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be_abetterman1. Player Information
Name (or internet handle): Christina
Current characters in Bete Noire:
Jo Harvelle - Supernatural
Winona Hawkins - Justified
Elle Bishop - Heroes
2. Character Information
Name: Peter Bishop
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be_abetterman
Fandom: Fringe
Image: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/108054399/27025767
3. Character Information II
Age/Appearance: Peter is in his early 30s. He has blue eyes and brown hair that’s kept short (finger length-ish). His build is more athletic than overly-built. He’s in shape for a man of his age and carries himself with a casual stride. His emotions are easy to read in his features as he has extremely expressive eyes and he carries the weight of his life on his shoulders. He dresses mostly in casual clothing, in darker colors. Jeans and long-sleeved Henley shirts with dark leather jackets probably flood his closet. Even though he’s capable of owning and operating a firearm, it’s very rare that he actually carries one. The few times he’s been armed he’s been acting on his own and away from his job.
History:
http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Peter_Bishop
http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Bishop
Personality: Peter, by his own nature, is a restless soul. Displaced, quite literally, into a world that was not his own at a young age, his inability to settle down and just “live” his life has always been a problem. Before finding some sort of purpose with the Fringe division, Peter was constantly seeking out new careers and paths to follow. He hardly kept any job for longer than two months and found himself on the wrong side of the law on several occasions. As he’s stated, “He is the one to break the law for them.”
He’s extremely intelligent and capable of thinking fast on his feet, but his own misgivings about just how involved he wants or needs to be tend to lead to his own internal hesitations. He has issues trying to open up or connect with people because most of his life he’s spent trying to avoid that sort of deeper connection. All of his moving around is part of this.
The other part of why he moves around has to do with his relationship with his father. When his father was placed in the institution, he moved with his mother. In a way, he feels like he wasn’t the only one that his father abandoned by sinking into his own madness and paranoia. He blames his father for his mother’s suicide, even before he knows the truth about his own existence on This Side versus Over There. The distance he puts between him and his father is with purpose, it puts him away from taking any part of his life. He recalls being an experiment for his father when he was a child, which just compounds his distrust and dislike for his father.
Later, when he’s forced to face his own father and the things that he left behind about his life he tries to maintain that distance. He doesn’t want to care, doesn’t want to know anything and tries to disconnect from any actual connection building. Walter is very hard to hate though and he does manage to get Peter to accept him as a father over time. Of course, once he learns the truth, that trust is severely fractured.
Peter has a healthy sense of humor and along with that an extreme level of patience. His father, Walter, is usually off-balance or on some sort of drug which leads to some rather erratic and indescribable behavior. He’s able to deal with these situations as well as translate for a majority of the things that wouldn’t make sense to anyone else. This doesn’t come from a lifetime of being around his father, but from his ability to think quickly and sort through a myriad of facts in order to process out just the details that actually matter. It’s one of the reasons why he was recruited to the project, because he was one of the only people that could actually handle Walter.
Despite the mystery of his past, he’s actually very easy to give his trust to people. When the trust is betrayed though, he is very quick to remove it. He doesn’t like to be lied to and doesn’t like to be taken advantage of. He struggles with the truth that he’s a displaced man constantly now that he knows the truth. It’s not even a matter of him being kidnapped as a boy - but that his existence in this other world has this catastrophic weight put behind it. That not only does he not belong in this world, but his mere existence has put so much disaster into the world where he actually does belong. All the amber quarantine, the “events” that occur - those are all because the weight of him on the wrong side of the “glass” has shifted that balance. There is a heavy burden that goes along with that and Peter takes all that guilt in stride and tries to just focus on his own choices, rather than the impact they might have.
He’s a very curious person, even when faced with the truth about what the dangers are of something he’ll still push at it, trying to find out to what extend something will happen. When he finds out about the organic nature of the artifacts, he can’t help but continue to try and assemble and understand them.
