Sara Lance/Relationships

The relationships of Sara Lance from the Arrowverse.
== Romances ==
=== Oliver Queen ===
Best Friend and ex-boyfriend 
Being childhood friends make the Oliver and Sarah relationship as one of the longest running pairings in the series. They started an affair together when Oliver was still dating her sister Laurel but seemingly lost each other when the Queen's Gambit sunk. They reunited about a year later and nearly spent a year together on Lian Yu fighting Slade, until Oliver lost Sarah again when they were fighting Slade on the Amazo and later reunited. Sara always had a crush on Oliver.  She snuck into a party that Tommy was hosting just to get close to spending time with Oliver despite Sara being underage at a rave only meant for people over the age of 18.  However, She lost her chances when her sister called Quentin andl the other cops to break up the party.
After being scared that Laurel wanted to share an apartment with him which would signify moving to the next step in a relationship, Oliver started having an affair with Sara and invited her to come with him and his father on the Queen's Gambit for a trip to China. At first hesitant, Sara eventually agreed after having a heated argument with Laurel. Sara supposedly drowned when the Queen's Gambit toppled over and ocean water flooded the yacht.  However, in the category 2 storm, Oliver was saved by his father and a crew remember when the Queen's Gambit went down and Sara was miles away from him. Their romantic feelings for each other resurfaced after their their encounter with the League of Assassins and Nyssa al Ghul. Their second relationship ended in less of a tragedy. Sarah revealed she was willing to kill Roy when the opportunity opened itself up to her and would have had the chance after he nearly landed Sin in the hospital. Believing herself to be filled with darkness, she still saw there was some light left in Oliver and it was something she didn't have, so she broke up with him. Instead, they remained friends.
==== Nyssa al Ghul ====
Ex-Girlfriend 
=== Ava Sharpe ===
Wife
== Family ==
=== Laurel Lance ===
Sister and former teammate, successor
Sara used to be extremely close with her sister, Laurel, who affectionately began calling her "Sare-Bear." They often played together, and often did so when Sara and Laurel played together as a doctor and attorney respectively. However, the sisters drifted apart when Laurel called their father and the cops on her then underaged sister at one of Tommy's raves. However Laurel called their dad, the cop on Sara to break up the party to protect her. At the time, Sara thought Laurel did this because she was aware of her sister's crush and did this to hurt her. When Laurel and Oliver became a couple, this further supported Sara's idea her sister ratted her out to Quentin just to spite her.  However, in truth, Laurel presumably  wasn't aware of her crush on Oliver and just didn't want Sara to go down a wrong path.
At least five years prior to the series, Sara was invited to leave with Oliver on the Queen's Gambit. She was almost tempted not to leave; however, Sara questioned why Laurel was even dating Oliver and tried talking her out of being in a relationship with him. However, after the conversation turned into an argument, Sara made the final decision to leave with Oliver on the Queen's Gambit. After feeling alone on the Amazo and commiting horrendous acts as Dr Anthony ivo's assistant, Sara felt shameful for what she had done. Not wanting her parents or her sister to know this, Sara requested for Oliver that if he ever returned home, to tell her family that she drowned when the Gambit went down. She didn't want them to tarnish their memories of her, and wanted them to remember her the way she was and not the way she is.  
When Laurel was reunited with her mother, Dinah, she had proof that Sara appeared to be alive with a girl in the photo looking like her. However, the girl in the photo turned out to be just another tourist, making Laurel's hope that her sister was alive diminished.
=== Quentin Lance ===
Father
=== Dinah Lance ===
Mother
=== Tommy Merlyn ===
Brother-in-law
Tommy Merlyn was one of Sara's friends who she met through their shared affiliation with Laurel Lance. Whatever relationship Tommy and Sara had together is not clarified. However they were still good friends, as he often let Sara join him, Oliver and Laurel at his parties, depending on the type. However, it is highly likely Tommy would only refuse Sarah an invitation if due to his dislike of allowing minors at raves meant for people over the age of 18. This is proven in a flashback of Season 3 of Arrow, where Tommy refused to let anyone under the age of 18. The last time Tommy likely saw Sara was before she left on the Queen's Gambit with Oliver and Robert Queen and was presumed dead. They never saw each other again. While Sara was still with the League of Assassins, a terrible catalystic event known as the undertaking occurred in Starling City and Tommy lost his life in the process of saving Laurel long before Sarah came back to Star City to check on her family. 
