#ava sharp

50s avalance !!! As soon as I saw the pics I had to do this.

And under the cut is a little idea of mine.

"What if a nowadays historian gets fascinated by avalance appearing across the history?"

Let me start with that I am fan of Sara Lance from her days as Black Canary on Arrow. When she first showed up she was just Black Canary - a woman dressed in the very recognizable Black Canary outfit with canary cry device, who was saving the Arrow and kicking thugs who were harassing innocent women. But in the course of couple of episodes she became this very full blown character with a name, past, mistakes, friends, family, regrets, loves, enemies and fights. She was sweet and broken, and loving and harsh at the same time. When they killed this complex female hero, played by an actress who even Amell said can kick his ass, I was really disappointed. 

But Legends of Tomorrow brought her back. Caity Lotz shined even more as she was given amazing fight scenes, and proved she is legit Canary and not one deserving the grave. But the story of Sara, her personality, her family, her fights started to vanish and disappeared completely when they introduced Avalance.

 I know this gained many more fans of Sara. I find it weird that there is the tendency female characters to be more popular if they are in a romantic couple, as if a woman is not good enough on her own, she has to be part of something. In it self this shouldn't be a bad thing, we all want to belong. But when your whole individuality is completely lost it is not a good thing. 

You can be part of a couple and still be prominent character. I wanted Sara to find her significant other, whether it is Oliver, Nyssa, Cold, or someone new. I wanted this story to enrich her to give her new horizons, to make her even more human. I wanted her loved one to be a hero, to be interesting character with his/her own story. But what we've got is just a slap in the face. 

Her significant other is just a literal clone of her, she is the shell of  Sara and unfortunately turned Sara also into a shell. Sara Lance lost all her personality features, she does not interact with anyone else, she does not experience anything for herself, she does not have anything on her own, she is not even the solo captain. We can put aside the fact that her stories revolve around building wardrobes and being scolded for having her own working methods, or being shamed for loving a man, or her private conversations being violated. 

We can put aside that she is again over  and over presented as an assassin and someone who keeps secrets, we can put aside that her only repeating story is to die or be in a coma and not even have a moment to show how she feels about it. We can put all this aside if this actually was at least interesting, if it is development, if it is growth. But it is not. She is in some teenage relationship and that is why the best Avalance moment was when they were 13. 

And we can put all this aside if they were actually trying to develop Ava and make her a good character. But they are not. She is insecure grown up woman, who never had a real story of her own. And all this screen time they give Avalance is not even about these two to experience something together. Obviously they are mirror images of each other, they are like twin sisters who talk simultaneously and are always together. 

The story about Sara blindness for example - it was perfect opportunity this to be story just for her, as it is really personal thing. But they decided that Sara does not need a voice how she feels, it is more important how Ava freaks out about it, then Sara just realizes she is ninja and is used to the dark and problem solved. The zombies episode was another example. It was perfect to give Avalance a mutual experience. But not one more scene of how they fight as two bad asses back to back, but a real experience: how they make plan together, what the two of them feel, how they save the team in a mutual effort. Instead we had how Ava freaks out that Sara would die, Sara goes to fight the zombies alone so Ava can save the team, but Ava just stands there crying and doing nothing.

In conclusion what should have been something great for the fans of Sara turned out to be plain robbery. 

Sara Lance while being tortured: I can’t imagine what Ava must be feeling now

Ava Sharp - didn’t even noticed that Sara was missing