Peri Lomax

Peri Jade Lomax is the biological daughter of Leela Lomax and Cameron Campbell. As Leela was thirteen years old when Peri was born, Leela's parents Sam and Danny decided with Leela's consent adopted her, raising her to believe that they were her biological parents. Meanwhile, Cameron had little involvement in Peri's life as Sam had him arrested and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit sometime in the latter part of 1999 or early 2000.
Peri arrived in Hollyoaks along with the rest of the Lomax family in October 2013. Peri's storylines have included being diagnosed with a brain tumour after falling down the stairs in the village because of the tumour, discovering Danny Lomax, who she believed was her dad, was having an affair with John Paul McQueen, discovering Ste Hay was her brother and then was in fact her uncle when it was revealed her "sister", Leela Lomax, was actually her biological birth mother, Sienna Blake mistaking Peri as her biological daughter after finding out her father (Now Uncle as of August 2024) took her child away and had lied about her death, finding Sienna's actual daughter and becoming her best friend. 
After the death of her biological grandparents Peri finds out they weren't her parents, becoming pregnant at the age of 14 and struggling with raising her daughter, bullying teenage cancer patient Jade Albright because of manipulation from Nico Blake, finding out her biological father, Cameron Campbell, was a serial Killer and killed her grandparents, Ziggy Roscoe, Lockie Campbell, A girl that was identified as Nico and Celine McQueen before he was caught in 2017, bullying Lily McQueen with her friend Yasmine Maalik and trying to expose Lily's self-harming, Peri becoming homeless after a full blown row with her mother and becoming friends with Harley Frater which developed into a relationship, Getting Ste out of Stuart Sumner's far right organisation with her Mum's help, having an on-off relationship with drug dealer Jordan Price who was two-timing Peri with her Mum, falling in love with Juliet Nightingale and discovering her involvement in the drug gang, accidentally running over Sid's leg whlie he was high on drugs, coping with the loss of Sid following his fake death in March 2021, being caught up in the Salon de Thé de Marnie Explosion and almost losing Juliet and becoming engaged to Juliet, dealing with Juliet's cancer Diagnosis and caring from her until she passed away in June 2023, Exposing Rayne Royce's violent and controlling behaviour against Romeo Nightingale and being one of the suspects in the Who Killed Rayne Royce Whodunnit, Getting Romeo out of Prison after he was sent to Hospital when he was stabbed by Kane after Peri gave James Nightingale a ultimatum, Helping Leela grief after she suffered a stillbirth, Having to let her daughter Steph go to Spain with Tom, Cindy & Hilton after Tom and Cindy found out that Dave Williams is the gangster called Blue, Getting into a relationship with Abe Fielding who unbeknownst to Peri has Cleo McQueen locked in a Room at his house, getting a new sister called Clara who is named after Clara Oswald from Doctor Who as it was a Lomax tradition to name their children after Doctor Who Companions except Steph, Daniel & Noah. 
==Biography==
===2000-2013: Backstory===
Peri was born to 13 year old Leela, after a rebellious relationship with Cameron. Leela's parents decided to raise Peri as their own and pretended that she was theirs. Leela grows closer to Peri and wanted to tell her the truth many times but her parents always forbidden it from happening. Her grandfather had many affairs which is why they moved to Hollyoaks for a fresh start. 
===2013-2014: Arrival, finding out about Danny's infidelity with John Paul McQueen and Parentage Reveal===
Peri is first seen in October 2013 when she arrives along with her mother, Sam to surprise her father and Sam's husband, Danny Lomax, Peri and her family are then joined by Peri's elder sisters in Leela and Tegan Lomax whom gives birth to her baby girl in Rose Lomax and during her arrival Peri is shocked when she discovers that she has a half brother in Ste Hay. She would later make friends with Tom Cunningham. In March 2014 Peri sees her father kissing one of her teachers John Paul McQueen she confronts Danny and he takes Peri who is devastated and disgusted at Danny home. On her way home she faints and falls down the stairs, Peri is then taken to hospital where Lindsey Butterfield tells Peri that she has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. Peri faints again after she escapes from the Hospital with Tom and he kisses her, Peri is then operated on to remove the tumour and the operation is a success but the truth about Danny's infidelity was exposed when Peri told Sam the truth while she was being put under anesthetic but however Sam gives Danny a final chance.
In May 2014, Peri begins to bond with Sienna Blake whom is currently living with the Lomax's as a friend of Leela's but Peri is unaware that Sienna is believing that she is her estranged daughter "Sophie Blake" as Peri has an adoption form and the very same birth date 28th February 2000 as Sienna's child has. Peri begins to be spoilt by Sienna but when Leela confronts Sienna she tells Leela she believes Peri is her daughter and this confrontation leads to a shock reveal that Peri is in fact Leela's daughter and not Sam and Danny's but they were Peri's Grandparents.
