
I dare you to make me cry.
All the icons here are made by me, and are for my use only. The border psd can be found here by Tessrps. My background && theme are made by @atomissm and the picture used is courtesy of Infinity1729.
This is a roleplay blog for Dinah Laurel Lance, aka the Black Canary. The character’s portrayal will be based only on the comics from Pre-52. Then verses will differ.
I don’t own the character of Dinah, everything belongs to DC Comics.
I also unfollow a lot for multiple reasons; you post too much ooc, negativity, smut, big gifs, triggering topics, you’re inactive for more than a month.
Don’t try to come at me if i didn’t follow you back, anything non mutual will be deleted ( asks, memes ). All these reasons to keep my dash clean, && lower my anxiety when I log into my happy place.
However, I spend way too much time on it, so this blog will run on queues on weekends and some days of the week. I have kids to take care of, and we all really need to disconnect from this site. It’s still just a hobby.
Exclusives means I will not rp with another duplicate of your muse, && it’s usually mutual, for multiple reasons. However, I do follow duplicates of exclusives because I like to read threads, and portrayals. If I follow you but i’m exclusive with another rper of your muse, I’m very open to talk ooc but I won’t rp with you.
Excclusives list can be found here
Again all icons are made by me, and I will be bitter if I found any of them on others blogs.
I do rp with icons, and a small and very light formatted text. You don’t have to match it, but if you use big gifs I’ll most likely not follow. I prefer normal icons, or tiny gifs. Take a look at my threads/blog for more infos. I also rp iconless at times, I really don’t mind.
The whole content of this blog is written by me ( tho I don’t own Dinah’s character or any of her arc from DC Comics ).
In term of writing, I’m a very literate person ! That’s important because I’ll never give you a one liner or a single para ( besides as a starter ). My main presence here is to write, and develop my character through different relationships/events. I expect you to match the length, yes. Also, I’m not a starter provider. If you like for a starter via starter calls, I expect you to answer it, or at least warn me if you’re going slow. Not answering a thread, or drop a thread after two replies with no explanation is a pet peeve. I will most likely unfollow to be honest.
FOR DINAH RPERS : all the headcanons are mine, don’t reblog, don’t steal. When I post/reblog musing posts, please don’t stalk and steal with a reblog from another blog. I will know ! It happened and someone told me. So don’t come to whine why I blocked you. If you can’t create your own inspiration, that’s not my problem. ( I have nothing against duplicates, but I’m a little bitter about some, so sorry guys ). I may also block duplicates if you guys have a lot of mutuals with me, if you show up on my dash too much, just to lower my anxiety, nothing personal.
I do have discord ( dinahmite#7041 ) && lately I’ve been a lot more comfortable role-playing on it. If we’re mutuals, you can add me, just let me know who you are please. I’m usually a bit slow due to irl stuff but i never drop anything.
I will only roleplay Dinah Laurel Lance, based on pre-52 && heavily on Gail’s Simone run Birds of Prey. ( not dctv Laurel Lance, not Dinah Drake - Dinah’s mother - or Dinah Drake Lance ( New 52 && Rebirth ).
This is very important because they may own the same name, they are not the same character. It can be confusing, so here is the about page for Dinah for more infos.
Basically, she’s the one taking on her mother’s mantle, and owned her canary cry from a metagene. She’s not an orphan, she’s not part of a Rock Band.
Dinah will be represented by both comics icons and several face-claims; mostly with Katheryn Winnick, ( alt fc Amy Johnson, Lea Seydoux ), for a younger verse, brunette Lea Seydoux.
Do I ship easily? Yes and no. I mostly ship with chemistry first, whoever is the character you roleplay. If you came here just to bang my fc, then you can go home. That will not happen. I can feel it if you force a ship on me, or goes in that direction without telling me prior. I’m a very open person, IM is always open to contact me about it. I do love me some platonic ships as well. So give me all the nice friendships too.
Also if you see me ship with one particular character, && you play them as well, chances are I will not ship with you ( exception of Oliver rpers, or if we really have good chemistry ). I usually go with ship exclusives.
If you passed the shipping level, then you’re welcome to the next stage.
As of lately ( which can change), all my nsfw / sexual threads will be moved to discord as I want my blog to be a safe place for everyone. If you don’t want to move our potential smut thread to Discord, then we will fade to black. I also think people don’t really need to read what’s going on in Dinah’s bed.
However, nsfw asks or memes, will be present : correctly tagged #nsfw && put under a read more. ( then moved to discord if you want to continue it, because i love me a little bit of nasty ? )
Since Dinah fights crime, you bet there will be some violence, blood && difficult topics as well. I’m someone who’s not triggered easily, && I suck at tagging my stuff but I’ll try.
First, anon asks are never on. I don't condone hate or nasty anons, even though I've never received any so far, but witnessing it on my dash made me feel very uneasy. If you have something to say, say it but you won't hide behind a mask.
Asks are open for everyone, mutuals and non mutuals, if you really want to know anything ic and ooc.
If we’re not mutuals and you send me a meme starters or anything related that could open to a thread, I will delete it. I’m selective for reasons.
I have some starter calls, some are still open, some are not, it happens here and there on the blog, but if you wish to rp with me and we’re mutuals, i’d love for you to make a move in my IM’s so we can plot. However, I won't write you ten starters if you didn't answer a former one. I've limited time on the internet, so don't waste my time. You either want to rp with me or not. If not, that's no big deal really, just don't pretend.
Also, I don’t like starters made without my consent, or just because I started to follow you ( i think that’s called a greeting starter ? ) , I’ll just ignore it, so save your energy and come to my IM’s instead, that will show me you really want to rp with me.
