#relatable roy

[gothamite-rambler]

Red Robin and Signal were on a stakeout mission with Arsenal (Roy Harper). The night was slow, so Duke and Tim started chatting about anime. Duke was a huge fan and made it clear that slander against anime would not be tolerated.

Signal and Red Robin had been discussing Fullmetal Alchemist for the past twenty minutes after an hour of tedious surveillance, watching a building from a distance and waiting for the signal to strike.

Arsenal sat on the ground with his bow resting on his lap, contemplating whether he should have informed the sitter about Lian wanting a glass of water before bed.

Signal: I'm telling you, Edward should’ve killed that man. What he did to his daughter and dog was messed up. The man did this twice, mind you. Edward should’ve shoved that medal down his throat. Why did Scar get the kill?

Red Robin: Because Elric knew it would be wrong.

Signal (incensed): He turned his daughter into a Chimera! He did the same to his wife! None of them deserved that, but the father deserved to choke on that medal!

Red Robin (shrugging): That doesn’t mean he can react with murder. Elric knew he would regret it.

Signal (dismissive): See, if that was me—without the Signal persona—I would've done it!

As the two heroes continued to debate, Arsenal interrupted.

Arsenal: Edward killing the man would've felt like a hollow victory. He would’ve struggled even more with giving his chimera daughter a mercy killing. Scar showed regret too, but I believe he knew it had to be done. Plus, I like Scar, so I might be a little biased, but I stand by it.

Signal and Red Robin went silent, staring at Arsenal, surprised by the archer's take.

Signal (whispering): He watches anime?

Arsenal (overhearing them): I did a lot as a kid. Then, when I was a year into recovery, I rewatched Sailor Moon and went from there.

Signal: Subs or dubs?

Arsenal: Subtitles, since I know Japanese. Dubs if I'm multitasking.

Signal: That’s a good answer. Alright, shounen vs. seinen?

Arsenal (texting on his phone): Shounen. It’s cliché, but Dragon Ball still holds up. Except for the movie. That doesn’t count as a good movie, though.

Signal: Exactly!

Signal smacked Red Robin on the arm, repeating the word.

Red Robin: I said I didn’t hate the movie as much as you; that doesn’t mean I liked it.

Signal (suspicious): Mm-hm. Oh, I got one that’s Dragon Ball-related. Vegeta in the Buu saga—

Arsenal: The only one who knew what he was doing. Gohan constantly pissed me off.

Signal: My ninja! That’s what I’m talking about!

Signal high-fived Arsenal while the archer was busy texting the sitter for an update on whether his daughter was in bed.

Signal: I like him. He’s cool with me. Unlike you, saying One Piece is peak anime and that Boruto is good.

Arsenal (offended): Oh God!

Batman (shouting through all the communication devices): FOCUS!

Red Robin: If you just treat it like it’s its own thing—

Signal: We will talk about this later.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[milkingtonthethird]

Do y’all ever read the most scrumptious, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, mouthwatering fanfic or piece of work that you think about days later and consumes your entire brain only to realize you have not followed the author or liked the post? Like literally why do I do that. I fucking love your writing. You are the best person ever and I adore you. So why am I not invading your feed? What the fuck am I doing?

Might be an ADHD moment idk. I wish my phone was hooked to my brain so when I’m reading something that gives me a crazy amount of endorphins I’ll already like and follow.

[siover]

we used to have shiv roy and her tenacious hold on the belief that an admission of love is an admission of weakness we used to have shiv roy and her inability to hold her biggest weakness at arm's length bc of her love for him we used to have shiv roy and her inability to articulate affection inherited subconsciously from her mother bc all her father did was lie lie lie we used to have shiv roy and her i may not love you but i do love you i love you but i cannot fucking stomach you i'd follow you anywhere for love tom wambsgans. we used to have shiv roy and the slant of light that was never real !!!

[mythalism]

genuinely curious how the writers and larger dragon age audience would treat thom rainier if instead of being appropriately* repentant and putting himself in prison he blew up a major orlesian government building to instigate a chevalier rebellion or tried to have someone do some necromantic blood magic ritual involving uncertain danger and possible sacrifices to bring the innocent children he ordered killed back to life

[ashoss]

“titans: a powerful love story” coming to stores near you!

+ no background

[lyinginthesnow]

thinking abt that line in dundee when logan says shiv makes boogie men out of the clothes she dumps on her bedroom floor. always has.

[ipilokko]

It's been a damn month sice i posted anything so you get school sketches 🥰🥰

These are the that are gt and gtish YAY

I'll post another sketch dump that are non-gt after this one.

