#peter puckett

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[jonahmagnus]

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Peter Puckett

I haven't finished paranatural as of submitting him, but he seems great. His life's dream is to own a convenience store. He loses 2 games of monopoly in 5 minutes by trying to buid a tower worthy of his power. He plays swords with his kids. When one of his kids wants to visit they're old town he plans the trip in like a day no questions asked. He's a cringefail man with a heart of gold.

hot single widower dad in your area. doesn't know that his son is a weird psychic, but knows he would still love his son if he was a weird psychic. once squeezed pizza grease into his daughter's cup of soda.

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Randall "Thirdy" Robinson

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[cacowhistle]

sun of mine

fandom: paranatural wc: 1108

June had secrets. He’s not afraid to admit it, even if only to himself. She wasn’t just a freelancing scrap metal artist. That kind of thing doesn’t pull in as much money as it did for her. It shouldn’t, at least. But even if it was pulling in more money than it should have, it wasn’t pulling in enough for a family of four in the middle of the city. Peter had been busy working, too. He was more willing to let her secrets slide. Mostly. But June had just asked him to trust her. And despite his better judgment, or perhaps because of it, Peter did.

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June Puckett never made good on her promises.

Sorry, that—that makes it sound like it was intentional. Like it was cruel, purposeful, deceitful. The truth is more that something always got in the way. Taking care of the kids, or just being too tired, or the dreaded hydra that would rear its head called work.

Peter would always try to be… forgiving. About it. He loved her. He really, truly loved her. Still does, even. It’s just…

June had secrets. He’s not afraid to admit it, even if only to himself. She wasn’t just a freelancing scrap metal artist. That kind of thing doesn’t pull in as much money as it did for her. It shouldn’t, at least. But even if it was pulling in more money than it should have, it wasn’t pulling in enough for a family of four in the middle of the city. Peter had been busy working, too. He was more willing to let her secrets slide. Mostly.

The nights she would leave without much explanation, then come back bandaged or tired or sometimes not for days… he’d asked, plenty of times, what she was doing. Where she was going. It was an argument that plagued Max’s first two years.

But June had just asked him to trust her. And despite his better judgment, or perhaps because of it, Peter did.

One night, lying in bed, running his fingers over the tattooed dragon scales on her hands that sometimes felt more scale than tattoo, Peter had asked her to tell him whatever she’d been up to that morning, when she’d had to run and left him to take Max and Zoey to daycare. She’d turned her face against the pillows, looking at him with eyes unreadable.

“I had to go fight a ghost,” she’d said, eyes crinkling in the corners, “that was terrorizing people in the park.”

Peter had chuckled, tapping his thumb against her wrist. She was not going to tell him. “How brave of you, then.”

For a moment, they’d just been quiet. Then, he’d said: “Promise me,” and he’d felt her every muscle tense.

“Pete,” she’d said, head rolling back against the pillows, eyes flicking up to the ceiling.

Peter guided her face back toward him. “If you have to promise me just one thing,” he’d said, “let it be this.”

Maybe she was feeling charitable. Maybe it was the look in his eyes, the uncharacteristically serious turn to his mouth. Whatever it was, June had looked at him, and just nodded, once—eyes widened, lips slightly parted in what he thought might be surprise.

“Promise you’ll tell me,” he’d said, eyes dropping to their entwined hands, “if whatever you do, whatever it is you don’t want to tell me about—tell me if it ever gets dangerous. If it ever gets dangerous for Max and Zoey.”

June had stared at him for a moment, before a sad smile curved across her face. “Okay,” she’d said, “I promise.”

It was the one she kept least of all.

She was a metalworker. The number of things she could be doing… Peter didn’t know if she was, what, making weapons? Melting down contraband? Whatever it was, it—it seemed dangerous, if she couldn’t talk about it, but she still would do it, even with her family waiting at home. So then, was it that bad? It couldn’t have been. June—June was not that kind of woman, or so he thought. Peter knew her.

Or… so he thought.

Then there had been the fire, and—and the worst day of his life. Then the worst year. Then the worst couple of years. He did everything he ever could, to keep these kids safe, to do everything for them, to push down the grief and keep moving forward. Moving had been a fresh start, after a few years, a way to distance themselves from the wound. To let it work on healing.

Now, though, it feels like Bayview is just picking at the scab.

Max is getting distant. From him and Zoey. It has only been a few days, sure, but Peter recognizes a lot of June in their son. And he’s been… melancholy, and moody, and it could just be chalked up to being the new kid in an unfamiliar place, but it doesn’t feel like it. Max is making friends so quickly it’s a little astonishing. He’s never been this, er… magnetic.

