Characters 101 - Peri

Each month this blog will feature a character from one of the SFF productions.  This month I’m going to talk about everyone’s favorite ditz – the adorable Peri from The Gift Bearer, played by the wonderfully talented Brittany Ann Whalen.

Persephone Silverstone, known as Peri, is the youngest of three sisters who go galavanting through time using a golden ball and a magical egyptain statue.  She’s the baby of the family and is used to getting her own way a lot of the time.  However, she also lives in the shadows of her older sisters who are both stronger and smarter than she is.

SPOILER WARNING: The Gift Bearer is a complicated show with a lot of twists and turns.  If you ever intend to watch the show, than I wouldn’t read this – it would take out all the mystery and ruin the surprises. 

History

Peri was the last child born to Mary Silverstone and grows up with her two older sisters, Minerva and Atlanta. Her mother died when Peri was six, so she didn’t really remember her.  However, her sisters always made sure to tell her how awesome their mother was – smart and strong and beautiful.  Out of all the sisters, Peri looks the most like her mother, but knowing her mother was so incredible makes Peri a little resentful – it makes her feel that if she’s not as talented as her sisters or as amazing as her mother then she’s letting everyone down. 

She grew up taking cues from her sisters as to what to say and who to say it too in order to protect the illusion that they were being cared for by their Aunt Camilla who in fact had disappeared shortly before their mother died.  They don’t want to be split up and put into foster homes so the sisters somehow managed to fake their guardian with the help of an actress and a large trust fund set up by their mother and operated by her lawyer, Arthur Crumby.  The sisters were raised in a huge mansion that was in the countryside and pretty isolated, so Peri didn’t have much interaction with people growing up.  She’s a very social person so when it was time to go to high school she insisted that Atlanta let her go to the school in town instead of continuing to be home-schooled. That radically changed her life and she quickly adapted to “life on the outside” as she called it.  Both her sisters were pretty anti-social so Peri finally found something she was better at than her sisters which made her really happy. 

And the rest of the History section is REALLY long so I’ve moved it to the end of this post.

Appearance

Peri is beautiful.  She has long brown hair that is naturally curly, but she straightens it, and has blue eyes (well, hazelnut eyes in the book). She’s medium height, about 5’4 and has a sexy, curvy figure.  Her favorite color is pink, although she also likes red, gold, and black.  She is a fashionista and always wants to be wearing the latest clothing and accessories.  Even though her skin has a natural golden tone to it, she likes to get a tan.  

She loves to wear make-up and jewelry, and is often seen in tight or semi-revealing clothing. 

There’s one outfit in particular that ended up becoming a running joke – a pair of black pants and a black tube top.  It totally looked like Peri’s breasts had been censored so it became known as the censor bar shirt.

She likes to play dress up when they time travel, but some of the fashion trends of the past mystify her, such as the Gibson girl sort of style of the Edwardian era (1901-1912). When Minerva styles her hair like that she makes a face and says, “it looks like a flying saucer landed on my head!”  She also has trouble figuring out how to wear a corset, and is understandably shocked when Minerva shows her by putting it on her and then tightening the laces.  Later in the same episode Peri faints from the corset being too tight.

Being a girly girl, Peri loves the historical accessories and looks darling in pretty much any period be it Greco-Roman, Medieval, or American Civil War.  Though I think my personal favorite is the Regency ensemble with a bonnet, shawl, and parasol.

Personality

The best word to describe her is probably ditzy.  At one point Minerva describes her as “a bubble-headed blonde who just happens to be a brunette.”  She can be easily distracted by shiny objects or just…anything really, which can also cause her to be forgetful sometimes.  Whenever Brittany (and eventually anyone) did something on the set that seemed a little flaky, ditzy, or saying something silly that didn’t make sense, it was referred to as “having a Peri moment”.

“Being the youngest, Peri is pretty much the least experienced of the three, and that can lead people to believe that she’s ditzy,” said Brittany Ann Whalen.  “Peri can sometimes act a little ditzy, but deep down inside she has intelligence…that she won’t let herself believe that she has.”  Peri is a lot smarter than anyone gives her credit for, but she doesn’t really know how to find it.  Atlanta’s the athlete, Minerva’s the scientist/artist, and Peri is…?  She doesn’t know.  She doesn’t feel like she’s special compared to her sisters, so she covers it up by pretending to long down on them for the one way in which she is superior to them – social skills.

