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Your name: Zo
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Other characters played at Passing: N/A
Character name: Peter Petrelli
Character fandom: Heroes, TV show
Version: V1
Canon point: After Canon
Importing development from old game? N/A
Background:
Volume 1: Working as a hospice nurse, Peter’s dreams of flight are the first sign of his ability and Peter knows that Nathan has something to do with it. His first real attempt to fly is done by jumping off a building, and Nathan finally shows that he can fly by saving him. Peter later wakes up in a hospital bed and Nathan claims he never flew, that Peter tried to kill himself. Later, Nathan meets Peter on the roof of a building and Peter confronts him about his lies. In doing so, he’s able to hover. Sometime after, Peter again attempts flight and finds that he can’t do it unless his brother is around. Later, Nathan lies to New York during a campaign event, claiming that his brother attempted suicide when he jumped off the building, which incredibly upsets Peter. After this event, Peter ends up spending the night with Simone (after she leaves Isaac, supposedly.)
When Peter is visited by a Future Hiro, he learns that he’s meant to “save the cheerleader” to “save the world.” Later, at Isaac’s, Peter sees the paintings of the same cheerleader and knows for a fact that this is what he has to do, what he’s meant to do. After some desperate searching for one more of Isaac’s paintings, Peter is finally able to find out where Claire is going to be. Peter makes it to Claire’s highschool and meets her there. Later, he and Bennett both hear the attack on Claire and another girl and Peter rushes to get Claire away from Sylar. Peter then faces Sylar and knocks them both to the ground, where Sylar attempts to escape.
The police arrest Peter at the scene, made suspicious by the fact that he’s covered in blood. While being held at jail, he’s questioned by Matt. While at jail, he not only has an important conversation with Claire about their abilities and their connection because of them, but after leaving with Nathan, he has his first premonition about the explosion being his fault, after which he blacks out. Peter is unconscious for two weeks afterward.
After leaving the hospital, Peter meets a man by the name of the Claude who helps him learn how to control his abilities. But through Isaac’s help, Mr. Bennet and other men from the Company are able to find Peter and Claude. They capture Claude but Peter escapes and goes to Isaac, where they fight over Simone. Much to both of their horrors, Simone shows up in the midst of it, and she ends up shot by Isaac and killed. After Isaac once again shoots at Peter out of anger, he flies out of the apartment. Later, Peter goes to Mohinder’s apartment, but finds Sylar instead and in the midst of a fight is “killed” by a piece of glass driven into the back of his head. Mohinder takes Peter to his mother after the fight, where Claire shows up and “saves his life” by removing the piece of glass, allowing him to regenerate and come back to life.
Peter and Claire leave the Petrelli mansion in an attempt to get out of New York City and potentially stop the explosion, and later run into Ted Sprague, Matt, and Mr. Bennett on the street, where Peter instantly begins to struggle with controlling Ted’s abilities. After an encounter with Nathan, where Claire runs away, Peter decides that they can’t trust him by reading his mind. Peter attempts to follow Claire but once again struggles with Ted’s abilities and passes out in an alley. Bennett finds him and they all end up in Kirby Plaza, where a fight with Sylar occurs, in the middle of which Peter once again finds he cannot control Ted’s abilities. He attempts to get Claire to shoot him, which she’s willing to do. Instead, in a sudden change of heart, Nathan decides to step in and help. Grabbing onto Peter, he flies them above New York City, where Peter goes nuclear in the sky.
Volume 2: This seasons starts off with Peter found stuck inside a cargo carrier in Ireland, having no idea who he is or where he came from, save for a box that he’s left with. While in Ireland, he falls for a woman named Caitlin, the sisters of one of the men that found him. She encourages him to find out who he truly is. Inside the box he finds a planet ticket to Montreal and later he paints an image of him and Caitlin in Montreal, which is where they head to next and go directly to the building that Peter painted. There, Peter finds a note with his name on it, from a man named Adam stating that they were right about the Company. Still not remembering anything, when Caitlin hugs Peter, he takes them both to the future.
