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PLAYER
✧ NAME: Kuri
✧ LJ USERNAME: sub_textual
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): AIM: in subtext; Plurk: sub_textual
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: None.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Peter Petrelli
✧ SERIES: Heroes
✧ HISTORY: Peter Petrelli @ Heroes Wiki
✧ TIMELINE: "Out of Time", Season 2, Episode 7
✧ PERSONALITY: There are many things about Peter Petrelli, but what is most noticeable about him is his passion -- passion for his family, for his friends and those he cares for, for doing the right thing, and for saving the world. It seems that Peter is always saving the world, regardless of what it does to his life or to the lives of those connected to him. He has an interminable drive to stop the world from exploding, imploding, villains from overtaking it, batting for the underdog, fighting for those who might not have the ability to fight for themselves, and essentially just inhabiting the role of "hero" repeatedly regardless of how much it fucks him up to do it or what it is he has to lose or give up for the good fight.
His selfless need to right wrongs and constantly save everyone but himself largely is embedded in his love for his brother, who seems to be the only person he can never save. No matter how hard he tries or what he sacrifices, Nathan always seems to be tumbling down the wrong paths that lead to destruction of himself, his family, or the world. It seems that Peter is repeatedly fighting against Nathan for Nathan, yet it is only until almost everything is lost and irreparably damaged that he ever seems to get through to his brother. His inability to act, speak, and produce positive change or prevent catastrophic actions within Nathan is one of the greatest sources of his need to save those who can't save themselves. In a sense, his obsessive need to save others at the cost of his own life is a projection of what he can never seem to succeed to do with Nathan. Maybe a part of him even believes, without really understanding, that if he saves enough people, stops enough apocalyptic events, creates good enough change, that his brother will actually see him for who he is and actually believe in him for once in their lives.
Another reason that Peter is so passionate about saving people is due to his prior occupation as a hospice nurse who could only help make people comfortable at the end of their lives. All he could seem to do was sit by and watch others die -- Charles Deveaux, his first and only patient, who he deeply loved and respected, and then his daughter, Simone, who Peter had fallen in love with, and whose death he inadvertently caused. Being a hospice nurse might not have been the best choice for Peter, who has such difficulty letting go of people because he ends up loving them too much. His empathy for others in being able to anticipate their needs and pain is one of the traits that defines him the most, and what made him a good nurse (and later on, a paramedic), but it comes at a huge cost, which I will articulate below. To return to my earlier point, Peter's inability to save two people he loved dearly had a huge impact on his later obsession with saving everyone else. If anything, the most tragic thing about Peter is that he does save everyone else -- but he fails to save those he loves the most: his brother, his parents, his girlfriend, and his mentor. In future alternate realities, he ultimately even fails to save his niece -- he loses everyone he loves despite how hard he tries to save them.
Peter has a problem with trusting too easily, loving too easily, forgiving too easily, and being far too giving and selfless. He is headstrong about his beliefs, impulsive, acts before he thinks (and often speaks before he thinks), and sometimes (or rather, most of the time) just doesn't think. Peter feels. He acts on his emotions and gut instincts, on what his heart tells him to do, largely ignoring logic, reason, and sometimes even common sense. He can't help himself, though. It's just who he is.
The ironic thing about Peter is that the majority of his strengths conflate as weaknesses. Peter is fiercely loyal to those that he loves and cares for, and will die for them repeatedly (yes -- repeatedly, since Peter has the power to regenerate and thus, is pretty much immortal in many ways). Sometimes this loyalty results in blind belief in a person -- especially his brother, which results in a kind of myopia that doesn't necessarily let him see or realize when some crazy bullshit is going on (or in the case of his brother or mother, some kind of weird conspiracy that involves superhuman powers). The fact that he believes in people so easily and so deeply often leads to swift betrayals which hurt him deeply. But of course, Peter will end up forgiving a person for their betrayal. He just can't help it.