“Despite the fact that she loves her sisters,” Brittany added, “Peri can be a little self-involved.  She does things for her own benefit without realizing the outcome for other people - even though she means well.”  She suffers from the typical youngest child syndrome of being spoiled by everyone else.  She doesn’t have to work hard or be smart because her sisters will do it for her.  She’s used to having other people pick up the slack and that’s one thing that she learns through her adventures in time-travelling – self-reliance.  Peri’s pretty good at getting herself into trouble, and her sisters won’t always be around to get her out of it.

Another thing that Peri adores is animals.  The sisters have at least three cats – two of which are seen with Peri – and she showers the statue with sweet attention, calling it cute and adorable.  The statue, in return, develops a friendship with Peri and although Berry prefers Minerva overall, it clearly makes Peri its second choice.  When Minerva goes insane, Berry latches on to Peri instead of her. 

Overall though, Peri is sweet, kind, and compassionate.  She is a romantic at heart, a dreamer, and loves fairytales with happy endings.  She starts out being very naive, but is a lot smarter and stronger by the end of the series, having learned to believe in herself.  She goes from waiting for her Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet and carry her to a castle to fighting beside her ex to save her sister and destroy the evil company that is trying to kill them all.   It’s sort of like Cinderella goes to the ball, ends up in Hell, and returns with a machine gun.

Abilities

Her best ability is her good social skills. She’s the life of a party and the heart of the group.  She good at making friends and helping people when they’re in need.  In return she is well-liked by most people she meets and is adored by her siblings. 

She also has the potential to be able to really kick some ass, given how violent she can be when provoked.  And she learns how to sneak up on someone and get the jump on them as she proves in Episode 11 when she attacks Xavier. 

Relationships - Allies & Enemies

FAMILY

Atlanta Silverstone is the oldest of the three sisters and is basically a combination of sister and mother to Peri.  She is very over-protective of both her sisters, but especially of Peri since she sees Peri as being more helpless than Minerva.  Peri doesn’t like the fact that Atlanta is bossy and bitchy a lot, but she needs someone to make her accountable for things in her life such as grades and the guys she chooses to date (you fell down on that on Lani).  Because of the mothering aspect they have a complicated relationship. As Peri gets older she needs less of the mother and more of the sister and Atlanta doesn’t know how to be that with her.  She will always see Peri as the baby of the family and think of her as being younger than she is.  

How Lani interacts with Peri is totally different from how she interacts with Minerva, and shows that she thinks of Peri as a kid who needs to be protected, rather than as a young woman who needs to be informed in order to make her own decisions.  Their relationship gets a little strained for awhile after Peri accidentally shoots Atlanta in the arm.  It really was an accident, and it’s a good thing that Peri’s a lousy shot because she was aiming for the head.

Minerva Silverstone is the middle sister and she and Peri have multiple levels to their relationship.  They often insult each other and get into arguments about whether it’s better to be smart or social.  Minerva enjoys being weird and freaking Peri out with her odd behavior because she tends to get a better reaction with Peri than with Atlanta.  They don’t seem to have much in common beyond being sisters, but they actually work very well together as a team when they need to.  Minerva tries not to baby Peri, since she’s totally spoiled by Atlanta, and the result is that Minerva doesn’t talk down to her and treats her more like an adult than anyone else does. 

As much as they may quibble and quarrel, they love each other, and Peri brings out the motherly and protective side of Minerva as well.  When the sisters arrive back from their mission to find Peri dozing on the couch in her evening gown, Minerva’s the one who immediately realizes that Peri is drunk.  She takes care of Peri when Peri throws up, and tucks her into bed, promising not to tell Atlanta what really happened.  Then Minerva sits in a chair, staying in the room until Peri falls asleep.  The look on Minerva’s face as she turns off the light says it all – you hurt my sister and got her drunk.  I don’t know what else happened yet, but when I do I’ll find you, then rip out your spine and turn it into a necklace.

