He is a principal character in all six seasons of the series and portrayed by actor Joshua Jackson. Pacey Witter is a sarcastic, underachieving year-old boy at the start of the series.
Constantly labeled by his family as a " black sheep ", he has a distant relationship with his emotionally abusive parents. He has considered Dawson Leery his best friend since his childhood and would often rely on him when family issues arose. Pacey has also known Joey Potter through their mutual friendship with Dawson, though they are initially only friends because of Dawson and would occasionally get on each other's nerves.
What he doesn't realize, is that Pacey and Tamara have been having sex in the exact room they are hanging out in playing Monopoly. When Pacey relays the details of his sexual encounter with Ms. Jacobs to Dawson in a school bathroom, the conversation is overheard by another boy smoking marijuana in the next stall. Rumors quickly begin to spread about the nature of Pacey's relationship with the year-old teacher and the ensuing scandal eventually forces Ms.
Jacobs to end their relationship and leave town. Following his relationship with Tamara, Pacey spends most of his time hanging out with Jen, Dawson and Joey, with who he always had an antagonistic relationship. Forced to partner on a biology project, Pacey and Joey spend a whole day together and Pacey finds himself romantically interested in Joey. He realizes that maybe he could like her and asks Dawson if he can ask Joey out, which forces Dawson to assess his own feelings toward Joey.
Pacey kisses Joey, but she turns him down. Pacey also comically enters a beauty pageant and performs a skit from Braveheart. In season two, Pacey wants to reinvent himself, dying his hair and trying to get close to his longtime crush, Kristy Livingstone, which unfortunately does not work out. He decides to throw his 16th birthday party at the docks in an effort to change the general perception of him, but is dismal as nobody knows it's his party and Dawson forgets his birthday altogether β luckily Dawson realizes this and later makes up for it.