Not long after this reveal in June 2014, Peri's biological father, Cameron Campbell is released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence he was wrongly convicted for by Peri's grandmother. By August 2014, Sam and Danny decide to leave the village as they begin to worry that Peri will find out that Leela and Cameron are her real parents but as they drive out of Hollyoaks together their Car is hit by a van killing them instantly and the person that drove the Van is later revealed to be Cameron as he did it in a attempt to stop them taking Peri away. The death of her "parents" devastates Peri however she would eventually find out they were really her Grandparents and after Sam's and Danny's funeral Peri would being to ease and get used to Leela being her Mum despite a few issues and begins to bond with both her real parents but unbeknownst to her her dad Cameron was responsible for killing her Grandparents which she eventually finds out in 2015. 
===2014-2016: Relationship with Tom Cunningham and Teenage Pregnancy===
In December 2014 Peri sleeps with her then-boyfriend Tom Cunningham resulting in Peri becoming pregnant with a girl she names Steph, after Steph Roach. In February 2015 Peri had believed her tumour came back but it was revealed she was in fact pregnant. Her mother found the baby scan and confronted Peri about it and Nico covered for her saying it was hers. In March 2015 Tom found out and proposed to Peri during a school play in front of everyone. Peri originally wants to give up the baby but when Tom reveals that he loves Steph she decides to keep Steph to keep Tom happy. Peri struggled to cope with being a teenage mother so Peri leaves Steph on Angela's doorstep (the woman who was originally going to adopt Steph). Tom is upset and very disappointed with Peri and shouts at her until Nancy intervened and was thinking Peri was suffering from postpartum depression. But in truth she wasn't able to be as good as a mum and she lied about having postpartum depression because she was in fear of losing Tom and eventually admits to him the truth and after that Tom and Peri break up and he takes full custody of Steph. However Peri changed her mind in January 2016 she started to see Steph and was starting to be more confident around her. Tom gave her a guarantee that Peri would try to see Steph as much as she could and remain committed to their daughter despite Tom having full custody and they become friends again despite her dad's disapproval. In March 2016 after seeing Tom try to kiss Peri Cameron accuses them of getting close and if they were gone long enough they would have sex again and the next day threatens Tom to keep away from Peri. Peri finds out about what Cameron did and furiously has a argument with him and tells her Dad to back off or running the risk of losing her for good and blames him for scaring Tom off from seeing her but eventually her dad decided to step back and not get involved in their friendship. 
===2016: Clashing with Jade Albright ===
When Peri and her friend, Nico Blake begin to clash with cancer patient, Jade Albright, their bullying escalates to the point when Nico takes things too far by pulling off Jade's wig in front of the Students and Peri is left horrified and decided to admit to bullying Jade and report Nico to the school's headmaster, Sally St. Claire and this leads Nico to be expelled from school for bullying Jade. Later Peri tells Jade she reported Nico to Sally St. Claire and Jade decides to forgive Peri and is glad she told the truth and Alfie Nightingale after reluctantly listening to Jade accepts Peri's apology and Peri says to them she will be in all probability be punished when she gets Home.
===2016: Finding out about Nico's crimes and exposing her===
After Nico's Bullying was exposed she found out Peri was the one that told Sally St. Claire about the bullying and persuaded her to go on a camping trip with Nico totally unaware that Nico plans to take her revenge on Peri. Peri is shocked when Nico locks her and Peri in an abandoned bunker in an effort to scare her but the girls would become trapped for a few days and Peri is left scared when Nico confesses to all three of her murders Carly Bradley, Patrick Blake and Trevor Royle however the girls are found and saved by Warren Fox. 
Peri is pleased when Nico is found out by October 2016 but is saddened by her supposed death but Peri is unaware that her own father, Cameron was the one that caused the maze fire that supposedly led to Nico's death in revenge for Nico keeping Peri trapped for days in the bunker.
===2017: Finding out about her Dad Cameron being a Serial Killer and dealing with the aftermath of Cameron's Murders===
By January 2017 Peri becomes an older sister to Daniel Lomax however he was not Cameron's son. Peri along with her mother agree to go away with Cameron to a remote log cabin unaware that his murders are beginning to be exposed, Celine McQueen's body is found by both Tegan and Courtney and this leads Cameron to lock them in a shed and hold both Peri and Leela hostage as he lays off his murders to them and plans to commit suicide by pouring gasoline all over the cabin but however Ste arrives and it gives both Peri and her mother the opportunity to escape from the Cabin and a chase ensures as Ryan Knight who is a detective and had arrived with Ste however the chase would come to an end when Cameron is accidentally hit by a van driven by Mac Nightingale but however Cameron survives and Peri visits her father while he is in prison and telling him what she's going to do with her life and saying she's glad he won't be around and that she wants nothing more to do with him before leaving and Cameron is later sentenced to 114 years for his crimes. 