Peter's selflessness is definitely his greatest strength and weakness -- because he is always saving everyone else, he doesn't stop to save himself. This comes at a huge loss for him, due to how much he has to sacrifice -- essentially, his entire life -- in order to save others. He very rarely ever slows down to think about doing anything for himself. It isn't because he doesn't think he's important or that he has no worth, but simply that everyone else is that much more important that he needs to save them all.
Peter's empathy is a huge strength for him in many ways, but it also can make him very vulnerable to emotional manipulation. Because he always ends up being able to understand how someone feels and their motives -- even if he completely disagrees with them, if he loves them and cares for them, he ultimately can't stay angry at them. He forgives far too easily for this very reason -- even though his mother and Nathan have committed atrocious acts against humanity, and even against him, Peter still ends up forgiving them. He understands. And he just can't stop himself from understanding or from forgiving. He feels too much, is too easily emotionally swayed. And he can't always control how he feels. He often gives into emotion instead of relying on logic, which can be very dangerous for him.
His power, empathic mimicry, while an extremely powerful ability, comes with extreme risks -- he can't decide what powers he absorbs. He simply absorbs them against his will. Sometimes he can't control the power, and this can lead to massive destruction. In one reality, Peter completely decimates New York City with his induced radioactive power, effectively killing 8 million people within seconds due to losing control. This radioactive power, in particular, can sometimes be unleashed under extreme emotional duress -- two other users of it have been seen to manifest and lose control of the power when they lose control of their emotions. Because of this fact, it can be assumed that if Peter ever loses control of his emotions, he might turn into a nuclear bomb by accident. Again.
His regenerative power has a weakness at the back of his skull -- there is a small spot, which, if blocked by a sharp object, will stop him from regenerating. But once the object is removed, even if he had died, he will regenerate and essentially come back to life. But if that object remains in place, Peter will stay dead.
With precognitive painting, once Peter starts to "see" a vision of the future and starts to paint it, there is virtually nothing that can stop him from painting -- he loses all sense of the present reality, and doesn't even know that he is painting. His body acts of its own accord. When he is in this state, he is extremely vulnerable to attack.
Because I am taking Peter from the beginning of Season 2, he will be afflicted with amnesia due to the fact that Renee (aka the Haitian) wiped out his memories, and thus he doesn't know how to actually use all of his powers or what powers he even has and largely only manifests them through muscle memory under stressful conditions. As time passes, his memories will return due to his regenerative ability which will heal parts of his brain that Renee effectively damaged when wiping out his past. In this state, Peter will be very susceptible to others and extremely vulnerable since he doesn't really know who he is or anything about himself. He only knows his name and where he is from.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: http://heroeswiki.com/Empathic_mimicry
Peter's original power is empathic mimicry. This power manifests when he is in proximity of a superhuman individual with genetic superhuman powers, and allows him to duplicate and "absorb" the abilities of other superhumans. It is important to note that when he absorbs powers he doesn't steal them from the other character -- he merely copies them perfectly, and can do so at a range of even several meters. As of Season 2, he has developed the following powers:
Flying - It's a bird -- no! It's a plane -- no! It's Peter Petrelli!
Rapid cell regeneration - Peter can heal from anything. Nuclear explosion? No problem! Fire? A breeze! Broken bones? Painful, but that isn't an issue at all. Impaling? A little uncomfortable, but not an issue. A loss of an arm? Hey, he can grow another one! Aging? Not an issue -- Peter will stay young and beautiful forever! No really. This isn't a joke. Another character, Adam Monroe, who possesses rapid cell regeneration manages to stay alive for 400 years and looks just as young and dapper as he was when his power manifested. 400 years. Sheesh.
Telepathy - Peter can read your mind and even implant ideas into your head that you believe are yours. In fact, if he continues to practice this, he will be able to actually manipulate and create illusions (or delusions, in this case), and even trap a person inside of their own head. This power will only be used with player permission.
