Griselle Damgaard

''Note from the creator: For those who are familiar with Cynthea Mallard, I've revised her character to a notable extent. Her name has been changed and to Griselle Damgaard, the page title has been altered accordingly, and the rest of her page is currently being reworked.''

This page is a WIP.

Griselle Damgaard is the daughter of The Ugly Duckling, the protagonist of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the same name.

As her story ends happily, and due to the fact that she doesn't need to live with the ducklings in her tale until it's time for her destiny, she doesn't mind her story per say. That being said, while the Ugly Duckling tale may be well-known, it's not the most luxurious. Griselle is motivated for bigger and better things, preferrably things that aren't related to taking on the form of a fluffy gray cygnet.

Personality
Critical and astute, Griselle is a hard-boiled skeptic and a closed-set book who's prone to judging others – whether warranted or not – before they get the chance to glance at her cover. A tad ironic it seems, when destined to be judged quite harshly herself. While not intentionally malicious, the girl's wary outlook makes her slow to trust and introspective to a fault. But every unhatched egg lies a latent, soft center, and behind her ugly shell of doubt is a loyal, diligent swan with a natural sense of grace. In the meantime though, it's best to say that she's a tough chick to crack.

Appearance
Griselle is on the taller spectrum compared to the average adolescent girl, with a lean dancer's build and notably strong legs. Not terribly curvaceous, her torso is straight and she bears shoulders slightly broader than her hips.

She has a pointed chin with high cheekbones, and dark brown eyes. Her hair, having the texture of a cygnet's thick, soft down feathers, is neatly twisted in gray locs that lie 2-3 inches past shoulder length. Griselle wears perscription glasses for her mild nearsightedness, and though her usual rectangular specs are light teal in color, they're frameless along the top border.

While born with a deep, rosy brown complexion, her skin is both rich in melanin and lacking in pigmentation as a result of her vitiligo. Large sections of of pale, pinkish skin appear symetrically along her forearms/hands, lower calves, shins, ears, eye areas, mouth, among other sections of her body. Fair portions of her skin appear in a more asymetrical fashion around her often covered chest and torso. As these sections can become easily irritated, she makes a consious effort to apply generous ammounts of sunscreen.

Basic Summary
The Ugly Duckling is about a young bird, or specifically a cygnet, who is the last to hatch inside of the nest of a mother duck. His odd, gray down feathers, larger size, and overall not so duck-like appearance causes others to subject him to adisproportional amount of physical and emotional abuse in the barnyard he lives in. The other poultry, the the girl who feeds them, and even his mother and siblings abhor him for his so-called ugliness. Down on his luck for obvious reasons, he leaves the place he once called home.

Throughout his time in the wilderness, because most wild poultry aren't bright enough to know what a young swan looks like, he received the same scorn for his looks as he did back at the barn. When he's shown at least one pinch of kindness by a pair of goslings, they're shot dead right in front of him by hunters. He evades them and their hunting dogs, but rather than being thankful that he didn't become someone's next meal, he mopes on about the likelihood of being too ugly to be considered a good hunting catch.

At nighttime he comes across a rundown shack of a house owned by an old lady with poor vision. She mistakes him for a female duck and expects him to lay eggs, as do the snippy tomcat and hen that live with her. As if the poor bird hadn't suffered enough, they constantly put him down for not only never laying the eggs their master wants, but find every ounce of his free thought and longing to swim outside the house again to be a silly and ridiculous fancy. Feeling unwelcome in their living space, he leaves.

One day he notices a flock of graceful swans passing by and flying south for the winter. He admires their beauty solemnly and longs to be just as beautiful as them. In the wintertime he is saved by a man who sees him trapped under the ice of a pond he was swimming in, but growing frightened of his surroundings once arriving at the human's house, he messily flees. The rest of his winter is spent miserably, having little to eat and hiding from those who may potentially do him harm.

When Spring arrives he confronts the same flock of swans as he saw during Autumn, believing that they will be repulsed by his ugliness and take away what he has left of his miserable life. They do the opposite, however, by welcoming him as one of their own once he sees his reflection:a fully grown, well adjusted swan, just like them. He quickly accepts his swan lineage and becomes thankful for his past tribulations, since he can now further appreciate his matured, beauteous state. In the meantime, the children watching over them declare him to be the most beautiful bird in the pond.

How Cynthea Ties Into It
we're no strangers to love

Family
you know the rules and so do I

Friends
a full commitment's what I'm thinking of

Pet
you wouldn't get this from any other guy

Romance
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

Basic
The first thing one will notice about Griselle's casual wear is her cloak. Medium-dark gray, made of a fleece-like material, and embedded with/cut into the shape of a wing-like print. Like a peacoat it fastens around her neck with four lavender buttons, and kept further in place by a thin, medium blue shank to the middle of her chest. What's seen of her dress is a pleated teal-green skirt with deep violet trimmming, and a short layer of netting draping from the sleeves of her top as well as over the skirt in question. While the rest of her top remains concealed, its design has an early Victorian influence.

She wears fingerless, mid-length green gloves over her primarily pale forearms, and gray legwarmers around her ankles and calves. The heels and soles of her shoes take the shape of teal-green pond reeds and leaves, with blur triangular straps and pointed violet toes. Dark blue talon, like spikes peak from the left and right sides, making her footwear appear webbed.

To complete the look, she puts on matching green lipstick and wears two cattail pinned into her cloak above her heart.

Legacy Day
gotta make you understand

Getting Fairest
never gonna let you down

Thronecoming
never gonna let you down

Quotes
"You may want to keep your knob away from any more duffs next time, at any rate."

- From her conversation with Airmid during the Wikia forum RP, Chapter One: Orientation Day

Notes/Trivia

 * never gonna run around and desert you
 * never gonna make you cry
 * never gonna say goodbye
 * never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

New Gallery
rickrolling at its finest ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)