Evelyn Sharp


 * For other people who used the "Canary" identity, see Canary.

"Despite my better instincts, when all this is over, I will come back for you." "When all this is over, you'll be dead!"

- Oliver Queen and Evelyn

Evelyn Crawford Sharp (born c. 1999) is a resident of Star City, and was one H.I.V.E.'s unwilling test subjects. Following the death of Black Canary, she started imitating her idol's alter-ego and began crusade to get revenge on H.I.V.E. for the death of her parents. Evelyn was later recruited by Green Arrow into Team Arrow under the code-name Artemis. However, after learning that Oliver was also "The Hood", who she'd previously considered a serial killer, Evelyn came to resent Oliver and believed him a false hero. Following this revelation, Evelyn betrayed Team Arrow and allied with Adrian Chase/Prometheus to get revenge on Oliver. It is currently unknown if she survived the explosion on Lian Yu, despite Nyssa al Ghul searching for her after the island got destroyed.

Early life
Evelyn was born in 1999 to her parents in Star City. As a teenager, Evelyn grew up to become an excellent student and a star gymnast at Star City High School, never so much as missing a single day at school. By her junior year, she also became the class president and captain of the academic decathletes. Evelyn and her family knew several unnamed individuals from The List who were killed by The Hood, and she came to despise the vigilante for it.

Unwilling test subject
Around Christmas 2015, Evelyn and her parents got involved in the following of Damien Darhk. Team Arrow was present at Reddington Industrial, where they were being held, but were unable to set them free from the grasp of Darhk. When Malcolm Merlyn destroyed the facility, Evelyn's parents were among the dead. Evelyn had managed to escape and officially remained missing. She blamed not only Darhk, but also Green Arrow for abandoning them, as he believed all the candidates were there voluntarily. However, Evelyn witnessed the Black Canary's attempt to rescue her and her family and came to idolize her, believing she was the only one who even tried to do so. Evelyn continued to stay under the radar and began training and preparing to get revenge on H.I.V.E. for what happened to her parents. Knowing she couldn't take on Darhk by herself, she plotted to kill his wife, Ruvé Adams (having presumably learned her identity during her time as H.I.V.E.'s prisoner) and anyone else associated with them. It's implied that she somehow knew Laurel's identity as the Black Canary, as she would know exactly where to find the Canary Cry collar, presumably from her connections in the hospital, where the Black Canary's identity was revealed.

Imitating the Black Canary
After Laurel died in the hospital of injuries afflicted by Darhk, Evelyn snuck into her room and stole her Canary Cry. Donning a suit identical to that of the Black Canary, she then attacked a gun ring and stole their weaponry. Later, she attacked Alex Davis in a restaurant while he was dining with Thea Queen due to his association with Ruvé. Using the Canary Cry to shatter the windows, she beat Alex up and prepared to execute him with a gun, but was disarmed by Thea, who removed her mask. Evelyn used the Canary Cry to push Thea back and quickly escaped. While fleeing she was chased by the Green Arrow. As he cornered her, she blamed him for the death of her parents and then subdued him long enough with the Canary Cry to escape.

Evelyn later prepared to kill Ruvé at a gala. She shot two bodyguards but was then stopped by the Green Arrow. He apologized for not saving her parents and tried to talk her out of her crusade, but Evelyn refused to listen. She continued and scattered the crowd with her Canary Cry before holding Ruvé at gunpoint. Green Arrow tried to talk to her again but Evelyn wounded him with a gunshot so he couldn't physically interfere. As she prepared to shoot Ruvé, he reminded her how the real Black Canary was a hero and that by taking her identity she could not simply act as an avenger. Wishing to stay true to her heroine, Evelyn dropped the gun and took off as the cops moved in. She later attended the funeral of Laurel Lance and watched as Oliver Queen revealed that Laurel had been the Black Canary.

