[SYDNEY PARK, CISFEMALE, SHE/HER/HERS] whoâs that? oh itâs [JENNIFER âJENNYâ HAYES]. i hear theyâre [EIGHTEEN] and are known as [THE DADDYâS GIRL] around [THE COUNTRY CLUB]. theyâre also a [FRESHMAN] at [PURDUE HCC]. theyâre known to be [CHARMING & OUTSPOKEN] and [MEAN & STUBBORN]. some people say they remind them of [FOOTBALL GAMES UNDER THE LIGHTS, SUMMERS BY THE POOL, GOSSIPING IN THE GIRLSâ BATHROOM, GETTING MANI/PEDIS, & PARTIES AT THE LAKE HOUSE].Â
basics.
full name: jennifer anne hayes. nicknames: jenny, mostly. sometimes jen (though the people who call her that? generally not friends. she doesnât go by jen as a rule.) gender/pronouns: cisfemale/she/her/hers. sexual orientation: sheâs, like, super gay, dude. sheâs also so deep in the closet that sheâs found narnia. birthday: august 22nd. star sign: leo. charismatic, confident, determined...and a bit vain, pretentious, and arrogant. occupation: incoming freshman at purdue, on a cheer scholarship and studying hospitality or something equally boring that she doesnât really care about. she doesnât have to work because her dadâs a doctor. lucky her.
personality.
positive traits: outgoing, clever, charming, confident, ambitious. negative traits: confrontational, self-absorbed, vain, mean, cocky. hogwarts house: i know jkr sucks and also this isnâ a thing in the 80s but sheâs a really MEAN gryffindor. the asshole kind. think james potter at his absolute WORST. thatâs jenny. alignment: chaotic evil. ennegram: 3w2. personality type: esfp.
backstory.
born to the hayes family on a rainy august night, jenny arrived on the scene just like she did everything in life: early and on her terms. she was breech, supposed to be a scheduled c-section, and born in the month of september but...some things donât go as planned. (after an emergency c-section with her youngest, mrs. hayes vowed that she was done having kids).
her father is a surgeon at hawkins general hospital, which means heâs a busy guy and not around much. her mother took care of raising her and her three older siblings. and for the most part, it was fine. her parents arenât in love at all and should probably be divorced by now, but dr. hayesâ income supports her mom -and jennyâs- lavish lifestyle, so theyâre together âfor the kidsâ...but mostly for the cash.
the hayes family lives in the rich part of hawkins, in a housing development full of snobby people with too many cars in the driveway and lots of kids. they have a lake house on loverâs lake, a vacation home in the carolinas, and their own pool in their hawkins home, which made jennyâs house a popular place to bring the kids when they were little...and a popular party spot when they got a bit older.
jennyâs is the youngest of four and she owns it. being the baby of the family, she got pretty much whatever she wanted growing up. her dad works long hours as the hospital and her mom just didnât seem to care outside of making sure her daughter looked good, so she was able to buy friends and popularity fairly easily throughout middle and high school.
growing up with a mostly absentee father and a mom who was exhausted and relied a little too heavily on her wine meant that jenny was free to do pretty much whatever she wanted. as a kid, she played almost every sport imaginable, but ultimately settled on a love of cheerleading because her siblings played sports and she liked cheering for them and tumbling...and, as she got older, because it opened the door to popularity. because jenny doesnât get a ton of validation at home, she seeks it out elsewhere: from teachers, friends, and boys, mostly even though she doesnât even like them very much.
sheâs known she likes girls since she was ten. when her friends were losing their minds over tom cruise, she was obsessing over the likes of molly ringwald. when her friends were drooling over han solo, she was falling for princess leia. itâs not something sheâs exactly dealt with. sheâs hooked up with a few of her friends, teammates, and high school classmates since then. itâs not because sheâs worried about what her parents think. they probably wouldnât care either way...but it would  probably fuck up her reputation. itâs hawkins, indiana in the 1980s. freaks are ostracized. she knows because she was doing the ostracizing. and popularity is important to her so...she figures sheâll just wait until she leaves for college to figure that shit out. itâs not important anyway.
the first girl jenny ever kissed was taken by the mindflayer in 1985. when she started acting weird and standoffish, jenny took it as a...sign. that maybe she shouldnât be doing that. (and that maybe she was worse at reading people than she thought.)
this still weighs on jenny a bit. the girl wasnât just a random classmate. it was one of jennyâs best friends, cheer teammates, somebody who jenny trusted until she didnât. it was puppy love, they were just kids but...you never forget your first, you know? and that girlâs just...gone. sheâs kind of paranoid of getting too close to anybody ever again.
since she was a little girl, sheâs always dreamed of the white picket fence, 2.5 kids, and a doting husband so she can keep doing the stuff she likes to do. the only problem is...sheâs not sure she wants a husband if theyâre not just like her dad: never present and leaving her alone. but itâs still a dream -one her mother is obsessed with- so...thatâs the plan, after college.
but while sheâs in college? sheâs ready to mess around and figure some stuff out. marriages were never supposed to be about love anyway, right?
unbeknownst to jenny, her dadâs about to lose his license for giving out pain pill prescriptions without cause. heâs going to lose his job, probably flee town, and leave her mom to pick up the pieces...and with no access to the bank account dr. hayes is the sole proprietor of.
because of this, her partial cheer scholarship? not going to cut it. sheâs gonna be stuck at HCC for the foreseeable future, much to her chagrin.
Plots n stuff
bring me ALLL the flings. i want guys sheâs hooked up with to try and convince herself sheâs not gay. i want all the girls she hooked up with while drunk at parties or just because she wanted to. bring me a girl sheâs actually very much in love with but has convinced herself she canât be. i want it all.
her friends are probably mostly the popular crew of the partyâs time at hawkins high. sheâs a cheerleader. she runs with the jocks. she probably knows some of the kids whoâd have been juniors or seniors when they were freshman, too. (but she also really, really respects erica sinclairâs bite, so theyâre fairly close, too.)
a beard would be fun. maybe a mutual beard, depending on the guy? idk. talk to me!
she and the party, uh, arenât really on the same page. she was probably outright rude to most of them in middle school and pretended they didnât exist during high school (except for you, max mayfield. you, she remembers.)
she also had a feeling about will byers. gaydar is a thing! i think part of her reaction to his death was because...she could see herself in his place if she let herself exist like she wants to once she leaves hawkins. oops.Â
she does have older siblings! iâm not sure if sheâs particularly close to them or if theyâre relevant in her life but if you wanted to pick one up we can chat and flesh it out for sureee.
sheâs completely oblivious to any and all supernatural happenings in hawkins and will probably remain that way. like you could tell her her not-girlfriend was taken by the mindflayer and sheâd roll her eyes at you and ask if you were high. she simply does not really care about All of That stuff. (here for a good time, not a long time.)
