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Gwendolyn Laurel Queen-Lance
n i c k n a m e s
Gwen (Common), Lynnie (Familial), Black Siren (Alias)
a g e
22
g e n d e r
Female
s e x u a l i t y
Heterosexual
o r i g i n
Star City, California - Alternate Universe
s p e c i e s
Metahuman
c l a s s i f i c a t i o n
level 7 â Physical
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h e i g h t
5ft 6inches
w e i g h t
121lbs
h a i r
Blond, typically pulled up into a tight ponytail but Gwen has been known to let her hair down on occasion.
As Black Siren, Gwen will wear a black wig to conceal her identity.
e y e s
Emerald Green, surrounded by dark lashes and protected by fair eyebrows.
When using her powers, Gwen's eyes glow slightly.
m a r k i n g s
She also has a tattoo of a bird clutching a feather on her shoulder, in honour of her parents.
a p p e a r a n c e
Her features are soft and innocent, pretty. Which are also the words men use to describe her, along with cute, they think they're complimenting her but she's heard them so often she'll barely bat an eyelid.
Her body shape would be described as a pear shape, her thighs are wider than her bosom due to her athletic and combat training.
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P O W E R S
s o u n d w a v e g e n e r a t i o nx // x Gwen can generate and project powerful sound waves.
s i r e n s c r e a mx // x Gwen can emit a highly enhanced scream of a high amplitude which she uses as a Concussive Force.
b a l l i s t i c s c r e a mx // x Gwen can emit sound waves that can destroy objects, however she has little to no control over this and is an amplified version of her Siren Scream, it is usually the result of her emotions and typically emits from her whole body, rather than in conical shape, when used.
s o n o k i n e t i c f l i g h tx // x Gwen can fly through the use of her Sound Wave Generation ability, however her flight is limited to how long she can scream for, to counter this her supersuit features a gliding wings that lets her glide between screams.
s o n o k i n e t i c c o m b a tx // x Gwen can infuse her fighting style with sound, using sound waves to disorient opponents and strengthen her physical attacks
s o u n d i m m u n i t yx // x Gwen is immune to the effects of sound waves and can act unaffected by sonic based attacks, making her body unaffected by sound-based intrusions. However, her Ballistic Scream is an exception to a degree.
p e a k h u m a n c o n d i t i o nx // x As a metahuman, Gwen's bodily functions are enhanced to the pinnacle of human conditioning; her strength, speed, stamina, senses, agility, reflexes, accuracy, longevity, durability, intelligence, healing time, flexibility and combat skills are greatly heightened.
P R O F I C I E N C I E S
m a r t i a l a r t s x // x Unlike her mother, Gwen is only exceptionally skilled in one martial art, Capoeira, her mother has trained her in a handful of other martial arts, such as Hapkido, Jujutsu and Krav Maga, enough to allow her to be less predictable in combat.
a c r o b a t i c s x // x During her childhood, Dinah encouraged Gwen to get engaged in as many extracurricular activities or sports teams as she could, one such team was the gymnastics team. Once Gwen turned 18, Oliver showed her how to apply this to her future as a crimefighter, much to Dinah's disapproval.
i n v e s t i g a t i o n x // x Gwen discovered her parents secret identities when she was 15, due to a school assignment about her family history. She kept this information to herself until her 16th birthday, when she admitted to it and wanted to help her parents. They would let her aid in minor investigations that they deemed appropriate, mostly in the form of investigating data from their base rather than actual field work, but since she became one of her father's sidekicks this has greatly improved.
W E A K N E S S E S
v o i c e x // x The majority of Gwen's abilities originate from her vocal cords and if she is gagged or made mute, she will lose access to them.
m e t a h u m a n x // x Gwen's metagene only granted her powers and enhanced her condition, but she is still human nonetheless.
c o n t r o l x // x The control Gwen has over her powers is limited by several factors, one of which is her inexperience with controlling the sound waves and another is her emotions.
