#nathan petrelli

[aceofwhump]

Heroes 1x19 ".07%"

[letthewhumpbegin]

Heroes, s1e11

[drizzedoffrootbeer]

◈ Heroes 1x01 - "Genesis" ◈

Peter: "I never told you this, but when Nathan had his accident, I knew it."

Angela: "We all got the same call."

Peter: "No, I'm saying before the call - like he was telling me, three hundred miles away. I woke up and I knew that he'd been hurt."

[skepticxdreamer]

Happy Pride Month with a little shitpost for Heroes and what they SHOULD NEVER SAY TO SOMEONE WHO JUST CAME OUT.

[mohich]

peter and sylar and implications

[neco117]

[adaav]

[heroes-trash]

Started watching heroes with my boyfriend and he's enjoying it but he can't seem to wrap his head around why Nathan isn't happy about having powers/doesn't want anyone to know about them (and we're well past the point where the Company tries to nab him). Keeps saying stuff like "He could win the election by showing off that he can fly!" and whatnot. Problem is I'm not really a Nathan girlie myself so while I do kind of get his deal intuitively, I struggle to put it into words... how would you explain his general mindset to a relative newcomer who's about halfway through the first season?

He's been raised to be perfect. To excel, but in a very "normal" mold. Wife and kids, no affairs no children out of wedlock. No brother who is sick, no mother who steals, no weirdness. Everything that doesn't "fit" about him, he's ashamed, even afraid of. [Which is why @petrellicest so often states his relationship with his powers make an excellent metaphor for being closeted, but I guess that's neither here nor there.]

Also.... just because the Company isn't actively trying to snatch him doesn't mean he's out of danger?? :'D Keep in mind, Heroes does not take place in a DC- or Marvel-esque world. It takes place in our world. Powers are not a known thing. Nathan is in greater danger from the government than the Company - he says so himself at one point. Not sure if you're there yet, but he thinks the government would take them all (all people with powers) and lock them away, because that's what he would do.

[gothixm00nz]

been rewatching heroes recently because that show is my fucking everything. and bro...

i never noticed how much sexual tension there is between peter and nathan? like why the fuck do they constantly look like they wanna kiss???

milo and adrian wanna kiss soooo bad it's fucking hilarious but also awkward when you know that peter and nathan are brothers (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) like did nobody at any point look at these men and go

"Yo, maybe don't look like you wanna suck face every time y'all hug."

[aceofwhump]

Heroes 1x02 "Don't Look Down"

[judasisgayriot]

(just realised there’s 2 angles of this hug, one in the actual scene and one in another episode’s ‘previously on’.)

[thefieryeclipse]

Moments Between the Madness - Chapter 9 ("The Tomb of Innocence")

"After a while it got easier to believe. To forget what I was doing until it just didn't matter anymore. But I don't want to forget. I don't want to be like him.” It was only when he turned his head and found the hero still watching him with that honest, earnest, undivided attention the way he always did, the way no one else ever had, that Sylar discovered why his secrets were spilling out of him of their own volition. Because Peter was listening to him. “Don't let me forget, Peter.”

This one's a pretty emotional chapter from start to finish - I hope all the feels make up for having to wait so long to read it! Enjoy <3

(tw: childhood abandonment, minor mention of self harm, romance)

Ao3:

FFN:

[drizzedoffrootbeer]

◈ Heroes 1x01 - "Genesis" ◈

[kimberly-stocks]

Heroes cast. Milo in black and in white.🤍🖤

Look at our cutie wearing a white short sleeved t-shirt 🤍 Those sneakers clearly not his judging by how clean they look 😅 and then wearing all black, so handsome and mysterious 🖤

[thepsironyofchokingonalifesaver]

Hi, this is the op from the Heroes text post. I always think of it like this: Nathan, being a politician, having that power in and of itself, while also him having the ability to fly. Making him the "one of them." He has people with abilities captured, rounded up, put into places to cure them, etc.

WHILE also being someone with abilities.

That says to me in this world right now. He would be some gay republican politician.

Getting legislation out there that puts Queer people in direct harm. And being a massive hypocrite about it. The older i got from when i first watched the show, to this day, am more aware politically and am myself Queer. So its always interesting still being heavily into something since u were little and now being able to rly understand it. (I was 10 when it aired in 2006)

I only got into Heroes a few years ago, and I think your interpretation of Nathan as the equivalent of a gay Republican is accurate, as well as popular (at least in the tumblr side of the fandom.) Many see Nathan as being literally a queer presumably-right-wing politician on top of being one in a metaphorical sense.

Honestly, the interpretation I want to push more is that Peter’s a moron, a possibility-codependent idiot. “He’s never let me down!” No, Nathan’s only thrown Peter under the bus by claiming he’s mentally disturbed in front of the press, sabotaged his efforts to find out how to save the world by ruining the painting, worked with the people who were chasing Claire, and consistently demonstrated disinterest in using policy to protect those with powers. But that’s not “letting Peter down!” (He also once punched Peter in the face for cheating on a chemistry test in the comics, but who’s counting?)

Either way, I definitely agree that it’s real interesting to come back to media you didn’t fully understand as a child and be able to see the nuances and add your own insights.