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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Zo
AGE: 21
JOURNAL: underbaked
IM: percolate this
E-MAIL: roraroras@gmail.com
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Petrelli
FANDOM: Heroes | TV Show
CHRONOLOGY: Post-canon
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: ... Peter Petrelli?
ALTER EGO: Peter Petrelli; Nurse.
BACKGROUND:
World:
The only major difference to Peter’s canon “world” from the real world is that there are people with abilities. Similar to the idea of mutants, people with abilities are simply people that have genetically evolved to be able to do such things as flying, healing, turning invisible, and inducing radioactivity. Otherwise, Peter Petrelli’s world, or his life, is centralized in New York city, where he was born and raised. It’s a fairly modern day world, starting in the year 2006, and ending in 2007/2008, with nothing too different about it. There’s no magic or dinosaurs, all technology is normal, and it’s exactly like the real world, save for people with abilities.
History & Connections:
In Volume 1, Peter starts off as a hospice nurse, who is only just starting to understand his abilities. Through much of this season, Peter struggles to understand his abilities, himself, and his role when it comes to saving the world. Some of the major canon events that occur in this season are: when Peter learns about his abilities and jumps off a roof, saving the cheerleader (Claire) from Sylar, learning about the explosion and trying to gain control of his abilities with Claude’s help, and eventually exploding in New York.
Claude Rains used to be a former agent of the Company, who in fact used to work with Noah Bennett, Claire’s father. Eventually, he saw the error of the ways in which the Company actually used people with evolved humans, and he rebelled. Noah was ordered to kill Claude, and attempted to do so, but Claude managed to survive. Considering his ability, which was invisibility, he went into hiding. At least, until Peter passed by him on the street, turning invisible himself without knowledge of doing so, making him able to see through Claude’s ability. Peter begs Claude to help him understand his abilities, and eventually agrees.
Isaac Mendez is a man that Peter meets through Simone, the daughter of Charles Deveaux, a man he works for at the very beginning of this volume. Isaac Mendez is Simone’s first love interest, and is able to paint the future, but he believes he’s only able to do it while high. He paints a few notorious images of Peter, one in which he’s flying, and one in which he’s exploding. For a period of time, Isaac was held inside of The Company in an attempt to gain control of his abilities, but eventually left. In an act of jealousy once he finds out that Peter and Simone have been involved, Isaac ends up telling Noah that Peter is dangerous, and that he needs to be stopped at all costs. Noah is able to find Peter and Claude, and Claude ends up being captured and killed. Peter and Isaac then end up getting into an argument which turns violent, and Simone is killed.
One of the first people that Peter learns he has to save is Claire, aka the cheerleader. This gives him his first drive towards saving the world, which is in essence his drive throughout his entire life. This is an incredibly important event in Peter’s life, both because he’s able to save Claire, and because he’s able to meet her. Peter and Claire’s relationship is one that’s incredibly important to him, and continues to grow stronger as the series continues. Claire is eventually found out to be the illegitimate daughter of Nathan Petrelli and Meredith Gordon, a woman whose ability is to create and control fire. Noah was ordered to take care of her in an attempt to keep her from discovering her own abilities as well as simply keeping her safe.
Matt Parkman is another character that Peter meets early on in the volume. He’s a police officer who is one of the first on the scene of the crime after Sylar attempts to kill Claire. He takes Peter into custody, believing that he was the one who tried to kill her. Matt has the ability to read minds, and eventually the ability to coerce people through their thoughts, trap them in their own minds, create “dream-like” states of consciousness to trap people into, and to enter other peoples minds. Matt tries to read Peter’s mind, and once Peter gains this ability, they negate each other. Matt eventually realizes that Peter is innocent and their friendship is continuously forged throughout the seasons.
Hiro is another character that Peter meets. Firstly, he meets Hiro’s future self, who is the one that tells him to save the cheerleader to save the world. Eventually, Peter meets present day Hiro and his best friend Ando. Hiro has the ability to teleport, and to “bend the fabric of space and time.” Peter looks for Hiro in an attempt to find out who Claire is, hoping to get more information, and they form a friendship that extends throughout the entire series. Hiro himself spends much of the series on a constant quest to save the woman he fell in love with, continuously hopping through time and creating alternate realities in an attempt to keep her alive.
