User blog:Eobard95/Is Prometheus manipulating Felicity and Dinah?

Be warned! There is a few spoilers from last night's episode. While I am still kinda two minds about Dinah Drake, as I still miss Laurel, I am starting to warm up to her. That said I can't help but wonder if her meeting Oliver wasn’t by chance, nor was Felicity obtaining the Pandora file. We’ve seen that Prometheus has manipulated Oliver a few times now, first when he tricked him into killing Billy and, then forcing Oliver to make himself as Green Arrow public enemy number one by revealing teh cover up on Billy's death to the public. He also manipulated and turned Evelyn against him, faked Lyla's voice to get Diggle arrested and used Earth-2 Laurel to mess him him emotionally so I can only assume he's got more dirty tricks up his sleeves. I think Dinah and Felicity are two victims of his manipulations for these reasons:

Oliver promised Laurel he'd find a successor to the Canary mantle then Prometheus released Earth-2 Laurel from the pipeline and encountering her motivated Oliver to keep his promise, and then he met Dinah. I do not think this was by chance. I think Prometheus sent Black Siren after Oliver because he knew Oliver encountering an evil version of the woman he loved, would motivate him into finding a Canary successor. I also think Prometheus manipulated Felicity into obtaining the Pandora file from the hacker group. We now know that Prometheus is Adrian Chase yet he made sure Diggle was sent back to prison, only to get him back out as a free man.

However he couldn’t have done that without Felicity using the Pandora file which Felicity could only have obtained if she had met that Helix hacker group girl. I think Prometheus made sure Diggle got sent back to prison precisely so Felicity could obtain Pandora from her, or he is connected to Helix and had it all along and wanted Felicity to obtain possession of it to send her down a darker path. After all Adrian seems to know everything about Oliver and the fact that he knew about Earth-2 Laurel and the Waverider, indicates he knows about the Multiverse and time travel, which also indicates his also kept tabs not just on Oliver but on Barry and Sara too.

Prometheus is trying to prove that Oliver is poison to everyone he encounters, so I think he’s building up the team’s hopes only to tear it away. I think he’s planning on killing Dinah and to use Pandora to start some kind of uprising in Star City so he can prove his point. After all if Oliver hadn’t been “The Hood” then Adrian never would have become “Prometheus” to avenge his father, and everyone that’s joined him since wouldn’t have and they wouldn’t hav been put in danger or killed like Laurel was. I am hoping I’m wrong about this as I do really like Dinah, but her appearance as a result of Oliver encountering Earth-2 Laurel, and Prometheus subsequent 5 week absence, made me a bit suspicious. However I still think there is something more going on with Dinah simply because of her name, because Dinah Drake is Laurel Lance’s mother, and she is quite like her.

I recently suspected, going back and watching old, episodes that Adrian may have been with Laurel as he mentions in 5x03 that he and Oliver met 12 years ago when he successfully picked up his girlfriend. This would have been around 2004 and Oliver and Laurel had been dating for sometime by 2005. While he is speculated to be Justin Clayborne's son trying to avenge the death of his father, which I'm still not sure I believe, maybe that's not his only motivation. Maybe he believes Oliver is to blame for Laurel's death because she wouldn't have become Black Canary, if Oliver never became Green Arrow. Also noteworthy, “Prometheus”, “Artemis” and “Pandora” are Greek mythology figures, coincidence? I’m not sure how it really works yet but Dinah Drake’s appearance and Felicity obtaining Pandora seem very coincidentally timed. Hell for all we know he could have set up the nuke in Afghanistan to get Diggle framed and chosen to attack Curtis knowing Paul would leave him, and Evelyn could have been working with him the whole time.