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Description

Dorothy Byrd, or 'Birdie' stands at just shy of five and a half feet tall. She has short, nearly black hair that is cropped angularly along her jaw line. Her soft features would be consitered attractive, but not overly noticable, save for her bright green eyes that have been know to catch the light...and catch the eyes of other blue eyed sheiks.

Personality

Dorothy is a born and raised farm girl, unable to completely rid herself of her home-making instincts and family sentimentality, despite her attempts to transition to 'city girl.'

She is warm and kind to everyone she meets unless they strike her the wrong way or try to take advantage of her produce or...otherwise. The head on her shoulders is strong and independent, but a certain naivety about the darker parts of the world can leave her vulnerable and unprepared.

As a widow she is no stranger to the benefits of an intimate relationship, but struggles to decide of settling down or remaining free as a bird is the better option.

Equipment

As a single young lady in the Big City, Dorothy dons an apron and clean face by day and a flashy, baby vamp facade by night.

As mother (see 'Life After Noir'), she never travels without a purse full of tissues, gum, and a note pad for jotting down things she'd otherwise forget while bustling between the tasks of parent, secretary, and wife.

History

During the mornings Dorothy helps her brothers run a small produce stand, whose products are supplied by their parent's farm a short distance outside New York city. In the years after her loss, Dorothy has taken to her free spirited nature and pursues singing and dancing wherever she can find a gig; a flapper dancer of sorts.

Dorothy Knuston was raised in a farming family , the youngest of seven children. The farm consumed her family's time, struggling to make a living off their crops in a harsh economy. Her hard work to help support her family kept her from an education. In any spare time she had, Dorothy amused herself with songs and dances in the barn to popular songs of the time. Her parents scorned her energetic and bubbly personality, threatening that she would never make a suitable wife. Though, Alice and Sam could never really be too harsh to their youngest child.

Time proved them wrong and at the age of seventeen, the year 1914, Dorothy was engaged and wed to Wayne J Byrd; the year the war started. Though she hated to leave the farm and her family and wanted desperately to be of aid to them, she longed to leave the farm life to pursue a better 'American Dream' in New York, New York. After nearly a year and a half of marriage, Dorothy found herself scared and alone as Wayne was drafted for the war. With several other temporarily widowed women, Dorothy found a job at a factor making and packing munitions in wartime support. As the war neared its end, a soldier approached Dorothy's door; her husband was dead.

A single woman in the cities, Dorothy found it impossible to provide for herself. Her brothers George and Clyde moved into the city with her, and together the three siblings started a produce stall selling their farms fresh produce to patrons seven days a week. Still mourning the loss of her husband, Dorothy has recently spent her evenings pursuing her childhood pleasures of singing and dancing.

In various threads Dorothy has taken on the role of loving and devoted wife to Charles Wallenstein, whose gentle blue eyes and clumsy charm won her over. Together they have a daughter Dotty Rose in 'The Life Noir.' Dorothy has also traveled southward in a twist of this original tale, breaking the hearts of not one, but two men in an attempt to free herself from the pains that the Big Apple had brought her way.

Dorothy Helen Byrd's Story