Joining Team Arrow
Several months after Darhk's death Evelyn continued acting as a vigilante and was approached by Green Arrow to join his team if she could prove herself capable enough. Evelyn went to H.I.V.E.'s former base where she was told to go where she met other recruits Curtis Holt and Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog and Green Arrow's tech-support Felicity Smoak/Overwatch. When Green Arrow arrived he tasked the three to get past him and ring a bell behind him to advanced, but he brutally engaged them and when stopped were ordered to return to the start and try again. However Green Arrow's brutal methods caused resentment from Evelyn, Curtis and Rene. Later when AmerTek Industries was holding a charity event funded by Mayor Oliver Queen, Green Arrow ordered Evelyn, Rene and Curtis to attend to be ready to respond as their CEO was being targeted. When the attacker Rory Regan/Ragman attacked Green Arrow they engaged but Rene impulsively attacked Ragman, allowing him the chance to escape. Green Arrow scolded the three of them for their insubordination and the three left the team, disguested with his attutude. However, Green Arrow later called them back and revealed his identity as Oliver Queen to them, apologizing for the harsh training and asked for a second chance which the three agreed to, and she was given the codename "Artemis".

After training for another week, Felicity began showing Evelyn, Curtis, Rene and Rory (who Oliver talked out of his crusade and convinced him to join their side) Green Arrow pursuing criminals through surveillance cameras to show them how he gets results. Green Arrow chased a street dealer distributing the new Stardust drug and learned his supplier's name, Derek Sampson, but the team was starting to become agitated from not participating in missions, but Oliver told them to keep training until he feels ready to let them help in the field. Rene impulsively went out to find Sampson on his own and persuaded Evelyn to help him find Sampson but Evelyn believed it was simply recon. However Rene instead attacked Sampson forcing Evelyn to fight back against his men but Rene's recklessness led to Sampson falling into a pool of chemicals used to create Stardust presumably killing him. Sampson however survived and became stronger, unable to feel pain. Green Arrow later brought Artemis, Wild Dog, Ragman and Mr. Terrific to stop Sampson with the team handling his men and sabotaging his equipment to replicate more of the chemicals that made him invincible, while Green Arrow confronted him. After succeeding, Oliver brought the team to the Arrowcave and they found the display cases for Oliver's suit and the former members of the first Team Arrow.

Becoming Artemis
As the new team was finally allowed to become known to the public, Artemis became the female archer, officially replacing Speedy. However, there was difficultly due to Rene's impulsive and recklessness tendencies by taking down a guy Evelyn was initially ordered to shoot with her arrows. The team had trouble getting along, but they all knew they had to pull it together. After failing to stop the Green Arrow from breaking Spartan out of military prison, Evelyn and her teammates returned to the Arrowcave where they got news of Tobias Church's latest criminal action. Felicity was reluctant to send them out against Church, though Rory's return to Team Arrow convinced her to allow the mission. The team engaged in battle but was forced to retreat when Curtis got a knife thrown in his back. Evelyn and Rory took him to the getaway car driven by Quentin Lance, while Rene stayed behind to engage Church and buy them time. Prometheus's killing spree that started with Church's death forced Oliver to reveal to his new team his past actions as 'The Hood', leaving Evelyn betrayed and angered, believing Oliver to be a hypocrite for not allowing her to commit similar acts of vengeance against her parents' murderers. Despite this Evelyn did not leave Team Arrow, declaring that she was doing it for herself, and so was not beholden to Oliver.

Prometheus later appeared on a train cart, intending to kill a civilian guarded by Artemis. Determined to protect her assignment, Artemis fought with Prometheus, but was swiftly defeated. Once the Green Arrow had arrived at the scene, the Throwing Star Killer was gone, leaving behind a bomb and an unconscious Artemis. Back at the Arrowcave Evelyn and Oliver made amends. Evelyn was later seen accessing the backstage of a concert with her friends, thanks to Oliver's connections.

Allying with Prometheus
Despite appearing to make amends, Evelyn still resented Oliver. Some time after learning Oliver was the Hood/Arrow respectively, Evelyn was approached by Prometheus and offered the chance to watch Oliver die, in exchange for aiding him against the team. She accepted and began acting as a double agent within the team, providing Prometheus with information on Team Arrow and their loved ones. After Team Arrow clashed against the Vigilante, Evelyn went on the rooftop to meet with Prometheus and told him that the team did not suspect a thing about her current alliance to the enemy.