Camilla is her aunt.  Her personality is a lot like Atlanta’s – a bitchy, bossy older sister who will protect her own when she can.  We don’t know what kind of interaction she had with Peri when she was growing up, but from things she says, about how sweet Peri is, it’s clear that she adored her.  Camilla convinces Xavier to help the sisters escape when they meet them during the Salem Witch Trials, telling him that they are her nieces and she’s not going to let them die.  Ironically, she’s the one who ends up leading the Termination Unit when the Echelon wants them dead, and she shoots Peri – accidentally while fighting with Xavier.  She feels guilty about it, upset about hurting her nieces – especially Peri.  When Camilla turns on them the first time and says she hated them, Peri refuses to believe that.  Peri is able to understand how and why Camilla acts the way she does sometimes, because she sees the similarities between Camilla and Atlanta.

Xavier is a guy they keep meeting as they travel through time looking for their aunt, who works with him as a fellow agent.  He meets them completely out of order which makes his reactions to them, and relationships with them, a lot more complicated.  When they were tied up in Salem, Peri told Atlanta to shut up then asked Xavier nicely to let them go.  He didn’t, but was clearly amused. He saw her as a charming idiot, a naive girl who was sweet but in over her head. 

As they’re relationship grew he came to like and respect her more.  She became smarter and stronger, able to attack like Atlanta while still being diplomatic when necessary.  He became over-protective of her and was like a big-brother to her before either of them knew they were actually related.  The scene that really brings it home is when he is comforting her after she confronted Drake and found out the truth (or what he claimed was the truth).  

You can see the brother-sister bond forming and it just gets stronger after that.  When she attacks him in the parking garage, thinking he’s some weirdo stalking her (well, he kind of is), he ends up with a sprained ankle.  She takes him back to the dorm and bandages him up.  When he ends up accidentally shooting Peri while fighting with Camilla he is devastated.  He will do anything to save his sisters, especially Peri who is the kindest of the sisters and who brings out his softer side more than anyone else.

Mary Silverstone is her mother.  Since she died when Peri was young, Peri doesn’t really remember her much.  Her sisters always tell her how amazing – smart, talented, athletic – she was, so when she actually meets her mother at the Parthenon she doesn’t recognize her.  Her mother, who calls herself Venitia, is a total klutz, a little shy, and kind of ditzy.  In short, she’s a lot like Peri.  

When Atlanta sees Venitia with Camilla she immediately realizes who Venitia really is and tells Peri.  Peri is surprised, but delighted to have a chance to meet her mother and to discover that her mother was a lot more like her then she ever thought.  However, she meets her mother before her mother has children and Mary becomes incredibly awesome because she knows that she can be.  For Peri it was like being told that Spiderman is your father, then meeting Peter Parker before realizing that he and Spiderman are the same guy.

Arthur Crumby is her mother’s best friend and the family lawyer.  He helps take care of the sisters after her mother’s death and is like a father to the girls.  However, the first on screen interaction between Peri and Crumby makes it seem like both of them are annoyed by each other.  This is because Crumby didn’t become her father like she wanted.  He could have married their mother, or asked to have custody of the sisters when they had trouble finding Camilla, but he didn’t. 

 Eventually the sisters learn that Crumby is actually a fake name and the man they knew as Crumby is really Dr. Derek Wilson who is a time-traveler working for the same organization their aunt (and mother) works for.  As with everyone else in the family, Peri brings out the protector in Crumby and she is like a daughter to him, although sometimes she does annoy him a little.

Lugi, the Italian Deli-man is revealed to be Peri’s father.  Her mother was supposed to get it on with Andrew Carnegie but was seduced by Lugi instead.  In the original Season Two, Lugi turns out to be Apollo in disguise.  Peri has the unique claim in the family to be their mother’s only bastard-love-child.

THE DRAKES

Victor Drake is a twisted puppy and he and Peri have a very screwed up relationship.  She met him in a library where he introduced himself as Daniel, courted and romanced her to gain her trust, then got her drunk so she would tell him everything he needed to know about her family.  Then he supposedly had sex with a very drunk sixteen-year-old, drugged her so she wouldn’t remember anything, and dropped her off at home before disconnecting his phone and never talking to her again.  He’s a total bastard.  So they dated, he screwed over her in multiple ways, then turns out to be another time-traveler from a rival group to the one her aunt is with.  

