Blair Moore

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Blair Moore is a major protagonist in The Series.

## History

Blair was born on October 25, 1991 to Naomi Moore and Tanner Scott. Tanner left before Blair was born, leaving Naomi to raise Blair as a single working mother.

She attended Johnson Elementary, Westminster Junior High, and East River High School.

In school, Blair had earned a reputation for being an eccentric loner, so people tended to avoid her at best and bully her at worst. Blair never had friends besides Witch until she met Mia. In early high school, Mia defended her from bullies, and they began a somewhat strained friendship. Mia introduced Blair to Ethan shortly afterwards.

In college, Blair met Ivy, and the two dated for a time. She met the rest of the track team through Mia: Carson, Luke, and Sasha.

## Behavior and Psychology

### Personality

*"Blair is quite cynical but a mushy romantic at heart yes. Blair looks cold, is gooey on the inside"* --Cas, 2018/10/07

Blair comes off as cool, sharp-eyed, and silver-tongued.

(introverted, introspective, loner, curmudgeon)

Blair is a lonely person. She is an only child and used to not having her single working mother around very often.

Blair feels isolated from other people and she's always wondered why: what makes her tick that creates this barrier from her and others, why it seems other people don't have the same trouble, then what makes other people tick. How they work, how they think, how their thoughts compartmentalize. If she wasn't a lit major she'd probably be a psych major, since she's interested in picking apart people's psyche, in a desperate attempt to better understand her own.

"she feels like a lot of things are missing in her life, and life feels constantly on mute for her, everything is muted. her emotions, her place in her life, and her place in the lives of the people around her"

Blair tries her best to hide her insecurities, and she can be kind of pretty intentionally snobbish and intimidating, what with her snark.

Blair has the pretense of someone who doesn't care about the actions of others when in actuality it isn't always so. she's afraid of being or appearing vulnerable, tries to act snobby and sarcastic but inside she's hoping ppl don't think she's a loser. Blair puts up a bit of front of acting snobby and a lil holier than thou while having a minor inferiority complex

"in her mind, it was totally ok that people were scared of her, she didn't want friends anyway, totally not at all (liar)" --Cas, chat log 2016

Blair is very touch-starved but feels distant from other people and like she could never connect with anyone.

Habits

Blair always carries a notebook in which she writes poetry.

### Relating to Others

Her caustic commentary are a defense mechanism. She can be aloof and confrontational, and has difficulty expressing her emotions, which leads people to believe that she is cold and unfeeling. She holds resentment towards this assumption and reacts by acting even colder. Only Mia, and later Sasha, have seen her softer side. She gets better at emoting through Sasha's influence.

Blair is even more aloof with skittish people. She's an anxious person, and feeling someone else's anxiety in the atmosphere makes her irritated from overstimulation.

## Physical Description

Blair is relatively tall and slim, with little muscle tone. She resembles a vampire, what with her wavy black hair which contrasts her pale skin. She burns easily and sometimes it looks ashen due to her insomnia. She is noted by many people to appear "sickly" sometimes, even though she's healthy, excluding her sleep schedule. Her grey eyes are piercing and observant.

### Mannerisms and Gestures

Blair's body language is generally very affected; she attempts to look "bored" and "dangerous." She can often be seen leaning back in a "relaxed" posture.

### Style of Dress

Blair favors dark clothing, particularly sleeveless blouses. She is more neutral presenting, never wears dresses or skirts, but she's fine with blouses on occasion. She has a favorite leather vest. She usually does not wear makeup, except for bright red or black lipstick on poetry nights at the cafe, "to strike fear into the hearts of men." <black nail polish?> She sports silver bracelets on one wrist.

### Prominent Features and Distinguishing Marks

In high school, she was notorious for wearing all black clothing, steel-spiked bracelets, and a choker.

## Speech

Her voice is somewhat quiet, has a slight rasp and, frequently, a sarcastic tone.

[tone of voice, language or accent, favorite phrases]

## Background

### Interests and Hobbies

"Blair spends much of her time doing many things, including 1) brooding 2) writing broody poetry 3) painting broodily 4) brooding in the shower" --Cas, chat log 2016/01/17
Blair's main hobby is writing poetry. She is constantly writing in her notebook, which she carries with her everywhere.
At home, she has a shelf of old notebooks filled to the brim with poetry and small doodles to accompany her stanzas. They are very worn, many of them with the pages peeking out, the rings having worn away at the papercut holes. Certain, especially beloved, notebooks are hidden in an old shoebox slid under her bed at the very back of it.

