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STATS
» NAME: Peter Hale.
» FANDOM: Teen Wolf
» CANON POINT: Post ep 3x22 - "De-Void."
» AGE: Unknown for certain, probably mid-30s
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Whatever gives him the greatest advantage in the moment.
» COLLAR: Brown leather, with this image worked into it in tan leather.

KINKS
» YES: Anal (training and giving), oral (giving and receiving), rimming, biting, blindfolds, bloodplay, chains, breath control, coercion, bondage, inexperienced partners, age play, multiple partners, public scenes, scenting, scratching, sex toys, spanking, voyeurism.
» MAYBE: Anal (receiving), strap-ons, exhibitionism, collar & leash...lbr, if it gets him something he wants, he'll do just about anything.
» NO: Vore, bathroom stuff.
» PAIRING PREFERENCES: In canon: Peter/Lydia or Peter/Isaac. Cross-canon, I'm open to anything.

EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Peter is a couple of inches shy of six feet, broad shouldered and a little brawny. That brawn is all muscle and he’s well-built, but no one would ever use the word “slender” to describe him. His hair is brown with a bit of a wave to it, but he generally wears it gelled back and down. His eyes are bright blue, both in human and wolf form, and lately he’s taken to wearing a neatly trimmed goatee. In clothing he tends toward jeans and V-neck t-shirts and sweaters—very casual and comfortable, but impeccable at the same time. He does have a fondness for leather jackets, when he’s being more flamboyant, but he’s been toning that down lately. Most of his wardrobe consists of neutral colors or black, though, again, a more flamboyant red peeks itself out now and again. The expression on his face is quite usually a smirk, when he’s not rolling his eyes.

» PERSONALITY: Everything about Peter Hale is ambiguous—his age, his sexuality, his personality. He is something like a chameleon, always shifting depending on what is needed and who he is with and what his goal of the moment is. Three characteristics are certain: he is snarky, he is pragmatic, he is manipulative.

That he is either a sociopath or a psychopath seems fairly obvious. The only truly genuine emotion he has ever displayed was anger. On the other hand, that his anger ostensibly came from grief indicates some ability to care and to love, and he has had the grace to look ashamed a time or two, but those emotions are fleeting. When Derek accuses him of being a total psycho, his response is, “First of all, not a total psycho…” acknowledging that even he knows he has psychopathic tendencies.

Power seems to be one of Peter’s main motivators. He spends all of season 1 as the Alpha, trying to build his pack and take revenge against everyone who had a hand in burning his family alive. He’s willing to go to any length to achieve this vengeance, including killing one of his few remaining family members, his niece Laura, in order to finish healing and take his position as Alpha. He claims through season 2 and part of season 3 that he only wants to be part of Derek’s pack, but when he faces down Jennifer at the end of season 3b, she comments that he is the one always standing in the shadows, rising above all the chaos, letting people destroy each other, only to step forward and take what he wants in the end. She predicts that now that Scott has become a true Alpha, Peter will try to kill him to become the Alpha again. For the first time since his resurrection, we see a glimpse of not-quite-right Season 1-power hungry Peter as he responds, “Again? Again? I am the Alpha. I will always be the Alpha!”

Despite this, Peter is not impulsive or impatient. Whatever his final agenda—and that quote seems to suggest that it is to be the supreme Alpha of the wolves—he is playing a long game. He is extremely intelligent and cunning and is always thinking far ahead of the others. When it seemed like possibly his plan for vengeance might fail and he might get himself killed in Season 1, he bit Lydia, awakening her banshee powers so that her link to the world of the dead would provide a way for his resurrection. His bite also linked their minds (or souls), so that he could communicate with her, control her, from the grave and teach her how to bring him back, which she did. He is helpful for the rest of season 2, at least in research and advice (claiming to be too weak from coming back from the grave to do anything physically, which Deaton corroborates, telling Scott that Peter will be weakened, so he’ll rely on his intelligence and cunning), and seems content to see how things play out without really committing one way or the other.

By season 3, the rest of the pack has accepted him, though they don’t like or trust him (Isaac and Derek outright tell him this). However, they go to him for advice consistently, and Peter steers them in a direction that benefits them and also him. It does not behoove him for them to get killed, after all, because an Alpha needs at least 3 beta wolves to have a strong pack. Jennifer is the only one to openly suspect he’s got an ulterior motive, however, by midway through season 3. She sees through him, or thinks she does, but neither the characters nor the audience knows what Peter’s endgame is, as, through the rest of season 3 Peter remains helpful to the pack and non-threatening to everyone else. They may not like him, but they turn to him for help—to access Isaac’s memories, for werewolf lore, for planning, for saving Stiles from the nogitsune, and to help Lydia develop her banshee powers.

However, despite whatever his plan is, his actions are helpful. Of course, even this help ends up being self-serving. When he tells Derek how to save Cora, the price for doing so is Derek giving up his Alpha-power and returning to being a beta. He pretends to try to convince Derek to not do so, that the risk is too high, but, of course, Derek does exactly what Peter “reluctantly” suggests, healing Cora at the cost of his power. Despite Peter’s protests, his smug look when Derek does so makes it clear that things are going exactly as he plans. When he helps Lydia develop her powers, it’s on the condition that she use that power to find a memory his sister took from him, and tell him what it was. Similarly, while he gets Lydia and Scott inside Stiles’ head to save him, and is the one who rescues Lydia from being trapped there, he asks for his daughter’s name as payment.

