The Star

23

Female

Dorothy Anne Dixon

Dot, Dottie, Miss Dixon

Wols

What Happened on Wols

Dorothy (Dottie)

Gift of God

Dor-thee (Dot-ee)

Anne

Grace

Ann

Dixon

Son of Dick

Dix-in

Human

Average height, slender, curvy build.

Average

Tan

5'6"

Blonde

Brown

Curly, cut into a chic bob

Dottie is a woman who knows what she wants and plans to get it. She knows her worth and knows that she deserves more than solely being judged by her looks. She's a skilled poet whose works are often overlooked or dismissed without being read. She's fiercely loyal to her loved ones and is an avowed optimist. Despite her optimism, she's routinely dissatisfied with her life and doesn't know where to go next. She's talkative and clever and knows how to handle a crowd, and is probably the only one of the main cast who the others all confide in. She isn't above manipulating people to get what she wants, but tries to avoid doing so.

Very energetic, doesn't often sit still. Overuses hand gestures.

Dancing, poetry, very good with people

To gain the respect she deserves

Poetry, dancing, watercolors.

Stubborn, flighty, flippant, easily distracted. Often masks her true feelings and fears.

A notebook that she keeps her poetry in

Oona Tamsin
Grady O'Neill
Niklos Holloron
Hank Schriver

Niklos Holloron

Anything fluffy

Poet

Pink

Raspberries

Dottie was born and raised on Wols to loving parents who encouraged her to pursue her artistic strengths, and even had her star in children's vaudeville-esque shows all through her youth until she aged out of her childlike role. She dipped in and out of several artistic pursuits in her later teens, never finding one that stuck until she attempted poetry. Her work was very good, but was often turned away by publishers who assumed that the socialite had nothing of worth to say. Dottie left home and began to explore the more urban parts of Wols, having grown up in one of its few more rural areas. She swiftly fell in love with city life and then with Niklos Holloron, a soldier stationed in the city who was soon sent off to fight on Chora. She wrote to him throughout the war and occasionally got replies. When the Truce was declared and Niklos came back to Wols, they reunited, although they were both very different from when they first met. They began a relationship that would soon grow dysfunctional.

Fairly high

February 13th

Alyssa and Rafael Dixon

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Buckle in, because there's a lot:
May We Entertain You? from Gypsy: Since Dottie got her start in a similar type of childhood acting-slash-vaudevillesque stuff that June and Louise did, I felt like this was fitting. Although Dottie didn't have an act partner the way June does, her act is modeled on the "Baby June" act from Gypsy (and, y'know, history).
Baby June and Her Newsboys/Dainty June and Her Farmboys from Gypsy: Likewise, these are other songs where June is doing her routines and I imagine Dottie's as very similar--her as the star with a dancing ensemble, but one which doesn't detract from her. The latter is especially accurate as it shows the shift from her genuine enjoyment of the act as a kid to feeling trapped in it as a late teen.
The Story of Jessie and Lucy from Follies: This is the song that captures Dottie as an adult trying to re-establish herself. In the song, Phyllis feels torn between who she was when she was first in the Follies and who she is now years later, and it fits Dottie quite well. She doesn't want to go back to being a child star, but she also doesn't want to feel burned out of creation and wants to have acclaim again.