Dorothy Gale

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
* Gallery

### Education

Grade School Dropout / Special Training (Mentors (Hansel Darlingsson, Gretel Darlingsdóttir)

### Employer

Yellow Brick Roadhouse / Fabletown Department of Tourism

### Residence

Yellow Brick Roadhouse
Danny the Street

## Physical Description

### Dorothy Gale: Once Upon a Time...

Dorothy never knew her parents. Her father died before she was born, and her mother died in childbirth. Orphaned as a baby, Dorothy was raised by her father's brother Henry, and his wife, Emily, on a failing farm in Americana's Heartland.

For Dorothy's tenth birthday, Dorothy found a stray dog, which she brought home and named "Toto". Uncle Henry and Aunt Em allowed Dorothy to keep the dog, feeling the dog had found Dorothy for a reason. Though Toto was a mostly well-behaved dog, he was also rather curious and rambunctious. He had a habit of slipping away and getting himself into dangerous or messy situations that Dorothy would have to rectify. One such instance happened when Dorothy was eleven....

Toto ran off barking one night. Dorothy woke, got dressed, and chased after him. After hours of searching in the dead of the night, Dorothy found Toto on a neighboring abandoned farm, caged inside the dilapidated barn. As Dorothy's focus was on breaking the lock, she paid little attention to Toto's barking, and thus failed to realize he was warning her about the wicked woman creeping up behind her.

Dorothy woke up with a headache, finding herself in the cage with Toto. Outside the cage, their captor was enacting a magical ritual using an ivory gripped knife. The woman revealed to Dorothy that she had traveled quite a distance to find Dorothy's mother, but Dorothy would have to make due for her evil intentions.

Not certain how this woman knew her mother, Dorothy began to question her, but only got menacing cackles in reply. When the woman's ritual was finished, she clicked her silver shoes together and began to chant. As a whirlwind began to tear the barn apart, the barn doors flew open to reveal a strange man and woman. As the woman began to attempt a counterspell, the man rushed in. He knocked the evil woman's dagger away and buried an axe into her chest. The woman fought back and in the melee, Dorothy was able to reach out of her cage and grab the dropped dagger.

The scuffle continued, during which the evil woman got the better of her attacker, throwing him against Dorothy's cage. She pulled the axe from her own chest and threw it at her attacker. The man managed to move just in time, causing the axe to break the lock. Now freed, Dorothy was able to crawl out of the cage, but she was soon grabbed by her captor just as she fired an eldritch blast at the other woman.

Without a counterspell in effect, the whirlwind resumed and swept up Dorothy, her captor, and Toto — transporting them and the ramshackle barn into the sky.

As the three were scattered into the heavens, Toto managed to clamp onto the evil woman's ankle. Caught off-guard by the bite, the woman let out a cry and released Dorothy, giving the little girl a chance to sink the dagger into her chest. As the woman let out a scream, the tempest spell became unstable.

Dorothy awoke hours later in a strange village, still clinging to the blood-soaked dagger. Surrounding her were a curious tribe of gnomes, who were shocked by the girl's arrival and her delivery of the corpse of the "Wicked Witch of the East", buried under the remains of the barn. This gnome tribe, known locally as Munchkins (for they lived in the shadow of Mt. Munch), gave Dorothy the witch's magical silver shoes as a trophy and made her the guest of honor at a lavish feast and festival.

Realizing she was not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy soon set off on the Yellow Brick Road to seek the aid of the "Wizard of Oz" in the Emerald City to find her way back home. Dorothy's new shoes' magic drew three interesting travel companions to her, as the three all had interest in meeting with the wizard, too. As they traveled, word spread of the Eastern Witch's demise, attracting the attention of both the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch of the South.

The Wizard agreed to send Dorothy back to Kansas in gratitude for her slaying the Eastern Witch, but to aid her companions, he asked them to defeat the Wicked Witch of the West. Once again, Dorothy stumbled into defeating a witch and earned her trip back home. Arriving home, she soon was approached by the mysterious man and woman, who offered Dorothy a place in the Colonial Lodge of True Humanity.

