Taxon Application
Your name/crazy internet handle/whatever: Kristi
Personal journal: bashipforever
Email: writer@allengames.com
Characters played (if applicable):Sam Winchester, John Winchester, Lucy Locke, Spencer Reid
Character name: Peter Petrelli (From the Exposed Future/Alternate Reality)
Genre (TV/books/etc): TV
Fandom: Heroes
Canon point: Mid way into I Am Become Death--Just before Claire shoots him.
Programmed Possession: His 2007 New York apartment complete with the String map.
String Map
Living Room
Foyer
And just for kicks. The painting of the world splitting that Peter keeps painting: Here
Abilities/Weaknesses: Peter is an empathic mimic which basically means he has a crap ton and a half of abilities.:
• Precognitive dreaming (Dreams of the future-these don’t always come true. They’re mean to be warnings)
Flight (He can break the sound barrier)
Precognition (he paints the future)
Rapid cell regeneration (Healing like Claire)
Telepathy (He can read minds but like Matt, it’s more than that. He can ‘push’ someone into a thought he wants, a decision he wants. It is assumed-although never seen in Peter-that he can also lock someone in their own mind the way that Matt can.)
Invisibility,
Telekinesis,
Space-time manipulation (to the point that he can ‘freeze’ time)
Induced radioactivity (Peter is THE bomb-I’m sorry I couldn’t help it)
Electric manipulation,
Phasing,
Enhanced strength,
Illusion,
Body insertion(sort of like demon possession minus the demon. Two people, one body)
As far as weaknesses go…he’s Peter. It’s really the only weakness he needs. He has an insane amount of guilt over things that aren’t necessarily his fault. Couple that with the hero complex-he’s convinced that he was given these powers for a reason and that reason must be to save the world-he’s got all the weaknesses he needs. He makes decisions when he can’t see the outcome clearly, he lets his heart get in the way of his head, basing decisions on his feelings, thoughts and perceptions; things that are usually wrong. Peter has ‘stepped on too many butterflies’ in his world. He’s made so many mistakes that he can’t set his world back right.
He’s also got a compulsive need to control things out of being a good guy. He can’t accept that maybe the bad guys do win because he believes so strongly he was given his powers to change the future. However, he doesn't necessarily see himself as a good guy anymore. He takes responsibility for the things that he has done, and does whatever he has to because he believes that the end justifies the means. He will sacrifice himself to make sure that the world survives, but he carries the burden of his failures with him and they cloud his judgment when he's trying to save the world. He hates that it all rests on his shoulders. This leads to him really not liking it when he’s not in control of pretty much everything.
Psychology/Personality: Peter is bitter, cynical and he’s lost his faith in his world and in humanity as a whole. He piles the guilt upon himself, taking responsibility for global warming, the polar ice caps melting and every single thing everyone named Petrelli has ever done and then some. He believes that the world is messed up, screwed up and screwed over because of him and everything he did or didn’t do or foresee or count on. He’s even egocentric to a point in his guilt. He’s determined, defines broody, self-deprecating and overall miserable. He’s alone by choice and by circumstance. He believes that everyone that comes in contact with him is doomed and pushes people away from him but at the same time he needs people to stay even while he’s pushing them away. It’s almost a test.
Despite his solitude, he’s very needy with the people he does allow close. He tries to be distant and cold, succeeding to a point. He’s hard and jaded because nothing has worked out the way he thought it would. However, despite all of this hardness, he’s still got hope. It’s faint and it’s weak and to an extent he tries to extinguish it because he’s afraid it’ll only end in more failure but it is still there. It’s the shadow of who he used to be buried underneath so much pain and guilt. He’s still good hearted but he’s much more willing to deal with collateral damage. He’s more a realist in every way than his past self is. He’s been through a war, he’s fighting a war and he wants it to be over, even at and possibly especially at the cost of his own life. All of that being said, Peter isn’t suicidal and never has been. That pesky hope thing keeps him from that along with a dash of lingering faith in people.
Outside of everything, Peter is loyal. When he loves he will go to the ends of the earth for someone. He will allow himself to beat hurt and used over and over again knowing that it’s going to end in pain for him. He just tends to be more guarded now. He knows that he can't trust his loved ones to make decisions that he'll agree with. He knows that his brother betrayed him and his niece wants to kill him. Peter accepts that he has to fight alone, against them. They don't understand the bigger picture because they don't have prophetic dreams and do not possess the ability to paint the future. He has knowledge that they won't accept, so he has to use it on his own.
