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ava: rip tell me you didn’t. not in your own office. 

rip, shaking his head: we didn’t! we didn’t.

no but i do like the thought of ava finding out Who Her Dad Is at some point and only accepting it at the end of the season and Begrudgingly seeing nora as her sister

ava is Technically older even though the timeline is Fucked Up At Best and nora hates that. so much.

nora redemption arc but she stays with the time bureau because holy hell keep this lesbian away from ray palmer and the bad influence of the legends

rip avoids her for the first three months she is Legally Required to work there and ava Tries to get the other agents to warm up to her but 1) they are wary of mallus still being inside her even though she has director sharpe’s personal stamp of being demon free 2) despite this nora is not above pretending she’s still possessed in order to get people to leave her alone

in the end eve’s the only one that can befriend her bc she owes her girlfriend ava that much

eve also like never met damien darhk and doesnt get what the big deal is? yeah he seems like a dick but he’s dead now?

ava just sighs because she’s not ready get into the scars damien darhk (her father) left on the very fabric of time.

nora kind of sort of needs to live with ava because no one trusts her to be by herself.

she doesnt really have anywhere else to go i mean she was with The Order since she was a kid and then reunited with her dad until he died again so she’s really got nothing left.

also kuasa was a double agent the whole time so they cant even plan a comeback.

anyways ava and nora living together is. literal hell. nora takes five hour baths because she needs to maintain her youthful beauty and she loves getting under ava’s skin and ava TRIES to make things work bc she’s older but nora is not past her teenage rebellion.

nora’s favorite store is lush and i. hate. it.

nora darhk redemption arc as a concept is. fuzzy yet glorious. i imagine mallus took her over fully and then damien died in order to stop that bitch and gave the legends the opening to destroy mallus + free nora but at that point the darhks were on good terms so nora…..misses him.

and its stupid, she knows, because he was evil and terrible but he was also her dad and he died for her and she didnt get to say goodbye again and it all just feels. like she was just starting to have everything she was robbed as again.

literally won’t die. he’s Seen Some Shit, he’s survived the undertaking, slade, his own body trying to die, the LoA, and now darhk. he doesn’t just refuse to die, it’s nearly impossible to kill him

“why should the public trust you after you worked for darhk” “well, uh, darhk was threatening my daughter to get me to work with him, and if you haven’t noticed, i’ve run out of daughters to be threatened with” [cue long awkward silence]

wins by a landslide. he is literally the only public figure that has survived the last couple of years. of course people trust him.

trying to dig up dirt on him is like , super hard? like there’s the darhk thing but that’s been beaten to death , and what else is there? he ran a red light once? maybe twice??

sara shows up and offers to murder the competition. quentin is like What The Fuck ,Sara Chill, No One Else Is Running

“but what are your qualifications” [cue five long minutes of increasingly impressive accomplishments] “oh yeah and i care about this city”

his notable history with the vigilantes actually works in his favor. “endorsed by the green arrow” is only implied, though. people don’t miss that his opinions have influenced how masks are percieved, mostly for the better.

not really that hard to make him into a sympathetic figure with the whole “dead daughters, ruined career, near constant death threats” thing

rip wants to keep up a Front of the building being owned by a legitimate business so he makes a fake one and puts gary in charge of pr/social media

spoiler alert: gareth green is terrible with technology and their cover almost gets blown like five times

ava and eve as the Lesbian Life Goals

rip: how is it that the two people with the worst people skills are the ones getting laid the most gary: aw, that sucks, director hunter. if it helps, i don’t get laid either. rip: that’s in inappropriate discussion topic, mr. green gary: oh, uh, i’m sorry rip: but seriously, what are they doing that i’m not—don’t respond to that mr. green, that’s not a conversation for the workplace—is the hair? do people miss my beard? it could stand to be longer. people find scruff attractive, right, mr. green? no, that’s not something i should be asking a subordinate—but maybe it’s been long enough that i can try to find a lover again. i mean, it’s been five years. maybe jonah’s still available, haven’t seen him in ages—don’t ask who that is, we shouldn’t be having this discussion. gary, crying: i don’t know what you want from me.

rip does invite jonah over one day. he’s just so proud of the time bureau and he Has to Share It

gary, a Known Gay: and who’s he? rip: off limits if you want to keep your job.

