Aha! An interesting distinction. (Interesting, too, that Peter takes that rejection/abandonment as being unwanted as opposed to the slight off-chance that Angela - assuming she ordered it or the Haitian trying to do a good deed, which is more likely - wanted Peter to be safe. Angela did try to do that with Claire in S1…To be fair, this comes on the heels of Angela being 'okay' with Peter exploding and dying and 'hurting-to-help' isn't exactly what one thinks about when one thinks of Angela
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At this stage (late S4 or shortly post-S4), Peter does not believe Angela wants him safe. He doesn't believe he's her favorite, nor does he think that being her 'favorite' or in her favor is a good thing. He struggles with seeing her as a loving and human person. Most of her past actions, he sees with a suspicious and jaundiced eye. He knows that losing Nathan hurt her. He believes that if he (Peter) were lost, that would hurt her. He doesn't think that possible hurt to her means she will treat him any differently, or expend/use/eliminate him as soon as she needs to. He wonders if her maternal love towards him all those years was her playing a role and taking joy and pleasure in playing it well, rather than in actually loving him
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William Hooper (aka Samual Sullivan) tried to sue Peter in S4 for the whiplash at the train wreck. Sylar wouldn't know that (or rather, he wouldn't remember it).
For one thing there's a difference between switching sides and joining the literal enemy (and being turned into someone else you despise or envy) - someone who has persecuted, rejected, tortured you. Perhaps that's what you're describing because that makes more sense to me and in that sense, you would be very correct. When you have more to gain, differences or the past can be set aside - the pleasure/pain principal with the freedom of choice.
Darnit. There was something about your comment that made me realize Peter had noticed something about the fic, something hypocritical? Like…Peter noticed or classified his family as the enemy? Or was it…Ah! I can't remember!
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For one thing there's a difference between switching sides and joining the literal enemy (and being turned into someone else you despise or envy) - someone who has persecuted, rejected, tortured you. Perhaps that's what you're describing because that makes more sense to me and in that sense, you would be very correct. When you have more to gain, differences or the past can be set aside - the pleasure/pain principal with the freedom of choice.
Darnit. There was something about your comment that made me realize Peter had noticed something about the fic, something hypocritical? Like…Peter noticed or classified his family as the enemy? Or was it…Ah! I can't remember!
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I think you're right that the 'being morphed into someone else' is a big deal and a major difference between Peter and Sylar's identity crises.
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