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Because I have never gotten the chance to say this, and it's important, Griselle Damgaard is the most authentic Ugly Duckling OC I've seen.

Why authentic, you ask? Because she's the only Ugly Duckling OC that has gotten the point of what the Ugly Duckling actually means. It's not a story about how the pure-hearted gets what they deserve, it's not how you should treat people better because they might suddenly get hot later (even though that IS a good motto to go about with life). It's about Hans Christian Andersen being bitter and lonely, and thinking that he deserves better in the same way dudebros think they deserve to get girls they like simply because they're so-called "nice guys".

Griselle captures the saltiness of the tale, the bitterness.

Oh yeah, and she's gorgeous too. Her dark skin and vigitilo aren't to show that she's beautiful inside despite her outside looks. It's to show that beauty is diverse, and traits that are shunned as "ugly" by mainstream media aren't ugly, it's just a forced perception people have been exposed to.

Griselle is more than a refreshing break from the "everyone hates me because I'm awkward and ugly and read books like some sort of loser" Duckling OCs. She's the representative of everything wrong with the Ugly Duckling, but also everything right.

In short, I love her in more ways than this rambling little speech can show.