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PLAYER INFORMATION

PLAYER: Emily

AGED 18+? Yes.

RESERVED? Yes.

IN-GAME CHARACTERS: Cami O’Connell

CHARACTER INFORMATION

NAME: Laurel Lance

CANON: Arrow (DCTV)

CANON POINT: 418: Eleven Fifty-Nine

ARRIVAL TYPE: Rescued.

IC USERNAME: canarycry

HISTORY: Here, have a wiki.

PERSONALITY:

For most of her life, Laurel has been driven by the urge to do the right thing and to make change. The daughter of a cop, she was exposed at an early age to not only the violence that plagued then-Starling City, but also the imbalance that skewed the benefits of the city in favor of the corrupt and wealthy. From working at the legal aid firm, CRNI, to being an assistant district attorney to even taking up the mantle of the Black Canary, Laurel is a product of her ideals and the need to fight for those who don’t have a voice to speak for themselves. In a lot of ways, becoming the Black Canary is a natural extension of the work she was already doing, a way for her to stop the bad guys that had managed to fall through the cracks in the law and protect her city at the same time.

This isn’t to say that her journey has been easy, however. While Laurel will throw herself recklessly into the fray to save a stranger, she has a harder time trusting other people with the person behind the mask and the heart that comes with it. When Oliver and Sara “died” and the implications therein were revealed, Laurel never fully got the chance to grieve or be angry about the circumstances because of the conflict of the situation – never mind the fact that Sara wasn’t Oliver’s only infidelity either, just the most prominent. Laurel begins her story, the victim of the man that Oliver Queen used to be. Betrayed by both her boyfriend and her sister, who remained dead for five years, and then their sudden return to her life, coupled with some sudden losses shortly after sent Laurel into a spiral of alcoholism in order to escape her pain.

When Oliver and later her sister return to her life, she finds that for the time they were gone, she was stuck, unable to move forward into a life of her own, and found herself surrounded by people who often tried to tell her how she should feel and weren’t prepared to handle her anger when it didn’t match up with their expectations. In a lot of ways her addiction was a way of her regaining some of the control that’s being taken from her, and in the same way so was her sobriety. Admitting her addiction and beginning the process of maintaining her sobriety allows her to put the past behind her and begin to move forward, starting the life that she should have begun in the five years that Oliver and Sara were gone.

Despite their rocky history, Sara is still one of the most important people in Laurel’s life. They’ve managed to repair their relationship a great deal from where they were when Sara first returned, and shortly before her canon point, she risks everything to bring her sister back from the dead, despite warnings that what Laurel was about to do might not be what’s best for Sara. Laurel learns this truth the hard way, but even after Sara comes back feral and missing her soul, Laurel goes to find it at great risk to herself.

In fact, her repaired relationship with her sister, followed by her sudden loss is one of the tipping points that pushes her into becoming the Black Canary. When Sara is mysteriously murdered, Laurel’s grief doesn’t push her back towards booze – instead, she uses her anger to try and fill her sister’s shoes and protect the city she fought so hard to protect as an assistant district attorney. Unlike Sara, however, Laurel is not a trained member of the League of Assassins, so she had more than a few growing pains, especially when it came to Oliver treating her as a member of the team. She fights for every bit of even ground she could reach for, and struggles with the idea of whether or not she could take her sister’s place, but in the end, she comes into her own and becomes a hero in her own right. There is little that Laurel wouldn’t do for any of Team Arrow, including Oliver. Her loyalty is a quality that she values above all else, and she will always prioritize her team over all else.

Shortly before her arrival in game, Laurel’s been struggling with her identity as the Black Canary and whether or not it was the best way for her to make a difference. She also, unfortunately, was recently murdered by Damian Dahrk. Laurel is going to be struggling with accepting her own death and the anger that comes with it, as well as finding ways to move on knowing that she’ll likely never return to Star City and to her role as the Black Canary. The identity that she had rebuilt herself around after Sara’s death will be one that she cannot truly maintain in the Clock, so she’ll be back to the drawing board with Laurel Lance again and starting from scratch with building a new sense of self.

INVENTORY:
1 - Black Canary costume, and all protective gear therein (Laurel is on the right).
1 – sonic device cued specifically to Laurel’s vocal chords that can do fun things like shatter glass and short out tiny robotic killer bees.
1 – comm system designed by Felicity Smoak.

CHANGES: n/a

SAMPLES

ONE: TDM threads + one more
TWO: PSL thread.
THREE: Eudio IC Intro.