#canarrow

[heroesriseandfall]

Really hard to take angsty future Ollie seriously when he’s just wearing a Black Canary hoodie under there:

Green Arrow (2023) #4

Ooooh you’ve got a sharp arrow and scars and a white beard and knuckle duster gloves. And you’ve got a fanboy hoodie for Dinah’s old band.

[rowinablx]

[joeey-dee]

Something that always confused me were the people claiming Oliver didn't love Sara, wasn't really interested in her....

Right. That is why he was the one pursuing her and making the first step, initiating their involvements EVERY SINGLE TIME!

He begged her to come on the Gambit with him, she was having some serious doubts and Oliver went all caps on her "PLEASE" with exclamation points like seriously? How desperate was he to get her to come with him? But sure, it was just about sex cause Oliver Jonas Queen wouldn't have been able to pick up just any woman simply to have some physical fun with while travelling. He was begging his girlfriend's sister to join him on a trip with his father on a freaking Yacht which made keeping their affair a secret pretty much impossible.

On Lian Yu he risked everything to save her, to keep her safe and to protect her time and again. He was the one who initiated the kiss on the Freighter. He was the one making it very clear to her how he felt and what he wanted. Cause, there's no way that kiss was cause he wanted to get it on... it was a "we may not see each other again because I might die and I need you to know how I feel" kind of kiss.

When she came home, he did everything within his power to convince her to stay.

He was once again the one pursuing her and initiating their relationship.

He was the one taking their involvements to the next step or trying to "We should think about getting a more permanent place.

" - "we? are you asking me to move in with you?"

Oliver also didn't want her to leave. Tried to stop her even when knowing he can't.

And the look on his face in 3.01 when she showed up and his "I hope so" after asking if she'd be around more permanently again.

Oliver Jonas Queen loved Sara Lance dearly, completely, selflessly and unconditionally.

Sara was the one he chose time and again.

"I chose you." Was true in more ways than simply his choice between Shado and Sara.

Oliver was willing to risk everything, including his life for her years before he became a vigilante, had proper training or suffered any sort of losses.

Irresponsible, "selfish" according to him, immature playboy Ollie was willing to die in order to look for Sara after the Gambit sank. Mr. "I detest swimming" would've jumped back into the freezing, stormy seas of the North China Sea had Robert not held him back.

But sure, it was just a fling and she meant nothing to him.

Okay, I'm done ranting now. But just saying, there was no one Oliver took more risks for than Sara. Saving Felicity or Laurel after years of training doesn't measure up to him saving Sara, getting between her and a gun etc with little to no training and a much bigger chance of him dying.

But that is just my humble opinion.

[jooeeydee]

Oliver Queen loved Sara Lance more than all the other women in his life and we were shown that from the pilot on, here is why:

Sara was the first woman we knew Oliver was involved with, the first woman we ever saw him with.

Immature, irresponsible, selfish, "I detest swimming" playboy Ollie was willing to jump right back into the freezing waters of the North China Sea in the middle of a storm to go look for Sara. His father had to literally hold him back, to keep him from throwing himself back into the water to go look for her.

He talked about Laurel on the island but not Sara. Never Sara. And we know Oliver doesn't like to share his feelings and talk about his emotions. If something's too painful he doesn't talk about it.

Sara was the very first person he was willing to die and kill for. And I'm talking about make the choice and kill someone in cold blood.

He told Laurel he thinks about her every day.

He got up and prematurely ended the lie detector test he insisted on taking after bringing up Sara. He completely shut down.

He kept his promise to her and lied to her family which had them hate him, while the truth might have helped mend those relationships some. Even while thinking she was dead, after she came back home and even after her second death. He still insists that "Sara had her own secrets and those weren't his to tell."

He killed Ivo so she didn't have to, so she wouldn't change like he had after killing someone. This was the first time Oliver killed and it wasn't in self-defense or affect because someone he cared about was in imminent danger. There was no need for him to kill Ivo, yet he did. Simply to preserve the person Sara was. It was her promise, a choice he had let her make, yet, he fullfilled that promise in her stead to spare her the pain of knowing what it felt like to take someone's life, after he had fought her when she told him he had to kill Ivo before he could talk to Slade. Oliver was vehemently against killing someone in cold blood until it was to keep Sara from doing it. If that isn't love. I don't know what is.

They spent months on Lian Yu together were they had to get to know each other again and rebuild their trust after Sara betrayed him but Oliver still saved and protected her, even with Shado and Slade's interjections.