On the surface, even though he got something from these actions, it still seems that the balance is on being helpful: Cora and Stiles’ lives were saved, Lydia is learning to control masterful powers. All Peter has is Derek a beta again (which is unclear how this benefits him, except reducing a future challenge, maybe) and his daughter’s name. He still refuses to get physically involved in their battles until Cora is threatened, but then, he volunteers to stay behind, with Scott, and face the Alpha twins so Derek can get Cora out. This is at the risk of his own life, as the twins could easily have killed him, and there seems no benefit to it except saving his niece. When he figures out that Boyd and Cora will be mad with moon-rage when Scott and Derek free them, if his goal was to have the two of them dead, he wouldn’t have had Stiles immediately contact them to warn them. He could have kept that knowledge to himself.

So, like everything else, Peter’s goals are ambiguous. What his end game is, no one knows, but it does not seem to involve any more of his family dying. He refuses to give up Cora’s location even under torture. However, his ability to manipulate others into taking the path he wants them to be on clearly remains supreme. This isn’t a trait that came out from the trauma, either. His manipulation of Derek into having his girlfriend bitten when Derek is 15 is successful, though, like with his other manipulations, his reasoning remains unclear, as do his reasons for the version of the truth he tells Cora and Stiles about that time.

After season 1, Peter is rarely involved physically in battles. Instead, he often seems to remain emotionally and physically detached, offering advice sometimes, but mostly offering snark and sassy comments that aren’t particularly helpful. He always has a quip or a dry observation, and he can be found rolling his eyes at the teenagers more often than not. The fact that he thinks everyone around him is an idiot compared to him is obvious in his sarcasm and audible sighs. He clearly holds himself detached from relationships and the world around him. Given his watching and listening and smelling nine members of his family burn to death around him, and then being locked in his own head, in coma for the next 6 years, this detachment is probably understandable. He went through an extreme trauma. Loving people, letting them get close, just invites more loss, and living outside the world like that makes reintegrating into it difficult. So he just…hasn’t. At the same time, Derek and Cora are the two remaining family members he has, and he has shown himself willing to put himself in danger to protect or save them, willing to jeopardize whatever his endgame is for their safety. There is still some shred of humanity, of connection, of feeling for family left. Even his most monstrous acts were done in vengeance for the destruction of his family, implying he cared about them on some level (though it could also be vengeance for burning him and trapping him in a coma for so long. Still, the memories he shares with Scott indicate real horror, and his upset when things go wrong with Derek and Paige is obvious. Whatever he intended with that manipulation, it was not Paige’s trauma and death, at all.)

With all of this, it is obvious that Derek is the one person he is most connected to. Peter says they were best friends when they were younger, and whether this is true or Peter’s way of remembering it, it indicates a fondness and a wistfulness. He is constantly trying to get Derek to trust him and to prove himself worthy of Derek’s trust, as well as working to keep him close. If he wanted any old pack, he could have made it when he became alpha, or plan to when he does again, but keeping Derek alive and by his side is clearly important to him.

Peter’s pragmatism comes through in all of his advice. He is no hero. He’s not going in to risk his life or health for just anyone—if a battle seems like one they will lose, Peter’s advice is to stay out of it. When it seems like they cannot avoid the Alphas if they stay in town, Peter tells Derek and Cora to run. He stays behind (for whatever reason), but he wants them gone and it seems sound when you’re looking out for number one. He advises against going looking for Boyd and Erica with a “I’m sure they’re nice kids and they’ll be missed, but it’s suicide” comment. He isn’t concerned about collateral damage (though he doesn’t seek it out, either), but about accomplishing his goals.

Despite his lack of concern, Peter does not seem to seek out violence or death for their own sake or for pleasure. While he has killed a lot of people, all of them served a purpose except one who was collateral damage and in the wrong place at the wrong time. He doesn’t seem to feel any regret for that, and kills without compunction, but he’s not a psycho killer or really a threat to anyone who’s not in the way of his plans. If you are in his way, though, he will happily remove you from it.

In season 1, Peter was driven by a cunning rage, bent on power and vengeance and total domination. Since then, he has mellowed, saying being dead gave him a new perspective, and operates more in the shadows and more subtly. It’s not clear this is really any character development or simply a new tactic. Peter gets less screen time than the main characters and we are only given glimpses into his inner world. Ergo, his behavior has changed, but whether he has changed or not remains uncertain. He does seem capable of feeling shame for that time, at least. In encountering both Lydia and Melissa for the first time since his resurrection, his expression is almost comically ashamed and he slinks out of their way. He knows he did wrong; he expects to be punished—he kind of looks like a puppy waiting to be kicked. Despite this, he never openly apologizes to them, either, but simply falls in to working with them, and when outright confronted with what he did to Lydia points out his reasoning and that now she’s more powerful, implying she should almost thank him for his terrorizing her. Obviously, since the moment of his being ashamed, he’s had time to rationalize, which he is stellar at.

Another defining characteristic for Peter is his vanity and his arrogance. He always thinks he is the smartest man in the room (and, to be fair, he’s often right). This comes off with a constant sort of smugness, unless he is startled out of it. Since he’s generally playing 10 moves ahead of everyone else, he is very rarely startled. He is extremely aware of his good looks, and vain about them. As he heals himself fully in season 1, he tells Stiles that he was going to wait for a more dramatic moment but when you look as good as he does, why wait? In a flashback to his younger days, Derek tells him that he could get him banned from campus, but Peter replies that they’d never ban him from anywhere because he’s too good-looking. This vanity ties in to his arrogance and enforces his smugness over his own perceived superiority.

Peter is supremely adaptable, a chameleon able to fit in wherever is needed to survive. I suspect this will be his attitude in Amat. His plans, whatever they are, are on hold until he can find a way back home, but he’s patient. He can wait. And until then, there’s a whole island of people to play with…

» BACKGROUND: Wiki Link.
» OTHER: Don't take anything he says at face value. Ever.

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