Telekenesis - Throwing a big mac truck with a flick of the fingers? No problem.
Invisibility - What it says.
Precognitive dreaming - Peter can dream the future.
Precognitive painting - Peter can paint the future!
Time/space manipulation - Peter can go into the past, future, and stop time. He can also teleport. I will be nerfing this power (well, the time part of it) majorly cuz it is just a little too godmodey, unless there is some mod-approved plot.
Phasing - Peter can phase through any object. Walls? Not a problem. Human bodies? Errrr. Yeah. This power may be nerfed when used against a character unless there is player permission.
Enhanced strength - In which one punch sends a person flying 500 feet.
Induced radiation - Peter goes nuclear. Boom!
Electricity manipulation - Peter can shoot out lightning from his fingers and electrocute the shit out of someone.
Peter's greatest strength, however, is his awesomely shiny hair which seems to stay shiny no matter what. I personally think he has some kind of magical shiny hair power. It is even more shiny than Pantene Pro-V models. No really.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: Just a very simple black mask that covers his eyes. Peter's a simple guy, you see. Nothing fancy is really necessary.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: The treehouse in the forest that Nathan built for him. (Mentioned by Nathan to Angela in a deleted scene on the Heroes S2 DVD.)
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: Peter faces off with Elle in Kannagara; Sam Winchester and Peter Petrelli: saving the world, one monster at a time in Kannagara; Peter meets Amat!Peter in DM; Peter faces off with another Elle in DM
✧ THIRD PERSON: Thread with Isaac in Kannagara (yes, I know it's technically formatted in action form, but I believe the prose is strong enough to stand on its own as third person); Thread with Lelouch in Kannagara (same disclaimer applies); Peter dreams of flying and being trapped in the shipping container @ Kannagara (second person); Peter and Tsuna plot to save the world @ Kannagara
Alternate sample:
Peter you need to remember.
He's not sure if he wants to remember, not knowing what is there in the past. What left him locked up for months in a night blacker than pitch with cold metal around his wrist and against his back and the memory of eyes cut out in a face of midnight skin that penetrated deep into him. Eyes that saw and knew what it was he did not have: the past, where there was a man that had his name and his crooked smile and these powers he doesn't understand; powers that are beyond his control that can crush a man.
Maybe that was why he was there in the first place, in that box for so long -- alone with nothing but the prickle of salt in his nose and the sound of men's voices talking in a language he couldn't speak with only the sway and rock of the sea to comfort him. Maybe he had done something terrible. He understood the concept of disaster without understanding the meaning. It was in the feeling of it -- a kind of jagged splitting apart when he tried to think about why it was that he was there in the dark, with nothing but the sound of his own breath to keep him company. You lose time like that, forget what time even is. There is no time without light, when all you can make of the idea of time is the beating of your heart and the ticking of your breath. Easy to lose count, to lose the present in the nothing around you, the ink of shadows that crawl with secrets and whispers of who and what you are and why you are here.
He isn't sure how long he was trapped there in the dark, or why. And really, it's the why that gets him. The uncertainty of not knowing what it was that chased him into it and locked him up in the first place. What it is that scorched the first man who showed him kindness to the bone. If the future happens because of him -- this bewildering future, this future of corpses, of ghost cities and men living entire lives without breathing because the air is sick, the earth is sick, and the sickness might be why he was locked up in the first place.
Yet this woman who tells him he is kind and caring and good and thinks too much about everyone else -- this woman who seems to know him more than he knows himself -- embraces him and tells him that he needs to remember. That he needs to be the one to stop this disaster from happening. To save the brother he never even knew he had. To save the world.
Peter you need to remember, she says.
But he's not sure he's ready to.
He doesn't even know if he can. Or if history is lost in the past.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION:
✧ NAME: Kuri
✧ LJ USERNAME: sub_textual
✧ CONTACT (EMAIL, AIM, MSN, PLURK, ETC.): AIM: in subtext; Plurk: sub_textual
✧ CURRENT MUSE LIST: None.