She hates him, her stupidity irritates him, and they generally don’t get along.  When the tables turn and Peri is shot, the family goes to him for help and Peri discovers he lied about most of what happened and is only a jerk because he was really trying hard to be a jerk.  She forgives him, she still annoys him but only because he’s not used to being forgiven for the kinds of things he did to her, and in the end it looks like he’s going to be her brother-in-law. Messed. Up.

Hela is one of Drake’s “associates” and is a bitchy bad ass who can back it up, unlike Atlanta.  She and Peri don’t really have much interaction and once they are on the same side they seem to get along okay, which is good because Hela becomes her sister-in-law.

Tez is…um…well, Tez is Tez.  He’s another of Drake’s “associates” and had a fling with Minerva before the show starts.  He has a dry, sarcastic humor then uses to hide his darker side.  I think he sort of viewed Peri as any average guy views the younger sister of a girl he’s dating.  A slightly condescending pat on the head comes to mind.  Once they’re on the same side they get along just fine, and he becomes her brother-in-law (damn, that’s three for three with her sibs and the Drakes).

Loki is another of Drake’s “associates”, is Hela’s younger brother, and is totally flipping insane.  He was used by the Echelon as guinea pig and basically had his personality inverted.  He used to be a quiet, shy boy who wouldn’t hurt a fly and now’s he a sugar-crazed maniac who likes to kill people.  Her first sort of one-on-one encounter with Loki is when he and Morgana were chasing and shooting at her through the halls of the student center.  Once they’re on the same side they seem to be okay though.  Weird.

Morgana is the last of Drake’s “associates”.  She was the older, adopted sister of Genna, who was one of the Echelon’s experimental children.  Peri and her family kidnapped her sister, thinking that she was working for Drake and was trying to kill Genna.  They knock her out and leave her in an alley where the Echelon arrive, see her, think the same thing that the Silverstones did and take her back to their base.  They interrogate Morgana, then take her back to her own time to kill her with her parents and sister.  Morgana escapes and after that joins Drake.  Once Peri and the others realize what’s really happened they are so sorry, but it’s too late.  Once they’re on the same side, Morgana forgives them, since for her the incident was a long time ago and she understands.  So after that she and Peri get along okay.

OTHERS

General is with the Echelon.  She is the second-in-command of the Termination Unit and leads the charge against the Silverstones, determined to wipe them out.  She sees them only as a failed experiment, not as people.  The experiment itself disgusts her and she is only too happy to make sure it’s completely terminated with no loose ends.

Taget is the lawyer who steps in to take over the Silverstones case when Crumby disappears.  He is not a time-traveler but is technically an agent with the Echelon, he’s just an agent from that time recruited to work for them in that time (if that makes sense).  He goes rogue to help the Silverstones and join Drake.  He and Peri don’t really have much interaction but they seem to get along okay.

Princess Cathrina is the suicidal medieval princess that Peri accidentally almost kills.

History…continued

The show starts when Peri is sixteen. The day they get the statue starts off like any other day for them.  When Peri gets home they open a box that had arrived mysteriously and was addressed to Aunt Camilla.  Since Aunt Camilla was dead and gone, or so they thought, she opened the box and found the Gift Bearer statue inside.  They don’t really know what to do with it, but Peri points out that it could be used as a doorstop or a jewelry holder and asks if she can have it.  The others agree and Peri hurries to her room to change clothes.

When she gets to her room she sets the statue on the desk, then uses it as a holder for her watch, her car keys, and a gold ring. She changes and leaves, then has tea with her sisters where she is ordered back up to her room to study for a history test (she had failed the last one).  Returning to her room, she attempts to study but fails, and then gets distracted by a shimmering gold ball sitting on the statue’s tray.  She is confused because all of her stuff is gone, but she doesn’t really care since the items can be replaced and (as she says) “…besides – this is shiny!”

She goes back to studying, and plays with the ball while talking out loud to the cat about how stupid history is.   While holding the ball she says it would be better to see history then to read about it and suddenly there’s a flash of light, a dizzying tunnel of color and she arrives in a field where a bunch of soldiers are firing guns.  She somehow assumes it’s the crusades (which it’s clearly not), thinks they’re shooting at her (which they’re clearly not) and clutches the ball while wishing to go home.  There is a flash of light and she returns back to her bedroom.  She accuses Minerva of playing a trick on her and her sisters make fun of her, then fight over the ball, it “goes off”, and they end up during the Salem Witch trials. 

