Thread:Paul.rea/@comment-4083360-20151016220446/@comment-4091815-20151017095811

Not so much as different characters, no.

I do consider the "young Peter Hale" hallucination a different character from the actual younger version of the character because the character was dead at the time the hallucination appeared.

As for the Alpha vs. Peter question. They are aspects of the same character but viewers don't know that for the majority of the first season. Users new to the show are unaware that Peter exists so the information is presented here in such a way that it is easy to find on the site.

By the same token, Peter has become so much more, more complicated as a character, than his origins and must also be considered for the whole character and not just his individual aspects.