F E A R S
a n g r o p h o b i a x // x Due to Gwen's most destructive ability being linked to her emotions, Gwen has a genuine fear of getting angry, she can get frustrated and agitated easily, but is genuinely frightened of what might happen to people if she gets angry.
o c h l o p h o b i a x // x Gwen has been afraid of crowds since she was a young girl, when she got lost in one whilst out with her family. Her genuine thought that she'd been abandoned, lead to an emotional triggering of her powers, thanks toher age there was little harm caused.
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P E R S O N A L I T Y
xxxxxxxxxâ˘x Inquisitive x⢠x Independent x⢠x Comedian x⢠x Fierce x â˘
Gwen is independent for 2 reasons, the first is she was part of the Queen family. In the public eye, Oliver was a politician and a multimillionaire, whilst also maintaining the secret identity of Green Arrow, he had very little time to himself, let alone his family. Dinah, on the other hand, was a full-time hero and could be there one day and away the next. Gwen developed her own sense of self from a young age and learned to be independent, regardless of the help available to the family. The second reason is she was raised by Dinah Lance and Oliver Queen, they never wanted their daughter to be dependant on anyone, they'd been betrayed too many times to let her suffer the same way.
Possibly the worst trait that Gwen could have inherited from her father was his sense of humour and inability to take many situations seriously. Whether it's a serious debate regarding ethics and morals or a fierce battle that she should be focusing on rather than making witty and/or sly remarks. Whilst irritating at first, those who have ever seen Gwen lose control of her powers understand why she does it. To keep herself from getting angry, she surrounds herself with an air of humour, this can range from playfully light to dryly dark. Laughing at her own jokes is better than screaming a crater into the middle of a city.
Just like everything else Gwen inherited, she got her fierceness and tenacity from her mother. Whether it's in a fight with a villain or just in her moral, ethical and political opinion, Gwen will give it her all in the fight, even if she sometimes just starts the fight to stir some drama up. Gwen is a devastatingly fierce ally to have both on the field and in an argument, just so long as the other person knows she'll be mockingly antagonistic to avoid getting herself angry in the argument.
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Oliver and Dinah raised Gwen as their own, alongside her adoptive siblings, Cynthia and Roy, whilst also juggling their public and private personas. Luckily, Oliver was a millionaire and a politician so he had the money to afford staff who would care for the children in the times neither he nor Dinah could. But the times they could, Gwen would describe as her happiest memories. Her father telling her stories of Robin Hood or her mother helping her with her gymnastics. For all intents and purposes, Gwen had a regular childhood, with a family who loved her and staff who made sure she was never neglected.
However, when Gwen was 7, Dinah took her and Cynthia out to spend a day with them, however in the commotion of paparazzi and Oliver's supporters, Gwen got seperated from them. The loud and towering crowd frightening her so much all she could do was scream. Her anxiety and fear awakening her metagene, which caused her scream to destroy a few cameras and burst a few nasal blood vessels, no serious harm. Yet that memory was forever burned into her brain and she's developed 2 rather significant phobias from it.
In an effort to keep Gwen busy and away from the public, Dinah encouraged Gwen to join martial arts classes, join her school's gymnastics team and even the school newspaper. For the most part, Gwen was a successful and bright student, who managed to juggle it with her extracurricular studies, whilst maintaining a social life. When Gwen turned 15, she put her 'investigative' journalism and inquisitive nature to do her own research for a school project about her family, what she uncovered was something she couldn't exactly share. Her parents were members of the Justice League of America. Gwen managed to keep her discovery secret until her 16th birthday, when she came clean about her discovery to her family. Following her admitance, Gwen tried her hardest to convince her parents to let her help them, unaware that Roy and Cynthia were already part of Team Arrow. At first, they were apprehensive, but they eventually grew used to the idea and, bit by bit, she became more involved.
When Gwen turned 18, she took the alias of Black Siren, to reflect both her connection and similarity, yet independence and difference, with her mother. She worked under this mantle for a few years before being accepted into the Academy and starting her own career as a hero, rather than as the sidekick to her parents.