Sara Lance (ashadowskull)

Dinah Sara Lance (December 25, 1987 - December 10, 2014, resurrected December 10, 2014) is a former member of the League of Assassins, a vigilante and a former member of Team Arrow. She is also the daughter of Quentin and Dinah Lance, younger sister of the late Laurel Lance, and the ex-lover/close friend of Oliver Queen.

After the Queen's Gambit went down in 2007, Sara was presumed dead. After being rescued by Anthony Ivo and spending almost two years on the Amazo, and Lian Yu, she was recruited by the League of Assassins. She left the organisation and returned to Starling City under the vigilante moniker The Canary, a translation of her League name as Taeera Safra and stayed to protect her sister Laurel. She joined Team Arrow and began a relationship with Oliver before the two broke up due to their crime fighting lifestyles.

Early Life
Sara Lance was born on December 25, 1987 to Quentin and Dinah Lance and had one older sister named Laurel Lance. When Sara was 10 years old, her father bought her a canary pet which she loved, but it drove everyone else crazy. During her high school years, Sara was bullied by some of her classmates because she was making a move on one of her classmate's boyfriends. The frequent 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 met Tommy Merlyn and Oliver Queen.

Sara developed a crush on Oliver and even snuck out of the house to go to a secret party that Tommy held and she and Oliver began dating.

She went with Oliver on the Queen's Gambit voyage. During their sail at sea, the ship was sabotaged (by Malcolm Merlyn) and sank and Sara was pulled under causing Oliver to believe that she had drowned. However Sara managed to swim to the surface on the other side of the wreck and was marooned on a piece of the ship for days.

Sara's apparent death had multiple effects on the Lance family. Quentin fell into a deep state of depression which saw him become an alcoholic and would often pass out in the bar and became obsessed with his work to ignore the pain and took every case without pause. Sara was also the first and last thought of Quentin's mind everyday and took him years to get past that point. His drinking and work obsession leads Dinah to divorcing him and left for Central City.

The Amazo
A few days after the wreck accident Sara was found by a ship called the Amazo who took her on board the ship but they instead put her in a cell where other people were held. Later the crew dragged her out of the cell and were going to take her away, but they were stopped by a grey haired man who took Sara to his quarters instead. This man introduced himself as Dr. Anthony Ivo who told that he was looking for a serum created by the Japanese in World War II called Mirakuru (Japanese for Miracle) which could increase muscle strength, enhance senses and regenerate cells but the submarine sunk somewhere in the chain of islands nearby. For the next year Sara would be held prisoner. One year later she meets a confused Oliver. She helped Oliver slightly whilst he was a prisoner on the Amazo. However, that was soon realized to be a ruse to see if his friends Slade Wilson and Shado were still alive on Lian Yu, Sara hoping Ivo would let her go. However, when the ship captain tried to kill Oliver, Sara instead suggested keeping him alive to find the gravesite which Anthony agreed.

League of Assassins
Sara sought out the League of Assassins at Nanda Parbat to further her training. Sara trained with the League and became an assassin herself by swearing her allegiance to them.

At some point during her five years with the League she and Nyssa became lovers. During her time with the League, she was told to "choose a new name". She chose "Taeera Safra", which is Arabic for canary ("yellow bird"), reminiscent of the canary Quentin got her when she was ten. She was also trained by Ra's al Ghul as part of her league training.