Pepper is an AHS regular and fan favorite. She's actually the first character to reprise the same role twice in the series (once in Asylum and again in Freakshow). Pepper is a woman who has microcephaly and was the first performer for Frulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities show. After being abandoned at 18 and found by Elsa, she performs in the show, meets a boy named Salty (another person with microcephaly), and they get married. After Salty's death, she refuses to perform and is sent to live with her sister Rita. Her sister and brother-in-law, Larry, did not treat her well. She was set to live a life of serving her sister and taking care of her sister's equally unwanted child. Her brother-in-law eventually murders the baby and frames Pepper for it, which is how she would eventually find herself at Briarcliff.