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Harry Potter; First War

[name/nicknames] Dorcas Tearza Meadowes
[birthday] 1 May 1960
[bloodline] half-blood (father is muggle)
[allegiance] OotP
[occupation] Kenmare Kestrals Chaser. Irish Nationals Reserve Player.
[school/house/years] Hogwarts; Gryffindor; 1971-1978
[owl/newt scores] Ancient Runes: A/. Astronomy: P/drop. CoMC: O/. Charms: O/. DADA: E/. Herbology: E/drop. Potions: A/. Transfiguration: E/.

[wand] 33 cm (13"), ash, four leaf clover core
[boggart] The walls closing in on her because of her claustrophobia.
[patronus] Wonder Woman. Growing up Dor watched a lot of Tele with her Mum and idolized Wonder Woman.
[amortentia smells like] Sirius (although she'd never admit that)
[in mirror of erised] The World Cup in her hands.
[special abilities] Dorcas is skilled at both appearance charms and bewitchment. Neither one are things she aspired to, they're just things that came naturally to her. Drocas' personal aspirations as far as her abilities/powers go she pretty much focuses on flying and quidditch.

[build/height/weight] Thin as a stick and flat as a board. Dorcas is a taller girl (about 5'8) and very thin, but muscular enough to have a good bit of weight on her (about 140lbs).
[hair/eyes] Light brown/dirty blonde, usually kept short. Hazel/greenish.
[identifying marks] Multiple scars here and there, but nothing too noticable.
[style] Tomboy is probably an understatement here. Dorcas hasn't worn or owned a dress since she was three. She very likely never will if it isn't Order related. She dresses mostly for comfort: muggle sweatpants, windbreakers (tear-aways), or shorts. Despite detentions, she's always worn tennies (unless she's on the field and needs cleets). Only tennies. So much so that eventually the professors gave up fighting her on it. And if she can get away with it, she wears just a sports bra. If not it's tanktops or tshirts.
[appearance] Tomboy is probably an understatement here. Dorcas hasn't worn or owned a dress since she was three. She very likely never will if it isn't Order related. She dresses mostly for comfort: muggle sweatpants, windbreakers (tear-aways), or shorts. Despite detentions, she's always worn tennies (unless she's on the field and needs cleets). Only tennies. So much so that eventually the professors gave up fighting her on it. And if she can get away with it, she wears just a sports bra. If not it's tanktops or tshirts. And unless she needs to use her femininely wiles to get into the inner circle of the Death Eaters, she probably won't ever dress the part of the seductive spy.

Her hair was kept in a single long braid or a ponytail until the middle of fourth year. One day after Quidditch practice Sirius said she would look like a pretty girl if she ever left it down. Dor whipped out her wand right then and there, chopped it off, and threw it at him. Now the length fluctuates but rarely gets longer than her jawline and never longer than her shoulders. It's never brushed, but she's picky about hygiene so it's always washed. Her face is always clean and also clear since she has never worn make-up in her life. And, of course, her complexion is a nice even tan since she's always outside. However, she's often covered in cuts and bruises.

[quirks] HATES being called a girl, girly, or anything of that nature.
[hobbies] Quidditch & Motorbikes.
[pet peeves] Arrogant, egotistical, chauvinistic, macho men.
[first impression] Most people immediately assume Dorcas is a dyke. She's not, but she comes off as very feminist.
[likes/dislikes] LIKES: Quidditch. Football. Motorcycles. Drinking. Sex. DISLIKES: High-end snobby people. Feeling disrespected. That's pretty much it. She's pretty amiable otherwise.
[personality] Dorcas is more a tomboy than anything. She plays in the mud. She ignores her feelings. She acts w/o thinking. Her idea of dealing with things is to start a brawl and bloody herself up. Nothing is a big deal when your mouth is full of blood, you're so sore you can't move, and the other guy is worse off. And don't dare call her a girl. Nothing will get you hit faster. Dor is impulsive above all else. She jumps blindly both feet into things. She's often told that one day it'll get her killed. But Dorcas is also very loyal and very strongly believes in equality. Mostly because she was raised with a women's lib perspective and now applies it to equality between bloods.

Modesty has never been a trait of Dor's. She'll change in the boys' locker room with out flinching. She's mostly flat chested and figures they aren't attracted to her anyway. And she swears she couldn't care less. Dor has never dated and doesn't plan to. If by chance she meets a guy who understands her and finds her attractive too, she'll consider it. But until then the first bloke that watches her change in the locker room gets his ass kicked... and she'll probably do it naked without a single thought. She doesn't hesitate to negotiate with her fists, but never holds her tongue either. She's got the only record not held by a Slytherin for most fouls in Hogwarts Quidditch and a verbal assault record to match in Filch's cabinet.

