Name: Dorothy Gale Door: Door PassCanon: Emerald City Canon Point: just before the end of 1x10 Age: 20 Appearance: played by adria arjona
History: voila. Personality: In a nutshell: Dorothy is strong-willed and impulsive (or stubborn and reckless), she wants to help people, and she seeks to avoid permanence and responsibility on account of thinking that people are going to leave her sooner or later (abandonment and trust issues). The latter, it is strongly implied, is a reaction to her mother giving her up for adoption soon after birth for reasons initially unknown to Dorothy. Her vulnerability surrounding her mother (and lack of knowledge about her father) is a weakness that the witch of the West quickly spots and abuses, both by taunting Dorothy that there must be something irrevocably broken inside her that even her mother couldn’t love her, and by turning into her mother later on to get Dorothy to reveal information that West was seeking. In the beginning of the show, we see her issues impacting a relationship with a doctor, Sam, at the hospital where she’s working: Sam is interested in dating, inviting her out for dinner, Dorothy suggests she only come by after dinner, and their conversation reveals that this is an on-going pattern of Dorothy blocking attempts at deepening the relationship.
In Oz, Dorothy’s main motivation is to return home. She’s been ripped from a life that she might not have loved (“I wished there was more” was her birthday wish) but that she was at least content with and that she knew. She’s willing to go to great length in order to go home, by walking the brick road (yellow from poppy pollen) to Emerald City, by pretending to be the apprentice of the witch she killed (East) and lying to the guardian of East’s castle/her servant that she is his new mistress, even knowing that if she fails to do magic, he will kill her. However, despite that primary motivation, she is not so focused on her goal that she will not or does not help people along the way. In fact, while returning home is the motivation she admits to, many of her actions are more inspired by a desire to help people than by a desire to return home: she helps Lucas down the cross, she cares for him and accepts delays in her trip in order to save him. The same is true for Sylvie, a little girl they come across on their travels. She also helps Tip escape the custody of a witch — in short, Dorothy will help those who ask for help or seem in a position to need it, and she will risk her own life as well as her ability to return home in order to do so. It’s in this regard that it becomes obvious also how impulsive she is, not always thinking about the consequences of her attempts to help people.
Since her arrival in Oz, Dorothy has been tortured (waterboarded, to be precise), she’s found out that there are soldiers after here with orders to kill her, she’s killed first by accident and then on purpose in order to escape torture and imprisonment at the hands of the witch of the East and to rescue Lucas from the same fate, she’s seen Lucas kill in order to protect her, she’s seen a little girl, Sylvie, kill two adults via magic, and she’s shot a man who was trying to capture and likely kill her. She’s been captured by the witch of the West, tortured again, she’s escaped and found the man who has ordered soldiers to kill her, and through it all, she’s remained largely composed (the occasional tear now and again hardly counts, given the circumstances) and has retained her willingness and desire to help people, even putting her risk at life for those in need.
Also noteworthy is that Dorothy at times pilfers medication from her patients at the hospital that her adoptive parents need. This indicates that she places her own sense of right and wrong above societal rules, laws and the norms of the hospital administration. In terms of alignment, this, coupled with her constant desire to help people, would put Dorothy at neutral good, with some tendencies toward true neutral in the battle for Oz’s future, in which she doesn’t want a part (“I’m no saviour.”), indicating that her desire to help is focused more on individuals than on the large scale of things. Powers and Abilities: Dorothy is a nurse, and apparently a very competent one at that, with good relationships with her patients and high regard from her co-workers, able to identify and correct mistakes made by overworked doctors and just as able to improvise without modern medicine by using natural remedies. After killing East, Dorothy has inherited the Elements, which grant her limited magical powers. She can send shockwaves, control the weather to some extent (she’s not very good at it) and seems to have some form of telekinesis. She also knows how to handle a firearm. Inventory: n/a Samples: TDM Toplevel with network + log threads |
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