While I do not believe that Oliver choose Sara over Shado, Ivo made the choice for him, he'd seen how protective Oliver had been of both women and concluded Oliver would get between whichever one he was pointing the gun at and the gun. Ivo decided that Sara would live. That was the one time he didn't chose Sara. But he chose her over Laurel when begging her to come on the Gambit with him, a trip that took about three weeks per way. He chose her over Laurel when she came back home. He chose her on Lian Yu when risking everything for her several times and doing what he could to protect her and keep her safe. Whenever there was a choice and Sara was one of the options he chose Sara.

Sara was the first woman Oliver was willing to open up and fully commit to. He let her know he was scared because of Slade and didn't know what to do. He bared himself to her and showed her his weakness. Something Oliver struggled doing all throughout the show. Oliver asked Sara to move in with him, which was very telling especially because that had been a point of major dissent between him and Laurel and one of the main reasons he joined his father on the Gambit to begin with.

After Sara died he told Felicity "if I grieve, no one else gets to." Which means he would completely fall apart and most likely do what he had done after Tommy's death. Run and spend months in seclussion.

He saw Sara as a part of his family. And just because there are people claiming they didn't spend time with each other besides the island; if Oliver and Laurel had known each other forever, so did Oliver and Sara. No one can tell me party boy Oliver didn't hang with party girl Sara. They've known each other forever, had similar interests and character, they'd for sure gone out partying together before the Gambit. Their affair had to have started somehow and it wasn't on the Gambit, Oliver made that clear while talking to Helena "I started sleeping with Sara, I started sleeping with my girlfriend's sister".

Oliver put a tracker on Sara because "I couldn't lose you again".

The moment Sara stepped back into his life, she was all he cared about. And he did whatever he could to keep her in his life.

Bringing Sara up was a sure way to get an emotional response from him.

He always dropped everything if she was in danger. Be it on the freighter, Lian Yu getting kidnapped by Slade, because of the League, soulless, lost in time with the Legends, abducted by aliens, nearly killed by a Nazi Supergirl... if Sara was in danger, Oliver would push through his own pain in order to get to her.

Sara always managed to get him out of his own head and push him on a better path, she always believed in him. As was shown in Star City 2046. Sara reached him when no one else could.

They didn't need words to communicate. One look was enough.

They had fun with each other.

Sara never put him down or held his past against him. She didn't use emotional blackmail to have him fall in line. She didn't expect him to just get over his trauma.

She was "his" Sara.

Her death pushed him over the edge and down a path of self-destruction. The look over utter and complete devastation on his face when he saw her dead body and the fact that he went into shock and spent the entire episode desperately trying to not fall apart.

Sara showed back up in Starling, and Oliver distanced himself from Felicity. Plus, the smile of pure joy on his face when she implied that she might be around more again.

Even Slade understood what Sara meant to him, he'd seen first hand how far Oliver had been willing to go for her. "... someone who means everything to you..."

While both Oliver and Sara felt guilt about the way they ended up on the Gambit together, neither regrets that choice.

Sara was with him both times he died.

He respected her choice to leave.

And most importantly it is a fact that Oliver loved Sara, because he said so himself: "a woman that I loved was shot full of arrows and sent tumbling off a roofop." Oliver loved Sara, it's a fact that we know because Oliver told us so. It boogles my mind how so many people claim he never actually loved her. Not sure what their definition of love is.

Sara Lance was the love of Oliver's life. Outside circumstances always got in their way. The main issue they had was timing, nothing else. Their feelings were strong and stayed that way throughout both shows.

And last of all, there would be no Green Arrow without Sara. Sara put Oliver on the path of becoming the man he turned out to be, just like Oliver put Sara on the path of becoming the woman she turned out to be. They were soulmates and their lives were intristically bound together.

Their lives paralled each others and in the end they both died. They had the tragic star crossed love story. They suffered so much just to die young in very unfair ways. Had they stuck together they'd probably still be alive.

And yes, Sara is dead. She was killed and a clone alien hypride is not Sara. It's an imposter mascarading as her. Oliver and Sara are probably hanging out with Tommy and Laurel, enjoying afterlife together. (I refuse to acknowledge the stupid "everyone but Laurel is alive again" plot they shoved down out throats)

Sara was the one that got away. It was always her choice to leave. He always wanted her to stay.

[the-feral-gremlin]

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Olivers had nine love interests in the eight seasons of Arrow. Which canon love interest did you enjoy seeing Oliver with most?

[wherearemyfemaleheroes]

missing canarrow 😔❤️

Yes, I do miss them. For me they were these rare couple between two people who had actual story together. Not just see each other and fall in love, but go through shit and fall in love. I also love the idea that a man and a woman can be soulmates and also equals in power level and importance in the story, without the need the one to be diminished so the other to thrive. They were the real power duo.