(Blair has only shown her poetry to Mia, and only after many sad puppy eyes. Her deep, sad, dark puppy eyes. They go all jet black and glisten with the thin veil of tears, and somehow her hair always manages to fall over half her face, making her expression all the more shadowy and sad.)
Blair is closely associated with the concept of vampires.

### Sexuality

Blair's feelings about her sexuality are muted and distant, but underneath the capped lid she longs to be a passionate lover... she just doesn't feel like she'll ever get the chance,," 2017/08/16

Blair's type is girls who are mysterious in a different way than Blair. Girls who are graceful, who hide behind smiles sometimes, out of reach, who seem a lil unattainable.

### Self Image

Blair was an emo kid, leaning toward a bit of goth. i don’t quite know how she feels about her body other than that It Exists, and she feels like she exists outside of it. <2019/02/16>

### Heritage

Blair has Jewish, French, and Norwegian ancestry.

## Relationships

### Naomi Moore

Blair's mother works long hours as a nurse, so Blair feels distant from her. They are also dissimilar in personality and do not have common interests, which causes friction between them. Part of the reason that Blair doesn't feel like she can talk to her mother about her problems is that she feels she barely knows her.

### Tanner Scott

Tanner is Blair's father, who left her and Naomi before she was born. For this reason, Blair calls him "Sperm Donor." She says that she can't feel abandoned by a father who was never there in the first place.
Tanner impregnated and then left Naomi when she was 19. He came back when Blair was about 2 years old, then disappeared again when she was 3. He didn't want to be a father but did want to see Blair, but remembered he didn't want to be a father again. It didn't help that Blair was 1) a girl, and 2) she was quiet and withdrawn and nothing like how he wanted his kid to be.
He has on occasion come back into her life to ask her mother for money (which he has done twice before). She considers him a deadbeat and resents his existence.

### Mia Lazzari-Qian & Sasha Rodriguez

See Relationships page for more information on their relationship.

### Lizzie Brooks

*"the shy turtle with the stuffy cat... or poetic corvid" --Cas, 2019*

Lizzie is Blair's opposite, yet they are similar in many ways. See Relationships page for more information.

### Witch

Blair has a black cat named Witch. She adopted Witch when she was a freshman in high school... or more like Witch adopted her, a half-blind cat was hanging around her neighborhood for several months, during which Blair would leave out food and water for her, until one morning she was waiting on Blair's doorstep. She is always there for Blair, whenever she gets inexplicably sad.
Witch is between one and three years old <2016; this contradicts later statement about having been adopted in high school, so she would have to be a minimum of 9 years old>. Blair takes her grooming very seriously.

Sasha has commented that Witch has the same stare as Blair. She is also convinced that Witch has a secret lair and is planning world domination.

~~"yes, you are that cat Ellis. Witch is you. it's your cameo!!!" --Cas, 2017/09/29~~

### Poetry Cafe

she likes the people who organize poetry night at the cafe.

### Red

Red is a regular patron of the Poetry Cafe. She began visiting semi-regularly because she liked the atmosphere. Her visitations became much more frequent since Blair was hired. Red anonymously gives gifts to the cafe performers and crew, which includes Blair, on poetry night.
Red has a huge crush on Blair. Blair does not know who she is.

## Trivia

* Her patronus is a black cat.
* Her color is indigo.
* Her favorite times of the day are when the sky is that deep purple hue.
* She buys candy for Halloween under the pretense of giving it out to trick-or-treaters, but really it's all for her. She stays home all night watching cheesy horror movies and eats all the candy herself.
* Blair has a poor sense of direction.
* If the nerds were in a band, Blair would play the theremin. But she would totally learn to play it just to freak people out.
* Blair's dreams consist of her running her own bookstore. Sometimes she dreams about waking up home alone. When she wakes up, there are tears running down her cheeks. These are the only times she cries.
* For gifts, Blair would get something a little corny and vintage for Mia, an mixtape of old love songs on traditional cassette

### Favorites

* Dessert: Toffee cake with coffee frosting. Sweet and bitter, like her.
* Poems: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." She loves its dark, romantic atmosphere about despair and lost love.

### Likes

horror movies, the occult and macabre, lovely notebooks and fountain pens and such

## Behind the Scenes

### Character Design

Cas cited the appearance of Terra Naomi on the cover of her album "Under the Influence" as an influence on Blair's look.