Roy Harper

Roy William Harper, Jr., better known as simply Roy Harper, is a street-savvy teenager from the Glades. He is the son of the late Roy Harper, Sr., and an unnamed woman, and the boyfriend love interest of Thea Queen.

Biography
Roy first encountered Thea Queen when he stole her purse. He was later caught by the cops after being chased, and was taken in for questioning. He said that he stole because his mother was addicted to Vertigo and they needed the money badly. Thea finally said it didn't matter and to just let him go, possibly feeling sorry for him. She later visited him to get her purse, and the two had a brief chat.

Thea again met with Roy outside of a coffee shop in the Glades. She promised him a job at her brother's club, Verdant, assuming he showed up for the job. However, although going through with most of it, Roy decided not to show up. This prompted Thea to come and question him. He admitted that he didn't want any charity from a rich girl, a comment which annoyed Thea greatly. As she walked off, two men approached her. However, before she could be mugged, Roy stepped in and beat the men up, accidentally getting a stab wound from one of them. Thea took Roy to the hospital, where he got stitched up and had a needle injected, the latter scaring him for an unspecified reason. Thea kissed him to distract him from the injection.

At some point, Thea and Roy began an intimate relationship. Thea visited Roy at his place in the Glades, which consisted of intimacy. A man visited partway through, and gave Roy a gun, much to the shock of Thea, causing her to storm out despite him trying to justify himself. She later came back to apologize, but Roy was kidnapped by Joseph Falk. He was taken to below Starling City, on to a train running on the abandoned subway. While Falk broadcast him on Glades Betrayed, Oliver, as Arrow, intervened before he could be killed. Arrow distracted Joseph as Roy untied himself, which was just in time considering a bullet was sent at him mere seconds before he'd ducked. Falk was shot with an arrow through the stomach. Roy later reunited with Thea at her brother's club. When she went to clean herself up, he reached into his pocket and pulled out an arrow.

Personality
Roy does not like to steal and only does it because he is in a bad situation. He dislikes rich people because he believes most of them are greedy, arrogant, and selfish, and he is also above taking things for free. He has a fear of needles (but it is mentioned that this fear may stem from past eperiences and a fear of becoming a drug addict), he will never beg for his life, because he will never give his enemies the satisfaction, of seeing him beg for his life.

Oliver Queen
Roy has yet to meet Oliver Queen.

as arrow

Arrow is Roy Harper's hero. roy first met oliver as arrow after he saved his life, from jacob falk aka the savior, since then he has been grateful to arrow, possibly worshiped's him, and one of his supporters, he wants to find out the identity of the man, who saved his life, he even goes as far to steel a police radio, to help him find arrow, an gets arrested for it, he also says to thea a that he owes him everything, it is possible that if or when Roy finds out Oliver Queen is arrow, he will become his second sidekick, and go under the codename Speedy.

Abilities

 * Free running: When attempting to flee from Thea and Laurel, Like Oliver, Roy can easily scale a fence multiple meters high in one fluid movement making use of a nearby wall to provide leverage and perform acrobatic moves.
 * Advanced hand-to-hand combatant: Having grown up in the Glades all his life, Roy had taught himself to fight back, being a skilled street fighter. Roy was able to hold out on his own while fighting several thugs, even using the wall to jump over one and strike him down

Trivia

 * In the original Green Arrow comics, Roy Harper is Green Arrow's sidekick, and is the first to take on the code-name Speedy, which happens to be Thea Queen's nickname in Arrow. He later left Green Arrow due to drug abuse, but returned to take on the monikers Red Arrow and Arsenal. This is foreshadowed when Roy keeps the Flechette Oliver fired to him to cut himself free.
 * As shown in "The Huntress Returns", Roy has a fear of needles. This is likely a reference to his comics alter ego's addiction to drugs, and possibly foreshadowing.
 * Roy is officially dating Thea Queen.
 * In his first episode, in a deleted scene, Thea had called him Speedy.
 * It can be assumed that if or when Roy, finds out that Oliver Queen is the vigilante arrow, he will possibly become his second sidekick, and protégé, and he will go under the alias Speedy.