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Blair Waldorf

 “A while back,” Dan said, quietly, “you told me it was strange to have a kid who came with a story.”

4.18 the kids stay in the picture Blair x Vanessa,

who wakes up first in the morning: they actually wake up around the same time, usually not more than half an hour apart, but blair has learnt that if she wakes up before v and pretends to be asleep, v will fix her breakfast, & blair's always found eating to be more easy/more soothing when someone who loves her is the one cooking/bringing her food, so. vanessa is always the first one out of bed.

who’s the first to fall asleep at night: vanessa, i think, but not by much. i just think vanessa is one of those people whose body clock is so solid that if they don't go to bed by the time they gotta, they will start falling asleep while doing whatever task it is they're doing. i feel like v would go to bed at 10:30 and b would go to bed at 11.

what they playfully tease each other over: "blair, you're dressed like a rich person demanding that someone rob their bank acocunt!" / "thank you, vanessa!" / nate, who's watching this exchange, bemused: "b, i don't think that was a compliment." OR "abrams for heaven's sake must you wear the entire spectrum of visible light and colour all at once? that outfit is garish and the only thing it is good for is taking off you" / vanessa, winking: "maybe that was the point" / (cut to dan in the background with his head in his hands) "could you not do the dirty talk thing in front of me, please?"

what they do when the other’s having a bad day: they have a timer, and the person having a bad day vents about it and rages about it. they're trying to see who can beat the other's record time (right now it's blair with 3h47m, but vanessa's come close with 3h39m.) the venter loses when they smile, or laugh. once that's done they watch a movie together and share something to eat. and once that's done there's probably a lot of making out & getting lucky.

how they say ‘i’m sorry’ after arguments: blair hates expensive gifts or gestures after chuck, so vanessa has found that just talking to blair, sincerely & honestly & openly and saying sorry works best. blair has never been very good at spoken apologies, so she usually writes apology letters, which she gives vanessa, because it's just easier that way, and hey, communication is communication! (vanessa keeps all the letters in a folder and reads through them sometimes. this usually makes her tear up, but in a good way - knowing that someone loves her enough to give her something she can hold and reread and remind them of - permanent, solid proof that blair is permitting vanessa to hold her accountable, to demand that she keep her word.)

which one’s more ticklish: blair. but i think blair would say that she hates being tickled and vanessa... wouldn't tickle her.

their favourite rainy day activities: being silly in ways other people wouldn't expect them to be, because they're at home and they're not letting anyone in and this is THEIR time. maybe they would dress up as each other. do bad karaoke together. vanessa would get out her camera and get a riveting video of blair talking to their cat about various ammendments to the constitution. general chaos, the kind of things people usually do when not sober.... except they're both totally sober. the rain brings it out of them?

how they surprise each other: the first time blair makes her father's standard pie for vanessa, vanessa sinks to the kitchen floor like "you can COOK?" fkdhlkghgkl. but literally just tiny things like that. vanessa keeps giving blair books of hers - and blair, reading them, finds notes in the margins and falls more and more in love with her. i don't think either of them would actually surprise each other? i feel like that's not how their relationship works, if that makes sense.

like remember that episodes in s3 where they’re both going for that speech and end up miserable and there’s that ‘misery loves company’ line? like i genuinely thought that they were going to become close after that. and i think they should have. like they start spending more time together and realise that they give each other good advice and push each other in interesting ways. like we see through the show that vanessa was never particularly great at pursuing and getting what she wants. like the petition and bar stuff in s2 i think and the speech and even dating dan and nate. like she’s try but she wouldn’t fight as hard as she could. and then there’s blair who at that point was feeling incredibly lost. first at nyu trying to get people to get people to admire and respect her by impressing them but realising that fancy parties and clothes weren’t really getting her that far and that terrified her because being queen was a part of her identity and people thinking she’s brilliant is something that was always so important to blair. and i think there was a part of her that lost herself in her pursuit of approval for others. and i think in those respects, they could have helped each other grow a lot. like blair fought so hard for everything she wanted. she’d throw her entire heart and soul into everything she did. she would pursue everything she wanted and not give up until she got it. and i think that with them getting to know each other, it’s something vanessa would come to admire in blair and something blair would help vanessa improve at. and then there’s vanessa, fiercely herself in every situation, never compromising her values or who she is for anyone or anything. vanessa who is always herself and loved for that. but who is also okay with not being loved by all. and i think blair, desperately fighting for admiration would see vanessa and her fearlessness in being true to herself and learn that maybe she too could be who she is and be loved for it. and even be okay with everyone not admiring, being happy with just the approval of herself rather than needing admiration from those around her.

i’ll always love that moment when vanessa makes a joke about chuck and blair just giggles. like this is blair cornelia waldorf who is surrounded by walls and pretenses and in that moment, when they barely even know each other, vanessa breaks through them and makes GIGGLE. like, they realise that they share a sense of humour. they both have that sort of dry wit and biting sarcasm. and not to mention the fact that they have many common interests. like one of the biggest things danblair and danvanessa bonded over was a similar taste in books and movies and art. and if danblair and danvanessa bond over those things, surely blair and vanessa would do the same.

and i think at first in their relationship, they’d antagonise each other and both have a lot of fun doing it. but then, slowly their relationship changes. and i think that change starts in that misery loves company episode where they’re sitting together and i think they give each other advice. and then they spend more and more time together, at nyu, doing dan’s play and they keep discovering things. that they have very similar tastes in art. that they make each other laugh. that they push each other to be better. that the advice the gives them is always honest and earnest and blunt but also full of heart. and they keep turning to each other. going back to each other. them seeing the strength and courage and compassion in the other and deeply admiring each other.