Thea Queen

Thea Dearden  Queen (born January 21, 1995) is a wealthy 18 year-old girl. She is the daughter of Malcolm Merlyn and Moira Queen, the step-daughter of the late Robert Queen, the younger half sister of Oliver Queen, and the late Tommy Merlyn, a good friend of Margo, Blake, and Morgan, and the girlfriend and love interest of Roy Harper. Before she met Roy and began a romantic relationship with him, she had a crush on Tommy, who unknown to her was actually her half-brother, and Shane Colvin.

Biography
Thea is the daughter of Moria Queen and Malcolm Merlyn. Thea (it is insinuated) idolized Oliver as a child. They used to be close and, according to Oliver, she used to chase after him when she was younger, thus giving her the nickname, "Speedy". When her father and brother were both presumed dead, Thea felt alone and 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 her. After a string of "disappearances" and a murder charge, Thea herself is starting to wonder where 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 about what happened on the island.

In "Lone Gunman", Thea is brought home by the police after a night of drunken partying that led to breaking and entering a 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.

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 Sergeant Quentin. Thea shows how much her brother's absence has affected her when she tells Oliver 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 meant Laurel instead of her. Thea ends up getting drunk at the CNRI benefit, and Tommy takes her home.

In "Muse of Fire", Thea called Oliver to remind him that he was supposed to have lunch with Moira, telling him to "bite the bullet and have a cop salad with the woman". Later on she is with Moira at the hospital and later seen telling Oliver off for leaving Moira and going after the shooter. Thea stays in that night with Moira after Oliver tells her he has a buisiness meeting, talking to Moira how she wishes that Oliver wouldn't lie and tell them what's wrong. Thea then speaks to Oliver, saying that he shouldn't keep what happened on the island a secret, and that he should tell someone about what happened.

In "Vendetta", Thea is seen asking Walter for a lift to school, commenting that they could just buy her a convertible to save them the trouble.

In "Year's End", Oliver is talking to Thea about why there are no christmas decorations up, and she explains how they hadn't really celebrated christmas since Oliver and Robert had disappeared. Thea is later seen at Big Belly Burger with Oliver, discussing why there is no Christmas Party when Theas friend Shane shows up. Oliver later walks in on Thea and Shane at the Christmas Party and catches them making out with some clothes off. Oliver tells the boy, "Hit the road." She later admits she was being a "bitch", when Oliver is injured, at the hospital.

In "Burned",

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 a drug, called vertigo, was in her system. Because she was driving under the influence of drugs, she was arrested.

In "Vertigo", 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 Quentin Lance was able to get Thea a deal where she had to work community service for 500 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 cheated on her birth father, as well. Oliver decides to convince her otherwise by revealing that their father cheated on their mother. 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.

In "Betrayal",

In "The Odyssey",

In "Dodger", 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.

In "The Huntress Returns", 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.

In "Salvation", She and Roy are in a romantic relationship, and Thea sees Roy being kidnapped by The Savior.

In "Home Invasion", When Roy tells her he has to find The Hood, Thea tells him she will help Roy.

In "Darkness on the Edge of Town",

In "Sacrifice", Thea is told by Roy to get out of the Glades, and she wasn't seen later. It is very likely that she left the Glades when Roy told her to.

Season 2
In "City of Heroes", five months after the earthquake, Thea got her act together taking over Oliver's role as owner of Verdant, and still in a relationship with Roy Harper. However, they tend to fight due to Roy trying to fill in the Arrow's role. When Oliver came back Thea was happy to see her brother again, who was impressed by how much his sister changed. Thea shut him down when Oliver attempted to persuade her to visit Moira in prison. Later Roy also made the same attempt, only to be shut down as well. When Verdant later got attacked byThe Hoods, looking for Oliver, Roy made an attempt to fight the attackers, to no avail with The Hoods kidnapping Thea in the process.

While in captivity, when The Hoods argued what to do with Thea, Thea realized that Moira was a victim of circumstances and that she had no choice but to follow Malcolm due to her fear of him. When one of the Hoods decided to kill Thea, Oliver, as The Hood, managed to save her. Later Thea visited Moira in prison telling her about her near death experience, and reconciled with her mother.

In "Identity",

In "Broken Dolls",

In "Crucible",

In "Keep Your Enemies Closer",

In "State v. Queen, after Malcom Merlyn turns out to be alive, it is revealed by him that Thea is actually Malcom's daugher instead of Roberts's.

Personality
Thea can be reckless, impulsive, and immature, but she has a good heart and always tries to do the right thing, and looks up to her older brother Oliver. When she meets Roy Harper, the young criminal, she quickly forms 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 The Hood, Thea goes along with him to meet the man who saved his life. This shows that Thea, while young, reckless, and impulsive, has a strong sense of loyalty and camaraderie for those she loves.

After working with Laurel, her partying and drug abusing days seem to be exchanged for a more dutiful and emotionally responsible personality.

Appearances
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Season 2

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 * "Keep Your Enemies Closer"
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 * "Keep Your Enemies Closer"
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 * "Keep Your Enemies Closer"

Comics
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 * Arrow #1

Trivia

 * Beginning In, 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 "Pilot".
 * Andrew Kreisberg posted an image of Thea's hospital bracelet in a then-upcoming episode of Arrow on Twitter. The bracelet states her birthday as "21-01-1995", or January 21, 1995.
 * In, 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 rarely uses Oliver's full name, instead calling him "Ollie".
 * In State v. Queen, it is revealed that Malcolm Merlyn and Moira Queen had a brief affair. That affair had apparently lead to Moira's pregnancy with Thea, making her Malcolm and Moira's daughter.