Having been raised in her mother's hometown of Boston puts Parisa Stavros completely at ease with the urban lifestyle. As a child, Parisa was seen as something of a tomboy. She enjoyed playing with action figures and studying martial arts, frequently getting into altercations with her peers. Parisa was encouraged by her mother to do well in school in order to achieve a better life for herself, free and independent of relying on her father's money. Her father, a thief and international illegal antiquity dealer who also on occasion traded in arms on the black market, was incarcerated overseas for much of her life due to his criminal dealings. Even if he had been around, Parisa's mother had always made it clear that he wasn't likely to be much of a father outside of financial support, which they were already getting. Even imprisoned, he had ways of doling out his assets to make sure that his daughter would be well-cared for.

In the interim, however, Parisa was able to get the best education private school had to offer. Although she was very bright, Parisa was very nearly expelled several times due to her outrageous behavior and conflict with other students. Each time, she was pulled back from the edge by her mother's profuse apologies along with an absurd amount of her father's money to smooth over the situation. When she did buckle down in the classroom, Parisa was able to all the honors and AP classes she could fit into her schedule. Obtaining her high school diploma was the proudest moment of her mother's life; Parisa was in the Top 10 of her graduating class and was accepted into UPenn, as well as a number of other top tier colleges, on full scholarship. She ultimately chose UPenn. That, in Parisa's mother's mind, broke her out from under the yoke of her father's shadow.

Figuring out what she wanted to do with her life took some time. She enjoyed her business classes, but she wanted to be out in the world and doing something more adventurous than sit in meetings all day. Then she thought back to the classes she had the most fun in back throughout her high school years. History and the culture of people through the ages fascinated Parisa. So at first, she went with being a History major with an emphasis in ancient history. It wasn't long before she felt that that was too broad of a subject matter. With that in mind, Parisa went into NELC (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and eventually chose to narrow to the Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations (ANE) concentration. For some reason, for as long as she could remember, the world's oldest region of the world intrigued her especially. While completing her undergraduate degree, Parisa also went through the rigorous submatriculation process in order to gain her M.A. degree at the same time.

After obtaining her degrees from UPenn, she still wasn't done with her ever increasing obsession with Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East. She continued on to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU, once again concentrating her efforts on the so-called "Cradle of Civilization". The Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies she studied under, also a curator at the Institute, was impressed with her and introduced her to a few associates of hers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where Parisa went on to hold an internship at the Met as an assistant of one of the museum's curators. This connection allowed her the opportunity of traveling to the Middle East several times.

When the internship concluded, she returned home to Boston in search of her next adventure. The museum scene, she decided, was not for someone of Parisa's wanderlust. While she held high appreciation for antiquities, she was free-spirited in personality and disliked the monotony she perceived in working in a place as stuffy as a museum. It had been a fun experience to try out, to be sure, but it wasn't what she wanted to do for a living for the foreseeable future. Bounty hunting fell into Parisa's lap somewhat by accident. While she was figuring out her life, Parisa tried her hand at a number of odd jobs. She worked as a bartender for a time. She then served as a volunteer firefighter. During that time, she made friends in law enforcement who trained her in the use of firearms. After serving as a volunteer firefighter for a while, she trained as an EMT and took courses in fire science. When she unsuccessfully applied to the Boston Fire Department, she decided to enroll in a short course to try bounty hunting after seeing an ad promoting a bail recovery agent training course.

With very few women work in the bounty hunting industry in the US, Parisa made a name for herself. In bounty hunting, she finally found the on-the-job excitement she was looking for. Based out of Boston, she primarily traveled around the state and throughout the New England area tracking down drug dealers, thieves, and occasionally murderers. She was happy to be a woman of few deeper ties, especially when it came to romantic ones. When most recent relationship (one of the rarer, slightly more long-term ones) finally went south, as she knew it inevitably would, she left the apartment they shared with little more than a duffle bag full of clothes and took off. She remained incommunicado during that time, off-the-grid as far as anybody knew, outside of the occasional postcard to her mother to reassure her that she was still alive. Since then, she has popped up in the Big Easy for a spell, but now she's back in Bean Town again and it's anyone's guess where she'd been.