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Simon who do you think would get more turned on being bitten by you Alec or Jace?

“Jace, I’m not really sure about this but I know thanks to a trustful source that he is into unconventional sex and I’m almost sure that he is into me, he loves when I shove him against a wall, I don’t know why.

But I’m more than willing to try it with both and see who is more into it, just bring them to me and I’ll do it”.

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Slewis "Group V" - Boiler Room Debuts

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Oliver Queen versus The Arrow

Hi LouiseBlue! Love reading your blog, thx for updating it so often.

I have a dilemma, an Arrow fan dilemma, and I need your opinion. I think Felicity loves The Arrow (..like a hero..) AND Felicity loves Oliver Queen. But my dilemma is, what does this good-hearted girl do when they keep asking her to CHOOSE?

Oliver Queen doesn’t want to be The Arrow. When Oliver comes back to run Queen Consolidated, he makes it clear he’s not there to be The Arrow. There’s an attack in the boardroom and in the aftermath Felicity says to Quentin, “I keep waiting for him to turn up.” (Him being The Arrow). Felicity has Oliver Queen back in her life, but she still misses/yearns for The Arrow.

The Arrow doesn’t want to be Oliver Queen. After the first date, and the explosive rocket propelled grenade, Oliver is stuffed into a mental safe by The Arrow. Very firmly stuffed in there, and locked, and finally tossed into a waterfilled quarry (a la Stefan in The Vampire Diaries). Then, the writers really made this absence of Oliver heartbreakingly clear when The Arrow teamed up with Malcolm Merlyn. And continues to team up with Malcolm. I can’t reference any quotes here or there will be tears. Possibly a tantrum.

I believe Felicity loves them BOTH. But each one seems determined to obliterate the other. How could she choose just one, when she knows that would be certain death for the other one? What does she DO? How does she save both of them? How does she even begin to convince each of these dumb lads that the other is even worth saving? (No wonder Felicity thinks spending time with Ray is lovely - Ray is very straightforward in comparison. A relationship with Ray must seem like smooth sailing compared to what Oliver/Arrow has just put her through).

Of course, I have the same dilemma as Felicity - as a viewer I love Oliver Queen (be nicer to yourself, Oliver, please) AND I love The Arrow (he’s my hero, a bit broken but trying to be better). But Oliver Queen has been missing from the episodes since The First Date. Form a rescue party! We need Oliver Queen back! Writers of Arrow : Stop killing Oliver. I refuse to choose just one, I want them BOTH.

*sighs deeply* Louise, you can do anything, right? Can you fix this? Can you make them stop fighting and play nice? Because then we can see Felicity become Felicity Queen-Smoak, or Smoak-Queen (because she seems like a woman who hyphenates).

Well, SLewis, first of all, thank you for your thoughts on this season. I love getting questions or thoughts or whatever, really. :D

I think you've summed up very nicely what the writers were going for with the theme of identity... how can Oliver reconcile the two aspects of his psyche in Oliver Queen (I'm going to call him OQ from here on out, save everyone a little bit of time... mainly me) and the Arrow?

The short answer so far is... he hasn't.

Oliver is hellbent on making everyone in his life chose either OQ or the Arrow, has been since day 1 really. Why? Because in his mind, they are two completely separate identities. They're not the same person in his mind. When he's OQ, he can't be the Arrow because that guy is brutal and a killer. When he's the Arrow, he can't be OQ because OQ brings too many emotions and vulnerabilities with him. So, Oliver separated them right from the start and never the twain shall meet.

But, 2 seasons in, the initial dust has settled. He's done some housekeeping in his city, and now his energies aren't being totally spent on outside forces... so at the beginning of S3, he got to spend some time on himself... and it ended kinda badly. Experiment into OQ having shared custody of his life with The Arrow now officially over. OQ is a liability to the Arrow and the Arrow is the one who is actually making a difference to those around him, so OQ loses the toss, no more OQ.

Only that makes everything worse and we knew it would because the Arrow without OQ, you may as well just call him Ra's Al Ghul from the start and be done with it. Yes, it took the writers all these episodes to finally enact the literal outworking of the figurative choice Oliver made in the first episode... Oliver has the option to drop all pretense and become the Big Bad - obviously he'll be telling himself that everything will be different with him as the BB... but just as obviously, we all know that's not true.

The dilemma you're having, SLewis, is exactly the dilemma the writers want you to have. Separating OQ and the Arrow doesn't work. We know that. Felicity knows that. My dog who ate another dog's poop today on our walk knows that. Oliver... he doesn't know that. I put it down to a lot of head traumas on the island and Hong Kong.

Your question about what is a girl to do when she keeps getting forced to choose between the two...? You couldn't blame a girl for settling for what she could get. The Arrow, he's not a bad deal, looks an awful lot like OQ... but Felicity is way smarter than your average bear. She knows the Arrow without OQ is a slippery slope. It's only a matter of time before she loses the Arrow to the dark side without OQ. Felicity can only do so much to stop the inevitable. She can't live Oliver's life for him, she can't make his choices and without OQ, the Arrow will make increasingly bad decisions which will take him further away from her regardless... which is exactly what happened with the teaming up with MM.

Gone is the man who wants to find another way. In his place is the Arrow, who's looking to restore his ego, his manhood, and self-belief. OQ is far more self-sacrificing than the Arrow IMO. OQ would give up his manhood in a heartbeat to save those he loved. He'd beg, he'd plead, anything to save a loved one. The Arrow needs his machismo to do what he does. Just another reason Oliver needs both OQ and the Arrow to be complete, to be whole, to be able to take down the bad guys, because he needs both sides of him to get ahead of the game.

So, what's a girl to do? Choose neither of them, because while Oliver insists on separating OQ and the Arrow, there is no man to choose. Just a ghost and a mask. She deserves the whole package. Oliver deserves the whole package, dammit!

Bottom line, I think Felicity loves and admires The Arrow... but she's IN love with Oliver Queen. He's the one she wants. He's the one she can't bear to watch anyone destroy... and that especially means The Arrow. I believe the point of this season is for Oliver to find a way to reconcile OQ and The Arrow, to accept that they're different sides of the same coin, they are necessary to each other's existence. That's going to be our pay off at the end of the season, because trying to separate them, it doesn't work. This whole season has been a testament to that. Oliver has never been weaker than he has this season and that's because he's actively trying to discount OQ's worth in this fight.

It's a mistake. A huge, hairy, festering mistake and he's got precious few more episodes to work it out... but you know, I have faith. The whole point of this season is for Oliver to work out his identity... and he will... and I think that will mean for us viewers (and Felicity) we'll no longer be forced to chose between OQ and The Arrow... because they'll at last be the same person.

And that's my thoughts on that, SLewis... probably way more than you signed up for, but I have not mastered the art of being succinct... not even a little bit. You've probably noticed that about 20 paragraphs back. >.<

PS. I definitely think Felicity is a hyphenator. ;)

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