Roy Harper and William Harper

[u/Scorpios94]

I have been watching Young Justice and it kinda led to this weird train of thought.

In the previous continuity, which Young Justice takes some inspiration from, Roy loses his arm due to Prometheus cutting it off with a toxin-laced blade during a devastating attack that also destroys Star City.

In the current continuity, he still lost his arm but he later has it back somehow. That's never explained. Whether by some weird magic voodoo or if its a more organic replacement somehow. Either way, both versions having used a highly advanced weaponized prosthetic. But my train of thought went to the notion of Roy being cloned.

The clone had grown up with the founding members of the team and was later revealed to be a sleeper agent and mole for The Light; the main villain group. The clone later took on the name Will; based off of his middle name. The real Roy still had his arm cut off and used an advanced prosthetic given to him by Lex Luthor.

And that made me wonder of the notion of that being adapted into the main series. Not Roy being replaced with a clone but a clone of him being created. Someone akin to Will Harper of the Young Justice series but with a more diabolical streak compared to canon. Someone who represents all the "evil" that had lurked within Roy for all this time.

Someone who doesn't like or want to be tied down by the notion of fatherhood compared to Roy. Who holds up a mirror to Oliver's worst flaws and faults. A twisted perverse person who represents the worst of the both of them and their relationship with one another. A living walking Armory to Roy's Arsenal.

Or maybe Dark/Black Arrow. Personally, I like Armory. It provides a thematic naming foil to Roy's codename of Arsenal. And while it's a different character from a previous continuity (and Hannibal Bates/Everyman), I feel like its synonymous with Merlyn the Dark Archer.

Would anyone want to see this adapted somehow into the main canon story? Or that there's already a lot of clone drama that happens enough and should just be kept away from Green Arrow, and just in YJ? Please comment respectfully.