Lots of people have done this for Harry Potter, but I've never seen one for Gossip Girl before. Basically, ten unknown facts about each of the characters. This is Blair. Up next (hopefully) is Serena. Enjoy!

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a ruler born

- ten true facts about Blair Cornelia Waldorf -

10. When Blair is little, she really, really admires her mother. She thinks she has the best fashion sense, the best choice in men, and she was the prettiest.

Even though she'll never admit it, that's still true today. And she can't help but like Cyrus…just a little bit, for how much he loves her mom.

9. At first, Blair hated Serena van der Woodsen with a passion. She was too flamboyant, too messy, she laughed too loudly—really, if she had dressed in K-Mart clothes one might not have been able to tell she was an Upper East Sider. But everyone seemed to love her anyway, because she was funny and beautiful.

Blair wasn't immune to her charms, and she's secretly glad, because otherwise they never would have ended up best friends.

8. Her favorite color has always been red, except for a short time in seventh grade when it was green…because that was the color of Nate's eyes. Chuck teases her endlessly about this, but sometimes when she wears her green Argyle sweater, a wave of nostalgia crashes over her.

7. It's a deep, dark secret, but for only one single moment, Blair really and truly loved Lord Marcus—but only after he called her a delicate little flower. And that's only because Chuck called her the same thing.

6. Blair always wanted to go to Yale so badly, but she never asked herself why. When, sitting in her NYU dorm room, she finally does, she can't figure it out.

Maybe it's because it seemed expected of her, or maybe it's because she always found that bull dog adorable. She's still not sure.

5. Her father always tells the story of the night she was born. On November 16, at about nine o'clock, her mother began to have contractions. She was rushed to the hospital where they waited…and waited…and waited for hours. There were no rooms available, so they pushed her into a room with a throne-like chair, complete with velvet and gold engraving. Blair likes this story because it means she was a ruler born, but she loves it because of the idea of her parents so happy together.

4. Blair got drunk for the first time when she was sixteen, right after Serena left for boarding school. She was at a party with Nate, but he had to leave early to deal with the patented Archibald Family Drama. She didn't realize how many martinis she'd had until her vision blurred. She thought it was Nate helping her to the bathroom, but when she heard, "Do I have to stick my finger down your throat, Waldorf? I'll even pull back your hair," her heart sunk. But she wound up vomiting beside Chuck Bass, and he didn't make a move towards her the whole time. Not once.

3. Blair loves being queen, but not for the obvious reason. She loves being in charge and having a plan. She loves having the power to make other peoples' decisions for them. But only because she's already screwed up so much on her own.

2. She'll never tell anybody this, but when she was nine, she would doodle Serena's name in the margin of her notes instead of her own, then blush fiercely and hide the paper when anyone asked to see what she'd written.

1. There isn't a single moment Blair doesn't regret sleeping with Chuck Bass. But when he finally, finally tells her he loves her and means it, there isn't a single moment that she does. For once, she thinks, she's made the right decision.

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Finished! I really like this piece; I hope I captured Blair truly in it.

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