Dorothy Hunt

**Dorothy Hunt** is the grandmother of the main character of the **Monsters** series, Joan Chang-Hunt.

## Dorothy Hunt

### Nickname(s)

Gran (by Joan, Ruth & Bertie)
The Formidable Dorothy Hunt (by Aaron)

## Characteristics

### Hair Color

Black (formerly)
Gray

### Status

Dead (original timeline)
Alive (new timeline)

## Relationships

### Relatives

Maureen Hunt † (estranged daughter)
Pei-Wen Chang (son-in-law)
Augustus Hunt (assumed son)
Ada Hunt (assumed daughter-in-law)
Joan Chang-Hunt (granddaughter)
Ruth Hunt (granddaughter)
Bertie Hunt (grandson)

## Appearance

In Joan's fixed time, Dorothy is a wide-boned, fragile woman with grey, curly/wavy hair and sharp green eyes. She is described most notably by her witty, dry voice and remarks that she makes.

When meeting a younger version of Dorothy, Joan discovers that Dorothy's hair was originally black, like Ruth's.

## Plot

When first introduced to us, Dorothy is referred to only as 'Gran' by Joan and Ruth. She is the one to tell Joan repeatedly throughout her childhood that she is a monster, though later on we learn that she prohibited the other Hunts 'talking shop' or mentioning monsters to Joan when she grew older.

It is unknown how, but Dorothy is the only person aware of Joan's powers prior to her coming into them, and seems prepared for the first time that Joan travels - which is unusual, considering her reluctance to teach Joan of the monster world, as well as the fact that most half-human half-monsters do not have the ability to travel (as mentioned by Ruth).

She warns Joan of the Hero and tells her that she is only one able to defeat him, as well as giving a premonition of Joan's strange power, before passing away in the Holland House. Before she dies, Dorothy makes Joan swear not to tell anybody, not even Ruth, of her power, or any of what she had said.

Before dying, she promises Ruth that she would wait for her to open the windows so that she and Joan could escape, and after Ruth asks if she can't open the windows fast enough, Dorothy says that she would never close another window in her life and be very cold every winter, making Ruth go and do as she's told. Joan is the one who sits by her as she dies, pressing down on her wound and coating herself in Dorothy's blood.

It is assumed that she passed away after being attacked by the Hero and/or his people from a stab wound.

Later on, a younger version of Dorothy - one only in her twenties, before she was wed - meets Joan in an inn, where Joan was directed by an innkeeper. Before she even meets her Gran, the innkeeper warns that Dorothy Hunt is not somebody to be trusted. Upon entering the tavern, Joan takes note that the young version of her Gran has the same hair as Ruth. She then convinces the man at the bar to let her sit and talk despite being underage.

While talking to Dorothy, Joan reveals that the Hunt family was massacred at the Holland House in the future, and that she wants to stop it. Joan also reveals that her Gran had mentioned Joan coming into a strange power - one that was not the Hunt family power - which causes the young Dorothy to call for somebody only known as 'C' using hand signals through the barkeep. This version of Dorothy is unaware that Joan understands the hand signals, having taught Joan later on in life.

It isn't known what the younger Dorothy was going to do to Joan when she is told about this strange power, but it's clearly nothing good. At this point, Joan realises that this younger version of her Gran was not *her* Gran, and that when her Gran had told her not to tell anybody, not even Ruth, she had included herself as well. Joan then asks to use the bathroom, and promptly leaves, running away from the barkeep and back to Aaron and Ruth.

Dorothy is not seen again until the unmaking of Nick Ward and the change in the timeline, where she is seen eating burnt toast the morning that Joan returns to. Ruth, Ada, and Bertie, all mention how wrong it is to have it burnt black, but Dorothy merely responds with a "I like it burnt," though Joan isn't really sure if she likes burnt toast or not, just that she likes to horrify people.

Dorothy is the one to tell Joan after the new timeline emerges that Holland House is merely ruins now. Before Joan goes to visit the ruins, she meets Dorothy by the door, who mentions Geraldine from two doors down had bought a big, ginger tom cat with white paws and walked past the house with it on a leash. She then asks if Joan will be home for dinner, and that she's making treacle pudding. Joan gives her a hug, remembering Aaron's words of 'the formidable Dorothy Hunt' and responds with a "wouldn't miss it for the world" before leaving.

## Trivia

* Dorothy has a series of hand signals that she teaches to Joan and (assumedly) other Hunts closest to her
	+ These signals include a series of taps and shapes depending on what she is asking for
	+ Each of the people taught the signals have their own signal so that Dorothy can call on them - e.g. Joan is referred to with a 'J'
* Dorothy has a ruby wedding ring, which she is only seen without on versions of herself before she got married