Character Information
Name: Brittany S. Pierce
Source Canon: Glee
Age: 17
Role In Canon: She was a background character for the majority of the first season, but while she is still not a focal character, she has been given more and more screen time as the second season progresses.
History:
Main series wiki,
character page Personality: Brittany is pretty much the definition of a CloudCuckooLander. Most of the time she's off in her own little world, where ducks live in hats, dolphins are just gay sharks, and the square root of four is rainbows. It's okay, they know her there. However, despite her dreaminess, Brittany isn't the ephemeral loner sort. On the contrary, she's very social, especially given her cheerleader status, which makes her part of the reigning caste at her high school. She claims to have made out with the majority of the boys at school, as well as a decent number of girls. She's very friendly and flirty, and quite comfortable with her sexuality.
Despite being your stereotypical cheerleader in most other respects (dumb, blonde, promiscuous), Brittany is possibly the sweetest character on the show. True, she may take part in some typical cheerleader nastiness from time to time (defacing yearbook photos, making fun of Rachel), but she does it mostly because it's fun, or to please her bff and probable love interest Santana than out of any sense of maliciousness. Even though she only joined the Glee club initially as part of a plot by the cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester to destroy Glee club from the inside, she has no real desire to see the club destroyed, as she actually has a lot of fun singing and dancing with the other club members. But when people are down, you can count on her to be there for them in her own special way. When Kurt's father is hospitalized after a severe heart attack, Brittany offers him a book report she did about heart attacks, "to give to the doctor."
More of her personality is revealed as the series explores her relationship with Artie. She initially asks Artie out to make her not-girlfriend Santana jealous, after Santana told her she was not in love with her, and would rather compete in the club's duet competition with Mercedes. However, Artie breaks up with her after realizing that she was essentially using him. Brittany tells him that she genuinely wanted to be with him, and seems quite upset about accidentally hurting him. When the two later get back together, it actually becomes (arguably) one of the sweetest relationships on the show. She becomes terribly upset when she thinks she's lost Artie's lucky comb (essentially a Magic Feather to give her confidence as lead dancer), even more so than about the fact that he thought she was cheating on him.
Abilities: She's an excellent dancer, but she doesn't have any supernatural abilities, unless living on another planet counts.
Sample:[Voice post to the Vine]
This is a lot nicer than last time I got abducted by aliens.
Does anyone know if the cats here respect peoples' privacy? Because my cat doesn't, and I had to put a lock on my diary so he'd stop reading it. These cats are nice though, they showed me how to get here. But some things are private, and I want them to understand that.
... Am I in Heaven?
[Additionally, a vaguely old
dear_mun post, which I hope will do.]