Name : Dinah Laurel Lance
Date of birth : April, 10th
Place of birth : Gotham City
Parents : Dinah Drake, Lawrence ’ Larry ’ Lance
Siblings : None
Species : Meta-human
Age : 16- 40+ ( verse dependent ) but by default 30 ish
Alias : Black Canary
Nicknames : Pretty Bird, Bird Lady, Sonic Siren, Screamy, B.C., Siu Jerk Jai, Birdie, Canary, Scream Queen, Dinah Gorgina
Affiliations : Birds of Prey, JSA, JLA
Partnerships : Oliver Queen ( ArrowFam ), Oracle / Batgirl, Huntress, Zinda Blake ( Birds of Prey ), BatFam
Occupation : Vigilante // Florist
Gender : Cis female
Orientation : 70% straight, 30% gay
Personality traits : Adventurous, caring, compassionate, idealistic, faithful, humorous, sentimental, stubborn, headstrong, passionate, lazy, independent, messy, reckless
Aries : courageous, determined, confident, enthusiastic, optimistic, honest, passionate
Abilities : Master in martial arts ( to be listed ), detective / investigation, acrobatics, driving, weaponry, music ( harmonica ),
Powers : Canary Cry ( sonic scream )
Spoken languages : English, Japanese ( && variations ), French, Spanish ( && more European ones )
Marital status : Divorced Craig Windrow, married Oliver Queen ( verse dependent )
Children : Sin Lance ( adopted ), Connor Hawke ( step-son ), Connor Lance-Queen ( Injustice verse )
Religion : Christian ( but complicated )
Eyes : Blue
Hair : Dark but dyes her hair blonde
Height : 5'4" // 1,63cm
Weight : 124 lbs // 56 kg
♪ When former Batgirl Barbara Gordon is seriously injured by the Joker, she reestablishes her crime-fighting career as Oracle, information broker to the superhero community. She forms a covert-mission team in Gotham City. Since Barbara thinks that of all the superheroes Dinah has the most potential, Oracle asks Black Canary to become an operative. Later on, Huntress ( Helena Bertinelli ), and Lady Blackhawk ( Zinda Blake ) join the team.
♪ Dinah has always been a member of the Justice League on and off, but was still one of the core members since the very beginning. Later, Black Canary was selected to be the new chairwoman and field leader due to her strong strategic mind and high emotional I.Q. Dinah is a League member for about six years, then only remained reserved member due to her being too busy in her personal life.
♪ Dinah was trained by the common martial arts master who trained Lady Shiva. Shiva became impressed with Dinah’s martial arts skills and offered her a chance to sharpen her skills, an offer declined in the belief that it would change her morality and turn her into a cold blooded killer like Shiva. However later, she reconsiders it, and soon enough they trade lives with Lady Shiva. Here, Dinah undergoes training similar to Shiva's in her early life. It takes place in a Vietnamese village wherein Dinah is abused by a gang of warriors and learns more about fighting. While training in Vietnam, Lady Shiva substituted Dinah in membership of the Birds of Prey, calling herself the Jade Canary and being prone to excessive violence. Eventually Dinah realizes that the training she is going through would change her morality and decides to end the training, therefore returning to the United States. With her, Canary takes Shiva's young successor, Sin, under her wing and left the Birds to assume a mother/sister role.
♪ Dinah lives in Gotham with both of her parents. Her mother Dinah Drake is the former the Black Canary, her father Larry Lance is a detective. She has a difficult relationship with her mother. Dinah is the daughter of the original Black Canary, Dinah Drake, and police officer Larry Lance. Born a Metahuman, she only finds out of herability of the "Canary Cry" at the age of fifteen, and decides to be trained by Wildcat ( who previously worked with her mother ) behind her mother back. She aims for a crime-fighting career when Dinah Drake only wants her to go to College. Which she goes for a year only, before leaving it behind and her Vegas wedding ( which last months ), to join the Justice League.
♪ First Batman introduced Black Canary as their trainer, the hand-to-hand combat instructor of the Team. She provides a lot of advices to the young vigilantes, but is also a good listener when they need her. After a telepathic training simulation went horribly wrong, Black Canary worked as the team's counselor, and took the time to discuss the events with the Team one-on-one.
♪ The storyline is set within an alternate version of the Justice League’s universe. In this reality, Superman becomes a tyrant and establishes a new world order after the Joker tricks him into killing Lois Lane and destroying Metropolis with a nuclear bomb. In an effort to stop this,Batman summons counterparts of the League’s members from another universe to join his insurgency and end the totalitarian regime.
Oliver and Dinah join Batman's side, however the archer is murdered by Superman, leaving a pregnant Dinah behind on her own. Listening her heart for justice, she still decides to fight Superman, but her fate follows her husband's ones && dies. Nonetheless, she's brought back to life by Dr Fate on another parallel Eart, and to another Oliver who's alive. They raise their son together for seven years, until Batman from her former Eart ask them to help them again.
Governor Lex Luthor has transformed the traditional dystopia of Gotham City into a contemporary paradise known as The Garden. Those who don't believe in his program of keeping all citizens locked in to one networked mindset that he controls just formed a resistence.
Black Canary is first member of the League of Assassin, before turning to Ra's Al Ghul and kill him to take her place. [ basically Mad Max AU ]
Set in an alternate world that is similar to Earth, all people living here own a Daemon -an external forms of people’s souls, all taking the shape of animals. Dinah is still the Black Canary, but she's always accompanied by Shadow, her daemon male canary, who follows her everywhere and cannot stay away from her unless going under intense pain.