Black Canary
From United Heroes MUSH
| BlackCanary (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: | Canadian | ||
| Residence: | Starling City | ||
| Education: | College Education | ||
| Status: | Approved | ||
| Groups: | Justice League, Team Arrow, Alpha Flight | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 25 | Actual Age: | 25 |
| Date of Birth | 12 March 2001 | Actor: | Katheryn Winnick |
| Height: | 5'3" | Weight: | 124 lbs. |
| Hair Color: | Blonde | Eye Color: | Blue |
| Theme Song: | "Soulbreaking" by The Tea Party | ||
Contents
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!
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Description
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While not particularly tall, this young woman exuded confidence and an athletic grace that gives her a strong presence that draws the eye. Thick dark gold hair falls in loose strands, framing her face and brushing against the backs of her shoulders and upper back, her bangs shading pretty blue eyes set in a beautiful oval face, a pert nose and slightly wide, sensuous lisp brushed with dark red lipstick. Her figure is short, but athletic, with noticeable definition over her arms, midriff, and long toned legs.
She wears what she likes to think as her 'rooftop work' outfit, a matte black one piece bodysuit that hugs the full curves of her chest and firm midriff, with faint lines running up either side of her front curving inwards then back out to the shoulder. It has a high collar to protect her neck, with a zipper that runs from her midriff all the way up to the o-ring dangling from her throat. Her muscular arms are bared from shoulder to wrist, with her hands protected by fingerless black fighting gloves, with burnished gold armored plates protecting the back of her hands. Her legs are equally bare from hip to ankle, save for black fishnet stockings, while she wears short boots with good treads in a military style.
She wears what she likes to think as her 'rooftop work' outfit, a matte black one piece bodysuit that hugs the full curves of her chest and firm midriff, with faint lines running up either side of her front curving inwards then back out to the shoulder. It has a high collar to protect her neck, with a zipper that runs from her midriff all the way up to the o-ring dangling from her throat. Her muscular arms are bared from shoulder to wrist, with her hands protected by fingerless black fighting gloves, with burnished gold armored plates protecting the back of her hands. Her legs are equally bare from hip to ankle, save for black fishnet stockings, while she wears short boots with good treads in a military style.
History
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Dinah was born to Dinah Drake, but never got to meet her father, as her mother passed away when she was still young. With no one to take her in, she grew up on the streets of Starling, until one day she was caught dumpster diving by a kindly martial arts teacher named Desmond Lamar. Lamar took pity on the young girl and offered to let her stay in his dojo in return for her helping out with building maintenance. As the years passed, Dinah came to see Desmond as the father she had never had, as well as becoming his top student. When he passed away from brain cancer, Lamar left his dojo to Dinah, who took over teaching there. Despite her youth, Dinah was able to keep the dojo running and protect it from the local gangs, up to when it was unfortunately burned down.
Luckily, Dinah was not home at the time, having run into a mysterious mortally wounded man who gave her a device and urged her to protect it, touching off a running battle with a group of ninjas attempting to retrieve the device that ended in them overwhelming the young woman. Luckily, a special government operative named John Lynch, whom the mortally wounded man had worked for, arrived with his team and saved Dinah, thanking her for keeping the device safe. When Lynch returned with Dinah to find her dojo destroyed along with everything she owned, Lynch offered her a position on his anti-metahuman squad, Team 7. Dinah agreed to join, and served on Team 7 for years, during which she met her future husband and fellow team officer, Kurt Lance, whom she secretly married while on the team. She also discovered that one purpose of the squad was to put soldiers under stress or unusual chemical or technological effects in order to trigger metahuman abilities. Dinah's metagene did trigger during such testing, manifesting a powerful sonic ability she dubbed the 'Canary Cry'. Tragically, Kurt was lost in a battle with a terrorist organization, where he used his metahuman amplification powers to supercharge Dinah's cry. The resulting sonic explosion collapsed the palace they were in and vaporized a good chunk of the island it was on. Only a few members of Team 7 survived, with the rest disbanding afterwards, including Dinah, who wanted some distance from the loss she had suffered, both of her husband and of many of her closest friends and teammates, including Lynch. She subsequently returned to her maiden name, and was in mourning.
Following her departure from Team 7, Dinah returned home to Starling and became a vigilante, taking the name Black Canary, while investing in a florist shop to give her a sense of normalcy and a civilian identity. Her activity and abilities drew her to the attention of Alpha Flight, who recruited her as one of their members. She continued operating as an independent vigilante, dealing with a variety of threats and investigations, while working with and fighting alongside other heroes. During her tenure she was captured and badly tortured, which rendered her infertile, incapable of using the Canary Cry, and required her taking some time to recover, though she eventually had the opportunity to be dunked in a Lazarus Pit, which restored her to full health, voice, and fertility.