He’s a very kind and generous partner and is very capable of falling in love with someone. However, he’s also able to shove his foot into his mouth when there are doppelgangers involved. He loves with his heart - but also tries to use his mind to correct when the heart goes astray. He has the best intentions when it comes to those he cares about, but it’s often difficult to express when things are so complicated. He’s not the best when it comes to talking about himself, but he does try to share things in his own way. He’s gifted a book to Olivia in hopes that she’d understand a bit more about him and his likes.
He’s quiet and understated, even with all of his history, but has the ability to put a great deal of power behind his words when he needs to make a point. He’s not one to forgive easily and will hold onto feelings rather than let them out.
Sexual Preferences/Orientation: Peter Bishop is straight. He has a healthy attitude toward sex and possibly relates easily to the actual science and chemistry of it all with little worry. He believes in monogamy and has a healthy view on marriage and what it means. His own parents had a very unusual relationship, with his father being institutionalized and his mother’s suicide, but it doesn’t sway his perception of what marriage should be.
His past does lend to the not-so-serious relationships, since he moved around from town to town so often. Two months in a town doesn’t exactly allow for that deeper connection needed for a long-term relationship. The one relationship he’s had most consistently with a female has been with Olivia. While in his canon at the current point he’s been pushed to the point of confusion due to a “second” Olivia that returned with him - I am pulling him into the city before this, so his idea of one-person being perfect for him is still intact. He can be a charmer and believes in taking things slow and not rushing into it. He probably does this mostly out of worry that he’ll mess things up or have to leave.
Powers:
While Peter is technically a normal human being, he does have a slight case of “can destroy a world”. Being from a fringe universe, Peter was born in an alternate reality and his destiny in that world is one of a power source. There is a machine that is capable of destroying one “reality” so that the other may survive. The going theory being that despite these worlds living beside each other for so long, that they are slowly deteriorating and they both can’t continue to survive. With this machine one reality will prevail and Peter is not only the power source to it but the operator.
Objects and people that have traveled through the barrier between these two realities have a residual essence/aura about them. It has been described as a glimmer or a sheen of color that makes them stand-out to those people that have the ability to view those differences. He’s just slightly different than the usual human being, but in order to be used for these purposes you would need to have one of these artifacts that is only able to be powered/operated by him. Otherwise, the only difference that might be noticeable to those with an extra-sensory-type ability is that glimmer effect he emits.
Reason for playing: Since getting my first two characters into the city I’ve been searching for a male character to place here. Peter Bishop not only has experience with different realities, alternative worlds, dimensions and the like - but he’s got such a complicated history that putting him off of his game could create countless opportunities for growth. He has the chance to actually let go and allow those darker urges he has - the want to just run away and leave his father to his insanity - to take hold.
Peter is such a great character to write that it’s hard to explain what it is about him that took a hold of me. The mystery of his childhood and how he has this unseen importance as the series evolves just hooked me. His ability to deal with all of the insane things that his father does and that he does it so easily. I mean, who can listen to a grown man sing Pop goes the weasel for hours and then make a joke about it the next day? Plus, the dynamic between him and the people that he’s been surrounded by has always interested me. It’s not the standard TV show family, but they do make it work.
5. Samples
First-Person:
[the voice that comes over the device is slightly amused, but more concerned than anything]
If anyone's found a man in his early sixties - possibly wandering around in a bathrobe, humming the theme to Danger Mouse?
I'm sorry, first of all, and I'd like to be told where he is, so that I can properly claim him.
[a beat] Oh, and don't feed him. Trust me, you don't want to know what is inside of whatever you'd offer him.
Third-Person:
The hum of the light hanging over his head isn't quite a distraction as much as it is an annoyance. See, under normal circumstances, Peter could just put his focus on his actual work, but things are never under normal circumstances. Walter had allowed the pitch of the hum to be something he felt the need to match, with his own humming.
"Peter!"
As much as Peter would like to think that this interruption was going to provide him relief from Walter's humming, he knew it was just going to provide him with another annoyance. Dropping his pen, he glanced over his shoulder, "Yeah, Walter?"
"I need cream soda!"