Lastly, Peter encounters Sylar in this volume. Sylar, previously known as Gabriel Gray, is the first person to “kill” Peter sometime after he tries to kill Claire. This is when it’s discovered that anyone who’s capable of rapid cell regeneration has an “off switch” at the top of the spinal cord, and if something is inserted into this spot, the person is rendered dead until it’s removed. Throughout volume one, Sylar is Peter’s main adversary, and for a short period of time, Peter believes that it’s actually Sylar who explodes, not him. But Peter is indeed the person who gains induced radioactivity and cannot control it, however Sylar does want to be the person to explode, and they engage in a fight at the end of this volume.
In volume 2, the major events that occur to Peter are that he allows himself to be put inside of Primatech, he meets Adam, and he and Adam escape from Primatech to “destroy a virus” and to save Nathan since he was badly burnt by the explosion. However, Peter and Adam are split up for a period of time, and Peter has his memory erased and is sent to Ireland. Relearning about his abilities in Ireland, Adam eventually finds him, and they continue on their quest to destroy the virus, even though Adam wants to release it and bring about mass genocide onto the world.
Primatech is both a fake business, called Primatech Paper Company, which is a front for something called The Company. It’s specific purpose is for locating and tracking specials, or people with abilities. However, the Company performs experiments on people with abilities, attempting to find out just what people can do by pushing them to dangerous and sometimes painfully violent limits.
Peter’s connections to the company start with the fact that his parents were part of the 12 founders. At the same time, Adam was also one of the founders, and a man that Peter meets while being held inside Primatech itself. Adam is a man with the ability of rapid cell regeneration, and has survived for 400 years, which means that rapid cell regeneration also deems you immortal. He was put inside Primatech as a means of keeping the world safe because of his attempts to destroy it using the virus. When Hiro teleports to the past, he finds Adam in Japan and tells him that he’s meant to be a hero by the name of Takezo Kensei, but he accidentally falls in love with the same woman he tells Adam he’s meant to fall in love with. Adam claims that if it wasn’t for Hiro, he would have never become a villian.
The twelve founders of The Company, along with Arthur, Angela, and Adam were: Charles Deveaux, Kaito Nakamura, Maury Parkman, Victoria Pratt, Susan Amman, Robert Bishop, Harry Fletcher, Paula Gramble, Daniel Linderman, and Carlos Mendez. Carlos Mendez is never outright connected to Isaac Mendez, but it’s a theory that he is indeed his father. Daniel Linderman went on to become the chairman of the Company, and has the ability to heal. Linderman had hoped that Peter would explode and cleanse the world, wanting to start off fresh so he could create a better, stronger population. Paula Gramble, Harry Fletcher, and Susan Amman are characters that are never discussed. Maury Parkman turns out to be Matt Parkman’s father, and Kaito Nakamura is Hiro’s father. Victoria Pratt was a biological engineer, who ended up discovering the Shanti virus. She’s ordered by The Company to turn the virus into a weapon and manages to create Strain 128. Once she realizes what she’s done and discovers that Adam is trying to release it, she helps put Adam inside of Primatech to keep the world safe. After this, she goes into hiding and leaves the Company for good.
The virus itself is continuously mentioned during the series, as there are a number of strains of it. Strain 138 is the one that Adam wants to release, and if inflicted upon the world, would kill 93% of the population. Another strain of the virus, The Shanti Virus (also known as the original strain), is capable of preventing evolved humans from using their abilities along with causing a life threatening disease that effects the nervous system. A third strain of the virus, an unmade strain, is used by the Company itself to keep evolved humans from using their abilities.
The reason the virus is called The Shanti virus, is because Shanti Suresh was the first known victim. Shanti is the deceased older sister of Mohinder Suresh, who are both children of a man by the name of Chandra. Chandra wrote a book about people with abilities and genetic evolution after doing a vast amount of research, which Peter found and read when he was trying to understand his own abilities. Peter tried to find Chandra and found Mohinder instead, a man trying to continue his father’s investigative work, and they forged a strained relationship ever since.
Interestingly enough, Mohinder has, in his blood, antibodies that can destroy the original strain of the virus. If he is to mix it with Claire’s blood, which has regenerative abilities, the antibodies only become stronger. It can than affect other mutated strains of the virus in people who have received it. In essence, Mohinder’s blood is the only cure for the virus itself. A side fact, which is important to note, is that Claire’s blood, as well as Adam’s, can be used to heal the person it was injected into, in the same manor as Claire and Adam are able to “heal”. Though it’s only able to heal them for a short period of time, it is used a number of different times to save other characters such as Nathan.