Weeks later, Evelyn meets with Prometheus in an abandoned building and gives him all the intel about Team Arrow and reminds him of the deal that they made: In exchange for giving him intel, she watches him take down Oliver. But Prometheus tells her he is not going to kill Oliver, he is going to make him wish he was dead.

Evelyn returns to the Arrowcave and gives Christmas presents to the team. Later, she and the team find out that Prometheus attacked Curtis and is possibly Justin Claybourne's son. The team tracks down Prometheus and as Rene attempts to shoot Prometheus, Evelyn disarms him revealing her alliance with Prometheus and tells Oliver that he is a fraud and "that this city needs to be saved from you" and takes off with Prometheus.



When Adrian kidnapped Oliver and tortured him from March 15-22, he set about breaking Oliver psychologically. One of the methods was by "revealing" that he had been keeping Evelyn in the same prison as Oliver. Evelyn claimed she regretted siding with Prometheus and couldn't handle being his prisoner anymore. Adrian pretended to snap her neck, attempting to show Oliver once again that everyone around him is in danger. Once Oliver finally broke, Evelyn stood up and revealed that she and Prometheus were pretending in order to make him confess the reason why he is a killer. She reassured her hatred for Oliver and left him in the prison.

After Chase was arrested by A.R.G.U.S., Evelyn blackmailed an A.R.G.U.S. guard into releasing Black Siren. The two of them, working with Talia al Ghul, then kidnapped Dinah Drake, Rene and Curtis. Evelyn and Black Siren then infiltrated the A.R.G.U.S. safe house where Thea and Quentin were hiding out in. They took out all the guards, ambushed and kidnapped Thea and Quentin, and drove them off to an unspecified location before unloading them. When Thea sarcastically asked Evelyn where they were being taken, Black Siren responded "That's a surprise". They then blackmailed Oliver into letting Chase go by threatening his son, William. Evelyn and Black Siren met with Talia and her assassins, who had captured Felicity and Diggle. They brought the prisoners to Lian Yu to lure Oliver there for a final confrontation. Evelyn and Talia were responsible for guarding cages which held Thea, Felicity, Curtis and William's mother Samantha captive. As Oliver, Slade Wilson and Digger Harkness arrived, Evelyn and Talia ambushed them, with Digger revealing his true allegiance. As Evelyn held Oliver at gunpoint, Slade pretended to join them, only to suddenly attack Digger. She was distracted and Oliver quickly disarmed Evelyn and and knocked her unconscious. As Evelyn woke up, she realized that Talia and Digger had left her behind, and was forced into one of the cages by Slade, who coldly told her that she "should choose her friends more wisely". When Oliver questioned her as to where are the rest of his friends, Evelyn said she wished she knew so she could tell them all "to screw themselves". When asked why Chase split up the hostages and what his endgame was, Evelyn just smugly pointed out that Chase was always ahead of them and raised the possibility that leaving her behind was part of his plan. Despite everything that has happened and everything Evelyn has done, Oliver promised to come back for her once this is all over. She corrected him that once this is all over, he'd be dead. When Adrian Chase killed himself to detonate the explosives covering the island, Evelyn was still locked up in a cage.

It is currently unknown what happened to Evelyn after the destruction of Lian Yu, as Slade told Oliver that "Ra's al Ghul's daughter" left to go find her.

Alternate reality
In a reality created by Eobard Thawne using the Spear of Destiny, Artemis was killed by Damien Darhk along with Spartan, Black Canary, The Flash, Ragman, Wild Dog, Vigilante and later Felicity. All of their masks were kept as trophies in Darhk's office.

Personality
Evelyn was a highly driven student and athlete who never missed a day of school, being described by Felicity Smoak as a "16-year-old badass in the making". Evelyn deeply loved her parents and was devastated when they were killed. Seemingly stemming from their murders, Evelyn grew cold and ruthless, determined to avenge her parents by killing H.I.V.E.'s members, and was also willing to hurt anyone who got in the way of her and her vengeance. Additionally, Evelyn is shown to hate Green Arrow believing he left her and her parents to die, though he wasn't aware they were being controlled, and was even willing to shoot him to ensure he wouldn't interfere with her mission. However, Evelyn highly idolized Black Canary. After Laurel's death, Evelyn used her as an example, donning an identical outfit and using the Canary Cry to exact her revenge. Evelyn was ultimately talked out of her mission by Green Arrow, who reminded her that the real Black Canary stood for and Evelyn dropped her crusade to preserve her heroine's legacy.
 * -|As a civilian=

Despite listening to Green Arrow, Evelyn admitted to still despising and blaming the vigilante for her parents' deaths. When he approached her to join his team, Evelyn was level-headed enough to put her grudge aside and accept the offer, knowing she could help more people if she worked with him, though it was still very difficult for her to make this choice.