===2017: Becoming a friend to Yasmine Maalik and being a part of a Self-Harm pact with Lily Drinkwell and Yasmine Maalik===
===2018: Fake Pregnancy, Peri's Malevolent Behaviour, Being Homeless, Relationship with Harley and being stalked by Nico===
Peri gets into Prince and Lily's relationship when she sleeps with Prince. Peri thinks she's pregnant and panics but after telling everyone she discovers it was a false positive and after how supportive Prince becomes Peri decides to fake her pregnancy. Peri and Prince start a new relationship but this situation causes a lot of conflicts between Peri and her mother Leela, coming to say that she has lost the baby because of Leela, but the truth is revealed by Goldie McQueen, and Leela is left furious at Peri and has a massive row with her about her recent behaviour after Leela compared Peri to her dad and after hearing that Peri wished that Leela was in the car that killed her Grandparents instead of them left Leela disgusted at Peri for saying such a thing and Peri leaves 2 Oakdale Drive following their explosive row. 
Peri survives in the streets thanks to two young homeless people Dean and Harley. As the days go by, Leela feels more and more repentant, but Peri still thinks that her mother hates her. After the death of Dean, Peri then decides to return home to the delight of with Harley in tow and Peri wants Harley to stay with her at 2 Oakdale Drive to stop her being homeless, but suddenly, Harley kisses her.
Peri kisses Harley but later tells her it was a mistake. She has never had feelings for a girl and is very confused. She throws her a birthday party, which Nico goes to without Peri knowing, after stalking her on social media for weeks, because she is jealous of Peri & Harley's relationship. At the party, Harley kisses Hunter in a game of spin the bottle, and Peri gets jealous. Because of this, Harley threatens to leave, but Peri convinces her to stay & they sleep together.
The two girls get a job working for Damon and Brody at the pop up cinema. Before locking up one evening, Nico walks in, knocks Harley out and ties her and Peri up. She asks Peri to leave with her so they can be together and raise her baby, but Peri refuses, so Nico leaves, leaving them tied up and locked in the garage. Leela finds them and Harley is rushed to hospital but recovers. Peri tells her how much she loves her and how glad she is to have her. After a small argument, Harley leaves Peri to stay with Ron, who gave her spice while she was homeless herself. Peri tells her uncle Ste that she loves Harley and that's why she's so desperate to find her. Ste comforts her and tells her they can keep the soup kitchen open once a week in the hope to find her but Harley eventually did come back to the Village in August 2018 and was enrolled at Hollyoaks High School the following month.
===2018-2019: Polyamorous Relationship with Harley and Tom===
In February and March 2019, romantic tensions build between Tom and Harley whilst Harley is supposed to be in a committed relationship with Peri. A costume party is organised by the school and Peri tells Tom to go and purchase the outfits for Peri and Harley, once Harley receives her gift she is thankful to Tom but Tom makes a statement to Harley which makes Peri suspicious, Harley quickly shuts them both up by denouncing Toms comment as a sexist comment. Peri then gathers the idea that Harley hates Tom and plots a way to fix the friendship between the two. On the day of the costume party which took place in The Loft, Peri locks Tom and Harley in the office to force them to sort things out, a kiss happens during their time together in the office and it doesn't take Tom long to confess about the kiss to Peri. 
Before long the idea of a three-way relationship arises between the three and they all become a part in the polyamorous relationship. It soon becomes obvious that Harley and Tom would both rather spend time with each other than involve Peri. Peri notices this and gets jealous, her first plan of action was to create a schedule of who would be with who and when, when Harley didn't like the idea Peri thought that she would have Tom for the evening, this is when it becomes clear that Peri doesn't like Tom in a romantic way at all, she asks to watch a film instead of the other romantic plans that Tom had. Peri then confides in Myra who also had relationship problems at the same time, Peri decides to tell Harley and Tom that it is only Harley that she wants to be with. Harley decides that instead of choosing between the two and hurting anyone that she is going to leave the village for good and a few days later Harley leaves for Brazil, After Harley leaves Tom asks Peri would she rekindle their relationship and Peri brutally rejects Tom's suggestion but continues her friendship with Tom and co-parents with him for their daughter Steph. 