In volume 3, an incredibly large number of things happen to Peter, all of which effect him greatly. For a period of time, his future self puts him in someone else’s body, after which he’s transported to the future and gains Sylar’s ability, as well as finding out that he has to keep another potential future from occurring. Peter returns to the present where another pivotal event occurs: he finds out that his father is still alive, and Arthur (his father) takes his ability. Sylar’s able to stop Arthur by killing him, and eventually Peter injects himself with a new ability and helps to destroy Pinehearst.
Pinehearst is another company, a biotechnology based one that had interests in evolved humans. Arthur and Nathan were the known leaders of the company. Pinehearst was where Arthur Petrelli worked from, his headquarters of operations. Its purpose was to “rebuild the future” and to hopefully give everyone on Earth, abilities. In a potential future that Peter visits with his future self, Peter’s told that he has to stop this future from occurring, not every person in the world is meant to have an ability. This is exactly why Peter works to stop Pinehearst, his father, and his brother from doing so.
Pinehearst uses a genetic modification formula, also used by the company. It’s capable of giving synthetic abilities to anyone injected with it. The formula for the virus itself consisted of three parts: two halves of a document that was held in Kaito Nakamura’s and Angela Petrelli’s possession. The last part was a catalyst, which was found within Hiro Nakamura. The only way the formula could work, was with Hiro. Mohinder was able to create a genetic modification formula on his own, but his creation didn’t have the catalyst and resulted in terrible side-effects, practically turning him into a monster.
The physical formula was able to be destroyed by Peter and Flint, another man held inside of Primatech, and the documents were destroyed by Hiro. The catalyst was eventually destroyed when both Peter and Sylar killed Arthur Petrelli, who was holding the catalyst inside himself at the time.
In volume 4, the main canon event that takes place is the secret government agency that tries to capture and put away people with abilities, an agency that Nathan is involved with. Peter ends up going on the run and working with Matt and Mohinder to try to stop Building 26 from functioning. This only works until both Matt and Mohinder are captured, and Peter ends up on the run by himself, attempting black mail on Nathan and Danko, and eventually finding his way back to his mother, who helps work to bring their family back together.
Building 26 is a sector of the agency of the Department of Homeland security, which was started by Nathan as an organization specifically made to hunt down and imprison people with abilities. It’s a secret agency, also run by Noah Bennett as well as other unnamed people. After capturing people with abilities, it keeps said people under complete sedation, effectively rending them completely unable to use any of their abilities.
Danko was, previously, a senior agent of the Department of Homeland security, who ended up being the leader of the group of soldiers that worked for Building 26 and were used to hunt down evolved humans. He was considered to be a massive threat to all people with abilities, using violence at any cost to bring down people. Peter at one point goes so far as to break into his home and holds him at gun point in an attempt to stop him from continuing his work with Building 26. This doesn’t work and only spurns Danko on more, causing him to eventually part ways with Nathan Petrelli in terms of their opinions, and continue to work with Building 26 on his own terms.
In volume 5, Heroes goes a little off its rocker. The show’s plot begins to degrade, and the entire plot of Sylar being turned into Nathan is shaky at best. However! The two most important parts of this volume in terms of Peter’s life are: Nathan’s death, and “The Wall” aka Peter being stuck inside of Sylar’s head for a period of nearly 8 years.
Nathan’s death effects Peter greatly, especially since at the beginning of the volume, Peter is seen trying his hardest to keep everyone at a distance and immerse himself in his job. Even so, he still always feels as if he has Nathan. So when he finds out that his brother was killed by Sylar, and that his mother tried to cover it up by turning Sylar into Nathan, he’s anything but pleased. He even tries to exact revenge on Sylar, torturing him until he can get his brother back. And even then, Nathan finds it too hard to fight back against Sylar being inside of his body and constantly gaining control and eventually throws himself off a roof.
Secondly, “The Wall”, where Peter is forced to seek Sylar’s help to once again save the world, but accidentally gets himself stuck in Sylar’s mind, is another vastly important part of volume five. Peter needs to get Sylar’s help to once again save hundreds of people’s lives, because he can’t do it himself. Just this fact unto itself is hard enough for Peter to cope with, but he finds out that Matt has tried to hide Sylar away in his house behind a brick wall, and Peter attempts to wake him back up. In doing so, Peter ends up trapped in Sylar’s mind with him, in a completely empty New York save for them. They spend around 8 years together, supposedly, with Peter spending nearly the entire time raging mad at Sylar. Eventually, the only way they break out is when Peter’s able to forgive Sylar and the break through the wall.
