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Nathan & Claude team up to fight evil and Linderman. Hilarity ensues.

Works for me.

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Nathan & Claude, plus Whoopi Goldberg and Patrick Stewart.

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Do we think Peter already had some of Sylar's powers since he got the telekinesis in Texas? Because I'm personally inclined to think that he can't absorb it until it's used around him. I think that jives with what we've seen - I can't remember a time when Peter absorbed something without seeing the person do it. Hmm, maybe Isaac. I'm not sure.

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I'm pretty sure Peter didn't see either Isaac or Claire use their powers; Isaac was, IIRC, convinced he couldn't paint without drugs when they met, and Claire had already healed from Sylar's attack when she encountered Peter afterward. I don't remember Sylar using telekinesis when Peter was present either, only when he was alone with the two girls, but I could be forgetting something. Either way, I think all it takes is proximity.

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Did Peter and Claire fall off the building together, or am I hallucinating that? Peter realized that he'd gotten the telekinesis from Sylar because he remembered Sylar throwing lockers at him. Isaac breaks my argument, though, so you might be right.

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IIRC, it was Peter and Sylar who fell off the building together. What I remember is Peter yelling at Claire to run to the stadium and get to the crowd at the game, because he thought Sylar wouldn't attack her around other people. I had forgotten about the lockers, but I'm pretty sure Peter and Sylar took the fall together, and when Peter woke up, Sylar was gone, and the cops were surrounding him.

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That's entirely possible, since I don't remember. But I did think that Isaac's painting was of Claire after she'd fallen off the building, and that it changed because Peter was with her? I think? And that's how they realized they both had powers, except that Claire thought he was invincible too and not that he was absorbing from her. Again, it's entirely possible that I'm hallucinating.

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No, now that I do remember clearly, because Nathan freaked out about it and threw paint on it to hide it from Peter, but Simone had a digital image and showed it to Peter anyway. Issac's painting was of Peter, not Claire. It had the homecoming banner and a clock in it, which was how Peter knew where and when it was going to happen. The painting made it look like Peter died, but he had already encountered Claire and absorbed her powers, so he fell and was badly injured, but he healed. So Issac's vision did come true as he painted it, but the event didn't result in Peter's death as it appeared.

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...You're right. How did I forget that? I guess there are just too many pictures of Bloody Claire and Bloody Peter, and I got them mixed up. But he did fall off the building with someone. Was it Sylar or Claire?

I hate discussing things when I can't remember the canon. Sorry.

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At the high school, he fell off the building with Sylar, because he'd already told Claire to make a run for the stadium, and she did. She took off, he got into a rumble with Sylar, and they both took a spill. Sylar was gone (and got nabbed by Eden) by the time Peter regained consciousness and the cops showed up.

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Yeah, that's been confusing too. I'd seen someone suggest it was when he touched someone and that's why he absorbed Nathan's flying power while they were airborne and Claire's because they touched - skin to skin - and iirc from Texas, Peter and Sylar hadn't there. But yeah, he got the TK - maybe it's both? Touch and actually seeing it used?

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He saw Claude before he touched him, though, and he's definitely never touched Isaac - actually, he's never seen Isaac paint either, which is putting a dent in my theory.

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He did touch him while he was OD-ing in ep 1 (I just rewatched that scene and it's really evocative how it's the same triangle as Simone's death scene but the players are in different roles) which is why I was pondering the demonstration-or-touch acquisition thing. It can't be only one or the other because as you said, there would be holes. But it could be both?

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He was around Isaac? Was Isaac painting (did he have the scary eyes) or just high?

Hmm. It could be either/or. What about people like Matt, who don't manifest outwardly?

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He got Matt's just from proximity. I don't think Matt touched him, unless he was doing the cop-arm-grab-thing to lead him into the interview room while we weren't looking.

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I think Peter probably absorbed most of Sylar's powers when they met in Texas, which is probably what caused him to go into overload. I don't think Sylar has picked up that many more since then. The hearing, the metal melting, and... that might be it, because he didn't really have much of a chance to go Heroes hunting due to being held by The Company for a while.

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But he hasn't acted like he's had any of the ones he hadn't seen used - especially Charlie's Remembering power. I don't know how he'd consciously be able to choose to turn one like that off and on again, though.

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