o ya, may i ask about Dora?
Canon Dora is underrated. I love her.
Dedicated and loyal, skilled, sentimental, and collected.
Dora cares immensely about positive relationships. It breaks her heart when she loses them.
Receptively bilingual. She speaks her home country's language(Insulăvoric) and understands English while her cousin speaks both languages.
Dora has pica and has been managing it since she was a child. She had medication and therapy to help her handle it when she was young and continued medication into adulthood but was forced to stop when she entered the EXIT.
Who's her cousin? David. It's David.
David and Dora come from the redux's equivalent of Davidland. Currently calling it Clayland, this may change. Just know that everyone there is made of clay.
One thing you'll see with Claylanders is that they are a closed off community. They don't take well to change or new faces and expect you to stay where you grew up. However, there are some ambitious individuals who don't want that and they're treated poorly.
This is the case with Dora and David. David was willing to conform but Dora wasn't. She wanted to see the world outside of her hometown and got David involved.
Sharing this news got them scorn and scolding. It also lead to them being outcasted after David came home from BFDI. Dora said fuck it and they both left for BFDIA, with only Dora getting in and David growing bitter.
Dora wishes David didn't blame her for the way they were treated. Their close bond was broken. They go on low contact with conversations being uncomfortable at the least.
Dora REFUSES to go back to Clayland. She leaves BFDIA after her elimination and takes a job elsewhere in Goiky. Dora doesn't come back until she's invited to co-host an episode.
Dora may have part of an early episode dedicated to her in IDFB.. I think she'd be one of the characters who leaves after BFDIA.
When she's invited back for BFB, Dora doesn't turn the offer down or ignore it!!
Dora helps a lot during challenges while she's on Bleh. They're a mess in early BFB.
Dora is shocked when she's eliminated. She helped with so many challenges for her team while they were focused on bickering and mending and even flirting. She sat there through it all, a listener with Teardrop, a good competitor, and the one time they lose, she's the one out.
It's not fair.
But Dora can't bring herself to be angry.
Disappointed, sure.
But angry? No. At the end of the day, BFB is a competition show-- this is just the way things are.
When Four casts her to his domain, she expects to be out eventually. It.. may be a minute because there's so many contestants-- and a rejoin may happen. It happened with Leafy.
So Dora waits. And waits. And waits.
A month, maybe two passes. In that time the EXIT fills, Loser and Spongy escape after the whole group tries to, BFB splits, and then nobody ever comes back.
Four years of this.
In this time, Dora grows close to 8-Ball and Firey Jr.
Firey Jr is a kid. A teenage boy. Dora knows he went through something before joining BFB but he never opens up about what. And Dora doesn't ask.
She's just there. By his side. Trying her best to keep Four away from him. 8-Ball helps with this too. They aren't perfect.
Dora and 8-Ball pretty much act as Firey Jr's guardians.
She has to stay strong.
Especially with the group growing braver, leaving the classroom when Four isn't there to check on them. Stress is high during these periods and Dora won't let it control her. She can't get distracted.
The one time she did, Firey Jr and 8-Ball nearly got caught and died.
Never again.
David is also at the EXIT. He and Dora are forced to work together sometimes and it. May become an argument in Insulăvoric. They eventually get along well again.
The EXITors are all kind of? Tense? For the most part. They're all one another have but they don't. All quite get along outside of the classroom. But they all care for one another.
Escaping the EXIT is terrifying and relieving.
What's not okay is Two taking all of the EXITors and putting them to work at the hotel. Without their agreement.
The door out. Is locked! That's. WOW!!!
Dora breaks a window to escape. Two comes over to check out the damage as some EXITors ask to join the game. Dora thought about it and eventually decided that yeah. Sure, why not? What would happen if they weren't let in anyways?
The votes are cast and revealed during a storm. Two lets Four host the cake and stake and decides that the winning prize is staying at the hotel.
8-Ball and David are sent into orbit. Dora is. Actually horrified. They could both be dead or injured or lost and she can't know.
The same thing happens to Firey Jr.
Dora lost everything again. Just like that.
She's sent into the storm too, pulled by powerful wind. Where she ends up? I want to know what TPOT does with her first.
I do know I want her to be dedicating her time to finding her lost friends and family.