Ultimately Sara leaves to protect her family from the League but has to return when Laurel is in danger. Growing weary of the killing was another reason Sara had returned home, but the League was not ready to let her go. It was also the first place she found love. Ironically, however, Nanda Parbat was the first place where Sara was shown she had value and was worthy. She'd spent the past years becoming one of the league's deadliest assassin's Ta-er-Sahfer (yellow bird, Canary). She goes on to tell him she was rescued from the nearby island of Lian Yu, by Nyssa Al Ghul (Katrina Law) and taken to recover in Nanda Parbat where she trained and later joined a group known as the League of Assassins led by Nyssa's father, Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable). Tired of living under the shadow of Laurel (Katie Cassidy), her older sister, Sara impetuously takes off for a jaunt on the Queen's Gambit with her sister's boyfriend, Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell). We are first introduced to Sara Lance (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) in the pilot episode of Arrow. Sara Lance is a unique and complicated character and I fear I won't do her character arc justice but am going to try my best by pointing the episodes or scenes that I feel help best describe her journey. But first, let's take a quick look back at who Sara Lance is and the many events that have shaped her character. I will reveal what those moments are later in this article. She thought for a moment then revealed two events she considered among the most important in Sara's life. I recently had the unique opportunity to meet Caity Lotz at a Heroes and Villains Fan Fest Event in Nashville, TN and asked her what events she considers most significant in Sara's journey. No matter the circumstance she has exhibited an innate quality that has others looking to her for leadership, despite the fact that she herself has doubted her self-worth and is uncomfortable with the word hero. A common thread runs deep in Sara, throughout all her trials she remains a fighter and a survivor and has ultimately made the journey to hero. His words describe Sara's journey perfectly - I don't think I've seen a more tortured, and at times tormented soul than Sara's and yet she continues to press on, driven by her own code of honor and has more than once sacrificed her happiness or future for the common good. "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." (Campbell, Joseph (1949). In 1949 Campbell wrote in his work The Hero with a Thousand Faces, about the basic narrative pattern and described it as: I can believe that when noted scholar Joseph Campbell first wrote of The Hero's Journey, he could scarcely imagine a character like Sara. I'm tired just watching, so I can only imagine how exhausted Caity Lotz who has portrayed Sara since Season 2 of Arrow, must be, after taking this incredible character on this amazing journey. I think we can honestly surmise that none of the other TACS subjects can lay claim to the fact that they have been presumed dead, died and resurrected a reported seven times during the course of their series. Since we first met Sara on Arrow she has been – a rebellious younger sister a shipwreck survivor a torture victim a cold-blooded assassin a back-from-the-presumed dead daughter, lover, friend a masked vigilante Black Canary fighting alongside Team Arrow a murder victim resurrected from death had her black soul restored became a legend became White Canary died again was resurrected again grown into team leadership and ultimately become team captain who literally held the fate of the world in her hands and unselfishly sacrificed her own happiness for the greater good. In just a few short seasons on not one, but two different shows, Sara Lance has been through more life changing events than many of us see in one lifetime.
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