She turned to music as an outlet, joining as the lead singer of a rock band called Ashes on Sunday, which was later renamed to Black Canary after she saved her fellow band members from the deranged singer she had replaced. She has found her new double life as adventurer/vigilante and florist/lead to be difficult to maintain, but has been reluctant to give up either side of her life for the other.
Luckily, Dinah was not home at the time, having run into a mysterious mortally wounded man who gave her a device and urged her to protect it, touching off a running battle with a group of ninjas attempting to retrieve the device that ended in them overwhelming the young woman. Luckily, a special government operative named John Lynch, whom the mortally wounded man had worked for, arrived with his team and saved Dinah, thanking her for keeping the device safe. When Lynch returned with Dinah to find her dojo destroyed along with everything she owned, Lynch offered her a position on his anti-metahuman squad, Team 7. Dinah agreed to join, and served on Team 7 for years, during which she met her future husband and fellow team officer, Kurt Lance, whom she secretly married while on the team. She also discovered that one purpose of the squad was to put soldiers under stress or unusual chemical or technological effects in order to trigger metahuman abilities. Dinah's metagene did trigger during such testing, manifesting a powerful sonic ability she dubbed the 'Canary Cry'. Tragically, Kurt was lost in a battle with a terrorist organization, where he used his metahuman amplification powers to supercharge Dinah's cry. The resulting sonic explosion collapsed the palace they were in and vaporized a good chunk of the island it was on. Only a few members of Team 7 survived, with the rest disbanding afterwards, including Dinah, who wanted some distance from the loss she had suffered, both of her husband and of many of her closest friends and teammates, including Lynch. She subsequently returned to her maiden name, and was in mourning.
Following her departure from Team 7, Dinah returned home to Starling and became a vigilante, taking the name Black Canary, while investing in a florist shop to give her a sense of normalcy and a civilian identity. Her activity and abilities drew her to the attention of Alpha Flight, who recruited her as one of their members. She continued operating as an independent vigilante, dealing with a variety of threats and investigations, while working with and fighting alongside other heroes. During her tenure she was captured and badly tortured, which rendered her infertile, incapable of using the Canary Cry, and required her taking some time to recover, though she eventually had the opportunity to be dunked in a Lazarus Pit, which restored her to full health, voice, and fertility.
She turned to music as an outlet, joining as the lead singer of a rock band called Ashes on Sunday, which was later renamed to Black Canary after she saved her fellow band members from the deranged singer she had replaced. She has found her new double life as adventurer/vigilante and florist/lead to be difficult to maintain, but has been reluctant to give up either side of her life for the other.
Personality
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Dinah is a strong, confident woman, with a disciplined mind that makes her both an effective tactician and a mistress of the martial arts. She displays clear-headed thinking in a crisis, and is one of those people who like many heroes will run towards trouble to see if she can help in an emergency. She has a sense of humor and flirtatiousness that can come out even in the middle of a fight, mostly with wry commentary, jokes, or teasing comments, but these do not detract from her underlying seriousness about doing her job right. She is extremely loyal to friends and teammates, which means that when she is betrayed, it can hit her very hard and undermine her confidence that people have her back. She prefers to work as part of a team over solo when possible, as she likes having people she can depend on when dealing with dangerous situations rather than operating solo.
While she constantly trains to keep herself in top shape, she also enjoys unwinding with more relaxing pursuits, be it training others in the martial arts, singing, or floral arrangement, as she finds it grounds her in 'normal' life and reminds her what she's fighting for. However, she has a strong sense of morality and ethics unusual in a former spec ops soldier, as she lacks some of the ruthlessness and pragmatism that come from a more military mindset. This has caused her to turn down training that might have improved her martial skills further, out of a desire not to become a killer. However, she does prefer to get right to the point, and can seem blunt. She also has a temper that she can struggle to keep under control, especially when fighting opponents who are using innocents as hostages or have hurt them. She tries to avoid using her metahuman abilities unless necessary, preferring to fight hand-to-hand and to outmanuver or outhink opponents when possible, but will use it when confronted with metahumans who cannot be hurt through conventional means or when faced with a mass attack.
