“Father, forgive me. I know that I have gone astray, ‘Cause when I saw my reflection, it was a stranger beneath my face.”
did you hear that [ DORCAS MEADOWES ] will be attending the Black Ball during the coming weekend? They recently arrived in London for the social season and we will be excited to see if they make a splash this year. I heard that they are currently working as an [ CURSEBREAKER ] and that they have been quite successful. They always reminded me of [ A LIFETIME OF EXPECTATIONS SHOULDERED ALONE, THE BLISS OF COMPLETE SOLITUDE, CHAMPAGNE FLUTES AND GUILT CREEPING IN AT NIGHT ] and I heard that they can be [ ADAPTABLE + DILIGENT ] but also [ RUTHLESS + SECRETIVE ]. Rumor has it that they are [ WORKING AGAINST ] Tom Riddle, but you know that you can’t believe everything you hear. As far as I know, they are a model member of pureblood society.
tl;dr: if she likes you, she’ll die for you. if she hates you, you might as well have been burned out of existence already.
basics
full name. dorcas adara fawley meadowes. nicknames. doe, dork, dory, cas, cassie. do not use any of these if you want to keep your fingers unless your name is regulus or she’s decided you’re her friend. age. twenty four. birthday. november 18th, 1960. gender & pronouns. non-binary (demigirl? questioning) & she/they. blood status. halfblood claimed pureblood, ward of her grandmother, florentina fawley. sexual orientation. bisexual / queer. occupation. cursebreaker with the ministry of magic, department of gringott’s liaison. relationship status. single, though probably betrothed to a second son of a well respected pureblood family (hey, dorcas may not be respected, but her grandmother is). moral alignment. chaotic neutral? chaotic good? take your pick. affiliation. regulus black the orpheus society, slash anybody who is working against tom riddle. birthplace. guianan moist forests, guyana. spoken languages. english, guyanese creole, portuguese, french, spanish, latin.
appearance
faceclaim. maisie richardson-sellers. height. 5ft 5 1/2in. weight. 55kg. eye colour. brown. hair colour. black / dark brown. hair style. wears her natural hair sometimes, though she mostly has her hair straightened and then curled, as her grandmother prefers her hair to be. she also wears her hair braided, much to her grandmother’s dislike, though she tempers this by using fawley family colour - blue, white and silver - within her braids (yes, she knows those are also ravenclaw colours, but sacred 28 blood trumps house). scars / distinguishing features. dorcas has no tattoos. they have triple ear piercings, and no real distinguishing scars. she has a birthmark vaguely the shape of a flower on her left leg. clothing style. dorcas tends to slip into muggle or more comfortable styles. their outfits are mostly chosen for practical usage, as she works as a curse breaker and the work is more arduous and physical than, say, work done at the ministry. she does wear robes a lot, though, and tends to wear blue and green when the situation calls for the more formal outfits.
magical
school. hogwarts. house. slytherin. extracurriculars. charms club, potions club, ancient runes club, slug club. wand. yew (reported to endow its possessor with the power of life and death, with a particularly dark and fearsome reputation in spheres of duelling and curses), dragon heartstring (the wand core with the most magical power, easiest to turn to the dark arts, prone to being somewhat temperamental), 10in, considered brittle, excellent for duelling & considered to be an incredibly dangerous combination by ollivander, especially so considering the core was taken from a female hungarian horntail. boggart. it used to be her grandmother using the cruciatus curse on her, though now it’s death himself. although, they’re less afraid of actually dying and more the aftermath concerning people she cares about. amortentia. ginger, orange roses, water lilies, blueberries, freshly baked bread, peppermint, wand polish, spice cake, & roasted plum. mirror of erised. a world in which tom riddle is dead and she’s free.
familial
hometown. dorset, england. parents. alexandra fawley (deceased) & amadeus meadowes (deceased). guardian. florentina fawley. pets. owl named apollo, and a cat named artemis. extras. she was born in a tent during a curse breaking operation that her father had been sent on - her mother, then engaged to him, had fled to be with him when she gave birth to their child. that same operation ended up costing both alexandra and amadeus their lives - leaving their daughter in the hands of amadeus’s best friend and partner. when he returned home, dorcas was taken by her grandparents, florentina and perseus fawley, and he was imprisoned briefly while they questioned him. she was raised predominantly by her grandparents, who, rather quickly, covered up the fact that the meadowes in question was not a pureblood from the relatively unknown meadows line from guyana, but a muggleborn, and that they were unmarried. though this saved her from being looked down upon by most members of the sacred 28, it did not save her from their judgement and the implicit fact that she would never be betrothed to marry any heir to any great house, though, technically, she would inherit one of her own. to most who grew up around her, this was sort of considered a death sentence, but to dorcas, it granted her that extra piece of freedom. her grandfather, a staunch tom riddle supporter and wizengamot member, died when she was 15. his seat in the wizengamot was taken up by her grandmother - who, according to her, has many, many more years to live before she dies (enough time, she expects, to truly mold dorcas into the perfect heir - or to give the seat to whomever dorcas chooses to marry). she is the youngest member of the fawley family, now extinct in the male line. she is set to inherit the majority of shares in puddlemere united upon the death of her grandmother, florentina, as her only living fawley relative (she inherited it from her husband when he passed away). she found out about her true parentage when she was 13. she never met her dad’s family, and she’s ashamed of the fact that she knows her grandfather had them killed so she couldn’t go looking. she’s all but sworn herself to serve tom riddle in order to have revenge. it doesn’t hurt that regulus is there, either, one of the few people dorcas would consider herself loyal to, as a friend. her grandmother isn’t happy about her occupation, but she reluctantly accepted it on riddle’s word. she would be an asset, to him, as he is not blind, despite not being allseeing.
personality
positives. adaptable, diligent, protective, observant, resourceful. negative. ruthless, secretive, paranoid, closed off, cold. likes. sweet wines, sleeping in her own bed, solving complex runic riddles, the fawley family libraries, the bronze sparks from her wand whenever she picks it up, the feeling of the sun on her skin, lounging around with her friends after fancy dinners, ice cream, the burn of firewhiskey, watching quidditch. dislikes. bitter drinks, all purebloods who can’t acknowledge their own inherent privilege, being forced to wear dresses, gullibility, tea when the milk is put in first, pumpkin juice, blood under her nails (an occasional occupational habit), being stuck in st mungo’s, having to only work part time, eating food made by people she doesn’t know. fears. losing her mind, the orpheus society failing (or, worse, being found out), birds of prey. strengths. charms, dark arts, transfiguration (of everything other than herself), duelling, lying. weaknesses. concealment spells, being open emotionally (she’s too closed off for it), bee allergy, not great at herbology, not great at dancing. astrological sign. scorpio. myers brigg type. intj (the architect).
wanted connections
one. her betrothed! purebloods or sacred 28 second sons/daughters apply here! two. the trusted few that she counts as actual friends (1/3 taken); open to making one of these her betrothed or maybe a fwb situation. three. her sole confidant (who knows everything, whoever applies must be against riddle or be heading down that path). four. childhood ‘friends’ (mainly purebloods, mainly sacred 28). five. people she’d secretly see at hogwarts (muggleborns can apply) as friends or otherwise. six. the secret girlfriend that got her tortured for the entirety of the summer of her sixth year that she broke things off with abruptly. seven. other members of the orpheus society. eight. people that simply dislike her. nine. distant pure cousins that she puts up with. ten. people who work with her! whether they like her or dislike her! or have no idea what to think as she has a reputation of being a cold, ruthless bitch!
