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To me Peter seemed kind of like a smarter more manipulative Jackson in Visionary. I think that him manipulating Derek into turning Paige was somehow to his benefit...probably to get in good with Talia since he said that everyone wanted to get in good with her...if he did not want her approval he probably at the very least wanted her to see that he was capable of being a good candidate for being the future Hale alpha.

If Paige had turned perhaps Ennis would have calmed down enough to back off his vendetta against the Argents. If that was not the case I do feel like that whatever he had planned would have solved the current crisis at the time and made him look like a success in Talia's eyes. I don't see him as being vindictive or evil...he usually does something because it benefits him...just doing something to see someone in pain doesn't really fit with his character imo...and he genuinely seemed sorry for the pain Paige was in when he entered the root cellar when she was dying.

Personally I see him more in a competition with Derek for Talia's attention...they do act a little more like sibling rivals than Uncle and Nephew and from the bit in S2, Peter told Lydia that he lived in the Hale house...possibly indicating that Talia raised Peter and was more of a mother figure to him than anything else. To me there almost seemed a type of pride when Peter talked about Talia...and when we see how gentle she was with Derek after Paige died we have to understand that we are seeing her through Peter's eyes. He seemed to present her as royalty when she was talking to the other packs (almost holding her in the highest of esteem) but as a gently loving mother when comforting Derek...this was coming from Peter's viewpoint...it is how he saw her.

And I understand how people can think he was just manipulating his audience in the way he was presenting it since it was his viewpoint but just the same I don't see him as completely evil...twisted perhaps but not evil. He did tend to Cora in the hospital when there was no audience...no one to impress...no one to manipulate. Just my opinion for now...subject to change as the show goes on and we know more lol...my opinion has changed on more than one character over the past 3 seasons.