#RESPECT: No Laurel without Lauriver
Stop speaking for us, stop talking about us, stop speaking for people who ship/ped Laurel & Oliver (Lauriver). YES were are heartbroken Laurel and Oliver will never be together again/will never have scenes again, just as much as we are that, they killed her character for Felicity/Olicity and other wack reasons. Yes Lauriver is part of why some of us are furious over the death, yes its a valid factor as any you have too.
Why are you erasing & mocking who the true love of her love is? You heard the woman, Oliver Queen was the love of her life. How can you love her and not respect her choice. Her right to love who she loved. Did you ever understood what a compassionate, tremendously forgiving and deeply loving person she was. Oliver was a big part of her past, present and could have been in the future too, romantic or not. Go ahead and say its Tommy, the man who harassed her to date him and was almost never there for her when she needed him. Forget that she never loved him that way or that much or that way. Or that crazy fanwank theory that its Sara, totally missing the point that this is about romantic/sexual life. Was she not supposed to have one and to never love a man.
Some of you are still stuck on the island or pre island, but Laurel had moved on from that. She didnt judge people on their past but their present and what they could be in the future. Present Oliver mistreating Laurel is largely the writers fault, turning the character OOC to please Olicity/Felicity fans. The real Oliver would never have been perfect but he would have been remorseful and repenting.The true enemy is and was never lauriver, its Felicity/Olicity/Olicity fandom/Marc Gag & Windy..
FYI Oliver Queen as well as the whole show is and has suffered because of this. He has regressed and lost most of his growth because of the Olicity factor. He is Faux Oliver now but Laurel still remembered the real good man she always loved and the man he could be again. Make no mistake DLL was incredibly forgiving but she was not a fool or a doormat. She really meant it because thats what she felt, she was not a liar either. Its not about loving Lauriver, its about respecting the character’s history, viewpoint and wishes. If actual Dinah Laurel Lance fans cannot do that then who will, if we can erase and downplay her words, then what do you expect of Olicity fans . Yes I realize that the writing in that scene wasn’t perfect, but its Arrow, it could have been worse. But there is nothing imperfect about her, being with one of the closest people in her life, during her last living moments.
You have to look at this from Laurel’s side, even though she was talking to Fauxliver she was thinking and talking about Real Oliver. That the man who was the love of her life, thats the man she sees when you strip away all the Olicityness fakery of him. Laurel’s Oliver is a selfless and atoning man, a man who loves his friends and family deeply, an undying champion for his city…I believe the real Oliver would have told her she was/is the love of his life too or that he loved her, or just something kind like a decent human would. But that man is gone, all that is left now is his hologram.
You think Lauriver was terrible, well I hope you have a fantastic time enjoying the show stopper Olicity (no, please save your self). I understand the troubles Lauriver/Oliver brought to Laurel, hey I also understand the troubles Felicity/Olicity brings to Oliver and he is/was (not sure) my favorite too. But at the same time I also understand that both ships have some good in them and without a doubt I believer LAURIVER had a lot more good for the characters and the show than Olicity could ever have. A good ship that was badly treated. Lets just not look at the bad, lets credit and celebrate the good too.
At least in this lifetime and in this universe, in this earth, there would be no Laurel without Lauriver. Shared history, lovers, best friends, workmates, heroes, family. LAURIVER was a big part of her story just as was her family, her law career, Black Canary etc, so its disheartening and saddening to see some people slandering Lauriver. Because to do so is to bash and diminish Laurel too. There is a reason why there is an LAU/LAUR in Lauriver. We were once one fandom lets not insult any part of the memory of our favorite’ story. Hey I wasn’t such a big fan of the addiction story either. But everything, good or bad was part of her and it made her who she is. Gone Too Soon.
*sniff* I had to go back and change a lot of of present tenses to past tenses, probably missed some.
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