===2019: Dealing Lily McQueen's Death and Battling with Ste over him joining Stuart Sumner's Far-Right Group ===
===2019-2022: Relationships with both Jordan Price and Juliet Nightingale===
In December 2019, there was a flash forward episode that interlaced scenes from New Year's Eve 2020, Peri and Juliet are first shown to have a romantic involvement, as they declare their love for each other and kiss. At the beginning of 2020, Juliet is in a relationship with Sid, which lasts until mid April when Juliet comes out to Sid and reveals she has feelings for Peri. During this time Peri is in a secret relationship with Sid's cousin and drug dealer Jordan Price, who is also in a relationship with Leela. In June 2020, Juliet walks in on Peri and Jordan in bed together and is seen crying but then Jordan leaves Hollyoaks for a period leaving Peri not too happy but understands her mum had to make a tough decision about Jordan staying at their house but he returns to Hollyoaks after a few months away. 
In September 2020, Juliet kisses Peri at a party. At the time Peri seems unfazed, however, the next day she is shown regretting the kiss. Juliet is heartbroken at how Peri seems to ignore what happens and avoids Juliet, leading to a confrontation a few days later. Peri thought the kiss was harmless fun at a party and didn't mean to avoid Juliet. Juliet in turn tells Peri how she felt about the kiss, coming out to her, and revealing her feelings about Peri, who doesn't feel the same. While Peri comforts Juliet about discovering her sexuality, she informs her they are friends. This leads Juliet to feel awkward around Peri and to dive deeper into the drug dealing in order to be more mature, while Peri continues to try and maintain a friendship. Over time, Juliet lowers her walls and begins hanging out with Peri again. 
In November 2020 while Juliet and Peri are at a party they were about to confess their feelings when someone asks Juliet for drugs Peri finds out Juliet is dealing and leaves in frustration. Sid covers for Peri, claiming the girl was asking everyone if they had drugs. However, a heartbroken Juliet takes drugs and sleeps with Ollie, infuriating and hurting Peri when she walks in afterward. After an argument Peri drives away, crying and distracted with her Mobile phone while Sid, currently high on Ketamine, who can't feel his leg is laying on the road and Peri inadvertently drives over Sid's leg, leaving him unable to use it following surgery and Peri feels guilty about running over Sid's leg. 
In December 2020, Leela returns and Peri discovers Jordan was seeing Leela while dating Peri leaving Peri furious at Jordan for two-timing her and her mother and shouts at him for making her feel like she was nothing and walks away from Jordan on verge of tears and this leads Peri to start thinking about her relationship with Jordan, and tells Leela the only reason she was with him for so long was for a distraction from Juliet. Following Sid's accident, Juliet's drug dealing gets worse, especially when she tries to get out. After being caught trying to record her boss, Victor, she decides to leave town with Sid before he can hurt someone she loves. Juliet goes to Peri to say goodbye, cutting to the scene shown in the 2019 jump forward, with the two saying I love you. Peri convinces Juliet not to leave town so they can be together, but when Juliet goes to tell Sid Jordan is killed by Ella Richardson. Juliet decides to go to the police to end everything, saying goodbye to Peri. Following Juliet's arrest, the next few months consist of Peri waiting and fighting for Juliet to be released with the occasional video chat. 
While Peri was waiting on Juliet in February 2021 she inadvertently accused John Paul McQueen of abusing his boyfriend George Kiss after he banged his nose against the Cupboard the day before and had acted very suspicious while he was in the Hospital getting a bandage put on his nose by Peri. Peri then opened up to Courtney about John Paul nearly hitting her and the attack he committed on Robbie Roscoe even though Peri doesn't hold it against John Paul as days before the assault on Robbie happened John Paul was sexually assaulted by Finn O'Connor back in 2014 then the next day Courtney would tell Sally her worries about John Paul and then he shouted at Courtney & Peri and after that she rang the Police and reported John Paul and the next day he would find out after Sally eavesdropped a conversation between George & D.S. Cohen that Peri was manipulated by George which led to her jumping to the wrong conclusion. 
In March 2021 when Sid is presumed dead following an altercation with Victor, Peri and Marnie call Juliet to let her know. When Victor Brothers gets arrested by the Police Sid comes back but Peri gets angry at Sid for faking his death but explains he had to be in Police Protection in case Victor planned to kill him but she is glad Sid wasn't killed by Victor after all and tells Sid she is losing all hope of Juliet ever getting out of prison but when Sasha who dealt drugs for a member of Victor's crime syndicate gave Ste Victor's old burner phone and a book of payments which leads to Juliet getting a suspended sentence and is released from prison much to Peri's delight. After Jack Osborne advised Juliet to stay away from Charlie Dean she got angry at Peri for thinking Peri was taking Jack's side but Peri in actual fact saw it from both sides but they talk through their issues and sleep together for the first time. 
