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Along with martial arts, Dinah has trained herself in acrobatics and gymnastics, specifically for use during combat and infiltration as well as for evasion and mobility. This extends to knowing how to fall and roll with hits to lessen an impact and to take less damage from a strike, and has above average flexibility. She is an experienced expert in parkour, alowing her to quickly move over obstacles or to climb in an urban setting.<br> | |||
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Dinah is an expert driver, capable of driving a variety of civilian and military vehicles. She is particularly incredible at driving motorcycles, her favorite vehicle of choice, especially her custom Harley. In addition to military grade driving courses in evasive and aggressive driving, she can perform a variety of vehicle stunts that would be impossible for your average driver.<br> | |||
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As one of the ways for her to unwind, Dinah has learned to care for and prepare a variety of floral arrangements, from the classic bouquets to more advanced centerpieces for special occasions. She's turned this hobby into a business with her florist shop, and often keeps her hand in by putting together arrangments personally.<br> | |||
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Dinah is an experienced investigator, able to piece together clues and data to analyze what has happened at a crime scene or other locations and come to a deductive conclusion. While not specifically trained, her experience with Team 7 combined with what she's picked up from more trained teammates and friends allows her to explore strange situations and generally come to a mostly correct conclusion about what has happened or is going on.<br> | |||
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In addition to English, Dinah is fluent in Japanese and Korean (mostly due to martial arts training needs), and has a smattering of bits of other languages she's picked up in her travels around the world. She can only read and write fluently in English and Japanese, however.<br> | |||
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Dinah's superhuman control over her vocal cords gives her perfect pitch and a vocal range any professional singer would kill to possess. As part of playing with her band, she's become a accomplished rock and metal singer, as well as mastering the guitar to accompany her voice. In addition, she's an expert harmonica player, which she uses as a way to train herself in vocal modulation and breathing control to better use her Canary Cry.<br> | |||
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Dinah is an experienced pilot of both military and civilian aircraft, from older prop planes, to modern helicopters, to advanced vehicles like the Alpha Flight Arrows. Given time, she can figure out how to fly most aircraft skillfully. She has her own civilian pilot's license.<br> | |||
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Dinah is a trained military operative, with an excellent understanding of small unit tactics and a honed tactical mind for keeping track of changing variables in a fight. These combine with her personal charisma and leadership abilities to make her a very effective leader, who knows the strengths and weaknesses of her team and how best to coordinate everyone to complete a goal.<br> | |||
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Dinah served with the anti-metahuman unit Team 7 for years as an officer, and got a good deal of her training while being part of the team. She has expert training in anti-metahuman tactics, small unit tactics, covert operations, and general military tactics and procedure, though she doesn't make use of a lot of it these days.<br> | |||
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When she left Team 7, Dinah was allowed to retain her custom-fitted armor, a black and gold bulletproof bodysuit with armor reinforcing the shoulders, elbows, and gloves. She wears an advanced kevlar carbon-fiber polyer armor mesh over her legs that allows her to take full advantage of her acrobatic and martial arts manuverability. The armor contains self-repairing nanobots that will repair most damage given time. Often she only wears the fighting gloves, as they're easier to conceal than the full set, but will pull out the full armor when she knows she'll be going into a serious situation where it will come in handy. Her normal black one-piece costume is also bullet resistant over her torso and neck, but doesn't protect her arms or legs as well as her full armor.<br> | |||
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While Dinah doesn't lean heavily on equipment, she's collected some useful items over the years. The ones she uses most is the necklace and earring communicators she used as part of Alpha Flight, which are almost always on her person. Most of the rest of her collection consists of a wide variety of martial arts weapons, which she uses primarily for training, and her infiltration equipment: climbing gear, lock picks, burglar tools, etc.. However she also possesses some more esoteric equipment, such equipment she used during the period she was unable to use her Canary Cry, such as high frequency sonic disruptors, gas pellets, sonic screamer grenades, and swing lines. While she doesn't lug most of this equipment around, it's there for her to bring with her if a mission calls for it.<br> | |||
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Dinah is the owner and proprietor of Sherwood Florist, a modest Starling floral shop that is both a source of income and a means for her to unwind when she's not off adventuring. It includes an apartment upstairs over the shop that serves as her home, as she owns the whole building currently.<br> | |||
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Dinah has a wide stubborn streak, when she's not in a mood to compromise, and will dig in her heels if she disagrees with a course of action. Pushing her at that point can move her from irritation to anger and only make her more resistant to the idea; it's better to try and find a way to change the plan than force her into following it.<br> | |||
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While Dinah isn't a complete technophobe, she grew up without the benefits many kids enjoy in terms of experience with modern technology. Thus, she gets easily frustrated at times with things like cellphones or computers when they don't work as they're supposed to, since she doesn't know what's going wrong and is too stubborn to ask for help easily. Luckily, her mission com gear and Alpha Flight communicator are pretty idiot-proof. Give her a tool she doesn't have to finesse and she's fine; give her one she has to program, and she'll get twitchy trying to use it.<br> | |||
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While Dinah is usually clearheaded and disciplined, she does have a terrible temper when it's roused. This is usually on a slow burn, as it takes either a sustained aggravation or something very personal to really touch her off. Once she does lose her temper, she tends to blow up and stay angry for a while afterwards, neither accepting apologies or offering her own. This can often lead to the normally disciplined tactician acting irrationally or holding a grudge afterwards.<br> | |||
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Revision as of 20:45, 12 July 2019
Dinah Drake (Scenesys ID: 276) | |||
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"I miss having people watching my back, and not having to figure out everything alone. Call it a family, call it a team, call it whatever you like. I just want to know what it's like to trust somebody again." | |||
Profile | |||
Full Name: | Dinah Drake | ||
Gender: | Female | ||
Species: | Metahuman | ||
Theme: | DC (FC) | ||
Occupation: | Vigilante/Singer/Florist | ||
Citizenship: | Dominion of Canada | ||
Residence: | Mansion Alpha (Tamarind Island, Sunshine Coast and Sherwood Florist (Pennytown, Starling | ||
Education: | College Education | ||
Status: | Approved | ||
Groups: | Gotham-OOC, Martial Arts-OOC, Space-OOC, Starling-OOC, Street Level-OOC, Birds of Prey, Outsiders, Team Arrow, Alpha Flight, SHIELD | ||
Other Information | |||
Apparent Age: | 26 | Actual Age: | 26 |
Date of Birth | 12 March 2001 | Actor: | Katheryn Winnick |
Height: | 5'7" | Weight: | 56kg (123lbs) |
Hair Color: | Blond | Eye Color: | Blue |
Theme Song: | The Tea Party - "Soulbreaking"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKibSCQhvB8&index=32&list=RDk2XtNJARXCg |
Profile
Originally a street kid from Starling, Dinah has experienced a great deal of sorrow in her young life. Raised by a sensei, she became a proficient martial artist and was formerly in Team 7, and later joined Alpha Flight. She currently tries to balance her life as an vigilante and adventurer with her civilian life as a florist and singer, spending some of her time on the streets of Gotham and Bludhaven, thanks to advances that allow almost instantaneous travel from her home in Starling, who also needs her attention. She is a well-respected member of the hero community, and known to be a natural leader with excellent tactical instincts and training, owing to her mastery of numerous martial arts styles.
This Canary's birdsong can shake your house down!