gary works under ava a lot and accidentally considers her a friend even though She Surely Doesn’t

he booked a date with a guy but uh turns out he promised a double date and eve and ava are the only other couple he knows

gary, to his date, nervously: and this is my, uh, mom, ava and— ava: I’M ONLY FIVE YEARS OLDER THAN YOU gary: hah, did i say mom, i meant mom’s gym coach. h-hot gym coach. (rip taught him that one)

gary: wilbur, you’re a wise old man, can you help me out? wilbur, who has never given helpful advice in his entire life: yes, i am old [walks away]

“the legends did that once” is code for “you can probably get away with doing that”

ava: has anyone seen director hunter? gary: he’s probably sobbing in his office again eve: what wilbur: he does that sometimes

gary Fucks Something Up and keeps going higher and higher the chain of command trying to Fix It but It’s Bad

aka “don’t tell rip”

rip walks in on them and gary, without hesitation, wipes his memory. ava: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT gary: I PANICKED rip, coming to again: what— gary: AHHH [hits him with That Sweet Regression Gun again] ava: GARY WHAT THE HELL gary: I’M STRESSED THIS IS A STRESSFUL SITUATION

figgle in the break between s1 and 2 when oliver has fucked off but there’s still so much rebuilding left to do is so…..mmm tasty.

they both kind of feel that they have to give it everything they have, because they were left unscathed by the undertaking and so many weren’t, and this leads to so many late nights and early mornings and all the hours in between.

their first kiss is after diggle manages to stop a group of kids from taking the wrong path and hurting the people of the glades instead of trying to rebuild their home. its team arrow’s first victory in a while and felicity does a fist pump and then goes into hug diggle but it sort of turns into a kiss. felicity’s embarassed about being that direct but diggle just laughs and says that they should go celebrate their small victory somewhere.

they end up eating together a lot and its nice. of course they spend most of their nights together anyways, hoping oliver comes back from his self imposed exile by himself, but they also find themselves going out for coffee and lunch and all those things. sometimes dig will stop by queen consolidated and bring felicity some lunch and they talk while he’s sort of leaning on the desk and she’s rambling about her day and using terms diggle is only half familiar with and its. nice. a good thing when there are so few good moments to be had.

diggle tries to teach felicity how to fight, and failing that how to at least shoot a gun, and failing that they dick around with all the weaponry oliver left scattered around the arrowcave.

they accidentally have a movie night once when felicity makes a star trek reference diggle doesnt get and he maybe makes it known that he hasnt seen All the star trek content out there and felicity has to rectify that so she stops by his apartment the next day and they watch all the movies and shows they can concievably fit into 24 hours and diggle falls asleep on the couch while felicity stays up the entire time and since she knows all the words of the movies by heart she sort of mumbles along.

okay, so, Best Case Scenario, rip is able to save miranda AND jonas, and eventually goes to the wild west bc miranda wants to meet the Man Who Stole Rip’s Heart (and whose coat he stole).

jonah definitely and accidentally really likes miranda, and miranda totally thinks jonah is Hot, so rip gets two Partners for the Price of One. also jonas gets a Rad Cowboy Dad what could be cooler.

Anyways miranda wants to meet the Gang and jonah wants to see those Fools in their natural habitat, so they go visit 2017 and have a reunion with the legends.

jonah gets only a Little self-conscious about his scar, but rip assures him that things are a lot different, and no one one will really mind. there are meta humans and superheroes and even aliens a man with a scarred face won’t raise as many eyebrows as he thinks

although he does accidentally become a cryptid. jax sends rip a link to a website trying to prove that Historic Figure Jonah Hex Is Actually Immortal And Walks Among Us

rip Sort of “technically” breaks into the arrowcave? sara won’t answer her Goddamn phone and he has to take some drastic measures. he gets to meet oliver queen (again, technically). also long story short jonah fist fights oliver (and totally wins) and the coburn-hunter-hex family sort of gets kicked out of star city.

it turns out that sara’s having Girl Time with laurel and rip and miranda break into the Lance Family apartment because that’s really the only other place they can think of. turns out sara’s not there, but they do get to almost give quentin another heart attack.

martin offers to host a dinner and miranda agrees before rip can pretend they have something better to do.

the legends tease the goddamn shit out of rip because Turns Out he’s a sappy fool in love.

Literally Everyone sneaks jonas some candy it’s in the legends rulebook

ray: i brought some wine! jonah, stealing it without hesitation: