Dorcas et Cassiopée

Dorcas and Cassiopée are close friends and trusted companions within Shelby’s university circle. Their relationship is shown less through a separate backstory than through the ordinary ways they move together: sharing laughter, dancing at a party, contributing to gatherings, and coordinating their concern for Shelby. The friendship’s most revealing feature is this combination of ease with active care; they are not merely present in the same group, but respond to one another and to their friend as a unit.

Shared routines and social life

Their friendship appears amid a broader group of university friends. During a snowball fight, Dorcas and Cassiopée run alongside Shelby, pursued by Jungkook and Namjoon. The scene gives their relationship a playful, physical ease: the friends join the chase together, and the moment shifts into laughter and affectionate teasing rather than separating them into individual roles.

They also contribute differently to a Christmas gathering. Dorcas brings gingerbread-person-shaped cookies and a chocolate cake, while Cassiopée brings a bottle of wine. The food is put away before the group settles in with a Christmas playlist and shares refreshments. The scene does not dwell on an exchange between the two women, but it places their contributions side by side within the same circle of hospitality: Dorcas’s baking and Cassiopée’s wine both help make the gathering communal.

At Maison Upsilon, their closeness is more directly visible. Before entering the student house with Shelby, Cassiopée checks that Shelby is sure she wants to go in and reminds her that they can leave if she prefers. Shelby says she is ready, takes Dorcas’s and Cassiopée’s hands, and enters with them. Their shared entrance makes the friendship tangible: Cassiopée voices the check-in, while both friends accompany Shelby rather than leaving her to face the party alone.

Care for Shelby and care for one another

The friends’ concern for Shelby is not identical, but it is coordinated. At the party, Shelby and Jungkook kiss and dance while Dorcas and Cassiopée watch. Dorcas says she is still afraid for Shelby; Cassiopée reassures her that they will be there if anything goes wrong. Cassiopée then nods and continues dancing with her best friend. The exchange explicitly identifies them as best friends and shows their bond working through mutual reassurance: Dorcas gives voice to worry, and Cassiopée answers it with a promise of shared support.

That concern is consistent with their separate efforts to help Shelby. When Shelby has a panic attack in class and retreats to an isolated place, Cassiopée searches for her and approaches carefully after Shelby recoils from touch. Dorcas, in another moment of distress, apologizes to Shelby for something Cassiopée had said, while making clear that Shelby should not have been spoken to that way. These scenes do not establish a conflict between Dorcas and Cassiopée; rather, they show each taking responsibility for Shelby’s wellbeing in her own encounter with her.

Dorcas’s support becomes especially direct when Shelby recounts being disbelieved and abandoned by others. Dorcas comforts her, embraces her, and promises that Shelby can count on her in both difficult and joyful moments. This reassurance belongs to Dorcas’s friendship with Shelby, but it also helps define the surrounding circle in which Cassiopée is present: the two friends repeatedly appear among the people who accompany and support Shelby, without the story making their care interchangeable.

What the friendship reveals

The narrative gives little information about how Dorcas and Cassiopée first became close, or about the private history of their friendship. What it does show is a stable closeness expressed through shared time and reciprocal trust. They are comfortable enough to enjoy a snowball fight and dance together, and attentive enough to notice when Shelby may need reassurance. Their friendship is therefore established through repeated acts rather than an account of its origins.

Their exchange at Maison Upsilon provides its clearest statement of mutual reliance. Dorcas’s fear is not dismissed, and Cassiopée does not promise that no problem will occur; she says that they will be there if one does. The distinction matters. Their closeness is presented not as certainty that Shelby will never be hurt, but as a commitment to stand with her if she is. In that way, Dorcas and Cassiopée form a small but dependable part of the story’s network of friendship, where companionship includes both shared pleasure and readiness to care.