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Character name: Peter Sullivan
Age: 28
Canon: Margin Call
Canon point: After getting his coffee and talking with Sam, before the caffeine kicks in and he goes up to meet with Tuld; he takes a nap in the office.

Weapons: None.

Abilities/powers: He was a rock scientist, then a number cruncher on wall street. He's brilliant with math and science. Otherwise, none.

Personality:
Peter is and has always been extremely intelligent, bordering on genius level (possibly surpassing it). He has a gift for math and science and tends to relate most business, etc. back to the basic mathematical concepts at the roots of them. He's not socially inept, but can be a little awkward at times. He tends to be more quiet and reserved, not quick to voice his opinions, but he can get along with people just fine and enjoys a club, a drink, and a good stripper like anyone else on Wall Street. His mind is almost constantly active and he tends to be extremely introspective and thoughtful; while he might listen to worthless chatter and tolerate idiocy well, he doesn't often join in on it.

Given his advanced thinking and complex fields of work and study, Peter is also used to having to explain things. He's comprised almost entirely of patience and works through explanations in steps, as if an equation, and is happy to continue explaining until the issue or concern makes sense. He gives credit where credit is due and remains remarkably humble, partially to help him in getting along with others and partially because he believes it's the right thing to do. Despite working on Wall Street, he is extremely moral. He thinks it's wrong that his boss makes $2.5 million dollars a year, chastises his friend for being tactless when their other boss is fired, and questions whether his boss's boss has let his son know of the impending crisis (something the other man hadn't even thought of yet). Because he's constantly thinking and full of a moral code that makes him want to be a good person, he's fairly aware of people and things even if he's not always willing to get involved or remarkably interested.

With his tendency to be reserved combined with his intelligence and foresight, Peter can be overwhelmed quite easily in the right situation. He won't be overwhelmed by heaps of work or numbers, but when a problem occurs that he could not anticipate and/or which he can't take care of by himself, it stresses him out a lot and he may need to take a walk and clear his head in order to tackle the matter again. He would never run away from stress, but the anxiety makes him more awkward in social situations until it's something he's able to settle down from. He's the kind of guy that doesn't particularly enjoy surprises. While he wouldn't go out of his way to be spontaneous or really choose it for himself, he doesn't mind following along with someone else who chooses spontaneous actions as he tends to just go with the flow.

Peter is honest, possibly to a fault. While he's not opposed to a white lie, he will always tell the truth when under pressure and/or when there's the potential for him to get in trouble. If his friend did something, for example, he would be honest about his friend having been the one to do it, not out of cowardice, but because he wants to do the right thing and believes that honest and accuracy lead to positive results. In his honesty, explanations, etc, accuracy is very important to him. He doesn't really like gossip, mainly because it tends to be deeply flawed logic/stories. Some things, like his bosses' salaries, do make him curious, but he also knows that there's a time and place for such things and may get irked when other people are tactless; he tries hard to be tactful and polite.

He doesn't really get mad or angry. Outside of the stress he might feel, and the deep sadness with certain crises situations, Peter is a pretty level and even guy. He might argue about the accuracy of a scientific/mathematical concept, or a moral one if it's with someone who is not his boss, but the most angry he would get would be to be frustrated with the inaccuracy of a report. That might include getting frustrated if someone lied and he was forced or expected to cover for them, but he still wouldn't really hate the person; Peter just doesn't have it in him.

The reason he wouldn't be likely to stand up to his boss in most situations where they might disagree is because Peter is an underling in many ways; he's not a leader. Partially to fit in, partially because he's passive, and partially because he tries to be loyal to those who are good to him, Peter would always express his disagreement with them to them, but may not express that same disagreement to their superiors if commanded not to. He'll always give an honest opinion if someone asks him for one (again, outside of potentially a white lie), but may downplay or deflect his opinion if it's not something he's comfortable with.

Peter enjoys being alone for the most part. While he considers some of those he works with to be his friends and has a few friends outside of work (as well as a few ex-girlfriends he may still run into at times), he's not afraid of alone time in any way and sometimes prefers it. He tends to kind of float along, doing what he does and enjoying it but not particularly determined to reach any specific goal. He's still a very responsible person, not lazy and one who takes initiative on occasion, but his aim is simply to do well at the things he works on and not to necessarily “succeed” or be promoted.

He is, at his core, a genuinely good guy who's just trying to get by the best way he can. In Limbo, he'll basically continue just awkwardly trying to find his place and fit in. The place won't overwhelm him at first, because he'll be too busy trying to understand it to really be overwhelmed by the magnitude of it, but he may start freaking out a little bit later. Peter will try to make some more friends here and probably try to keep busy with math in his free time.


History:
Margin Call wiki plot

Peter got his bachelor's from Penn and then his doctorate from MIT. He worked with a privately owned producer and designer of space technology (ie spaceships) for years before transferring to wall street because he viewed at as the same job but with better pay. He has been with this company (we'll call it Lehman Stearns, a name stolen from the two companies the film is based on; the firm is never named in the canon) for two and a half years as an analyst in the risk management department before Eric Dale's firing changes everything. It's modern America and what not.

3rd person sample: N/A

1st person sample:
[Audio switches on, there's a pause, then a voice speaks.]
Hello? … Mr. Rogers? Um. I didn't hear what happened. Are we going through with it? Did you hear what call he made?

[A pause.]

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that this was connected to a network. I'm, uh, Peter Sullivan. I work for a company on Wall Street. It doesn't really matter which one, since they're all the same. Unless you work on Wall Street, of course. Then you want to know the difference. No one else does. It's all pretty fucked now anyway.