OOC Information
Player Name: Amie.
Player Age: Twenty-two.
Time Zone: AST.

Character Information
Basics:
Full Name: Jennifer Anne Parry.
Nick Names: Jenny, Jen, Jennay, Ella's Sister, Mom, Babydoll.
Hometown: Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Age and Birthday: Seventeen [February 14th; 1994].
House and Year: Senior in Quirank.
Boggart: Ella having an epileptic fit.
Riddikulus: Her sister's spasms cease and are replaced by some excellent break-dancing moves instead.
Patronus and Why: Jenny's charm appears as a red-eyed tree frog. Generally frogs are representative of healing, transition, purity, renewal, and dreaming.

School Information:

Wand: Inflexible hazel with core of bowtruckle bark, seven inches.
Electives: Advanced Divination, Arithmancy, Ancient Runes, Spell Theory, & Literature II.
Extracurriculars:
- Cheerleading [Captain].
- Student Government [Head Girl].
- Honor Society.
- Pride Club.
- Book Club.
- Choir.
- Yearbook [Writer].
- Wizards Chess Club.

Strongest Subject: Divination/Literature.
Weakest Subject: Latin/Languages.
Animagus Form, if applicable: N/A.

Family and Relationships
Parents: Biological parents are unknown [except for birth mother's last name of McCarthy]. Adoptive parents are Paula and Ron Parry.
Siblings: Ella Parry [Identical Twin Sister & Senior in Quirank]
Extended Family: None of special mention.
Familiar: Eagle owl named after Artie Abrams.
Sexuality: Open & proudly bisexual. 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. She's had several boyfriends in the past but she's been happily dating her first real girlfriend and former tutor student, Sera [alwaysontop], for just over one year now.

Appearance:
PB: Zoe Kimball.
Physical Description:
One of the first things people tend to notice about Jenny is the combination of vibrantly light blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Her hair is long and usually down, sometimes with a headband or clip in it. With a round face, those wide blue eyes, and an innocent grin, Jenny is often mistaken for a much younger student. Sometimes even as young as a freshman. She knows that she doesn't exactly look as every other senior girl in her year, 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. She figures at least she can use it to order from the kids menu at restaurants, which she frequently does.

Jenny's smile is just as bright as her hair, and she takes pride in her almost perfectly straight teeth.. just give it a couple more years. Jenny has lingual braces, which she got in freshman year, and will have to wear at least until the end of her senior year, possibly her first year of university. 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 fairly pale and a little sickly, but she does tan [but more often burns] in the summer. She has some extremely 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 rail-like physique in a lot of ways; spending a lot of her childhood ill in a hospital and on varying medication regimes has left a visible mark on her. Thanks to being a cheerleader, she's gotten a little healthier looking and more athletic and lean over the last couple of years. She joined cheerleading in order to get in shape, and keep herself active, and she's been stuck to the sport like glue ever since.

Jenny only has her ears pierced, and on most days, she forgets to even put anything into them. They've already grown over twice. She has no tattoos yet, but she has informed her parents already that when she turns eighteen in February, she intends to get the epilepsy awareness ribbon tattooed over her upper left breast, above her heart.

For clothing, Jenny is mostly happy to wear whatever. She likes to be able to relax in her clothes, lots of shades of purple, lots of shorts, and lots of sneakers. She's generally just dressed for her own comfort. Or she just lets her sister pick out things for her to wear, a habit developed early in their lives. She loves to get dolled up for dances and school events, and her mother always expects to see loads of photographs. 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, ABBA, taking naps, ketchup, singing, dorky nicknames, tutoring, 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, finding out Sera's is getting pressured into trouble, helplessness.

Quirks:
- Jenny watches a lot of television. She loves Glee, reality tv, trash tv [especially Maury], and soap operas. She been watching General Hospital​ everyday after classes for years. Even if she has to do it online. She is slightly madly in love with Michael Corinthos.

- Just like her sister, she is a pretty exceptionally picky eater who loves chicken nuggets, and puts ketchup on everything [it's the only way to get vegetables into her]. Peanut butter & banana sandwiches are another personal favorite, and she rarely turns down candy.

- She was never taught to swim as a child, and felt too embarrassed and stubborn to ask anyone to teach her as a teenager. She's wary of deep water, and usually just chills poolside or in the sand rather than let the fear ruin her good time at parties.

- Despite being an overall talented student, Jenny cannot stand learning other languages. She's always been shit at even learning Latin. Really it seems English is about the only one she'll ever be able to master, and the rest just stand to frustrate her. When Sera gets talking to her mother in all of that fast paced French, it makes her head spin.

- Madonna is her idol. She has all of her CDs, music on her computer, posters plastered on her wall, watches every interview, and even enjoys her [terrible] acting.

- She loves to read, especially murder mystery/horror novels and her favorite author is James Patterson​. She wouldn't mind being an author herself when she graduates, and is already planning to take Wizarding Literature at Blue Ridge University next year.

- She often goes easier on students than she should be. She tries to be the best Head Girl that she can be, but she rarely gives anyone detention or sends them to the Headmaster unless they've really done something awful. She knows she isn't perfect either, even if she acts it, so she usually lets people off with a stern look and a good lecturing.

- Though she's only been steadily dating a girl for a year now, she's been a loud-voiced advocate for the LGBT community at Blue Ridge for a long time now. She had mostly dated boys, but always identified herself as bisexual and been a member of the Pride Club. She's never been able to deny the beauty of a woman, and sees no reason why she should have to. She thinks 'It Gets Better' might be the most brilliant thing ever, and she even made her own video to post on YouTube.

- Jenny is, she supposes, probably considered straightedge. She has smoked a cigarette or two in her time, but she does drink alcohol or do any non-prescribed drugs. She still goes to most parties though, despite this and having to turn a Head Girl blind-eye to what she sees off campus.

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, Jenny's frequent seizures also slightly impaired her memory. To a small degree, also some of her academic performance. She is still a brilliant student, near top of her classes, but she often struggles to recall very specific information as readily as she would like. She sometimes forgets about all sorts of little details. It has been getting a bit worse with age.

- She's never said a word about it to anyone, but Jenny is very afraid that Ella might one day have an epileptic fit of her own. She doesn't trust the genes their birth mother gave them, and is terrified that the sickness might be lying about, waiting 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 the state of her epilepsy. 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 felt like a waste of time in the end She is most afraid she would never wake up again.

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

- Jenny isn't really all of that confident in her cheerleading skills, and only tried out for captain because her mother suggested it. She didn't think she would get the position, and now is sort of scrambling to figure herself out and what her game plan is. When Jenny originally tried out for cheerleading, she was very afraid that she wasn't going to get onto the squad at all. She still believes that her initial acceptance onto the team had a lot to do with Ella's positive influence. Many of her teammates always sort of treated her like she is made of glass because of her epilepsy, which is really quite frustrating to her. She knows that a rough fall during the sport could really hurt her, but she's always been careful. Cheerleading something she loves, and she hates that people could believe anything might hold her back from something she enjoys that much.

- Hates to sound lame, but really wishes that Mack and Hunter wouldn't act the way they do toward Sera. From the flirting to the silly dares and catcalls. She realizes that they were all friends before she came along, but it makes her sort of jealous.

- Had a massive crush on Sam Ruiz during sophomore year.

- Her first boyfriend got expelled from school while they were still dating, and forbidden from seeing each other. She was distraught for weeks, and still wears the necklace that he gave to her for sentimental purposes.

- She doesn't say anything to Sera about it, but she actually feels quite bad for her girlfriend's sister and the way people treat her sexuality. Or lack there of. She really thinks that the younger girl could go easier on Tatum about it all of the time, even if she does see where Sera is coming from completely and agrees that the other sister's life would be so much easier if she was just true to herself. She and Ella have always gotten along and been like best friends, so the idea of sisters razzing on each other the way Tatum and Sera do confuses her anyway.

Amortentia Smells Like: Pencil shavings, gasoline, and bubblegum.
Strengths: Divination, ritual magic, writing essays, studying, surprisingly talented cheerleader [can lead a team and lift a girl twice her size into the air and then some], talented writer, large vocabulary, multi-tasking specialist, determined, focused, tries hard to pay her very best attention to detail, meticulous note-taker, friendly, easy to get along with, fair, plans for a successful future but still focuses on the here-and-now in her life, good singer [a bit pitchy sometimes], cheerful and encouraging, gentle and maternal, accepting.
Weaknesses: Worsening bad memory, sucker for both her sister & her girlfriend's whims, often held back by the protectiveness of others, has very a important and specific medication regime taken daily, periods of drowsiness/lack of awareness, terrible at saying 'no' to people, fear of upsetting/hurting others, too soft sometimes, 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 has kept her away from, can't really swim/extremely wary of deep water.

Detailed Personality:
Though Jenny is very happy and can be very easily excitable just like her twin sister, she also provides the calmer balance to the two of them. 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 when you feel it; 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. Sometimes 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, a beautiful girlfriend, and one of the most fun twin sisters in the world.

She thinks hard about everything usually, and takes things with a grain of salt. She is very relaxed in her social life; she loves to spend her time reading, writing, studying, playing chess, cheerleading, getting ahead in Divination, or just whatever contents her at the time. She is diligent to her studies and to her marks, because she fears falling behind and having it blamed on her being sick. She and her parents were told by doctors at a young age that her seizures 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 basically everybody around her for who they are. She personally hates being judged, especially on surface knowledge, and she would never do that to somebody else. The person in question has to be a pretty despicable human being for Jenny to write them off entirely. 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 someone, she wants it to be a functioning and happy relationship. It doesn't need to be end of the world stay together forever end game, but she wants some cute 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 in the first place.

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. She couldn't imagine spending as much time with anyone as she does with Ella. 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 and grow up. 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. Soon as she could get it done, their biological mother had given birth to them, given them up to the state, and got back to the rave. Why bother sticking around looking after babies when there were so many hits of ecstasy left in the world, right?

At least, that's the best guess that Jenny has to what might have gone through the woman's head in that moment that she gave her children away.

