Carbon Costume

Ruby Gloom is a young girl who, despite her dark goth style and gloomy last name, can find happiness anywhere. Her personal mantra is “Look on the bright side”, especially when her friends are losing focus. Ruby is accompanied by her pet cat Doom Kitty, who as free run of the mansion and knows everything that goes on there.

In Little Sister, Colleen Lunsford (Addison Timlin) is a young nun-in-training who’s cut all contact with her family, until temporarily abandoning her studies to go home after her brother returns from war in Iraq. Back at home in Asheville, NC, she returns to her old familial dysfunction and goth style.

Nancy Downs (Fairuza Balk) is the troubled punk-rock goth teen in 1996’s The Craft. Arguably the favorite among the cult following of this film. Every outfit of hers is admired throughout the whole movie, most notably her Catholic school uniform and the outfit she fights Sarah in.
There are so many fashion pieces she reuses and recreates that it’s up to the admirer to decide what outfit of hers they want to resurrect. Aside from the clothes, her makeup is fairly simple: brown and grey eyeshadow, red or black nail polish, and purple lip-liner with red lipstick.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) is a character of contrasts, between her gothic, vampish cleavage-enhanced appearance and quirky Valley-girl personality. When she visits a conservative town, her worldly attitude and revealing clothes lead the townspeople to declare her a witch and try to burn her at the stake.

In the DC comic series The Sandman, Death is both the end of life and the guider of souls. Unlike most personifications of death, like the Grim Reaper, she is a young goth woman dressed in casual clothes who also visits people as they are born.

In The I.T. Crowd, Richmond (Noel Fielding) works in the IT Department with Roy and Moss but no one really knows what he does there, including him. In fact, no one even knew he worked in the office until Jen finds him behind the red door.

Abby Sciuto (Pauley Perrette) is a forensic scientist at NCIS who specializes in ballistics, digital forensics, and DNA analysis. Despite her goth appearance and the fact that she sleeps in a coffin, she’s one of the perkiest and happiest people you’ll ever meet.

In the MS Paint Adventures web comic Homestuck, Rose Lalonde is a friend of John Egbert and her role in Sburb is the Seer of Light. She wears this black Squiddle dress, which was made by Kanaya, on the Land of Light and Rain.