Felicity Smoak

〈 PLAYER INFO 〉
NAME: Ely
AGE: 24
JOURNAL: lascivio
IM / EMAIL: crushsugar @ AIM / usuallyely@gmail.com
PLURK: dorkwolf
RETURNING: M'gann M'orzz (Young Justice), Annie Sawyer (Being Human UK)

〈 CHARACTER INFO 〉
CHARACTER NAME: Felicity Smoak
CHARACTER AGE: 27
SERIES: Arrow
CHRONOLOGY: ARROW 3-08 The Brave and the Bold - Just after disabling one of the five bombs hidden around the city.
CLASS: Hero Support
HOUSING: Randomize me! Doesn't have to be in Heropa, either.

BACKGROUND: Link

While Felicity doesn't really come into her own character (and a series regular) until season 2, it wouldn't be unfair to say that what she does have from the start is a sort of 'steal the show' type of quality. Even from the get go, Oliver Queen finds himself drawn to her more and more, trusting her without any real backing behind it, with his most precious secret. His identity. Of course this may have to do with the fact that from that moment on, he began his downward spiral into I Love Felicity Smoak. Even if it is full of maybes.

But enough about Oliver. This is about Felicity's story. Born in Vegas to a genius, unnamed Father, and Donna Smoak, a cocktail waitress who worked sixty hours in six inch heels making tips to be able to take care of her precious daughter. And although Felicity ended up a little cybergoth hactivistic in college, fast forward give years and she's graduated MIT and is working in the IT department for Queen Consolidated. Not the most glamorous job, but certainly for one of the more powerful companies in Starling City (and a large portion of the world, at that). Sure, her life is a little boring at first, but when Oliver Queen shows up at her desk one afternoon and asks her to look into something rather dubious... well, who is she to say no to that? A mystery with potential for intrigue and an exciting look into the life of the infamous, back from the dead Oliver Queen? Heck yes.

And maybe it's a good thing we talk a lot about Oliver. Because her life, in a way, does kind of revolve around him. Not in an obsessive way, but when both your day and night-jobs are for Mister Queen himself, you get a little one-track. Which isn't so bad until you start falling for your boss, and mister playboy over here is off romancing a number of women from his past. (Seriously, how many women were on that island with you?) But when all that comes of it are a bunch of maybes, well. Felicity Smoak is not going to sit there and let her heart be dragged along the ground by a arrow-line.

So she moves on. Figuratively speaking. Her day job goes from QC, to a temporary salary job at a tech store, to ... Vice President of Palmer Technologies. Which is kind of a huge jump up, but Ray Palmer is a genius, and while she isn't entirely happy with him taking over Queen Consolidated in the first place, she isn't going to turn down the job. ... In the end. (She turned it down a number of times at first, but it was the fact that Oliver couldn't say yes to her, that pushed her to separate part of her life from him.)

And then she met Barry Allen. Actually she met him a while ago, but he was strictly human. Now he's a metahuman, with super speed and ... still has the ability to keep up with her brain. They're adorable and perfect for each other... and both in love with someone else. So while everyone else (sans Oliver) would love to see them together, they leave it as friends and move on. Not that it's ever stopped them from enjoying each other's company. Felicity has taken trips to visit Central for work, and to see Barry- especially when he first woke up from his coma. And vice versa, Barry has come to Starling for work and ... well, work. But then who didn't want to see the Arrow and the Flash team up together, anyway? Besides, Felicity loves Caitlin and Cisco; Barry's team.

It's from one of their visits actually that Felicity is taken from. When the menace that is Captain Boomerang begins causing horrible trouble in both Central and Starling city, infiltrating ARGUS in attempts to go after Lyla (Diggle's ex slash now wife), that Felicity is arriving on Mask or Menace from. This dickbag set up five bombs around the city, all wired to detonate at the same time, and disabling one of them meant triggering the rest. Lucky they have a Speedster on their side however, putting each member of the team, and Felicity herself, in front of one of the bombs, so they could cut the wire at all the same time. The sigh of relief from stopping those bombs is almost enough to make one dizzy.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand then she shows up in MoM. Thanks Porter. You're a real friend.

