[ SECRET POST #2734 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2734 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 071 secrets from Secret Submission Post #391.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, DC went and fridged Roy's daughter and chopped off his arm in an event, and then went and wrote an abysmally bad mini where he relapses into his drug problem, kills a bunch of homeless people thinking they're responsible for killing his daughter, and tries to protect a dead cat while hallucinating his zombie daughter talking to him. Then Dick Grayson kicks Roy in the face and drags him to a rehab clinic for criminals, where Dick and Dana Lance - Black Canary, who is somewhere between mother figure and badass big sister to Roy - leave Roy to get over it. Keep in mind, "it" is the loss of both a major limb and his DAUGHTER. (and because if there's one thing we all know about Dick Grayson, [bitter sarcasm here] it is that he gives up on his friends.[/bitter sarcasm])

That all goes as well as expected. After which the mother of Roy's child, a villain, comes after him to kill him for letting their daughter die. It ends with Roy working for Deathstroke while continuing to use drugs.

It was all very unpleasant. And came as a punch to the gut because after shaky characterization and a pain-ridden canon for decades, Roy was finally having good things happen to him. He'd patched up things with the other Arrows, been accepted into the JL, and was in a generally positive place. While fans figured it wouldn't last forever, we didn't expect it to all crash down and burn quite so fast and hard.

TL;DR: OP has a point of sorts. Roy's canon was completely fucked well before the reboot. But those of us who watched him struggle and persevere against all sorts of threats both mental and to the world are equally angry about the cat thing and the complete erasure of the backstory that made us love him in the first place.

[phyllomania]

All of this, yup. :(

[elaminator]

I don't even know what to say other than, "Wow, that's fucked up". Because damn... I know comics regularly torture their characters, but that sounds neigh unbearable. Kudos to anyone who actually stuck with DC through the whole thing, because it sounds extremely unpleasant.