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Character Audition Questions:

Name: Pansy Diana Parkinson
Age and date of birth: January 14, 1980 (24 years old)
Physical description: Pansy is of average height at 5’4, and though she is generally small of build, she is quite curvy. The ample curves and generous décolletage leave no mistake that she’s very much a woman. Her hair is dark, almost black, and wavy, eyes whiskey to dark brown depending on her mood.
Parents Allegiance: (DE, OotP, Ministry, etc.): Pansy’s father, Hadrian Parkinson, was a Death Eater in the first and second reigns of Voldemort. Her mother, Camilla, was a nasty, selfish woman, simple in her desires to be of high, pureblood society, rich and have a powerful husband. She was never a Death Eater, but she was the exemplary trophy wife of one. She died in the war of the second reign of Voldemort along with her husband.
Personal Allegiance: (DE, OotP, Ministry, etc.): Pansy doesn’t trust anyone completely, but herself. She most decidedly doesn’t like, or trust, radical groups, and she’s not shy about her opinions
How do people perceive this character: She is perceived as a proud, bitchy princess; Pansy gets what she wants, when she wants it and she will be attended for her ease and comfort every little step of the way.

She is all this, but Pansy is a lot of other things too, much more than what people choose to see. However, she's always been particular about giving people what they want to see and nothing more. If they don’t care to make an effort, then they’re a waste of her time, and even if they do, they’re likely still a waste of her time. She’s never claimed to be nice.

 

Greatest fear: Falling in love again, though she fears being alone, too.
Greatest passion: She hasn’t a clue. The whole of her life, she was pampered and every whim was seen to - when she wasn't being harshly disciplined for perceived failures, or her strong will. There were expectations to which she was bred; to marry rich, pure, well-connected, and to produce pureblood children. Until her later years in Hogwarts, Pansy went along with this life-plan her parents had set out for her without much thought, content in the trivialities, but when violence began to brew as she grew older, when her home began to fill with Death Eaters and when the war broke out in earnest, Pansy had a lot of time to think on blood status, societal status and a plethora of other things she would have never entertained otherwise. Is she passionate about any of those things? No, not at all, but she’s wiser to the world in many ways now, and can’t see what there is to be passionate about.
Aspiration: To be respected. It’s true she’s a proud bitch and a princess, and that once upon a time she was voluntarily ignorant and shallow, but she’s a different person now. She’s not just an heiress, or a Death Eater’s daughter, or a mare for breeding.
Greatest Positive Attribute: Pansy is honest, even to the point of blunt rudeness. She still considers this to be positive.
Biggest Fault: She’s become cynical and has been unintentionally isolating herself from the people who remind her there might be more out there than inevitable stupidity, folly and disappointment.
Happiest Memory: It is simple and rather silly, but Pansy remembers Draco’s compliment in their Fourth Year that she looked pretty in the frilly pink dress she wore to the Yule Ball. Though she had been indulged the puffy, extremely girly concoction, her Mother had disparaged everything about it, and her in it, when she’d picked it out. Always the strong-willed child, she’d gotten what she wanted anyways, but Pansy had been very insecure about herself and the selection until Draco had complimented her. The memory has always stuck with her, perhaps because of the pure simplicity of the emotions she felt back then.
Most painful Memory: There is no single memory that stands out as significantly more painful than any other. More, it’s the accumulation of many memories and the single feeling that’s been prominent in all of them; eye-opening comprehension that always leads to disappointment, and a realization that she’s never been the first priority in anyone’s life.
Does your character value the purity of blood: It’s important. It’s not important enough to base a radical political agenda on and die for, though.
Is your character "pure-blooded," a "half-blood" or "Muggle-born": Pure. For twelve generations. She has the documents to prove it.

Describe the character's personal history (however brief or extensive):

Pansy Diana was born to Hadrian and Camilla Parkinson on January 14, 1980. She's the only child of the couple, and sole surviving heir to the Parkinson estate, properties and fortune. She's pure of blood, something direly important to her family; their bloodline proudly goes back twelve documented generations.

She was spoiled rotten as a child, but Pansy never had any real affection from her parents. Every whim was indulged; toys, gowns, jewelry, and whatever else that tickled her fancy. However, despite the indulgences and vulgar display of wealth through their daughter, Pansy was brought up as a 'proper' pureblood young lady should be. She was drilled in the value of blood - even at the blunt of her father's hand at times, when she was too petulant or strong-willed - and was taught and schooled that she was to be a beautiful wife who would bear pure heirs to the richest, most powerful pureblood man she could catch for marriage.

Despite the biting words of her mother, and the iron-fisted rule of their home by her father, Pansy went along with this indoctrination in ignorant complacency.

School Years:

Pansy was promptly sorted into Slytherin when she entered Hogwarts, and went about the tenements of her 'training' right away; she had been told that Draco Malfoy was suitable husband material and that she was to date him to secure the family line.

Though she'd spent time with many of the pure children she now found herself in school with, growing up, it wasn't until she was away from her family - until they were all away from their families, that they began to think for themselves. Though Pansy strove to do what was 'required' of her, as they all did, it became apparent very quickly that both she and Draco were better as friends - kissing a boy shouldn't feel like your kissing one's brother, no matter how much your parents want you to marry them.

Those were also the best years of her life. Pansy made friends with her housemates, and at least until her fifth and sixth year in school, it was one fabulous party, prank and event to the next.

However, darkness was stirring in their world and her father was in the heart of it. As she neared her later teen years, Pansy feared going back to a home always filled with Death Eaters, feared even more that she would be expected to take the Dark Mark, and was absolutely terrified of what would happen when she refused.

Post War:

The Second War took Pansy's parents. They went down as full supporters of Voldemort, and though Pansy was able to elude taking the Dark Mark without too severe ramifications, she lives in their shadow to this day. She was under severe scrutiny of the Ministry following the War, her house was searched several times, she's paid reparations and though she can't be discounted in the society she was born to - she's more pure than half, and richer than most - there are ever upturned noses at her and her associations. It's passe to be associated with He Who Must Not Be Named.

In the wake of The War, and well into the rebuilding years, Pansy has become rather cynical. The violence opened her eyes to what her parents really were, most of the family she'd made for herself - in her friends from school - fled the country, leaving her behind, and her experiences of opening herself up have led to nothing but pain.

Family is family, and you forgive them. Hers came back to her, and she loves them, but it's not the same. Everyone's different and is growing and yet she's still right where they left her - Pansy Diana Parkinson, sole heir to one of the purest, wealthiest family lines their world knows, indulgent and strong-willed, mindful of the nuances that continue to shape their world. She was in the worst of it, at the very heart, from the beginning all they way through the end.

In a world that continues to change around her, Pansy wonders at what place she really has in it, a seeming relic of the past.

Sometimes she wished she'd never come to know the things she does. Life would have been much simpler as the trophy wife she was bred to be.

Profession: Heiress. Owner of the London spa, Choyer.

Pansy's visual representation is Jennifer Love Hewitt.