CHARACTER

Full Name: Pansy Claire Parkinson
Nicknames: Pans, Pugface
Age/Birthday: 22, January 2, 1980
House and Years Attended: Slytherin, 1990-1998
Blood Status: Pureblood.
Occupation: Freelance artist, socialite.
Alliance: Death Eater Supporter.
Status in Society: Free member of society.
Boggart: Herself, old and alone.
Patronus: A pug, naturally.


PERSONALITY:

Pansy Parkinson has never been a person known for her sweet-tempered nature. She's sweet and demure only if she feels like it, not because someone expects it of her. She adores dramatics and throwing things whenever the situation deems appropriate, and she loves to gossip and flirt. Pansy is extroverted and not a person easily offended, nor is she afraid to swear like a sailor- company permitting.

She is realistic, but lacks the hope or the cynicism that would push her into the definition of a pessimist or optimist. She understands war and operates and engages under the rules of being on the winning side- at that particular moment in time. She is not a fan of romanticism, nor the glamourisation of glory and defeats. She simply views the world around her as it is.

Pansy is also a very prideful person, and fiercely loyal to her family, her friends, and her blood, but mostly, to herself. She holds impossibly high standards and expects them to be met, and she'll kill herself to meet them to prove an example.

She also detests ugly things, creatures, and people, but is quite fond of plenty of people with very ugly personalities.

Strengths: Like most Slytherins, Pansy is willful, ambitious, and stubborn. If there is something she decides she wants, she goes for it and doesn't relent until she has it or has exhausted every possible method in obtaining it, and even then, she's likely to try for it again later. She's clever, smart, and very witty, and is keen at observing and reading people. She's quick in wordplay and hell to fight with; she doesn't give up, and she's razor sharp in an argument.

Growing up a Parkinson, Pansy was also raised with immaculate etiquette and social graces. She's a dutiful hostess, strong planner, and organized. If a place-setting is incorrect, she fixes it without consciously thinking about it. She would never offend someone important by speaking out of turn or of something too controversial- but in the same vein, Pansy also spends a great deal of time being politely bored out of her skull.

Academically, Pansy is a natural with charms, and worked very hard to succeed in Transfiguration. Her high marks in potions had more to do with luck and favoritism than actual skill, though she is skilled enough in practical potion-making. As far as Dark Arts and Defense spells, Pansy is strong on paper in exam rooms, but she's never had much reason or opportunity to use them outside of Hogwarts.

Weaknesses: Pansy is vain, arrogant, and has a superiority complex. These weaknesses are largely acceptable, given her blood. She is, by her status, superior to most people, so why shouldn't she be vain and arrogant as well? The only problem is that this clouds her judgment. Just because she thinks she ought to have something doesn't automatically mean someone is going to hand it to her on bended knee, and in fighting and arguing for things she "ought to have," she comes off looking petulant and childish.

Pansy is also stubborn to the point of not knowing when to quit, and can exacerbate and even create new problems to which there was an easy fix in the first place. Her temper can easily get the best of her and make her look foolish- not to mention that she's a complete lightweight and an angry drunk. She has a constant need for reassurance, terrible taste in men, and finds it hard to believe in love.

In school, Pansy was always worst in the subjects she didn't care about. In Care of Magical Creatures she was far too busy worrying over Draco, rather than listening to anything the disgusting half-breed Hagrid had to say, and in Herbology, well, she was simply dismal at caring for living things.


FAMILY:

Mother: Arienne Marie (nee Darcy) Parkinson, Housewife.

Arienne Darcy was promised to Preston Parkinson at fifteen and married by sixteen; her ideas of love are old-fashioned, as are most of her ideas, as she was never out in the world long enough to form a true sense of it. Her very narrow world consists only of her family and her home, and as her marriage has unraveled, it has grown increasingly smaller. She is generally indifferent as far as politics go, but would do anything to protect her daughter and husband, and supports the old ideas of Purebloods.

Pansy and Arienne are two very different people, and don't get along well. Pansy looks at her parents and sees two people who never loved each other- Arienne looks at Pansy and sees a girl that should already have a home and husband and family by now. Pansy fights with her mother on just about every point and hates her limited scope of life. Seeing how very little her mother has, Pansy wishes to achieve more than being a housewife, Arienne sees her as far too ambitious.

Father: Preston David Parkinson, Death Eater.

Preston is a man out for himself. His aspirations for a large, blooming family and a male heir were shattered when their only chance at a child was a girl. Afterward, he threw himself into his work and emotionally abandoned his marriage. He had numerous, obvious affairs, and was never fully pleased with Pansy, though she likely turned out better than he could have hoped for in a son.

Despite his lack of care for their family, Pansy gets along much better with her father than her mother. If she manages to please him, he buys her beautiful things, he encourages her artwork and doesn't try to stifle her, as her mother does. Pansy turns a blind eye to her father's adulteries, but has vowed never to put up with such a man in her own marriage.

Sibling(s): None
Significant Other: None, currently.
Other Relatives: Elladora Darcy- Pansy's only surviving grandparent, much worse than Arienne, and whom Pansy refuses to speak to entirely.


APPEARANCE:

Pansy isn't someone you'd consider pretty in a conventional sense. She isn't doe-eyed, fresh-faced, or even often smiling. Her skin is pale, her hair too dark against it, and her charmed-red lips usually twisted into something condescending. Her eyebrows are set sharply against deep green eyes, and her nose is small and upturned- something she was teased about in school. Still, Pansy has a lovely, captivating laugh, interesting features, and a very pretty smile when she's soft and open.

