PLAYER INFORMATION:
Name: Amie.
AIM: Queen Stone Age.
E-mail: pyrateamie@gmail.com
Timezone: AST.

CHARACTER INFORMATION:
Full Name: Jennifer Anne Parry.
Nickname(s): Jenny, Jen, etc.
Hometown: Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Age and birthday: Seventeen [February 14th; 1994].
House and Year: Beauregard [12th Grade].

Electives & Schedule:
1- 7:45-8:30 - Advanced Potions
2- 8:35-9:20 - Advanced Divination
3- 9:25-10:10 - Defense Against the Dark Arts
4- 10:15-11:00 - Charms/Wandwork
5- 11:05-11:50 - LUNCH
6- 11:55-12:40 - Latin
7- 12:45-1:30 - Arithmancy
8- 1:35-2:20 - Ritual Magic I
9- 2:25-3:10 - Study Hall

Wand: Inflexible bocote with core of bowtruckle bark, eight and a quarter inches.
Boggart: Ella having an epileptic fit.
Patronus: Jenny's charm appears as a red-eyed tree frog. Generally frogs are representative of healing, transition, purity, renewal, and dreaming.
Animagus Form: N/A.
Religious Affiliation: None.
Extracurricular activities:
- Cheerleading [Co-Captain]
- Honor Society
- Book Worms
- School Yearbook [Writer]
- Brew Masters
- Wizarding Chess Society
- School Choir
- Pride Union
- Senior Prefect

Family/Relationships-
Parents: Biological parents are unknown [except for their birth mother's last name of McCarthy]. Adoptive parents are Paula and Ron Parry.
Siblings: Ella Parry [smella; identical twin sister & fellow 12th grader in Beauregard].
Extended Family: None.
Familiar: Male eagle owl, named Leeroy J.
Sexuality: Quietly bisexual.
Significant Others: Equally quietly dating Sera Donnelly-Rousseau [imperfeftly] at the moment. She believes in commitment more than random hook-ups and tends to stick with people for a long while once she gets attached to them. Her longest relationship to date was with Charles Oliver [walktheline], between during 10th grade and the following summer.

Appearance-
PB: Zoe Kimball.
Detailed Description:
One of the first things people tend to notice about Jenny is the vibrantly light blonde hair, and icy blue eyes. Her hair is long, and usually down, sometimes with a headband or hat or something in it. With a round face, those wide blue eyes, and an innocent grin, Jenny is often mistaken for a much younger student; she knows that she doesn't exactly look like every other sixteen year old, but her mother assures her that when she's in her forties, looking younger than her age will be a blessing. Right now, the blessing is just in disguise. At least she can use it to order from the kid's menu at restaurants, which she frequently views as a bonus.

Jenny's smile is just as bright as her hair, and she takes pride in her also perfectly straight teeth.. well, almost straight, give it a couple more years. Jenny has lingual braces, which she got in freshman year, and will have to wear at least until graduation. She required them at a rather young age, but her parents chose to wait until her epilepsy was reliably under control before they had her go through with the procedure. The braces are fitted to the inner (tongue) side of the teeth, making them basically invisible to anyone at a distance. It's one of the few definite ways to tell her apart from Ella, but only if you get close enough to stare into her mouth.

With rather fair skin, Jenny often looks very pale and a little sick, but she does tan [and occasionally burn] in the summer. She has some faint freckles along her nose and cheeks that come out during this season as well. She stands at just about five feet and three inches, and has a skinny rail-like physique in some aspects of her body; spending a lot of her childhood in a hospital and on medication has left a visible mark on her. She joined cheerleading with her sister in hopes of gaining some muscle-mass, maybe some curves, and a good work-out. Even just in the last few years or so of cheering, she already looks a bit bigger and healthier.

Jenny only has her ears pierced, and on most days, she forgets to even put anything into them. She has no tattoos to speak of, although she has informed her parents already that when she turns eighteen, she wants to get the epilepsy awareness lavender ribbon tattooed over her upper left breast, above her heart.

For clothing, Jenny is mostly happy to wear whatever; she likes comfy clothes, lots of purple, and lots of sneakers. She's generally just dressed for comfort. Or she just lets her sister pick out things for her to wear, a habit developed early in their lives. She likes bright colors, and denim shorts are her weakness. She is a sucker for sweater-vests, but mostly on others people rather than herself.

Personality-
Likes: Reading [especially murder mysteries], writing, learning, whole wheat noodles, peanut butter & banana sandwiches, watching soap operas, Madonna, being a twin, road trips, New Kids on the Block, animals [especially dogs & birds], relaxing, taking naps, ketchup, singing, her family, carrots with ketchup on them, writing in her journal, laughing, messing with/styling Ella's hair, helping out, studying, passing tests/assignments, snuggling, hot chocolate.
Dislikes: Hospitals, being sick, medication, seizures, her biological parents, bitten fingernails, harlequin romance novels, broccoli, cauliflower, violent people, being away from her sister, people crying [usually makes her cry], super loud music/flashing lights/etc, paper cuts, bigots/homophobes, rude people, Leon Shaw, finding out Charlie is getting into trouble, helplessness.

Quirks:
- Jenny watches soap operas on tv whenever she can, and makes sure to watch General Hospital everyday after classes. Even if she has to do it online. She is in love with Michael Corinthos.

- Just like her sister, she is a pretty exceptionally picky eater, who loves ketchup on everything [it's the only way to get vegetables into her]. Peanut butter & banana is her sandwich favorite of all time.

- Madonna is her idol. She has all of her music on her iPod, posters plastered on her wall, watches every interview, etc.

- She reads a lot of murder mystery/horror novels and her favorite author is James Patterson. She wouldn't mind being an author herself when she graduates.

- She takes counting her pills to a new level. She takes six pills every day, and has for the last five years, which is how long it's been since she started counting. She keeps them checked off in a little notebook in her desk drawer, and adds a check each time she takes one, and tallies the end of each page, before adding it to the tallies of all previous pages. To date, she has taken over 8000 pills in the last five years. With this theory of tallying each pill up and accounting for them all, she can fairly accurately calculate backwards at any given time, to make sure she has never missed a dose. She's never needed to know this, but the work of all the counting keeps her in routine and reminds her when it's time to take a dose and check it away.

- Although she is just starting to come out to embrace her own personal sexuality, she's been a loud-voiced advocate for the small CCI LGBT community for a long time now before dating a girl herself. She thinks 'It Gets Better' might be the most brilliant thing ever, and she really would love to make one when she has actual words of advice to offer.

Secrets:
- Jenny often visits a dietitican whenever she visits home, and is supposed to be on the Ketogenic diet. This diet is very high in fats and very low in carbs while providing her with adequate protein. This specially aimed diet is meant to aid in helping to control her epilepsy, as well as gain some weight, and although her parents believe that she is following it, she is not. She tries time and time again, but with her picky tastes, just falls like clockwork back into her old routine of eating ketchup on everything and having three peanut butter sandwiches every day.

- Apart from the physical damage she caused herself during her fits as a child, frequently biting her tongue/inner cheek etc, Jenny's frequent seizures also slightly impaired her memory and to a small degree, some academic performance. She is still a brilliant student, but often struggles to recall very specific information as readily as she would like. She sometimes forgets about all sorts of little details. She doesn't tell anyone about this problem she has, which has been getting a bit worse with age, and this is also part of why she keeps her pill journal; otherwise she fears she might screw up, forget, and risk a relapse. Especially after the Snowflake ball incident.

- She's never said a word about it to anyone, but Jenny is very afraid that Ella might one day have an attack of her own. She doesn't trust the genes their birth mother gave them, and is terrified that the sickness might be lying in wait, trying to strike her sister at the worst moment.

- Jenny had brain surgery once around age seven. Hidden beneath her long hair, there is a scar from the procedure, which she doesn't talk about and is glad to have out of view. Since that operation, she and her parents have turned down further brain surgery twice as a means to try to improve her epilepsy. She has gone under several procedures over the years, and is on her strict regime of medication, but the idea of going under again and having doctors shaving her head, going into her head again, simply terrifies her. Especially since the first surgery did almost nothing for her in the way of results, was expensive, and was basically a waste of time. She is most afraid she would never wake up again.

