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Player Name: Emily | Deactivated Shawn
Player E-mail: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
Instant message contact (AIM/MSN/etc): AIM – iluvroadrunner6
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Is the player at least 18 years of age? Yes.

Character's Full Name: Dinah Laurel Lance
Canon: Arrow (DCTV)
PB/Actor: Katie Cassidy
Character's Starting Level: 14
Character Age: 31
Physical Description: Baboom
Character's Species/Race (aka human, elf, dragonblood human, etc): Human

Character History (Pre-Veil): History of Laurel

Post Veil History:

After being stabbed in the gut by Damian Darhk, Laurel Lance fell through the Veil as she was being rushed to the hospital where she would eventually die. Still bleeding out, she got lucky and was found by a group of clerics who nursed her back to health, and that’s when she realized she didn’t remember anything about herself, save for her name: Dinah Laurel Lance.

The clerics give her a place to stay for a while, and if approved, somewhere in this is where she’ll discover her superhero powers and not know what to do with them, but will learn how to use them practically because she doesn’t want to bring down buildings like her Earth 2 doppelganger. She does not enjoy boom quite so much.

That being said, eventually she will hear about “Oliver Queen” being in a plane crash after things get crazy in LA, and since she remembers the name Oliver Queen, she will follow that lead to find Oliver Queen in Metropolis, to ????? at him in person because she is very confused about the life she doesn’t remember right now.

Chosen Canon Point: 416: 11:59

Personality and Psychology:

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.

Memories Retained or Lost:

Laurel is forgetting pretty much everything. She’s going to remember the name “Oliver Queen” and that it’s important to her but not much beyond that, and she’s going to remember Thea Queen because let’s be honest, Thea’s been through enough.

Otherwise, she can forget it all. Bye-bye memories.

Powers and Abilities:

Laurel is an ordinary but badass human who has been trained extensively in martial arts by both a boxer and a member of the League of Assassins. She usually fights with a baton.

HOWEVER I would like to possibly give her a Canary Cry like she had in the comics because I’m not a wimp like the writers, and that’s a thing the Veil can do. So if that’s cool, just tell me what I need to buy if I need to buy anything.

Roleplay Samples

Link to a sample of your character in action: Laurel Lance: Trouble Magnet.

Link to a sample of your prose writing style: Comparing scars with Elektra Natchios.

Any other important information (including special inventory items in their possession): The Canary Cry, a device designed by Cisco Ramon, is a sonic device created to mimic Laurel’s powers in the comics because they decided that making her a meta was dumb. It was a stupid writing choice to make her the Black Canary but not make her a metahuman, but ICly it is a symbol of Cisco and Laurel’s friendship, so it’s important to her even if she doesn’t realize why.

Why do you think this character would join/work with the Knights?

Laurel always wants to save the world and help people so that alone will have her interested in what the Knights are trying to do. Also it comes with a side of doing the right thing which is definitely part of Laurel’s bag of tricks.

Do you have a preference for which member of the Knights your character is squired to? Whenever she winds up being squired: Thea Queen. If I need to backdate her being a knight for purposes of ease, it'll have to be someone else, but as I am apping her now, Thea please.

Also if this backstory doesn’t work, I can change it to make Laurel a full knight and backstop some backstory, but I thought this way would be fun for Oliver Queen shenanigans.