Tag: Lore Nuibie

Magalie Kourode, sometimes nicknamed Mag, is a 12-year-old similica with a personality that’s more complex than it seems. A passionate sportswoman, she dreams of becoming a professional combat sports player when she grows up. Despite her tomboyish looks and misandrist talk, Magalie hides a romantic side that she doesn’t assume, for fear of tarnishing her tough-girl image.

Magalie is Adelaide Vilasko‘s best friend, despite their obvious differences: Adi is very feminine, while Magalie prefers a more boyish style. Their sisterly friendship is based on deep empathy and mutual support. Magalie is secretly in love with Basile Citrus, a friend who doesn’t notice her feelings, much to the amusement of Adi, who likes to tease Magalie about it. At the start of “Nuibie College”, Magalie feels hostility towards Louise Deladiva, Basile’s girlfriend, but their relationship later improves. Magalie also develops a friendship with Cassandra Kalabrio, despite some minor annoyances due to Cassandra’s great femininity.

Magalie enjoys spending time with her gang of friends, first Adelaide and Basile, then enlargized with Cassandra and Louise. She also enjoys getting into fights with the secondary school bullies, especially to protect Basile. What she hates most of all is the girls’ uniform, inherited from before the Blemalias, to the point that she asked for and obtained an exemption to wear the boys’ uniform, which suits her style better.

Adelaide Vilasko, nicknamed Adi by almost everyone except her mother, is a 13-year-old similica who always has the right word. A studious student under the watchful eye of her demanding mother, Adi is also the most popular girl in school. Very sociable, she is loved by her friends and most of the boys fall for her. She has a natural gift for leading, which makes her a much-listened-to voice, especially by her friends Magalie and Basile, a little group that later expands to include Louise and Cassandra!

Despite her young age, Adi shows a maturity and conscience due to her demanding upbringing, notably in rejecting the Blemalia ideology that currently dominates Sartovia. Passionate about life experiences, Adi loves trying new things and is fascinated by rural life, despite being a pure city girl.

However, her life is not a smooth one. Her mother, Adele Vilasko, who runs the family business, wants Adi to take over from her and follow a set path that includes prestigious studies, marriage and children to ensure the continuity of the Vilasko dynasty and company. Adi, on the other hand, dreams of exploring the unknown rather than settling for a predetermined future, while she doesn’t even want to hear about marriage! Despite these differences, Adelaide shares an unparalleled complicity with her mother, at times having an almost sisterly relationship, as this complicity breaks down the generational divide between the two similicas.

Basile Citrus, nicknamed Zile by his friends, is a tender-hearted 11-year-old hursian. He is one of the sons of a middle-class family of Hursians. Androgynous and gifted, Basile is characterized by his romanticism taken to extremes, earning a reputation as a oversized romantic.

Basile’s “universe” is almost entirely feminine, having never really recognized himself in the hobbies of other boys his age. His best friends are girls, Adelaide and Magalie! What’s more, Basile regularly falls in love with the other girls he meets. This romantic impulse leads him to seduce Louise Deladiva as soon as she enters secondary school, and he succeeds, with Louise now Basile’s girlfriend. Their relationship, though superficial, is cute nonetheless!

Basile’s passion for soppy movies and all things romantic, but also sensitive, makes him irreconcilable with the most common clichés of masculinity. This sensitivity makes him a natural target for secondary school bullies, but he always finds comfort in his friends, especially Adelaide, who doesn’t hesitate to use her popular-girl stature to protect “her Zile”.

Finally, if Basile is said to be “one of the sons”, it’s because he has a twin brother from whom he was separated at birth, under the one-child policy that Hursians suffer in Sartovia. Basile, who knows this, is convinced that his twin is still alive, somewhere in Sartovia.