- Jenny often feels drowsy and shows a slight lack of co-ordinationfor the first little while right after taking her medications in the mornings. She tries to hide it as best she can, not wanting to draw attention to it.

- When Jenny tried out for cheerleading, she was very afraid that she wasn't going to get onto the squad at all. Despite being a captain now, years later, she still believes that her initial acceptance onto the team had a lot to do with her sisters influence. Many of her classmates, at least those who are aware of her condition, treat her like she is made of glass which is really quite frustrating to her. She knows that a rough blow on the head during the sport could really hurt her, but she's always been safe, it's something she loves, and she hates that people could believe epilepsy might hold her back from something she enjoys that much.

- After run in with Quinn van Rensselaer [whodoo] at a party, Jenny was secretly involved in a friends-with-benefits situation with her for several months, exploring her own growing bisexual curiousity with Quinn's assistance. She knows that this sort of relationship, especially with another girl, was not typical of her. Whether it was to make herself feel better or otherwise, she felt committed to Quinn in a strange submissive sort of way. It was always far from an exclusive relationship, and it may be over now, but Jenny still felt that at least she knew Quinn intimately. It wasn't a hook-up, but a mutual exchange of company.

- She still hasn't told anyone specifically outside of Ella and a few close friends that she has been seeing Sera Donnelly-Rousseau [imperfectly] since New Years of 2010/2011. Though Jenny herself now admits her bisexuality, she isn't sure that she is one hundred percent ready for the world to pass their judgment on her right away. She wants to let it all go, but it is easier said than done.

What's in your characters pockets?: Jenny generally tries to carry most of the following things. It depends on the day! She likes to be packed prepared even for short journeys.

Strengths: Divination, ritual magic, writing essays, studying, surprisingly talented cheerleader [can lift a girl twice her size into the air and then some], talented writer, large vocabulary, tries hard to pay her very best attention to detail, meticulous note-taker, friendly, easy to get along with, focuses on the here-and-now in her life, good singer [a bit pitchy sometimes], cheerful and encouraging, accepting.
Weaknesses: Worsening bad memory, sucker for her sister's whims, often held back by the protectiveness of others, needs a specific medication regime daily, periods of drowsiness/lack of awareness, terrible at saying 'no' to people [particularly Ella & Charlie], avoids violent confrontation, hates to fight with people if she can help it, jealous of girls who get to do what they want and experience things in life that her illness keeps her away from, can't really swim/sort of wary of swimming.

Strongest subject in school: Divination.
Weakest subject in school: Latin.
One thing he/she can't live without: Ella.

Detailed personality:
Although Jenny is very happy and very easily excitable like her sister, she also provides the calmer balance to the twins. She makes friends easily, and keeps them just as easily, always happy and ready to cheer somebody up if they need it. Being sick for years has taught her that life happens in the moment, and you have to do what you feel; you could drop dead tomorrow. Or you could die old in your bed eighty years from now, but no matter when it's over, Jenny wants to be able to say she lived it to the fullest and did everything she dreamed of. She has good days, and she has bad days, and some days she doesn't even want to get out of bed, sometime her medication makes her feel sick and helpless, but at the end of the day, she knows she has a good life, an amazing family, and one of the most fun twin sisters in the world.

She takes everything with a grain of salt, and is very relaxed in her social life; she loves to spend her time reading, writing, studying, playing chess, cheerleading, studying divination, or just whatever makes her happy at the time. She is diligent to her studies and to her marks, because she fears falling behind and having it blamed on her epilepsy. She and her parents were told by doctors at a young age that it could cause her problems with memory and future academic performance, and she has fought hard since starting school to try to keep her grades above average and beyond, so no one can say that she's slacking off. She lives in balance with epilepsy, she doesn't want it to control her life, and she sure as hell doesn't want to use it as a crutch.

Jenny is a very open person, and she accepts everybody; she hates being judged, especially on surface knowledge, and she would never do that to somebody else. A person has to be a pretty despicable human being for Jenny to write them off. She is very equal opportunity, and unless you mess with her or Ella, then she probably likes you just fine. She believes deeply in commitment, and when she dates a boy [or girl], she wants it to be a functioning and happy relationship. It doesn't need to be end of the world stay together forever, but she wants some chemistry and smiles. She isn't on board for the idea of one night stands and never speaking again after a drunken kiss; especially since she doesn't drink.

She is exceptionally close to Ella, and always has been, even if her sister is a bit over-protective of her. And sort of crazy in a lot of ways. Whereas the over-protective attitude of most people is an annoyance to Jenny, she finds that it is different with her twin. Ella has always been her protector, and not having Ella around to do that would just be.. strange for her. It's a welcome comfort to know how much her sister loves her, even if it sometimes confines her.

With both good and bad days, Jenny tries hard to be the type of person that she wants to be; she accepts others, she studies loads, and she overcomes adversity, totally unwilling to be a sick kid stereotype that people expect of her. She might not look it, but she is a whole book of surprises once you get close to her.

Personal History:
Like her sister, all that Jenny knows about her beginning in life is that her mother was a true child of the Club Kid era, and one who just didn't know when to quit it. Even when she became pregnant with her twins, of whom she didn't even know the father, it didn't slow down her pace; more parties, more drugs, more liquor, more dancing. As soon as she could, their biological mother had given birth to them, given them up to the state, and got back to the party. Why bother sticking around looking after twin daughters when there were so many hits of ecstasy left in the world, right? At least, that is the best guess that Jenny has as to what might have gone through the woman's head in that moment that she handed her babies off.

Lucky for the twins, twin baby girls didn't last long in foster care, and before much time passed at all, Paula and Ron Parry showed up in Ella and Jenny's lives. They were a tiny bit older than most parents looking to adopt, and they were unable to conceive their own children. They had also left having children to wait a bit too long after work and life in general. From the moment they found the twins, they were thrilled with them, and became their parents in no time. Other than Ron and Paula, Jenny and Ella didn't know no other parents; as far as they were concerned, they were mom and dad. Their parents never tried to hide the adoption from the twins, and it was just a fact they grew up with. Jenny knew fairly early on that her mother didn't give birth to her, they didn't share the same blood with her, but they were still family, and they were still amazing people, whom she loved with all of herself. She actually felt honored that, unlike some adoptive parents, Ron and Paula viewed their daughters as mature enough to know the truth. They didn't lie, or hide. Jenny had heard so many adoption horror stories, and is thankful everyday that she and her sister were spared from that situation, and had amazing parents to show for it.

For Jenny, the earliest memory that she can really recollect is waking up in the hospital with a terrible ache in her tongue and cotton gauze packed into her mouth. It was after her first seizure, which happened right in front of Ella, beneath the sprinkler on their front lawn. During the fit, she had managed to bite a good bit of damage into her tongue, and it would be weeks before it was even fully healed. She didn't remember the seizure itself, and even now, she cannot remember a single seizure that she has ever had. It's like a blanking out moment for her, as if that moment in time just disappears, except for the damage to her body and mind. Damage was especially common to her mouth in her early years before having her seizures under control. At six, she nearly bit off a piece of her lower lip, and things only went downhill from there. After the very first seizure, things only got worse, and before long, it seemed like Jenny was having seizures every single day, sometimes several in one day. It didn't take long for her parents to decide that she needed to be hospitalized.

It killed her to be away from her parents, and especially to be away from Ella; it was devastating to go from every moment together, to scarce visits when her sister was allowed to come up and see her. It was a tough time for both of them, and Jenny developed other issues separate from epilepsy as a result; trouble sleeping, trouble eating, spending hours crying, often for her sister. Jenny spent a large chunk of her childhood in the hospital, and the problems it caused for her were numerous, from issues with doctors and phobias of surgery, and even including her terrible eating habits, which are now interfering with a specific diet she is meant to be on in adult life. While in the hospital, between procedures and medication, the young girl found it very hard to have much of an appetite. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches, and putting ketchup onto things, is one of the few ways to interest her into eating, but she has struggled with the problem for a long time, and still does.

