Drusilla Blackthorn

Drusilla Blackthorn is a Shadowhunter from the Blackthorn family who lives at the Los Angeles Institute.

Early life
Drusilla was born to Andrew and Eleanor Blackthorn in 1999. Drusilla is the sixth of seven children and thus has five older siblings: Helen, Mark, Jas, Jules, Livvy, and Ty, and one younger brother, Tavvy.

Dark War
When Sebastian Morgenstern and his army of Endarkened invaded the Los Angeles Institute, she was at the nursery with Tavvy. Frightened by the noise and fire coming from outside, she got hold of a sword and determinedly protected him until Emma Carstairs came to get them. By the foyer, Emma stayed and let Dru carry Tavvy and go to the office ahead of her. They got there in time and was Portal into Alicante.

After the raid, Dru and Tavvy were both very uncomfortable and had nightmares. Despite only being eight, Dru was also interrogated with the Mortal Sword, a tool used to painfully compel the truth out of a person. She and her siblings suffered through a lot during the Dark War, made worse by the loss of Andrew, who was Endarkened and killed afterwards, Mark, who joined the Wild Hunt, and Helen, who was exiled to Wrangel Island. Eventually, the family was sent back to the Institute, where they will be raised by their uncle, Arthur.

Cold Peace
At one point, Dru became obsessed with detectives, much like her older brother Ty—unlike him, however, Dru got over the phase. She read Nancy Drew books Emma got from a junk shop, citing them as good adventure stories that were nice to read about because it didn't have any demons.

In 2012, the Blackthorns visited their great-aunt Marjorie in England. During their two-month stay there, Marjorie had told her that if she wasn't shaped like a "butterball," she would be pretty and boys would do whatever she wanted. Emma was horrified and told her that she was in fact beautiful.

Dru later developed a crush on the Centurion Diego Rosales.

Personality and traits
Drusilla is quite shy and often feels self-conscious about her body.

Physical description
Dru has the Blackthorns' signature dark brown hair and blue-green eyes. She is quite tall for her age—nearly the same height as Cristina, despite being five years younger than her. As a child, she was already compact, expected to grow to be curvy unlike her mostly lanky siblings. Her body has since already gone through puberty early, showing off her curves to the point where Dru, at thirteen, has been mistaken for seventeen or eighteen years old by mundane boys. This has made her very self-conscious about her body because unlike most Shadowhunters who are wiry or muscular, she is round-bodied and doesn't fit into the gear designed for girls in her age group. She often wears her hair in two braids.