Character History
Apr. 19th, 2013 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heartofsnowTrigger Warnings in advance for child abuse, abusive parents, absentee parents, and violence.
Peter was born to an upper class family with a very controlling father and an extremely passive mother. It's not clear when the abuse started since the Slender Man messed with his memories; it was frequent (his earliest journal states he was "living every day in fear and turning out to be right") and started early ("I remember, when I was six, he hit me so hard-") so it was not a gradual thing. By these statements it's easy to see just how the abuse went down in no uncertain terms - but you'd have to read his journals to know it, because he never discusses his life before adulthood.
His mother simply did not care, and let what happened happen without any effort to stop things. She also did not acknowledge what was going on, remaining as passive as possible, out of the line of conflict. She's a minor detail in this story because ultimately she did nothing. To attempt to help her son was beyond her interests though certainly not her means since they had a phone and weren't that rural. Slender Man's haunting of Peter, which stated after he ran away and spent a night in the woods, added to Peter's stress. He was a quiet child with violent outbursts and constant paranoia. His early childhood was nothing but a nightmare, despite the fact he thought he was insane and seeing things due to the Slender Man's constant presence.
However, over a course of sixteen years, Peter lived under the tyrannical rule of his father, which is arguably worse. He was beaten, whipped with a horse whip, thrown into closets and locked inside for hours on end, and tied to a tree with a bike chain once and forced to stand there as it rained for the entire night. Any one of these events could be counted as the reason Peter turned out to be the person he is. Since being impolite was an offense worthy of the above punishments, Peter became polite and unshakable, the kind of person with very little expression. Since bad grades earned beatings, he became a diligent student. He dealt with Slender Man's haunting him with complete apathy and an expression carved out of ice. But it was never enough, and Peter had no love for his abusive father, holding in all his rage even when he was forced to live in their unheated garage for his 'bad behavior'. He had no friends, no one to reach out to, and lived in nothing but fear and pain every day as the years slowly went on.
His hair went white over the years. His ability to cope waned. And so one night, when his father was murdered by Slender Man, Peter gave up on his family. He left his mother altogether, both out of fear of the police and a desire to live life freely. He somehow made his way into high school after high school, trying to stay educated and hopefully achieve a GED one day. He wants to live on his own and forget the entirety of his past. It hurts too much for him to deal with so he just quite simply doesn't.
Peter was born to an upper class family with a very controlling father and an extremely passive mother. It's not clear when the abuse started since the Slender Man messed with his memories; it was frequent (his earliest journal states he was "living every day in fear and turning out to be right") and started early ("I remember, when I was six, he hit me so hard-") so it was not a gradual thing. By these statements it's easy to see just how the abuse went down in no uncertain terms - but you'd have to read his journals to know it, because he never discusses his life before adulthood.
His mother simply did not care, and let what happened happen without any effort to stop things. She also did not acknowledge what was going on, remaining as passive as possible, out of the line of conflict. She's a minor detail in this story because ultimately she did nothing. To attempt to help her son was beyond her interests though certainly not her means since they had a phone and weren't that rural. Slender Man's haunting of Peter, which stated after he ran away and spent a night in the woods, added to Peter's stress. He was a quiet child with violent outbursts and constant paranoia. His early childhood was nothing but a nightmare, despite the fact he thought he was insane and seeing things due to the Slender Man's constant presence.
However, over a course of sixteen years, Peter lived under the tyrannical rule of his father, which is arguably worse. He was beaten, whipped with a horse whip, thrown into closets and locked inside for hours on end, and tied to a tree with a bike chain once and forced to stand there as it rained for the entire night. Any one of these events could be counted as the reason Peter turned out to be the person he is. Since being impolite was an offense worthy of the above punishments, Peter became polite and unshakable, the kind of person with very little expression. Since bad grades earned beatings, he became a diligent student. He dealt with Slender Man's haunting him with complete apathy and an expression carved out of ice. But it was never enough, and Peter had no love for his abusive father, holding in all his rage even when he was forced to live in their unheated garage for his 'bad behavior'. He had no friends, no one to reach out to, and lived in nothing but fear and pain every day as the years slowly went on.
His hair went white over the years. His ability to cope waned. And so one night, when his father was murdered by Slender Man, Peter gave up on his family. He left his mother altogether, both out of fear of the police and a desire to live life freely. He somehow made his way into high school after high school, trying to stay educated and hopefully achieve a GED one day. He wants to live on his own and forget the entirety of his past. It hurts too much for him to deal with so he just quite simply doesn't.
