a courtside killer queen

metrodora. 16. quidditch captain. I'm a 6th year, an unexpected Slytherin (thank Zeus I look good in green), Hercules and Megara's daughter, and twin to Ravenclaw's own Philoctetes. Most importantly, I'm the Slytherin Captain. Enjoy watching me play for free while you can because once I graduate, I'm going pro. The full name is Metrodora Apostolos but you can call me Dora since that's a mouthful.

[doraapostolos]

text ✉️⁇ nora

Noa: You can't pin the loss just on me though. I'm not the one in charge of scoring, I just hit the bludger. It's just one game, it's not like we lost the cup yet.

Dora: I'm NOT pinning it on just you. I'm telling everyone in our team that didn't practice over the holidays that they have to step it up, you aren't special. We're not going to win the cup if we play another game like that. It's just not acceptable.

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text ✉@ fredora

Freddie: This is one of those things where I'm supposed to be concerned, right? A cry for help or whatever?

Dora: I don't believe in silent cries for help. If someone actually needs help they'll stop being passive aggressive and just ask somebody.

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philapostolos:

Um, Dora? I’ll give you a couple of days, but throwing yourself 100% into one thing and one thing only, and cutting off all your interpersonal relationships and stuff, is maybe not the sanest way to handle this? Just throwing that out there. Would you tell Mary Kate or Ariana to go all Quidditch hermit if their teams were the ones that lost instead?

You don’t get to call me insane right now, brother. That’s insanely judgey. Besides, you know me; this isn’t exactly too far off course for me. But ew, no, of course I wouldn’t tell the other captains to do what I’m doing, because then their teams would benefit from it too and where would my advantage go?

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Mary Kate: Agreed. Who knows, maybe if your name gets tacked onto it you'll even be allowed to come back and visit it. MOOD. It's why it's my goal in life to make Jimmy Dubois fear for his spot on the team at all times.

Mary Kate: Sorry about the loss, by the way. If you need someone to wallow with, I'm your girl.

Dora: Maybe lol. We'll have to see, planning on a gym legacy might have to wait till Quidditch season is over. But yeah, you NEED to get that fear into Jimmy Dubois lmao he's one of the ones who requires it.

Dora: I'm not that into wallowing. It just wastes the time that I could be figuring out how to make sure we win next. It's a little sad because I was so hoping for that perfect season but hey, there's always next year for that if I spend this year making sure we're unbeatable.

Dora: Thanks though. I appreciate it a lot.

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text ✉️⁇ nora

Noa: Ouch, it's like you're TRYING to hurt my feelings.

Dora: Your feelings don't matter, Quidditch does! Its shit like not prepping while you're on vacation that makes us lose. I can't carry this team by myself, Noa.

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text ✉@ fredora

Freddie: Have fun in detention with Professor Hagrid, animal murderer lmao. I'mma throw you under the bus if he comes huntin down whodunit.

Dora: Lol do it, I have nothing to lose anymore. Maybe I'll turn myself in even.

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philapostolos:

Probably to someone else who hasn’t known you their whole life, but I know that you’re actually on that level, so feel free to say things like that to me whenever you’re thinking them. I think I’d like to have different motor functions than a duck does. Unless I’m one of the ones from Ducktales. Treasure of the Lost Lamp was a movie that kind of aligns with my life goals, not going to lie.

I'm sure you'll get your Treasure of the Lost Lamp moment someday, duck or not. For a while though, I'm going to have to cut down on my communications with you, sorry. Just for a little bit though, and I trust you’ll know it’s not personal. Congrats on your win, I’m proud of your work, but it just proves to me that I need to refocus and not be distracted from Quidditch at all and that means a break from, well, you. I don't have a whole lot else to take a break from, honestly.

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Mary Kate: Oooh, I do like when the floor's got a little bit of spring to it anyway, it makes it a lot easier on the knees when you're doing things like jump squats. THEY DO! People think it's so charming to talk about how lazy they are, I don't get it! It's not appealing at all!

Dora: Me too! Alright, our Room of Requirement Gym will have floors with a bit of a spring to it and treadmills for sure, and so will the official Hogwarts gym if I have something to say about it. Even if they don't make it till after we graduate, it'll be worth it knowing it makes a difference to future kids, right? And honestly! Lazy people aren't cute, they aren't endearing. Anyone bragging about how little they do immediately is a turn off for me ngl.

