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Bricks in the Wall, Chapter 44: What I Like About You

Mar 09, 2013 11:46

Title: What I Like About You: Sylar
Characters: Sylar, Peter Petrelli
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 647
Setting: The Wall
Summary: What Peter likes about Sylar.
Notes: Thanks to DD3 for the idea. This isn't a story so much as a list - five points for each of them.

( What Peter likes about Sylar )

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means2bhuman March 10 2013, 22:16:01 UTC

I loved this - the style, the topic, the points you chose, the perspectives/motives, descriptions ( ... )

game_byrd March 10 2013, 22:46:14 UTC

Peter's reasons came out as 'things he wants to do' (I wanna do Sylar, I wanna help, I wanna support Sylar's change). Sylar's reasons came out as 'traits he wants in someone else'. Peter's list is action-oriented; Sylar's is properties/characteristics (or 'powers' he wants to collect ( ... )

Totally IMO, hopefully helpful means2bhuman March 10 2013, 23:12:09 UTC

For me (and I'm not lodging any kind of complaint against Peter or anyone's writing), I've noticed that, too. My MBU muse has noticed it (weird because he's not getting any and he's not in that situation yet.Probably because he knows vaguely what Peter wants, won't admit it, can't be/give it, and Peter's not acting/reacting how Sylar thinks he should or how Sylar thinks a normal, desiring person should). This applies to canon Peter, too. It's his version of "Why did you kill Elle, you had little/no reason to?" It's just a mystery and you can solve it or not how you want ( ... )

Re: Totally IMO, hopefully helpful game_byrd March 10 2013, 23:32:17 UTC

It's not just a romantic love thing for Peter, either. I see the same pattern in his interactions with his parents and Nathan, with his job, with his heroing, his response to adversity and his response to pain. Hit him, shock him, burn him - he screams, he tries to get away or stop it, and then ... nothing. He stops because the pain stops and he does a check-in with the source to see if he's going to get hurt again. But he doesn't tend to take it personally and it certainly doesn't seem to 'sink in' for him like it does for other people. I think I've stepped outside the canon characterization by giving him issues with his father and trauma from some of the things that have happened to him ( ... )

Re: Totally IMO, hopefully helpful means2bhuman March 11 2013, 00:01:15 UTC

I totally get that, both Sylar and I. I think Sylar and I (maybe you?) are the same in that showing/action is easier. And I totally agree about that problem being canon, too! You as an author have done wonders for fleshing out his emotions and motivations, you gave him, well, character ( ... )

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