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BLAIR CHRISTINE HARCOURT

AGE: 25

BIRTHDAY: April 30, 1999

RELATION: Half sibling

TYPE: Solo

GENDER: Ciswoman

PRONOUNS: She/Her

ORIENTATION(S): Lesbian

FACE CLAIM: Rachel Zegler

JOB/SCHOOL

GRADE: Masters

MAJOR: Musical Theater

MINOR: Piano Performance

ABOUT

Growing up a hop, skip and a jump from New York City gave Blair a fascination with the bustling metropolis from the time that she was a little girl. For as long back as she can remember, she’d spend at least one weekend evening a month being dragged on the Metro North train into Manhattan where her parents would take her and her sister to see some kind of show. Music was something that was ingrained in Blair from the get go. Every time they’d go see a Broadway show, an opera, or the New York Philharmonic, Blair always sat rapt with attention. It was a difficult feat for a little girl, but Blair was utterly captured by the magic of the performers onstage. One could say that it was ingrained in her DNA– Her mother, a retired opera singer, would coach her to make sure young Blair didn’t damage her voice. That was Blair’s bonding point with her mother, and initially what made them inseparable.

High school was extremely difficult for Blair, who found herself crumbling under the conservative, oppressively wealthy nature of her Connecticut suburb. The only solace she found was in music: specifically, playing and singing. She was enrolled in piano lessons as a young child, and it was her solace and saving grace throughout stressful teenage years of trying to figure out exactly who she was and what she wanted. She dated on-and-off a boy who ruined most of her self-confidence, something that Blair didn’t really get back until she was in college. She mostly went ignored, aside from being known as the “quiet music girl” who didn’t speak unless it was on a stage. She landed every lead in every school musical, and spent her summers training at Broadway camps in New York City.

When it came time for college, the only option possible was for Blair to go to New York. Between NYADA, NYU and AMDA, she had her work cut out for her, especially when she was accepted into all three. Blair’s initial choice was to go to NYADA, but she found that she was unhappy there. The focus on musical theatre was good, but she wanted to become a more well-rounded musician and found herself slipping back to her classical and operatic roots. So, in her sophomore year, she made the switch into NYU Steinhardt’s program in musical theatre, and took a minor in piano performance. She found herself much happier there, and started to really come out of her shell.

It was at NYADA that Blair met her first real girlfriend, Elise. Blair was naive to an extent– she truly thought that she and Elise were going to be something special. It got serious enough for Blair that she took Elise home to an unofficial high school reunion, thinking her suddenly realized sexuality would be welcomed and accepted. Instead, Blair found herself at the helm of a massive cyber bullying bout, in which her social media accounts were inundated with hate messages. Her private school clique effectively ditched her, and it took quite the toll on Blair. To make matters worse, Elise shortly after informed her that they were “just a phase” for her, and she wasn’t interested in much more. Blair effectively ended their flirtationship, but was presented with an entirely different issue: she had to come out to her family.

Blair’s relationship with her family is nothing if not strained, and it’s part of the reason why she’s so happily living in New York. Her mother fell into the “helicopter parent” category, while her father was always too busy to bother with Blair and her sister– at least, until his alcohol-induced rage transferred from his wife to his daughters. It was after a particularly rough day at work for him and he’d had too much to drink one summer night when he came after Blair at a family dinner, who in a fit of ire, blurted out that she was a lesbian. That was the end of her perfect Stepford family, as Blair was thrown out of their house immediately. Since then, Blair moved to LA to be with her beloved cousins and takes solace in the fact that she is loved and accepted by another facet of her family.