A/N: For school I had to rewrite "Mark Antony's Funeral Oration for Julius Caesar" and use a fictional character or something so the first person who came to mind was Oliver Queen. Though for some reason I never used his name that's who it's supposed to be about so...

I'm not sure how good this is since I was supposed to start from scratch and use the irony and repetitiveness and since I'll never fully understand irony this could be a little weird.

As always I'd love some criticism to help me know what to do in the future.

Oh and there aren't any spoilers either since he didn't actually die (that I know of. I'm only on season 4)


"I'm not going to stand here and bore you with kind words and reminisce on the better things he did. Everyone says he was a liar and hid things. They said a hero rids a city of trouble; he doesn't bring it like this man has. Why would someone like that deserve the type of speech given at funerals for heroes? I'll be honest instead and I'll tell you of the thing I saw first-hand.

He was loyal and protective; he'd go to great lengths to make sure the people he cared about were safe from harm. He wanted only happiness for them and if that meant he died in the process of giving that to them then so be it.

Yet they said wasn't a hero.

He believed in the majority over the minority and his mind he was the minority so he'd sacrifice his own wellbeing for the majority, the city and every one in it.

Yet they say he wasn't a hero.

They were right about him being a liar. He lied and hid things but in the end he thought he was keeping everyone safe from the darkness he knew too well.

Yet they say he wasn't a hero.

Dangers followed him home and hurt many along way but he didn't run from them, he faced up to them and cleaned the messes left in the wake. He made sure no more suffered from his decisions.

Yet they say he wasn't a hero.

Perhaps they are right and I've got it all false, somehow I've got in in my head that he could do no wrong. If this is true then I'd rather leave it that way. I'm much happier remembering him for the hero I saw him. I know I'm not the only one. There are people who as well saw him differently than everyone else and praised him for the things he did. I might have even changed a few minds, the judgments others had to gratitude of sorts.

But I said I came here to be honest and that's exactly what I was. How you think of him now is your doing not mine."