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Name: Ilana Age: 31 Contact: ltmutiny Timezone: EST

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Name: Peter Nureyev (although he will be going by Morrigan Prince for the forseeable future) Canon: Penumbra Podcast (specifically the Juno Steel storyline) Canon Point: s3, ep1 (Man in Glass) Age: 36 Appearance: he's tol History: This wiki link covers his upbringing but mostly leaves out the present-day events of the Juno Steel storyline. After encountering Juno while on the job to steal the Mask, Peter goes on to steal several other Martian artifacts for Miasma. However, the last item she wants him to steal is the Egg of Purus, an ancient Martian weapon. Peter decides that a weapon that dangerous should not, actually, be in her hands. He instead decides to simply steal it for himself and then safely dispose of it so no one will be able to use it. But breaking into the vault - actually a train - is a two person job. Luckily Juno has been investigating the theft of all these artifacts as well and in a twist of fate, he’s connected through a third party to Peter. First they need to figure out how to board the train without alerting the security team. To do this, Peter brings Juno along to a high-stakes card game with an ex-con. They win...but are forced to make an early morning get-away when the ex-con sends an assassin after them. On the other hand: they steal the ex-con’s legendary get-away car to do that. They manage to board the train and obtain the egg...but unfortunately when they get off, Miasma is waiting for them. This leads to days of tests for Juno, and torture for Peter when Juno fails to comply quickly enough. (Juno previously thwarted Miasma in her collection of an ancient Martian capsule that allowed the person to who took it to read people’s minds by...swallowing the pill.) He sees into Peter’s memories on Miasma’s orders, and then later on their own when Peter asks him to. Peter uses the physical distress this puts Juno in as a way to fool their guard into getting close enough to subdue. When Juno is too weak to escape, Peter escapes alone, but not before promising to come back. He does, just in the nick of time, and he and Juno fight Miasma (who is trying to wipe all of humanity from Mars). They win, although only because Juno locks himself and Miasma inside an airlock with the bomb and it turns out that the bomb only affects Martian DNA, which Miasma is mostly made of. Juno says he wants to leave Mars with Peter, and they spend the night together...and then Juno leaves him in the middle of the night without saying a word. Personality: charming: One of his most obvious traits is just how charismatic Peter is. He knows how to talk to people and enjoys doing it. Maybe the best example of his ability is how he’s able to worm his way into Juno’s heart. Juno is grumpy and world-weary. Streetwise. Basically, your standard film noir protagonist. And yet, Peter’s able to win him over, slowly but surely and in spite of the fact that Peter is probably the last person a do-gooder (even a grumpy one) like Juno should be falling for. It doesn’t hurt that he’s really hot, but it also really does come down to the fact that Peter knows how to read people and knows how best to interact with him. As he tells Juno, "There’s a right way to talk to everyone. You just have to find it." Peter is shown to be very good at finding the right way to talk to almost everyone. manipulative: So. Peter is charming and good at talking to people. But considering his background, it's incredibly easy for him to turn that to ill usage. The fact that he tells Juno about the "right way to talk to someone" is...telling. Peter isn’t afraid to work his charm on people to get what he wants. He isn’t afraid to seduce people to get what he wants. He does it to Juno, after all, to obtain the key to his safe and to re-obtain the Mask. (It kind of only makes it worse that he’s already infatuated enough with Juno that he gives him his real name during the first encounter. But not until after he makes his escape.) Peter knows how to play people, and at some level he is always looking for ways to turn a situation to his advantage, even if he's not doing it maliciously. For example, when he asks Juno to look into his memories, he genuinely does that because he wants Juno to trust him. But there is the aspect of the exchange where he uses Juno's subsequent blood loss to get a guard into their cell so that he can strangle him. The way he calls for help is pretty telling: "What's the matter with him? You can help him, can't you? He's......fine, then. I suppose I should thank you for giving me just the opportunity I needed." The way his voice slips from concern to cold calculation - as you hear the guard being choked - is very, very smooth. It isn't that he's not worried about Juno. He just...uses what he can in any situation. lack of morality: Peter has some really skewed morals. It’s clearly something that Juno can tell from the get-go, because our first description of Peter includes the line "He looked happy to see me and like he’d be just as happy to kill me if push came to shove." Though it never applies to Juno specifically, that turns out to be pretty true for a number of minor characters in the series. Peter just doesn’t have many compunctions about killing people if they get in his way. He’s even able to talk about it very boredly and matter-of-factly to Juno at one point. He also comes very close to mowing down two guards who try to get in the way of his and Juno’s escape without so much as a warning. (Of course, in his mind, they’re the ones who are willing to stand in front of a moving vehicle and they should really know better. Still. He doesn’t seem very bothered by it.) In Peter’s defense, this trait is likely a mixture of nature and nurture. He was raised to be a thief, and from what we see in his memories, Mag was not the kind of person who discouraged Peter from using violence. Killing and stealing is what he was brought up doing. But it’s also equally true that he has continued to do it without (as far as we know) any real consideration of any other career path. deceitful: So....about testing people for that deceit gene....Peter's entire adult life had been predicated on lying. In fact, he's been lying about his name and identity for 20 years straight. He hasn't been Peter Nureyev since he was 16, not to anyone. Until he met Juno. He is absolutely a con man as well as a master thief and lying comes very, very easily to him. This wraps up a little into his manipulative nature, but one poignant example is during the job that he and Juno pull to steal the Egg of Purus. While Peter doesn't outright lie to Juno, he really does make it seem like they HAVE to win the answer from the ex-con specifically. As it turns out, the con isn't the only source of the information they need and Peter chose him because he happened to have a car that Peter wanted to possess. He's a con-man. thrill-seeking: Perhaps unsurprisingly for his profession, Peter loves a challenge. Danger isn’t so much a deterrent to him as it is something to be embraced. He’s a thief for a number of reasons, but absolutely a large part of it is the thrill. The first time he meets Juno, he makes him an offer about running away together, and talks excitedly about what trouble he and Juno can get up to together. His reactions to being in a car chase are thrilled, not frightened. And then finally, there’s the fact that he’s always been so happy to leave every planet he’s ever set foot on because: "They’re beautiful, every one of them. So beautiful that as soon as I land on one, all I can think of is the next. The incredible future ahead." Peter loves a challenge and loves an adventure. And he'll sometimes put himself (and others) into harm's way needlessly because of it. caring: All of that said, the most positive trait Peter embodies really comes into play when he decides he likes someone. We don’t see it a lot in canon, but we do see it in the way he interacts with Juno. Maybe most importantly, he absolutely moderates some of his less savory behavior for Juno’s sake. The guards he almost takes out do get a warning - even a half-hearted one - because Juno demands it. When Juno tells him he can’t keep the car they stole, he agrees without any argument. In fact, in every situation after their first meeting, when Juno makes demands on him, he gives Juno power by doing what he's told, without argument or deception. He gives him answers, he gives him space, he backs off when Juno tells him to (whether physically or when it's about something Juno doesn't want to talk about). He is attentive and often times gentle with Juno when he’s hurt or sad. He cares about his comfort and agency. He's a very good partner (and possibly friend) even if he's not a good person. eta for Man in Glass personality changes: In the course of one episode, we learn a lot about Peter (thanks to actually having him as the POV narrator instead of Juno!) and he goes through...a few important realizations. The first thing we learn - and Peter eventually learns too - is that he is a champion at compartmentalizing his feelings. Throughout the episode he takes everything he doesn't feel like dealing with and "files it away for future consideration". However, it eventually becomes clear to him just how much of his life he's done this with, to the extent that he's apparently unsure of what he's filed away. The result of this in game will eventually be more emotional openness and less of an impulse to repress or compartmentalize, although it is not going to be immediate (and he might even backslide a bit, given his removal from the environment in which he realized this). Another thing that is revealed to him is his "calling card" when it comes to his career as a thief. He's told that his pattern in taking jobs is "pro-bono work followed by a lot of con-bono work, like having a heart embarrasses [him]". He's told that he has a strong moral core and a demonstrated desire to excise that moral core, though he hasn't done it yet. This absolutely has roots in the way that he was raised to be a thief and calls back to what we've seen of his past. As a teenager, he'd stated that what he wants out of his career as a thief is for the wealthy to fear him and those in need to call for his help. Peter as a teenager was a thief but also a revolutionary. With his mentor's betrayal, he started to bury that side of him but being reminded of it and being given a job - the one he is currently on - that speaks to his ideals as a young child is definitely going to influence the way he behaves in Duplicity. He's been told that his moral core is important and reminded of how it feels to have a purpose that isn't just getting more money. He's not going to stop being a criminal, but it's very likely that he's going to start focusing his efforts towards more worthy goals. (It probably means he's going to quit the Rubies, for example, given their practices of sexual extortion during the Dark War.) (Speaking of money, it's revealed that Peter has a very sizable debt hanging over his head and has had it for....a while. At least 8 years, but probably more than that. It turns out he has not a small amount of anxiety related to both that and the fact that he's getting older, in a profession where he relies on his attractiveness and his charm. Both of these things serve to make him a bit more emotionally fragile.) Finally, Peter's been faced again by how much he loves Juno and is also made to confront the fact that Juno has changed and become a much more emotionally healthy individual. He even says that he's envious of Juno's change, which suggests the possibility of Peter himself wanting to confront his own issues. Of course, without Juno actually in Duplicity the effect of this is going to be lessened. However, I think it will make him more likely to behave more softly towards a select few individuals he's already connected to and potentially more likely to form bonds with others a little bit more easily. He has...a lot of feelings and no place to put them if he doesn't compartmentalize them. In terms of his core traits, none of them are actually changing outright so much as being mitigated. He's still definitely manipulative and deceitful, although he will be a bit less likely to jump to harmful manipulation if the person in question doesn't deserve it. His lack of conventional morality is still there as well. Again, even as a teenager with Mag, it's clear that he was not discouraged from violence and so he's still likely to turn to violence when it suits him. The change is probably that he'll also be just a little bit slower to do this and will consider whether or not his target is worthy of violence just a little bit more. It also means that if he is with (or is stopped by) someone who he respects, he'll be that much more easily dissuaded from violent or immoral acts. Powers and Abilities: Very skilled at forgery (He’s had 20 years of experience creating false identities for himself). Good with knives (to the point where he’s able to go toe-to-toe with a tentacle monster-esque creature for a while and keep her at bay relatively easily). He’s a master thief, so all the skills that go with that (like breaking and entering, stealth, etc.) As mentioned in his personality section, he’s very skilled at manipulating people. Inventory: A bottle of cologne; a plasma blade; a lockpick set (concealed in a compact mirror)