The Hunger haunting him in his dreams was distantly inspired by your Chaos Theory entry, and how insidious the hunger was, eating him up inside. Even in The Wall, if he doesn't have his powers, I think he'd still have *nightmares* of having the Hunger and it driving him to do horrible things.
The theory on that link is excellent! It's not the way I see his power working, but it fits all the data in canon just as perfectly as the "IA is its own power separate from Empathic Mimicry". It might answer why, later, Sylar doesn't show much interest in gaining Peter's power, if he essentially already has it. Though it does not explain why Peter gaining IA drove him nuts, since IA should be the same thing as Peter's power (at that point in time).
Again, take this as my own personal inability to understand, but Sylar's awfully conscious, lurid? throughout his nightmares. Personally, I'm not that aware, other people might be, but for me that bends my believability. "It was funny, in a way, how his pathetic consciousness constructed this escapist fantasy of having Peter in his tiny bed. More likely he was still alone, trapped in this prison made just for him, and his damnably potent imagination had fabricated a 'friend'." --Liked something about that, couldn't tell you what it is, but its a good example of how he can recognize that its a fantasy even while asleep, or at least, label it as such so vividly
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Again, take this as my own personal inability to understand, but Sylar's awfully conscious, lurid? throughout his nightmares. Personally, I'm not that aware, other people might be, but for me that bends my believability.I think "lucid" is the word you're looking for. I don't think Sylar is lucid in his usual nightmares. If he were, then he probably would choose not to have nightmares. But at the point "Like he did now", he's partly awake. He's still mostly asleep, but starting to be aware of what's going on around him. He's in that muzzy half-awake, half-asleep stage where his body is still heavy and mostly paralyzed from sleep, but he has a little awareness of what's going on around him. He can tell someone is in bed with him and he's integrating that into the dreamscape. And since having someone in bed with him seems so outlandish, he decides it can't be real and his mind is playing tricks on him. I mean really - what's more likely, in Sylar's history: waking up to find himself cuddled by a loving and supportive Peter Petrelli, or
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"he'd stumbled across an important memory of Nathan's that made him start believing Peter's assertions about the nature of the world. In the memory, Nathan Petrelli had gone with Matt Parkman to confront Matt's father, and been tricked into thinking he was in a hell of his own making. Interestingly, Nathan's hell also had him alone, and hoping for Peter's presence, but horrified to find only his own disfigured face haunting him." -- How did I forget that?! How?! That throws canon into a bit of a knot, doesn't it? If Nathan's that prevalent in Sylar's mind to be freaking quoting the guy, then he'd have pinged on that thought....years earlier. I still remember how damn freaky that Nathan/Nathan scene was, just uber creepy and scary almost out of proportion with the show. Of course, knowing Sylar, he might have ignored it (the memory) anyway as there are benefits to being behind the Wall, now that Peter's there: "He thought about how he'd wanted to cling to the dream once he'd realized Peter was there with him. He wasn't sure he wanted
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How did I forget that?! How?! That throws canon into a bit of a knot, doesn't it? If Nathan's that prevalent in Sylar's mind to be freaking quoting the guy, then he'd have pinged on that thought....years earlier. I still remember how damn freaky that Nathan/Nathan scene was, just uber creepy and scary almost out of proportion with the show. Of course, knowing Sylar, he might have ignored it (the memory) anyway as there are benefits to being behind the Wall, now that Peter's there I don't think it's a big deal, either for canon or MBU. I think Matt may have trapped Sylar in the Wall with a condition that Sylar not understand or recognize that he's trapped in his own mind. Matt can easily push a thought and that's a simple one to weave into the general rules of the nightmare world. In fact, it's almost necessary because otherwise Sylar realizes this is all just a head-trip and a lot of the horror and loneliness goes away.
I'm cuddling the Peter!grooming and cuddling, so you know. Even though you can't tell much from Sylar's thought
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I always saw Angela's love for Peter as unconditional. However, it didn't keep her from sucking it up and putting him through hell, or putting him at incredible risk. She still loved him, but that's how it was. Like in that early episode (might have been the first one) where he's being a perfect son, doting on her, being affectionate, and she's very receptive to it and affectionate back, but at the same time she talks about how Nathan is more important than Peter is and Peter has to be content to live in Nathan's shadow. She loves Peter - I really think she does - but that doesn't change that she doesn't think Peter is good enough.
I think Nathan tried to pretend that his love and approval were conditional, but that Peter saw through that.
I wonder sometimes if Peter will ever get irked to be the only one doing the story-telling. It totally might not bother him as he loves to be sharing of himself and Sylar just as clearly loves to listen and learn. There is/will be a natural imbalance in information shared.In my marriage, my ex did
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I thought this part was in a different comment: I very much like the voice you have and the things you have to say. I'm so glad you have an outlet and ears and the courage to speak
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I think Peter's had practice telling paramedic stories at work. I like the idea of there being a social group there, with the EMTs telling each other about the interesting calls they've had, embellishments included
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The theory on that link is excellent! It's not the way I see his power working, but it fits all the data in canon just as perfectly as the "IA is its own power separate from Empathic Mimicry". It might answer why, later, Sylar doesn't show much interest in gaining Peter's power, if he essentially already has it. Though it does not explain why Peter gaining IA drove him nuts, since IA should be the same thing as Peter's power (at that point in time).
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I don't think it's a big deal, either for canon or MBU. I think Matt may have trapped Sylar in the Wall with a condition that Sylar not understand or recognize that he's trapped in his own mind. Matt can easily push a thought and that's a simple one to weave into the general rules of the nightmare world. In fact, it's almost necessary because otherwise Sylar realizes this is all just a head-trip and a lot of the horror and loneliness goes away.
I'm cuddling the Peter!grooming and cuddling, so you know. Even though you can't tell much from Sylar's thought ( ... )
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I think Nathan tried to pretend that his love and approval were conditional, but that Peter saw through that.
I wonder sometimes if Peter will ever get irked to be the only one doing the story-telling. It totally might not bother him as he loves to be sharing of himself and Sylar just as clearly loves to listen and learn. There is/will be a natural imbalance in information shared.In my marriage, my ex did ( ... )
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