Since joining Team Arrow Evelyn has been shown to be very observant and hardworking, listening to and noting Oliver's training. Just like with her studies, Evelyn is driven to excel and prove her worth as a vigilante. She is light-hearted and sarcastic, yet protective and kind when it comes to her friends. Evelyn also has a spunky, feisty side much like her idol, acknowledged by John Diggle to be a "Laurel Lance wannabe". Evelyn's level-headedness has caused her to often clash with Rene Ramirez due to his reckless and disobedient nature, though she gets along well with Rory Regan and Curtis Holt, whom she often spars with. Evelyn briefly expressed an attraction to Rory and was pleased when he started to smile more often.
 * -|As Artemis=

After learning that Oliver was also the "Hood/Arrow" respectively, Evelyn came to greatly resent him, having known several people from The List who he'd killed, and deemed him a hypocrite and false hero. This new-found resentment, combined with her lingering hatred towards him for her parents, drove Evelyn to betray Oliver and ally with Adrian Chase. She also provided Adrian with information on the other members of Team Arrow, showing that her drive for vengeance outweighed any regard for her teammates and their loved ones. Evelyn has become quite hypocritical and delusional, claiming that "this city needs to be saved from [Oliver]", when she is actually a villain herself in allying with Adrian, knowing full well that the latter is far more evil than Oliver ever was, having killed numerous innocent people just to make a point.

While Evelyn claims to be aligning with Adrian to avenge her family, she completely disregarded the fact that Oliver got justice for her parents by destroying H.I.V.E. and killing Damien Darhk, and she is really doing this for herself. Evelyn has lost all sense of morality and honor, becoming cruel and sadistic; She wants to help Adrian destroy Oliver for his past mistakes, no matter the consequences. Thus, she didn't raise any objections to Adrian targeting innocent people in his plan, such as kidnapping Susan Williams and killing Doris, his own wife. She even personally helped Adrian psychologically torture Oliver to break his spirit and mocked him when he finally broke. Evelyn also helped kidnap and was willing to potentially kill all of Oliver's family and friends, including his young son William and William's mother Samantha, becoming just as bad as her parents' murderers.

Upon betraying the team, Evelyn seems to have lost all respect for Laurel, who was once her idol, possibly due to the latter's connection to the Hood. For example, Evelyn worked with Earth Two Laurel Lance to emotionally taunt and capture Quentin Lance, Earth One Laurel's father.

Evelyn blindly trusted Prometheus' team and to genuinely believe their actions are for the good of the city. She is smug and arrogant towards Team Arrow, despite being no match for them on her own. This attitude, combined with her self-righteous grudge against Oliver and limited skill set, earned Evelyn no respect from Adrian or his allies, given how Talia al Ghul and Digger Harkness abandoned her at the first opportunity. Even when captured by Team Arrow. Evelyn still showed no guilt or remorse for her actions and arrogantly mocked Oliver, proving just how far gone she is.