After a minute of him just staring at Walter, dumbfounded, Peter had to ask, "Walter, why do you need cream soda?" He wasn't exactly sure he wanted to know the answer to that question, but he also figured if he didn't ask, it would eat away at him. His elbow rested against the stack of papers, waiting whatever maddening brilliance was going to spill from Walter.
"Did you know, that one of the first men to get a patent for the beverage, got it for 'Cream soda-water' and he made it from his home? It contained a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, water, sugar, egg whites, wheat flour, and then they used a variety of agents for flavoring - most commonly oil of lemon, extract of vanilla, or pineapple. Peter! Pineapple! It was created in New Jersey."
Peter lifted an eyebrow, as he nodded, "Yep. Pineapple. Got it. So... why do you need it, again?"
"For the floats, of course."
"Of course." Glancing back to his paperwork, his eyes trained on the blank lines that he needed to fill in with the details of the last assignment he'd been on. His gaze wandered back over to Walter, who was already back to trying to match the pitch of the hum in the broken light fixture. "Do you need it now?"
"Need what?"
Peter stared blankly at the other man. How was this his life?
"The cream soda, Walter. Do you need it now? Or can we get it on our way home. It's just, I've got this report to file." His voice trailed off a bit, trying to see if Walter was even paying attention to him.
"Right! The soda." Peter watched as Walter, hopped around a bit behind the table, "Do you think I could create my own? I believe I have all the needed items... except a pineapple."
He could hear it coming, even before Walter said it.
"Peter! I need a pineapple!"
Third-Person #2:
Her eyes seemed to look deeper into him, deeper than he thought possible considering everything else that had happened. A single thought would wash over him, making him wonder if he was really this lucky. Fingertips brushed over her forehead, the soft blonde strands of her hair being guided away from her skin as he leaned in closer and brushed his mouth to hers.
Peter let his body rock against hers, a soft press of his hips against hers. Not trying to rush something that he'd been thinking about for so long, but not wanting it to fall short of his own internal expectations. Something about years of longing not equating to the minutes of reality didn't sit right in the back of his mind.
It seemed perfect. It was perfect. The way her foot dragged against his shin as she lifted her knee up off the mattress. The sweeping motion of her toes, pointed and bare of her socks, tracing an imaginary line up his leg.
"Shh.. wait."
Her words murmured against his mouth as he pulled from that lull of her breathing, soft and steady, nearly hypnotizing him.
"Hmm? What?" His head turned toward the door, which was shut, but he didn't hear anything. Leaning back down, his mouth parted against hers, trying to bring her back to him, "Probably just traffic."
She nodded, succumbing to his kiss and the way his body clung to hers. Then her hand pushed to his shoulder.
"I definitely hear it."
Raising an eyebrow, he glanced at her, "Hear what?"
"... it sounds like... a blender?"
His head tipped aside, a puzzled expression quickly affixing itself to his features. Taking a breath, he strained for the sound and then he heard a glass break.
Liv smirked beneath him, the back of her hand trying to hide her smile.
"I can still see that."
"See what?"
She was teasing him.
"I'm too old to be hiding a girl in my room."
"You're hiding me?"
He gave her a compassionate look, "Not intentionally, but he gets..."
"He's Walter."
"Exactly." There was a brief moment of contemplation going on, and Olivia's hand brushing against his shoulder wasn't helping him decide any quicker. "I could ignore it..."
Of course, then something else came to a crashing resolution downstairs. "Which would be bad, because clearly he's starting World War Three down there."
Her hand patted his shoulder, trying to reassure him. "I'll still be hiding in your room when you return."
Peter smirked at her, dropping a kiss to the tip of her nose before, with a great deal of reluctance, parting from her and slipping out of the bed. Tugging his pants on, he glanced to her in the bed, the light from his window giving her body a near halo to her skin. The light layer of sweat that just made her glow... he was going to have to strangle Walter.
"Hey, maybe we'll luck out and he's making a cake. You want some cake?"
Olivia's eyes lit up, "Oooh. Cake does sound good."
