Post by canary on Sept 3, 2011 8:05:22 GMT -5
The Basics
Name: Dinah Laurel Lance
Alias: The Black Canary
Age: 34 , looks 27
Species: Meta-Human
Gender: Female
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 145 Lbs
Hair: Brunette, long, dyed blond.
Eyes: Blue
Build: Athletic
Skin: Caucasian
Class (Ranking): Hero
Original or Canon: Cananon
Theme songs: N/A
Lineage & Relations:
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Lineage:
Mother: Dinah Drake Lance
Father: Larry Lance
Siblings: N/A
Relations:
Crush: N/A
Love: None at the moment. Ex-husband = Oliver Queen
Rival: Lady Shiva
Enemy: Too many to name.
Appearance:
A full-body shot of your character if possible
[/IMG][/center] - See the above picture.The picture pretty much sums it up. She doesn't look overly muscular but she is strong enoughy to serve her purposes. Always in good shape but she looks younger than she is thanks to the exposure of a lazarus pit. Dinah is very pretty but she can fight with the best of them. With her long blonde hair and super model looks you wouldn't tell she saves the world in her free time. Black leather and fish nets pull her look all together.
Personality:
Dinah may have the looks of a super model but she is not the woman you want to pick a fight with. She is out spoken and always ready to do what needs to be done in almost any circumstance. She will always tell you like it is and will point out what you did wrong regardless of reprecussions. fearing little, she has a definite reckless streak, a devil may care attitude and a warrior's spirit that never says never.
When not in the combat zone, Dinah Laurel Lance is so laid back most of the time that as stated before you would never peg her as the same woman that beats the living hell out of croos and thugs on any given night. Compassionate, caring and possessing a heart of gold unless she gets riled, especially by a womanizing pig of an ex husband. Dinah will bend backwards to lend the shirt off her back and give what she can, when she can. It was her that spent countless hours keeping vigil opver Roy Harper during his drug addiction days tryiing to nurse him back to health, not Oliver Queen.
Abilities & Weaknesses:
Here is a list of your character's strengths, weaknesses, and abilities. Describe each one in decent detail.
Powers/Abilities
- Born with a meta-gene sonic scream known as the Canary Cry that can shatter glass, bust eardrums and even shred metal
- One of the best fighters/martial artists on the planet, having been thoroughly trained by more than one teacher, including Ted Grant and Lady Shiva
- Quite an adept motorcyclist and daredevil.
- Highly knwledgable with plant life.
Weaknesses/Physical Flaws/Psychological Flaws:
- Has been known to get overconfident
- Has become sloppy from time to time when her anger is out of control
- Fear of computers
- Men. Need I say more?
- Can be too compassionate at times and be taken advantage of
History:
Growing up, Dinah Lance was surrounded by her mother's friends in the disbanded JSA and looked to them as uncles and aunts. Dinah wished to become a costumed hero like her mother before her. However, instead of encouraging the younger Dinah, her mother forbade it, thinking the world had grown into a darker, more dangerous place than when she herself fought crime, too dangerous for the younger Dinah to succeed.
However, the younger Dinah had her own "Canary Cry" – in this version, the result of a metagene not present in either parent – which she is fully able to control. With this weapon, the younger Dinah next sought out numerous fighters to help her hone her skills, including former JSA member Wildcat. Years of training and intense dedication paid off, and Dinah took on her mother's mantle, even though it was against the elder Dinah's wishes at first. She took an active role in the 'Silver Age' of heroes, operating, like her mother before her, out of Gotham, while maintaining a day job in the family florist business.
Shortly into the League's history, she met Green Arrow (Oliver Queen). While Dinah couldn't stand him at first, they later became romantically involved despite the difference in their ages. Dinah remained a member of the League for roughly six years, including a brief stint with Justice League International (JLI), of which she was a founding member. It was during that time her mother died due to radiation poisoning she experienced during a battle with the villain Aquarius. Her mother's death affected Dinah deeply, and led her to accept her time in the JLA was over.
She moved to Seattle with Green Arrow after the breakup of the Justice League, and would open her own florist shop, named "Sherwood Florist" (the name is a play on Sherwood Forest, the domain of Robin Hood, who Green Arrow (in costume) somewhat resembles).
The move to Seattle with Green Arrow would result in a string of bad luck for the Black Canary. During this period, she took part in a failed operation to bust a drug ring. Kidnapped, Black Canary was tortured before being rescued by Green Arrow. The physical and mental effects of this experience were severe: Dinah's vocal cords were mutilated, resulting in the loss of her Canary Cry. She required extensive counseling afterward, as did Oliver Queen.