Doctors eventually made a link between the drug use of the twins biological mother and Jenny's illness. They believed her excessive lifestyle during pregnancy may be the initial trigger of Jenny's problems, and Ella was quickly admitted into the hospital as well to be checked. They went through test, after test, after test, but doctors soon realized that Ella would be just fine, and showed no signs of epilepsy. Jenny, however, would be plagued for the rest of her life by her disorder; operations, procedures, doctors, drugs, drugs, more drugs. Over a two year course, the doctors experimented with medications and dosages, and this didn't help with Jenny's morale or with her physique; time in the hospital, crying and whining instead of eating, had done a number on her body. She looked at this time more like a patient on her death bed than anything else, sick and frail, and constantly upset. Jenny was deprived of many things in early childhood, and as she got older, she began to realize it. She was, for example, never able to take swimming lessons with her sister, for fear that she might seize up in the pool. She was never able to get braces to straighten her smile until years later, for fear that she might do even more damage to biting her tongue & lips if she had a fit while wearing them.

During this young age though, and these years of hospital care, Jenny only became closer to Ella. She began to rely on her sister, and Ella seemed more than happy to help out and be there for Jenny, like the perfect little mother hen. Ella was one of the only things that could cheer Jenny up during the hospital. Even when things were under-control, Ella still stood by Jenny's side, and Jenny has never complained. Although sometimes Ella is a bit overbearing with her protection of her sister, Jenny still enjoys the company and the worry; having Ella worried about her is just part of living life, really. She knew she needed to be cared for, just as much as Ella needed to do the caring, making it benefit both of them. Plus, Jenny had missed out on a lot of experiences in early childhood and needed her sister to show her a thing or two about fun. Paula and Ron often took the twins on trips to the zoo or camping. Ron was a keen naturist, sharing facts and lessons about all animals, information that Jenny and Ella both loved; Jenny, however, was always most interested in the species of birds, and sometimes enjoys going bird watching with her father during school breaks.

Life for the twins, once Jenny was out of the hospital, was surprisingly normal and mundane. Other than occasional trips to the doctor, and subtle adjustments in medication regimes, life was average. Until one day when the twins were nine, a serious looking and rather harassed man knocked on the door of their house. He stayed for almost five hours, armed with paper and pens and important looking bound documents. It turns out this man was a wizard, and wanted Paula and Ron to know that they had actually adopted two witches in their quest for a family. The man made them sign confidentiality agreements, swearing the parents to secrecy and giving them some recommendations of good wizarding schools to send the twins to. It was only days later that the twins started showing magical tendencies, Jenny's hair turning green after a fight over the TV remote, and Paula and Ron sat the girls down for a chat. They decided on Crescent City at their choice of education. The girls were excited, naturally, although Jenny felt somewhat apprehensive about leaving their parents behind.

Younger school years were a cake-walk for the twins, and despite her worries, Jenny adjusted well. Having Ella with her certainly helped. They were polite, friendly, and blooming social lives came easily to them. They had each other, and a whole new branch of life to explore. Jenny only went through one major medication change during that time, at age eleven, and she's been on that same drug cocktail for the last five years now. Other than her dietician and family doctor, she scarcely even has to worry about seizures, as long as she takes her pills, and plays it relatively safe.

It was in school that the girls truly found differences between themselves. Ella was better at healing, and stuff with her hands, whereas Jenny was better at more introverted work such as astronomy and divination lessons. She studied hard, trying to keep up with the class average, and she made good marks. She enjoyed her school work, and her courses. She began writing more in these early years too; creating her dream to one day be a famous author. It went hand in hand with her love to read, something she developed to pass time in the hospital as a child. When 9th grade came, it wasn't really a shock to anyone when the girls were both sorted into Beauregard, where their even more different personalities began to blossom more as they got older.

Now as older teenagers, the girls have a similar group of friends but do a lot things separately, and are showing their personal colors, going their own way, and ever-so-slowly branching off from each other. They chose different electives, with Jenny opting to take divination for her choice. She doesn't exactly support her sister or ex-boyfriend's love for a good party, it seems dangerous in general as well as dangerously close to the life her biological mother lived not so long ago, but come what may Jenny will support her sister no matter what. Even if she has to tag along to parties to be the over-protective one once in a while. She knows she isn't perfect, and doesn't expect Ella to be either.