History:
Peter Petrelli is the child of Angela and Arthur Petrelli, both parents with abilities. He was born in Manhattan to a privileged family. Growing up Petrelli came with an onslaught of pressures and expectations. Peter failed to meet these expectations time and again but it was tolerated because he was the ‘baby’. It is also possible (though not confirmed) that Mrs. Petrelli knew was Peter would grow to do and be, a situation that allowed him more leeway than Nathan received. He went to a private school, graduated and then much to Arthur Petrelli’s horror attended nursing school. Peter was the dreamer, the idealist of the Petrelli family. Peter’s life began to change in 2005 when he discovered he was an empathic mimic. It took another drastic change in 2007 when Nathan made a speech that would change the world. He told the world about people with abilities and set off a chain of events. Peter’s world is one in which everyone has abilities. Nathan is president and the world is in chaos because of the sheer number of abilities. He keeps painting pictures that show the world breaking in half. In order to counteract that, Nathan is on a mission to terminate all the people with dangerous abilities. His brother, long estranged because of their difference of opinions on the abilities issue, is on the top of that list. Peter is a known terrorist, working against the factories that produce the compound to give people abilities. He’s also working against Nathan, trying to save people with abilities that Nathan would have killed.
Peter is also working against his niece, Claire-the cheerleader he once saved and the first person to make him feel like he was a hero. This hurts Peter even more than the estrangement between he and Nathan. Claire was always his cheerleader, his girl and the person he most wanted to protect and save the world for. Now she’s working for Nathan and determined to stop Peter.
Three years after Nathan’s speech Peter plants a bomb in Pinehearst, killing everyone except Claire and Daphne. When he confronts Claire days later he confesses to killing 200 people but views it as collateral damage. He had dreamed of the future and he knew that by killing those 200 people, he saved millions. Claire can’t forgive him because Peter’s terrorist act left her alone and gave birth to her new goal of killing Peter.
Claire caught Peter unaware one day. She was working with the Haitian. She tasered him, had him taken back to Pinehearst’s new headquarters and there she took out all her pain on him. Drugs were used to dampen his powers while she tortured him for days and weeks on end, not allowing him to ever heal. After weeks, she assumed she had broken him and let her guard down but Peter is harder to break than that. He escaped from Pinehearst, got far away and healed but a diagonal scar from his forehead, across his nose and down his cheek reminds him not to trust anyone like that again. It reminds him of the things he’s done and all the ways he’s failed because of course what Claire did to him wasn’t Claire’s fault. It was a reaction to the things he’d done.
Peter continues to work toward trying to ‘fix’ the world and continues to fail miserably. Nothing he does makes the world any better so he turns to his last, desperate measure. Claire catches up with him again, possibly aware of what Peter is about to do. She points a gun at his head with the intention of killing him and he narrowly escapes by freezing time, the bullet centimeters from his nose. He takes the gun from her and uses the time travel he gained from Hiro to go back to 2007 during Nathan’s speech. As a last resort he shoots his brother three times in the chest just before he spills his big secret. He is caught in the middle of his escape by Matt Parkman. Peter has more work to do there and he stashes his current self in the body of Jesse Murphy, a dangerous abilitied person that is contained in Level 5 of The Company. When Matt catches him, Peter reveals himself-he’s been using illusion to stay hidden-and then teleports Matt away to Africa (He’s like a travel agent only you don’t get to PICK where you’re going. Matt wanted to go to Africa, really)
Peter spends his time in 2007 with a string map in his apartment. He’s trying to figure out what to do next, where to go next to make sure his future-and everyone else’s-turns out better. In the meantime, Sylar has let out everyone on Level 5, including Jesse Murphy, the man Peter put his current self into using the body insertion power. Now Peter has to find himself before he gets in more trouble-because he’s well aware that past himself IS that stupid. He eventually finds Jesse Murphy/Peter in the middle of a bank heist. He stops it, gets himself out of Jesse’s body and they travel to the future. Or they’re supposed to. This is the point where Peter shows up in taxon sans his younger self.
Arrival Post/Character Voice
He’s always disoriented for a moment when he arrives someplace, body tense, wired for worry. What if he’d gotten it wrong? He opens his eyes, brow furrowed as he scans the room. Apparently this time, he’s gotten it very wrong. He’s supposed to be in 2011 New York…with his younger, stupider self.
“Peter?” he says, turning a full circle in the circular room. Hesitantly he steps toward the pedestal with the electronic device on it. There aren’t many people who can do this.
“Hiro?”
It’s a logical second guess but when he gets no response he picks the device up pushing some buttons and unexpectedly pulling up a map. Taxon. Right. He’s never heard of that but maybe somehow…
“I need to get back to 2011 New York City. Or 2007. The world is on a path that you are not going to like if I don’t fix it. Nathan is set to turn the whole world into a comic book gone bad and right now? Everything is depending on…” he sighs and runs a hand over his slicked back hair. “This…Peter. He needs my help or he’s not going to get this right.”
When there’s no response, he considers throwing the tablet across the room but calmer heads prevail and he hangs onto it, noticing the bracelet fused to his wrist for the first time. The pit of his stomach drops out and he realizes that somehow he’s made everything much, much worse.
Third Person Sample:
http://mybrothershadow.livejournal.com/103731.html