Name (or internet handle): Christina
Current characters in Bete Noire:
Jo Harvelle - Supernatural
Winona Hawkins - Justified
Elle Bishop - Heroes
2. Character Information
Name: Peter Bishop
Livejournal Username:
be_abettermanFandom: Fringe
Image: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/108054399/27025767
3. Character Information II
Age/Appearance: Peter is in his early 30s. He has blue eyes and brown hair that’s kept short (finger length-ish). His build is more athletic than overly-built. He’s in shape for a man of his age and carries himself with a casual stride. His emotions are easy to read in his features as he has extremely expressive eyes and he carries the weight of his life on his shoulders. He dresses mostly in casual clothing, in darker colors. Jeans and long-sleeved Henley shirts with dark leather jackets probably flood his closet. Even though he’s capable of owning and operating a firearm, it’s very rare that he actually carries one. The few times he’s been armed he’s been acting on his own and away from his job.
History:
http://fringepedia.net/wiki/Peter_Bishop
http://fringe.wikia.com/wiki/Peter_Bishop
Personality: Peter, by his own nature, is a restless soul. Displaced, quite literally, into a world that was not his own at a young age, his inability to settle down and just “live” his life has always been a problem. Before finding some sort of purpose with the Fringe division, Peter was constantly seeking out new careers and paths to follow. He hardly kept any job for longer than two months and found himself on the wrong side of the law on several occasions. As he’s stated, “He is the one to break the law for them.”
He’s extremely intelligent and capable of thinking fast on his feet, but his own misgivings about just how involved he wants or needs to be tend to lead to his own internal hesitations. He has issues trying to open up or connect with people because most of his life he’s spent trying to avoid that sort of deeper connection. All of his moving around is part of this.
The other part of why he moves around has to do with his relationship with his father. When his father was placed in the institution, he moved with his mother. In a way, he feels like he wasn’t the only one that his father abandoned by sinking into his own madness and paranoia. He blames his father for his mother’s suicide, even before he knows the truth about his own existence on This Side versus Over There. The distance he puts between him and his father is with purpose, it puts him away from taking any part of his life. He recalls being an experiment for his father when he was a child, which just compounds his distrust and dislike for his father.
Later, when he’s forced to face his own father and the things that he left behind about his life he tries to maintain that distance. He doesn’t want to care, doesn’t want to know anything and tries to disconnect from any actual connection building. Walter is very hard to hate though and he does manage to get Peter to accept him as a father over time. Of course, once he learns the truth, that trust is severely fractured.
Peter has a healthy sense of humor and along with that an extreme level of patience. His father, Walter, is usually off-balance or on some sort of drug which leads to some rather erratic and indescribable behavior. He’s able to deal with these situations as well as translate for a majority of the things that wouldn’t make sense to anyone else. This doesn’t come from a lifetime of being around his father, but from his ability to think quickly and sort through a myriad of facts in order to process out just the details that actually matter. It’s one of the reasons why he was recruited to the project, because he was one of the only people that could actually handle Walter.
Despite the mystery of his past, he’s actually very easy to give his trust to people. When the trust is betrayed though, he is very quick to remove it. He doesn’t like to be lied to and doesn’t like to be taken advantage of. He struggles with the truth that he’s a displaced man constantly now that he knows the truth. It’s not even a matter of him being kidnapped as a boy - but that his existence in this other world has this catastrophic weight put behind it. That not only does he not belong in this world, but his mere existence has put so much disaster into the world where he actually does belong. All the amber quarantine, the “events” that occur - those are all because the weight of him on the wrong side of the “glass” has shifted that balance. There is a heavy burden that goes along with that and Peter takes all that guilt in stride and tries to just focus on his own choices, rather than the impact they might have.
He’s a very curious person, even when faced with the truth about what the dangers are of something he’ll still push at it, trying to find out to what extend something will happen. When he finds out about the organic nature of the artifacts, he can’t help but continue to try and assemble and understand them.
