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| “ | Blue was a fanciful but sensible thing, like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party. | ” |
—Gansey | ||
Blue Sargent lives at 300 Fox Way in Henrietta, Virginia, with her mother, Maura Sargent, and other female psychics. In her junior year of high school, and against her better judgment, Blue befriends several Aglionby boys: Richard Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch and Noah Czerny.
Biography[]
Blue comes from a family of psychics and is the only resident in her house to lack this ability. When the people in her house are doing readings, she often attends them, as she makes things "loud and gives off extra energy." She is described as being a sort of magnet for the supernatural, and the magnifying glass that focuses the sun. Gansey also compared her to "the table at Starbucks everyone wanted." Her whole life, she has been told by her family that if she kisses her true love, he will die. Because of this, she has avoided boys and dating for most of her life. Her father disappeared right when she was born. No one knows where he went, or if he wanted to leave.
Blue works multiple jobs to earn money for her future and freedom. She works as a waitress at Nino's Pizza. She teaches penmanship to third graders, makes wreaths for the Society for Ladies of Perpetual Health, walked dogs, and replaced bedding plants for the elderly ladies of her neighborhood.
Blue meets Gansey, Noah, Ronan, and Adam when the boys go to Nino's during her shift. Gansey approaches Blue on behalf of Adam, who is attracted to Blue. Their encounter is disastrous. Gansey offers to pay Blue for the money she would miss while talking to Adam. Blue tells him that he essentially called her a prostitute.
Personality[]
Drawn by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue is both a typical teenage girl and a completely extraordinary teenage girl at the same exact time. She is sarcastic, very opinionated, adventurous, independent, and most of all sensible, despite her best efforts to be otherwise. She is ambitious with big dreams for her future, which often leads to frustration when she's faced with the reality that opportunities like college cost money she doesn't have. Blue loves nature and the environment. She is fascinated by trees, animals, and nature. She wants to go to college to study ecology. Part of the reason she is so drawn to nature is because of her father. She is creative and she likes making things with her hands, such as her clothes and the decorations in her room. She's a feminist and refuses to be objectified by random men, or treated as a "girlfriend" and not a real friend. She is not afraid to stand up for her beliefs.
Growing up, she felt ostracized by her peers because of her standoffishness and peculiar family. By the time she is a teenager, her strangeness has becomes to be viewed as an asset and she's described as extremely cool. Blue is fiercely loyal to her friends and doesn't believe in casual relationships. She is people-savvy and knows her way around the people of Henrietta's social cues. She loves her family deeply, although she often feels like an outsider among them. She is also hard-working. Blue can be judgmental and hypocritical. For example she claims to be a feminist while being dismissive of her cousin Orla. Blue has a pretty fatalistic view of her love life because she's grown up knowing she is destined to kill her true love.
Blue sometimes feels like she's just not special. She is used to being in the background and fears that her ability to enhance the psychic powers of others means she will spend her whole life on the sidelines, helping others to do amazing things that she can never experience. Her feelings about her ability change when Gwenllian teaches her that there is more to being a mirror than "just sitting there while others do the real magic." For example Blue is able to withstand others' magic and can learn to consciously lend and take away her power from others.
Blue can be quite snarky. Gansey is usually on the receiving end of her comments. She is also very strong willed. She is looking for a purpose in life. She is fairly directionless, mostly because she believes everything that she'd like to do is unattainable to her.
Physical Description[]
Blue is five feet tall, with a compact build. Her dark hair is cut short and artfully messy. While it is technically possible to pull back, it's short enough to require a handful of multicolored hair clips to do successfully. She has large eyes, dubious eyebrows, and a curious mouth. Blue’s personal style is loud and eccentric. She likes to layer loose patterned shirts and hand-shredded dresses for a truly unique aesthetic. She wants her "outside" to match her "inside": she does not care about physical attractiveness otherwise, although she is self-aware enough to know that she's vain. Her race/skin colour has never been specified.
