Or how they made her a wanna be hero who took her own words: ‘You stole my whole life’ to a new level

Laurel Lance was introduced to us as a lawyer. She found her purpose in defending the innocent and look for justice in court

When she realized Starling city is too corrupted and sometimes she can’t do things through the law, she turned looking for help from the Hood.

The Hood was Oliver Queen, the man, who got lost for five years and returned home with one goal – to clean his city from crime and corruption. But Laurel didn’t knew that. For her and for her father, Captain Lance, The Hood was a criminal, vigilante, who did things out side the law. Laurel was conflicted, whether she can work with him or not, but she was also drawn to him, as he was mysterious brave and strong man, and her infatuation was more personal than professional, until she finally realized he is a killer and she hugged her then boyfriend Tommy Merlyn, settling in her heart that she can’t love a killer.

Not in a moment, Laurel thought she can be the one to go out and deal with her criminals another way, it never occurred to her to be a vigilante herself, she relayed on someone else’s help, because she was the lawyer.

One year later, Laurel Lance met another masked vigilante, a woman dressed in black, wearing a mask, who risked her life to save her.

She instantly was drawn to this woman too, she instantly wanted to be as her. Later on she realized this woman was her sister – Sara Lance, who was presumed dead for 6 years, but returned home to protect her family and was also protecting women on the street from attackers.

When the city was attacked by DeathStroke army, and was on fire, Canary did the bravest thing and went inside a burning and exploding house to save the life of a little girl. She had training for pain endurance, and severe conditions that helped her go through the fire without any equipment.

Laurel didn’t wasted much time to tell everybody, watching in awe, that the woman who is doing this, is Canary, and she is a hero.

Another year has past. Laurel had made peace with the vigilantes and the Arrow, who she blamed for the dead of her former lover. She also now knows that Oliver Queen is the Arrow. She found her purpose in life, she is the lawyer and he is the vigilante. He catches the criminals, she puts them in jail.

Canary has left the city, she sold her life again to the dangerous organisation that trained her, because she needed help to fight DeathStroke’s mirakuru army.

But she came home again,

helping Arrow fight Vertigo, and with a mission no one knew about, as she falls down with arrows in her chest into her dead.

This broke Laurel again, she lost her sister one more time, she lost someone she loves again.

She and Arrow’s team, who Sara worked with, stripped her from her Canary clothes, and put her in her old grave. Laurel was thinking: No one will ever find out who she really was.

Firs she wanted revenge.

But then she had another idea. She can become Canary, pretend to be her sister, and go and save women on the street. She can channel her grieve by living her sister’s life of danger and heroism. She no longer though being a lawyer is enough for her, she no longer wanted to follow her own path, she no longer wanted to be her own hero. She wanted to be someone else, and this someone was her sister’s heroic identity Canary.

The world never really found out who Sara Lance ever really was, as Laurel Lance made her identity her own.

When Brick’s thug army once again wanted to take over the city, and the Arrow was not around, Laurel Lance put on the Canary outfit and lead people in fight against the thugs, as the people knew Canary was a hero. She took over Canary’s legacy and gained trust, to be a hero herself.

But for the people, this was the same woman one year ago, who fought along side Arrow to save the city.

But Laurel knew she is not that good as her sister.

Deep inside she was riddled with guilt that she is living someone else’s life. And her sister’s death was only a plot for her to find purpose in life, as she was lost before drowning in her failed attempts to get what she wants – the man she wanted, the life she wanted.

She knew she is just a mirror image of her sister, and that was not her own life to live. It was her sister’s jacket which she took, it was her sisters wig and a mast that she wore. It was her sister she pretended to be even in front of her, ignorant about his daughter’s death, father.

So Laurel needed to do something about it. She needed to come clean with the truth, to confess to the world that she is someone else and that what she is doing was not her crusade. She had her crusade in the law, not outside of it.

She decided to come clean in her own mind and among her friends, and added Black in front of Canary, only for her to know that she is not her sister.

She found peace in herself, that she is not Canary but Black Canary, and she finally could let her sister go.

But she never told the city, that she is Canary’s successor, that she is another woman that follow’s Canary’s legacy, that she also wants to fight for the city outside the law, that she will be a better bigger hero and gave herself a name that means something to her, as Canary was her sister’s spirit animal. She joined team Arrow, as her sister before her, and followed Arrow’s crusade to save the city.

The conclusion: One Legacy, two different women under the mask. One that suffered six years through darkness and pain but used that to become a hero, and the other who took over because of her infatuation of heroes and desire to be important.

END OF PART ONE