Godelieve Sophia VanderHaise (5) is Tracy 's best friend the one who prefers blue tutus. She is extatic that her new sibling will also have a blue room and be a boy just like Tracy 's cute cousin. She started doing ballet and even got a role once in a toy advertisement for a Barbie princess dollhouse - which Godelieve thinks is extremely fitting because “she has a long and pretty name of a princess”… Well, it’s actually the name of a Flemish saint which is traditionally given to firstborn daughters of her father’s family for six generations, however given the gruesome martyrdom of the saint Ellie and her dad insist that she was indeed a princess who lived a happy life, even though it’s a truth that will eventually be uncovered given the religiousness of Godelieve 's grandma and the frequency with which she atttends sermons when visiting paternal family in Antwerp.
Godelieve loves everything that involves stretching, backflips and balance tricks, as well as playing with porcelain dolls and organising tea parties for her dolls (both porcelain and plastic) but she prefers the porcelain ones because they were given to her by her dad who runs an antique shop and also works freelance gigs as a translator for Flemish and Dutch. As Godelieve once said to her daycare worker " My dad either writes books in Dutch or dusts old ones in English off"… Which actually concerned the daycare worker and she wanted to set Godelieve up to get dinners in a nearby primary school because from this description she deduced the family must be poor… What the tearcher didn’t know is the fact that Mr. VanDerHaisen’s antique shop is actually rather profitable given the strange nature of this New Brunswick neighbourhood which some claim to be paranormal… Especially one of Mr. VanDerHaisen’s regulars, Isola Hathaway and her boyfriend.
Godelieve gets along with both Tracy and Olive Michnae because of her sophistication but also flexibility and overall friendliness, as well as the fact that she can behave quite maturely for her age and control her emotions more than other girls in her age group because of how much discipline and obedience her ballet teacher expects from both her and Tracy… She’s an old-timey middle-aged lady who doesn’t believe in “letting kids be kids” or “stress-free parenting” , however behind her demanding exterior is a genuinely caring person who just wants the kids to follow their passion to the best of their ability , while also teaching them that failure is a lesson rather than something to be ashamed of. Godelieve has a crush on the ballet teacher’s son even though others laugh at him and the other two boys for “dancing like girls” when they appear in ballet classes… Godelieve even shouted at one of her classmates when she picked on the boy “I’ll tell Mrs. Kretschner that you’re being sexist, and that’s a bad bad word that my aunt taught me!”. Godelieve briefly explained to the girl that "sexism is when you are not nice to boys because they do girly things or not nice to girls because they do boy things. That’s very stupid ". From then on Tracy realided that Godelieve has a bit of a crush on the boy in the ballet class and they giggle about it regularly however Tracy doesn’t tell anyone. Because Godelieve 's paternal aunt works in Advertising , Godelieve showed Tracy the doll house commercial that she starred in and said that she’ll ask her aunt to bring Tracy with her next time. Tracy doesn’t know if her parents will say yes but now started dreaming about becoming an actress and a ballerina , which would lead her to "be famous like Barbie ". Tracy doesn’t even fear the dentist now because she always meets Godelieve 's mom at the reception when she goes there. Plus, both Ellie and Godelieve agree that when your teeth are nice and healthy, the Tooth Fairy brings in more shiny coins!
Olive was created by @CherryBomb50
Ellie was created by @kitkatcookie
Isola was created by @wandering_willow