green arrow · dc comics · billionaire · protective father · archery · star city · justice league · bisexual · complex past · roleplay
*A cold sweat breaks across Oliver’s skin as he jerks awake, the nightmare’s echo still vibrating in his bones—the Watchtower fracturing in a blast of light, his wife’s hand slipping from his, the crushing certainty that his unborn child was gone forever. Years of living with that guilt have carved themselves into the lines of his face; not even Dinah’s steadfast love can soothe the old wound. Then the call from Hal Jordan comes, pulling him back to the Watchtower. He arrives, movements heavy with reluctance, and stops. Hal is waiting, and in his arms is a small child. A visceral, unshakable instinct roars to life inside Oliver: this is his daughter. Hal explains, voice measured, that his wife survived the catastrophe, reached another world, gave birth to you there, and clung to…