She is small-framed, but not overly thin. She has curves where they ought to be, though they are smaller than she would like. Pansy rectifies this by assuming that any witch with a bigger bust is a talentless slag.

Growing up, Pansy admired the cocktail dresses and elegant robes of her mother, and as a young lady, Pansy still emulates her style. She adores anything pretty and feminine, though nothing so frilly as to keep her from being able to perform the work she needs to (or navigate stairways)- and of course, her collection of stilettos. She always wears a pair of stockings (seamed, preferably), and chooses pencil skirts over trousers unless she absolutely must wear something with legs (in which case, she still wears the heels.) She adores silk and anything lavish- but nothing too ridiculous or showy. Her mother taught her, through subtle gestures towards women who tried much too hard, the difference between upper-class and the nouveau-riche, and Pansy dutifully obeys that rule, even if it is the only rule of her mother’s that she still dutifully follows.

PB: Sophia Bush, but I'm not 100% certain.
Sexuality: Heterosexual


ACHIEVEMENTS:

Prefect, 1996-1998.
Inquisitorial Squad, 1996.

OWLs:
DADA: O
Ancient Runes: E
Care of Magical Creatures: D
Charms: O
History of Magic: A
Potions: E
Transfiguration: E

NEWTs:
Charms: E
DADA: E
Potions: A
Transfiguration: E

Hobbies: Pansy has many creative hobbies- mainly artistic. She is classically trained in piano, and has a studio in her apartment dedicated to painting and sculpting. Mostly, it is simply for play, but occasionally she sells her work. She also loves cooking and cooks everything herself; she refuses to have a House Elf in her flat.


BIOGRAPHY:

It was nobody's fault that the Parkinsons couldn't conceive.

Years of inbreeding on both sides, and a rush to marry two people who weren't truly in love were likely the biggest reasons, but it didn't stop the ridiculous gossip that the mother was weak, that the father unskilled in the bedroom- scores of speculation as to why five years passed since the wedding, and not even the faintest swell in Arienne's belly. When the couple did- finally learn of their pregnancy, on the eve of their sixth anniversary, they were overjoyed.

And then, it was a girl.

Little Pansy Claire, though her mother's pride and joy, was a bitter disappointment to her father- a cold, ugly fact that she picked up on very quickly. But rather than spending the rest of her life disappointing him, Pansy set about immediately to correct the mistake she'd made in being born.

Pansy became a fiercely independent little person. As soon as she was able to walk on her own, she no longer wished to hold her mother's hand. She demanded to be taught how to read, to tie her shoes, to put bows in her own hair. She rushed to learn and to do everything as quickly as possible.

She also wanted to do everything boys did. She slid down the hills on her belly in wintertime. She raced through the orchards and pelted the elves with apples. She jumped off the swings. She broke her ankle, her arm, both wrists, and demolished her stockings to the point that no magic could seam them up again.

But Preston's tomboy daughter did not impress him. Pansy was sent (kicking and screaming) to finishing school the summer of her ninth birthday, and the right young lady that returned did impress Preston. She was pleasant and charming to little Draco Malfoy and provided the perfect excuse to schmooze with the most powerful Wizarding family in England. She was quick to learn, quick to correct any mistake, graceful, and she was highly observant. She also held ambition not only to please others, but to please herself, as well.

It's no surprise, then, that Pansy was perfectly suited for Slytherin House. Pansy quickly assumed leadership of the girls in her year- partly because her blood entitled her to it, and partly because she simply expected them to follow her, and they did.

Pansy worked hard to succeed in everything... at first. By her second year, she discovered that there were ways to get out of work that were much easier than doing it in the first place, and that there were ways to get high marks without working (and looking) as ragged as Hermione Granger.

She spent third and fourth years preening over Draco, hanging on his arm whenever he would allow it, cheering at Slytherin Quidditch games, and devoting as much time as possible bullying Gryffindors- especially the Golden Trio.

Fifth year came, and Pansy was delighted to receive her glimmering Prefect badge. It gave her a sense of entitlement and power- actual, legitimate power, aside from sending Millicent to pound someone. When Umbridge appointed Pansy as a member of the Inquisitorial Squad, she was beside herself. Illicit and unfair power was even better than legitimate power, and it was horrible to give up once Umbridge was ousted.

Sixth year was a dismal one- Draco was vacant and withdrawn, crabby when he was around, and the hollows around his eyes got darker and darker until she could barely recognize him- when she saw him at all. She watched him disappear with two girls she didn't recognise once, and that heartache taught her to never follow him again. It wasn't until Draco fled at the end of her sixth year that Pansy began to take the war seriously. Up until that point, she had thought the magic in her blood made her invincible. It was seeing Lucius Malfoy sent to Azkaban, Narcissa's desolation, and losing her best friend that pushed her into picking a side and taking a stand- the only one she could. The side that valued her blood and her history: Voldemort's.

Seventh year, with Dumbledore dead and the Carrow's regime, was a year of preparation and a crash-course of life in the the world under Voldemort's rule- a world Pansy very much preferred.

When the Death Eaters took over Wizarding London, Pansy's already cushy life became even more so. She was the wealthy, Pureblooded daughter of a Death Eater. The Mudbloods and Halfbloods that had been perpetually annoying were killed or enslaved, the Ministry became a place of competence, and there was nothing at all to worry about.

Pansy moved into a beautiful penthouse flat overlooking Kensington Gardens, opened up her studio, and set about the very hard work of finding ways to entertain herself.