PERSONALITY:

Can we say nerd? Almost to a complete-T, Felicity fits the bill of the accused. Regardless of the reverse stereotype of blonde hair and pretty clothes, donned in makeup and heels at almost every moment of her working life. (Maybe she just doesn't like being short, yo.)

She's a bit socially awkward, adorable in her habit of babbling without a filter- and often regrets it the moment any sort of innuendo or sexual insinuation falls out of her mouth. Especially when she's nervous or dealing with higher ups. ... Or hot people. Like Oliver Queen or Barry Allen (and to lesser extents, Ray Palmer and Sara Lance). But, nerves and embarrassing quirks aside, she won't let it stop her from saying whatever she needs to say, never one to back out and say 'oh it doesn't matter'. If she believes she's in the right, there's no getting around it; she'll let you have her opinion and believe it.

Making light of situations, especially angsty ones or dangerous ones, tend to be another nervous habit. One that usually makes other people ease up around her, as well, despite it's often awkward tone. It releases tension, lets them take a step back and come forward again with a clearer head. Their A-Game, as Oliver would say.

But don't let that nerdy, pretty blonde girl with an awkward habit of babbling fool you. She'll surprise the pants off you if given even the slightest opportunity. She comes off unassuming, weak and usable. And in almost every instance, she's the trump card, the one to get in close enough to bring you down. Remember Slade Wilson? Yeah, just go on and let him think she's weak, kidnap her so she can be close enough to hit him with the cure and stop him outright. Big Bad for Season 2? No big, Felicity took him down.

She's not just a pretty face with surprising talents, either. Felicity is probably one of the biggest Hearts in the series (wellll, there's John Diggle); she's kind and compassionate and full of trust-- not blind about it, but strong enough to give it where it's due. And maybe that's why Oliver let her in on his secret, came to her when he was shot, trusted her to get him to his Arrow Cave dad's old factory instead of to the hospital. And his risk was not misplaced, nor has it ever been. With Felicity in on the gang, the testosterone evens out, is given an empathetic mind behind the hard hits and tactical moves. Just what was missing from Team Arrow.

One of the few reasons that Felicity didn't immediately join, however, were because of The Arrow The Hood's harsher methods of dealing with criminals. Namely, murdering them when they didn't cooperate. Killing was a big no-no. But, eventually, because Oliver reaaaaaaally wanted her on his team, he cut back completely on the blood shedding thing, and instead turns to dumping the criminals at the police station, or tying them up and calling the cops, instead. Felicity dun good.

And speaking of dangerous situations, she's pretty good at handling herself in those, too. Undercover in a Mob Casino? Check. Infiltrating Merlyn Global HQ as a delivery girl? Check. She's even used herself as bait to draw out a very dangerous criminal (The Dollmaker) so Arrow and John Diggle could take him down for good. Undercover is easy, though. Just don't ask her for anything physical; five sit ups in the morning is about as good as it's going to get for this blondie.

Above all else, Felicity is the genius of the group. She's extremely ambitious and a tough worker, determined to do whatever she sets her mind to; IT girl instead of a cocktail waitress in Vegas like her mom (not that there's anything wrong with that, as she comes to agree later). And unlike many female minor/main characters in a show like this, she isn't really all that jeopardy friendly. Sure, she's not going to run and hide from danger if the moment calls for it, but she's not going to go out looking for it, either. ... Except that one time, but he made a fool of her skill as a tech girl, so he had to go down.

She's patient, indulgent, willing to ride things out to see where they lead- especially when it comes to Oliver Queen, in the early days. His numerous 'tasks' for her, dubious and questioning in nature (seriously, a laptop with bullet holes? totally not from a bad neighborhood cafe - a syringe of 'hangover cure drink'? Y e a h, okay Ollie) were never turned down. She was curious, willing to let him give her something more interesting to do than sit on the fifteenth floor in the IT department, doing typical tech work for Queen Consolidated. Felicity can never ignore a good mystery.

