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 **** 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 option
	Character Occupation High school student, Edward's apprentice

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. While his mother cowered, he took the silver-loaded gun and killed the werewolf. He maintained the adult male role in his family after that, until 'Ted' entered the picture.
• In the beginning of OB he started misbehaving by being irresponsible.
• 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 Edward's training.
• Peter doesn't care for Mexican food. OB
• 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 happened. He only admits to being beaten.
• Takes up martial arts after the attack. His therapist says that it might help, so Edward agreed. It seemed to work, because in TH Edward tells Anita that Peter is no longer afraid 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 jealousy of Anita before even Donna figures it out.
• He is embarrassed by hearing that Anita Blake had sex with Donovan 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 while 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 strain that was in the vaccine, which really was tiger. He decided against the vaccine.

Character Quotes

Popular sayings, quotes and quips attributed to this character:

• book, page, set-up, quote

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