Peyton Sawyer
Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer is a fictional character on the popular 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 punk music, Peyton has a heavily guarded heart due to the countless number of lost loved ones in her life.
Biography
Character history
Peyton Elizabeth Sawyer was born to Elizabeth Harp and her boyfriend (name unknown as of spring 2006) in 1988. Soon after her birth Peyton was adopted by young couple Larry and Anna Sawyer. 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. She forged a friendship with Brooke Davis during the third grade and continued over the years. At the first season, she was the girlfriend of Nathan Scott, but they soon broke up since their relationship was more "benefit" than "friends". She then had an interest for Lucas Scott, Nathan's half brother. After a lot of thinking, she finally decided that she really wants to be with Lucas, but it was too late, as Lucas was sleeping with Brooke. Eventually, Peyton and Lucas hook up and declare their love for each other, but they forgot about Brooke. When Brooke found out about them, she was heartbroken and furious. She ended both of her relationships with she had broken things off with Lucas. Peyton befriended Jake Jagielski (played by Bryan Greenberg) and eventually developed a crush for him in season two. the relationship was based upon his baby girl and the fact that she didn't have a mother. Had Peyton found the family she always wanted?
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 found out that her mother, Ellie, had breast cancer. Peyton and Ellie worked to make a CD where it's profits goes to the breat cancer foundation. On the same day when the CD was released, Ellie passed away which left Peyton devastated. At 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 decided to give Jake a visit in Savannah. Peyton renews her relationship with Jake and Jenny and decides to stay with them and get married to Jake. But that idea soon ends when Peyton is forced to confront her bottled 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 with Peyton when Peyton told her that she 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.
In the fourth season premiere, viewers find out Peyton has a half-brother, Derek and Peyton is trying to forge a relatinship with him by openly webcasting to him. too bad the guy who comes isn't her brother and instead is a twisted rapist with a stungun, stay tuned....
Quotes
"I want all of the same things that you want, I do, and I want them with you"
"If I say I love you, right now, will you hold it against me?"
"Go Brooke yourself!"
"I know what it's like getting close to someone and then it's just not working out ..."
"I love you but i've chosen darkness"