But within one week he’s gone out late at night (twice! Well, he supposes the first time he hadn’t actually gone out, as seen as the security camera on the door in the morning, but he’d met friends outside, one of which had been riding a horse?) and Peter is starting to think that second trip wasn’t actually a study session, because he got that same shifty little look in his eye that his mother used to. And then he’d broken his arm in gym class, of all things, during—during a game of dodgeball, apparently, which just doesn’t sound true, and…

Peter worries. Max is a bright kid. A funny kid, an independent one, taking after his mom in so many ways. But he doesn’t want… he doesn’t want Max to end up entirely like his mother.

June was the love of his life. She was also a deeply troubled woman, and Peter knows, he knows, if she had just… just shared whatever burden this was, he could have helped her. Couldn’t he? Maybe then, she wouldn’t have…

He doesn’t want to lose Max to whatever he lost June to.

The isolation. The… frightening struggle with what he’s pretty sure is… mental health? The late nights getting involved with something shady, something that can’t be legal—not that he thinks Max is becoming a, a delinquent! Anything is possible. But Max has always been a good kid, at his core, even if he… runs around in places he shouldn’t to do “sick tricks,” or starts fights at school (or at least participates in them? He’s still not clear on that one). It’s just… Max is like his mother in the way that he does not tell Peter anything.

He’s a little sick of people not telling him things.

But children are wont to do as they do, and he expects nothing less from a boy like Max. So he’ll don the silly, unaware dad persona he’s gotten so comfortable in, and he’ll let Max snipe and snark and hide things, because he hopes—he has to have hope—that when the chips are down?

Max will not be like his mother, and he will let Peter in.

[dontexpecttomakesense]

I know that we're all losing it to Mrs. Baxter and Coach Oop reval, but I want to bring my attention elsewhere. TvTropes points out that, as form of foreshadowing, waaaaaay back in chapter 3 or so, Max's father, upon seeing the blood imprint his son left at the glass of the store, he makes up a story about a Death Cult (which is existence we confirm chapters after) and that 11 is a prime number and that Death Cults love math (at least Mrs. Baxter is the math teacher).

And I find it particularly strange that he made this one particular hypotesis, particularly. If there is anything that paranatural has shown, is that zany characters are, more often than not, using their own quirks to hide their real self. And there is no weirder character that Peter Puckett. In chapter 4 Max mentions how, in playing monopoly, he lost the game twice while trying to create a tower worthy of his sorcery. A pretty stupid throwaway line. 'lol random' we might say, but Paranatural has been 'lol random' like this, before pulling the rug from beneath our feets.

We know the concept of a "Witch" is real, we have vampires and werewolves. A "Sorcerer" wouldn't be so out of place (also understanding a sorcerer as that one magic user that obtained his skill through deep strudy, rather than any innate talent).

Why did Peter decied to come back to Mayview? Precisely now that all the events are conviniently being put into motion. He knows more, I'm sure, he was married to June, one of the best agents of the consortium, I don't think he was completely unawayre of what she was doing or what she could do.

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Happy New Year @weirdbabs !

I was your @paranaturalsecretsanta this year!

You said you liked Max and Peter, so I decided to make a little still of a theoretical home movie. Peter is goofing and Max, even as a kid, is not having it. (I imagine June is behind the camera and Zoey is down for a nap)

Version without VHS effects below the cut.

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Thoughts on junepetershirke

Canon. Canon to me. It's canon.

I wish. I wish. That Shrike had ended up with June and Peter instead of Davy. Or that at the very least she had left him for June and Peter. Would it have ended in tragedy anyway? Yeah of course, the plot demands that June dies and Shrike becomes a werewolf. Would it have made things a bit harder in the meantime? Hard to say. Do I wish it had happened anyway? ABSOLUTELY. It would have meant Cody would have been Max and Zoey's brother, but whatever, that's a small price to pay, and it's even kind of sweet. I mean, I'd hope to GOD that Shrike would have custody in that particular divorce. Because wow. What a mess.

Peter and his two badass headstrong wives. What's better than a relationship dynamic where the woman is undoubtedly cooler and more rough around the edges than her special guy? A relationship dynamic where that happens TWICE. If this ship were canon it would mean Peter would have such an obvious and specific type, and I think that's awesome.

But it's also pretty tragic. Peter loses both lovers in the end, one to a very mortal death and one to the suspended animation of monsterhood. Would the same fate have befallen Shrike, if she'd left Mayview with Peter and June? Could polyamory have truly saved her? Again, I don't know. But I love thinking about it. Also, there's no way June wasn't some flavor of queer. Same with Peter. Them being poly with Shrike involved doesn't strike me as out of character at all.

[weirdbabs]

U////U a love story for the ages

[eightfoldslibrary]

Prompt: Peter Puckett got a date! And as much as he trusts his kids to be on their own for a couple hours, a babysitter was in order.

Bonus: The babysitter is Penny Spender. Max doesn't trust her at all. She doesn't like him, until he starts trash talking about one of his teachers.

