#and ralsei talks to her to give clearer explanations for what berdly couldn't. she thinks he's fine i guess

[mymarifae]

OBSESSED WITH GISELLE.. what would she think of berdly’s friends ????

YAY I'M HAPPY YOU LIKE HER i'm also obsessed with her. to answer your quastion...

noelle:

very nice girl! berdly is very hesitant about letting people come over - it's just...awkward; it feels like he's revealing too much of himself :/ for a long time, noelle was the only friend of his who got to see his house and meet giselle ! anyway. giselle is not very great at interacting with her own kid sometimes and is generally worse at interacting with other people's kids. the first time she met noelle was actually at the spelling bee, since noelle got second place and also because after seeing her break down on stage berdly was like :( and kind of attached himself to her hip and was trying to cheer her up! giselle didn't retain much about her at the time but she was thinking to herself "oh what a sweet little girl", and after that berdly starts saying things like "i'm going to noelle's house after school today" and giselle's like ? who's noelle. and berdly's like, ...you met her at the spelling bee, and giselle's like OH. ok. and is secretly very pleased to see berdly making a close friend (take THAT toriel i told you he was a capable well-adjusted child-)

as noelle starts to come over every so often, giselle finally pieces together that she's the holidays' youngest daughter and remembers the big uproar about that snowstorm and their oldest disappearing during it... that aside, she appreciates how kind and clever!! noelle is. but she sees the deep-set sadness in her eyes and it breaks her heart, and she wishes she knew how to reach out... and for her part, noelle is Wary of giselle, having had many a conversation with berdly about both their moms' less than stellar performances over the years. she stays totally polite, but maintains a certain icy distance. BUT when berdly tells her that he thinks things are going to get better, she starts to let her guard down. she starts having proper conversations with giselle when berdly leaves the room for whatever reason. the ice is officially melted when giselle passes by the living room and sees noelle looking at the (few) framed photos giselle has of younger berdly hung on the walls, and because berdly is upstairs and out of earshot and can't protest, giselle asks noelle if she'd like to see her photo album, where all of berdly's Baby pictures are hidden

kris:

oh she adores kris :) they 100% have her blessing agfjkdlfldj. she loves that they’re like...themself. and they’re not interested in conforming to other people’s expectations (small tangent to clarify that a lot of kris’s character revolves around this struggle of feeling like it’d be better if they were a different person, someone worthy of being in the dreemurr family, the person the red soul tries to make them be - but they don’t want to be a different person. no matter how hard they try to force themself. they don’t want to be like... ralsei. they like who they are. much like susie, they are unapologetically themself. but they are apologizing for Not Wanting to be another person, because they do still feel like they should, but they don’t. and after the red soul stuff is resolved they really embrace who they are and stop making apologies entirely. make sense? ok great anyway)

their generally very relaxed disposition, sardonic sense of humor, and the slight spunk to their attitude... they remind her of herself when she was young! before 5795748354735748 billion things happened and she became more of a high energy whirlwind. (she’s mellowed out again in recent years but she’ll also never be as chill as she was when she was a teenager) she thinks they temper berdly, and she’s right :) they get along well!! giselle adapts quickly to essentially having a second (third. fourth? christ) kid all of a sudden

susie:

as a mother, giselle is not immune to susie’s insta-charm and adoptable aura. she isn’t as motherly and nurturing as like, toriel. but she definitely thinks very fondly of susie and likes to make sure she’s doing alright. and of course, it’s always very nice to see berdly’s circle of friends growing... since you can't really separate her from kris and/or noelle, she's a frequent guest for dinner and hangouts and etc

tem:

i just think this is a funny friendship possibility so i'm writing it into existence. she sits next to berdly ok. she pesters him until one day he's like "y'know what you're alright actually." they aren't Close-close but like idk she keeps him company on really slow days at the library. so actually lottie knows tem better than giselle does, but lottie speaks well of her to giselle! maybe one day it's raining pretty hard after school so giselle goes to pick berdly up and he's sharing his umbrella with tem and giselle asks her if she needs a ride home too. and ya sure whatever, the pastabilities

jockington:

giselle doesn’t see jockington too often - mostly just at cross country meets! but she thinks he’s a good kid. she’s super happy that he and noelle got berdly to join the cross country team because that’s what she did in high school too :) little bit of motherly pride seeing her kid do the same extracurriculars she did etc.......

catti:

berdly isn’t close with catti so giselle sees her even less than jockington. if they hang out, it’s because she’s tagging along with like jockington or noelle or kris. as berdly starts to get Over Himself and makes more of an effort to be friendlier to his classmates, catti’s like oh, chill. and starts doing things like giving him a little wave when he comes into class. they just. don’t have a lot of common ground...? they did get into a rather (positively) heated discussion about dragon blazers once tho. ANYWAY i’m thinking that giselle, lottie, and berdly all go out to qc’s while catti’s working and she passes by their table and pauses and is like, hey berdly. and moves on. and giselle’s like who is that, does she go to your school, are you two friends, etc

the high school class is so small that i do think all the kids are Pretty Much friends one way or another. but giselle knows MK and snowy Even Less than catti. she knows they like, exist. she sees them around. she doesn't know their names tho