Oliver Queen (unrecognizable) wrote in starling_city, @ 2013-07-25 08:31:00 |
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Who: EVERYONE
Where: The Glades
What: Game opening
When: Backdated to last night
Three months; a sabbatical, taken to deal with the guilt that racked his every thought…the image of his best friend dying on constant loop in his head. Knowing, deep down, that he could have arrived earlier, been there to save him. Starling City had been the last place he needed to be; he wasn’t of use to anyone in that state, not his sister, not Laurel…even though she had refused to speak with him. And being the vigilante, that was gone now. Tommy Merlyn, the person who knew him as well as anyone could, had died thinking that he was a murderer. A monster. Oliver couldn’t ever go back to that; only now, after the time away, did he fully understand the gravity of it.
But he wasn’t going to shield himself from his failures, either. The city may have given up on The Glades, but he couldn’t, he wouldn’t. The quake, the five hundred and three people that had been killed, that all weighed heavy on his shoulders. Knowing that if he had only planned for the second Makarov Device, things could have been different…but he hadn’t. It had been Malcolm who had the last strike. Dressed in a dark gray shirt, jeans, and a leather jacket…he was heading into the ‘no man’s land’ as himself, not The Hood. His family was hated, more now than ever, it was expected when the Moira had confessed her complicity with such a devastating plan. Trash and debris were everywhere; graffiti, signs…’remember the 503’ or ‘take back the glades’. It was anarchy; utter and complete chaos, different factions vying for different seconds, a massive power struggle, one fueled by blood.
And the people…the ones who weren’t fighting or looting, they all looked so lost. For a lot of them, this was the only way of life they had ever known, and it had been completely destroyed. And that was only going to get worse; how could he know, as he walked down the broken streets, that people who should have never been in The Glades were going to start arriving? That not far from where he stood, a portal had opened, unleashing a kind of pandemonium that no one would have been able to see coming?