CHARACTER
✧ NAME: Peter Petrelli
✧ SERIES: Heroes
✧ HISTORY: Peter Petrelli @ Heroes Wiki
✧ TIMELINE: "Out of Time", Season 2, Episode 7
✧ PERSONALITY: There are many things about Peter Petrelli, but what is most noticeable about him is his passion -- passion for his family, for his friends and those he cares for, for doing the right thing, and for saving the world. It seems that Peter is always saving the world, regardless of what it does to his life or to the lives of those connected to him. He has an interminable drive to stop the world from exploding, imploding, villains from overtaking it, batting for the underdog, fighting for those who might not have the ability to fight for themselves, and essentially just inhabiting the role of "hero" repeatedly regardless of how much it fucks him up to do it or what it is he has to lose or give up for the good fight.
His selfless need to right wrongs and constantly save everyone but himself largely is embedded in his love for his brother, who seems to be the only person he can never save. No matter how hard he tries or what he sacrifices, Nathan always seems to be tumbling down the wrong paths that lead to destruction of himself, his family, or the world. It seems that Peter is repeatedly fighting against Nathan for Nathan, yet it is only until almost everything is lost and irreparably damaged that he ever seems to get through to his brother. His inability to act, speak, and produce positive change or prevent catastrophic actions within Nathan is one of the greatest sources of his need to save those who can't save themselves. In a sense, his obsessive need to save others at the cost of his own life is a projection of what he can never seem to succeed to do with Nathan. Maybe a part of him even believes, without really understanding, that if he saves enough people, stops enough apocalyptic events, creates good enough change, that his brother will actually see him for who he is and actually believe in him for once in their lives.
Another reason that Peter is so passionate about saving people is due to his prior occupation as a hospice nurse who could only help make people comfortable at the end of their lives. All he could seem to do was sit by and watch others die -- Charles Deveaux, his first and only patient, who he deeply loved and respected, and then his daughter, Simone, who Peter had fallen in love with, and whose death he inadvertently caused. Being a hospice nurse might not have been the best choice for Peter, who has such difficulty letting go of people because he ends up loving them too much. His empathy for others in being able to anticipate their needs and pain is one of the traits that defines him the most, and what made him a good nurse (and later on, a paramedic), but it comes at a huge cost, which I will articulate below. To return to my earlier point, Peter's inability to save two people he loved dearly had a huge impact on his later obsession with saving everyone else. If anything, the most tragic thing about Peter is that he does save everyone else -- but he fails to save those he loves the most: his brother, his parents, his girlfriend, and his mentor. In future alternate realities, he ultimately even fails to save his niece -- he loses everyone he loves despite how hard he tries to save them.
Peter has a problem with trusting too easily, loving too easily, forgiving too easily, and being far too giving and selfless. He is headstrong about his beliefs, impulsive, acts before he thinks (and often speaks before he thinks), and sometimes (or rather, most of the time) just doesn't think. Peter feels. He acts on his emotions and gut instincts, on what his heart tells him to do, largely ignoring logic, reason, and sometimes even common sense. He can't help himself, though. It's just who he is.
The ironic thing about Peter is that the majority of his strengths conflate as weaknesses. Peter is fiercely loyal to those that he loves and cares for, and will die for them repeatedly (yes -- repeatedly, since Peter has the power to regenerate and thus, is pretty much immortal in many ways). Sometimes this loyalty results in blind belief in a person -- especially his brother, which results in a kind of myopia that doesn't necessarily let him see or realize when some crazy bullshit is going on (or in the case of his brother or mother, some kind of weird conspiracy that involves superhuman powers). The fact that he believes in people so easily and so deeply often leads to swift betrayals which hurt him deeply. But of course, Peter will end up forgiving a person for their betrayal. He just can't help it.
Peter's selflessness is definitely his greatest strength and weakness -- because he is always saving everyone else, he doesn't stop to save himself. This comes at a huge loss for him, due to how much he has to sacrifice -- essentially, his entire life -- in order to save others. He very rarely ever slows down to think about doing anything for himself. It isn't because he doesn't think he's important or that he has no worth, but simply that everyone else is that much more important that he needs to save them all.
Peter's empathy is a huge strength for him in many ways, but it also can make him very vulnerable to emotional manipulation. Because he always ends up being able to understand how someone feels and their motives -- even if he completely disagrees with them, if he loves them and cares for them, he ultimately can't stay angry at them. He forgives far too easily for this very reason -- even though his mother and Nathan have committed atrocious acts against humanity, and even against him, Peter still ends up forgiving them. He understands. And he just can't stop himself from understanding or from forgiving. He feels too much, is too easily emotionally swayed. And he can't always control how he feels. He often gives into emotion instead of relying on logic, which can be very dangerous for him.
His power, empathic mimicry, while an extremely powerful ability, comes with extreme risks -- he can't decide what powers he absorbs. He simply absorbs them against his will. Sometimes he can't control the power, and this can lead to massive destruction. In one reality, Peter completely decimates New York City with his induced radioactive power, effectively killing 8 million people within seconds due to losing control. This radioactive power, in particular, can sometimes be unleashed under extreme emotional duress -- two other users of it have been seen to manifest and lose control of the power when they lose control of their emotions. Because of this fact, it can be assumed that if Peter ever loses control of his emotions, he might turn into a nuclear bomb by accident. Again.
His regenerative power has a weakness at the back of his skull -- there is a small spot, which, if blocked by a sharp object, will stop him from regenerating. But once the object is removed, even if he had died, he will regenerate and essentially come back to life. But if that object remains in place, Peter will stay dead.
With precognitive painting, once Peter starts to "see" a vision of the future and starts to paint it, there is virtually nothing that can stop him from painting -- he loses all sense of the present reality, and doesn't even know that he is painting. His body acts of its own accord. When he is in this state, he is extremely vulnerable to attack.
Because I am taking Peter from the beginning of Season 2, he will be afflicted with amnesia due to the fact that Renee (aka the Haitian) wiped out his memories, and thus he doesn't know how to actually use all of his powers or what powers he even has and largely only manifests them through muscle memory under stressful conditions. As time passes, his memories will return due to his regenerative ability which will heal parts of his brain that Renee effectively damaged when wiping out his past. In this state, Peter will be very susceptible to others and extremely vulnerable since he doesn't really know who he is or anything about himself. He only knows his name and where he is from.
✧ ABILITIES/POWERS: http://heroeswiki.com/Empathic_mimicry
Peter's original power is empathic mimicry. This power manifests when he is in proximity of a superhuman individual with genetic superhuman powers, and allows him to duplicate and "absorb" the abilities of other superhumans. It is important to note that when he absorbs powers he doesn't steal them from the other character -- he merely copies them perfectly, and can do so at a range of even several meters. As of Season 2, he has developed the following powers:
Flying - It's a bird -- no! It's a plane -- no! It's Peter Petrelli!
Rapid cell regeneration - Peter can heal from anything. Nuclear explosion? No problem! Fire? A breeze! Broken bones? Painful, but that isn't an issue at all. Impaling? A little uncomfortable, but not an issue. A loss of an arm? Hey, he can grow another one! Aging? Not an issue -- Peter will stay young and beautiful forever! No really. This isn't a joke. Another character, Adam Monroe, who possesses rapid cell regeneration manages to stay alive for 400 years and looks just as young and dapper as he was when his power manifested. 400 years. Sheesh.
Telepathy - Peter can read your mind and even implant ideas into your head that you believe are yours. In fact, if he continues to practice this, he will be able to actually manipulate and create illusions (or delusions, in this case), and even trap a person inside of their own head. This power will only be used with player permission.
