Dorothy Dixon
The Star
23
Female
Dorothy Anne Dixon
Dot, Dottie, Miss Dixon
Wols
What Happened on Wols
Dorothy (Dottie)
Gift of God
Dor-thee (Dot-ee)
Anne
Grace
Ann
Dixon
Son of Dick
Dix-in
Human
Average height, slender, curvy build.
Average
Tan
5'6"
Blonde
Brown
Curly, cut into a chic bob
Dottie is a woman who knows what she wants and plans to get it. She knows her worth and knows that she deserves more than solely being judged by her looks. She's a skilled poet whose works are often overlooked or dismissed without being read. She's fiercely loyal to her loved ones and is an avowed optimist. Despite her optimism, she's routinely dissatisfied with her life and doesn't know where to go next. She's talkative and clever and knows how to handle a crowd, and is probably the only one of the main cast who the others all confide in. She isn't above manipulating people to get what she wants, but tries to avoid doing so.
Very energetic, doesn't often sit still. Overuses hand gestures.
Dancing, poetry, very good with people
To gain the respect she deserves
Poetry, dancing, watercolors.
Stubborn, flighty, flippant, easily distracted. Often masks her true feelings and fears.
Dottie was born and raised on Wols to loving parents who encouraged her to pursue her artistic strengths, and even had her star in children's vaudeville-esque shows all through her youth until she aged out of her childlike role. She dipped in and out of several artistic pursuits in her later teens, never finding one that stuck until she attempted poetry. Her work was very good, but was often turned away by publishers who assumed that the socialite had nothing of worth to say. Dottie left home and began to explore the more urban parts of Wols, having grown up in one of its few more rural areas. She swiftly fell in love with city life and then with Niklos Holloron, a soldier stationed in the city who was soon sent off to fight on Chora. She wrote to him throughout the war and occasionally got replies. When the Truce was declared and Niklos came back to Wols, they reunited, although they were both very different from when they first met. They began a relationship that would soon grow dysfunctional.
Fairly high
February 13th
Alyssa and Rafael Dixon
Buckle in, because there's a lot:
May We Entertain You? from Gypsy: Since Dottie got her start in a similar type of childhood acting-slash-vaudevillesque stuff that June and Louise did, I felt like this was fitting. Although Dottie didn't have an act partner the way June does, her act is modeled on the "Baby June" act from Gypsy (and, y'know, history).
Baby June and Her Newsboys/Dainty June and Her Farmboys from Gypsy: Likewise, these are other songs where June is doing her routines and I imagine Dottie's as very similar--her as the star with a dancing ensemble, but one which doesn't detract from her. The latter is especially accurate as it shows the shift from her genuine enjoyment of the act as a kid to feeling trapped in it as a late teen.
The Story of Jessie and Lucy from Follies: This is the song that captures Dottie as an adult trying to re-establish herself. In the song, Phyllis feels torn between who she was when she was first in the Follies and who she is now years later, and it fits Dottie quite well. She doesn't want to go back to being a child star, but she also doesn't want to feel burned out of creation and wants to have acclaim again.
A notebook that she keeps her poetry in
Oona Tamsin
Grady O'Neill
Niklos Holloron
Hank Schriver
Niklos Holloron
Anything fluffy
Poet
Pink
Raspberries