Queen B

Name: Blair Waldorf
Door: Submissive, door pass

Canon: Gossip Girl
Canon Point: 4x17

Age: 20
Appearance: Here

History: Wiki
Personality:

Virtues:
*Intelligent: Blair is top of her class and graduated with a 4.0 GPA from Constance Billard. Aside from Dan, she is the only other major character of the show to drop a great deal of cultural references, such as foreign films, artists and writers that she loves. She enjoys foreign films such as Nanette and Nights of Cabiria, while many of the other characters view such things as a bore. She's fluent in French and able to converse with Native speakers with ease. She often tends to dream only in the form of old movie references, particularly Audrey Hepburn films, like Breakfast of Tiffanys or Roman Holiday. She is often seen reading or visiting museums, something that she tends to only share with Dan Humphrey, the two being set up as the only intellectuals of the show.

*Protective: Claiming herself to be part of the "Non Judgmental Breakfast Club", Blair has a tendency to target or attack anyone she views as moving against her loved ones or friends. Sometimes this can take the form of darker impulses, but always stem from a place of love. When Chuck is suicidal after his father's death, she helps talk him off the ledge, staying with him until his emotions subside. She never gives up on him, even when he is cruel to her. When Georgina returns to Manhattan and Serena goes on a downward spiral, she looks after her friend, trying to keep her from reverting to her old ways, eventually enacting a scheme against Georgina that gets her sent to Christian Camp. One of the more darker manifestations of this was when she learned that Chuck was about to lose his hotel to his uncle, Jack. Jack told her that the only way to save the hotel was to spend the night with him. Despite having no desire to and disgusted by Jack, she is willing to go through with it, if only to help Chuck from losing his legacy.

*Loving: While Blair likes things to stay as she prefers them, her heart is large enough that she welcomes and loves newcomers as much as her family. The best example is her stepfather, Cyrus Rose. Despite one attempt to get rid of him, once she grew used to him, she comes to love him as deeply as her father. She insists that he also accompany her down the aisle when she marries Prince Louis. She also turns to him for advice again and again. This was played out as well with her father's boyfriend, the man he left her mother for. She fought against him, learned to see the good side of him and came to embrace him warmly and lovingly. She chooses Serena again and again, despite their struggles, when she is facing times of difficulty. In particular, telling Serena that she wouldn't date Dan if it meant hurting her. She stays by Chuck in his most emotionally dismissive times, reminding him of her love, because she knows he needs someone. This is something she repeats with Dan, believing in him and forgiving him despite evidence towards his scheming.

*Ambitious: Blair has a plan for her life and doesn't hesitate to go after it. She applies for an internship at the W, eventually replacing one of the assistants and working the same job as well as attending college full time. She planned on attending Yale, eventually being able to transfer from NYU to Columbia. She manages what she views as her empire, complete with minions, that she oversees as workers, sending them out on various jobs to help advance her, like finding out information about various figures of charities or business. She intends to be a businesswoman of some sort, eventually deciding on being a "Dictator of Taste". She is willing to go far to get what she wants. To get that internship, she didn't rely on connections, she practically stalked the manager to get the chance to talk to him, as well as faxing her resume to every fax machine in the building. It was her skill and talent that landed her the job, rather than her mother's name, as she wanted.

Vices:
*Manipulative: Blair has a tendency to play mind games with people to push them into the positions and places she wants them. While this more often manifests in schemes, her words are just as deadly. She manages to make Chuck's French girlfriend question herself and the reason that Chuck wants her, simply by implying that she doesn't belong in their world in Manhattan. She spreads a rumor about Dan and their English teacher, implying that they were having an affair. She didn't know if it was true or not, but when pressed about it, she tells her father that she didn't lie. He goes to her defense when she is expelled based on that manipulation. She can turn family members against each other, pitting Jenny Humphrey and her dad into a fight when she manipulates him into throwing her a party in Brooklyn. Her manipulation also turns Jenny into a darker person and one as capable of lying as she is.

*Schemer: Blair schemes like she breathes. She needs it in her life, returning to it again and again, even when it backfires on her. It tends to be her go to form of punishment and exacting revenge, preferring it to simply talking matters out. It's the response she gives when her mother starts dating a man outside of her preference, it's what she does when her best friend returns home after a year away to reassert her position of power, and it's her response when a teacher gives her a "B" and threatens her GPA. Too often, it nearly destroys her relationships, disappointing her mother, father and friends. She loses the chance to go to Yale because of her scheming behavior, forcing her to go to NYU as well. It's also the reason that her relationship with Chuck implodes time and time again. Eventually this is tempered with age, but comes in more mature forms. Yet scheming is a habit she can never fully break.

*Insecure: Blair tends to have an inferiority complex among women, particularly Serena. She constantly worries about her abilities, intelligence and how she is perceived by others. This insecurity comes out in destructive ways in the first seasons, in particular, bulimia. She often dismisses some of Serena's worries, advice or objections because she assumes that they are in response to Blair receiving the spotlight. When Serena or another female starts to stumble into her place or threaten her power, Blair goes absolutely berserk, often crossing several lines to retaliate. At the Yale dinner party they attend, Blair brings up the boy who died from an overdose that Serena believes she killed. With Jenny, she practically banishes her from Manhattan, going all out to destroy her if she steps foot back in her territory. She worries about not being loved by her mother, her father starting a new life without her, and being left alone. So many of her actions are out of fear of losing everything. We see Blair in her more vulnerable moments when that insecurity is brought out and how much she puts on herself. While it no longer actively harms her body, it does interfere with a great deal of her life and relationships.

*Ruthless: To get what she wants, Blair goes for the jugular. She doesn't hesitate to tell her mother about Cyrus's affair in his previous marriage, though she knows that it will hurt her mother and break her heart. She often sabotages her mother's fashion shows, or attempts to, in an effort to bring down someone that simply assists like Serena or Jenny Humphrey. She spreads a damaging rumor about her teacher, well aware that it could ruin her life, make her lose her job and possibly get her arrested. Again, mentioned above, she will bring up subjects that are often over the line simply to get her way. During a party game at Yale, a "who would you have dinner with" question comes up. Blair forges Serena's answer, putting the name of the boy she blames herself for overdosing. This hurts Serena deeply, but she still does it in an effort to stop Serena's bid for a place at Yale.

*Controlling: One of the things Blair fears most is a loss of control and she'll go to great lengths to keep her hold on any situation. When she doesn't like a situation or wants to deny that she has feelings for someone, she runs from it and pretends the matter doesn't exist. She spends an entire episode avoiding taking a pregnancy test despite having a scare, letting Serena take the hit on her reputation when she is seen buying the tests. In Season 5, she refuses to open a letter of paternity for the episode, afraid that she will lose everything with what the answer is. She goes to near burn out levels to manage a job, her GPA at Columbia and a social life in an effort to compete with Chuck's new girlfriend. She is everyday controlling as well, having minions at her beck and call that she humiliates and puts through rigorous games and tests for her own amusement. She even treats her maid/caregiver Dorota like a packmule more than a human being. This control can often manifest in the form of overachieving and the planning of her life, coming out in obsessive levels. Her desire to get into Yale leads her down a dark path of isolating her friends, ruining a teacher's life and eventually ending in her downfall and dismissal of her admittance.


Powers and Abilities: She has the power and ability to completely destroy a person's life, but that's not magic, just intellectual. She's an average girl (though she'll never admit that.)
Inventory: The clothes on her back, Handsome Dan (Her Bulldog)

Samples: TDM One, TDM Two, Sexting Meme