character's of Gossip Girl

• Blair Waldorf is the series' main character. She is described as being slim, having gourgeous chestnut brown hair and brilliant sea blue eyes, being widely involved in extracurricular activities and having a tenacious attitude towards studies. Blair uses her charm, money and social status to get to where and what she wants. Throughout the series, she has an on-off relationship with Nate Archibald and briefly dating Erik Van Der woodsen Serena's older brother. At the end of the book series, Blair attends Yale University.
  
• Serena Van Der Woodsen is described as being normal and blonde. Serena has kept a steady string of boyfriends, including Nate Archibald, Dan Humphrey, Aaron Rose. But Serena longs for true romance, and initially seeks this with Nate, despite his relationship with her Best friend Blair. Serena is often criticized by her classmates, who find her an excellent source of gossip. At the end of the book series, Serena decides to stay in New York City, instead of attending a college, so that she can discover her life for herself. After a break from college, she attends Yale University.
• Nate Archibald is a wealthy, good-looking lacrosse player from St. Jude's School for Boys. He has dated a few girls in the series, but his only serious relationship has been with his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Blair Waldorf. After stealing his lacrosse coach's Viagra, he relied on Blair and her alumnus father's connections to get accepted to Yale, although he eventually left to sail around the world with his father's Navy mentor. In the sequel, he attends Deep Springs recommended by Chuck Bass, and then Brown University.
• Dan Humphrey is a thin, sensitive, caffeine-addicted poet who often sees the darker side of things. A romantic whose imagination runs off wildly at the worst times, he is also over-analytical and easily frustrated. He was in love with Serena for years before they met and briefly dated, and experimented with homosexuality, before he began dating Vanessa Abrams. He is a published writer of poetry and songs. At the end of the series, he is attending Evergreen State College in Washington. In the sequel he transfers to Columbia University.
• Jenny Humprhrey is Dan's younger sister and an aspiring artist who wishes to be more like Serena, whom she eventually befriends. She often tries to fit in with the rich girls at her school, even though she does not hold a place in their social sphere. She is eventually kicked out of the Constance Billard School for Girls and sent to a boarding school where she reinvents herself as the "it girl", à la Serena. Her move to the boarding school and her life there became the topic of a spin-off of the series, The It Girl.
• Vanessa Abrams is a budding filmmaker and the total opposite of most of her classmates, sporting a shaved head and always wears black. She has a shaky relationship with Dan Humphrey, particularly after she ends up living with the Humphrey's for a short time. At the end of the series, she is attending New York University.
• Chuck Bass is the series' handsome, lust-driven antagonist who tries to take advantage of several girls, though it is eventually revealed that he is bisexual and he begins dating a male named Greg. He is largely despised by other characters but due to his wealth and power he is tolerated. At the end of the series, he is not accepted into any college that he applied to and claims he is going to military college. However, he never arrives at the school and his whereabouts remain unknown. He later returns to New York as a changed, respectable man. In the books, Chuck is a secondary character. However, he is elevated to a primary role in its television adaptation, in which he holds an intense relationship with Blair.
• Elise Wells is Jenny's best friend and a student at Constance Billard. She discovers homosexual attractions — which prove to be fleeting — and embraces Jenny. She later falls in love with Dan, but he rejects her and after accepting this she encourages him to his relationship with Vanessa.
• Mystery Craze is a poet that Dan has relations with in Because I'm Worth It. As such, Vanessa discovers that Dan is cheating on her while attending a poetry reading where Mystery and Dan are overcome with sexual desires as they do their reading. Their performance thus is overtly sexual.