Abilities

 * Acrobatics: As a former gymnast, Evelyn can move gracefully over obstacles and scale fences fluidly. Later, she was able to easily jump a great height from a tree to the ground.
 * Skilled combatant: Evelyn had some basic combat skills, as shown when she beat up Alex Davis and knocked him unconscious. After being trained by Oliver, Evelyn became skilled enough to easily defeat armed criminals without assistance. She was able to hold her own for a time against Prometheus and tag him during their encounter, though it's heavily implied he purposefully held back. Ultimately, Evelyn's skills are no match for Oliver, who was able to disarm her of her gun and knock her out in seconds.
 * Skilled markswoman: Evelyn is skilled in the use of a firearm. She was able to kill two bodyguards before they were able to respond.
 * Expert archer: As "Artemis", Evelyn uses a green recurve bow, that has great resemblance to bows of Arsenal and Speedy. It seems that she is skilled enough in archery to use it in a real fight effectively as she uses the bow against criminals of Star City, as shown during her confrontation with Prometheus, where she managed to hit him with an arrow, although it was ineffective. Her skills greatly improved as she was able to disarm Ramirez from his guns with a single shot.
 * Skilled stick fighter: As "Artemis", Evelyn carries a black baton, attached to her quiver. She was skilled enough to hold her own, along with Curtis, against the expert assassin Scimitar for a brief time. Also, like Oliver and his past protégés, she uses her bow as a melee weapon.
 * High-level intellect/Expert tactician: Evelyn was noted to be a star pupil at her high school, being excellent in her studies and never missing a day at school. Her intellect was enough for her to become a regarded academic decathlete. Evelyn's status profile/missing persons report also implies she's a very well-read individual. Later, with the help of Black Siren, Evelyn was able to attack a heavily guarded A.R.G.U.S. safe house and kidnap Thea Queen and Quentin Lance.
 * Expert of deception: Evelyn was able to completely deceive Team Arrow while working with Prometheus. Later, while Oliver was Prometheus's prisoner for a week, Evelyn was able to convince Oliver she regretted allying with Prometheus and was mentally breaking down.
 * Expert engineer: Evelyn was knowledgeable enough in mechanics to further improve the Canary Cry, already modified by an accomplished scientist and engineer Cisco Ramon.
 * Stealth: Working with Black Siren, Evelyn was able to infiltrate a safe house and systematically take out the guards. While Thea and Quentin were distracted by Black Siren, Evelyn silently snuck up on and tranquilized them. On Lian Yu, Evelyn was able to stay hidden with Talia al Ghul in a tree and ambush Oliver.

Equipment

 * Artemis suit: Under the alias "Artemis", Evelyn uses a new costume as a part of her vigilante appearance. The Artemis suit consists of a black leather jacket and dark green shirt and pants, which allows Evelyn to hide in the dark, sneaking and stalking her enemies more effectively.
 * Artemis mask: Evelyn uses a black mask to hide her identity from people. This mask looks like the one, that her mentor Oliver Queen uses.
 * Customized recurve bow: Evelyn uses a green recurve bow and has some degree of proficiency with it.

Former equipment

 * Black Canary suit: Evelyn produced a black leather suit of her own in order to imitate Laurel, appearing relatively identical, enough to convince most people who didn't know Laurel personally of her deception. She also wore a black mask, different to Laurel's, and a blonde wig to hide her identity.
 * Canary Cry: After taking her role as the Black Canary, Evelyn took Laurel's sonic device to fight crime. However, Evelyn modified it; its sonic waves have become so powerful, even Green Arrow's special earplugs couldn't protect his ears.

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Trivia

 * According to Evelyn's status profile/missing persons report from "Canary Cry", her two favorite quotes are:
 * “Don’t tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
 * "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
 * It was debatable on whether or not Evelyn's mask is indeed a mask and not eye paint, from far away shots it looks like a mask but when there's a close-up of her face it looks like eye paint. However, it was confirmed to be a mask when she was killed in an altered reality by Damien Darhk or one of his two henchmen and Damien put her mask on display in a trophy case.
 * She turned 17 (off-screen) after the events of Canary Cry as noted by Curtis when he made her decline an alcoholic beverage that Rory had initially offered her, making her the youngest member of Team Arrow.

Behind the scenes

 * In DC comics, Evelyn Crawford starts out as an ally of the Black Canary in New 52 continuity, known under the vigilante alias of "Starling"; and she joins Birds of Prey. However, on Arrow Crawford is her middle name, rather than her surname. Like on the show, Evelyn ends up betraying her team in the comics.
 * Her identity as "Artemis" is the name of several characters in the DC canon, but the show's version is based off Artemis Crock, the only one with a previous connection to Green Arrow, specifically the revamped version of the character from the TV series, Young Justice. However, while multiple people have donned the mantle of Artemis, Crawford is not one of them.
 * The cast calling name for her was Rebecca.