He’s a very kind and generous partner and is very capable of falling in love with someone. However, he’s also able to shove his foot into his mouth when there are doppelgangers involved. He loves with his heart - but also tries to use his mind to correct when the heart goes astray. He has the best intentions when it comes to those he cares about, but it’s often difficult to express when things are so complicated. He’s not the best when it comes to talking about himself, but he does try to share things in his own way. He’s gifted a book to Olivia in hopes that she’d understand a bit more about him and his likes.
He’s quiet and understated, even with all of his history, but has the ability to put a great deal of power behind his words when he needs to make a point. He’s not one to forgive easily and will hold onto feelings rather than let them out.
Sexual Preferences/Orientation: Peter Bishop is straight. He has a healthy attitude toward sex and possibly relates easily to the actual science and chemistry of it all with little worry. He believes in monogamy and has a healthy view on marriage and what it means. His own parents had a very unusual relationship, with his father being institutionalized and his mother’s suicide, but it doesn’t sway his perception of what marriage should be.
His past does lend to the not-so-serious relationships, since he moved around from town to town so often. Two months in a town doesn’t exactly allow for that deeper connection needed for a long-term relationship. The one relationship he’s had most consistently with a female has been with Olivia. While in his canon at the current point he’s been pushed to the point of confusion due to a “second” Olivia that returned with him - I am pulling him into the city before this, so his idea of one-person being perfect for him is still intact. He can be a charmer and believes in taking things slow and not rushing into it. He probably does this mostly out of worry that he’ll mess things up or have to leave.
Powers:
While Peter is technically a normal human being, he does have a slight case of “can destroy a world”. Being from a fringe universe, Peter was born in an alternate reality and his destiny in that world is one of a power source. There is a machine that is capable of destroying one “reality” so that the other may survive. The going theory being that despite these worlds living beside each other for so long, that they are slowly deteriorating and they both can’t continue to survive. With this machine one reality will prevail and Peter is not only the power source to it but the operator.
Objects and people that have traveled through the barrier between these two realities have a residual essence/aura about them. It has been described as a glimmer or a sheen of color that makes them stand-out to those people that have the ability to view those differences. He’s just slightly different than the usual human being, but in order to be used for these purposes you would need to have one of these artifacts that is only able to be powered/operated by him. Otherwise, the only difference that might be noticeable to those with an extra-sensory-type ability is that glimmer effect he emits.
Reason for playing: Since getting my first two characters into the city I’ve been searching for a male character to place here. Peter Bishop not only has experience with different realities, alternative worlds, dimensions and the like - but he’s got such a complicated history that putting him off of his game could create countless opportunities for growth. He has the chance to actually let go and allow those darker urges he has - the want to just run away and leave his father to his insanity - to take hold.
Peter is such a great character to write that it’s hard to explain what it is about him that took a hold of me. The mystery of his childhood and how he has this unseen importance as the series evolves just hooked me. His ability to deal with all of the insane things that his father does and that he does it so easily. I mean, who can listen to a grown man sing Pop goes the weasel for hours and then make a joke about it the next day? Plus, the dynamic between him and the people that he’s been surrounded by has always interested me. It’s not the standard TV show family, but they do make it work.
5. Samples
First-Person:
[the voice that comes over the device is slightly amused, but more concerned than anything]
If anyone's found a man in his early sixties - possibly wandering around in a bathrobe, humming the theme to Danger Mouse?
I'm sorry, first of all, and I'd like to be told where he is, so that I can properly claim him.
[a beat] Oh, and don't feed him. Trust me, you don't want to know what is inside of whatever you'd offer him.
Third-Person:
The hum of the light hanging over his head isn't quite a distraction as much as it is an annoyance. See, under normal circumstances, Peter could just put his focus on his actual work, but things are never under normal circumstances. Walter had allowed the pitch of the hum to be something he felt the need to match, with his own humming.
"Peter!"
As much as Peter would like to think that this interruption was going to provide him relief from Walter's humming, he knew it was just going to provide him with another annoyance. Dropping his pen, he glanced over his shoulder, "Yeah, Walter?"
"I need cream soda!"