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text ✉@ fredora

Freddie: Yeah, really don't think there's as much Polyjuice as you think going rampant in this castle but whatever. You been texting me long enough, if it's still in animal form then it's an animal, plain and simple.

Dora: I don't think there's any going rampant, all it would take is one batch. But okay, good. The next time I text you, it'll be dead.

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text ✉️⁇ nora

Noa: Because I'm perfect? I literally couldn't get better if I tried, I'm just that good.

Dora: tahts literall bulshit. you have way morte room to greow, and thats urour captain saying so.

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philapostolos:

Okay, okay – conversation shifter, then. Any highly special girls, since you guys might have your heads just a little bit more in the game? Come on, you know when we go home next Aphrodite’s going to want an update, I want to be prepared. Quaddling sounds like waddling, so now I’m picturing my twin as a duck, which means I also have to picture me as a duck. Well done.

Eh. Does it sound too conceited to think that none of the girls in here are ready yet either? Like I don't think I'm the best person in the world but I don't know, I'm waiting to be impressed. And Aphrodite can keep waiting for me to be impressed, that just isn't happening to me. What's wrong with being ducks?! They're cute enough birds. At least we'd still be able to fly.

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Mary Kate: LOL I will defer to you on that then because if I pushed myself too hard and found myself falling off a tread (not that it's ever happened, but it would be just my luck if it happened THEN) I don't want to come plummeting to whatever ground we make in there. LOL I still think that the lazy people around here would complain more about PE than they do about Potions or Divination, but THEIR LOSS.

Dora: We could always make the ground soft LOL so that that isn't an issue. But I'd rather the details be deferred to me so I'm not going to complain about that :-P I don't know HOW someone could complain about PE. Do they want to eventually become so creaky and rusty that they need magic to pick up something that fell from the floor? Because that's what it'll end up being!

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text ✉@ fredora

Freddie: That's a whole nother level, man. 'sides, if they're that stupid not like they could make the Polyjuice in the first place.

Dora: People can be smart in school and dumb in practice. Or smart people can have dumb friends who drink the potions they made and mess it up and morph into some gross creature and ugh idk why I'm arguing that it could be a person, I hope it ISN'T a person because I want to kill it.

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text ✉️✘ doriana

Ariana: ....Yay? But I think people can be dumb and good at Quidditch too, everyone has something they're a surprisingly good at!

Dora: Sure, people can be dumb and good at Quidditch independently, but you have to be smart to be a Captain. A good Captain, anyway.

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philapostolos:

No, no, definitely don’t lower them, I was just curious if there was anyone you might want to step it up and try a little harder on your behalf. You know, a potential spotting kind of exercise, I guess. Telling me that you’re married to Quidditch isn’t exactly making me feel better, Dor. As great as it is to have a purpose and a goal, the idea of you curled up cuddling with Quaffles at night is starting to feel a little too real.

Here? Nah. Nobody here’s got their head in the game enough to be attractive, you know? Granted, that might just be one highly special girl’s opinion, but in this case, my opinion’s the only one that matters. And why is that a bad thing? Quaffles are great for cuddles! I’ll call it quaddling, it’ll be adorable.

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TEXT ✉️✆ DORAKATE

Mary Kate: Hmm... questionable. Did our combined brains break the equipment or did it just put a lot of mismatched things in the same areas? I don't know, personally I want my treadmill to fly, so... :-p I think soooooo many people would hate you for that, but bring on the haters! I'll help you with that initiative, Merlin knows it would be a better use of time than all the people taking Divination.

Dora: I was just thinking that it was a bunch of mismatched things in the same areas LOL but fine. If you want your treadmill to fly, it only makes sense that I decide what we want in the gym and think it while you stand next to me and think 'I want whatever Dora wants'. I mean, right? That sounds like it could pan out LOLOL. Those sooooo many people will thank me once they realize that daily activity means they won't be out of breath after climbing our long ass staircases! And seriously? Thanks, Hood!

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text ✉️✘ doriana

Ariana: Not really. I absolutely agree that Phil is much more than just a guy. He's so smart and like indescribably cool, but like he IS a guy and how much better he is than the rest of them doesn't erase it. If I didn't group him anywhere, he'd just be the best at being Phil and even though he probably is the best Phil alive, that sounds way sadder than him being a great guy.

Dora: Okay, good. I didn't want to think I was facing off against a dumb Quidditch captain. That would take the fun out of our future matches lol.