Peter Wiggin
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| Peter Wiggin | |
| Status | |
| Nicknames | |
| Occupation | mars |
| Known relatives | Ender Wiggin - Brother Valentine Wiggin - Sister John Paul Wiggin - Father Theresa Wiggin - Mother |
| Characteristics | |
| Height | 1000000000lbs. |
| Weight | 1,1 |
| Eye color | rainbow |
| Hair color | pink |
| Skin color | blue |
| Unusual features | Unknown |
| Appearances | |
| Ender's Game Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow of the Giant | |
Peter is the first child of Theresa and John Paul Wiggin and the brother of Ender and Valentine Wiggin. After the Bugger Wars Peter went on to become the Hegemon of Earth.
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[edit] Early Life
The first-born Wiggin child, Peter's intellect showed great promise. Unfortunately, his personality proved to be too aggressive for admission to Battle School after having had a monitor until the age of 5[1]. In an effort to achieve the same level of genius, but with more empathy, the International Fleet requested the Wiggins’ next child be a girl, who was named Valentine Wiggin. When Valentine also proved to be unsuitable to the fleet, the family was given permission to have a rare third child, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin[2]. Peter felt great jealousy towards Ender and tormented him whenever possible, culminating in a promise to kill Ender shortly before Ender went to Battle School. After Ender left, Peter continued to show violent, and even psychopathic tendencies, causing his family to move to North Carolina, in hopes that the outdoors would calm Peter down[3]. All appearances suggested the move was successful, with Peter appearing to be a model student in school and his taking long walks. However, Valentine continued to find evidence of cruelty, in the form of skinned animals[3].
[edit] Locke and Demosthenes
By studying publicly available information Peter was able to determine that the political alliance on Earth was very fragile. Never having given up desires of greatness, he convinced Valentine to help him write essays in an effort to influence world events. After several experimental identities they created their the alternative personas of Demosthenes and Locke. Peter, either to manipulate Valentine, or to ensure that the identities were complex, wrote the more reasonable Locke, while Valentine wrote the more belligerant Demosthenes. Slowly building an audience, the two personalities each became well known and succeed in helping Peter achieve his goal of becoming influential[3].
Following the end of the Third Bugger War, Peter, in the form of Locke, negotiated a treaty which brought the conflict between the Warsaw Pact and the North American hegemony. This led to Peter achieving his long sought after goal of becoming Hegemon[4]
[edit] Hegemon
Following the war, the position of Hegemon became more of a symbolic position, than one of power. Various factions arose. Peter, with the help of Bean eventually cemented his position of power and was well respected through-out his rule. Late in life, Peter asked Ender to write his story, which became part of the book Speaker of the Dead[4].
[edit] Reincarnated Life
Hundreds of years later, Peter was reincarnated by the actions of Ender during an experimental trip. More a projection of Ender's memory then an actual manifestation of Peter, this version of Peter was far more cruel then the Peter who ruled as Hegemon.
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