In April 2021, Peri is involved in an incident of unconscious bias and prejudice while working. Peri accidentally double books Martine and Grace for the last slot of the day. Despite Martine arriving first she gets into an argument with Grace and then Peri stops the argument between Martine and Grace and tells them they have been double booked and to stop arguing or they won't be seen. Then Grace starts to cry leading Peri to make a quick decision to take Grace leaving Martine furious and Peri nervously tells Martine to calm down and stop getting aggressive. At first she doesn't realize what she has done and doesn't even apologize to Martine for double booking. However after Misbah told Peri what she did was unprofessional but Misbah said she shouldn't have been placed in a position to make that decision as a Trainee Nurse and tells her she showed unconscious bias, Peri begins to understand her decision was a result of that and apologizes to Martine. 
Under the guise of fixing a gas leak dodge landlord Fergus Collins installs a secret camera in Peri's room for subscribers to watch. In May 2021, Juliet and Peri decide to move into Peri's room together. Following some initial issues due to the differences in their schedules, they are happy in their room together. That is, until June 2021 when Juliet's mother Donna-Marie returns. Peri encourages Juliet to give Donna-Marie another chance.
===2022-2023 Dealing with Juliet's Cancer diagnosis and caring for her===
===2023-2024: Who Killed Rayne Royce Whodunit, being in a relationship with Romeo Nightingale and helping him get out of Hollyoaks===
=== 2024: Losing her Friends, Helping her Family through a tough period and Relationship with Abe Fielding ===
==Kill Count==
===Attempted Murders===
#Cameron Campbell, 27th/28th October 2015 - Prepared to knock him down with a car as revenge for him killing her grandparents Sam and Danny Lomax, but was stopped by Leela Roscoe.
#Dave Williams, 30th January 2024 - While intoxicated and on shift at Dee Valley University Hospital she almost inadvertently injected Dave with Adrenaline but Misbah Maailk stopped her before it is injected into his bloodstream and Peri is suspended pending a investigation which is she is later cleared of any wrongdoing after a review.
==Appendices==
===Residences===
Residence 	Duration
2 Oakdale Drive	4th October 2013 - 7th February 2018
Homeless 	7th February 2018 - 20th April 2018
2 Oakdale Drive	20th April 2018 - Present
===Employment History===
Job 	Duration
Dee Valley University Hospital Trainee Nurse	11th November 2019 - November 2022
Dee Valley University Hospital Nurse 	November 2022 - Present
==Background Information== 
*Edith Smith played a younger Peri in Episode 6210 (27th September 2023).
*Peri was named after Peri Brown from Doctor Who has it was her Grandfather's Idea to name his Children after Doctor Who Companions except Ste.
*Peri has two Nicknames "Periwinkle" which used by her Grandfather and said every night to her Night-night Periwinkle and "Pez" which was used often by some of her family and friends
==Introduction Sequence==
*2013-2014: Peri takes a photo with Sam and Danny.
*2014-2016: Peri and Tom stand together.
*2016-2018: Peri swirls around with Tom and then waves at the camera.
*2018-2018: Peri joins Tom and Alfie on a couch.
*2018-2019: Peri has a pillow fight with Tom, Alfie and Harley.
*2019-2019: Peri toasts marshmallows with Tom and Harley.
*2019-2019: Peri toasts marshmallows with Tom and Steph.
*2019-2022: Peri drinks a cocktail with Leela and has a water balloon fight with Ste, Leah and Lucas.
*2022-2024: Peri pours sauce onto her burger and takes a bite out of it.
*2023-2024: (after the burger stall scene) Peri takes photos in the photobooth with Phoenix Hathaway, Lizzie Chen-Williams, Nadira Valli, Juliet Nightingale, Prince McQueen, Romeo Nightingale, Lacey Lloyd, Rayne Royce and Hunter McQueen. Afterwards, they all walk upstairs to The Loft.
*2024-: Peri plays a card game with Ste, Marie Fielding, and Joel Dexter while Leela Dexter dips a Strawberry in her Smoothie and Abe Fielding, watches them arguing while Lucas Hay turns away from the argument. Peri is later being seen with Zoe Anderson and Cleo McQueen and is seen dancing while Francine Osborne and Vicky Grant are walking down the stairs
==Quotes==
==See Also==
*List of appearances
* Lomax family
*Campbell family
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