We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
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“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.” - Willa Cather
Mia recognizes something of herself in Ollie and starts a difficult conversation about the similarities in their pasts.Series
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"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven." - Henry Ward Beecher
Trusting Ollie enough to live with him is easy- trusting him enough to allow him to give her the kind of casual affection he gives the others is not.Series
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"You should have raised a baby girl/I should've been a better son/If you could coddle the infection/They can amputate at once/You should've been/I could have been a better son." - My Chemical Romance
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Sometimes, she wonders what it must be like to feel comfortable in your own skin, when almost all that skin has felt is pain?Series
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"Think of you always." - Good Old Fashioned Loverboy by Queen
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Wally laughs when he shows up at the coffee shop. “Roy didn’t.”
Connor groans. “He did. Mia helped.”
“....You’re joking.”
“No, they’re desperately trying to set me up.”Series
- Part 4 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 1 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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You Won't Find No Resolution in the Bottom of a Bottle by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics)
05 Dec 2021
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“You Won’t Find No Resolution in the Bottom of a Bottle” - People Loving People, Garth Brooks
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Learning how to trust again through mutual vulnerability. Mia's sick for the first time since moving in with Ollie.Series
- Part 5 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 2 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“Barely Awake, I Let Precious Time Go By” - Slipping Through My Fingers, ABBA
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Dinah and Roy are on a stakeout on a winter night.Series
- Part 6 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 3 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“Rather Go Out in a Blaze of Glory” - Could Have Been Me, The Struts
The Arrowfam play Dungeons and Dragons..... with..... shall we say varying success rates......Series
- Part 4 of Arrowfam Week 2021
- Part 7 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
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Me, I Carry Too Much Baggage by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics), Justice Society of America (Comics)
07 Dec 2021
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“Me, I Carry Too Much Baggage” - I Want Love, Elton John
Alternately: “Some Mia and Grant, with none blowing up Roy’s house.”Series
- Part 8 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 5 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“He Learned to Walk While I Was Away” - Cat’s In the Cradle, Harry Chapin
As part of his new lease on life, Ollie finally sends a letter he's been meaning to since he found out that the boy who now wears his charm from the island is his son.
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- Part 9 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 6 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“Take These Broken Wings and Learn to Fly” - Blackbird, The Beatles
Sometimes family means having to be vulnerable in the same room as the person whose name you took without permission....Series
- Part 10 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 7 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“We were young and had time on our side” - Battle Scars, Paradise Fears
Oliver Queen is a man with regrets- a freak opportunity to communicate with his younger self gives him the chance to try to prevent those regrets.
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- Part 11 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 8 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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With Their Libelous, Venomous Words, They Shoot by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics)
09 Dec 2021
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“With Their Libelous, Venomous Words, They Shoot” - Wolves of the Revolution, The Arcadian Wild
Mia often feels too young and ill equipped for the life she's chosen, the desire to prove herself as strong as her will- but she's decidedly grown up enough and angry enough to protect her boys.
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- Part 12 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 9 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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Cause I’ve Stood Right Where You’re Standing by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics), Young Justice (Comics)
09 Dec 2021
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“Cause I’ve Stood Right Where You’re Standing” - You Are Loved (Demo), Set It Off
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- Part 10 of Arrowfam Week 2021
- Part 13 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 7 of Arrowfam Week 2022
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“This is an Anthem for the Homesick” - Battle Scars, Paradise Fears
Connor and Dinah try recreating the idea of what mother-son bonding might look like... this might have gone easier if Connor was still a child.
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- Part 14 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 11 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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You Were Supposed to be My Light and Keep Me Safe Against Them All by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics)
10 Dec 2021
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“You Were Supposed to be My Light and Keep Me Safe Against Them All” - Welly Boots, The Amazing Devil
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Connor Hawke has been kidnapped- why hasn't his family of hunters managed to track him down yet?Series
- Part 15 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 12 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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The Lake, Like a Mirror, It Looked Back At Me by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics), Justice Society of America (Comics)
12 Dec 2021
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“The Lake, Like a Mirror, It Looked Back At Me” - Millstatt, The Arcadian Wild
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Roy decides that it's high time his son got to come on the Queen family camping trip.... he just conveniently forgot to tell Grant that it was the Queen family and not the Harper family that was going.Series
- Part 16 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 13 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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“And Our Screaming Joins in Unison” - That Unwanted Animal, The Amazing Devil
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Do you have to forgive to move forward? Do you have to forgive to stay?
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Mia looks away and then, seemingly at the same time as Jade, voices overlapping, they both ask:
“When did you forgive him?”
Mia jumps a bit, and haltingly offers the weakest, “jinx…you owe me a coke?” she’s said in her life.
Jade laughs, but she’s playing with her fingers and she seems…smaller somehow. No longer this larger than life assassin, she’s now just Jade, her older brother’s… something-or-other, who’s sitting awkwardly on a worn down sofa in an apartment she’s way overdressed for.
Mia goes to speak, but instead of words her voice produces a sound that sounds more like an anemic frog than anything else, and she giggles awkwardly, before clearing her throat and asking. “Uh… forgive who?”Series
- Part 17 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 14 of Arrowfam Week 2021
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"It’s not your fault/ No, it’s not your fault/ I put this heavy heart in you." -Heirloom, Sleeping at Last
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Roy's been burning both ends of the candle trying to be the best hero and father he can be- his worried daughter calls in her grandfather for back-up.Series
- Part 18 of We're a family. We're a forest. We're a quiver.
- Part 1 of You Know We'll Have a Good Time Then
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"Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die." - The Show Must Go On, Queen
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Roy watches Ollie grow as a father, and can't help but feel left behind.Series
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Friends Murder Each Other All the Time. You know, it happens. by thequiver
Fandoms: Green Arrow (Comics)
31 May 2022
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"Friends Murder Each Other All the Time. You know, it happens." - Shane Madej in Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime: The Unusual Australian Shark Arm Murders
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"It started as something of a joke. Well…as much as posting a video of Ollie ranting about the murder of Elizabeth Smart, better known as the Black Dahlia could be considered a joke. But the point was that it wasn’t supposed to be anything serious- just another one of Mia’s favorite pastimes of showing the internet what Ollie’s like behind the vigilante and three-piece suits. And then it kinda….grew a life of its own. Emiko posting a video of Roy and Ollie bickering while working on a case, Roy retaliating by making a tiktok sound out of Mia on patrol saying “stop serial murdering each other.” And soon enough, one of her friends at school texts her a link to a change.org petition with over fifty thousand signatures asking for the Queen family to start covering famous cold cases, and well…it can’t be said that Oliver Queen isn’t a man of the people."Series