Name: William Harris (Clayton-Queen) Door: Door Pass Canon: Arrow Canon Point: Season 8, Episode 5 "Prochnost" Age: 31 Appearance: Ben Lawson History: This and--After Mia, Roy, Dinah, Zoe, and Connor all descend upon the Arrow bunker, tensions come to a head and Mia reveals she is Felicity and Oliver's daughter, aka William's half sister. Mia and William find a recording of Felicity's voice warning them to leave Star City, but instead they defy her orders and follow the coordinates left behind by her. They lead them to the Glades.
Mia and William try to infiltrate GalaxyOne headquarters but when Mia is almost made, Connor Hawke saves them revealing himself to be a part of a future A.R.G.U.S., "Knightwatch." Mia and William go undercover, Mia reluctantly, as William uses his clout and charm to flirt with an executive. While this happens, Mia finds what she needs on his computer. The team discovers a terrorist group used GalaxyOne and paid as a front to fake Felicity's death. Everyone makes it down to the sublevels and finds Felicity. William's reunion is bittersweet and tearful, while Mia's is fraught. She tries to get her mother to go with them, but Felicity refuses, saying she needs to save Star City from the bombs. William decides to stay and help. Connor and Mia return to help after Mia first storms off. Renee, now Mayor, joins them down below and says the bombs are all ready in place.
Everyone infiltrates a party and Mia shorts out the device that would detonate the bombs.
The executive from before, reveals a helmet that would take Archer, Felicity's program and the reason why they faked her death, global.
Uncovering an entire plot and yet more technological advancements, the group breaks off, William and Renee trying to infiltrate GalaxyOne again to obtain the source code. William and Renee are caught. GalaxyOne enters the hideout to arrest the rest of the team. Connor and Zoe save everyone and William and Mia upload a virus Felicity coded to take down Archer. Felicity, William, and Mia visit Oliver's grave. Felicity goes with an immortal, multidemsional being named the Monitor to reunite with Oliver.
After the destruction of the wall between the Glades and Star City, the "Deathstroke Gang" has obtained more power. The Deathstrokes are led by Connor's adoptive brother, J.J. William and the group encounters them. The Deathstroke Gang leaves behind a device that William works to repair. Even though the Deathstroke Gang finds Team Arrow's bunker, William makes it out of there through a trap door. The groups come to blows again, except this time J.J. beats Mia back. When Zoe tries to strike, J.J. kills her. Connor goes crazy, beating his brother to a pulp but before anything else happens, William, Mia, and Connor are transported to the Arrow bunker circa 2019 where 2019 Oliver, Renee, Diggle, and Dinah are.
Mia and Connor decide to keep everything about the future to themselves, holding that weight of how dire things are both socioeconomically and personally in. William has a quiet moment with his father to come out to him. A different army of Deathstrokes rise up and both Mia and William assume it's a time displaced J.J. William and Connor admit what happens in their time with J.J. including how he becomes Grant's (the current leader's) successor and how he murdered Zoe. The two teams work together and Grant is stopped. The team vows to do better to prevent the future.
William travels to Russia with Oliver, Mia, and Laurel, in order to track down Oliver's next goal - courtesy of the previously mentioned Monitor. William and Mia are clued into Oliver's Russian past with the Bratva, which he first stays mum on until Anatoly explains his kids can handle it. After Oliver tells his kids to stay at the bar while they handle business, William and Mia enter the Russian fight club and witness Oliver finishing an opponent off. Oliver and Mia are captured. At the bar, William worries that his father and sister are dead but he successfully tracks them down. Oliver tells them to go home but after a conversation with Anatoly, Oliver includes them in his plans. William goes back undercover to enter Oliver and Mia as a distraction so Laurel can get what they need. The group celebrates back at the bar and flies home. Personality: Once upon a time, there lived a boy who was raised by a single mother, who looked up to superheroes and who didn't fit in. But, a chance run in with his biological father changed his life forever. William will always be the son of Samantha Clayton.
In a lot of ways, William, like Oliver's Hood persona and Mia's Blackstar persona was born of trauma. William is traumatized. William has been kidnapped twice, lost his mother the first time he was kidnapped, and was abandoned as a kid. He does not exude any signs of PTSD and we're to assume he worked through that the older he became. He was kicked out of boarding school for punching another student, no doubt because of something to do with his name or something else. In that trauma, he carries around anger and resentment. A lot of the resentment he feels toward Oliver and Felicity will always be there but they will always be his parents. He describes Felicity as his mom when pressed, only switching to step mom as an addition. And unlike Mia he does not hesitate to call Oliver his dad. William is a resentful person who carried that resentment into adulthood.