More recently, though, Dor is starting to see a new way of negotiating. She can't get close enough to any Death Eater to be even the tiniest bit of help to the Order and that does not fly for her. And thanks to the trashy tele she watches at her Mum's, Dor has been getting just as trashy ideas. And perfecting them. She has the perfect position (as an international Quidditch star) to actually use her feminine talents to do exactly what she wants. The closer she can get the easier it'll be to destroy these sodding Death Eaters. And their leader as well.

Dor's main strength is her fierce Gryffindor loyalty. And of course her sense of true justice and equality. Were she not so hot tempered and impulsive her ideals would have put her in Hufflepuff. But Dor has a mean right hook and the right attitude to freely use it. Her temper is her second biggest weakness or flaw. First and foremost, Dorcas' pride is her worst downfall. She's happy with herself the way she is and gets highly offended when other people aren't. Few things set her temper off quicker than a shot to her pride.

[family/pets] Andre and Andrew, twins, a year older than Dor. Brighton Meadows (Kenmare Kestrals player) and Ceara Devon (one of the first women pro football players). Mammy and Pap, her dad's parents. And more cousins than she can possibly name.
[childhood/current residence] As she grew up she lived with her Mammy and Pap, her Da's parents, and her older twin brothers, while her parents are still in the pro leagues.
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[sexuality/exes] Hetero, although she acts asexual because she's afraid boys are turned off by her tom-boy-ish-ness.
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[history] Dorcas was born the 3rd child to a fullblood professional Quidditch player and a muggle professional football player. Brighton Meadows met Ceara Devon the year that each was drafted. A muggleborn teammate from the Kenmare Kestrals (who Brighton was drafted as 1st string keeper for) took Brighton to a professional woman's football game. The moment he saw Ceara, he knew he had to have her. It only took a few months of chasing and then nine months later Andre and Andrew Meadows came screaming into Ireland. And despite their hectic game schedules, Brighton and Ceara married soon after and barely a year after the twins were born, Dorcas Tearza Meadows entered the world.

Dorcas, Dre & Drew were raised by Brighton's parents. He and Ceara traveled a lot with their respective careers and her parents still don't know he or the children are wizards. Mammy was a pureblood and Paps is muggleborn, but neither tried to turn Dor into a proper young lady. And she was anything but. She learned at an early age how to kick her brother's arses. Until they got their first brooms, the three of them were avid football players. Dor and her brothers played in kiddie leagues, both football and quidditch, until they got to Hogwarts. And on more than one occasion their Irish tempers got them kicked out. Especially Dor's. Mostly because she hated being called a girl.

That attitude stuck with her in Hogwarts. She got onto the quidditch team her first year with little trouble and a few threats (her brothers didn't make it until the following year). But Dor realized early on that the boys of her year (MWPP) had their own little club, No Girls Allowed! So she befriended, begrudgingly, Lily Evans, who seemed to be a way into MWPP's little circle. And though she and Lily got close, Quidditch turned out to be an easier way to get the attention of the boys. Dor remained mostly a loner, though. She never talked to girls willingly, except Lily. And her only close friends were her brothers and Sirius. Though she ended up taking a slightly protective stance on Remus and Peter as the years went on.

Dor also began to develop feelings for Siri, though she'd never admit it. Relationships are too girly for her. The way things work with her and Siri usually involves a hell of a lot of violence. They take out their anger on each other, fighting in the all out fist fight, kick the hell out of each other, fight club everyone walks away bloody kind of fights. And that calms her anger and relieves sexual tension for the most part. But there really hasn't been much time for that since graduation.

Not to mention Pro Quidditch is great anger management. Dor was drafted first string chaser for the Kenmare Kestrals (her brothers are 2nd string beaters) and alternate chaser for the Irish Nationals directly out of school. Quidditch is her life. When she has time apart from that, she likes to mess with cars & motorbikes (mostly foreign made). And work for the Order, of course. She joined right out of school. Her Mum's a muggle and she loves football, so it's only natural she's against Voldemort. She's violent, forward, and impulsive. However, she's trying to use her Quidditch position to spy for the Order.


[timeline]
1960 May: Dorcas is born.
1960 August: Dorcas' parents return to pro-sports & she's raised by her paternal grandparents (with her older twin brothers.)
1971 September: Dorcas sorted into Gryffindor. Gets a spot as Chaser.
1978 June: Dorcas graduates. Drafted to Kenmere Kestrals. Joins the OotP.
1979 June: Dorcas drafted to Irish Nationals. OotP asks her to use her position to spy.
1981 July: Dorcas gets too close to the DEs, Voldemort sees through her and kills her himself.

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