Peri is declared a demon for wearing tight clothes and pants, arrested, tied up, and interrogate.  A man named Shaw tries to find out the secret magic of the ball and she gives him a crash course in curling and waffle irons.  Her sisters save her, but they all end up being caught again by a man who interrogates them in a different way.  He demands to know why they came and how they got there, revealing that he himself is a time-traveler. 

The sisters are left tied up and miserable, waiting to be tried and executed by being burned at the stake the next day.  They try to figure out what happened and come to the conclusion that Peri unwittingly made a time travel device by combining a watch, car keys, and a gold ring on the tray of the statue – thereby discovering the statue is actually magic.  Peri is the reason they have the gold ball – none of their adventures would be possible without that, so kudos to Peri for using a priceless antique as a jewelry holder!

During their trip to the past, Atlanta and Minerva meet their Aunt Camilla.  The sisters need to find their a substitute for their Aunt Camilla because Crumby is starting to get suspicious about not having seen her for a few years.  The sisters decide, upon returning home, that since Aunt Camilla is still alive and is a time-traveler that they’ll keep travelling through time until they can find her, kidnap her, and force her to come home and be their guardian until Atlanta turns twenty-one.

They start researching the Gift Bearer statue and send Peri to the library to check out as many books on Egyptian history, art, and mythology as she can find.  Why they send Peri to get books, no one knows.  I guess since it involves talking to actual people they figure she should do it.  While at the library she literally bumps into a guy – Daniel Davidson.  He helps her pick up her books, and they chat.  He’s rich, handsome, charming, and although he’s obviously older than she is, he’s flirting up a storm with her and she flirts back.  From then on she goes to the library as often as possible (which should have been a red flag for Atlanta) to meet up with her “library lover”, as Minerva calls him. 

Daniel romances her and she falls in love with him.  By the time the others are ready to go on their next time-travel adventure, she’s over it and just wants to be with Daniel.  Atlanta reluctantly agrees to let her go on a date with him, to dinner and the opera (ha ha ha, like Peri would actually like the opera) as long as she back home by 10pm.  The sisters go on their mission and Peri goes on her date.

It’s clear that Peri is pretending to be older than she is when Daniel orders champagne, then later wine, with dinner and pours her a glass.  He remarks that he assumes she’s old enough to drink legally and she says she is (bad Peri, bad!).  He proceeds to get her totally and completely drunk, while pumping her for information about her family – including the fact that they’ve been faking their guardian this whole time – and eventually talking about the Gift Bearer statue.  After she’s so drunk she can barely walk, he suggests they skip the opera and head back to his place, where he clearly intends to pump her in a different way (oh my!).  In a brief scene in his bedroom we see her sleeping in his bed, apparently naked, and he wakes her up and forces her to drink something else, then tells her to get dressed so he can take her home.

This is obviously a critical point in Peri’s life, because it’s the first time she’s fallen in love – though she was clearly more in love with the idea of being in love then actually in love – and she honestly believes he loves her too.  From her point of view they had a wonderful evening where she got pretty drunk, and then she wakes up the next morning in bed with a horrible hangover. She barely remembers leaving the restaurant and doesn’t remember anything after that.  All she knows is that suddenly Daniel won’t return her calls and with a day or two his number is disconnected.  Minerva took a sample of her blood when she was drunk and analyzed it, finding out that he not only got her drunk he also drugged her so she wouldn’t remember what happened.  Understandably, Peri feels used and extremely upset. 

Her sisters comfort her while declaring that they will kill that creep if they ever meet him again, then they all decide to take a vacation to Ancient Greece – well, Ancient Roman Greece so Peri can get an “authentic toga tan”.   While there they meet up mother before she had them which causes all kinds of miscommunication and confusion, but allows Peri to finally get to know her mother and Peri and her mom get along great. 

After what happened with Daniel and meeting her mother, Peri starts maturing.  She starts getting bolder, fighting back when she would previously have just cried.  Instead of a throwing a tantrum because she didn’t want to do her homework, she throws a tantrum because Camilla got away again, despite Peri’s hard work to stop her including kidnapping their ex-lawyer and using a dart gun to shoot Camilla with a tranquilizer – so she still throws tantrums, but about different and more important things.

