Songs Yet Unsung

After losing Queen Consolidated, Oliver falls into a role as a long-lost half-brother on the cheesy soap opera that films in Starling City. It was supposed to be a one-off appearance but everyone loved it…and his chemistry with the show’s bad-girl Margo Hatton, played by bundle of sunshine Kara Gardner. Can a superhero be a TV star? Is the chemistry between him and Kara just onscreen? And who is the new hero working in the shadows and beating the Arrow to the busts?

“Okay…?” Oliver said slowly. Nick had been a good mentor on the show. “What’s going on?”

“I can’t tell you that.” Nick said with a shake of his head. “But I can tell you, ‘it’s just make-up.’”

Oliver blinked at him. “Yeah, I know you don’t usually wear that much eyeliner, Nick.”

“Haha.” Nick replied, shaking his head. “Just remember what I said, Oliver. It’s just make-up.”

“Okaaay.” Oliver said, drawing out the word and contemplating the warning. “Thanks, Bro.” 

Amanda Waller made a mistake when she rescued Oliver Queen from Lian Yu and brought him to Cadmus. She wanted someone she could use to get information from the aliens that had fallen to Earth inside the prison ship. A miscalculation that they would attack any human led to Oliver being taken in by the Kryptonians on Fort Rozz. To correct her mistake she did something deplorable, and now years later, the consequences are coming home to roost.

Oliver is oblivious until the meeting where Ray Palmer tried to take his company, and none other than Lor-Zod walked in, claiming to be representing Starrware Industries, and telling him that people he thought dead are still alive, the most important one calling herself Kara Starr.

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“All of this sounds fantastical.” Felicity said, sitting in her chair, as if she could dismiss them all with the movement, or maybe just to draw strength from her computers, where she had always been queen of the system. “But you’re talking about clones, and according to Oli ver ,  one of you have already died and he saw it. How can we know what you’re saying is true? How do we know that you’re not clones?”

Ursa smiled, a smile that Oliver always thought would befit a she-bear. “I’ve brought security footage of the last day, and Oli-Var’s funeral. I thought we might need it during this meeting.”

A different prophecy made to Ra’s al-Ghul, on an Earth where Oliver doesn’t ask Sara to join him on the Gambit, and Kara Zor-El’s pod lands in Nanda Parbat. A story where Oliver returns home and begins his career as the Arrow, after spending the majority of his time in exile in Nanda Parbat, with a Supergirl in black at his back. How will things be different in Starling City? How long until Superman comes to call, and armed with a book of names, what is the difference between a hero and a villain?

Tommy waited until they were in the safety of the car and a good distance away from the bar and closer to the foundry before he broke his silence. “So, I have a new name. When did you come up with that one?”

“I didn’t.” Oliver answered, his stern expression cracking just slightly, but not enough for Tommy to call it a smile. “Kara did, after you asked her to train you.”

Tommy was about to answer, but something clicked in his mind.  “It was before that.” He said after a moment. “She called me that when she rescued us from those kidnappers.”  It had taken a moment for him to remember with how hazy his memory of everything after he had been shot with whatever drugs they had used to knock him unconscious. “It was her, wasn’t it?”

Oliver shook his head with an expression on his face that Tommy thought was both annoyance and fondness.

Tell me not to write Kariver where they both crashed on the island.

Chapter 13 of Bowstrings

One shot with Earth-38 Kara meeting Earth-1 Arrow after meeting Layla and Al-Sah-Him (recommended by @superarrowverse)

Chapter 5 of Bullet Journal

Chapter 4 of Wildest Dreams

Chapter 7 of Secret Hearts

Chapter 4 of Just One Yesterday

Chapter 3 of Save the Morning Star

When brought aboard the Amazo, Oliver discovers that Ivo is experimenting on people, using one of his failed serums. The failed version of the Mirakuru instead awakens his metahuman gene, which gives him an uncanny knack for survival.

Five years later, he makes his way home, with an alien and three other experiments, his mission to rescue his city, and then find a way to keep his people safe, especially the most fragile of the experiments, the one codenamed Victory. All this, while trying to reclaim some semblance of a normal life.

Superman dropped from far too high a height to know what he might have been doing, to directly in front of them, arms crossed over his chest, as if he was intimidating.

Too bad Kortni had seen his baby pictures.

“Kal-El.” Kara managed, her voice strangled. “It’s so good to see you, sojehb .” She slid the Kryptonian word for male cousin into her greeting without thinking. “Are you well? You look so much like Odhoz Jor-El.” She could tell he was unsure of the greeting, and he didn’t change his position, but Kara thought she could see something like hope in his eyes. He wasn’t just going to take her words at face value, which she understood. If things had been reversed, she wouldn’t have believed him either.

Oliver doesn’t know what to think when half of the Bratva’s elite two-woman team known as the Zoryas shows up in Star City asking for his help. He’s the mayor now, and Prometheus is an issue, but…Kortni Duginovna swears that her sister is alive, and that she has proof. Oliver has believed that Kara Starikova has been dead for years, but given the chance, he has to try to save her.

“You loved her.” Dig said slowly. Someone like that was exactly Oliver’s type.

Oliver shook his head. “I wasn’t allowed to love her.” He said finally. “When you’re a new member of the Bratva, you can have no-one but the Bratva, and I wasn’t in a place where love was something I could let myself feel. Russia was probably when I was at my darkest, Dig. I was so focused on getting Kovar, so sure I’d never go home, that I had no place here… Kara was someone who made me feel human, even when I was a monster.”

“Sounds like love to me, man.” John replied. “Especially after what her sister said.”

“Kortya is a romantic.” He said, swallowing. “Somehow, despite doing what she does, she’s stayed an idealist.”

“Does that mean she’s wrong?” John asked, not wanting to point out Oliver’s own romantic streak he tried so hard to hide.