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Name: Peregrine Thomas Diver
Nicknames: Perrie
Pronouns: he/him
Age: 19
Birthday: 23 January 2002

School: Mayet University, in his first year studying animation.

Hobbies:

• Juggling -- Perrie's parents gave him a "Juggling For Kids" kit when he was seven, and he became obsessed with it until he mastered all the tricks in the book. Juggling is still his primary relaxation tool, as well as a great conversation starter and his main source of income (he busks after class and on days off for money). He'll often absently juggle whatever is at hand that's suitable; he always carries around some small balls of some kind, but it's more fun to just pick up random small stuff and start juggling it. He's quite good at it too, as one might expect after over ten years of practice.
  
  
• Classic Cinema -- Perrie's great love is vintage cinema, especially animation. The works of Disney Pixar and the old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes are among his favorites; this includes both the traditionally-animated masterpieces of the 20th century as well as the more recent CGI classics. One can depict things using animation that simply can't be done with live-action; special effects fall into this category too, and he loves to play spot-the-effect while watching movies, figuring out how they did it and how he'd do it differently (and better, of course). He has a deep appreciation of the silent films of the early 20th century as well, with a particular fondness and admiration for the works of Charlie Chaplin (a man who truly did it all, and did it his way) and Buster Keaton (a master of physical comedy and something of a role model for him).
  
  
• Going Out To Coffee Shop -- One of his favorite ways to spend his downtime -- coffee, delicious food, and all manner of interesting people to interact with and/or observe. He's also found that he works better at the coffee shop, and will usually take his sketchbooks and laptop with him so he can just people-watch and draw (and do his homework too, he's not a complete slacker). He has several preferred coffee shops he likes to go to; he's something of a coffee connoisseur and has his particular favorite places, basically any place that serves a nice strong coffee with lots of interesting flavor notes. He takes it black, of course.
  

Pros:

• All The World's a Stage Raging Extrovert -- At his heart, Perrie is a genuine people person, extroverted, social and sociable. Bouncy, hyper and wacky, one tends to either love him or want to shoot him with a tranquilizer dart. He is an outgoing person who's friendly and fun to be around, with a goofy sense of humor and no shame whatsoever. Fun is a big motivating factor for him; he believes life should be about having fun, and he can manage to find the fun in just about any task or situation. As a performer on the stage of Life, Perrie is on all the time; he loves to play to a crowd, and to him, the world is his audience. He's a happy, zany little weirdo who just wants to be everyone's friend. The zany weirdo bit is somewhat deceptive, however, and always delivered with a metaphorical sly wink; he may seem like a total flake, but make no mistake -- he knows exactly what he's doing. Well, most of the time.
  
  
• Only Fools and Horses Wise -- Despite his young age and over-the-top eccentricity, Perrie has that kind of naive wisdom that comes from having an unconditional faith in humanity (here naive = unsullied and non-cynical). He faces life's challenges with energy and optimism, which almost always ensure a positive outcome. Perhaps it's his relative lack of life experience, perhaps it's the unique path he's chosen to walk, perhaps it's the mushrooms talking; but everything he does, he does with an undying optimism and hope. His brand of crazy wisdom tends to shock and/or surprise those he's talking to, but it also tends to get them thinking about their problems in different ways, and coming up with clever solutions to what's going on.
  
  
• I'll Draw You a Picture Creative -- Perrie's strongest trait by far is his creativity. Cultivated from a very early age at the encouragement of his parents, his imagination is powerful, vivid, and running at full bore all the time. It overlays his perceptions to the point that he has felt like he's living in a double-exposed film, or constantly looking into an alternate dimension, for most of his life. His attempts to depict what he "sees" there have helped him develop his artistic skills, and while he's not the best artist in the world, he has a unique drawing style that gets the point across. More importantly, he has a strong sense of Story; he understands that storytelling is the oldest and still the most effective way of transmitting ideas, something that he feels a lot of film-makers and animators seem to forget.
  

Cons:

• Manic Pixie Dream Boy Idiosyncratic -- Perrie is a deeply odd young man. He's his own little subculture, and this sometimes costs him in terms of potential friendships. He is a non-linear thinker -- his mental processes go off in all directions almost constantly, but he can follow all the different trains of thought in his head and come back to where he started, and can pick right up where he left off usually without missing a beat. This guy also has no sense of tact; he's honest and blunt to a fault (because frankly, he wouldn't know how to lie if his life depended upon it). He has absolutely no inhibitions and no internal governor over his actions or his words -- this sometimes gets him in trouble, as one can imagine. Far too impetuous for his own good, he just doesn't know when to shut it off and toe the line. He has the relative attention span of a gnat.
  
  
• My Way or the Highway Contrary Control Freak -- Perrie is defiantly independent, determined, and stubborn as a tiny mule. He's something of a control freak and prefers to be in control of his own destiny, thank you very much. As control freaks go, though, he's not all that terribly interested in controlling the actions of others; he believes everyone is ultimately capable of making their own choices in life. And that includes him. Naturally contrary and rebellious, Perrie will often deliberately do the opposite of what someone wants him to, especially if he's pissed off at them, just to be a s**t. (Hint: Best way to get him to do something? Tell him he can't or shouldn't do it.) It's admittedly rather shallow of him to dismiss something simply because it's popular, and he knows it, but Perrie hates mainstream anything. He is the first to cry "Sellout!" when someone whose work he likes makes the big time, because he truly feels that anyone who does that is selling out to The Man, sacrificing their vision for fame and fortune.
  
  
• Little Big Man Short -- Being little and cute has a lot going for it, and the vast majority of the time Perrie deals with his lack of vertical stature just fine. It's when he gets talked down to or treated like a child or something less than an intelligent human being because they won't see past his small size that it becomes annoying. There is more than a bit of Short Man Complex at work here, that tendency of some small men to compensate for their lack of height with aggressive behavior. With Perrie, he becomes loud and abrasive, and will stomp around like a little bantam rooster with a chip on his shoulder the size of a plank, practically begging for someone to knock it off. He got into a lot of fights in school over his height.
  

Eyes: His eyes are large, more round than almond-shaped, and bright, with long dark lashes and a sly twinkle. And they're mismatched -- his left eye is a bright apple green, his right eye a golden brown. They are topped off with dark straightish eyebrows that are almost comically expressive.

Hair: Bright eye-searing neon fuschia-pink, worn in a shaggy shoulder-length mess that hangs in his face constantly.

Face: Mostly round in shape, he has fairly soft androgynous features, a straight nose and a slightly pouty, full-lipped mouth. His left nostril is pierced with a simple stud. He has a fair complexion and tends to tan rather than burn.

Body Type: Perrie is tiny, really tiny for a full-grown man. He's all of 5'2" and 105 lbs, bird-boned and wiry, with narrow shoulders and hips. He moves like a cartoon character come to life, with somewhat exaggerated and rubber-limbed gestures; every action is big and expansive, so even though he's physically small, his presence is HUGE.

Clothes: He dresses like a thrift store tatterdemalion; his basic look is part raver, part punk and part street urchin, baggy and oversized and worn. He typically wears ripped jeans or baggy Hot Topic pants held up with suspenders so his boxers don't hang out, mismatched Converse All-Stars (he has several pair, all of them mixed up colorwise), random faded t-shirt, sometimes worn over a long-sleeved t-shirt, and an old tweed newsboy cap. He adds a fleece-lined denim jacket, ratty fingerless gloves, and a long multicolored knit scarf when it gets cold. His favorite color is orange, because it clashes painfully with his hair.

Timeline

2002: Perrie born in Islington, London, England
2009: takes up juggling
2011: family takes a holiday to the States to visit relatives in Mayet; Perrie is enchanted by the city
2017: fails to clear his GCSE exams
2018: is awakened as Parsifal by the Watchful Guardian; studies for and clears his GCSEs, begins his A Levels at City & Islington College in Film
2019: the Watchful Guardian checks in on him periodically; Perrie learns about his Parsifal side and experiments with his new abilities
2020: is accepted into Media program at Goldsmiths ULondon; feels a calling, like a pull, to Mayet and, following his instincts, leaves London to relocate there; transfers to the Art and Animation program at Mayet University
2021: present day

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