Etymology[]
As suggested, her first name Blue is a representation of the color, though it also has a colloquialism meaning "sad." The name Blue is of American origin, but the history of the world itself dates back to Germanic and Old French bleu, blwe, etc., meaning "of the color of the clear sky," or even "pale," "blonde," or "light-colored".
Gansey's nickname for her, Jane, is of Hebrew origin, meaning "Yahweh is gracious/merciful."
The last name Sargent is uncommon but probably comes from the word Sergeant, which is a rank for a police or military officer. It comes from the Old French sergent, and originally the Latin servire, which means "to serve." It is possibly inspired by American artist John Singer Sargent, whose paintings are frequently referenced in Mister Impossible.
Relationships[]
Romances[]
Gansey is Blue's true love. At their first meeting, Blue considered Gansey to be just another rich playboy snob. In fact, their first meeting is so disastrous, that Blue goes on to regard him as a condescending jerk. She is not impressed by his suave ways or taken in by his handsome features. She can’t imagine how she would ever fall in love with him. Blue does discover early on though that Gansey's genuinely unaware of his own condescension. However, Blue can't deny how enormously attractive Gansey is. They become solid, good friends before dating. When the two first start dating, they want to keep their relationship a secret so they won’t hurt Adam. They talk on the phone or go out only in the middle of the night. Gansey tells Adam that he thinks Blue is his true love because, something about her makes him feel “quiet in the way Henrietta does,” and because he can sleep after talking to her, despite his insomnia. Also that Adam is her ex must have made him feel weird.
Upon meeting, both are attracted to each other. They begin dating. Eventually, they decide that they are better off just being friends. When Blue begins dating Gansey, she wants to keep their relationship a secret so that Adam doesn’t get hurt. When Gansey tells Adam the truth, Adam tells him that he already knew and is not jealous. Blue and Adam maintain their friendship. They are close friends and trust each other a lot.
Friends[]
Blue and Ronan’s friendship is sarcastic and sibling-like. At first, they don’t really like each other. Blue found Ronan intimidating within the first moments of meeting him and didn’t have “an ambition to earn his approval.” Ronan calls her “maggot” to which she frequently retaliates. Eventually they come to care for each other deeply. For example, Blue acknowledges that Ronan is “not such a shithead” after he gives her his ghostlight to cross the lake even though that would mean he would be waiting in darkness. They are described “different brands of the same impossible stuff.”
Blue and Noah quickly became close friends as Noah decided he would do anything for Blue. Blue trusts Noah very much and upon learning he was a ghost, she supported him and let him draw power from her in order to stay visible. Noah also lets her kiss him since he couldn't die and she wanted to try it at least once, making Noah her first kiss.
Upon meeting Henry, Blue was initially repulsed. However, after spending more time with him, Blue realizes that her perception of Henry may be off and that he may have many layers to him, which unsettles and intrigues her. The two discuss taking a trip to Venezuela together along with Gansey.
Family[]
Blue and Maura have a unique mother-daughter relationship. Because Maura doesn't "believe in giving orders," Blue grew up with a lot of freedom and independence. Both mother and daughter love each other very much.
Blue is Orla's cousin and they grew up together. They frequently bicker and shame each other. Blue for being awkward and occasionally hostile, and Orla for stripping in front of Blue's male friends and stringing along a series of hopeless admirers. Nevertheless, Orla is caring almost to the point of being overbearing where Blue's well being is concerned, often warning her to distance herself from Gansey to avoid the emotional trauma of his inevitable death.
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Appearances[]
- The Raven Boys
- The Dream Thieves
- Blue Lily, Lily Blue
- The Raven King
- Call Down the Hawk (mentioned only)
- Greywaren
Trivia[]
- The color of her aura is blue, however it is not said if this where her name comes from.
- Blue never eats the fruit at the bottom of yogurt cups.
Gallery[]
Maggie Stiefvater[]
Fanart[]