However in the new multiversal timeline, Tommy was revived by Oliver Queen when the multiverse rebirth happened. In this new timeline, Tommy married Laurel, and became Sara's brother-in-law. 
== Friends ==
=== Felicity Smoak ===
Good Friend 
Felicity and Sara are good friends. Like everyone else Felicity thought Sarah was dead because of Oliver's claims she died on the Gambit. However, he was just fulfilling Sarah's wish in case she didn't survive their confrontation with Slade tell her family she died on the Gambit so they remember her for who she was instead of a person she has become now.  Oliver first told Felicity (and John) that Sarah was still alive, and it was Felicity who pointed out Laurel and Quentin blamed Oliver for everything that had happened to her.
Sara and Felicity officially met in 2014 when the former and Oliver were attacked by a member of the League of Assassins. The latter tell Sara that she's glad that she is alive while also rambling that have never met until now. Sara is confused at first, but gently tells Felicity she finds her rambling being "cute"
Felicity grew somewhat jealous of Sara and felt like a shadow to her: because she could match Diggle and Oliver in a fight when Felicity can't. Sara can tell that something is bothering the other woman, but can't seem to get through to it. Sara advised Felicity to move her hips when fighting in case of emergency. However, after Felicity saves her from the Clock King, Sara and Felicity begin having a friendship. At the end of this episode, Felicity finally realizes both she and Sara are equals and special in their own way. 
=== Barry Allen ===
Good Friend 
Sara first met Barry Allen in 2016 with the threat of the dominators loomed over them, mostly through their mutual friendship with Oliver Queen. When the Legends, Team Flash, Team Arrow and Supergirl came together to fight this new evil, Sara and the others all voted Barry on being the leader despite Cisco insisting Oliver instead. However, she noticed Oliver took lead through Barry and made a note of that, to everyone's amusement. After Cisco discovered a flash drive contained an older Barry Allen's voice, Barry was forced to tell everyone that he had traveled back in time to save his mother from dying, creating an alternate timeline called Flashpoint. Sara berated Barry for the decision to change the timeline. However, Sara's accusations are somewhat hypocritical because she herself has tried to do so by trying to kill Damien Dark in order to save her sister. However, her trust in Barry is eventually restored when he offers to turn himself in to the Dominators in order to spare the Earth. Possibly realizing they both have made the same mistake, Sara and the rest of their friends immediately refused to let him go through with this and instead, they fought the Dominators together. 
Because they are allies, Barry will occasionally ask Sara and the Legends about their own theories of time travel. When Nora West Allen, his daughter from the future arrived, Barry told Wally to consult with Sara and the other Legends If they could have offered Nora a trip back into the future. 
After Oliver's sacrifice in the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Barry and Sara shared a moment by grieving together for their loss. It got them closer when they both there during Oliver's final moments. When the multiverse was reborn, Sara and Barry both took down Sargon the Sorcerer together and the Anti-Monitor with the help of the friends. After the final defeat of the anti-monitor, Sara joined Barry's new team of vigilantes to defend Earth Prime from other threats and hopes to keep Oliver Queen's memory alive. Despite the new team being established, during Armageddon, when Jefferson suggested to Barry they called the rest of the teammates including Sara instead of removing his powers, Barry immediately refused 
  
== Enemies ==
=== Malcolm Merlyn ===
Due to him being the reason the Queen's Gambit sank and Sara ended up stranded on a boat and island "in hell", she likely does not get along with Malcolm and blames him for what he has done to her, her friends and family. This got even worse in season 3 of Arrow when Malcolm was and indirectly responsible for Sarah's first death. He figured out Sarah, who had returned to the League of Assassins, was hunting him down unorders on Ra's al Ghul. In order for his blood debt with the League to be paid in regards to the Undertaking, Malcolm drugged his daughter Thea with cuare, a drug that makes the victim susceptible to command (practically brainwashing), and make his daughter to kill Sara. About a year later, Laurel Lance demanded Malcolm revive Sara with the Lazarus Pit because he had a hand on her demise. Reluctantly, he agreed. 
During the second season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Sara and her new team of vigilantes, the Legends, encountered another version of Malcolm from the year 2015.She (rightfully) despised him for being responsible for her previous death despite him being crucial in her revival. No longer seeing Malcolm as her friend's father, Sara practically considers him a secondary arch enemy (after Damien Darhk), and a threat to her friends and the timeline
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