Sara Lance (born on December 25, 1987)is the daughter of Quentin and Dinah Lance, the younger sister of Laurel Lance, and girlfriend and close friend of Oliver Queen, a close friend and the ex-girlfriend of Nyssa al Ghul, and a good friend of Sin, and former acquaintance of Roy Harper.
When Sara was presumed dead after the Queen's Gambit went down in 2007, her father, at first, did not forgive Oliver. However, sometime between 2008 and 2013, Sara trained as a part of the League of Assassins and learned to fight. She left the organization and returned to Starling City under the vigilante moniker The Canary, and stayed to protect her sister, Laurel, before she was forced to leave due to the League following her, trying to bring her back.
When Sara was presumed dead after the Queen's Gambit went down in 2007, her father, at first, did not forgive Oliver. However, sometime between 2008 and 2013, Sara trained as a part of the League of Assassins and learned to fight. She left the organization and returned to Starling City under the vigilante moniker The Canary, and stayed to protect her sister, Laurel, before she was forced to leave due to the League following her, trying to bring her back.
Biography
Early Life
During her high school years, Sara was bullied by some of her classmates because she was stealing one of her classmate's boyfriends. The often occurrences of her getting bullied caused behavior issues from Sara, and caused her grades to drop. This led to her father teaching her and Laurel how to defend themselves. At some point Sara and Laurel met Oliver Queen. Sara formed a crush on Oliver and even snuck out of the house to go to a secret party he and his friend Tommy Merlyn held. Laurel however out of envy called the cops and Sara was grounded.
During her high school years, Sara was bullied by some of her classmates because she was stealing one of her classmate's boyfriends. The often occurrences of her getting bullied caused behavior issues from Sara, and caused her grades to drop. This led to her father teaching her and Laurel how to defend themselves. At some point Sara and Laurel met Oliver Queen. Sara formed a crush on Oliver and even snuck out of the house to go to a secret party he and his friend Tommy Merlyn held. Laurel however out of envy called the cops and Sara was grounded.
Personality
Much like Oliver, Sara was a person who "just couldn't stay out of trouble". She made unwise, often selfish decisions, such as pursuing a boy with a girlfriend while in high school, provoking physical attacks from his girlfriend and her friends in retaliation. She apparently got in a fair bit of trouble as a teenager, including one incidence of shoplifting, that her father made go away. She also had an affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver, suggesting that loyalty to her sister meant nothing to her. Though this may have something to do with the fact that she had a crush on Oliver before he started dating Laurel, which Laurel knew about and possibly sabotaged by informing her father about the party and the fact that Sara was there. In her youth she snuck out of her house, to spend alone time with Oliver. Going on the Queen's Gambit was her way of getting revenge for what Laurel did to her. The fact she was with Oliver led to her presumed death, when the Queen's Gambit went down.
However in her time spent with Dr. Anthony Ivo after being rescued by him, Sara appeared to become more cold and brutal and far more intelligent with technology and science, even helping Ivo torture his test subjects though secretly she was terrified of being the next subject so she kept to herself. Despite Oliver being one of the reasons for her shipwreck Sara still cared about him as when he is captured on the boat she does everything to stop the crew from killing him, though she was still loyal to Ivo as she used Oliver to give up Shado and Slade Wilson's location on the island though her loyalty is cut when Ivo calls her an "ungrateful bitch" on the radio. After spending time with Oliver and Slade she also regains her sense of loyalty. Soon after Sara was recruited into the League of Assassins and became a cold killer once again though she never forgot her family and still cared deeply for them but has become afraid to reveal herself alive to her family fearing that they'll reject what she has become.
Though Sara is willing to kill those she knows are corrupt she is not so willing to kill people she knows nothing about like she did when she was in the League which was a main reason for leaving, so much so that when she was black mailed into rejoining she poisoned herself to prevent herself from rejoining. Like Oliver, Sara has a sense of justice and honor, and she has morals and remorse for her actions, she dislikes criminals who attack innocent women. Though despite this Sara can also vengeful and unforgiving, towards people in general who tried to kill or harm a member of her family and her friends, like Barton Mathis and Xavier Reed.
Sara also still deeply loves Oliver even 6 years after the Gambit's sinking and the events of the island and is even in a relationship with him again even though their affair is what destroyed Oliver's relationship with Laurel in the first place. She also loves Nyssa despite the violent causes she serves to the point where she refused to kill her and begged Oliver not to kill her when he had the chance.
She cares for wayward orphan Sin like a little sister, partially because of a promise she made to her father before his death on the island. Sara gets along well with John Diggle who like Felicty uses his nickname "Dig" rather than just Diggle like Oliver does. She also gets along well with Felicity Smoak and is actually amused by her awkwardness finding it cute. However Sara doesn't get along so well with Roy Harper mainly due to his Mirakuru injected rage as he openly insulted Sara's relationship with Oliver saying "Of course you'd take his side your screwing him". She was even willing to kill him with an arrow when he lost it at Dig.