In this future, Peter finds out that a disease has spread across the globe and is taken to see his mother, who then helps him bring back some of his memories. His mother attempts to bring him home, but he sees Caitlin, and instead of being able to take them both home, he is only able to time travel himself back to the present where he then meets Adam, who helps him remember the past four months:
Saving Nathan after the explosion by taking him to the nearest hospital, just moment’s after dropping him off, Peter is caught by Elle and her father, one of the founders of the company. By them, he’s convinced to stay at Primatech and have his abilites controlled. Peter allows himself to be kept locked inside the Company for four months. Next to his cell is Adam’s, a man who slowly convinces him that the Company is keeping him imprisoned. After weening himself off the Haitian Pills’, Adam and Peter leave together and go heal Nathan. Once they leave the hospital, Adam gives him a planet ticket to Montreal, but Elle and the Haitian catch them. Elle goes after Adam whereas the Haitian goes after Peter, puts him into a cargo carrier and erases his memory.
Once Peter has his memory returned, he and Adam work to keep the future that Peter saw from occurring: the spread of the Shanti virus. Adam and Peter first go to Victoria Pratt, who gives them information on the location of the virus, but warns Peter that he’s helping Adam release the virus, like he’s tried to do once before. After leaving, Adam and Peter go to Primatech to destroy the virus, where they find Hiro, who also tells Peter that Adam is trying to release the virus. A fight ensues, and Hiro is knocked out by a blast from Peter. Adam and Peter make through way through Primatech, and open the vault where it’s located. Nathan and Matt find Peter and Adam and Nathan is finally able to convince Peter of Adam’s plans to release the virus and “wipe clean” the world. Peter rushes into the vault and saves the virus seconds before it’s released.
At the end of Volume 2, Nathan is seen shot during a press conference.
Volume 3: It’s revealed that the person who shot Nathan was a Peter from the future, to keep him from telling everyone about people with abilities. Future!Peter puts Present!Peter in the body of another man, Jesse, with abilities who’s kept at Primatech. During a fight on Level 5 of Primatech, Jesse/Present!Peter and his friends escape. After revealing himself to Nathan, F!Peter, teleports to Level 5 and finds Sylar and Angela, who he tells that this never occurred in his future. While this goes on, P!Peter, still trapped in the body of Jesse, is forced to help rob a bank. During the robbery, the other people he’s with realize that Jesse isn’t exactly himself and attack him. In the middle of the fight, F!Peter arrives and pushes Peter out of Jesse’s body before teleporting them both away. They then travel into a future where nearly everyone has abilities, and F!Peter tells P!Peter that he now has to stop this future that he’s created because the world will be destroyed by all the people with abilities. In the future, P!Peter finds a changed Sylar. They talk and Peter finds out that they’re “brothers.” Sylar gives Peter his ability so Peter can use it to save the world. After another large fight in Sylar’s house, Gabriel explodes, killing thousands of people.
After returning to the present, Peter goes to Sylar’s cell at Primatech where Sylar taunts Peter about the fact that they’re brothers. Peter not only fights Sylar but attempts to slice Angela’s head open as well - his rage from acquiring Sylar’s ability quickly beginning to show. Angela decides to keep Peter sedated at Primatech, but Sylar comes to save him and they both decide to attempt to control their hunger. After going to see Angela, Peter attacks Sylar in the halls of Primatech and sedates him instead.
Peter then teleports to Pinehearst where he ends up finding out that his father is alive. Arthur uses his ability to steal Peter’s and then takes him to Mohinder’s lab where Sylar saves him moments before he’s about to be injected with a formula to give him an ability again. Peter escapes while Sylar is attacked by Mohinder. Soon enough though, Peter again finds Sylar and warns him that anything Arthur might’ve told him is a lie. Arthur shows up a moment later and says they can change the future, but Sylar claims Peter isn’t going anywhere and telekinetically pushes Peter out a window, where he falls seven stories, landing in front of Claire and Elle, and survives (because Sylar purposefully kept him from dying).
