Character Name

Peter Parnell

Also Known As

Peter Black (18 years old)

First Seen in

Obsidian Butterfly

Character Description

He'd done that growth spurt thing that teenage boys do sometimes. Now he was damn close to six feet. His hair had been chestnut brown last time I saw him; now it was darker, almost black. His shoulders had broadened, and he looked older than sixteen if you looked only at muscle development, but the face hadn't caught up to the body. The face still looked young, unfinished, until you hit the eyes. The eyes were young one minute and cynical and old as hell the next. (TH)

Character Casting Picture

Hayden Christenson as Peter Parnell and (below) Shia Lebeouf as another view point

Character Occupation

High school student, Edwards apprentice

Character Race

Human (possibaly a weretiger after the incident in the Harlequin)

Character Status

Living. 14 in Obsidian Butterfly.
16 in The Harlequin (His alias was 18)

Character Associations and Ties

Son of Donna Parnell
Older brother to Becca Parnell
Apprentice and future stepson of Edward

Also seen in

The Harlequin

Character Factoids

• When he first met Edward, he wasn't too happy with the idea of having a new father coming into the picture
• In his past he watched his father being murdered by a werewolf
• From the shock of his father being murdered in front of him, his mother cowered away in fear from the sight. He took the lead by grabbing for the shot-gun holding silver leaded bullets and shot the werewolf.
• By shooting the werewolf he took the role as an adult and became the man of the house untill Edward entered his life.
• In the beginning of OB he started mis-behaving by not caring much in being responsible.
• He was determined to see the crime scene photos in OB. He appealed to Edward and won. He saw the photos and didn’t react to them. This was the foundation for Edwards training.
• At the end of OB, Peter was kidnapped and raped. Anita saved him, while Edward saved his little sister Becca.
• Peter won't talk to his family about what happend. He only admits to being beaten.
• Takes up martial arts after the attack. His therapist says that it might help, Edward agreed. It seemed to work, because in TH Edward tells Anita that Peter is no longer afriad all the time.
  
• Used to have nightmares about the woman that tortured him.
  
• Is very sensitive towards his mum’s emotions. He picks up on her jealously of Anita before even Donna figures it out.
• He is embarrassed by hearing that Anita Blake had sex withDonvan Reece
• Sort of sees Edward as his father figure later on
• He knows that Ted is really “Edward”
• Appears to have some sort of control over Edward, he will let him do almost anything. This was how he was called in as backup in The Harlequin.
• Is being trained by Edward to enter the business
• Edward thinks Peter is in love with Anita. Peter’s therapist explained that that may be the case as she was the first woman he saw after having his first sexual encounter.
• His first real girlfriend dumped him because he was too rough with her.
• His second girlfriend agreed with the first, even though her tastes ran that way. When asked Peter only said “I didn’t do anything she didn’t ask me to”.
• In The Harlequin Peter is mauled by a weretiger trying to save Anita’s life. After being hospitalized the doctors offer him a new ‘after attack vaccine’ that would cancel out the lycanthropy if he had caught it, but if he hadn’t he’d immediately get the strand that was in the injection.
• After much debate, he decided against the vaccine, as it was his choice, because he was traveling under an alias which stated him to be 18.

Character Quotes

Popular sayings, quotes and quips attributed to this character:

• book, page, set-up, quote

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