While she constantly trains to keep herself in top shape, she also enjoys unwinding with more relaxing pursuits, be it training others in the martial arts, singing, or floral arrangement, as she finds it grounds her in 'normal' life and reminds her what she's fighting for. However, she has a strong sense of morality and ethics unusual in a former spec ops soldier, as she lacks some of the ruthlessness and pragmatism that come from a more military mindset. This has caused her to turn down training that might have improved her martial skills further, out of a desire not to become a killer. However, she does prefer to get right to the point, and can seem blunt. She also has a temper that she can struggle to keep under control, especially when fighting opponents who are using innocents as hostages or have hurt them. She tries to avoid using her metahuman abilities unless necessary, preferring to fight hand-to-hand and to outmanuver or outhink opponents when possible, but will use it when confronted with metahumans who cannot be hurt through conventional means or when faced with a mass attack.
Abilities
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CANARY CRY
Dinah possesses a unique metahuman ability she has dubbed the Canary Cry, an ultrasonic scream whose effects can vary from disorienting or knocking down oponents, to shattering organic and inorganic objects such as metal or bones, at full power. She has an incredible degree of control over her vocal cords, allowing her to mimic sounds and voices to an incredible extent. She can even glide for great distances when directing her Cry downwards, especially with a hang glider or other similar aerodynamic gear. She can generate devastating volumes that can tear a person apart, and can even use ultra-low-frequency sonics to help extinguish fires.
SONIC IMMUNITY
Part of her metahuman changes is a thick membrane inside her ear canals. They allow her to withstand extremely loud noises, such as her own Canary Cry.
Dinah possesses a unique metahuman ability she has dubbed the Canary Cry, an ultrasonic scream whose effects can vary from disorienting or knocking down oponents, to shattering organic and inorganic objects such as metal or bones, at full power. She has an incredible degree of control over her vocal cords, allowing her to mimic sounds and voices to an incredible extent. She can even glide for great distances when directing her Cry downwards, especially with a hang glider or other similar aerodynamic gear. She can generate devastating volumes that can tear a person apart, and can even use ultra-low-frequency sonics to help extinguish fires.
SONIC IMMUNITY
Part of her metahuman changes is a thick membrane inside her ear canals. They allow her to withstand extremely loud noises, such as her own Canary Cry.
Skills
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ACROBATICS
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.
DRIVING
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.
FLORAL ARRANGING
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.
INFILTRATION
Dinah served as the infiltration expert of Team 7 as Operative 'Canary', and has retained her training. This includes casing a site for the best way to get inside without being detected, as well as skills like lockpicking and using high tech intrusion equipment - with reluctance - to bypass locks and alarms.
INVESTIGATION
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.
MARTIAL ARTS
Dinah is one of the top martial artists in the world, having actively pushed her abilities and trained from the best in the world to learn from every style she encounters. This includes akido, boxing, capoeira, Dragon style kung fu, hapkido, judo, jujitsu, krav maga, muay thai, savate, tae kwon do, and wing chun, though she has picked up a smattering of other styles, even a bit of exotic styles like Themiscyrian martial arts. She is particularly skilled in judo and boxing. She is constantly interested in improving her abilities and adding new moves to her repertoire, and joining dojos to learn new styles is one of her favorite hobbies.
MULTILINGUAL
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.
MUSIC
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.
PEAK OF FITNESS
Dinah has the strength level of a woman her size and weight who engages in intensive physical training and exercise. She can bench her twice own body weight, and is at the peak of unaugmented human fitness. She conducts regular exercises and drills to maintain her body as the well-honed instrument that it is.
PILOT
Dinah is an experienced pilot of both military and civilian aircraft, from older prop planes, to modern helicopters, to advanced vehicles like the Justice League Javelins. Given time, she can figure out how to fly most aircraft skillfully. She has her own civilian pilot's license.
SENSEI
In addition to mastering many martial arts, Dinah has the rarer ability to be a good teacher in training others to use those same skills. Much of this is a hold over from when she was running Lamar's judo dojo in Gotham, where she often taught students before it burned down. Dinah takes a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure in passing on her skills to those who are interested in learning from her.
TACTICAL ANALYSIS
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.
TEAM 7 TRAINING
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.
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.
DRIVING
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.
FLORAL ARRANGING
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.
INFILTRATION
Dinah served as the infiltration expert of Team 7 as Operative 'Canary', and has retained her training. This includes casing a site for the best way to get inside without being detected, as well as skills like lockpicking and using high tech intrusion equipment - with reluctance - to bypass locks and alarms.
INVESTIGATION
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.
MARTIAL ARTS
Dinah is one of the top martial artists in the world, having actively pushed her abilities and trained from the best in the world to learn from every style she encounters. This includes akido, boxing, capoeira, Dragon style kung fu, hapkido, judo, jujitsu, krav maga, muay thai, savate, tae kwon do, and wing chun, though she has picked up a smattering of other styles, even a bit of exotic styles like Themiscyrian martial arts. She is particularly skilled in judo and boxing. She is constantly interested in improving her abilities and adding new moves to her repertoire, and joining dojos to learn new styles is one of her favorite hobbies.
