Courtney

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> I don't mind looking like a croissant, they're warm and delicious!
>
> -Courtney, Eat the Parents

## Courtney

* Current
* Debut

### Alias(es):

* Norma's Little Red Friend (Badyah)
* Red (Pauline Phoenix and herself)
* Little Red (Temeluchus)
* Courtsy (Alternate Courtney)
* Courts (Norma)
* Fun Police (Demons)

## Physical Traits

### Eyes:

* Yellow (Sclera)
* black (Pupils)

### Attire:

* Pale purple ripped t-shirt
* Pale green ripped pants
* Yellow sandals
* Golden cuffs (Up until "The Phantom of the Theme Park")

## Connections

### Friends/Allies:

* Barney (Friend)
* Norma (Friend)
* Pugsley (Friend)
* Badyah
* Temeluchus
* Danny
* Pauline Phoenix (Temporary Ally)

### Rivals/Enemies:

* Pauline Phoenix (Formerly an enemy)
* Fingers

## Character Traits

### Likes:

* Barney
* Pugsley
* Eating trash
* Messing around
* Watching Hox's Castle

### Dislikes:

* Feeling excluded
* Feeling abandoned
* Her "evil" twin (Formerly)
* Walking

## Out-of-Universe Information

### Appears In:

Season 1

* The Job (Debut)
* The Tunnel
* Trust Me
* Night of the Living Kids
* The Nightmare Before Christmas in July
* Wait Time: 22 Minutes
* Norma Khan: Paranormal Detective
* The Pauline Phoenix Experience
* The Phantom of the Theme Park
* Into the Fire

Season 2

* Take the Angels Bowling
* Evil Twins Are People Too
* The Trials of Barney
* Eat the Parents
* The Ride of a Lifetime
* My Super Sweet 1600
* All Dolled Up
* The Other Side
* Going Up
* The Watcher's Test

### Debut:

The Job

**Courtney** is a deuteragonist in the Netflix animated series, *Dead End: Paranormal Park*. She is a 1,000-year-old Fallen Angel, previously believed to be a Demon. She is voiced by Emily Osment. Her Vyond Voice Is Princess/Allison

## Biography

Courtney claimed to be banished from Hell more than 500 years ago, but it has been hinted she had never actually been. She spent her days hiding in the haunted house in Phoenix Parks, away from humans. At some point, she made a deal with demon lord Temeluchus to bring him a flesh vessel if he would lift her curse, causing her to write a fake job offer to lure unsuspecting humans to the house by sundown. While she did manage to lure Barney and Norma to the house, Temeluchus ended up possessing Pugsley, Barney's pet, in a failed attempt to possess the human. He ends up not completing his side of the bargain, and after the two humans had defeated the demon, she is shocked that they made it out alive but is even more so when she finds that Temeluchus' soul is trapped in the photo, quietly expressing her concern to never return to her home, before running out after the others, offering them the job. Courtney gives Barney and Pugsley a place to stay, and up until "The Watcher's Test," they are roommates.

Throughout the second season, Courtney and her friends have to partake in being the Demon Clean-Up Crew, essentially catching any Demons that wander about the Neutral Plane. This changes when Fingers introduces himself, and lives with her, Barney, and Pugsley in the mansion for the majority of the season.

## Appearance

Courtney is a short, impish demon in a red coloration. She has a small pointed nose, four fingers, and a classical pointed tail. Her eyes are yellow and her pupils are slit. She also has two small horns that grow out of her head, alongside two much larger slightly curved horns that come out of the sides of her head, which appear to be cut off. She also has one pair of deformed fangs that usually stick out of her mouth, and her tongue is snake-like.

For attire, she usually dons a slightly oversized pale purple t-shirt with ripped sleeves, alongside green shorts with ripped bottoms. She also wears yellow sandals. Her most distinct article of clothing is her two golden cuffs on her wrists, although those were removed by Zagan as of "The Phantom of the Theme Park."

In "Trust Me," she wears a blue Pauline T-shirt that goes a bit off-shoulder with purple sunglasses.

## Personality

Courtney is a crass, insensitive, selfish, and fun-loving demon. She is first introduced as one of Temeluchus' underlings who went to seek out sacrifices as choices for the former to possess, having little to no care of what Barney and Norma have to say. At first, she doesn't care much about humans or their feelings, though, after Barney and Pugsley move into the park and get the job alongside Norma, she softens up a bit while learning more about humans.

Despite appearing to not care about other people's feelings other than her own, she is shown to have a bit of empathy after she realizes she had upset Norma even more in "The Pauline Phoenix Experience," and during "Into the Fire," she fully emphasizes with Temeluchus, since both of them have been changed due to humanity. She even decides to stay with her friends rather than go back to Necropolis.

Throughout the second season, Courtney has begun to show a more caring side, especially towards her friends. While she does remain to be insensitive, as shown in the episode, "Take the Angels Bowling," when she puts Pugsley down by calling him useless in her panic, she is also seen to be a bit emotionally unaware as well, considering the fact she wasn't aware of what tears were after having a small breakdown in "Evil Twins Are People Too." She is also cold and rude towards those she doesn't know, and has the demeanor of a moody teenager.

## Abilities

### Immortality

Courtney, like most non-human beings, is **immortal**. She can live forever, and cannot die. She also appears to age much slower than something like a human, as despite being over one thousand years old, she still looks quite young.

### Teleportation

As an otherworldly entity, Courtney possesses some traits of Demons strangely, with one of her most iconic abilities being **teleportation**. It takes no effort and can be done at any moment, and unlike other Demons, who teleport in a realm of fire, leaving an aftereffect, Courtney simply "poofs"; leaving behind a small cloud that resembles her colors alongside some angelic symbols following afterwards. The only time she cannot teleport is if there's a barrier of some kind, such as the angelic barrier that surrounded the Prison on the fourth plane. No matter how much she tried, she couldn't teleport until the barrier was broken.

Teleportation can also be used in a strategic manner, such as when Pugsley is falling from the Prison, Courtney teleports short distances quickly to catch up to him and successfully grab him. Another example would be when Temeluchus tried to injure Courtney during the Demon Invasion, with the latter dodging the attacks at the last second by teleporting.

### Fire Breathing

Another trait she strangely inherits from Demons is the ability to **breath fire**. She very rarely uses this attack, as it's only used once in "Into The Fire." Fire emits from her mouth and she is uninjured by the flames.

### Musical Talent *(Temporary)*

Just like the other characters in "The Phantom of the Theme Park," through the use of Pugsley’s magical spell, Courtney possessed the temporary ability to break out into song at any given moment. She had her own solo number, "Down There," where she sang about how good it would be to go back "home," and had a part in "Phantom of the Theme Park," singing about how she needed to go home, and that she didn't belong on the neutral plane. The spell wore off at the end of the episode, and since then she hasn't sang.

Courtney can also perform spells and other types of magic when reading the demonic book of spells, such as:

* Possession
* Soul Sealing

## Trivia

* Despite having they/them pronouns in the comics, Courtney uses she/her in the show. Hamish Steele explained this change was made to avoid the controversial "non-human, non-binary" trope and was persuaded to use the pronouns of her voice actress, Emily Osment, when she was cast. He also believes Courtney is not strongly aware of gender anyhow, so she would use them/they pronouns.
* In "The Nightmare Before Christmas in July," it's revealed that she likes eating trash.
* There were a couple of hints of Courtney being an angel.
	+ Yellow particles would appear any time she poofs, just as they do when angel magic is done.
	+ In a line she sings in her song "Down There," she says, "I've read every book about demons", insinuating that she's never really *been* to Hell.
	+ In the episode Take the Angels Bowling, Fingers says that she's a superstar "upstairs" strengthening the clue of her being an angel
* Next to Pugsley, she is the shortest character in the main cast.
* Her larger horns are able to emote depending on how she feels.
* When Courtney possesses someone, her slit pupils and deformed fangs remain.
* In the episode "Norma Khan: Paranormal Detective," it's revealed that she has black-colored tears.
* She seems to be somewhat of a gold digger, as she hints at her type being "rich and hot" in the episode "The Pauline Phoenix Experience."
* In the episode "Trust Me," it was revealed Courtney had originally feared that she would never be able to return to Necropolis.
* In "The Phantom of the Theme Park," it is revealed that the cuffs she wears on her wrists - the ones stopping her from entering the Elevator - were put on her by angels, and that she herself is not aware of this.
* In the episode "Going Up," it's revealed she is not a demon, but in fact a "Fallen Angel"; Angels who have their halos broken off.