Okay so we got this one i drew at math class yesterday (forgot my math notebook at home 👍)

Then we got roy with his friends Mark and Johanna and Mollie with his mom and dad

(these are really shitty I'm sorry 😭)

Then we got a wip for the uh new year thing

Then there's 1800s Roy redesign... I haven't shared the old design did i?... Well I'll post the oldies soon if i haven't 😌🌱

I haven't drawn much at school this past month because i had no gt idea to draw even though i wanted to draw. All i did was to stare at the page trying to think of something 🌱 I hate when that happens 💔

[spiritsglade]

rhato still like a fever dreamt o me

[rmbunnie]

Okay so post-Seeing Red reread that comes with reading through Green Arrow 2001, I have 2 new things I've noticed and thought were interesting! This is the first, and the second will be here later on:

Ollie is kinda on his empathy A-game in this one? Like he's being a good dad, a good friend/colleague, it's impressive how much he isn't flying off the handle. I feel like all-in-all post-Mia-HIV-diagnosis, or maybe even post-City Walls, I can't pin down the shift exactly, he becomes much more self-aware in regards to his own temper and emotional shortcomings, and he doesn't like try to change that, but he does start avoiding situations that he knows he won't be able to handle with grace, (which feels like a much more natural progression for him and most characters in general than suddenly getting better and healing and no longer being flawed, but that's just my preference,) and he's doing his best with that in this one. All this to say, he:

keeps the conflict with Bruce to a minimum, except for when he's calling out his parenting style and rightfully upset by the possibility that Bruce only showed up in the first place to lure out Jason, and he and Mia were planned collateral. (It's worth noting that once he critiques Bruce's parenting, Bruce's knee-jerk response is to say pretty much "I know you're being mean and irrational because you're upset, but remember when Roy got addicted to heroin?" which, even disregarding the Roy part, he's kinda chalking any questioning of his parenting style up to Ollie just being upset, when like, that's a very valid critique of the situation. And I think context is added to his critique of Bruce's parenting style by acknowledging that a. that this comes after Bruce calling Jason "dirt in the gutter" and GA responding like "whatever you say," and b. Ollie is canonically aware that somehow, Jason ended up buried in rubble in his last fight with Bruce, meaning he has at least a rudimentary understanding of the Joker showdown (although I can't imagine he knows about the whole ultimatum part.) Several times throughout this run, Ollie alludes to Bruce being a difficult parent (mainly to Dick, via gossip from Roy,) but he doesn't know Jaybin well enough to even recognize him in Heaven, so I think it's entirely possible that when he says Bruce was a bad father to Jason, he's referring not only to Bruce's general closed-off and authoritarian approach to parenting, but specifically to recent, post-resurrection treatment of Jason, (maybe including the blowing up?) which would be VERY interesting.

sends Mia away when he wants to talk one-on-one with Bruce about Jason's turn towards evil! I don't know how I didn't notice this one in my first readthrough, but after she accidentally says something rude about Jason's death and the topic of drug dealing comes up, Ollie asks Mia to talk to one of her contacts about the weapons deal that's going on (and makes a point of praising her in front of Bruce for her network of sources and good information-gathering skills,) and then immediately goes in and tries to press Bruce on how hard it must be to see Jason doing the things he's doing (where Bruce doubles-down on having no residual care towards Jason.) This doesn't mean anything in the larger plot of things, but I think it's really sweet that once she gets embarrassed saying something insensitive, Ollie kinda gives her something to do off to the side so the adults can talk about something personal she'd be out of the loop on. I wonder if part of the reasoning behind sending her away is so she wouldn't be psyched out by the failed sidekick talk and the general idea of a sidekick dying, turning evil (relative to this way he was before,) and consequentially being abandoned (at a surface level,) by his hero parent, as opposed to Bruce's cautionary tale approach to the whole Jason debacle. It happens right when Bruce starts claiming that Jason is like, morally lost. The idea that she would see herself in Jason before the gym fight and Ollie could predict that upsetting her feels like a stretch typing it out, but a very interesting one imo. Either way, it's for the best that Mia wasn't around to hear the "another piece of dirt in the gutter" remark, and Ollie seemed to plan for this.

Gives Bruce run of the case, even before Jason comes into play, just in an effort to be cooperative, and because “he’s visiting." I'm also moderately obsessed with "Try and wear something nice tomorrow!" Like yeah Brucie public appearance, I understand what it actually means, but yelling "wear that dress I like ;)" out into the night is crazyyyy.