Extra bonus: Isabel heard her mom was out on a date with someone and swung by to bother Max for some reason. They then learn that Isabel's mom went out with Max's dad!

[jonahmagnus]

[Flame text] MELANIN RESTORED

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Propaganda below the cut!

Peter Puckett

I haven't finished paranatural as of submitting him, but he seems great. His life's dream is to own a convenience store. He loses 2 games of monopoly in 5 minutes by trying to buid a tower worthy of his power. He plays swords with his kids. When one of his kids wants to visit they're old town he plans the trip in like a day no questions asked. He's a cringefail man with a heart of gold.

hot single widower dad in your area. doesn't know that his son is a weird psychic, but knows he would still love his son if he was a weird psychic. once squeezed pizza grease into his daughter's cup of soda.

Vergilius

ok he's scary but he is so dad-coded. kind of sharp-tongued and emotionally distant but he has a soft spot for the bus driver. basically his daughter atp. in chapter one of "leviathan" he goes to visit an orphanage on christmas in a santa hat. he keeps a photo of the orphanage kids in his pocket even after the orphanage was destroyed..

he counts as a dilf because he volunteered at an orphanage <3 looks miserable but kids love him he looks like shit and i’m madly in love with him he looks like he stood in the rain for 4 hours straight he’s my wife my girlfriend my babygirl skrunkly mipy blorbo (he’s killed hundreds of people)

[dontexpecttomakesense]

You know, knowing Paranatural, it's enterely possible that this is foreshadowing and that Max's father is a sorcerer trying to build something in Mayview.

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June Puckett: Wow, I've never seen Peter reading before... looking so intellectual... June Puckett: I wonder what he's reading? [June takes a closer look at Peter Puckett's book] Peter Puckett: *is reading 'How to Pretend to Read so You Appear Smarter'* June Puckett: -_-

[junk-thrillz]

I nEEEED to hear your thoughts on boss leader x mr Puckett PLLEEEEASE this crack ship is actually driving me insane I-…I don’t think it’s a joke anymore

Anon. Your mind. It’s an absurd and wonderful place. I love it.

Shipping a crackship as a joke is such a slippery slope, it happened to me with Lisa and Max, and NO ONE PREPARES YOU FOR IT. I don’t know what it is about shipping for comedic purposes that so quickly spirals into something serious that takes up all your brain space… but allow me to think about your newfound OTP from both a comedic and serious angle, because I’m actually kind of loving this.

The comedy angle is obvious. Max's future stepmom is a spirit obsessed with suitsies who spends her time either being super cryptic, or trolling everyone. Max's first meeting with BL is a tonal rollercoaster, she freaks him the fuck out by appearing out of nowhere, he makes some snarky jabs, and then shit gets SERIOUS. He's rightfully suspicious of her and the information she's withholding, but also willing to hold a conversation with her. All this to say that I think the whole taking-her-seriously thing would deteriorate the second she starts dating his dad. BL would try to bond and Max would just be yelling the whole time. Their relationship would not be worse off for it but I think it would stagnate. There's also the comedy of the ship itself, you have this immortal spirit woman who's been reincarnated a trillion times (?) dating some 30 year old freak running a 7/11. It's awesome.

Okay, let's take this seriously and think about it happening in canon. It would mean that Peter is a spectral of some kind, which raises the question of, did he know June was a spectral? Probably. In this scenario, would he have any way of knowing that BL was June's boss?? It has potential to get weird FAST, but that's kinda what I love about it??

Also, this is a ship that has June haunting it. Not maliciously, just, in the same way she haunts the rest of the narrative. BL and June knew each other - maybe Peter and BL would be able to bond over losing her. It's hard to say how much closure BL could provide Peter, because the details of June's death are still unknown. But at the very least I could see this relationship beginning as a shared catharsis between the two.

Wouldn't it be interesting if Peter wasn't a spectral before the comic's present? He becomes a spectral and suddenly has access to this world his wife was a part of, and that he had no idea about. Spirits are real, and he's one of the spectrals, and many of them knew June. I keep thinking about Peter meeting BL in a dream world and losing my MIND.

In terms of like, actual romance romance, I think they'd be tentative. BL has enough tact to not push Peter too far, and June's death is still fresh for the whole family. Also, Peter has his kids to think about - one of them is a spectral and has met BL before. You kind of have to be careful when navigating a spectral's world. And Boss Leader is still THE boss, you know? She's caring for an extremely powerful spirit, is HERSELF an extremely powerful spirit. Peter is just some guy. I don't think they'd be UNHEALTHY, I just think they'd have to be CAREFUL.

Their relationship would be completely different from June and Peter's, and that's not a bad thing, it's even by design. But that also means things would turn out differently, Peter would treat everything differently.

I think I've hit the point where I've begun to ramble but I'm sure there's more I could say about these two. This ship is such an interesting thought experiment... it being canon would shake everything up but I think I would love the melodrama of it all.