Ghyslaine LaRue!

Ghyslaine Fleur LaRue is completely, utterly, and statistically unlovable.

It is of utmost importance that you know this conclusion arose from years of social experiments and observational records conducted by Ghyslaine herself, not from psychological distress, like people have assumed. She harbors an exhaustive list of personality traits, habits, and factors matching the diagnostic criteria for common disorders deemed unacceptable by a wide variety of cultures. Ghyslaine is fine. She will not say there was little difficulty in accepting this, but — after years of reaching the same answer — they must begrudgingly admit this is a fact of life; there is nothing Ghyslaine can do. If she ever wants to protest, they need only to look through her endless notes and attached spreadsheets to seek counterarguments to each and every point made. Despite this, Ghyslaine has a rebuttal that holds merit: her previous perceptions of life itself were myopic in scope.

Ghyslaine had a sheltered childhood due to a strong dislike of deviating from predictability, which her overbearing father was more than fine with. Life was admittedly bland and unfulfilling, but the ease of sinking into routine was comforting nonetheless. Since she moved into the dormitories at Empire State University away from the watchful eye of her father, however, every day became a strange, new experience.
New food, new perspectives, new dangers, new and real friends… It is a lot, perhaps too much all at once, but it is undoubtedly good data. It is very good, in fact. Ghyslaine never considered the possibility she would ever be part of a friend group, for instance. She never thought she would get the privilege to be herself around such wonderful people — around such a perfect girl. The notion was simply inconceivable. Perfect and lovely and sweet and kind and perfect. It is amazing. It makes Ghyslaine so happy to finally be able to rework her previous notions by people who are so nice to her. People who would do anything for Ghyslaine and vice versa. It makes her so, so happy to be able to have a good time. She is so incredibly stoked.

…Ghyslaine needs to go take a walk to calm down. Apologies.

Attributes

Equipment

• Notebook
• Pens
• Laptop
• Crushed loose papers
• Weed
  She finds it soothing.
• Lighter

Notes

• Ghyslaine is transfem. She starts publicly transitioning (HRT, dressing more feminine) during her mid teens due to her supportive father and general disregard toward her hometown.
• Ghyslaine is monotonous and stoic. She's trying to amend that by smiling and generally showing more expressions, but she's just not a very emotive person.
• Displays very little body language if ever.
• Glasses are not optional.
• Just go to town on bracelets. Ghyslaine loves friendship and kandi bracelets. Give her lots, if you want.
• Has a soft, raspy voice.

Trivia

• Adores Honeycrisp apples to death and it's been her favorite food for as long as she can remember. Ghyslaine can eat truckloads of the stuff and will never tire of it. It's simple, plain, delicious, and keeps the doctor away.
• She prefers orange juice to apple juice. Traitor…
• When they first moved to VNY, they found out very quickly that saying "actually" when correcting someone's a pretty bad move.
• They're not a conspiracy theorist, but they enjoy reading about cryptids, cults, supernatural encounters, weird creatures, and legends along with their origins. She just finds them very, very interesting.
• A surprisingly big fan of horror stories, but not so much a fan of horror films.
• Still a bit hesitant when trying new things, but she's much more receptive when her friends are with her.
• Explores old buildings as a sort of rebellion against how she was in the past.
• Favorite activity to do with MJ is coming up with scary stories together while snuggling. Also Liz is there sometimes so they talk about horror while they have sleepovers.
• She and MJ run a small 'garage band' called Glockamole for fun. Ghyslaine's the drummer/guitarist and MJ's the pianist/other guitarist. Other instruments and vocals are covered by any friend of theirs who feels up to the task, but they don't have to be committed.
• Would love to run a story-based TTRPG horror campaign or engage in a horror roleplay in general but she's unsure how that would go down. And how she'd find people interested to join her. And how to not be painfully shy. And how to have her characters be convincing. And—
• Makes TTRPG campaigns because she likes the process of worldbuilding and the like. Never shows these to anyone because what if they're not interested and they shit on her interests and Ghyslaine can never look at this now no longer calming activity again because it's stupid and childish.
• HATES removing her little apple hat in public. It adds character!!
• Can never help being surprised when people are nice to her even when they get nothing in return.
• Dislikes playing most video games because she gets way too frustrated way too easily, especially if there's no save states. If a game's interesting, she'll either watch someone play it or get Virgil to play it for her.
• Outside of her 'main' friend group, she doesn't have many friendly faces to speak of, so she tries meeting new people by frequenting small forums to minimal success.
• Has taken up blogging instead because forums are intimidating and 'mainstream' social media is incomprehensibly stressful.
• Enjoys bracelet-making and doodling because it gives her something to do with her hands that isn't biting the shit out of hangnails.