Is just so cute with Mia, if there’s one thing Green Arrow 2001 makes Oliver it’s a girldad. That really shines in this storyline. His first reaction to Mia when she escapes/is let out of the gym is “are you hurt? Did he hurt you?” he’s hyping her up, he keeps talking about Bruce’s “wild child” taking “his girl,” he’s actually explaining things about Bruce's m.o. and disposition to her, just being a great father all in all. And not to cornplate, but he makes a little joke about hating pineapple on pizza to some goons and Mia agrees with him pretty close after the Winick issue where she says it’s her favorite to the Teen Titans (another point of contrast with Bruce in the Mia-Jason parallel this storyline centers on: Oliver takes Mia to join the titans specifically so she can have a support system, while Jason was established to interact with them only behind Bruce’s back, under the pretense that he’d be punished for working with them, and dies isolated from his peers) which reads like she’s lying just so she can keep agreeing with her dad?? Mia Dearden cutest of all time! They both eat the pizza anyways...

I'm biased, but I just think it's kinda sweet that he continuously refers to Jason as "kiddo," "this kid," "wild child," etc. Like even mid-fight. idk Ollie acknowledging his actual age just hits, king of actually understanding the parental relationship between a sidekick and the hero who adopts him while Bruce makes a point of referring to both Jason and Mia exclusively as partners, charges, etc. all comic. Like it's ROUGH his direct response to GA calling him a hell of a father is admitting he has failings as a "mentor," both emphasized in quotes and bolded. Jason's wrong in the Mia conversation specifically about their fathers being the same, not because they aren't genuinely disconnected from his and Mia's backgrounds, they are, but because Oliver is a genuinely active parent, unbeknownst to Jason. And it's a leap in logic to think Mia's in the same spot, but with his reference to go off of? It's just a really fucking tough example to work off of, that he's internalized as the standard. But in reality, Ollie's... kinda killing it?

[scurvyboy]

only faggots main roy (sincerely, another faggot)

that's me, the faggot who mains roy

[gothamite-rambler]

Roy: I'm not saying I support the guy who killed a healthcare CEO who denied claims to the point he set up a computer system to deny them automatically.

Oliver (crossing her arms with a smirk): Uh-huh and?

Roy: I'm not saying his death was the domino that will cause more to fall, I'm not saying I would put money on Robin Hoodie's books... I'm not saying I'll marry the lawyer representing him. None of that I am saying out loud.

Oliver: Why are you drinking Champagne?

Roy: Can I not drink a fancy wine when a good thing happens?

Oliver: Right... You know his murder wasn't the answer though?

Roy: You push someone enough and that becomes the only answer.

Oliver: What if I'm on the list?

Roy: You're not a perfect man, but you're not that guy. Don't worry about it.

Oliver: I let a lot slide with you... And this is one of them. Pour me a glass.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[itsnotmourn]

roy pmv wip

[spookydreamscape]

Redrew the ep 7 storyboard shots we recently got cuz why not🙏

These guys are all so small and dum dumb dummies I'm GONNA SQUISH THEM/silly

[lunar-years]

So I know people have talked about how Roy's anger and ways of dealing with that anger might trigger some stuff with Jamie given his history with abuse which is so very true, BUT I also think there's something worth exploring in the idea that the way Jamie deals with his father and processes his abuse might trigger Roy. We don't know exactly what happened with Roy's sister and her husband and Phoebe, but we certainly know how angry Roy is about it in canon. And I also think it's not an unfair assumption to think Roy carries around quite a lot of guilt over that too, guilt that he didn't see it sooner and guilt because he thinks he maybe wasn't there for his sister enough, or in the right ways, when it mattered. Guilt that he didn't help her get out of the situation sooner, even though much of that is wrapped up in the way abuse victims often conceal what they're going through from the people who care about them. Undoubtedly there were probably things his sister was keeping from him about the situation when it was happening, but knowing Roy I can also see him reflecting back and placing the blame entirely on himself for not being involved enough in her life to have seen it coming.

So I think like, the idea that Jamie would not only invite his father back into his life but also not tell anyone (not tell Roy) anything about it might genuinely be so triggering for Roy in that sense. It's not only that he's concerned about Jamie's wellbeing (though obviously that always takes priority) it's also that he feels like he's missed something again, something critical, and that a situation he's always feared happening with Phoebe & his sister and her ex is now playing out with this other person he loves. At Wembley he could handle it because it was James intruding where he didn't belong, and Roy had something to do immediately, a place to step in and a role to play. it would be sooooo much harder for him, I think, to comprehend Jamie being the one to reach out to James and blocking Roy out from helping him. Because then it's not only Jamie's wellbeing that scares him but also the fact that he feels completely helpless to do a anything about it, like there's no purpose for him and no way to make the situation any better or easier. ahhhhh.