Much like Oliver, Sara was a person who "just couldn't stay out of trouble". She made unwise, often selfish decisions, such as pursuing a boy with a girlfriend while in high school, provoking physical attacks from his girlfriend and her friends in retaliation. She apparently got in a fair bit of trouble as a teenager, including one incidence of shoplifting, that her father made go away. She also had an affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver, suggesting that loyalty to her sister meant nothing to her. Though this may have something to do with the fact that she had a crush on Oliver before he started dating Laurel, which Laurel knew about and possibly sabotaged by informing her father about the party and the fact that Sara was there. In her youth she snuck out of her house, to spend alone time with Oliver. Going on the Queen's Gambit was her way of getting revenge for what Laurel did to her. The fact she was with Oliver led to her presumed death, when the Queen's Gambit went down.
However in her time spent with Dr. Anthony Ivo after being rescued by him, Sara appeared to become more cold and brutal and far more intelligent with technology and science, even helping Ivo torture his test subjects though secretly she was terrified of being the next subject so she kept to herself. Despite Oliver being one of the reasons for her shipwreck Sara still cared about him as when he is captured on the boat she does everything to stop the crew from killing him, though she was still loyal to Ivo as she used Oliver to give up Shado and Slade Wilson's location on the island though her loyalty is cut when Ivo calls her an "ungrateful bitch" on the radio. After spending time with Oliver and Slade she also regains her sense of loyalty. Soon after Sara was recruited into the League of Assassins and became a cold killer once again though she never forgot her family and still cared deeply for them but has become afraid to reveal herself alive to her family fearing that they'll reject what she has become.
Though Sara is willing to kill those she knows are corrupt she is not so willing to kill people she knows nothing about like she did when she was in the League which was a main reason for leaving, so much so that when she was black mailed into rejoining she poisoned herself to prevent herself from rejoining. Like Oliver, Sara has a sense of justice and honor, and she has morals and remorse for her actions, she dislikes criminals who attack innocent women. Though despite this Sara can also vengeful and unforgiving, towards people in general who tried to kill or harm a member of her family and her friends, like Barton Mathis and Xavier Reed.
Sara also still deeply loves Oliver even 6 years after the Gambit's sinking and the events of the island and is even in a relationship with him again even though their affair is what destroyed Oliver's relationship with Laurel in the first place. She also loves Nyssa despite the violent causes she serves to the point where she refused to kill her and begged Oliver not to kill her when he had the chance.
She cares for wayward orphan Sin like a little sister, partially because of a promise she made to her father before his death on the island. Sara gets along well with John Diggle who like Felicty uses his nickname "Dig" rather than just Diggle like Oliver does. She also gets along well with Felicity Smoak and is actually amused by her awkwardness finding it cute. However Sara doesn't get along so well with Roy Harper mainly due to his Mirakuru injected rage as he openly insulted Sara's relationship with Oliver saying "Of course you'd take his side your screwing him". She was even willing to kill him with an arrow when he lost it at Dig.
Abilities
- Peak of human physical condition: In "League of Assassins", Sara is shown to be strong enough to break Al-Owal's neck in a matter of seconds.
- Skilled hand-to-hand combatant/Martial artist: In "City of Heroes", Sara is shown to be a skilled hand-to-hand combatant and martial artist when she took down three armed thugs simultaneously. In "Broken Dolls", she was also able to kill Barton Mathis by impaling a baton in his chest. In "League of Assassins", Sara was barely able to hold her own against Al-Owal, even with Oliver's help, whilst Oliver himself was eventually able to take down Al on his own, possibly indicating she is not at Oliver's level yet. She stated that one martial art she was trained in was Wing-Chun.
- Trained stick fighter: In "City of Heroes", Sara carries a pair of expandable batons that combine to form a bo-staff, and she is possibly trained in some form of staff fighting.
- Skilled archer: In "Crucible", Sara is shown to be a skilled archer, she was able to use Oliver's customized Oneida Kestrel Compound bow, combined with one of his customized hunting arrows, shooting it with great accuracy, into the shoulder of one of The Mayor's goons.
- Free running/Acrobatics/Stealth: Sara has shown herself to be capable of scaling buildings and running from rooftop to rooftop easily. She displayed impressive acrobatics while entering and leaving buildings. She is also able to quickly enter and leave without being seen.
- Multilingualism: Based on what has been currently shown, Sara is capable of speaking English, Mandarin, and Arabic fluently.
- Skilled tactician: In "Crucible", Sara carefully plans on how to take down her opponents.
- Tolerance for pain: In "League of Assassins", Sara has shown an increased tolerance to pain. An example of this is when Oliver is stitching her wound, Sara shows no sign of pain, not even a flinch.
- Skilled forensic technician: In "Time of Death", Sara is shown to be skilled in forensics and chemistry due to her time on Ivo's freighter. She was able to analyse blood from her baton to discover the Clock King's genetic disease