User:Flowrescent94/Dylan Grunwald
| Dylan Grunwald | |
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| Portrayed by | Milo Ventimiglia |
| First appearance | Chapter 1 (Genesis) |
| In-story stats | |
| Known abilities | Empathic mimicry Known abilities mimicked: Precognitive dreaming, Flight, Precognition, Space-time manipultion, Rapid cell regeneration, Telepathy, Invisibility, Telekinesis |
| Nickname | Dill |
| Gender | |
| Age | 27 |
| Date of birth | July 27, 1979 |
| Place of birth | New York, NY |
| Home | New York, NY |
| Residence | Apartment |
| Occupation | Home hospice nurse |
| Significant other | formerly Simone Deveaux (deceased) |
| Parents | Diane Grunwald, unnamed father (deceased) |
| Sibling | Scott Grunwald |
| Other relatives | Niece Braska Harding, Nephews Simon Grunwald, Monty Grunwald |
Dylan Grunwald is an evolved human with the ability to mimic the abilities of others around him and reproduce them at will. He is the brother of Scott and the son of Diane and Daniel. He works as a home hospice nurse, but he is slowly leaving that job due to the emergence of his power. He now dedicates his life to saving others and trying to "save the world".
Character History
Season One
For an episode-by-episode summary, see Flowrescent94/Dylan Grunwald: Season One History.
Peter Petrelli is a hospice nurse who keeps having amazing dreams that he can fly. Later, he stands on top of a building, throws himself off, and is saved by his brother Nathan, who can also fly. Peter eventually learns that his power is actually the ability to absorb the powers of those he meets. Peter visits Mohinder Suresh, looking for the author of Activating Evolution. While Peter and Mohinder are on a subway train, time freezes, and Peter has a visit from a Japanese man, who tells him that Peter must "save the cheerleader, save the world".
When he meets Isaac Mendez, Peter finished a painting depicting a dead and mutilated cheerleader. Peter realizes he must save this girl, and upon seeing another painting, heads to a homecoming, in Odessa, TX. There, he meets Claire Bennet, and manages to stop her from being killed by a mysterious stranger. He falls off a building and breaks several bones, although he regenerates, when Claire finds him, mimicking her power.
Outside the sheriff's department, Peter collapses and has a vision of himself bursting into red flames and exploding in the middle of the city. Peter meets the invisible Claude Rains, who helps Peter discover that he can access the powers he has absorbed by thinking of the person from whom he absorbed the ability. But their progress in Peter's training is stopped when Bennet comes after them.
Later, Peter visits Isaac's loft again, and confronts the painter about his association with Mr. Bennet. A fight ensues, and Simone is accidentally shot.
Evolved Human Abilities
Original Ability
Much mystery surrounded Peter's status and abilities, or lack thereof, early in the series. While every main character was said outright to have a power in press releases, Peter was simply billed as "trying to convince his brother he can fly". Later, after his brother flew, Peter himself displayed the ability to levitate not long afterward (Don't Look Back). Peter is actually an empathic mimic who duplicates the powers of others. His crude levitation sketch shows that he gained Isaac's ability to draw the future, but without needing to be induced by drugs (Don't Look Back). Later, Peter visits Isaac and finishes Isaac's painting without the aid of heroin or any other drug (Hiros).
Early on, Peter's duplicated powers typically only lasted while the person he was mimicking was nearby. He was unable to fly when not in the presence of Nathan, and he became visible when Claude walked away from him, but he was still able to use Isaac's precognition the day after he met him (Don't Look Back). In Distractions, he duplicated Claire's power of regeneration, even though he had not been near her for weeks; this was the first time he ever consciously "recalled" a mimicked power. With the help of Claude, he summons telekinesis which he wasn't even aware of having and later uses flight and space-time manipulation to escape Noah Bennet and the Haitain. After that, he starts to be able to summon powers at will.
While Peter's crude stick figure drawings originally seemed to indicate that he could duplicate only someone's powers, and not their skills, the painting he completed at Isaac's studio seems fairly well done (though not of the same style). This could indicate that his ability is maturing and developing, much like the others with powers.
After Peter first discovered his powers, he generally used one power at any given time. As he gained greater control over his ability, Peter demonstrated that he was able to access multiple powers at once.
Abilities Mimicked
Prior to having his power stolen by Arthur Petrelli, Peter was able to duplicate the abilities of other evolved humans; after he acquired the ability, he did not need to be in the person's presence. To date, Peter had conclusively duplicated the abilities of:
- Precognitive dreaming (Genesis) from Angela Petrelli (The Second Coming)
- Flight from Nathan Petrelli (Genesis)
- Precognition (Don't Look Back) from Isaac Mendez (Genesis)
- Rapid cell regeneration from Claire Bennet (Homecoming)
- Telepathy from Matt Parkman (Fallout)
- Invisibility from Claude Rains (Godsend)
- Telekinesis (Unexpected) from Sylar (Homecoming)
- Space-time manipulation (Unexpected) from Future Hiro (Collision)
- Induced radioactivity from Ted Sprague (The Hard Part)
- Enhanced strength from Niki Sanders (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- Phasing (Four Months Ago...) from D.L. Hawkins (How to Stop an Exploding Man)
- Electric manipulation (Four Months Later...) from Elle Bishop (Four Months Ago...)
- Pyrokinesis (I Am Become Death) from Flint (One of Us, One of Them)
- Intuitive aptitude (I Am Become Death) from Sylar (Homecoming)
- Super speed (I Am Become Death) from Daphne Millbrook (Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration)