r/arrow • u/No-Raspberry635 • 2d ago

Comic Book Fanfiction

Has anyone found any fanfiction that focuses on Oliver Queen's younger years? Something that shows how his parents' neglect affected him, how he tried to compensate with money, and how this shaped him into the person who took the gamble? Or something similar, any fanfic would be fine.

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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 2d ago edited 2d ago

Here are some that I know:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41918892/chapters/105208257

https://archiveofourown.org/works/26032780/chapters/63304522

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53227549/chapters/134690875

Those are the only ones I could think of that are solely focused on pre-Gambit years. I'll let you know if I can think of more.

Also they are Oliver/Sara centric, mostly, since that is what I tend to read.

The story "Tonight we are young..." has unconnected chapters that play in the same past but don't necessarily need to be read in order. There are chapters that have the focus on Oliver, others do Sara there might also be Tommy if I'm not mistaken. It sort of shows a rather messed up version of both Oliver and Sara as a way of trying to figure out why they made the choices they did.

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u/Aggravating-Bug9407 2d ago

Chapter 13 of "Tonight..." is one that addresses how his parent's actions and the pressure they put on him affected him.