Thea Queen

"Ollie, I love you, but you can't come back here and judge me, especially for being just like you."

- Thea to Oliver Queen

Thea Dearden  Queen (born January 21, 1995) is the daughter of the late Robert Queen, and Moira Queen, the younger sister of Oliver Queen, and the current girlfriend of Roy Harper.

Biography
Thea (it is insinuated) idolized Oliver as a child. They used to be close and, according to Oliver, he used to chase after her when she was younger, thus giving her a nickname, "Speedy." When her father and brother were both presumed dead, Thea felt alone disconnected from the world. She fell into a life of drugs and partying to fill the void left by her father and brother. Oliver's reappearance has done little to fill that void, as he is hardly ever around to re-connect with his sister. After a string of "disappearances" and a murder charge, Thea herself is starting to wonder where it is exactly that Oliver "disappears" to.

Season 1
In "Pilot", Thea was one of the first people to welcome Oliver home with open arms, though she is later surprised and disappointed when Oliver expresses his unhappiness with her party lifestyle; which Oliver himself used to lead. In "Honor Thy Father", Thea sees Oliver's scars for the first time. When Oliver refuses to talk about it, she begs him to let someone in to talk to someone about what happened. In "Lone Gunman", Thea is brought home by the police after a night of drunken partying, leading to breaking and entering a store owner's shop. Despite being grounded, she parties at the nightclub Poison, where she bumps into Oliver, and the two have an argument. Thea discloses to Oliver that Laurel and Tommy have been sleeping together in his absence and stumbles off. Thea tones down her wild behavior towards the end of the episode, having a mother-daughter moment with Moira and appearing at the Unidac auction to make her happy. In "An Innocent Man", Thea bonds with Oliver while they discuss Laurel and how Oliver can get back into her "good-books" again. In "Damaged", Thea and her family are worried for Oliver after multiple charges are brought against him by Detective Lance. Thea shows how much her brother's absence has affected her when she tells Oliver during a conversation that "she can't lose him again." Oliver reassures her at the end that she won't. In "Legacies", Thea is shown to have a crush on Tommy after he comes asking her for romantic advice. Things however, get very awkward when she realizes he means Laurel. Thea ends up getting drunk at the CNRI benefit, and Tommy takes her home.

Oliver walks in on Thea and a boy at the Christmas Party and catches them making out. She is only wearing her bra. Oliver tells the boy, "Hit the road." She later admits she was being a "bitch" when Oliver is injured. In "Trust but Verify" Thea believes that her mother is having an affair with Malcolm Merlyn. On her 18th birthday, she gets into a car crash and is taken to the hospital. At the end of the episode, it is revealed Thea crashed because of the drug called vertigo in her system. Because she was driving under the influence of drugs, she was arrested. Due to the rampant use of Vertigo in Starling City, the judge overseeing Thea's trial decided that the best way to discourage the drug's use is to sentence Thea to hard time by showing that not even the rich can escape the law. Oliver decided to take down the Count so as to take heat off her. He also talks to Laurel about getting her father to use his connections to help Thea. Detective Lance was able to get Thea a deal where she has to work community service for 200 hours and be under the watch of a guardian, Laurel. The plan was for her to work at CNRI. Thea refuses the deal just to spite her mother who she thinks is cheating on Walter and her father. Oliver decides to convince her otherwise by revealing that their father cheated on their mother. In "Vertigo", Thea forgives her mother when she overhears her mother confirm what Oliver revealed to her about their father. She then decides to take Laurel's offer and work with her. One day, her purse gets stolen while she is out with Laurel. The thief who stole it was Roy Harper. Thea takes pity on him and drops the charges. She then tracks him down at his home in The Glades.

Thea goes to see Roy again. He brushes her off, but saves Thea from some thugs. In doing so, he gets stabbed, and Thea has to take him to the hospital, where she kisses him for the first time.

By the episode "Salvation", she and Roy are in a romantic relationship, and Thea sees Roy being kidnapped by Savior.

In Home Invasion when Roy tells her he has to find Arrow Thea tells him she will help Roy find out Arrow's Idenity whoever he is.

Personality
Thea can be reckless, and immature, she always tries to do the right thing, and looks up to her older brother Oliver. When she meets Roy Harper, the young criminal and her quickly form a strong romantic attraction, and she is shown to be extremely devoted to him, repeatedly bailing him out of jail. After Roy is saved by Oliver in his vigilante guise, Thea goes along with in strong support of Roy and his desire to meet the man who saved his life. This shows that Thea, while young and reckless, has a strong sense of loyalty and cameraderie for those she loves, including her boyfriend, brother, mother, father, friends, and step-father. After working with Laurel, her partying and drug abusing days seem to be exchanged for a more dutiful and emotionally responsible new personality.

Robert Queen
Robert Queen was Thea Queen's father. It can be assumed that Thea and her father were very close. When she learned that her father had died, in a boating accident, she is very up-set and mourns over his death. She still misses him to this day.

Moira Queen
Moira Queen is Thea Queen's mother. Thea has a strained relationship with her mother, partly because she believed her mother was cheating on her father with Malcolm Merlyn. After she is brought home by the police after breaking, and entering a closing store, her mother grounds her for two weeks much to her surprise. She says we have a good thing going on, for five years, why mess with it now. Her mother corrects her, by saying they were paying store owners off, to keep you record clean, clearly it is not working. Despite being grounded, Thea goes to the club Poison anyway. Thea tones down her wild behavior, having a mother-daughter moment with Moira, and appearing at the Unidac auction to make her happy. When Walter disappeared, Thea convinces her mother to take Walter's place, as the CEO of Queen Consolidated. Moira turned down the offer from the COO. When Thea and her mother were supposed to spend the day together, Moira gets a call and tells that it is work. She gets suspicious and follows her mother and sees her mother and Malcolm Merlyn together, she believes her mother is cheating on Walter. When Thea sees Moira and Malcolm Merlyn at her 18th birthday party, believing they are doing that she gets upset, her mother tries to explain but Thea doesn't want to hear anything she has to say, and leaves. After her car accident, Oliver tells her their mother promised him, she is not cheating on Walter. Thea doesn't believe anything Moira says. Thea refuses the community service deal just to spite her mother, who she thinks is cheating on Walter and her father. When Oliver tells her their father, was actually the one who was cheating on their mother, Thea doesn't believe it. Thea forgives Moira when she overhears her mother confirm, what Oliver revealed to her about their father is true, even though Thea and Moira have a strained relationship, they care about each other.

Oliver Queen
Oliver Queen is Thea Queen's older brother Oliver and Thea used to be close when Thea was a child, before he disappeared for five years thea idolize her brother, Oliver gave her the nickname speedy, not because Thea ran fast, but because he always catches her, when Thea learns her brother is alive she is happy, and welcome Oliver home with open arms, though she is later surprised and disappointed, when Oliver expresses his unhappiness with her party lifestyle: which Oliver himself used to lead, after the police bring her home for breaking and entering in to a store, Oliver gets her grounded Thea is up-set with him for doing that, he criticizes her for hanging around the wrong people, when Thea sees Oliver's scars for the first time, Oliver refuses to talk about it, she begs him to let someone in to talk to someone about what happened to him on the island, Thea bonds with Oliver while they discuss Laurel, and how he can get back into her good-books again, when her brother was accused of being the vigilante arrow, and afraid Oliver was going to jail, Thea shows how much her brother's absence has affected her when Thea tells Oliver during a conversation that she can't lose him again. Oliver reassures her at the end that she won't, Oliver walks in on thea and a boy at the christmas party, and catches them making out, she is only wearing her bra, oliver tells the boy to hit the road, Thea later admits she was being a terrible person, and apologizes for it when Oliver is injured, Thea is close enough to talk to Oliver about her problems, like their mother when she believed at the time, he was cheating on Walter, and her father, or about Roy Harper, Oliver can tell if Thea believes him or not, by looking directly at her eyes, even though they are not as close as they used to be, they still care about each other, Thea still looks up to her older brother.

Laurel Lance
Thea and Laurel rarely interact, however in Vertigo, Laurel start to show interest in Thea's drug case convincing her father to get the judge a deal for Thea, stating also that Thea reminded her a lot of Sara, whom she see the flaws and potential in Thea, telling Quentin that Thea doesn't need prison but she need help, and when Laurel offers the deal for Thea, she refuse it at first but she changed her mined and accepted the deal to work at CNRI under Laurel's tutelage, Thea in the end thanked Laurel for the opportunity,and Laurel told Oliver that it would be fun to have Thea around. Laurel become somewhat of an older sister figure to Thea, taking her to a hotdog stand when she felt Thea needed a break from CNRI, also teaching her some skills that helped Thea tracking down Roy Harper. Also Thea ask Laurel for advice about Roy.

Tommy Merlyn
Tommy Merlyn is Thea Queen's former crush. Thea had a crush on Tommy, after he comes to her asking for romantic advice, Things however get very awkward, when she realizes he means Laurel. Thea ends up getting drunk at the CNRI benefit, and Tommy takes her home.

Roy Harper
Roy Harper is Thea Queen's boyfriend. Thea first met Roy after he stole her bag, He is later found, and arrested by the police, but when Thea finds out why he is stealing, feeling sorry for him she dropped the charges. Even though Thea dropped the charges, he is not grateful to her, and is hostile towards her, partly because she is a rich girl, and believes she is a spoiled brat. Thea tells him that he doesn't know anything about her, but Roy corrects her. She offers him a job at her brother's club, as a valet. When Thea finds out that he never shows up, she goes to see him at his house. She asks him whether being a valet is beneath him, Roy corrects her by saying "No, but accepting charity from some rich girl is." When Thea runs into street thugs, Roy comes in and saves her, but gets stabbed in the process. When the doctor is tending to his wound, he sees a needle and tries to hide the fact, that he is afraid of needles. Thea tells him to think of something else, she then kisses him. They begin a romantic relationship after that. When they are making out at his place, someone comes and gives Roy a package. When Thea sees what's in the package, she wonders why he has a gun. Roy tells her that he is just going to steal from a liquor store, and the guy there is a creep and he deserves it. To make her feel better, he removes all the bullets. But she gets upset, and leaves. As he is leaving his house, Roy sees her again and tells her "This is home sweet home for me. You do things or your lucky enough to make it to 21." Thea tells him that she can't accept this but he tells her "No, you can't accept me." When he gets kidnapped by Jacob Falk aka the savior, thea tries to save him but gets knocked out instead, when she sees Roy on glades betrayed, Thea is terrified for Roy and when the signal is lost, she believes Roy has been killed. When Thea gets a text to her cell phone to turn around  she sees that Roy is alive, They are both happy to see each other and they share a hug.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #1

Trivia

 * In "Pilot," Oliver uses her apparent old nickname, "Speedy", a reference to Green Arrow's sidekick in the comics who also happened to have a drug problem.
 * The character "Thea" is not specifically found in the comic books. She is however based on a composite of Roy Harper and Mia Dearden; characters from the comic books who both take on the identity of Speedy.
 * An archery trophy can be seen in her room in the "Pilot."
 * Andrew Kreisberg posted an image of Thea's hospital bracelet in an upcoming episode of Arrow on Twitter. The bracelet states her birthday as "21-01-1995", thus January 21, 1995.
 * In "Vertigo", during the start of the court case, it is mentioned from the judge, that Thea's middle name is 'Dearden'. In the comics, Oliver Queen had a sidekick Mia Dearden, the second Speedy.
 * Thea has appeared in every episode except "Dead To Rights"  and  " Unfinished Business ".

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