After a minute of him just staring at Walter, dumbfounded, Peter had to ask, "Walter, why do you need cream soda?" He wasn't exactly sure he wanted to know the answer to that question, but he also figured if he didn't ask, it would eat away at him. His elbow rested against the stack of papers, waiting whatever maddening brilliance was going to spill from Walter.
"Did you know, that one of the first men to get a patent for the beverage, got it for 'Cream soda-water' and he made it from his home? It contained a mixture of sodium bicarbonate, water, sugar, egg whites, wheat flour, and then they used a variety of agents for flavoring - most commonly oil of lemon, extract of vanilla, or pineapple. Peter! Pineapple! It was created in New Jersey."
Peter lifted an eyebrow, as he nodded, "Yep. Pineapple. Got it. So... why do you need it, again?"
"For the floats, of course."
"Of course." Glancing back to his paperwork, his eyes trained on the blank lines that he needed to fill in with the details of the last assignment he'd been on. His gaze wandered back over to Walter, who was already back to trying to match the pitch of the hum in the broken light fixture. "Do you need it now?"
"Need what?"
Peter stared blankly at the other man. How was this his life?
"The cream soda, Walter. Do you need it now? Or can we get it on our way home. It's just, I've got this report to file." His voice trailed off a bit, trying to see if Walter was even paying attention to him.
"Right! The soda." Peter watched as Walter, hopped around a bit behind the table, "Do you think I could create my own? I believe I have all the needed items... except a pineapple."
He could hear it coming, even before Walter said it.
"Peter! I need a pineapple!"
Third-Person #2:
Her eyes seemed to look deeper into him, deeper than he thought possible considering everything else that had happened. A single thought would wash over him, making him wonder if he was really this lucky. Fingertips brushed over her forehead, the soft blonde strands of her hair being guided away from her skin as he leaned in closer and brushed his mouth to hers.
Peter let his body rock against hers, a soft press of his hips against hers. Not trying to rush something that he'd been thinking about for so long, but not wanting it to fall short of his own internal expectations. Something about years of longing not equating to the minutes of reality didn't sit right in the back of his mind.
It seemed perfect. It was perfect. The way her foot dragged against his shin as she lifted her knee up off the mattress. The sweeping motion of her toes, pointed and bare of her socks, tracing an imaginary line up his leg.
"Shh.. wait."
Her words murmured against his mouth as he pulled from that lull of her breathing, soft and steady, nearly hypnotizing him.
"Hmm? What?" His head turned toward the door, which was shut, but he didn't hear anything. Leaning back down, his mouth parted against hers, trying to bring her back to him, "Probably just traffic."
She nodded, succumbing to his kiss and the way his body clung to hers. Then her hand pushed to his shoulder.
"I definitely hear it."
Raising an eyebrow, he glanced at her, "Hear what?"
"... it sounds like... a blender?"
His head tipped aside, a puzzled expression quickly affixing itself to his features. Taking a breath, he strained for the sound and then he heard a glass break.
Liv smirked beneath him, the back of her hand trying to hide her smile.
"I can still see that."
"See what?"
She was teasing him.
"I'm too old to be hiding a girl in my room."
"You're hiding me?"
He gave her a compassionate look, "Not intentionally, but he gets..."
"He's Walter."
"Exactly." There was a brief moment of contemplation going on, and Olivia's hand brushing against his shoulder wasn't helping him decide any quicker. "I could ignore it..."
Of course, then something else came to a crashing resolution downstairs. "Which would be bad, because clearly he's starting World War Three down there."
Her hand patted his shoulder, trying to reassure him. "I'll still be hiding in your room when you return."
Peter smirked at her, dropping a kiss to the tip of her nose before, with a great deal of reluctance, parting from her and slipping out of the bed. Tugging his pants on, he glanced to her in the bed, the light from his window giving her body a near halo to her skin. The light layer of sweat that just made her glow... he was going to have to strangle Walter.
"Hey, maybe we'll luck out and he's making a cake. You want some cake?"
Olivia's eyes lit up, "Oooh. Cake does sound good."