Peter and Claire take off on the run together in an attempt to keep safe. But they return to Primatech to speak to Angela where she explains to Peter and Nathan that to keep the formula from being produced, Peter needs to keep Arthur from finding the host of the catalyst that the formula requires. Soon after, Nathan and Peter depart for Haiti to go after the Haitian. The entire trip to Haiti, Peter and Nathan fight. After finding the Haitian, Peter and Nathan help him deal with his brother. After the Haitian leaves to deal with him, Peter and Nathan have a discussion and Nathan admits that he thinks their father’s plan is a good idea. He tells Peter to call the embassy to get him, and then flies away, leaving Peter alone.
Once back, the Haitian and Peter go to Primatech, were Angela tells them that the only way to stop Arthur is a shot to the head and Peter takes the gun. With the Haitian, they make it to Pinehearst and confront Arthur while the Haitian subdues his ability. Right when Peter shoots, Sylar shows up and freezes the bullet. He questions Arthur about whether he’s his father, and reads his mind, only to find out that he’s been lied to. After claiming that Peter isn’t a murderer, he releases the bullet and Arthur is killed, after which, Sylar escapes.
Peter and Nathan argue about the fact that he’s released the formula to the military and Peter ends up knocking Nathan unconscious. With the help of Jesse and his friends, Peter is able to destroy Pinehearst, but not before finally choosing to inject himself with the formula. But before the entire place goes up in flames, Peter flies both himself and Nathan out of there.
Volume 4: Three weeks later, Peter has begun work as a paramedic. He finds out from Claire that Nathan is planning to round up people with abilities. Arriving at his apartment later, he finds Nathan and Bennett tasers Peter from behind. All the people with abilities are sedated and stashed aboard planes. Claire finds Peter and Mohinder and wakes them up, and they all attempt to take down the plane, but when Peter takes Tracy’s ability and freezes the side of a plane, it crashes. Peter attempts to escape with Claire but is caught by Bennett, and held at gunpoint until he finally lets him go. Later, Peter as well as a number of the others regroup and decide to go underground.
After keeping a close watch on Bennett, they find him and try to decide what to do. Peter, Matt, and Mohinder drug Bennett and then kidnap him, so that Matt can use his mind reading ability to interrogate him. They find out who’s in charge of the plan to capture the Heroes: a man by the name of Danko, who Peter then flies off to murder. Arriving at Danko’s apartment, Peter holds the other man at gunpoint, and Danko attempts to get Peter to kill him. After viewing this on a security camera, Nathan shows up and tries to keep Peter from doing anything rash, and Peter ends up shooting Danko in the shoulder. When Nathan tells him that an army squad is about to move in on Matt and Mohinder, he finally leaves, flying out the window. Getting there barely in time, Peter is able to rescue Matt and fly away, escaping to Isaac’s loft.
At Isaac’s loft Matt says that all he wants to do is find Daphne and suddenly a computer turns on and “Rebel” gives them her whereabouts. They leave for Washington, DC to find Daphne. Rebel sends Peter footage of the flight with the Heroes that were made hostages and Peter copies the footage to a hard drive. Matt ends up captured but Peter escapes. He calls Nathan and demands that Daphne and Matt are set free or he’ll give the video to the news. Peter ends up meeting Bennett on the roof of a parking garage and he warns him telepathically that it’s a trap. Danko manages to shoot Peter in the shoulder and he falls off the roof. But Nathan flies up and rescues him, taking him to safety. Angela and Nathan try to persuade Peter to come quietly, but refuses, hugs Nathan to steal his ability and flies away.
Later, Angela and Peter meet and he rescues her from Danko’s men. Peter tells his mother that all he wants is answers and they head to her church, so Angela can relax and have her dreams. Danko’s agents arrive after Peter and Angela talk. He calmly takes Angela and tto the confessionals to hide. Bennett is able to find them, but keeps their whereabouts secret. Later, Angela finally sleeps in the church and tells Peter that they have to bring together their family and find her sister.
Peter and Angela leave for “Coyote Sands” and meet Nathan and Claire there. Angela says that to understand what’s going to happen, they must dig up the past. After finding shallow graves, Peter demands to know what they’re digging up. Angela explains she came to Coyote Sands when she was a girl and her family died there, but that’s also where the young founders of The Company met, and where they vowed to never let what happened there, happen again. Peter refuses to ever be a part of the Company again, and he flies off, only to have Nathan follow. At a cafe, Nathan and Peter talk and begin to work through their frustrations with each other. After this, Peter and Nathan fly back to find Angela missing. Soon enough, they find her in a bunker and save her from her sister.
