#gladys is also ... a ghost. in the way that she will always be off screen like those “characters” in sitcoms that r only ever mentioned

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informal npc drop: gladys, an ambiguous character whose age, ethnicity, class, occupation, and location are all unknown, but is always seemingly where charlotte is. the only defining trait relevant to charlotte's narrative is this: she is charlotte's friend and her source for all sorts of entertainment of the mundane variety. you hear charlotte mention how a friend is currently caught in a love triangle between a cross-fit trainer and a circus ringleader? gladys. charlotte's hungover because a friend of hers drunk her under the table last night? gladys. charlotte had to go bail out a friend who's been arrested for trying to take too many items through the express line at the grocery store and promptly got into a scuffle with the WASP mom behind her? gladys. gladys is the chaotic good to charlotte's chaotic.... chaos.