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> PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Brandon
PRONOUNS: He/His/Who?
AGE: Still 31!
CONTACT: manipulative

> CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: William Clayton Harris (Queen)
CANON: Arrow
AGE: 31
CANON POINT: Season 8, Episode 5 "Prochnost"

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. Inquisitive. He's smarter for his own good with a genius level of intelligence.

In a lot of ways, William, like Oliver's Hood persona and Mia's Blackstar persona was born of trauma. He and his mother were kidnapped by an enemy of his father's, and on the island of Lian Yu, his mother was killed. Despite everything, William is very well-adjusted. He can handle himself in polite society. He describes himself as the fancy rich guy. He does not exude any signs of PTSD and we're to assume he worked through that the older he became. 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.

William fared better than his sister. She says as much, because of his wealth. After his mother died, Felicity and Oliver raised him for over a year before sending him to live with his grandparents. For many years, he was left to his own devices. Unbeknownst to him, Felicity went into hiding to give birth to his half sister Mia, but to William, she just - lived her own life. And Oliver disappeared. Mia reveals that Felicity had a hand in his company as an angel investor, but up until that point he feels left behind.

He has a deep curiosity for how things work and that is how he so deeply embedded himself in the tech community. 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.

He's practical and realistic. He's very adaptive. As much as he accepted his identity as Oliver Queen's son, he knew it was better to change his last name to his mother's maiden name, Harris, in order to distance himself from his family vigilante ties.

William is very resourceful and 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. He has a cocky side which comes both from being Oliver Queen's son and the money's he's made himself. 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 is described as a billionaire. He will name drop Harris Consolidated if it helps in their work.

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.

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.

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.

Unlike Mia, he doesn't hold a huge grudge against his father and stepmother. In some ways, he understands, but he is still hurt. Even after he believes Felicity may have become a criminal, a pep talk from Dinah about his instincts helps him stay the course and from then on he doesn't lose faith in his mother. He believes Felicity left him behind and after learning Felicity did have a child with Oliver, he contends with the idea that Felicity and Oliver didn't want him. 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 as, dad.

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 share of, if not relationships, experiences. But, he's very closed off and very focused on their missions at hand when we do meet him.

William is also not infallible. He can be afraid and fear for his life. He can make mistakes and with certain older (and probably in this case, newer) tech it will take him time to get a hold of. But, he works at things. He perseveres. His insecurities mostly revolve around family, as his own personal identity is quite secure and always has been.

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.

CRAU: N/A

SPECIES: Human
APPEARANCE: This guy!
SKILLS:

Exceptional genius level hacking and tech skills (and intellect.) He can solve a Rubiks cube and make a cube within a cube in minutes.
Incredibly gifted at fitting into anywhere.
His charm is a skill, okay?
Acquiring companies? Is that a skill?
He can cook as well.
He is bilingual. He knows English and Russian.

NEW POWER: Call it a concentrated glamour. At first with a handshake or physical contact, William can make someone believe what they want to regarding who he is. Whether that means the person sees a completely different person in front of them, or they believe something to be untrue about him (that he's been invited to this party, that he works in this building), that person sees and believes what he wants. At first the effects won't last forever. It will be brief moments of help, ie. getting access to somewhere/getting out of a situation. But within time, he'll be able to make an entire area see what he wants regarding him and hopefully eventually, other people.
POWER REASONING: William is an expert at fitting in anywhere when he wants to. He easily talks his way into a nefarious company by using truths about him being a CEO. But, deep down, there was a time when he did wish to be someone else, maybe not Oliver Queen's son. It's something he's always been inherently good at, helping someone believe what they want to believe.

> SAMPLES
SAMPLE ONE: with his sister
SAMPLE TWO: with ian, a scotsman