MULTILINGUAL
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.
MUSIC
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.
PEAK OF FITNESS
Dinah has the strength level of a woman her size and weight who engages in intensive physical training and exercise. She can bench her twice own body weight, and is at the peak of unaugmented human fitness. She conducts regular exercises and drills to maintain her body as the well-honed instrument that it is.
PILOT
Dinah is an experienced pilot of both military and civilian aircraft, from older prop planes, to modern helicopters, to advanced vehicles like the Justice League Javelins. Given time, she can figure out how to fly most aircraft skillfully. She has her own civilian pilot's license.
SENSEI
In addition to mastering many martial arts, Dinah has the rarer ability to be a good teacher in training others to use those same skills. Much of this is a hold over from when she was running Lamar's judo dojo in Gotham, where she often taught students before it burned down. Dinah takes a great deal of satisfaction and pleasure in passing on her skills to those who are interested in learning from her.
TACTICAL ANALYSIS
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.
TEAM 7 TRAINING
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.
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ARMOR
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.
ASHES ON SUNDAY
Dinah is the lead singer of the band Ashes on Winter, which she performs gigs with regularly when she can. While it can be difficult to manage gigs with her vigilante life, she finds it a useful means of blowing off steam through her music, as well as a modest paycheck. She's recently been offered a contract with A&B Records for a full album, and has taken the name D.D. when singing and playing guitar with her band. After having to act in her vigilante role during a tour, she's begun teaching her band mates Lord Byron (drummer), Paloma Terrific (keyboards), and mute guitarist Ditto how to defend themselves - just in case.
EQUIPMENT
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 the Birds of Prey, and her JLA communicator, 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.
MOTORCYCLE
Dinah has a highly-modified custom Harley motorcycle, built from a vintage frame but enhanced with more advanced and durable materials and armored over vulnerable areas. It's her baby, even if it's only barely street legal, and her preferred vehicle of choice. Having driven it for years, and constantly tinkering with it, she can perform stunts on this bike that seem impossible, for she knows its every move.
SHERWOOD FLORIST
Dinah is the owner and proprieter of Sherwood Florist, a modest Gotham 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.
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.
ASHES ON SUNDAY
Dinah is the lead singer of the band Ashes on Winter, which she performs gigs with regularly when she can. While it can be difficult to manage gigs with her vigilante life, she finds it a useful means of blowing off steam through her music, as well as a modest paycheck. She's recently been offered a contract with A&B Records for a full album, and has taken the name D.D. when singing and playing guitar with her band. After having to act in her vigilante role during a tour, she's begun teaching her band mates Lord Byron (drummer), Paloma Terrific (keyboards), and mute guitarist Ditto how to defend themselves - just in case.
EQUIPMENT
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 the Birds of Prey, and her JLA communicator, 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.
MOTORCYCLE
Dinah has a highly-modified custom Harley motorcycle, built from a vintage frame but enhanced with more advanced and durable materials and armored over vulnerable areas. It's her baby, even if it's only barely street legal, and her preferred vehicle of choice. Having driven it for years, and constantly tinkering with it, she can perform stunts on this bike that seem impossible, for she knows its every move.
SHERWOOD FLORIST
Dinah is the owner and proprieter of Sherwood Florist, a modest Gotham 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.
Weaknesses
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CRY NO MORE
Canary can emit her Canary Cry for a while, somewhat due to an excellent lung capacity and drawing on her metahuman energies. But there are limits. It's taxing to emit a long Cry. If she has to 'broadcast' a Canary Cry for an extended period, she can run out of breath and energy and can end up dazed and disoriented for a moment. This can make her vulnerable in the kind of dangerous situation that'd provoke her to use the Cry in the first place.
GO FOR THE THROAT
Dinah's Canary Cry requires that she be able to make use of her vocal cords to make sounds. Anything that would prevent sonics in the area, disables or damages her vocal cords, or gags or muffles her mouth (thoroughly) will prevent her from using her powers. For example, she could not use her ability in vaccum, as there would be no air to carry the sound waves (though that would probably be the least of her worries).
STUBBORN
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.
TECHNOLOGY
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 JLA 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.
TEMPER
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.
Canary can emit her Canary Cry for a while, somewhat due to an excellent lung capacity and drawing on her metahuman energies. But there are limits. It's taxing to emit a long Cry. If she has to 'broadcast' a Canary Cry for an extended period, she can run out of breath and energy and can end up dazed and disoriented for a moment. This can make her vulnerable in the kind of dangerous situation that'd provoke her to use the Cry in the first place.
