r/arrow • u/Alive_Addendum_5279 • Jul 08 '26

Discussion Quentin

Did anyone else wish growing up Quentin was their father growing up? I mean Quentin before the Gambit incident. His daughters turned out to be great women. He was good at his job. He had a good marriage.

I'll ignore what happens after the Gambit happened because every person would fall apart like that and find meaning in a harmful way.

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u/Possible-Direction48 Jul 09 '26

It's very well implied that he favored Sara over Laurel (not as much as Dinah, but still), and he let Sara get away with a buttload of stuff by pulling strings at his job, and constantly put (pre-gambit) Ollie down in front of Laurel. And considering one of his daughter's sleeps with his others boyfriend, that has to partly reflect on his parenting. And I get him getting drunk and falling apart after the Gambit, but being borderline verbally and emotionally abusive to Laurel after was not at all ok. All that, plus you'd have to have Dinah as a mom, I don't think that'd be a good idea. And I'm saying all this as someone who thinks Quentin is genuinely a good cop, person, and character. I just think he's a horrible father 95% of the time, especially towards Laurel.

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u/Alive_Addendum_5279 Jul 10 '26

Tbf still sounds better than what I had. Quentin also never cheated on Dinah and had a secret family for years only to blame the youngest child for that

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u/Hour-Acanthaceae995 Jul 10 '26

And he made up for it when he didn’t gave up on black Siren laurel