Peter Wiggin SHC Sorting (and Valentine)
I'm sorting Peter from Ender's Game. The system that I'm using by @wisteria-lodge is explained here.
Peter - the guy who kills squirrels, threatens to kill his siblings, has low empathy, and manipulates everyone - is a Badger Lion. He has a strong Glory Hound Lion primary model, though, so I had a lot of trouble figuring out if he was a Paragon Lion or a Badger primary. I considered that he was a Snake primary that models a Badger primary, but that didn't fit - he talks too much about the world as a whole like it's something intrinsic to him. That's the whole point of his character - no one's really sure about his motivations (except Valentine, his sister, and that's what makes her so powerful). He cried over Ender's bed when he was sleeping and apologized for hurting him, even saying that he loved him. Was he doing that out of real pain or because he knew that Valentine was watching (and he continued hurting Ender afterwards, anyway)? He wants power, and he's learned that the best way to get it is by being someone that other people want to put in power.
Peter thinks that his Badger Primary model comes naturally to him, even though his Glory Hound Lion model is always what he thinks of first, and he has to push his Lion model away more often than not. He believes that it's "better not to be distracted by the interference of personal fame" (at least, not yet). I'd say that deep down, he probably hates himself (since he shows all of the traits of narcissism, and a narcissist's power is born from their insecurity). He's always seen Ender as being better than him, since Ender achieved everything that Peter always wanted, and he's probably jealous of Ender.
Peter and Ender are very deliberate foils, and they have the same goal - to save humanity. Peter wanted to go to Battle School, but he wasn't accepted (Ender's mother says that it's because "he was too ambitious, too rebellious, too unlikely to fulfill assignments and follow orders."). He wasn't deterred for long, and created his own path; he assumed the role of Locke, a perceived adult who wrote political essays. Ender was used by the Battle School teachers, constantly underfoot; Peter "knew that the world was his to change, if he found the right levers to pull."
Ender didn't want to kill anyone. He's terrified of it, comparing himself to Peter despairingly, but he's tricked into committing genocide against an entire species, essentially being worse than Hitler. When Ender feels trapped with bullies, he attacks them mercilessly to win not just that fight, but to stop every fight that could happen after that. Peter is the bully, but if he were in that situation, he'd probably smoothly talk them down. It's doubly interesting that Peter's a Lion secondary while Ender's a Snake secondary. Peter saves humanity, while Ender destroys a civilization. Humans are the real enemies, not the aliens that humanity has been fighting; both Ender and Peter realize this.
Peter is a Badger, but he's also willing to use other people to get to his goals - not that he'd ever murder anyone like Ender, even if Ender did it unintentionally. He uses his Glory Hound Lion Primary to justify his Badger impulses, and vice versa. Peter rages at one point that he was the "kind one" when he's comparing himself to Ender, but he also says that Ender wasn't "selfish like Peter".
It's implied that Peter hates Ender because Peter thinks that his parents love Ender more than they love him. His mother and father tell him that they're proud of him, and he "almost staggered under the emotional blow. They had just told him the thing that he had wanted most to hear his entire life, without ever quite admitting it to himself. Tears sprang to his eyes. Far from thinking him a second-rater, a disappointment, they were as proud of him as they had ever been of Ender. All he could feel that night, as he finally went to bed and drifted off to sleep, was utter, foolish happiness." This was the paragraph that sold me on Peter having a Badger primary; a burned Badger primary, specifically, with his "trusting people will get you killed" line.
He thinks about people all the time; he misses Valentine, he wants his parents' approval, he wants world peace. He's willing to do anything for that goal, stepping on whoever he deems necessary to get there (hence his Lion primary model being Exploded). He desperately wants to be a Double Lion, since he never quite admitted to himself that he wanted his parents' recognition. Maybe he just wanted to expunge every sign of weakness or vulnerability in himself that he could find.
He repeats multiple times that he sent Ender away from Earth, away from him, for Ender's own protection, that it was the kindest thing that Peter could have done for him, like he's trying to convince himself. He gets mad whenever Ender's name is even brought up. Valentine chose Ender over him, and Peter "missed her, of course". He says that Valentine was "stupid to choose Ender and exile over Peter and life".
His drive for power is, ultimately, a way for him to find belonging, a way for him to fight his insecurities. The world knew that "Peter would matter now and in the future". It says something that whenever he talks about power, it's intrinsically tied to people noticing him. He "was envious of the Russian sense of national identity, the cohesiveness of Russians when they felt their country was in danger," and he "sometimes caught himself wishing that he weren't in this thing so utterly, absolutely alone".
Peter has a Snake secondary model. He brags about "manipulating the press", and he lies constantly. I considered that he was a Snake secondary, but he's so determined and disciplined that he's definitely a Lion.
For a quick note on Valentine - she looks like the stereotypical Snake Badger platonic "love interest" sorting at first glance. Everything that she does is for Ender, and she follows him even after he leaves Earth. However, she has a Snake secondary model that she uses quite well, particularly with Peter when she's writing as Demosthenes. She's very manipulative and powerful, and I feel like a lot of people don't realize that.
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3 characters: Rachel Berenson (Animorphs), Nita Callahan (Young Wizards), Valentine Wiggin (Ender's Game)
Oh god, I only remember Ender's Game and I was a literal child when I read it.
Uhhh, I think she was a good sibling? Pete (Peter?) was the brother who wanted to hitchback on Ender and Val's fame I think.
If I remember right, Val was a pretty good and sympathetic sister, and one of the few people on Earth who treated Ender like a person. I think she hated Russia?
I think Vic and Val would get along, to my recollection, though Vic would be surprised at how political she became at such a young age. Sorry, I'm old and my memory of the book aint great.
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Slaughter Bracket Round 1
Richmond Valentine vs. Gunpowder Tim
David Wong vs. V1
Kayne vs. Bart Curlish
Dexter Morgan vs. Macbeth
The Instrumentalist vs. Ryomen Sukuna
Captain John Hart vs. Oh Il-Nam
King Bradley vs. Jonathan Teatime
John Wick vs. the Gun Devil
Ender Wiggin vs. Achilles
Sara Berry vs. the DJ
Angron vs. the Dazzlings
Soldier vs. Mad Mew Mew
Baron of the Bricks vs. Dimitri Blaiddyd
Rachel vs. Beep the Meep
Nie Mingjue vs. Peter & Paul
William Afton vs. Jack Merridew
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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.
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