Simultaneously, she and Green Arrow would have major conflicts in their relationship. Among other things, she would learn Green Arrow fathered a son, Robert, with Shado (albeit unwillingly), as well as taking money from the business. The relationship would end when Dinah walked in on Green Arrow kissing her florist shop assistant, Marianne. Even more bad luck would hit when Sherwood Florist was destroyed, leaving Dinah with no means of paying the debt collectors now calling.
The worst blows of all would come when she learned from Connor Hawke was yet another of his offspring. Although Dinah and Connor later develop a close friendship, the knowledge that Oliver had kept his existence from her was painful.
Though Black Canary would continue to fight crime off and on (at some point Black Canary became a pen pal of the youthful hero known as The Ray, who had a crush on her, and she participated in some of his adventures, and even had a brief romance), the effects of her misfortunes were taking their toll.
Around the time Dinah's life began to spiral out of control, the former Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, was gravely injured by the Joker. Not one to give up easily, Barbara reestablished a crime-fighting career as Oracle, an information broker to the superhero community. After briefly working with the Suicide Squad, Barbara formed her own covert mission team. Barbara concluded that of all the superheroes, Dinah had the most potential and was most in need of direction. Consequently, Oracle asked Black Canary to become an operative.
Black Canary took to this role with great satisfaction. Feeling a new chapter in her life required a few new changes, Dinah decided to abandon the blonde wig, choosing to bleach her hair blonde. Oracle provides Dinah with an electronic version of the Canary Cry.
Dinah returns to Star City to aid Oliver, Connor, and Mia against Roadblock and Merlyn. During their mission, Dinah rekindles her relationship with Oliver, feeling he has truly changed and all the parts of him she hated are apparently gone. Oliver admits to Dinah many of the changes he made over the last year were for her. Oliver then later proposes to her.
Injustice League plans to attack the wedding. While the attack on the wedding is a failure, Deathstroke remarks it worked a little, despite no one being hurt. During the honeymoon, a blank look suddenly comes over Green Arrow's face, and he goes berserk, trying to kill Dinah. She stabs him in the neck with an arrow, killing him. They later find out that it was not Oliver but a shape shifter.
Ollie is alive and being held captive on Themyscira by the Amazons. While Dinah does not know his whereabouts, she is greatly relieved, and sheds tears of joy. She enlists the aid of Connor Hawke and Mia Dearden to save him, but, just when they seem to be home free, Connor is shot by an unknown assailant. Once they reach the hospital, the group learn the bullet contained a poison which has turned Connor into a mental vegetable.
Soon after, They are married for real, hioneymoon and all. On their return home, they find Connor kidnapped. Following the trail to Britain, Ollie and Dinah are attacked by an armored helicopter. When they it bring it down, they discover the military disguised as aliens within. This is revealed to be a ruse however, and the group later learn that the League of Assassins, under orders of Shado, were the ones who shot Connor.
Being married to Green Arrow brought new challenges & old problems, such as the vigilante stalker Cupid, who is fixated on Green Arrow, and villain Discord, a music teacher, whom Dinah deafened when her Canary Cry ricocheted during the first fight with Dregz. It was eventually discovered and revealed to her that Oliver was guilty of murdering Prometheus. After Green Arrow turns himself in for Prometheus' murder, Dinah visits him in his jail cell and comes to the realization the one thing he wants is to be left alone. She decides that their marriage is over and then removes her wedding ring, leaving it with Oliver. When the Green Arrow goes on trial for the murder of Prometheus she does not attend his trial. They are now legally divorced.
RP Sample:
"Roger and wilcox, all that and a few etc's. Message received and respectfully ignored, just like the old days." The blond bombshell snarked quietly into a transmitter that dangled from her nect while she lay on her stomach, binoculars tighlly in hand. Following over an hour, close to two now of maintaining surveillance over a ranshackled hideaway wherein sat a group of henchmen belonging to a certain, waddling, crooked as they come member of Gotham's underworld, The Black Canary had seen enough as they emerged and made short work of putting their mitts on a pair of innocents, unfortunate ones that just happend to be passing by the wrong place at the wrong time.
"I'll beat the information out of them when I get there. Canary out!" Dinah Laurel informed her employer and best frioend behind the green mask, leaping off the rooftop in a single bound and hopping from one to the next before swinging down on the unsuspecting mob. Both she and the aforementioned redhead computer hacker extraordinaire had expected to be lying in wait longer than they were but fate doesn't alway play by the rules. The apes were all street level punks who neither were expecting or prepared for a 145 pound Canary top drop in on them from above. A few well placed kicks, a few more swift jabs and hartbeats later it was all over but the questioning. "Yeah, now's definitely the time to take off if you're okay." She strongly suggested to the innocent attackees before lifting the sole remaining ape that still remained awak by the collar and demanded the answers she sought. The scowl she wore indicating that no would not be accepted. A few more broken teeth was altogether a different subject.
Creator/Player Comments:
A scream a day keeps the vampires away.