Saoirse Dixon
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| Saoirse Dixon | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Born | 28 June 1990, 22 |
| City of Birth | London, England |
| Blood status | Half-blood |
| Also known as | Saoirse O’Cullane |
| Physical Information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 5'1" |
| Hair Colour | Dark Red |
| Relationships | |
| Father | David Dixon |
| Mother | Eabha O’Cullane |
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| Education | |
| School | Pinebrook Academy |
| Class of | 2008 |
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| Character Information | |
| Playby | Erin Kellyman |
| Sparky | |
Though she has a strong distrust of authority, Saoirse Dixon cares fiercely about her adopted community. An unregistered werewolf herself, the recent threats and affronts to the werewolf population in the United Kingdom have not sat well with her.
Physical Description
At first glance, Saoirse looks very young and unassuming, standing just an inch over five feet, but her build is more solid and wiry than waifish. She has thick, springy dark red curls that she keeps just past shoulder-length; although she often wears her hair down, she’ll pull it back when she is working. Dark brown freckles stand out against her light brown skin; invasive comments or offending nicknames based on them will earn one a black, disdainful mark with her.
Her accent most often sounds Irish, but it can occasionally drift. Particularly when talking to those from Canada or the United States, Saoirse will pick up their enunciation.
Saoirse buys most of her clothes second-hand from both magical and Muggle shops, so her look can be a bit eccentric: bright clothes one day, clashing patterns the next. She makes most of her own jewelry from things she finds while mudlarking or urban spelunking, which she wears proudly.
The full moon often leaves her looking worn, withdrawn, and even younger than usual, with dark circles under her eyes.
Personality Description
Community means everything to Saoirse. Although she is seemingly blase and dismissive about the idea of blood relations, her loyalty to her found family could never be questioned. She is quick to offer help to others, especially if they seem lost or on the edges of society, and goes out of her way to look out for those that she’s adopted as one of her people. Around friends, she is cheerful and outspoken, but she is much quieter and reserved around those she doesn’t trust or know. Many of the contradictions inherent in magical society frustrate her, and she has no patience for those who seem to flaunt things that they haven’t earned.
Saoirse can be prickly about authority figures and often assumes the worst about their intentions. A perceptive listener might notice that she talks about the Ministry similar to the way that they behaved during Voldemort’s reign of terror. Perhaps due to her distrust for the government, she also believes strongly in community defense, grounded in ideas that any marginalized community should be prepared to protect itself. Her keen senses and quick reflexes make her an able enough dueler, and she’s happy to both help train and learn from others. She also loves exploring, and is thrilled whenever she can drag someone along to dig in the mud along the Thames or venture into some abandoned stretch of London’s sewer.
Saoirse is strongly opposed to the idea of werewolf registration and dislikes when her condition is spoken of like an illness, as if the werewolf inside her is a disease rather than simply who she is. The recent attacks on safe houses and werewolf disappearances have left her feeling extremely unsafe. She doesn’t trust the Ministry to protect her community at all.
History
Saoirse was born in London to a Jamaican halfblood father and an Irish Muggleborn mother. Her parents had both recently started at St. Mungo’s when they met, fell in love, got married, and had their first child, and events did not necessarily transpire in that order. Although they were very young and immature and didn’t quite know what they were getting into, David Dixon and Eabha O’Cullane still tried hard to make their small family work.
After Saoirse was born, the couple decided that Eabha would leave her job to handle childcare until their daughter was old enough for Hogwarts. But the magical world had other plans for them. Not long after, tensions rose drastically as You-Know-Who returned. The Dixons moved back to Athenry in County Galway close to Eabha’s family to try and stay safe. This was an uncomfortable time in young Saoirse’s life, as her father and grandparents were never really comfortable with each other, and neither her mother or father coped well with the growing danger that they faced.
In 1997, everything suddenly fell apart. The Ministry was taken over by purists, David was ambushed on his way into work, and Eabha was forced to grab Saoirse and go on the run. Although they found a small community with a group of similar refugees, even that fell apart one night when a pack of werewolves attacked. Although Saoirse didn’t die, it took all of her mother’s knowledge as a former St. Mungo’s potioneer to keep her newly-turned daughter alive and safe.
The war ended, and word came that David died in Azkaban. Eabha had no interest in being part of a world that had turned on her and murdered her husband. She got a job at a magical hospital in Canada, switched back to using her maiden name, and brought Saoirse to Toronto. Saoirse was registered as a werewolf, and got her first taste of the extremely strict Werewolf Registration laws in her new country. Although she attended Pinebrook Academy, her school years were difficult: Saoirse felt like the way she talked and looked made her stick out like a broken wand amongst her classmates, and she constantly felt like a prisoner with her strictly-regulated transformations. She blamed her mother for a lot of it.
At 18, as soon as she graduated, Saoirse immediately took her supply of wolfsbane and left for London without telling anyone. She has now been in London for a few years. She luckily connected with other unregistered werewolves very quickly, and has formed something of a support group with them. Although she’s managed to build a small life for herself, the growing anti-werewolf rhetoric is starting to gnaw at her. With the kidnappings and recent attacks on werewolf safe houses, nowhere feels safe.
Saoirse has jumped from odd job to odd job since coming to London. In mid-2011, she found a home at Hopworks Brewing Co. in Bermondsey. She works as a server and occasional bartender when the brewery is open in the evening, and often helps out with errands or minor brewing tasks during the day.
She also makes a little bit of money making and selling her own jewelry and small art pieces, integrating bits and bobs that she finds while adventuring around London. Saoirse spent a summer working at the Lunar Cafe in Toronto while she was in school, where she learned the basics of being a waitress. She is a quick learner and a hard worker.
