in the meantime of me working on rcu (regulus cinematic universe), i thought about just sharing some of my own headcanons of other characters who may or may not intervene in regulus's story. these things i will be describing have still happened and are sort of canon in the world where my short stories take place.
please do keep in mind that we all envision marauders & co. in different ways which means my marlene/mary/sirius/remus might not fit your own imagination exactly. i am just opening my imagination to you and you are more than welcome to take whatever fits for your own depiction of the character and leave the rest be. no need for crude words if you do not agree.
if you'll have any questions about a headcanon or are curious to know more of my ideas about a certain character(s) who hadn't been mentioned more in-depth - my inbox is open so please redirect your possible questions over there :)
♥ marlene headcanons over here ♥
→ mary headcanons over here ←
now for the star of the show, please welcome dorcas meadowes:
definitely poc, in my head she's always been quite short, not petite necessarily but definitely not tall. always felt she would be pan? can't really explain why but it's just a gut feeling?
one of the things that i cannot unsee is that she has very kind eyes? like... i don't know how to really describe it but she's a very sweet and caring person and her eyes just let you know where home is. (i enjoy her casting as laura harrier, she has very memorable beautiful eyes)
peter has an enormous crush on dorcas because she is the way that she is. she sees him - when he's trying to fit in really hard with the guys and is overstepping the line sometimes, or gets ignored by james and sirius.
dorcas picks up on peter's self-esteem issues right away and pays extra attention to him when they are around each other, she tries to talk to him, and engages him in things/conversations/whatever is happening. which just feeds peter's crush even more.
dorcas is intelligent but oblivious. she does not pick up on pete's crush - ever - and she's pretty much the only one. everyone can see it but her.
the guys try to help peter with confessing, but he's too scared she would "politely refuse" and it would be weird between them.
but the marauders, ehm, ehm, james and sirius, try really hard to get him to confess and make peter mad in the process because he told them plenty of times that he doesn't want to. he acts like he's really offended but his silence lasts only for about an hour and then he's joking around with the boys again. he can't help himself.
dorcas's relationship with the marauders is rather complicated. she's neutral towards remus, but she really was not a fan of james and sirius at first. she saw them as mavericks, didn't like how much they would misbehave in class and literally at any other given time. dorcas knew that they had a lot of influence on pete who she saw as very impressionable. she didn't like the influence they had on him, how they shaped him you could say.
but when they grew a bit older and dorcas heard the gossip about what had happened with sirius (she tried to ask regulus about it, but on her relationship with the younger brother later), how james was there for him, how all four of the marauders stuck up for one another... they grew on her.
around year six she became their official friend. sirius was especially fond of her since she was proof that not all slytherins have to be bad people and he would often call her the 'honorary slytherin' at order meetings.
dorcas has a younger brother with who she is not that close, but they still care about each other. his name is wesley, he's a slytherin as well.
wesley never joined the dark side and he never fought in the first wiz. war. he survived it and became an auror to honor dorcas and to make sure that he catches dangerous people sot that nobody has to lose a sister like he did.
wesley ends up marrying a woman called irene. she's from a family full of metamorphmagi but irene only inherited a bit of the gene. she can only change one part of herself - her nose shape.
they have a son together named levi who also inherits the same partial gift and is in slytherin. levi is a year above harry potter. levi ends up having a daughter - aarin dorcas meadowes - who is also partially metamorphmagi, in slytherin and is the same age as albus potter. it's a long story but james sirius and aarin do end up together in the end, it's a wild ride but they are absolutely perfect for one another.
dorcas has a frog! i am not quite sure about the name, but fun fact, avery and rosier put dorcas's frog in mulciber's pants when he's taking a nap in the common room after quidditch practice. regulus is present while it happens and he writes about it in his diary.
regulus is an artsy person. when he was young especially it had been easier to express himself through drawings. he gets better with his words over time. his diary features two drawings of dorcas. playing chess while having her frog in her lap and her running through the hogwarts grounds to hide from the rain hand in hand with pete. regulus sees them from the window in his lesson and as i wrote - everybody but dorcas knows about the crush.
dorcas is also veeeery good at chess. regulus also enjoys chess, so they play matches against each other. there is usually very little talking happening just plain strategy.
but dorcas does like regulus to some extent, there's definitely mutual respect (dorcas is one of the very few people he respects in the school), he's her chess buddy, she smiles and waves at him in the hallways, she's comfortable to sit with him at the slytherin table or at the library while studying.
until he lets it be known that he is fully on the deatheaters side - he's a sixth year and dorcas is in her last year at that point.
she's similar to regulus to a great extent - that's why they gravitated to each other. they are both on the quieter side, big observers, soft-spoken (dorcas all the time, regulus once people get to know him better). both of them hate violence, dorcas tries to avoid conflict as much s possible. she keeps to herself when she has only bad things to say.
but don't get me wrong, when someone pisses her off or does something that steps over the line (and trust me, her line is difficult to overstep, she withstands a lot) her eyes aren't as kind anymore. they can grow very cold suddenly. just as she is understanding with kind eyes, she can turn on her bitch face and be cold as ice.
she'll still be polite to the people she doesn't like (ehm, ehm.. like the marauders at first), she greets them even if they don't greet her back. if she's paired up with them for some exercises or projects, she never lets emotions or some kind of pettiness take over her. she wouldn't try to make their grade worse, hurt them, or embarrass them in front of others to let them know what she thinks of them.
her main reason to join the order and fight to stop the war is the horrible violence that's all around them inflicting pain. she thinks about the little kids at hogwarts, and the ones out there who are too young to even have a wand yet. she thinks of their parents who all must be absolutely terrified for the future of their children. she fights for a brighter future for everyone but families especially. parents can't and shouldn't put themselves in such danger since they have to be there for their kids. so she decides to raise her wand in their place and heads to battle.
inevitably dumbledore pays attention to her and her qualities. so, when he gets a suspicion that they might have a spy amongst them he asks dorcas to pay extra close attention and report back to him if she notices anything strange. she's the only one of the young recruits with a quiet solid nature so dumbledore believes that since she's close with all the youngsters, she'll be more or less able to blend in with the crowd unnoticed, which will allow her to notice possible unusual behavior in the younger ranks. she's probably the best at reading people out of all of them.
dorcas notices that peter has been feeling down a lot lately and tries to speak to him about it. he just says the classic 'it's because of the war, everything is different, it's scary, blablabla'.
but he can't fool her, she knows that something is up, but she would NEVER ever think he could be the spy. never in her wildest dreams. he just does not have the guts to do something like that in her eyes.
but she does follow him to find out what is going on with him. and that's when she comes face to face with voldemort. peter had a meeting with him, it was very early on, maybe like the third time he saw voldemort personally.
voldemort kills dorcas in front of peter and peter feels horrible and blames himself for it.
the marauders and the order think it's because he liked her. that he failed to protect dorcas and regrets not telling her how he felt about her because now she'll never know. that's why they don't grow suspicious about his strange behavior. but that's only a part of why he's distraught.
snape finds out how dorcas died and tells sirius and the rest of the order in 1995, so they finally understand how involved peter truly was.
remus goes to tell her family so that maybe over time they may find peace in knowing what exactly happened to her.