At the cafe, Peter, Claire, Bennett, Angela, and Nathan all watch as Sylar disguised as Nathan gives a live speech. Nathan leaves to keep Sylar from meeting the President and Peter follows. He arrives at Nathan’s office and from there they head off to the Stanton Hotel to the Presidential suite where they fight Sylar along with Claire. Nathan flies after Sylar while Peter and Claire head back downstairs together and Peter confirms he’s taken Sylar’s ability. Disguising himself as the President, Peter gets into a limo with Sylar, disguised as the White House chief of staff, and is able to capture him.
Volume 5: Bennett arrives at Peter’s apartment and he finds out that Danko is dead, killed by Edgar over a key to a safety deposit box and Bennett wants him to help. Peter only agrees because of an interest in Edgar’s ability. After fighting Edgar, they retrieve the box which has a compass inside, that they find only works in Peter’s hand. But Peter refuses to be involved with Bennett any longer and leaves.
Later, Samuel convinces Peter that he is a man that he hurt while working. Peter apologizes and they discuss the loss of Samuel’s brother, after which Samuel drops a lawsuit he had filed against him. Later, Peter and his partner from work arrive to help at a house that’s been dropped into a sinkhole. While there a tattoo appears on Peter’s arm of a spinning compass. When Peter goes to show Bennett, it has disappeared.
Peter returns home from work, and finds Hiro, who collapses in front of him. In an attempt to save Hiro, Peter goes with Bennett, to find a boy with healing abilities. They discover that the boy has learned to take life force’s away instead of healing. In a brief skirmish, Peter ends up shot, and Bennett is able to convince him to use his ability to save his life just before he dies. Peter returns to the hospital only to find that Hiro has again teleported away.
Feeling as if he might be starting to connect with Emma and other people again, Peter returns home, takes his newspaper clippings off the wall, and Nathan comes to visit. Peter goes with Nathan to his office where they discuss what’s been happening to him. The Haitian shows up and tells Peter the truth: that Sylar killed Nathan and that once Sylar was sedated, they turned him into Nathan and replaced all his memories. The Haitian gives Peter an address to a storage building, where Peter takes Nathan with him and they find Nathan’s dead body.
While keeping watch on Nathan in his apartment, Angela shows up with thanksgiving dinner. After a heated discussion, Sylar gains control of his body as well as Peter’s and Angela’s. Nathan manages to return to himself and flies out the window, followed by Peter. Later at the hospital, Peter is attacked by Sylar and they fight. Since he’d taken the Haitian’s ability earlier, Peter is able to erase Sylar’s memories once again. After this, Peter takes Nathan to a rooftop where he claims he can’t do it anymore, and after a heartbreaking conversation for Peter, Nathan jumps and releases Sylar completely, killing Nathan. Sometime after Nathan’s funeral, Peter asks if Claire can call West, who he borrows the ability of flight from to remember Nathan by.
Later, Peter is told by Angela that she dreams Emma kills thousands of people using her cello and that Peter cannot save her. After taking her ability, Peter dreams the same and goes to Emma’s apartment. There, he smashes her cello before leaving. Later, he goes to Matt’s house, and arrives just as Matt is packing Sylar, who is in a coma, behind a brick wall of his creation. Peter uses Matt’s ability to find out what he’s done, and in an attempt to save Sylar, is then transported into his mind.
Trapped, inside an empty city, Peter manages to find Sylar. He tries to convince him that he’s real and that Matt has put them into the dream, but also that he needs his help to save Emma. After a “month”, they discover they must break through a wall to escape. They work together and Sylar begins to apologize for all his actions. Finally breaking through, they wake up in Matt’s basement and learn they’ve only been in the dream for half a day.
