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[b][color=FFFF00]| IDENTITY: |[/color][/b]

[indent][/indent][indent][/indent] [b]Dinah Laurel Lance[/b] [color=FFFF00]|[/color][b] Canary[/b]

[b][color=FFFF00][indent][/indent]| AGE: |[/color][/b]

[indent][/indent][indent][/indent] [b]26[/b]

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[indent][/indent][indent][/indent] [b]Neutral Good[/b]

[b][color=FFFF00]| ORIGIN & BACKSTORY: |[/color][/b]
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Born to Dinah Drake and Larry Lance in downtown Gotham, much of Dinah's early life would be fairly common and uneventful. As time went on in Gotham, crime rates rose and the dangerous aspects of the city became all too familiar to its citizens, leading to Dinah's parents, both law enforcement veterans, deciding that Dinah would need to be prepared for life in the increasingly dark city. Dinah's mother and namesake, former Gotham City Police detective and current private investigator, made it a point to personally train her daughter in self defense lessons from the age of eight and on throughout her teenage years. 

In elementary and middle school, Dinah would join the school chorus, having aspirations to become a singer like her many pop idols. Her father would often call her his "little canary" for how sweet her voice was. By some ironic twist of fate, however, Dinah would soon discover she was a metahuman - a genetic offshoot of baseline humanity commonly referred to as mutants - with powerful sonic abilities caused from vibrating her vocal chords at varying frequencies. Barely a teen when she discovered this, it would scare Dinah, both for how uncontrollable it was at the time, and for how metahumans were treated by society at large. Because of this, Dinah would resign from the chorus believing it was too difficult to participate given her unpredictable new powers. 

Entering high school the following year, with no incidents regarding her metahuman nature, Dinah would continue her otherwise mundane, average life. At the age of sixteen, fate would strike again, though. Dinah's father, Larry, a long-time veteran of the GCPD and detective under Lieutenant James Gordon, was gunned down in the line-of-duty while investigating the activities of a street gang. Dinah chose to try and mourn the death of her father in somewhat unconventional ways by tracking and hunting down his killers and serving them her own brand of justice. Using information the elder Dinah had been gathering to give to colleagues on the force, the younger was able to find the gang's hideout in advance of the police. Going in with the intent to cause as much pain as she could utilizing her sonic scream, Dinah quickly realized that her untrained mutant powers were not reliable in their current state when she became surrounded by several opponents at once. Falling back upon her self defense discipline, she fought desperately and managed to survive and escape. Luckily, the police were alerted to the disturbance, and the criminals wanted for the murder of Larry Lance were eventually caught. 

Dinah was disappointed in herself for being unable to avenge her father, but she did discover that fighting crime with the intent to dole out justice - albeit unsuccessfully in this case - was something she enjoyed, and could continue to do in order to honor the memory of her heroic father. However, as it stood now, Dinah was unsatisfied in her abilities and sought out more extensive training. She first found the gym of local legend, and former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, Ted "Wildcat" Grant. She studied under his tutelage for more than two years until her high school graduation. 

At the age of eighteen, Dinah enrolled in the University of Washington, traveling to and getting an apartment in Seattle - the furthest she could get from Gotham City. It was here that she found the dojo of Desmond Lamar, a former ex-special forces soldier and martial artist whom she would train under for the following two years. Desmond, impressed by Dinah's growing skills and tenacity, suggested she go find his former master, a man in Asia known only as Sensei Otomo. Taking an indefinite break from university, she would go on a journey across the world seeking even higher levels of training. 

During these travels, Dinah would pay her way across Europe and Asia by participating in and winning many martial arts competitions and tournaments, which also served to hone her skills. Over the course of her year-long trek across the globe, Dinah would meet several rather amazing people, primarily Zinda Blake - a former ace fighter pilot, who was operating in the Middle East as a relief aid pilot for various non-governmental organizations. Dinah would assist Zinda in several cases wherein the latter was being harassed by hostiles during her humanitarian efforts, and, in return, Zinda assisted her new friend by giving Dinah a lift to the top of an obscure, difficult to reach mountain that Sensei Otomo was rumored to reside upon.

Finding the seclusive man, he accepted her as a student after a trying test, and so began an intensive, several year-long tutelage that would repeatedly push Dinah to her limits and beyond. Over the course of her instruction, Dinah set a limitation for herself by not allowing the use of metahuman ability, this endeavor serving to both teach her not to rely upon her sonic scream in combat, and also to give her greater control over this devastating power. After more than four years learning extensively from Sensei Otomo, Dinah would eventually return to the States, once more settling down in Seattle, though this time with much greater purpose in mind. 

Several months after returning home from her cross-continental journey, Dinah would finally feel ready to begin her career as a vigilante - to help and save others in the memory of her beloved father. Taking cues from the many costumed "heroes" running about the country, she donned her own outfit, including a blonde wig to better hide her identity, and took on the code-name Canary, also in memory of her late father. Dinah uses the money she earned abroad during the various martial arts competitions to support herself financially while devoting her time fully to vigilantism. Initially only stopping petty crimes, and beating up common thugs, Dinah soon comes across news of a new, dangerous drug hitting the streets: MGH. 

This new drug, she learned, is capable of providing baseline humans with superhuman attributes and abilities for a limited time, at the cost of its incredibly highly addicting nature, and the risk of death - as had been occurring for a small minority who took the drug after just one use. Using skills she had learned from watching her mother in action as a teenager, Dinah followed leads and tracked down a dealer by the name of Charlie Hustle, from whom she discovered what MGH really was: Mutant-Growth Hormone. Harvested from metahuman genetic material, this drug came at the cost of innocent mutant life. Horrified and outraged, she interrogates Hustle until he gives up the man he works for, someone known only as the Pusher Man. 

Dinah spends the following weeks disrupting the drug running operation, which apparently has roots all along the American West Coast, but is unable to find Pusher Man himself. With no other avenues available, and making no significant progress as is, she comes to the decision to infiltrate the crime organization with the intent to dismantle it from the inside. It takes time, careful planning, and much subterfuge, but she eventually manages to cement herself within the group utilizing a different, redheaded wig, and the name Sara White. Over the following couple months she makes steady progress in her infiltration, but it isn't until a horrific and terrible incident that Dinah makes significant headway. 

On April 1st, 2016, the world found new fear. A military force of aliens - Kryptonians like the Superman who had been making waves in recent years - struck. Death and destruction followed, and dangerous World Engines capable of terraforming the Earth were launched from their orbiting ship, with one landing off the Californian coast. The resulting earthquakes and tsunamis caused by the World Engines affected Dinah's home of Seattle, as well, and much of the Washington coast was damaged. Despite the horror and havoc wrought by this destruction, some good came of it as a few of the leadership representing the Washington and Californian divisions of the drug runners were killed in the event, leaving positions open for others. As a result, Dinah, as Sara White, now found herself in the position of adviser to a lieutenant in the organization. Despite the tragedy that enabled the advancement, this opportunity was too good to pass up, and, with higher management in California suffering the most, Sara's lieutenant and herself were ordered to Star City directly from the Pusher Man himself. 

For the past month, Dinah has been working in Star, both as Sara White, and the Canary, learning all she can about the Pusher Man and his operation, as well as disrupting as much of the organization's dealings as possible. With each passing day she can feel herself growing closer to discovering the Pusher Man's identity, and, hopefully, putting an end to the MGH distribution along the West Coast. 

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[indent][/indent][indent][/indent] [b]People.[/b]

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[indent][/indent][indent][/indent] [b]Stuff & things.[/b]