Lucky for the twins, two 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 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 bonded with them in no time. Other than Ron and Paula, Jenny and Ella knew no other parents; as far as the twins are concerned, they have always been and will always be mom and dad. Their parents never tried to hide the adoption from either of them, 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 reality of the situation. They didn't lie or hide. Jenny has heard so many adoption horror stories, and is thankful everyday that she and her sister were spared from that kind of drama and had amazing parents to show for it.

For Jenny, the earliest memory that she can really recall in detail is being five years old and 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 her tongue quite hard, 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 catching it in her teeth, and things only went downhill from there. After the very first seizure, things became progressively worse and before long it seemed like Jenny was having seizures every single day, sometimes several in twenty-four hours. It didn't take long for her parents and pediatrician to decide that she needed to be hospitalized.

It broke her heart to be away from her parents, but especially to be away from Ella; it was devastating to go from every moment together since birth, to scarce visits when her sister was allowed to come up and see her for a few minutes at a time. 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, most 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 trust issues with doctors and anxieties about surgeries, to her lifelong terrible eating habits which are now interfering with a specific diet she is meant to be on in young adult life. While in the hospital, between procedures and medication, the young girl found it very hard to have much of an appetite. She's become very picky as she's grown older. Making her peanut butter and banana sandwiches and putting ketchup onto everything are a few of the ways to interest her into eating, but she has struggled with the problem for a long time and probably always will a little.

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 have been the initial trigger of Jenny's problems, and Ella was quickly admitted into the hospital as well to be checked out. 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. So much time spent just laying around in the hospital, and all of the 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 and drown if she wasn't constantly supervised. 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 her, 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 less chaotic and more under-control, Ella has still stood by Jenny's side, and Jenny has never complained. Though 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 her life. 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 out camping. Ron was a keen naturist and sort of a hippie, fascinating his daughter with animal facts and trivia that they both loved. Jenny, however, was always especially interested in the various species of birds, and sometimes still enjoys going bird watching with her father during school breaks.

Life for the twins, once Jenny was out of the hospital and feeling mostly back to herself, was surprisingly normal and mundane. Other than occasional trips to the doctor and subtle adjustments in medication regimes, life was so-so and 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 what they called a serious talk. Despite the distance between Michigan and Georgia, after some research of the school and it's area, the parents had decided on Blue Ridge School as their choice of education. The girls were naturally excited, especially Ella, while Jenny quickly felt somewhat apprehensive soon after about leaving their parents and home behind.

Younger school years were a cake-walk for the twins, and despite her all of her worries, Jenny adjusted exceeding well. Having Ella with her certainly helped. They were polite and friendly, and their booming social lives came easily to them. They had each other, new friends, and a whole new look at the world to explore. Jenny only went through one major medication change during her first years in school, at age twelve, and she's been on her current drug cocktail for the last six or so years now. Other than her visiting her dietician and family doctor, she scarcely even has to worry about seizures in the last few years as long as she takes her pills and plays it relatively safe.

It was in beginning school together that the girls truly began to find differences between themselves. Ella was better at healing spells and working with her hands, whereas Jenny much preferred more introverted &quiet classes such as astronomy, history of magic, and divination. Jenny had always studied hard, trying to keep up above the class averages, and she has always made good marks. She immediately enjoyed learning magic, and enjoyed her school work and her classes. She began writing creatively more in these early years of school; creating her dream to one day be a famous author. It went hand in hand with her love to read, the only other thing she did to pass time in the hospital besides watch television. When time for sorting came, it wasn't really a shock to anybody when the girls were put into Quirank together, where their even more different personalities and intelligences began to blossom more as they got older.

Jenny loved her freshman year in Quirank, and things just kept getting better with time. She joined their cheerleading team along with her sister as soon as Ella asked her to. She's been a member ever since, taking over as a captain during her final year of school. Jenny made friends in her house, and outside of it, just as easily as she always had. She became a prefect in junior year, a decision she wouldn't regret. In her sophomore year, she was worked several months as a volunteer tutor for younger students in Quirank. This was how she formally met Sera Donnelly-Rousseau who, once they began bond and to next few months of school plus summer passed, later became her first steady girlfriend.

Jenny had always dated boys during her years at school, but had always identified herself as bisexual and had several crushes on girls in school. She says now that she was obviously just waiting for the right girl to come along, and she's fairly positive she has. She loves Sera very much, despite how much the girl's anal-retentive attitude turns some people off. It's just something else that is uniquely Sera, and Jenny loves to help her relax. She even convinced her to join cheerleading with her and Ella.

Now officially a senior, Jenny had been dating Sera for a year, and has taken on a course load much bigger than she planned. Being the captain of the cheerleading team and Head Girl on top of it isn't easy, but she gladly gets by. She loves a good academic challenge, and feels this year will prove to be a good one. The twins still have a similar group of friends but do a lot things separately, ever-so-slowly branching off from each other more and more.

They've chosen to take different courses at Blue Ridge university next year, with Jenny opting for Wizarding Literature for hers. She's just got to survive the next year to get there. Come what may Jenny will always support her sister no matter what. Even if she has to tag along to parties as Head Girl to be the over-protective one once in a while.