One last important note regarding this season, is the carnival, run by a group of people all with abilities. Samuel is the man who is the leader of this group, and hopes to expose people with abilities to the outside world, wanting them to be the people in control. He manages to invade nearly all of the heroes lives, finding his way to Peter, Claire, Sylar, and Hiro, wanting them all to end up on his side. His abilities are made stronger when he surrounds himself with other people with abilities, which is why he runs the carnival itself. He eventually takes the carnival to New York, where he hopes to expose all of them by showing exactly how strong they are and killing hundreds of people. Peter and Sylar work to stop Samuel and manage to save everyone. However, Claire still exposes all of them, by jumping off a ferris wheel.
Important Character Relationships:
Peter & Nathan: One of the most important relationships that Peter has is the one with his brother. Peter is always shown forgiving his brother for some reason or another, and even though Nathan frustrates him immensely, he always turns back to him. He looks to Nathan for a constant connection, for something to tie him back to his own family, and as someone he looks up to. Since Peter’s father was rarely there for him, and Nathan taught him a number of things growing up, it could be believed that Peter almost sees Nathan as more of a father figure than a brother, also influenced by their large difference in ages. Their constant connection can be seen from the first season where Nathan is the first person he talks to about his abilities, to the fourth season where Peter tries to do whatever he can to get his brother back from Sylar’s body. Even though Peter is at near constant odds with his brother, he’s always willing to give Nathan’s fault and admit to the fact that he still loves him.
Peter & Claire: Peter instantly develops a close relationship with Claire upon first meeting. Claire is someone that Peter is always desperate to keep safe, undoubtedly because she’s the first person he sets out to save. Whenever he can, he feels responsible for her safety. But out of everyone in his family, Claire (his niece) seems to be the one person who never outright judges Peter’s actions, betrays him, or uses him for any personal means. They’re incredibly close and rarely seen arguing, and Peter has conversations with her about how he feels, which he barely ever does with anyone else. She’s a confidant to him, and he values their relationship greatly.
Peter & Angela: Peter has a similar relationship with his Mother that he has with his Nathan, and at the same time, Peter’s relationship with his Mother is strained in a different way. Angela tells Peter that they (her and Arthur) gave Peter support, but they never supported him. Peter always feels second best to his brother, and that he could never stand up to his brother’s actions in his parent’s eyes. Also, Angela is a woman who lies to everyone, and is incredibly good at being deceitful, but in her heart she is desperate to protect her family. And on a base level, Peter can relate to this, but the way that she tries to keep people safe generally only irritates Peter. This regularly puts a strain on their relationship, but at the end of the day, Peter still wants to keep his Mother safe.
Peter & Arthur: Peter’s relationship with his father isn’t covered extensively, but it is shown that Peter’s not exactly close to him. Even more so with Arthur than Angela, Peter feels somehow that he can never compare to Nathan, and that his Father felt this even more so, which wasn’t helped by the fact that Arthur was an absent father. When Arthur takes Peter’s abilities and continues on his quest to give everyone abilities, Peter goes so far as to nearly kill him, something he’s never seen doing to any of the other members of his family. It can easily be said that out of everyone in his family, Peter’s father is the one he cares for the least, if at all.
Peter & Sylar: Throughout the course of Heroes, Peter and Sylar’s relationship is one that could be said to change the most. He goes from an intense hatred of Sylar, to one that in the end of the show, could almost be said to be something of a bond between them, even though Sylar killed Nathan. Sylar can almost been seen as the basic constant threat to all of them, and Peter views him as an adversary, ever since he tried to kill Claire. Peter’s feelings towards Sylar almost seem to shift when Sylar save’s Peter’s life, however at the time, he believes them to be brothers. But once again, when Peter finds out that Sylar killed Nathan, the only thing he wants is revenge. Peter struggles to let go of his anger and forgive Sylar so he can go to him for help, but this isn’t even remotely easy for him. While it’s not really shown whether or not Peter believes them to be friends, he does work with him, which puts an incredible strain on Peter’s morals, and how he feels about the loss of his brother.
Peter & Adam: This particular relationship is one that could be said to harm Peter the most. He puts a tremendous amount of trust in Adam, which can be seen by the way he nearly kills Hiro for the other man. The only person who’s able to convince Peter that Adam has been lying to him, is Nathan, which shows who’s opinion he values most. It also expresses that while staying in Primatech, Adam obviously had important discussions with Peter we never saw, that allowed for the other man to completely manipulate Peter into being on his side. Peter’s obviously betrayed in this aspect, and he’s guilt ridden by what he almost does to the world at large.
