To sum up his history of four seasons, he was a Son, a Brother, a Potential-President, his brother's only hope, a drunk, a recluse, a motivated door-knocking shot-gun carrying bad-ass, someone ready to expose abilities to the world, Dead, a born-again re-motivated guy trying to prove that he had a higher purpose. He was a ring-leader, used to try and control all of the people with abilities (which didn't work out so well) and once he realized that was a bad plan, he was the fall-guy when the plan went south. So... he went South. Mexico to be exact. There he tried to win over his daughter, again, by proving that he wasn't exactly the dick that he'd been perceived as. That he could fix this (again) and make things right. That he could talk to the President and get them to stop this crazy Government squad that was taking all of the people with abilities. (Even though that was all his fault anyway.)
Of course, he gets this idea when he's drunk and when he's sober again, he realizes that he won't be able to pull that off. That he's just one man and no one will listen to him. Which doesn't seem to matter (in Heroes the focus always seems to shift to the Plot of the Week, so I'm not chaotic -- it is. :D ) They all plan to meet up and have a Petrelli Pow-Wow to discuss just how screwed up the world has gotten... again. While they are there, they realize that Nathan wasn't the only one to think about locking up all the people with abilities, and it seems history had repeated itself. They decide that they have to stop it in order to avoid another problem where too many people die. Only to find out that Sylar, as Nathan, has indeed gotten the chance to have that meeting with the President to listen to him and his "great plans" and that doesn't bode well at all. They all know that if Sylar gets to the President, he'll just kill him and then Sylar will be the President - which... not good.
Nathan and the Petrelli family rush to DC in order to try and stop Sylar from his plan unfolding. Nathan in an attempt to save his brother, again, takes the risk and flies with Sylar out of the room they are in. It's another time where Nathan has decided to make the right choice, but with horrible outcomes. The fight ends with Nathan's death.
General Personality Notes:
He's a charmer, which comes in handy with the politics and smoothing over problems. However, the charming doesn't always translate and he's not seen as someone that has the ability to be loyal to one particular person for a long time. The only person he does seem loyal to, almost throughout the entire series, is his brother - Peter and his daughter - Claire.
He's got an ego and a sense of humor about his ego. It's probably part of the charming, but it does tend to get him into trouble more times than not. In Mexico he tries to win money off of them by drinking. He's not exactly the same guy that was in the Navy as a pilot when he was younger, and his ego doesn't help him hold his booze.
He trusts others almost too easily, which usually leads to him getting taken advantage of. Despite always being taken advantage of, he doesn't seem to learn the lesson either - and just moves onto the next person to believe in.
He can be borderline obsessive about things that are important to him. When Peter is missing and believed dead, he refuses to believe that and falls into a deep alcoholic state as he tries to search for Peter.
He wants to do the good thing, the right thing, but he's so eager for that to be accepted that he often takes the first thing offered to him. The first suggestion given to him that sounds right, is often the one he runs with, even if there should be someone telling him to think about a different choice.
He seems to favor blondes, even though he married a brunette. My personal belief is that he married Heidi out of guilt and because she was "acceptable" as the wife of a President, more-so than someone like Meredith Gordon. The blondes are also nothing like his own mother, which is him trying to put distance between that sort of association, since that relationship is always bordering on unhealthy.
He's a good guy - he just has trouble picking what he should be supporting and figuring out who has his back.
CONTINUED...
Of course, he gets this idea when he's drunk and when he's sober again, he realizes that he won't be able to pull that off. That he's just one man and no one will listen to him. Which doesn't seem to matter (in Heroes the focus always seems to shift to the Plot of the Week, so I'm not chaotic -- it is. :D ) They all plan to meet up and have a Petrelli Pow-Wow to discuss just how screwed up the world has gotten... again. While they are there, they realize that Nathan wasn't the only one to think about locking up all the people with abilities, and it seems history had repeated itself. They decide that they have to stop it in order to avoid another problem where too many people die. Only to find out that Sylar, as Nathan, has indeed gotten the chance to have that meeting with the President to listen to him and his "great plans" and that doesn't bode well at all. They all know that if Sylar gets to the President, he'll just kill him and then Sylar will be the President - which... not good.
Nathan and the Petrelli family rush to DC in order to try and stop Sylar from his plan unfolding. Nathan in an attempt to save his brother, again, takes the risk and flies with Sylar out of the room they are in. It's another time where Nathan has decided to make the right choice, but with horrible outcomes. The fight ends with Nathan's death.
General Personality Notes:
He's a charmer, which comes in handy with the politics and smoothing over problems. However, the charming doesn't always translate and he's not seen as someone that has the ability to be loyal to one particular person for a long time. The only person he does seem loyal to, almost throughout the entire series, is his brother - Peter and his daughter - Claire.
He's got an ego and a sense of humor about his ego. It's probably part of the charming, but it does tend to get him into trouble more times than not. In Mexico he tries to win money off of them by drinking. He's not exactly the same guy that was in the Navy as a pilot when he was younger, and his ego doesn't help him hold his booze.
He trusts others almost too easily, which usually leads to him getting taken advantage of. Despite always being taken advantage of, he doesn't seem to learn the lesson either - and just moves onto the next person to believe in.
He can be borderline obsessive about things that are important to him. When Peter is missing and believed dead, he refuses to believe that and falls into a deep alcoholic state as he tries to search for Peter.
He wants to do the good thing, the right thing, but he's so eager for that to be accepted that he often takes the first thing offered to him. The first suggestion given to him that sounds right, is often the one he runs with, even if there should be someone telling him to think about a different choice.
He seems to favor blondes, even though he married a brunette. My personal belief is that he married Heidi out of guilt and because she was "acceptable" as the wife of a President, more-so than someone like Meredith Gordon. The blondes are also nothing like his own mother, which is him trying to put distance between that sort of association, since that relationship is always bordering on unhealthy.
He's a good guy - he just has trouble picking what he should be supporting and figuring out who has his back.