And that, Sylar sees, is Peter Petrelli. Even without his memory, this need for trust and purpose and emotional support is so deeply ingrained that it's what he defaults to. He has to feel connected to someone, anyone, or he's lost. Whether he realises it or not, he has to feel like he's saving the world. But he can't see the world for what it is. So he tries to save the one he's built on childish blocks of black-and-white, good-and-evil, hero-and-villain morality.
Brilliant summerization of all that is Peter Petrelli! <3 Actually, this whole story is brilliant. I can't wait to see what happens next. Your descriptions of the snow storm in the previous part were awesome; made me feel like I was actually experiencing it.
Thank you very much for the comment. :) Glad you liked the story! Even though it got all long and wordy for some reason. (Sylar and Peter wouldn't shut up once they started snarking at each other, heh.) I'm happy you liked the bits with the snow storm; the story kinda spun off from that image of the two of them meeting on a road during a blizzard.
I'm not a huge Peter fan, but thinking about his flaws made him interesting to write. Can't fault the guy for trying - his heart's generally in the right place even when his brain isn't - but he could use a smack upside the head sometimes (where's Claude when you need him?).
Heh, I'm not sure I'll write any more of this. I do have ideas kicking around for how the rest of the plot would play out. But it took a loooong time to write this, and it's so long and wordy (and *gasp* GEN) that not many people will read it. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
You are very welcome. I'm a huge Peter fan, but I can understand that he's not everybody's cup of tea. I'm an even bigger fan of Peter/Sylar, so I'm a sucker for any fics that feature them together. And it's such an interesting concept, what would've happened if they'd met up when Peter was amnesic.
I agree though that Peter does occasionally need a smack upside the head to give him some perscpective, heh.
Well, if you ever do decide to write more, I'll definitely be one to read it! :D
Between the Sylar thread at TWoP and Forsquilis' fantastic fic, I'm convinced that a powerless!Sylar and amnesia!Peter roadtrip would have made volume 2 worlds better. It would have been SO much more interesting to see Sylar manipulating Peter, and there would have been the tension of knowing that Sylar would be completely and utterly screwed (and probably very, very dead) if Peter suddenly got his memory back. Way more interesting than the Irish stuff and the Wonder Twins.
Of course, anything Peter/Sylar or with the two of them I adore, but this is exceptional.
The name change between Sylar and Peter was surprising and all-around amusing. Your insight into Peter was great, and Sylar's plotting from the beginning was without a doubt completely in-character for him.
I am so depressed that this is the last part..... *hint hint*
Thanks so much for the comment! Feedback makes my day. :)
Hee, the name switch... It amused me too. Peter not-so-secretly fears that he was a Very Bad Person before he lost his memory. So what little Candice Michelle said about "Gabriel Gray" seemed to fit enough that he just assumed it was him. Just as well Sylar didn't try to correct him. If Michelle mentioned both "Gabriel Gray" and "Peter Petrelli", whatever she said about "Gabriel" wasn't likely to be good.
Glad you approve of the characterization. :) I'm more of a Sylar fan than a Peter fan, but they're both interesting to write, and they're fun to play off each other.
I do have ideas for how the plot would continue after this, but I'm not sure I'll write any more of it. It seemed like enough to write this one encounter rather than going epic with it, and forsquilis' Peter/Sylar roadtrip fic already did a fantastic job of writing their hypothetical arc. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
I had fun with the name switch. Makes me wonder how long Sylar would be able to keep it up. He'd better hope Peter doesn't have Alejandro's google-fu.
I do have some ideas about how the plot would continue, but I don't think I'll end up writing more. Writing that one encounter seemed like enough, rather than going epic with it. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
What...only 9 comments on this?!?! That's criminal. Did you post this around? At, like, heroes_sylar and sylar_peter and heroes_fic and...whatever the Peter comm is called? If you haven't, you ought to share this with them.
Three comments, actually. Some of them are my replies. ;P
I posted at heroes_fic and sylar_peter. Didn't post it at heroes_sylar though, and...I'm not sure which one is the main Peter comm. I'd love to try posting it at a few more, but I'd feel weird about doing it now. It's been a few days, so it'd kinda be blatant comment-fishing, and I'd feel like a bit of an attention whore. :/
I figured the lack of comments just means the story must be either too long or too boring for the average casual reader. In hindsight, I think I should have chopped it up into three smaller chapters and posted them at intervals. Long fic is looooooooooong.
Three comments, actually. Some of them are my replies. I was trying to be encouraging!!!1!!
I figured the lack of comments just means the story must be either too long or too boring for the average casual reader. Eh. People have NO TASTE. NONE!
I know so little about who reads heroes_fic - I've only posted there once or twice, when I had something that was completely gen fic, and I don't think I've ever gotten a comment from someone who came in from there. And I know that when I posted mine at sylar_peter, I figured very few people would read since I wasn't slashing them. Oh well...
I know. ;) Thanks for that. Lack of comments makes me a sad panda, but with all the lovely, detailed ones you left in the beta post, I don't feel quite so bad about it.
heroes_fic is... I don't know. It gets a lot of posts, and it's on a lot of people's f-lists, but there's so much of everything mixed in that it seems more like a way to guarantee you get linked on ninth_wonders than a way to get actual views. I'm not sure what the general mood is at heroes_sylar and heroes_peter. If they wouldn't think I was too much of a comment whore for linking it a few days late, I suppose I could try.
Or I could just accept that this fic's TL;DR and write some gen Mylar instead. :P I did have fun with those drabbles last month.
