Elias manages to rope Peter into a proper dinner date and Peter spends thirty minutes slowly working through some mashed potatoes, and Elias thinks he’s doing this deliberately to be annoying….. but no, Peter just likes eating his food super, super slowly, since it’s something he usually does by himself, and he doesn’t mind it becoming cold and unpalatable. So Elias has to sit there for like three hours while Peter finishes everything on his plate, then at the end of the meal Peter’s like ‘oh, that was actually pretty nice :)’ and Elias wants to throttle him.
So, I gather from Peter referencing the possibility of him being able to re-attempt a ritual in centuries that he probably has an extended lifespan, like Simon. Which brings a new angle to his relationship with Simon and how Simon talks about the Lonely and the Vast and their proximity to each other. There’s certainly a great deal of loneliness in persisting for such a long time that everyone and everything you’re familiar with dies and changes around you. And Peter is clearly not a man who copes with change all that well… it feels only fitting that Forsaken would endow him with a lifespan that is both terrifying but convenient for avatar purposes.
Also: it’s kinda funny to imagine a Peter making fun of Jonah for having to go through dozens of bodies to achieve what Peter just naturally has.
Currently thinking about the adjustment period when Jonah goes from James (short) to Elias (tall) and Elias!Jonah accidentally smacking his head into things because he used to be short.
He goes to grab something in the staffroom kitchen and nearly knocks himself out on a cupboard. He walks straight into a doorframe while mid-sentence with one of his staff. He tries to kiss Peter while they’re in bed and ends up slamming his head into the headboard.
Peter finds this all very amusing and remains on land just to laugh at him.
Peter is the absolute worst and best kind of villain because like
He’s insanely rich. He’s so rich his family co-owns a space station. I can’t even fathom how rich you’d have to be for that.
On top of being insanely rich, he’s also basically a demigod who can disappear people into another dimension with a thought and disappear at will and is implied to have an extended lifespan.
He has all the makings of someone too powerful to fuck with.
Instead, he’s a massive awkward weenie who openly talks about hating confrontation and tries to run the moment he gets any push-back and would rather die than continue a conversation longer than he finds comfortable.
His statement about his life has him admitting that people don’t bother to do anything about him because he’s a predictable loser who scares easily.
