My personal theory is that in timeline A, it is actually Sylar who blows up. Because that keeps things consistent with what f!Hiro knows. He expects Sylar to blow up because that's who does it in timeline A, in timeline B Peter blows up and regenerates and Nathan tells the world that explode-y guy is Sylar, and Peter never ever tells f!Hiro otherwise.
So in timeline A, yes, Peter is still alive and horrifically scarred because he never gets Claire's powers. in timeline B, Peter is still alive and horrifically scarred because he gets Claire's powers and uh, whatever reason he still has the scar. in Timeline A, Sylar explodes and takes out NYC. In timeline B, Peter explodes and takes out NYC but *everyone believes it's Sylar*. So it's not contradictory to f!Hiro who just thinks nothing has changed.
1. This is entirely possible and one of the reasons I included Charlie's death in timeline B. It seems really weird to me that even in the event she doesn't get tastybrained by Sylar, she still has a brain tumor that's gonna kill her. It's very self-corrective and fits with the idea that some events just have to happen. Also, we know from "Homecoming" and "Fallout" that Sylar has tastybrained someone who had *some kind* of healing power, because he's up on his feet before Peter is and his injuries after falling off the roof are just as bad *and* he's able to physically fake his own death. So it's totally possible that there's a bunch of people out in the world who have some kind of regenerative power and the only reason Sylar goes after Claire is because she's the easiest to find after the news article about saving the dude from the burning train.
2. I assume that in timeline A, f!Hiro thinks Sylar died in the explosion and that Sylar totally tastybrained Nathan and took his place. And as for the second part of your question...I got nothing. It's the smart thing to do, but it's also a bigger immediate change. So maybe f!Hiro was trying to make sure that *he* didn't do a lot of changes, which is why he told Peter. If someone from timeline B does the changing, it might have less of a ripple effect on things than if f!Hiro does it. But that is fanwanking and I honestly have no idea.
3. I don't think Sylar's power is tastybraining people. I think that if *anyone* tastybrains another mutant type that they will absorb those powers. Sylar susses it out *because* his power is figuring out how things work. Because he can look at a watch, say, and know what to fix and he looks at the telekinetic guy and says something along the lines of "I know how to fix you." So the power Peter picks up from Sylar is the power to know how things work and not tastybraining.
Peter tells whoever he tells that Nathan *lied* to protect him, which says that Peter knows full well that Sylar is alive in timeline B. And I don't think Nathan dies until he is already president (Sylar says that he didn't kill Nathan until Nathan had already turned against his own people and he also needs to kill Candace first to take the power of illusion from her so he can pretend to be Nathan, and we know from f!Hiro that Candace survives the explosion and Mr. Bennet hides her, though apparently not very well since Candace and DL are both demonstrably dead and f!Hiro thinks they're alive and Mr. Bennet doesn't contradict him), so that would be Nathan in Peter's vision.
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Date: 2007-05-04 04:23 pm (UTC)So in timeline A, yes, Peter is still alive and horrifically scarred because he never gets Claire's powers. in timeline B, Peter is still alive and horrifically scarred because he gets Claire's powers and uh, whatever reason he still has the scar. in Timeline A, Sylar explodes and takes out NYC. In timeline B, Peter explodes and takes out NYC but *everyone believes it's Sylar*. So it's not contradictory to f!Hiro who just thinks nothing has changed.
1. This is entirely possible and one of the reasons I included Charlie's death in timeline B. It seems really weird to me that even in the event she doesn't get tastybrained by Sylar, she still has a brain tumor that's gonna kill her. It's very self-corrective and fits with the idea that some events just have to happen. Also, we know from "Homecoming" and "Fallout" that Sylar has tastybrained someone who had *some kind* of healing power, because he's up on his feet before Peter is and his injuries after falling off the roof are just as bad *and* he's able to physically fake his own death. So it's totally possible that there's a bunch of people out in the world who have some kind of regenerative power and the only reason Sylar goes after Claire is because she's the easiest to find after the news article about saving the dude from the burning train.
2. I assume that in timeline A, f!Hiro thinks Sylar died in the explosion and that Sylar totally tastybrained Nathan and took his place. And as for the second part of your question...I got nothing. It's the smart thing to do, but it's also a bigger immediate change. So maybe f!Hiro was trying to make sure that *he* didn't do a lot of changes, which is why he told Peter. If someone from timeline B does the changing, it might have less of a ripple effect on things than if f!Hiro does it. But that is fanwanking and I honestly have no idea.
3. I don't think Sylar's power is tastybraining people. I think that if *anyone* tastybrains another mutant type that they will absorb those powers. Sylar susses it out *because* his power is figuring out how things work. Because he can look at a watch, say, and know what to fix and he looks at the telekinetic guy and says something along the lines of "I know how to fix you." So the power Peter picks up from Sylar is the power to know how things work and not tastybraining.
Peter tells whoever he tells that Nathan *lied* to protect him, which says that Peter knows full well that Sylar is alive in timeline B. And I don't think Nathan dies until he is already president (Sylar says that he didn't kill Nathan until Nathan had already turned against his own people and he also needs to kill Candace first to take the power of illusion from her so he can pretend to be Nathan, and we know from f!Hiro that Candace survives the explosion and Mr. Bennet hides her, though apparently not very well since Candace and DL are both demonstrably dead and f!Hiro thinks they're alive and Mr. Bennet doesn't contradict him), so that would be Nathan in Peter's vision.