I remember reading squills' Amnesiac!Peter and powerless!Sylar fic and quite enjoy it, this was really good too though. I have to heartily agree that this would have made for a much more interesting season. mmmm especially since the only way Sylar could have kept Peter from killing him once the shit hit the fan would have been to pull that gun on Mohinder. hehe, and the Mylar fan in me is squeeing at the mental image that just brought me.
Anyway, good job. This was really well written. =)
Pretty much ANYTHING would have made volume 2 more interesting than it was, sadly. Between the TWoP discussion and Squillis' fic, I'm convinced that a Peter/Sylar road trip would have improved BOTH their storylines one hundred percent. (Not to mention gotten them some much-needed character interaction, considering all their encounters so far have only involved them throwing powers at each other for two or three minutes until one of them "dies".)
Anyway, thanks again. I appreciate the comment, and I'm glad you liked it. :)
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Brilliant summerization of all that is Peter Petrelli! <3 Actually, this whole story is brilliant. I can't wait to see what happens next. Your descriptions of the snow storm in the previous part were awesome; made me feel like I was actually experiencing it.
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I'm not a huge Peter fan, but thinking about his flaws made him interesting to write. Can't fault the guy for trying - his heart's generally in the right place even when his brain isn't - but he could use a smack upside the head sometimes (where's Claude when you need him?).
Heh, I'm not sure I'll write any more of this. I do have ideas kicking around for how the rest of the plot would play out. But it took a loooong time to write this, and it's so long and wordy (and *gasp* GEN) that not many people will read it. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
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I agree though that Peter does occasionally need a smack upside the head to give him some perscpective, heh.
Well, if you ever do decide to write more, I'll definitely be one to read it! :D
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Thanks again for the comments. :)
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Of course, anything Peter/Sylar or with the two of them I adore, but this is exceptional.
The name change between Sylar and Peter was surprising and all-around amusing. Your insight into Peter was great, and Sylar's plotting from the beginning was without a doubt completely in-character for him.
I am so depressed that this is the last part..... *hint hint*
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Hee, the name switch... It amused me too. Peter not-so-secretly fears that he was a Very Bad Person before he lost his memory. So what little Candice Michelle said about "Gabriel Gray" seemed to fit enough that he just assumed it was him. Just as well Sylar didn't try to correct him. If Michelle mentioned both "Gabriel Gray" and "Peter Petrelli", whatever she said about "Gabriel" wasn't likely to be good.
Glad you approve of the characterization. :) I'm more of a Sylar fan than a Peter fan, but they're both interesting to write, and they're fun to play off each other.
I do have ideas for how the plot would continue after this, but I'm not sure I'll write any more of it. It seemed like enough to write this one encounter rather than going epic with it, and forsquilis' Peter/Sylar roadtrip fic already did a fantastic job of writing their hypothetical arc. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
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I do have some ideas about how the plot would continue, but I don't think I'll end up writing more. Writing that one encounter seemed like enough, rather than going epic with it. I appreciate the interest, though. :)
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I posted at heroes_fic and sylar_peter. Didn't post it at heroes_sylar though, and...I'm not sure which one is the main Peter comm. I'd love to try posting it at a few more, but I'd feel weird about doing it now. It's been a few days, so it'd kinda be blatant comment-fishing, and I'd feel like a bit of an attention whore. :/
I figured the lack of comments just means the story must be either too long or too boring for the average casual reader. In hindsight, I think I should have chopped it up into three smaller chapters and posted them at intervals. Long fic is looooooooooong.
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I was trying to be encouraging!!!1!!
I figured the lack of comments just means the story must be either too long or too boring for the average casual reader.
Eh. People have NO TASTE. NONE!
I know so little about who reads heroes_fic - I've only posted there once or twice, when I had something that was completely gen fic, and I don't think I've ever gotten a comment from someone who came in from there. And I know that when I posted mine at sylar_peter, I figured very few people would read since I wasn't slashing them. Oh well...
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I know. ;) Thanks for that. Lack of comments makes me a sad panda, but with all the lovely, detailed ones you left in the beta post, I don't feel quite so bad about it.
heroes_fic is... I don't know. It gets a lot of posts, and it's on a lot of people's f-lists, but there's so much of everything mixed in that it seems more like a way to guarantee you get linked on ninth_wonders than a way to get actual views. I'm not sure what the general mood is at heroes_sylar and heroes_peter. If they wouldn't think I was too much of a comment whore for linking it a few days late, I suppose I could try.
Or I could just accept that this fic's TL;DR and write some gen Mylar instead. :P I did have fun with those drabbles last month.
How's your zombie thing coming, by the way?
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I remember reading squills' Amnesiac!Peter and powerless!Sylar fic and quite enjoy it, this was really good too though. I have to heartily agree that this would have made for a much more interesting season. mmmm especially since the only way Sylar could have kept Peter from killing him once the shit hit the fan would have been to pull that gun on Mohinder. hehe, and the Mylar fan in me is squeeing at the mental image that just brought me.
Anyway, good job. This was really well written. =)
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Pretty much ANYTHING would have made volume 2 more interesting than it was, sadly. Between the TWoP discussion and Squillis' fic, I'm convinced that a Peter/Sylar road trip would have improved BOTH their storylines one hundred percent. (Not to mention gotten them some much-needed character interaction, considering all their encounters so far have only involved them throwing powers at each other for two or three minutes until one of them "dies".)
Anyway, thanks again. I appreciate the comment, and I'm glad you liked it. :)
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