Upstairs they find Eli and his clones, who they fight him along with Matt. Using Matt’s ability, Peter reads Eli’s mind to find out that Samuel is going to use his ability in NYC that night. Without the help of Matt, Peter and Nathan arrive at the carnival and Peter goes to find Samuel while Sylar rescues Emma. In the middle of Samuel’s act, Peter attacks, duplicates his ability, and they fight. After Hiro is able to teleport everyone away, Samuel loses his intensified ability and Peter is able to knock him down just as Bennett arrives. Sylar saves Emma and her and Peter talk just before they all watch as Claire jumps off the Ferris wheel.
Changes from canon, if AU: N/A
Personality:
Peter is, outwardly at least, rather simple when it comes to his personality. He’s fearless, selfless, loyal, and tries to be heroic to an incredibly dangerous fault. Peter’s a dreamer, caring, and sensitive, but he’s also naive, desperate to prove himself, and a pushover. He wants to save people, he wants to be someone special, he wants to make something of himself. But he’s far more complicated than his outward appearances show.
For a long time, Peter sees himself through his families eyes. He sees himself as incapable, unsuccessful, and unimportant, just as his father and his brother viewed him. But all Peter wants is to make something of himself, and has spent a good part of his life dreaming. Right before he jumps off the building in Volume 1, he tells Nathan that it’s his turn to be somebody, and his ability is a manifestation of that. His one chance to fulfill his dream to become the person he wants to be: a person capable of saving others, of being independent and capable, of being a hero.
It could be said that Peter is the black sheep of his family and even so, Peter is loyal to them in terms of trying to keep them safe. Throughout almost the entirety of volume 4, Peter works against his brother Nathan, while still telling him numerous times that he loves him. Similarly, Peter ends up regularly frustrated by his Mother, but still states that he loves her as well, that she’ll always be his mother even though she never gave him the support he needed when he was younger.
Even though Peter feels as if he needs them to be a hero, Peter is seen struggling with his ability through much of the volumes. Struggling to control them, struggling to deal with them, and struggling with the consequences of what it means to be a person with abilities. At times he feels trapped inside his ability, wishing he could use them to help people when at times all it seems that he can do anything but. When he finally does lose his ability for a brief time, he does what he can to see if he can still be a hero without them. Many of Peter’s goals, his dreams, his needs to feel like he’s worth something, rely around his ability to save other people, his family included.
For Peter, Claude is an incredibly important person in his life when it comes to awakening and understanding his ability. Claude tells him that Peter’s constant thinking of other people is hindering his abilities. Peter has to begin to believe in himself to be able to control them. He has to view himself the way he wants to, not the way his family his always chosen to view him. Claude is the first one who gives Peter an, albeit dangerous, shove in the direction of finding out who he truly is, and giving Peter a chance to become his own person. It’s through Claude that Peter learns that to control his ability, he has to remember the people that affected him. Peter is always connected to the people he knows, and always wants to care for them, keep them safe.
At times Peter can be easily manipulated, as witnessed by the second volume, where Adam uses him to find the virus. This is only occurs because of his need to do good. However, after his dealings with Adam, he becomes far stronger with his beliefs and ideals, knowing what he is and isn’t willing to do for other people. Also, Peter’s darker side shows when he’s angry, hurt by other’s actions, and when people he cares for are hurt. Peter can, at times, become easily frustrated, especially when he feels as if he’s been betrayed by someone he cares for. Not to mention, he believes that his opinions are the one and only correct ones, and he tends to stand by his morales, clinging to them and becoming easily offended when he’s told he’s wrong. Most of the time, his anger has to do with his family, but in instances such as when Isaac gives away his and Claude’s location, he becomes furious, pushed to the limit and willing to do things he wouldn’t do usually.
Later in the series, Peter goes so far as to lose most of his connections with family and friends in a fervent attempt to focus on helping people as many he can. After feeling as if he’s an incredibly large destructive force and a danger to others, Peter just wants to focus on helping people. But after remembering that his connections to people are still important, Peter again works to be closer to the people he loves. It’s a key point that Peter will break himself apart to help as many people as he can.
Abilities:
The ability that Peter has now, at the end of canon, is ability replication. Anyone that he touches that possesses an ability, he’s able to replicate and use that ability until he touches someone else. He can’t hold more than one ability at a time.