hey this is a really weird question but ive always had trouble kind of understand cleo's friendship with the other main ghouls, like how it is she gets along with clawdeen and lagoona, could u maybe describe how u see/interpret her friendship with the ghouls?
yeah of course!! this is how i interpret all their dynamics. also this is all pre-reboot
with frankie - at first, cleo didn’t like frankie at ALL. after new ghoul @ school, it took her a few months to really get over all the stuff that happened wrt frankie, but the justin biter concert was a good olive branch on frankie’s part. as time went on, she started to warm up to frankie, and pretty soon she was an indispensable part of the fearleading squad. once theyre friends, cleo’s a bit gentler with frankie than she is with most other people, and she’s got a soft spot for her bc dammit shes just too darn nice
with clawdeen - this is def a friendship of two people who are a lot alike. clawdeen’s more grounded and realistic than cleo, and cleo’s more bold and sure of herself, but they’re more alike than they seem. they prob have weekly shopping sessions where they just gossip about shit but like. in a classy way.
with draculaura - theyre both the oldest members of the main group in terms of like, immortality, but lala has been around for WAY longer than cleo has bc she wasn’t asleep for 3000+ years. so i imagine lala probably helps cleo with adjusting to modern life when its needed, which isn’t that often nowadays. lala’s perkiness probably grates on cleo’s nerves a bit and lala thinks cleo can be too stern sometimes but they still get along well
with lagoona - lagoona’s probably the ghoul cleo’s the least close to out of the main ghouls, but they have an understanding. lagoona knows to just let cleo be herself and cleo has probably gone to lagoona for advice at least a couple times. their hangouts would be chill. also cleo fucking hates gil and tells lagoona daily she’ll have him killed just give her the word
with ghoulia - ghoulia is cleo’s best friend. if cleo was the queen of a country, she’d appoint ghoulia to be her adviser. she’s cleo’s second-in-command, which means she does a lot of stuff behind the scenes, and that doesn’t go unappreciated – we saw that in the one comic book episode. u know the one. early on in their friendship, cleo obv had a harder time showing that appreciation and reciprocating it, but that’s a product of her upbringing, and she grew from it bc she knows ghoulia is a bad bitch who deserves the world just like cleo does.
bonus ghoulia friendship content that’s more canon divergent bc that paragraph was getting too long: i hc that cleo and ghoulia met pretty shortly after the de niles were untombed. after they moved to america and settled in new salem, ramses had ghoulia’s mother privately tutor cleo and nefera instead of sending them to public school bc he wanted The Best. cleo befriended ghoulia pretty quickly (they were around 7 or 8 at this time) and after nefera began public high school in 9th grade, cleo demanded that she be able to attend high school when she reached 9th grade, too. so ghoulia’s been her right hand zombie from the very start.
much later on, after cleo’s mother dedyet is found again and starts a relationship w ghoulia’s mother necronancy, their moms get married and at the wedding cleos like “im so excited we’re gonna be sisters” and ghoulia says the most corny thing she says in her entire life which is “we were already sisters” and cleo starts full-on sobbing and that is the end of my post thank u