User blog:Xensyria/Ruve Darhk

So, I've just finished catching up on the background to Nora Darhk to understand the story after Constantine got brought back to the Arrowverse in Legends, and started to rewrite the early life section for Nora, and also the article on her mum, Ruvé.

Ruvé's article is currently named Ruvé Adams, which seems to be a hangover from mid-season 4 of Arrow, but since that time, all the evidence seems to point to her being called Ruvé Darhk, which became clear by the end of the season, and is what she's been referred to as in more recent seasons (e.g. So It Begins).


 * 1) Team Arrow looked into her background, and found that her name was Ruvé Darhk, and she was using Adams as a fake name in order to be able to stand for election as mayor. They have Darhk as her name in their systems (e.g. in Code of Silence), and always call her by that name (e.g. Beacon of Hope, Eleven-Fifty-Nine, Canary Cry). When she first met Oliver he said: "Ms. Adams... I'm just curious, is Adams your maiden name?" afterwards, the conversation goes like:
 * 2) *Oliver, scornfully: "Ms. Adams"
 * 3) *Felicity: "More like Mrs. Deceitful-Darhk."
 * 4) *Oliver: "I feel like Adams probably polls better."
 * 5) *Diggle: "It's not like we can prove that Adams isn't her real last name."
 * 6) *Oliver: "How is our opposition research coming?"
 * 7) *Thea: "Uh, nothing yet. She's apparently clean, but the more we do digging into her and her background, the more likely she's gonna dig into ours."
 * So, they researched her, know that Ruvé Adams isn't her real name (even if they can't prove it), and seem 100% sure she's actually called Ruvé Darhk.
 * 1) Right at the start of season 4, she used fake ID to avoid association with Damien Darhk in Blood Debts; if her real name was Ruvé Adams then the police wouldn't likely make the connection with Darhk and she wouldn't have to use fake ID (unless they knew Darhk's wife was called Ruvé Adams... in which case she wouldn't have stood for election under that name, claiming that she wasn't married). Would also be odd to show a completely different ID to the police if she knew that she would be standing for election the next month, as surely there was a decent chance the officers would realise that she had given them fake ID, as she became one of the most high profile people in the city during the campaign: there would be a serious risk that they would remember her and it would come out. So most likely the fake ID would have been under the name "Ruvé Adams".

When the TV series was live, Ruvé Adams was on all of the election posters etc., so it made sense to have the article under that name, but now that the show has completely dropped that identity, I'd say the article should be moved to Ruvé Darhk, with Adams as a redirect.

If you've read this through, let me know what you think on the Talk:Ruvé Adams talk page!