my name is [ PERSEUS “PERCY/PJ” DAWSON ] … and i am from [ SEATLLE, WA ] and i’m a [ FREELANCE ARTIST ]. i lived in helltown for [ 4 YEARS ] because [ MY MOM KICKED ME OUT ]. i am [ 26 ] my pronouns are [ HE/HIM ] and i am [ PASSIONATE, ALLURING, ADAPTABLE ] though some may say i’m [ RECKLESS, ARROGANT , BLUNT ]. i also hear i look a lot like [ RUDY PANKOW ] but, i don’t know if i see it. i’m here because [ MY DAD IS LETTING ME STAY IN THE FAMILY VACATION HOME OUT OF GUILT ] but, maybe there’s more to it than that. you never know with helltown.
ABOUT PERCY : I’m finding me out, I’m having my doubts, I’m losing the best of me.
CHARACTER BASICS
FULL NAME: Perseus James Dawson
NICKNAME(S): Percy, PJ
AGE: Twenty-Six
GENDER & PRONOUNS: Cis Man, He/Him
FACE CLAIM: Rudy Pankow
EYE COLOR: Blue
HAIR COLOR: Blonde
HEIGHT: 5′8″
DATE OF BIRTH: November 24th
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
LEVEL OF EDUCATION: Bachelor of Art
SCHOOLING: Seattle University, Art Major
LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English
HOGWARTS HOUSE: Slytherin
OCCUPATION: Freelance Artist
HOBBIES: Surfing, Attending Drive-In Movies, Poker, Motorcycling, Smoking, Darts
HOMETOWN: Seattle, Washington
HOUSING: Dawson Family Lake House
FAMILY
MOTHER: Abigail Dawson ( née Clark )
FATHER: Pope Dawson
TWIN SISTER: Andromeda “Andy” Dawson †
CHARACTER HISTORY [TW: DRUG ABUSE, OVERDOSE, DEATH]
Percy hadn’t always been a good kid, but he was surely one of the better ones. Pushed away with a scowl and enough lectures to curve his interest in the usual rebellion most of his peers had, he found other ways to explore the world and its limits. He was born and raised in Seattle and crossed the threshold of a white picket fence the day he left the hospital. For a long time, he thought of that fence as the gates to his kingdom but little did he know that it was his father’s way of keeping the struggles that plagued their family far away.
The Dawson’s weren’t a picture perfect family, but they had some shine to their grime. Percy and his sister, Andromeda, were inseparable and he was always the one pulling her away from the things their father advised them against. The two were different, but they had a loyalty like no other and so when Andy passed away their junior year of college, everything he ever knew seemed to have finally spoiled. He believed every chance he saved up, every karma point reserved for him to share with his sister, had not just rotted but never existed at all. More importantly, his father had never prepared them for the world he had belonged to. He hadn’t protected them.
After his sister’s death, his family seemed to shrivel up under their grief and his parents divorced. His father relocated to his sister’s happy place in Helltown, and PJ stayed far away from it. He couldn’t understand trying to chase a memory in those places forgotten from their youth and more importantly, ruined by the person his sister had eventually become after she began taking drugs. He had done his best to be a bridge between her and their parents, but it wasn’t enough. That guilt ate away at him and one night he gave in to the poison that took his sister’s life, and he’s yet to stop.
PRESENT DAY
He lived with his mother after the divorce but after his use became too heavy, and sleeping on porches in the middle of winter after she refused to let him come in high, he decided maybe he needed some change but not without raising a little hell first. He’s come to Helltown not to turn a new leaf, but find another reason of spite to carry on. He hopes that he can use whatever sympathy his father has left until it’s run dry, and until he’s on to his next move.
HEADCANONS
He wasn’t the best child but compared to Andy he was the family’s golden boy.
Due to the closeness of him and his twin it was no surprise that they wanted to attend the same college together. At college Andy got involved with a man who introduced her to the party scene and the drugs that went along with it and Percy watched her fall deeper and deeper into the hole. He tried his best to pull her out of it, flushing her slash whenever he could, etc. But eventually Andy pulled away to push herself deeper into her toxic relationship where her addition ended up overwhelming her.
He was concerned when he hadn't heard from her and was the one who ended up finding her. It was a lot for him to process and from that point leading up to her funeral Percy was there to move her belongings from college back home and ended up finding her drugs and he felt inclined to try them to feel closer to her and he hasn't really stopped. He's not at the point of addiction but the fact that he's taken this troubling path is alarming especially to his mother. This resulted in her locking him out of the house and him spending nights on the porch because she wouldn't let him in high. He's still got his care free spirit but over the years has gotten more rebellious and reckless to go along with his adventurous side. He waited for his mother to go to work one morning, after she caved and let him back into the house and packed his belongings to go to his sister's favorite place and ended up at his father's/their vacation house's door step. So Dawson isn't aware of Percy's drug usage at this point and yeah he's still going through it.
