Victorique de Blois

Victorique de Blois, also known as The Golden Fairy, Gray Wolf and Monstre Charmant, is the main female protagonist from the Gosick series.
== Charactah Account ==
Victorique has the appearance of a small, almost doll-like, girl with long golden hair and emerald eyes and a voice that sounds exactly like that of an older woman. It is mentioned once that she is 15 years old. Another important part of Victorique's appearance is a pipe that she smokes when thinking about something. She spends her days at the conservatory at the top of the library, reading several difficult books, often in different languages, simultaneously. She points at one wall of the library and has told Kazuya that she has read almost all the books over there. Along with her sharp tongue, abusive bluntness and eccentric attitude, she possesses amazing detective skills.
After Victorique saves him from a near-arrest, Kazuya finds himself being entangled in every new mystery. Because her mother was a mistress, and according to Victorique "a dangerous person," she was imprisoned in the depths of the de Blois mansion where she developed very un-childlike mannerisms. She was sent off to school under strict orders to never leave the campus (although Grevil sometimes obtains special permission to take her out). When she first met Kazuya she didn't like him and thought that he was annoying and stupid for climbing up all the stairs in the library. She even ignored him and made fun of him, but gradually warmed up to him and began to trust and cherish him.
Victorique enjoys "reconstructing chaos" and often complains of the boredom that causes her headaches. Victorique also seems to love sweets, since she's always really happy when Kazuya gets her anything sweet.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Gosick
* Gosick Recap
=== Light Novels ===
* Gosick
* GosickS
=== Manga ===
* Gosick
* Gosick W
== Trivia ==
* Victorique's height is mentioned to be 140cm (about 4'6) in the novel (and manga). However, she seems to be taller in the anime, estimated to be 152.4 cm (about 5' 0") and 155cm (5'1") with heels. She weighs 40 kg (88.18 lb). Both numbers are quite small compared to other women/girls in her time period.
* Victorique's birthday is December 25, 1908.
* In spite of the fashion trends in the 1920s, Victorique still wears outfits reminiscent of the decades of the 19th Century. It is assumed that the de Blois family provided Victorique with hand-me-downs.
* Among Victorique's favorite food are French delicacies called macarons.
* Due to ethical issues in portraying young-looking characters which practice smoking, Victorique is instead portrayed in the anime series as using her pipe as a mannerism.
* The proper romanization of Victorique's name has brought confusion amongst fans due to disparity between its pronunciation and spelling. The only accepted spellings for Victorique's name are Victorique and Victorica. The former has been written in the anime series, and has been referenced in the light novels as a boy's name; on the other hand, the latter is the released romanization of her name in the released drama CD for Gosick.
* Although, because this is supposed to be a French name, it should be only pronounced as Victorique and not Victorica. Although, if you watch in Japanese, you will notice that they pronounce Victorique as Victorica, but of course that is only because that is how you would pronounce it in Japanese.
* In the latter part of the series, a possible explanation for Victorique's sudden change of hair color is Marie Antoinette Syndrome, a sudden whitening of the hair caused by abrupt events that cause stress and depression. The phenomena was named after the observation that the hair of unhappy and ill-fated Queen Marie Antoinette of France turned stark white the night before her execution in the French Revolution. Another possible explanation (rumored) is that she bleached her hair on purpose to hide from the people searching for her. However the true reason is the fact (as explained in the Light Novels) that she's a mixed blood supernatural being. Leaving the old continent caused her hair to turn silver and to fall into coma. Those were listed rumors of the Light Novels, but in the anime, she never falls into a coma and her hair changed color because of Marie Antoinette Syndrome. She was stressed from the loss of her mother, and the loss of Brian, as well as depressed from being separated from Kujo for so long.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Victorique de Blois at Gosick Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
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