The island had changed Oliver. Everyone knew that.
But no one could ever predict how deep that change went, warped through blood, past on naturally from Slade Wilson. After one of the many revenges served by the man, after they gave him the mirakuru to save his life and not only did it ruin him mentally it made him become something else.
He was handling it.
China was... a bad time. Amanda tried to use his “torture lessons” to help hone the beast inside of him, but that worked too< well. Her second attempt at “helping” by throwing him back onto the island did more for him, but not because of anything surrounding his mission. No, John Constantine slapped a magic tattoo on him and that made everything a whole lot clearer in his head.
He had lost control less.
He still wasn't a person that he thought could return home. He made his father a promise but like this he didn't know how to uphold it.
Anatoly only practiced enough caution out of the memory of Slade at his worst and Oliver trying to figure out his best, but he still accepted Oliver's presence in Russia with literal open arms and despite everything Oliver had been unable to hold on to, Oliver temporarily found a sense of peace.
Talia called it like it was. The wolf. He saw every aspect of himself a monster but she looked at his humanity as something to put under a hood and protect himself from that monster. Just the one. She said that the wolf was pure, nature clawing back a hold to an overpopulated world. Respect the beast, and Oliver Queen could be respected equally.
He didn't think he was ready to go home but she was right in that he needed to stop hiding away from his father's mission, and Anatoly assisted.
Returning to Starling had been harder than he was ready for. Five years and he hadn't had to live up to Oliver Queen, Son of Robert. If he wasn't himself, if he wasn't normal, no one could call him out on it, not even Sara. He could balance this other person that he didn't recognize in the mirror with the wolf roaming around his thoughts and it was fine.
He couldn't be who any of these people wanted him to be. He had goals. He had a path forward. And as much as it hurt him he did find a way to distance himself from his family and the people closest to him but it pulled one of his stability pillars out from under him. At least in Russia he had Anatoly and Talia. On Lian Yu, the second time, he had Constantine and Taiana. In China, he had the Yamishiros.
No matter how tragic most of those relations ended, he had support.
Distancing from his family put him more out of balance than he was prepared for and the wolf took it as an opportunity.
when men in black 3 first came out on the theatres it was definitely and instantly my favourite film ever. last week i rewatched the j&k trilogy and ever since i can't stop thinking about them lmaooo so heres some doodles (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ )
(i love how they recruit each other in 1 and 2. i love how everything wrapped AND STARTED in 3. i shall not say Too Much as im very normal about them!)
Writers have two modes and they are "i haven't written in three weeks and i am rotting from the inside and everything feels wrong and i don't know who i am anymore" and "i wrote for four hours straight and forgot to eat and it's dark outside and when did that happen and i feel like a god" and there is nothing in between. no chill. no medium setting. just famine or feast and a very confused nervous system.
A new option for anyone with a veeeeery long doc or complicated outline (and no desire to look at all of it at once) -
Collapsible headers!
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Collapsible headers work in both the editor and on Reader links, so you can use them while writing, outlining, and editing; or to help your readers stay focused on one section at a time. We particularly love them for temporarily pretending the previous 86,491 words in a doc don’t exist (at least, not until the editing phase). 🙂↔️
Free for all, woohoo!
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