It's not just the rag tag group of vigilante/military style boys she gets along with, either. There's Barry Allen- fellow nerd that is actually on her own level, not even noticing her rambling innuendos. And Iris West, Caitlin Snow, Sara Lance, Thea Queen-- you give her anyone, and she's likely to end up befriending them. Even if sometimes she feels a little left out of the whole 'kicking ass and taking names' thing, she can do just that with her mind as well as the next Masked Hero.

Now, while Felicity is incredibly strong mentally, a lot tougher than she expected (that, she gets from her mother), she is also quite insecure. It came out strong when Sara Lance (The Canary) joined the team at first. She quite liked Sara, but her addition to their group had made Felicity begin to feel inferior, insignificant. Sara could do many things, including kick ass and take names... and even do tech and lab work on her own. So when the nerves and insecurity began getting to Felicity, it took it's toll on her own job. Of course it all worked out in the end- she took a bullet for Sara, earned her first big scar, and was thoroughly reaffirmed from Oliver himself how she was still very much His Girl. (Not like that, but. You know.) [ Another note along this vein, is that in the comics, Felicity is lead to believe a man is interested in her, in dating her, but unfortunately turns out to be only using her for something else, trampling her self worth in the process. Oliver finds out and leaves her apartment full of flowers and a note to life her spirits; it works wonderfully. No relationship or not, they really are darling best friends. ]

And speaking of insecurities, Felicity has plenty of those when it comes to her own self admonition. She will always be hard on herself whenever she fudges something, isn't able to figure something out- especially when it is involved in a case that may have detrimental outcomes if not solved soon. Often times, especially in the early days, it would result in her worries over potentially being kicked off the team. Nowadays that isn't so much of an issue, but she is still incredibly hard on herself for any sort of failure.

POWER:

( transducer ) - human antenna, basically. the ability to intercept communications and encrypted messages with their minds. They can literally "see" electromagnetic wavelengths and hear noises produced from the frequencies.

( electric charge ) - the ability to recharge an electronic device to full power once if it's small; cellphone, gameboy, etc. OR temporarily power a plug-in type device; computer, dead battery laptop, etc.

〈 CHARACTER SAMPLES 〉


COMMUNITY POST (VOICE) SAMPLE:

[ WHAT'S THIS?

This is your tech lady, currently zonked out on her computer desk, three empty cups of coffee on the far side, and a 'simulation complete' blinking on the screen above her. If one were to look closely, they'd see the time completed was about seven hours and fifty three minutes. Joy of joys.

There is also a note on a post-it, stuck to the far left computer screen, written in pen in Felicity's vaguely chicken scratch writing. ]

espresso macchiatto when i wake up or the bow gets it

LOGS POST (PROSE) SAMPLE:

[ It's ... It's like stepping into Tomorrow Land. Except backwards- or forwards. And not the Disney kind, either. The whizzing hovercars, hoverboards, hover bikes-- and not just hovering a few inches off the ground, but really up there, too. It's the bright lights that aren't liquid crystal or anything else she can really think of- nothing that actually exists yet. Holographic images, maybe, they weren't so out of the blue, but that scale and that quantity?

Oh this little blonde looks like she just stepped into Christmas. Land. The one from the movie, where everything is bright and merry and oh god. Nevermind that she's just wandered out into a city that is absolutely not Starling. Who cares that she's got nothing on her person beyond her cellphone, a pair of stiletto heels and a -- wait, wait. They said something about a network here, hadn't they?

Because if she can find a little coffee shop with outdoor seating, she's going to plunk herself down and try to take this entire little communication device apart, if at all possible. Bits and pieces of the device lay strewn about table she's at, circle formed around an iced coffee and should anyone ask; ]

No, it's fine- I've switched the SIM into my own phone. Or the equivalent of the SIM card, here. It's not really a SIM card. More of a hyped up SanDisk with some sort of booster.

[ She should probably look up from what she's doing, shouldn't she? ]

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