He is very chatty, but with purpose. He's quick to quip and jab, preferring to be more playful and sarcastic than outright mean.
The biggest chip on his shoulder he lives with is being left behind and that shows through in his commitment issues. He mentions multiple exes in passing which implies he's never been able to trust anyone long enough. He isolates and compartmentalizes himself. In order to distance himself from his legacy (his father is the Green Arrow), he changes his last name to Harris. He's practical and realistic. He's very adaptive, but tends to shed old personas in favor of new ones. While he may come off as someone who doesn't care, if only for that curiosity, it was always easier to put people at arms length, especially with everyone that left him behind. He does care but it takes time to get him to express how much he cares. It takes him a while to warm up to his sister but once he does, he's team Mia. He believes in her, and takes her side over Oliver's wishes.
He has a deep curiosity for how things work and that is how he so deeply embedded himself in the tech community. He is inquisitive. Years later, Zoe, a childhood friend describes him as the boy that hates not knowing stuff. He is determined. He's a hard worker and he built a company from scratch. It's clear in the year 2040 that William is the well-to-do CEO of his own company. Even though William is upper class so to speak, he's not very elitist. He more 'plays the part' of the elitist. William is described as able to really see the bigger picture and look past evidence, to listen to his gut. William is a very good judge of character and human behavior. In this, he is more charming. He gets the effortless charm and confidence from his father. Unlike Felicity, his step-mother who just lets her words fall out of her mouth, William is very deliberate with what he says. He doesn't really get tongue-tied. But, that charm can dip into cockiness with both his skill and his self-exuded charisma. With money came fame. He wore fame well. That cocky side comes both from being Oliver Queen's son and the money's he's made himself. He now has two personas, the hacktivist helping Team Arrow 2.0 and William Harris, the philanthropic billionaire.
But, while he doesn't usually flaunt his wealth, if there's something he's determined to get, he will spend the money. In his first appearance, William ups payment to an angry boater from 200 thousand to 300 thousand just so he can get to the island of Lian Yu in a terrible storm. He will name drop his company Harris Consolidated if it helps him or people he works with toward their goals.
While he was raised to be a rule follower, Felicity and Oliver's influence looms overhead throughout his later years, especially when Felicity sends him on a quest of sorts to get the band back together and to save Star City. If he needs to blow up a company to save an entire city, than he will. It's a means to an end. He is all about the greater good. Even as a tech mogul, he poured money into to better magnetic levitation, for the greater good, even when it didn't pan out. He is an environmentalist and humanitarian.
William is also a great team player. He works great with their own version of Team Arrow in 2040 and seamlessly fits in back in 2019. He listens to everyone's input and has no problem with constructive criticism or taking orders if he trusts who he's working under. He is a team-player.
William had to come into his own when it came to feeling like a hero. When Dinah points out that she sees some of the best parts of Oliver in him, a hero, he flat out says she's wrong. He is not "that." But, over time, he accepts what being a hero means and that it's what he wants to be. By now, he understands his duty as a hero over unconditional love. William is gay. When reunited with his father in the past, he comes out to him. Like many gay men, he hesitated and still anticipated his father's response. But, Oliver accepts him and tells William that Oliver and Felicity knew. As much as it's not addressed, it's still a part of him. He doesn't hesitate to flirt with an executive as a distraction and it's implied he's had his ex-boyfriends. But, he's very closed off and very focused on their missions at hand when we do meet him.
He very much inherited the idea of living in the now and helping who he can. In many ways, William really is an amalgamation of his biological parents and his step-mother. And he's just taking it one day at a time. Powers and Abilities: Exceptional genius intellect. He has prodigy-level mathematics. He is an expert in hacking, tech, and science. He can solve a Rubiks cube and make a cube within a cube in minutes. He also cloned a plant in seventh grade and that won him the seventh grade science fair.
Incredibly gifted at fitting into anywhere. His charm is a skill, okay?
Acquiring companies? Is that a skill?
He is a skilled cook.
He is bilingual. He knows English and Russian.
He received combat and defense training from both his dad and Mia. He can hold his own in combat. Inventory: — ̶̛̦͈̟̯͇́̃͗̆͢ his personal tablet
— ̶̛̦͈̟̯͇́̃͗̆͢ folding hunting knife
— ̶̛̦͈̟̯͇́̃͗̆͢ his unassembled collapsible gun with red laser scope Samples: Top level, father & son and some inboxing ( *I also renamed his journal, this is still Brandon from the reserves! ) |
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