Telekenesis - Throwing a big mac truck with a flick of the fingers? No problem.
Invisibility - What it says.
Precognitive dreaming - Peter can dream the future.
Precognitive painting - Peter can paint the future!
Time/space manipulation - Peter can go into the past, future, and stop time. He can also teleport. I will be nerfing this power (well, the time part of it) majorly cuz it is just a little too godmodey, unless there is some mod-approved plot.
Phasing - Peter can phase through any object. Walls? Not a problem. Human bodies? Errrr. Yeah. This power may be nerfed when used against a character unless there is player permission.
Enhanced strength - In which one punch sends a person flying 500 feet.
Induced radiation - Peter goes nuclear. Boom!
Electricity manipulation - Peter can shoot out lightning from his fingers and electrocute the shit out of someone.
Peter's greatest strength, however, is his awesomely shiny hair which seems to stay shiny no matter what. I personally think he has some kind of magical shiny hair power. It is even more shiny than Pantene Pro-V models. No really.
✧ TIME OF ARRIVAL: Night.
✧ MASK DESIGN: Just a very simple black mask that covers his eyes. Peter's a simple guy, you see. Nothing fancy is really necessary.
✧ PLACE OF SOLACE: The treehouse in the forest that Nathan built for him. (Mentioned by Nathan to Angela in a deleted scene on the Heroes S2 DVD.)
SAMPLES
✧ FIRST PERSON: Peter faces off with Elle in Kannagara; Sam Winchester and Peter Petrelli: saving the world, one monster at a time in Kannagara; Peter meets Amat!Peter in DM; Peter faces off with another Elle in DM
✧ THIRD PERSON: Thread with Isaac in Kannagara (yes, I know it's technically formatted in action form, but I believe the prose is strong enough to stand on its own as third person); Thread with Lelouch in Kannagara (same disclaimer applies); Peter dreams of flying and being trapped in the shipping container @ Kannagara (second person); Peter and Tsuna plot to save the world @ Kannagara
Alternate sample:
Peter you need to remember.
He's not sure if he wants to remember, not knowing what is there in the past. What left him locked up for months in a night blacker than pitch with cold metal around his wrist and against his back and the memory of eyes cut out in a face of midnight skin that penetrated deep into him. Eyes that saw and knew what it was he did not have: the past, where there was a man that had his name and his crooked smile and these powers he doesn't understand; powers that are beyond his control that can crush a man.
Maybe that was why he was there in the first place, in that box for so long -- alone with nothing but the prickle of salt in his nose and the sound of men's voices talking in a language he couldn't speak with only the sway and rock of the sea to comfort him. Maybe he had done something terrible. He understood the concept of disaster without understanding the meaning. It was in the feeling of it -- a kind of jagged splitting apart when he tried to think about why it was that he was there in the dark, with nothing but the sound of his own breath to keep him company. You lose time like that, forget what time even is. There is no time without light, when all you can make of the idea of time is the beating of your heart and the ticking of your breath. Easy to lose count, to lose the present in the nothing around you, the ink of shadows that crawl with secrets and whispers of who and what you are and why you are here.
He isn't sure how long he was trapped there in the dark, or why. And really, it's the why that gets him. The uncertainty of not knowing what it was that chased him into it and locked him up in the first place. What it is that scorched the first man who showed him kindness to the bone. If the future happens because of him -- this bewildering future, this future of corpses, of ghost cities and men living entire lives without breathing because the air is sick, the earth is sick, and the sickness might be why he was locked up in the first place.
Yet this woman who tells him he is kind and caring and good and thinks too much about everyone else -- this woman who seems to know him more than he knows himself -- embraces him and tells him that he needs to remember. That he needs to be the one to stop this disaster from happening. To save the brother he never even knew he had. To save the world.
Peter you need to remember, she says.
But he's not sure he's ready to.
He doesn't even know if he can. Or if history is lost in the past.
✧ ORIGINAL CHARACTER QUESTION: