating the Superman android, and ultimately for Lilith's and Donna Troy's deaths, her memory had been wiped clean, and she convinced Arsenal that she wanted to atone for what she had done.
Indigo's presence would prove to be a major sticking point for Arsenal's last recruit: Nightwing. The Titans' former leader was completely unwilling to renew his involvement in a team after such a devastating loss. Arsenal argued that the Outsiders were the next logical step for them beyond the Titans, and that perhaps a team of strangers would operate more efficiently than a team with so many emotional attachments. Nightwing, while still reluctant, agreed to join and became field leader of the Outsiders shortly after the team defeated Gorilla Grodd.
On a later mission, Arsenal was shot in the chest while attempting to stop Brother Blood from activating a global network of sleeper agents. He survived, but was sidelined for months. In the interim, he assigned the Huntress to be his replacement. He was hesitant to resume active duty, feeling afraid of his own limitations, but returned with encouragement from Nightwing.
Not long after his recovery, the Outsiders took on a case which involved a child-slaver and molester named Tanner. One of Tanner's informants recognized Harper from years prior, and led Tanner to Lian Harper. Lian's nanny was killed and the girl was branded with Tanner's mark. The Outsiders arrived just in time to save Lian and other children from being flown out of New York.
Oddly, Arsenal's near-death from gunshot wounds later saved his life when he met Deathstroke. The villain, Arsenal discovered, had been posing as Batman and feeding him information since the Outsiders began. Deathstroke and Arsenal fought, with Deathstroke intending to kill him, but when the mercenary discovered the bullet scars on Arsenal's chest, he figured Arsenal had suffered enough and gave him a "pass." About the same time, Arsenal was also kidnapped by Green Arrow's nemesis Constantine Drakon. Drakon was working with the Riddler, and slit Arsenal's throat so that he would have to apply constant pressure to the wound or die. The Outsiders helped search for Arsenal and rescued him.
During the period of turmoil known as the Infinite Crisis, Indigo was revealed to be a plant of Brainiac's, and almost succeeded in destroying the team. Later, Arsenal and the Outsiders were among the heroes gathered to defend Metropolis from an invasion by the Society. After the disappearance of Batman, Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman, the Outsiders continued to operate, but found themselves handling low-level criminals and making little difference in the world. When Nightwing and Red Hood discovered that Black Lightning, former Outsider and father of Thunder, had been arrested for a crime he didn't commit, the Outsiders attempted a rescue. Ultimately, they failed in their attempt, and ended up believed dead by the outside world. Though the team saw this as an opportunity to operate covertly, Arsenal soon realized he was not made for the life of a cloak and dagger hero and left the team, returning full command to Nightwing.
Red Arrow
After watching the world go through much chaos, from Black Adam killing millions, Superman disappearing, and the rise of the villain known as Triumph and the day now being referred to as the lobal Crisis", four heroes have risen up to reform the Justice League of America, which had been disbanded during the Crisis. Captain Comet, Wonder Woman (Donna), Hal Jordan, and Dawn Granger rebuild the Hall of Justice and selected new members. Among those members was Roy Harper.
In a sign that he had finally "made it," Arsenal was asked by the four to join the latest incarnation of the team. In their first meeting, Hal Jordan referred to Harper as "Red Arrow". Though Harper was surprised by this new nickname, he soon embraced the identity with the help of a new costume, given to him by his former mentor, Green Arrow. His new name and costume became symbolic of his "coming of age" and the end of his troubled relationship with Oliver Queen.
Red Arrow continues to serve with the Justice League. However, lately…with the rise of a new (and often troubled) relationship with Donna Troy and the revelation of her son being Connor Hawke’s child, Roy felt betrayed at first. Once the two began talking once more and Donna’s explanation of the situation (she was under a love spell, as with Connor), Roy decided to take on the responsibility of being the under born child’s “father” and taking Donna’s hand in marriage.
Characteristics
Age: 23
Height: 5’11’’
Weight: 195 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Red
Unusual Features:Harper has a Navajo tattoo band around his right bicep, as well as six bullet wound scars on his chest and a surgical scar running the length of his sternum.
Personality:
- Networker: Roy Harper is one of the most connected superheroes around. For one, he has ties to the Justice League, to the Titans, to the drug underground through his old drug connections, and to various government agencies through Checkmate. Whether that's just because he's naturally charismatic, or because he's a tenacious bastard, he's well-connected. He makes connections to people, one way or another.
- Cocky: Whether this is picked up through prolonged exposure to Ollie Queen or just a natural trait, there's no doubt that Roy doesn't mind showing just -how- confident he is with himself. A good deal of this is for show, though, a peacock displaying its feathers to ward off predators from taking a closer look...
- Stubborn: Roy isn't the type to give in easily once he has an idea in his head... he'll fight his best to make it happen. And he's not a very good -listener- once he has his mind made up. Good luck.
- Humanist: For all Roy's worldly knowledge, his meddling in politics and his failed relationship, what drives him onwards is always that better tomorrow, knowing that the world -could- be better. It may lead him to take some unorthodox approaches to make it so, such as affecting an air of being a total jerk, or a sexist, but underneath it all, he believes that some sort of ethics applies to -all- people, regardless of sex, race, religion, or nationality, and will do his best to ensure that such a world -is- possible, if not necessarily for him, for his daughter.
Powers
Known Powers:
Aging/Deaging Defense: The one power that Roy has, and this doesn't come up very often, is that as a result of an early Teen Titan adventure, the archer's aging process, along with the original Teen Titans', was slowed down. This effect also prevented him from being aged, or de-aged, easily by others.
Known Abilities:
- Raised by the Navajo: Roy, raised by the Navajo tribe, picked up the language as a young child, and canspeak and use it fluently. He also picked up arcane lore from the Shaman that raised him, as well as herbal knowledge, tracking skills, survival skills, and medical knowledge. As a result, he's nearly as adept as any Native American in those skills.
- Espionage: Roy Harper, as an agent of Checkmate, is trained in espionage and infiltration. He's had to go undercover, adopting identities and fitting in seamlessly within the roles he's been assigned. They're usually careful to make his roles fit his personality, but he can get into his roles just fine. Maybe -just- a little too much into his role... just witness the Cheshire case.
- Archery: Raised by Navajo, trained by Green Arrow, Roy's natural aptitude for bows and arrows was refined and honed to such levels that he may be considered the second or third best archer in the world. It's not quite Ollie's level, but certainly on par with Connor Hawke, maybe better.
- Hand to hand fighting: Roy blends in a mixture of street fighting, his own weapons, and his Checkmate training into a mixture where he can handle anyone with a moderate amount of martial arts, or less, enough to protect him until he can turn to his mastery of archery or throwing weapons. He can't handle anyone the equivalent of the KGBeast for long, but he -can- hold him off long enough till he can bring his other skills into play.
- Negotiation: Roy is one of those people who can connect to people, having a good idea of the pressures faced by anyone. He's been a father, a druggie, a down-and-out orphan, a drug counselor, and a Checkmate agent. He's had to persuade -Lian- to go to bed at a reasonable hour. After that, convincing the United Nations to accept and reorganize Checkmate, or trying to get terrorists to surrender hardly seems so hard.
- Trick arrow knowledge: Despite not really using them during his field work with Checkmate, Roy retains the knowledge of how they were produced from watching Oliver so many time, that he could use the scientific fundamentals if needed. He won't be able to create -new- trick arrows, but he can make what Ollie has taught him.
- Firearms knowledge: Despite Roy giving up his usage of guns, in deference to Black Canary's request to set a good role model for Lian, he knows how to use them, being able to strip them down, reload, and fire a large variety of government-and-foreign issue weapons. After all, he will never know -just- what sort of weapons he might come across during a mission... (and he -really- hopes he comes across just the Earth-weapons, and not some alien howitzer...)
- Brawling: When fighting, Roy can and will use his environment to his advantage. As he puts it, when in doubt... PANIC. And then start using everything he can, any way he can think of. Pushing objects into the way of the foe, jumping a guy from behind, taking advantage of a foe's weaknesses... he's not above -cheating- just to make sure he gets out -alive-.
- Projectile weapons: Roy's ability to turn practically anything that could be thrown into a weapon borders on the supernatural. He can throw multiple objects that fits within his hands, with remarkable accuracy.
- Criminology: After years of fighting crime, Red Arrow has an excellent idea of how the criminal mind works, and has spent a great deal of time with intelligence agencies training to fight crime in all its various incarnations. He's not ever going to be on a Batman, or even Nightwing level, but he -can- at least be a police-level detective.
- Piloting: An experienced pilot, thanks to Oliver's Arrowplane, Roy is never going to be an ace pilot, but he knows enough to get you from point A to point B. And crashing, he knows how to crash safely. Really.
- Streetwise: Having spent time on the street during his drug addict days, as well as being homeless after Oliver threw him out, Roy can handle himself on the streets, knowing who to approach, who to avoid, and what he can obtain on the streets... although these days, what he usually wants to obtain is information.
- Leadership: Roy has been a leader of the Titans and the Justice League International. He's grown over the years, becoming a leader of men, and tried to inspire them towards greater heights. Organizing isn't his -strongest- skill, but he's learned to delegate things he can't handle to those who -can-.
Strength Level: Neark Peak Human
Weaknesses:
- Depressive: Roy, when left to his own devices, cannot handle 'bad times' unassisted. He's turned to heroin in the past. These days, he has a responsibility to his daughter to remain the best parent for her, but if there's ever a time when he -doesn't- have that foundation...
- Bad girls: Roy seems to have a particular knack for having relationships with women who aren't -right- for him, and letting it influence him to the point he can't really perform his duties optimally. Cheshire speaks to that point.
- Lian: Lian is the apple of her father's eye, and Roy would do anything for her... including doing foolhardy things like chase down and confront Vandal Savage to rescue his daughter.
- Headstrong: Like his 'father' Ollie, Roy can be stubborn, steadfastedly sticking to a position and clinging to it doggedly... which could be a bad thing if he's on the wrong side of an issue.
- Killer: Heroes do not kill. That's been drummed into his head over and over. And yet, when Roy joined Checkmate, and tried to apply his non-lethal approach, he was forced into killing because of the nature of his missions, especially as demanded by Sarge Steel. This approach later led him to try and re-vamp Checkmate to be more oriented towards -helping- people, as a sort of UN police. Unfortunately, this also means he has to acknowledge that sometimes, in the line of duty, it -is- necessary. Roy's come to believe that the police officers who -kill- in the line of duty are -still- heroes... but who knows what others think?
- Cheshire: The woman that Roy met and fell in love with during a Checkmate mission, Cheshire is one of those 'bad girls' that actually led to something rather permanent... their daughter Lian. He still keeps in touch with Cheshire, even visiting her to keep her appraised on Lian. And he's gone out of his way to rescue her, and protect her. It was a passionate relationship... and it's even much more difficult for Roy, considering how much they remain on the opposite sides of law and order...
- Donna Troy: The “ball-and-chain”. Nowadays, Roy finds himself caring for Donna, despite all the trials that the two have went through in order to come this far. To take the next step, which is getting married and finally settling down. Villains may be able to get to Roy through Donna, or vice versa.
- Titans enemies: The Titans have made many enemies. Brother Blood, Deathstroke the Terminator, the HIVE... and any of them could come out and strike against him at any time. Some of them even know his secret identity...
- Vandal Savage: Vandal Savage is an immortal enemy... and an ancestor of Roy's. The problem is, Vandal feels no particular family ties... although there might be a chance that he would -want- to feel closer to Roy and to Lian. And that's -really- a bad thing, considering that in order to continue his immortality, Vandal, ahem, harvests body parts and organs from his relatives...
Misc (optional)
Equipment:
- Taser Stun Gun: Roy carries a taser gun that could reach up to 50,000 volts... something strong enough to stun a Solomon Grundy or a Blockbuster if needed, discharging its energy upon contact. It's not capable of multiple usage without at least a minute to recharge itself, and he can only use it three times before he drains the entire thing, but if it gets him breathing room to bring his other skills in play, it's worth it.
- Costume: Roy's current costume is a red leather and cloth costume, specially treated during the dying process to make them practically impossible to cut through with a normal blade. Underneath, Roy wears a Checkmate-issue vest underneath the costume tunic, which lends additional protection against small-caliber gunfire and shots.
- Checkmate issue equipment: Checkmate issue crowd-control grenades, emergency first aid kit, and communication device, issued to Roy as part of Checkmate. The crowd-control grenades come in the form of both tear gases, and smoke grenades, enabling Arsenal to either attack in a strategic strike, or escape. The first aid kit comes with the necessities to perform small field-surgeries like scissors, antiseptic and a sewing kit for small wounds and antiseptic, as well as bandages. The communication device resembles a slightly futuristic cell phone, and hooks up to a satellite that communicates on a private frequency, scrambled to make tracking nearly impossible, and allows him to talk to his Checkmate contacts.
Transportation: His feet
Weapons:
- Throwing objects: Because he's used for espionage and infiltration, and not pure combat, Roy is not armed to the teeth, and carries a couple dozen each of throwing knives and shurikens. The rest is left up to his wits.
- Crossbow: Carrying a crossbow and three dozen crossbow bolts in a small quiver attached to his belt, Red Arrow uses this in lieu of guns, having given up guns in order to set a role model for his daughter. The crossbow is capable of firing an bolt at least a hundred fifty yards, with rapid-reloading capabilities, meaning it can fire off up to five pre-loaded bolts at a time. Red Arrow relies on his agility to buy him time to reload.
- The Red Bow.
- Regular Arrow, has the Adamantium Tip!
- Acid Arrow, has an acid drenched tip.
- Atomic Arrow, highly explosive on impact or air bound.
- Blunt Arrows, kinda like a short staff that can be shot from his bow.
- Bola Arrow, When in air releases the Metal balls connected to each other by chain.
- Boomerang Arrow, An arrow that comes back toward that is combined with other arrows.
- Freezing Arrow, Freezes on impact in either a large or small mass.
- Drill Arrow, Small drill at the end.
- Explosive Arrow, Lesser form of the Atomic.
- Extinguisher Arrow, has the chemical on impact or in air.
- Flash Arrow, releases a large flash of light on impact or in air.
- Glue Arrow, releases a super sticky chemical on impact or in air.
- Grappling Hook Arrow, Small unbreakable line connected out back with hook at the end.
- Kryptonite Arrow, It explains itself.
- Net Arrow, releases a large net on impact or in air.
- Smokescreen Arrow, releases mass of smoke on impact or in air.
- Sonic Arrow, releases a large screeching sound on impact or in air.
- Stun gun Arrow, releases electricity on impact.
- Tear Gas Arrow, releases tear gas on impact or in air.
- The Red Bow.
Please Note: The Red Arrow is the only one who can tell them apart from one an other.
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