User blog:Eobard95/Is the new Canary actually Laurel's mother?

"My real name is Dinah, Dinah Drake". While this moment in the latest episode made my smile it also made my suspicous. Dinah Laurel Lance and now Dinah Drake, and Laurel's mother is Dinah Lance and I'm pretty sure her fully name is Dinah Drake Lance. While it could be an oversight for Laurel, Laurel’s mother and Dinah Drake to all have the same first name it seems very coincidental until it dawned on me. Could Dinah Drake actually be Laurel's mother? What if Dinah Drake is going to go back in time and meet a younger Quentin and conceive the sisters? True Dinah Lance is a human historian while Dinah Drake is a meta-human cop but there is one answer.

Time travel interventions sometimes cause younger versions of characters to live different lives as than their present day counterparts, resulting in the present day versions of them either losing their original memories or gaining memories of two timelines, Professor Martin Stein is a prime example of this. When Martin boarded the Waverider for the first time he had no children then interacted with his younger self in 1987, and he fathered Lily even though Martin himself never technically did this. After this Martin gained the memories of his younger self raising Lily while he still remembers his own timeline where he never did. I think both Dinahs could be the same person and here’s how. In the original timeline Dinah was an ordinary person who was born and raised in Central City sometime in the mid-80s and lived a life as a history professor.

This would be a life where Laurel and Sara never existed and thus Quentin never had kids and Oliver Queen never met the love of his life. But I think somehow Dinah ended up back in the early-80s as an adult with no means of return. To avoid interacting with her younger self she moved to Starling City to start a new life where she met Quentin Lance and after they fell in love, they conceived Laurel and Sara effectively creating time aberrations. This would also be good story for Sara if she discovers and she and her sister are aberations, when her mission is to correct them. This would also cause her to question her perceptions of what timelines are the correct ones.

Though Dinah probably would have stayed away from Central City to avoid her younger self and ensure the time loop remains intact, Eobard Thawne murdering Nora Allen and Harrison Wells, and creating the particle accelerator in 2013, when neither were supposed to die and the accelerator wasn't meant to be built until 2020, could have caused enough ruptures to the timeline to change the actions of Dinah’s younger self and she became a cop instead of a historian, and then became a meta-human whereas older Dinah did not. As a result the younger Dinah’s history will be different as she is now a meta-human vigilante working with Oliver Queen as the successor to the Black Canary mantle. However I think she’ll go back to the early 1980s, maybe because she learns of her relation to Laurel and Sara and meet the younger Quentin Lance and marry him and and conceive the sisters to restore the timeline.

However this Dinah will have lived a different life to what older Dinah herself did as a cop/vigilante and not a historian, so the present day Dinah’s memories will change. Now she’ll remember a life as a time displaced historian and one as a time displaced vigilante cop. As younger Dinah in this timeline became a meta-human chances are the older Dinah will become one too to align with the timeline. I know this may be a bit far-fetched by come on! Dinah Drake has the same first name as Laurel and her mother in a universe of shows with time travel and Multiverse, when it’s a known fact that Dinah Drake is traditionally Laurel Lance’s mother?

Wouldn’t it just be the most awesome way to stay faithful to the comics whilst putting their own twists on it if Dinah became the successor to her own daughter’s mantle? Also the traditional comic Dinah Drake is actually the mother of Dinah Laurel Lance. It would also be good story material for Sara learns she's an aberration herself, when she's been lecturing Martin about creating one. We also need to remember one thing. Dinah Lance is played by freaking River Song so this sounds completely plausible.