Peyton Sawyer
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| Peyton Sawyer | |
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 Hilarie Burton as Peyton Sawyer |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
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| Nickname(s) | P.Sawyer |
| Age | 18 |
| Year of birth | 1988 |
| Occupation | Student / Artist |
| Family | Larry Sawyer (Adoptive father) Ellie Harp (Birth mother; deceased) Anna Rebecca Sawyer (Adoptive Mother; deceased) Derek Sommers(brother) |
| Relationships | Lucas Scott (boyfriend) Jake Jagielski (Ex-boyfriend) Pete Wentz (Ex-boyfriend) Nathan Scott (Ex-Boyfriend) |
| Episode count | 80 |
| Portrayed by | Hilarie Burton |
| Created by | Mark Schwahn |
Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer is a fictional character on the television teen drama One Tree Hill (2003-present), played by MTV VJ Hilarie Burton. A cheerleader, as well as an artist with an affinity for music, Peyton has a heavily guarded heart due to the number of lost loved ones in her life.
| “ | At this moment there are six billion, six hundred seventy million, eight hundred eighteen thousand, six hundred seventy one people in the world. Some are running, some are coming home, some tell lies to make it through the day, others are just now facing the thruth, some are evil at war with good, and some are good strunggling with evil. Six billion people in the world, six billion souls, and sometimes, all you need is one. | ” |
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— Peyton Sawyer
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[edit] Biography
Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer was born to Elizabeth Harp and her boyfriend (name unknown as of spring 2006) on July 12, 1988. Soon after her birth Peyton was adopted by young couple Larry Sawyer and Anna Sawyer who sadly was killed in a car accident when Peyton was 8 years old. Peyton found out that she was adopted when her biological mother showed up at the end of the second season. Peyton is a very talented artist who expresses her (mostly negative) emotions through her work. She lives with a heavily guarded heart, as she has lost so many important people in her life. She forged a friendship with Brooke Davis during the third grade and that friendship has continued over the years.
[edit] Season One
During the first season, she was the girlfriend of Nathan Scott, but they soon broke up since their relationship was more about the "benefits" than love and she also realized that she didn't want to be the star player's girlfriend anymore. She then had an interest for Lucas Scott, Nathan's half brother because of their brooding characters which produced a spark between them. But she got scared when Lucas said that he wanted to be with her, and she turned him down. Then at a frat party she met up with a rocker guy who drugged her, and when Lucas came to save her she realized that she did want to be with him but it was too late, as Lucas and Brooke Davis, Peyton's best friend, were now an item.
Eventually, behind Brooke's back Peyton and Lucas share a stolen kiss after they went to check on Peyton's dad who was thought lost at sea, and they declared their love for each other.
On the night that they decide to tell Brooke, Lucas had a car crash, which brought painful memories of Peyton's mom, who had died in a car crash. When Lucas was recovering, Brooke caught the two of them through Peyton's webcam, as Lucas was on Peyton's website before he went to her house. Peyton finally decides to end things with Lucas as she can't lie to her friend any longer, but it doesn't matter as Brooke ends her friendship with Peyton.
Not being able to speak to Lucas she turns to Jake and helps him out by babysitting his daughter Jenny, through whom they grow close. She helps him leave Tree Hill to escape Nikki, Jenny's mother. At the end of the season we see a rift form between Peyton and Lucas, as she finds out that he slept with Nikki only a few weeks after they broke up. And we see Brooke and her trying to patch things up.
[edit] Season Two
In season two Peyton at first goes through a difficult time. Although at first she has initial success with getting an all ages club Tric opened, and with encouraging Haley James to perform at the club, which eventually fuels Haley's desire to be a singer, Peyton begins to get involved with Cocaine. She feels alone, as her father is away again, and she does not know where Jake is. She feels down that everyone is dealing with their issues and not helping her or realizing that she is upset or going through a very difficult time in her life. She is accused of being a lesbian by Felix Taggaro and faces public humiliation when he writes Dyke on her locker, just so his sister Anna Taggaro won't get upset by talk of her being a lesbian, (we find out that she is Bisexual).
But hope comes for Peyton when just as she is about to fall off her mantle and buy some cocaine, Jake comes back into her life. It turns out that an argument between Lucas and Peyton, made Lucas realize that he hadn't been there for Peyton, and so he called Jake, knowing that Jake would have a positive effect on her. This does and sparks a huge turn around for Peyton, and she and Jake fall in love. But this happiness was short lived as Nikki came back wanting custody of Jenny, she eventually took Jenny away from Jake and ran off, causing Jake to run after her, leaving Peyton heartbroken.
Then someone called Ellie Harp gets in contact with her saying that she is from "The Rolling Stone" magazine and wants to do an interview. But when she starts receiving some strange e-mails from someone named WATCHMEWATCHU she begins to suspect Ellie. But Ellie who denies the e-mails informs her shockingly that she is Peyton's mother. With Brooke leaving Tree hill for the summer, it was just Peyton and Lucas for the summer.
[edit] Season Three
At the beginning of the third season, we found out that Peyton is adopted and her biological mother is alive. Peyton rejected her at the beginning but she soon connects with her, and she soon finds out that her mother, Ellie, has breast cancer. Peyton and Ellie worked to make a CD where its profits goes to the breast cancer foundation. On the same day when the CD is released, Ellie died which left Peyton devastated.
During the middle of the third season, Peyton decided to give her love life another try and she hooked up with Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy. Their relationship didn't work out since Pete was always busy and Peyton's father told her to follow her heart and listen to it, so Peyton decided to give Jake a visit in Savannah. Peyton renews her relationship with Jake and Jenny and decides to stay with them. But that idea soon ends when Peyton is forced to confront her bottled up feelings for Lucas and Jake tells her to go back to Tree Hill to see if he feels the same.