[littleredbirdss]

my obsession with ships that most people don't like and that sometimes aren't end game or aren't even a couple

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Two paths were presented to Oliver Queen that night when Ivo made him choose between Sara and Shado. Either one of those paths ended with the death of someone he loved. That night Oliver did something that changed his life and the lives around him. He took a third path, a path less traveled by. A path where he sacrificed himself. A path that changed everything. Or, Oliver makes one selfless decision, and everything changes.

Author: NinjaRiderWriter

[jcforsapphics]

I am so so serious when I say no one understand cw show Oliver and Sara dynamic like I do

[blazethecheeto]

folklore was made for the sara oliver and laurel situation change my mind. this has been in my drafts for a year bear with me. silly blaze rant below have fun

august? sara and oliver's affair.

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"Back when we were still changin' for the better."

"Wanting was enough."

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"And I can see us twisted in bedsheets"

"August sipped away like a bottle of wine""

"Cause you were never mine"

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(ALSO WEREN'T THEY LITERALLY SIPPING WINE IN THE BED WHEN THE GAMBIT SUNK?!?!1)

cardigan? laurel and oliver.

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"Chase two girls, lose the one."

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"But I knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss. I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs."

"And I knew you'd come back to me."

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(THIS ENTIRE SONG. IS. SO. LAURIVER.)

my tears ricochet? laurel cursing at oliver's grave when she thought he was dead, and then oliver visiting hers when she died.

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"And you're the hero flying around, saving face"

"And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?"

"Cursing my name, wishing I stayed"

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"And I can go anywhere I want"

"Anywhere I want, just not home"

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"You turned into your worst fears"

"And you're tossing out blame, drunk on this pain"

"Crossing out the good years"

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(i could rant for years about this song, the grave parallels are too much. anyways-)

this is me trying? sara, especially when she came back.

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"I've been having a hard time adjusting"

"I had the shiniest wheels, now they're rusting"

"I didn't know if you'd care if I came back"

"I have a lot of regrets about that"

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"So I got wasted like all my potential"

"And my words shoot to kill when I'm mad"

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(oh my god especially with the 'could have followed my fears all the way down')

illicit affairs? do i even have to say it. (sara and oliver).

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"But it dies, and it dies, and it dies"

"A million little times"

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"Don't call me "kid"

"Don't call me "baby"

"Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me"

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exile? lauriver, especially s1.

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"I can see you standing, honey"

"With his arms around your body"

"Laughin', but the joke's not funny at all"

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"You're not my homeland anymore"

"So what am I defending now?"

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invisible string? that conversation sara and oliver had about how everything started from them hooking up-

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"Time, curious time"

"Gave me no compasses, gave me no signs"

"Were there clues I didn't see?"

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"Something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire"

"Chains around my demons"

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"Hell was the journey, but it brought me heaven"

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bonus bc my god this post is long: mad woman is sara's theme, betty is oliver begging laurel to take him back in s1, epiphany is sara, laurel, and oliver fighting together, seven is laurel and sara's bond, peace is sara or oliver saying to their partners that their life is fucked up and they can't be peaceful, hoax just has arrow vibes for some reason. the lakes is so nysara coded for no reason.

[rowinablx]

[joeey-dee]

I know you’re pretty anti Olicity but how do you feel about avalance if you don’t mind me asking. Love your fics by the way.

Hi

Thank you for your message. I don't mind.

Short answer is I feel about the same way about Avalance as I do Olicity. In my opinion Ava is about the same level of toxic as Felicity. She has a tendency to make everything Sara's going through about herself and never considers Sara's feelings yet expects Sara to always consider hers and even go as far as putting her own morales, convictions and feelings aside just to make Ava happy. I also don't like the way Ava treats Sara because of her past, and I don't just mean the League but also her former relationships or casual hook-ups. Plus can't stand her utter disregard of Oliver's importance in Sara's life and what loosing him did to her. And this turned out a lot longer than I intended, sorry. I feel Sara deserved better, just like Oliver.

I hope I answered your question, don't hesitate to let me know if I haven't or if you have any further questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Aw, thank you so much! This means a lot to me. I hope you have a wonderful day.

I forgot to mention that Avalance was one of the main reasons why I stopped watching Legends, just like Olicity had been for Arrow.

[jooeeydee]

Oliver Jonas Queen used to take Sara Lance flying on the small light aircraft he'd gotten to his sixteenth birthday from his father and there's no way that isn't a fact.

Robert taught Oliver how to fly.

Sara loved birds.

Oliver took Sara flying so she could feel like a bird.

Tell me I'm wrong.

[the-feral-gremlin]

I love how Nyssa is five seconds away from kissing Sara and yet she still asks “do you need permission from your boyfriend?” 💀

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Which of these highest Sara ships is your favourite?

(Based on amount of ao3 fics)