After years of training, Dorothy returned to Oz, finding it in dire need of her services once again. Dorothy became a true hero of Oz... until the Sheeda arrived.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Fable Physiology:** Like all Fables, Dorothy is a creature made of tangible vorpal essence. Dorothy also has distant faerie heritage. Her maternal grandmother was an elven princess. Aside from her esoteric composition, Dorothy is undisguisable from common humans without extensive occult examination.
	+ ***Charisma:*** Descended from Homeland royalty and a princess by marriage, Dorothy has the passive psychic ability to captivate the attention of humans and animals.
	+ ***Immortality:*** Dorothy lives without aging.
	+ ***Resurrection:*** Due to her legend's immense popularity among the "Mundies", Dorothy can survive almost anything, including absolute death — though she still feels pain and does her best to avoid such harm. Should she perish, Dorothy can usually return to life within mere days of her death.
* **Hunter Training:** Dorothy learned the concepts of witchhunting from Hansel and occult rituals from Gretel, becoming a resourceful monster slayer.
* **Dragon's Tooth:** Dorothy's dagger is a magical weapon of dwarven design that is indestructible with a blade of vorpal steel and a grip made from ancient dragon tooth.
* **Silver Shoes:** Dorothy's silver shoes are relics of great power that open her senses to the ethereal. While wearing these shoes, Dorothy is also protected against direct harm from magic, can summon a whirlwind to transport herself and others great distances, and while traveling on foot she often finds things she may need to put into her path.
* **Familiar: Toto:** Dorothy has a magical familiarity with her dog Toto. This familiarity gives Toto higher intelligence (arguably making him smarter than Dorothy herself), allowing him to speak and understand any language Dorothy can, as well as the ability to share senses with Dorothy, and makes him more difficult to kill than your average dog.

### Weaknesses

* **Gullible:** Dorothy is not particularly smart (she never got beyond the 5th grade). She is often a little too trusting. She rarely detects deception and often walks into traps or dangerous situations.
* **Vice — Wrath:** Dorothy is known to have a temper. She sulks or throws fits when things do not go her way. She acts out aggressively when insulted or humiliated.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Range:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Strategy:** 2 — Basic / Typical
	+ **TOTAL:** 72
	+ **RANKING:** Moderate Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

#### Additional Information

* Dorothy's mother was a member of a noble house in the Gilliken Country of Oz, her family descended from the elves that founded that region. Dorothy's father was from a family of farmers that descended from the highwaymen. Her uncle Henry managed to escape to Americana as a young man, where he started a farm. When the Wicked Witches conquered Oz, the noble housed became victims of the new regime, using their potent blood to reinforce the witch's magical hold over the populace. Dorothy's mother managed to escape with her life, smuggled away in a farmer's cart. She spent the next few months posing as a farmer's wife before romance turned real.
* As Dorothy's parents were expecting a child, the Wicked Witch of the North tracked the mother down. Dorothy's father sacrificed himself to stall the witch. Dorothy's mother managed to escape and find sanctuary with her husband's family on their Heartland farm but died in childbirth. When she learned this, Dorothy returned to Oz to find the Wicked Witch of the North, but that is a tale for another time.
* During a later adventure in Oz, Dorothy fell in love with a young man named Tip. Tip turned out to be Princess Ozma who had their gender changed by a witch's curse. When Tip was cured, Dorothy found that she was even more attracted to Ozma than she was Tip. After Ozma's coronation, the two began to date. After the Sheeda took over Oz, the two fled with other Ozmite refugees to Earth, where Dorothy was happy to find she was an LGBTQ icon. The two were married shortly after the arrival on Danny.

#### General

* The name of the Wicked Witch of the East is Mother Rigby.

#### Companions

* Toto began speaking after the arrival in Oz. He also showed knowledge of words Dorothy never heard of.
* She cut down a scarecrow from a tree. The scarecrow asked her for his pipe. After taking a few puffs, he regained his strengths. Feathertop decided to join Dorothy on her journey as after he learned of Mother Rigby's death he didn't have any other purpose in life.
* The magic of the Silver Shoes primed the inert magic in the Tin Woodsman's heart, awakening him. He managed to open his jaw enough to emit a low groan which caught the attention of Dorothy's pet Toto. After lubrication, he was able to move his jaw and tell his story. He joined her in hopes of receiving a new heart from The Wizard of Oz.
* Hearing from the other beasts of the forest that there was a little girl with a picnic basket and a little dog, Benroy leapt out onto the road and unleashed a fearsome roar in hopes the girl would drop her basket, only to be confronted by the fact the girl had two other companions, both of which radiated the scent of the Baba Yaga magic (as did the girl's shoes). Though tremendously afraid, Benroy tried to bluff his way through the bold girl swatted Benroy on the nose, which immediately triggered the lion to beg for her forgiveness and surrender himself to her, fearing her to be Baba Yaga. Hearing that a girl so young and small could stand up to the Baba Yaga, Benroy felt ashamed of his hiding in the forest and immediately wanted to help this girl.

### Notes

* Dorothy Gale is a character from *Fables* who originated from *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* stories by L. Frank Baum.
* Her appearance is based on Kaniehtiio Horn, who played Dorothy Baum in the show *Supernatural*.
	+ Her sexuality is similar to Teri Reeves' Dorothy in the show “Once Upon A Time”.
* Mother Rigby is a character from Nathaniel Hawthorne's *Feathertop*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Dorothy Gale

1. ↑ Network Files: Dorothy Gale
2. ↑ Dinkley Files: Oz
3. ↑ ObMod: On the Road 1
4. ↑ Network Files: Feathertop
5. ↑ Network Files: Tin Woodsman
6. ↑ Network Files: Benroy