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.
Peter’s personality post-canon is vastly different from it is in season one. In season one, Peter is much more hopeful, optimistic, and is forever the day dreamer. He jumps off a roof simply as an attempt to express that he can be something more. Peter is desperate to be something special, to find a way to mean something, and in general has a much brighter, youthful approach to the world. He’s far more conversational, and interested in the people in his life.
Comparatively, in season four, Peter is much more interested in cutting himself off from the world and focusing wholly on saving people. Especially so, after the death of his brother. Peter has trouble feeling as if he’s capable of saving people, and also uses it as a way to distract himself from actually coping. He feels as if no matter what he’s done, he still hasn’t saved enough people, and Nathan only further proves that point because he wasn’t able to protect his brother. In the last season, while Peter has become far more pessimistic and takes on a darker approach to his own life, he’s still eventually capable of forgiveness and is, at the core, as interested in saving the world as he ever was.
POWER:
Peter’s ability from the canon point he’s going to be taken from is ability replication. This means that he can pick up the ability of whoever he touches, but he can only hold onto one ability at a time. This ability is one that he injected himself with, after his father stole his original ability (empathetic mimicry.)
Specifically, the ability that he has post-canon, is terrakinesis, which is the ability to control and manipulate geological/organic, things like dirt and rocks. This means he’d have the ability to create sinkholes, and in essence move the ground that people walk upon.
However, this is subject to change. All he has to do is touch someone to be able to absorb their abilities. Granted, this should be taken on a case by case basis. Personally, I don’t think that Peter should be able to absorb magical abilities, or something that’s attributed to a different species (vampires having super speed as an example.) But I do think that dealing with this from character to character, is the best way to handle whether or not he’d be able to absorb someone’s ability.
Personally, I don’t think that Peter should be able to absorb magical abilities, or something that’s attributed to a different species (vampires having super speed as an example.) But I do think that dealing with this from character to character, is the best way to handle whether or not he’d be able to absorb someone’s ability.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
[ When the video starts, there’s some obvious fumbling with the device, the line of the city’s horizon blurring as the comm moves around. When Peter eventually thinks he’s gotten the thing to work, he looks anything but pleased. Granted, that’s basically his normal expression nowadays, but he’s definitely not interested in even pretending to joke around.
But at least he’s found a come hideaway, a roof of some building over-looking the city as dusk starts to settle in. ]
Weirder things have happened, being stuck in my city without it really being the place I call home. At least there’s people around this time-- [ He cuts himself off, changing the topic almost instantly. ]
This is probably a stupid question -- any chance of getting back? Finding a way home? I’m from New York, but somebody’s living in my apartment building and this place isn’t... it’s not the same. Has anyone done it?
[ He doesn’t even know if he’s in shock, but he’s anything but horrified by the situation at hand, which is obvious by the almost neutral tone his voice has taken on. But his voice does go faintly more quiet before he speaks up again. ]
I don’t know if I can be a hero anymore. [ The feed cuts off before he can say anything more. ]
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
This wasn’t the first time he’d been stuck somewhere. Granted, this was nothing like Sylar’s mind -- he’d been alone there, save for the other man. Save for the one person he never wanted to forgive.
But here, here he was anything but alone. And in a strange way, he almost wished he was. It had been hard to make connections ever since Nathan’s death. Making connections felt like the last thing he wanted to do. Bring more people into his life, and risk loosing them. Risk getting asked questions about his brother, risk feeling more, and risk having to mourn the death of someone he thought he’d never have to loose.
Except, as always, there was the temptation of being a hero.
Save the cheerleader, save the world. Change the future, save the world. Stop Emma, save the world. Every aspect of his life had become about saving the world and it had begun to feel as if even when he did save the world, he barely saved any lives. And now he was here, and there was no way he could run away.
Taking his dog tags and his communicator, all Peter wanted to do was find somewhere he could stop and think. Which was why he wandered. He could almost pretend this place was home -- it was, in essence. It looked almost exactly like it, some sort of off brand version of New York. And in a way, Peter almost wondered if Nathan would be here. Some alternate world version of Nathan, but still him.
And somehow, he still found his apartment building. But someone else had his apartment and the last place he wanted to go was some other home. And yet, he did. He went to his new place, and he walked right past it and up onto the roof, where he sat on the ledge and stared. None of this felt real, none of it felt right, but here he was. He didn’t know if he was being given another chance, another opportunity to actually be a hero. But even if he was, some part of him didn’t want to do it without Nathan.