In the season 3 finale, Brooke ends her friendship once again with Peyton after Peyton tells her that she still has feelings for Lucas. At the end of the episode, Peyton burns the drawing of herself, Brooke, and Lucas, and it shows two things in the coming: either Peyton decides to leave Brooke and Lucas alone forever and never resurface the 'triangle', or she decides to fight for Lucas and be with him, with or without Brooke's blessing.
[edit] Season Four
Peyton discovers that she has a half brother named Derek and, with prompting from Lucas, agrees to meet him. But the guy she meets isn't her half-brother, but an internet stalker who is the owner of the "WATCHMEWATCHU" emails and has been taking pictures of her, listening to her podcast, watching her on her web cam, and even going so far as to get a tattoo of one of her drawings on his back and making a prostitute dress like Peyton before they had sex.
Peyton is at first unaware of all this and, in an attempt to be more trusting, accepts him. However, Lucas soon grows suspicious of this 'Derek' when he catches him sniffing Peyton's hair during a hug and finds Peyton's jacket, which had gone missing, on a beaten girl in the hospital who was wearing a wig that made her look like Peyton. Peyton soon realizes the truth and, in a terrifying encounter, is molested and manhandled by "Psycho Derek". Lucas and the real Derek come to her rescue and push Psycho Derek out a window, but by the time the police show up, he's disappeared.
The event causes Peyton to withdraw into herself, becoming scared and even skipping school and getting four locks on her bedroom door. Derek, who is in the army and unwilling to open his heart to people after trying that at first only to watch them die, avoids Peyton until Lucas comes and talks some sense into him. He and Peyton develop a healthy sibling relationship and he helps her come to terms with her fear, not only of Derek but of confessing her feelings to Lucas. Peyton is unwilling to ruin the friendship that she and Lucas have, especially until she is sure that he and Brooke are over.
At Derek's encouragement, she takes a risk and asks Lucas to a banquet to honor Whitey, but he has already agreed to go with Brooke. Peyton is disappointed, but takes Derek instead. Derek later leaves to be deployed to Iraq and Lucas comes over to Peyton's later that night and tells her that it is finally over between him and Brooke. Peyton immediately confesses that she's in love with him, to which Lucas says, "Oh." It's not until after winning the state finals that Lucas realizes that it's Peyton he wants and the two start dating, officially this time. Lucas has a heart attack that same night and almost dies, causing Peyton to fear that she will lose him like everyone else and get distant. However, she and Lucas soon resolve this and decide to just be happy.
Deeply in love, they decide to go all the way during a party in the room where Peyton first rejected Lucas in season one, but they are interrupted when Peyton hears everyone cat-calling at what she thinks is a sex tape of her and Nathan. When Lucas and Peyton rush out to put an end to the tape, they, and everyone else, discover that it is not Nathan and Peyton in the tape, or even Nathan and Haley. It is, in fact, Nathan and Brooke.
Peyton doesn't want to go to prom, but gets convinced to do so by Nathan. As she walks to her door to answer it thinking it's Lucas, the man behind the door turns around and it's actually Derek the psycho stalker (WATCHMEWATCHU). He says hi then punches her in the face.
[edit] Quotes
- "Go Brooke yourself!" -Peyton to Brooke
- "I want all of the same things that you want, I do, and I want them with you." -Peyton to Lucas
- "I guess I'm just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a bitch."
- "First of all, you don't know me. Second of all, you don't know me."
- "Uh-oh. Here comes the Brookie-monster."
- "If I say I love you, right now, will you hold it against me?" -Peyton to Lucas
- "I love you Luke, but I've chosen darkness."
- "All the eyeliner in the world won't make you anything other than a psycho stalker bitch." -Peyton to Nikki
- "And now we can have it."
- “At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men at war with good, and some are good struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes all you need is one.”
- "Thanks for the sex." -Peyton, sarcastically, to Lucas as she leaves his room when Brooke comes to pay a visit.
- "I want to draw something that means something to someone. Like when you go see a really great band live for the first time and no one is saying it but everyone's thinking it... I want to draw that feeling, but I can't." -Peyton to Lucas
- "See you're so feelin' the love right now."-Peyton to Lucas
- "Well I'll share anything for a cookie."-Lucas to Peyton
- "If love is tragic, then give me tragedy. Because I wouldn't give it back for the world.", Peyton whimpers as she say her final words to Jake just before the end of Season 2.
[edit] Trivia
- She is with Nathan the only character outside Lucas to narrate an episode (Like You Like An Arsonist (3x01)), she also narrated the special recap episode which sums up the first 3 seasons.
- In deleted scenes Peyton met a girl named Stella (played by Andrea Bowen) and it was subsequently revealed that Peyton was Stella and had run away from home. This was scrapped but Peyton was later revealed to have been adopted anyway.
[edit] External links
| One Tree Hill | ||
| Episode list | Official site | ||
| General | Mark Schwahn | I Don't Want to Be (Theme) | episode titles | |
| Current Main Characters | Lucas Scott | Nathan Scott | Peyton Sawyer | Haley James Scott Dan Scott | Brooke Davis | Deborah Lee | Mouth McFadden Skills Taylor | Rachel Gatina | Whitey Durham | Karen Roe |
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| Former Main Characters |
Keith Scott (S1-S3) |
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| Recurring Characters |
Bevin Mirskey | Tim Smith | Jake Jagielski | Nicki | Cooper Lee |
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| Places | Wilmington, North Carolina | |