GO FOR THE THROAT
Dinah's Canary Cry requires that she be able to make use of her vocal cords to make sounds. Anything that would prevent sonics in the area, disables or damages her vocal cords, or gags or muffles her mouth (thoroughly) will prevent her from using her powers. For example, she could not use her ability in vaccum, as there would be no air to carry the sound waves (though that would probably be the least of her worries).
STUBBORN
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.
TECHNOLOGY
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 JLA 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.
TEMPER
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.
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
|---|---|---|
| BATFUN | March 10th, 2024 | orders were given! |
| You Need to Fill Out Form 74B. | February 22nd, 2024 | Dinah does a bads, Bats corrects her. |
| No BIRDS ALLOWED | February 17th, 2024 | Alex proves he's the best yet again. |
| Frequent Interruptions | October 8th, 2023 | Damain and Black Canary. |
| Punking Gotham's Elite | September 23rd, 2023 | Gotham city opera house. |
| Roadside Assistance | August 4th, 2023 | Trini helps Dinah out in a minor pickle by blinding a Daddy Long-Legs. |
| Grocery Shopping in Two Bridges | July 15th, 2023 | Fighting... over food? |
| Coffee Shop Meetup | July 14th, 2023 | Lois goes to meet Ivory for coffee to get her jacket and bumps into an interesting array of characters!] |
| Random Watchtower Encounters | June 14th, 2023 | Superman and Diana have a brief conversation about League business as Black Canary and Superboy happen past. |
| Log 15198 | June 11th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| We dating or what | June 4th, 2023 | Conner and Dinah kick the crap out of some poor unfortunate animal smugglers then plan a date! |
| Life Lessons and Other Public Services | May 26th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| This Line Is For Emergencies | May 23rd, 2023 | Fashion Consultation 101 |
| Inaugural Meeting of the Gotham Fashion Police | May 2nd, 2023 | Dick gets a haircut. |
| The Crime Family Olympics: Hundred Meter Butt-Kicking | April 27th, 2023 | Nightwing, Oracle, and Black Canary deal with a gang clash that turns rough, then have a few words shared between friends. |
| Smash Metropolis | April 26th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| There will be no untoward puns about names in this title. | April 25th, 2023 | Dick recruits a pretty bird to help on a project. This always goes well. |
| Song bird in a gilded cage... | April 23rd, 2023 | A Popstar walks into a bar to discuss business... |
| A raging bird in the hand is worth ... a ... not-raging | April 14th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| Songbird's Solo | March 30th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| Of all the gin joints in all the world... | March 7th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| I Could Use Some Flowers | February 27th, 2023 | o |
| Happy Birthday, Bruce! | February 20th, 2023 | A birthday party is thrown for Bruce |
| The Wild Ones vs. the Mild-Mannered | February 19th, 2023 | Clark interviews the band backstage, learns things, gets teased. And a standing invite to entertain a keyboardist. |
| A night with a bird at the club. | February 14th, 2023 | Summary needed |
| Customers are Nuts | February 9th, 2023 | A phone problem ends with Sherwood Florist becoming this year's Valentine's spot-to-go for supervillains! Good money was made, though it's possible that Anya has a date with Brainiac. |
| A Night at Lux | February 2nd, 2023 | The Pink Ranger and Black Canary visit Lux only to meet the Devil and his doctor. |
| JanPool | January 29th, 2023 | Caution: Wet Floor. |
| Welcome to Ernie's | January 23rd, 2023 | Summary needed |
| One day, Over the Phone.. | January 21st, 2023 | Summary needed |
| Eating Carpet | January 19th, 2023 | Training is done, and Anya may be sold to a demon. |
| Evening run ins. | January 14th, 2023 | Black Canary runs into Nick Drago outside the guest suites at the Triskelion. There's talk of her band and workouts. |
| BDH | December 7th, 2022 | Some fighting with an armoured car. |
| A Canary Call | December 4th, 2022 | Arana, without her powers, is in trouble. Good thing someone is in the area who can help! |
| A place where not everyone may know your name. Yet. | November 17th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| Day 2 (TBD) | November 3rd, 2022 | Summary needed |
| Flying Devils | October 27th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| The Canary and the Robin | October 26th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| Loose Relics | October 20th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| A Costume Story | October 19th, 2022 | Stop me if you've heard this one, a Toyota Prius and a Dodge Ram drive up to a Costume Shop... |
| We'll always have Paris... | October 16th, 2022 | A Canary was unleashed among the cats. |
| Taking All Comers... an Exhibition | October 14th, 2022 | Canary lets Tim win as a teachable point. And to, you know, make her cousin feel good about himself. Tim gifts people with concert tickets in response. What a nice guy! |
| Lights, Camera, ACTION! | September 20th, 2022 | Sometimes you beat up some criminals. Other times you terrify a bunch of actors and brutalize the director. |
| A petal for your thoughts | September 17th, 2022 | Luke makes a trip across the country and drops in to see his friend Dinah at her flower shop. She disapproves of his accomodations for his time in the city. Greatly. |
| A chat of relatives | August 29th, 2022 | Dinner and the night is saved |
| Log 14524 | August 26th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| We Don't Need You Or Your Friends Around Here | August 26th, 2022 | Luke decideds to solo a visit to the new gang trying to get a hold in Harlem. Things turn violent as he reads them from The Good Book. Timely backup provided by the Black Canary makes the situation go better than it might have. In appreciation, Canary is given a private reserve bottle of bourbon for when she visits Luke's Bar.. |
| Hell is Family | August 22nd, 2022 | Summary needed |
| A Coffee Date | August 18th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| Training Day: Birdgirl vs. Mustardgirl | August 13th, 2022 | Kory kicks Canary's ass. In the most literal way she can. Canary gets her revenge on Kory's ass. Again in the most literal way she can. Sex is offered and gently (though with much embarrassment) refused. The sun is taken on in a task of savage battle. |
| Coffee and Conversation 250 Miles Above Sea Level | August 10th, 2022 | Dinah drops in on Diana as she handles JLA monitoring duty and the two have a casual conversation to catch up. |
| A day at the Roost | August 4th, 2022 | Tim and Dinah make prep to give some bad men a bad night. |
| Central Park Kata | August 3rd, 2022 | Dinah offers Luke the Outsiders' assistance after offending his sensibilities. |
| They Mostly Come Out At Night | July 30th, 2022 | Dinah returns to Luke's bar for her bike and a hangover remedy. Who knew that a street fight was so effective? |
| A Girl Like You, A Place Like This | July 29th, 2022 | Dinah visits Luke's bar for more than one drink. Discussions of heroism and safe trips home are had. |
| Songbird at the Club. | July 29th, 2022 | Summary needed |
| Wildcards | July 27th, 2022 | Remy and Dinah discus Law versus Justice |
| A little Emergency Meeting | June 15th, 2021 | Supergirl sends out an emergency beacone, Black Canary answers the call. |
| Brood Invasion: Extraction | June 14th, 2021 | After a scouting mission turns into a Brood ambush, the Guardians, Titans, and Justice League get together to save Lar from being Brooded right as a Shi'ar/Brood fleet battle starts. |
| Bird on a Wire | April 6th, 2021 | Black Canary raids a gang hideout, and the amazing Dinah Lance runs into a friendly stranger named Bruce and arranges to go for lunch. |
| Just Checking Up.. | December 23rd, 2020 | Skye and Dinah shoot the sh*t, and enjoy some Chinese. |
| Two Birds in Hand | December 7th, 2020 | Dinah hires a pilot for her band |
| A friendly meeting of coffee and dogs | December 1st, 2020 | Buffy meets Dinah in the park. They have a little chat. |
| White prince and Black Canary. | November 28th, 2020 | Buffy, Thomas, Dinah and Willow meet up in the Blue Lady and discuss things |
| Uncaged Canary | November 26th, 2020 | Dinah meets Willow. Mini JL meetup in a coffee shop...and cookies are promised to be made. Happy canary. |
| Be thankful for the quiet times | November 26th, 2020 | Dinah visits Barbara at the Clocktower for a Thanksgiving lunch |
| National Bird | November 26th, 2020 | Cap and Dinah meet cute and have a chat |
| It never ends. | November 25th, 2020 | A trip to town ends in a throw down with some bigot sorts. |
| Justice Leisure | June 3rd, 2020 | Dinah and Hal decompress a bit on monitor duty |
| The second guard | June 2nd, 2020 | Ami and Canary talk |
| Birds (and their) Nest | May 10th, 2020 | Babs and Dinah sit down for a talk, coffee, and Christmas music for the Nest, in May... |
| Flowers and Kitties | April 27th, 2020 | Ivory visits Sherwood Florist and orders a bunch of boquets for an upcoming pride event |
| Canary Crash | April 16th, 2020 | Dinah's Harley broke down in front of Mercy's shop, and the two chatted while the bike was repaired. |
| The War, (Not) Interrupted | March 27th, 2020 | Summary needed |
| Bloody Asphalt | March 17th, 2020 | Heroes foil a assassination attempt |
| Colossus of the Gym | February 25th, 2020 | Dinah substitutes for Piotr's sensei and the two have a great judo lesson. |
| How does the garden grow | January 7th, 2020 | Dinah gets a visit from Kate Kane. And a flower order! |
| Having some Phun | December 19th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Lunch And A View Of Orchid Bay | December 3rd, 2019 | Oliver and Dinah meet for lunch, and bump into Felicity. |
| Chinatown, just for kicks | December 2nd, 2019 | Chun-Li and Dinah crossed paths and future hijinx may occur! |
| Winter Migration | November 9th, 2019 | Canary spoke with Captain Marvel about a shift in her area of operations and a new game plan has been agreed upon. |
| Alpha Meeting at Alpha | October 15th, 2019 | Dinah meets Caitlin Fairchild. |
| Strange Encounter | September 19th, 2019 | Daken flirts with the ladies and they seem to welcome his advances. All for the sake of fun, of course. |
| Meanwhile, back at Mansion Alpha | September 17th, 2019 | Nita and Dinah cross paths in Mansion Alpha, and also do a little catching up. |
| Nerding Out | August 22nd, 2019 | Fiona, Kate and Canary are sitting around, talking in the Nest |
| Birds of Prey: Briefing at the Nest | August 21st, 2019 | The Birds are introduced to their new headquarters, and a briefing is held. |
| Coffee by Moonlight | August 1st, 2019 | Canary and Batwoman meet and catch up. Intel is exchanged, as well as the promise of concert tickets. |
| Against The Doctor's Orders | July 26th, 2019 | Still injured from fighting Stockholm, Stephanie has to head to campus, and runs into Dinah Drake, a favorite singer of hers |
| Villainous Violence | April 30th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Someone's in the Hq with Dinah | April 7th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Two Bit Circus | March 25th, 2019 | Micah takes Dinah on a tour of the Triskelion and runs into Sam practicing in the heavy ordinance range. It is a screaming good time. |
| How To Lure A Thor | March 5th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Dealing with Arms Dealers: Financial Troubles | February 26th, 2019 | A Bank Robbery aided by Domino is dealt with by Green Arrow and Black Canary... until the Joker comes along and takes advantage of the chaos. |
| Canaries and stool pigeons | February 23rd, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Three Ladies at a Bar Fight | February 19th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| The Bat in the Birds | February 16th, 2019 | Summary needed |
| Cats and Birds Fighting Together | January 30th, 2019 | Catwoman and Black Canary unintentionally team up to stop a kidnapping. |
| Failure to Communicate | January 2nd, 2019 | After a protracted fight between Green Arrow and Remy, both ultimately came to a draw with Green Arrow managing to recover some of the vials and Remy recovering two. Most of the mercinaries were prosecuted but were able to get on technicalities from the well funded law firms that had already hired them and the thugs, who had no such lawyers, were all books and sent to Stone Gate. |
| Boxing Day in BC | December 26th, 2018 | Dinah interrupts Frank's stakeout. |
| A New Arsenal | December 5th, 2018 | Arsenal returns to the Bunker and reunites with Oliver and Dinah. Catchup is had, and an archery competition. |
| A Drake Reunion | December 1st, 2018 | A pair of Drakes meet. |
| Canary Songs | November 22nd, 2018 | Queen Consolidated hosts a charity event at the Blue Lady in Manhatten, several personalities mingle. |
| Two Birds On a Roof | November 10th, 2018 | Red Robin asks Black Canary to help with a Project of his. |
| White Court, Black Canary | October 25th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| The Bat who Caught the Canary | October 13th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| The Hunt for Red... September. | September 25th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Dealing with Arms Dealers: A second Cut Off | September 16th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Work Out | September 7th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| The SHIELD Liaison | September 4th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Fightin' Crime without Pennies or Dimes | August 17th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Evening Checkin | August 15th, 2018 | Green Arrow, Black Canary, Yin, and Carrie, who still needs a costume and a name, meet up at Yin's kwoon to check in. |
| Ominous Tea Party | August 14th, 2018 | Dinah and Brooke get together for a chat. The gossip is on the fearsome side. |
| Fire Flower Power! | July 26th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Space, the Final Frontier... | July 7th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| A Test | June 6th, 2018 | Green Arrow gives Yin a trial, and is given provisional status on Team Arrow. |
| Dealing with Arms Dealers: The NY connection | May 29th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Sparring in the Quiver | May 22nd, 2018 | Oliver and Dinah spar, and discuss possibilities. |
| Dealing with arms dealers | May 14th, 2018 | Green Arrow and company foil and arms deal, leaving it for police to handle after. |
| Return to the Quiver | May 9th, 2018 | Oliver and Dinah return to HQ after months of Oliver being overseas, powering up the Quiver once again. |
| Welcome back, Dinah Drake | May 3rd, 2018 | The return of Black Canary, and she has some pointers for Darkhawk |
| Follow the sound | April 29th, 2018 | Dinah stops by a small martial arts studio to refresh her commitment to Justice. |
| Extatic Revelations Continue | January 18th, 2018 | Summary needed |
| Extatic Revelations | December 19th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Gone Fishin' | December 16th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Old Friends and Remembrances | November 20th, 2017 | Nightwing and Black Canary meet up. She learns about his future Duel with Lady Shiva |
| Living Dead Girl | October 9th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Trying Her Best | October 5th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| A Plumed Proposal | October 1st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The Green, The Gold, The Grey, The Marvel, The Canary, The Crusader and the Scorpian | September 25th, 2017 | Goldar and his group of fools draw out the wrong heroes at the Gotham Docks. The Green Ranger emerges. |
| Dancing with the Stars( | September 22nd, 2017 | A night on the town at Club Zed is in order. And the stars are out. Well, depending on who you ask. |
| Apokolips Now: Intergang Long Island | September 9th, 2017 | Intergang is getting desperate. As are a couple villains for their technology. A series of hits results in some probably expected results. |
| Breakfast at Elliot's | September 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Rooftop Rendevous | September 6th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Scenes From A Small Diner In Gotham | September 3rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Apokolips Now: Intergang Gotham | September 2nd, 2017 | Intergang hits the Gotham First National Bank. All hell breaks loose. So do many heroes, and the GCPD. |
| Apokolips Now: Prelude to Intergang | September 1st, 2017 | Something is happening in the city of Gotham ... the small gangs have all disappeared. The GCPD and several heroes investigate. |
| Log | September 1st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Rooftop Mentoring | August 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Monster Pizza | August 21st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Nature Puts Down The Folly Of Man (Part 2) | August 20th, 2017 | As the 'babies' from the gigantic monster come forth into Metropolis, one group of impromptu heroes works on ensuring the cities, and civilians safety. |
| Log 2024 | August 16th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Starro Light, Starro Bright | August 10th, 2017 | Starro alien race plans an invasion of Earth, Alpha Flight and other Heroes are out to stop them. |
| The Three Amigas | August 6th, 2017 | Cassandra shows off her new Spoiler to Dinah, and later, Barbara. |
| The New Girl | July 30th, 2017 | Batgirl follows Black Canary back to her loft after their encounter to fully meet. |
| Involuntary Adoption | July 29th, 2017 | Miss Moreau tries to rob a zoo. The Punisher, the Yellow Ranger, and a pair of Bats don't like this plan. |
| Once Upon a time in Mexico | July 27th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Of Monsters | July 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log | July 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The Rinaldis pt 2. | July 21st, 2017 | Zinda & Grace are on a brawlaholic spree, and run into Nightwing and some gangsters. |
| Ready,AIM,Fire | July 19th, 2017 | AIM decides to save money and just abduct test subjects! |
| The Worst Question | July 14th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Betrayal | July 12th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| What's The Plan | July 11th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Downtime | July 10th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log | July 7th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Another Day in Paradise | July 6th, 2017 | Dinah and Grace bond on Blackhawk Island after their adventure. |
| Life, Love, and other mysteries | July 4th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The Maroon Berets. | July 4th, 2017 | The Blackhawks go to find about their new job, and get into more than what they bargained for. Grace debuts as a potential recruit into the team. |
| A Newly Freed Man | July 3rd, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log | June 27th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Log | June 27th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Graveyard Shifts and Songbirds | June 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Three Birds and a God go Into a Bar | June 25th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Reformed Clay | June 18th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The 'Hopeless' in 'Hopeless Romantic' | June 7th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The Canary and the Bat | June 2nd, 2017 | Batman paid Dinah a visit at her home, where the two discussed Autumn's mob situation and other matters. |
| An Oncoming Storm | June 1st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The 11:25 Train to MAYHEM | May 31st, 2017 | A train robbery (stolen train!) is thwarted by the Justice League! (Guest starring Snapper Carr) |
| A Canary in Love | May 29th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Started from the Bottom | May 28th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| The Tour | May 26th, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Assault on Gotham Central | May 21st, 2017 | Summary needed |
| Green Arrow and Canary | May 10th, 2017 | Summary needed |
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