Then the girls get kicked out of their mansion and have their assets frozen by their corporate rival, a man named Victor Drake, and end up hacking the computer system at the nearest college to get themselves enrolled so they can use their college fund, which he hasn’t been able to touch.  It sounds stupid but if you watch the shows…well it’s still silly but it seems to work. Anyway, they keep increase their efforts to find Camilla and bring her back so they can reclaim their property (just watch the show…this is a bad summary). 

When the sisters time-trip gets high jacked while on a mission to the 1820s, they get split up and land in a different time on their own.  Peri ends up in 1325 and has neither the gold ball nor the statue, so she’s really screwed.  She also ends up crash landing into a princess who is threatening to kill herself and accidently pushes the princess onto the knife and kills her, so she’s doubly screwed.  Suddenly realizing she killed someone, she promptly faints. 

She wakes up in a strange room, hears footsteps coming closer to her door, grabs a heavy mirror, ducks into a corner, then smashes the mirror over the head of the guy who enters, knocking him down. The guy turns out to be Xavier – the time-traveler they first met at the Salem Witch Trials and have met multiple times since then.  He takes her to see the others – Crumby, her mom’s lawyer who also turned out to be a time-traveler, and Camilla, and they read her the riot act for messing up their plans.  She demands to know where her sisters are, they have no clue but they offer to help her get home if she helps them by pretending to be Princess Cathrina – the woman she accidentally-almost-killed.  They’re trying to marry the Princess to a powerful prince for some reason that isn’t explained, and she agrees as long as she doesn’t actually have to get married. 

The Prince turns out to be Daniel, her ex-boyfriend, and she finds out that Daniel is really Victor Drake, that he only pretended to like her to get information from her to use against them, and that he took advantage of her while she was drunk.  Oh, and that Atlanta knows all about it but didn’t tell Peri.  Peri is humiliated, heartbroken, and pissed – in that order.  Being forced to confront him and find out what happened is so upsetting that she runs out of the room and goes someplace to hide and cry.  Xavier comforts her, listens to her, and helps her be strong.  Together they decide to humiliate Drake at the wedding and then kick his ass.

As the wedding begins, Atlanta crash lands in the middle of the ceremony, creating chaos.  Atlanta lands on Drake, knocking them both down, then jumps up as soon as she sees Peri and rushes to protect her sister.  Peri proceeds to punch Atlanta and yell at her.  Xavier attacks Drake.  It’s a mess.  In the end the sisters end up back in their dorm where Atlanta discovers everyone is pissed at her, and Peri yells out her, then refuses to see her for a while. 

Being sisters, they eventually they all work it out, and continue travelling.  When travelling produces no results they decide to take a break and concentrate on school.  Peri didn’t even finish high school and didn’t do so well when she was there, but traveling through time and with everything that has happened to her she’s become a better student and actually really enjoys history now.  She starts to discover that she’s not as stupid as she thought she was.  She also proves she’s stronger than she was when she attacks a guy who’s stalking her.  He turns out to be Xavier and she manages to sprain his ankle when she tackles him.

Wow, this is so long.  Okay, I’ll try to summarize faster.  Stuff happens and the sisters find out that they are the result of a scientific experiment – known as Project Genesis - orchestrated by their mother, and that they all have separate fathers who are famous historical figures.  They still don’t know who their fathers are and don’t find out until the end.  They also discover that Xavier is their brother and was the first child born in the experiment, and that the group who created them – the Echelon – now wants to terminate the project by killing them.

With Crumby’s help, the siblings run through time trying to save the other children of the experiment while being hunted by the Termination Unit which is lead by their Aunt Camilla.  While fighting to save a girl named Genna, Peri is shot in the gut by Camilla and Xavier who are fighting over a gun.  The siblings scramble to her side and get her to safety but they can’t take her to a hospital without leading the Echelon right to them.  While the other siblings try to figure out what to do, Peri hangs onto life as best she can. She lies on the bed, in a haze of pain, clinging to life, and still manages to tell Xavier while he’s protecting her, that it’s not his fault that she got hurt.  This set of scenes, this whole moment of Peri being mortally wounded, makes it clear that she is the heart of the group.  She’s the baby of the family, the sweetest and kindest of them, and although she’s gotten a lot stronger and smarter as she’s matured, she is still seen as the one most in need of protection.  She drifts in and out of sleep and is completely unaware of what is going on around her.  At one point she actually dies, and later describes what happened from her perspective.

She wakes up to find herself in her old home that Drake now owns.  Her wounds have been magically healed by Drake, who made a deal with her siblings to join him in exchange for him healing Peri and for his protection from the Echelon.  Although things are tense in the house, they’re a lot better then she would have expected them to be given the fact that they had been enemies for so long.  However, Drake was not against them he was against the Echelon and saw them as an extension of it. 

After her brief journey to the afterlife, she sees and understands so much more than she did before.  She knows that Drake lied to her about what happened the night he got her drunk just to make the sisters hate him because he hated them.  She also realizes how stupid she was before the whole thing started.  She has a speech where she says she’s grateful to the Echelon for killing her, and thanks Drake for bring her back to life saying she won’t waste it this time around.  This is the most important ordeal in her life and she becomes an adult and is wiser than any of her siblings after that (not smarter, but wiser).

Unfortunately, after this moment of enlightenment, she doesn’t have a lot to do in the series.  She just hangs out helping wherever she’s needed.  Even in the original second season (that was written but never filmed) she didn’t have a lot to do.  Although she did end up becoming a priestess of Baste, discovering that her father was really Apollo, and starts channeling the triple-spirit of the Gift Bearer statue so…I guess that’s something.  But that doesn’t happen in the TV show, it’s just the alternate version of events that we were planning to film before Yibble imploded.

Here is a scene from the original Season Two where Peri is forced to confront the one person she despises most in the Cave of Unresolved Issues, and can’t leave until she’s faces that person and deals with those issues:

            Setting:  Peri's Bedroom in the Silverstone Mansion

            Peri walks in and sees a woman sitting on her bed, reading a teen magazine.  The girl's clothes are ultra trendy and reminiscent of the old Peri.  The girl lowers the magazine and Peri gasps.  Peri stares at her and smiles, tossing the magazine aside and gesturing towards the bed.

OLD PERI:  Come on, sit down!  We can paint each other's toenails!

            (Peri just stares at herself, then looks at her with disgust)

NEW PERI:  The Forces of Darkness are waiting to destroy us all and all you can think about is painting your toenails?

OLD PERI:  Duh!  Like I'm supposed to care about that?!?  It's not like it affects me.

 NEW PERI:  You could die!

OLD PERI:  So?  Ooh!  You wanna come shopping with me?!?  I need to buy a tank top cause there's this really cute guy at school -- you remember Tim right? -- anyway, he stopped by my locker the other day and--

NEW PERI:  Hello?!?  I'm talking about the Apocalypse here!

OLD PERI:  The what? 

NEW PERI:  The end of the World?!?

            (Old Peri stares at her blankly)

NEW PERI:  You know?  Judgment Day?  Bang bang, everyone's dead?

OLD PERI:  Judgment Day?  Isn't that like some new band?  I think I bought one of their CD's.

NEW PERI:  (stares at her in disbelief, pause pause)  Drake's right!  You are really dumb!  Like dumb dumb!  SUPER dumb!

            (Old Peri looks at her with an evil smirk)

OLD PERI:  Take a good look in the mirror, girlfriend, cause I'm not the only one. 

            (New Peri stares at her and a look of realization slowly dawns on her face.  She smiles)

NEW PERI:  No, because I'm not like that anymore.  I care about something other then myself!  Unlike you!

OLD PERI:  You are me!

NEW PERI:  No, I've changed.  I'm not you anymore.  And you know what?  I'm glad!  I don't think I ever really liked you anyway!  You're nothing but a spoiled, stupid bitch!

OLD PERI:  Oh and I suppose you're better then me?

NEW PERI:  yeah, I am.  Like I said -- I'm not you anymore.

            (the door behind her suddenly swings open and New Peri turns to look at it.  When she looks back at the bed Old Peri has disappeared.  Peri smiles and walks out)

And just for fun here's some fan art stuff: