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Peter Wu (Wú Jiàndé)

Son of Ares. Currently 23 (two years older than Luke Castellan).

Mortal Parent: Grace Wu (Wú Kǎilán)—born 1962 in Oakland, CA. Second-generation Chinese-American; parents ran a restaurant and wanted medicine, got boxing instead. Grace moved east in 1980 to study Physical Education at Boston University—close enough to medicine to keep her parents proud, close enough to the ring to keep her sane. She boxed through her 20s, became a regional champion in 1984, and met Ares after her title match. She thought him a fighter with good form, nothing more. Their brief, explosive connection left her pregnant. Grace never dwelled; she raised Peter alone, blunt as ever, turning a small Queens apartment over a shop (which she bought later and turned into a gym) into her home. The living room still has the same punching bag she used to teach him how not to break his hands.

Early Life:

Peter grew up among trophies, liniment, and routine. Public-school kid; polite to teachers, but every bully became “sparring practice.” Grace’s parenting style was equal parts scolding and analysis—Did you win? Good. You were sloppy. He listened to authority but followed his own rhythm.

He discovered wuxia at six, glued to VHS tapes from the Chinatown shop below. By eight he was buying manhua, then learning xianxia myths from his grandparents. At ten he was writing his own cultivation manuals in a notebook labeled Training Methods. Honor = discipline = strength = good boy. Grace approved.

When monsters began showing up, Peter didn’t panic—he treated them like characters out of those stories. When a satyr finally found him, he already had a vocabulary for gods and demons. Grace was shocked for five minutes, then packed his bag. He stayed year-round at Camp Half-Blood; his scent was too strong to risk otherwise.

Camp Half-Blood:

Claimed quickly after beating an older sibling in a spar—Ares’s mark burned bright. By fifteen, head counselor. Cabin Five under Peter was strict, militant, and strangely peaceful: they were too exhausted to pick fights. Clarisse idolized him; he took her under his wing with, “This one’s worthy.” He trained them by the creed of pain as lesson. No one dared insult him within earshot.

Education & Mortal Life:

Left Camp at seventeen when Grace said, “You’ve fought enough. Build something.” Entered Business Administration at eighteen, hated the bureaucracy, dropped out at twenty. Worked odd jobs and helped at the gym until realizing he actually liked understanding people more than managing them. At twenty-one, re-enrolled in Psychology—the first subject that felt like a fight worth staying for. He’s still there, trying to survive the department’s endless theoretical wars.

Outside class he keeps hunting monsters around Queens, mostly alone. Locals call the area a “safe zone” for demigods; he just calls it home field. Visits Camp during summers to spar with Luke and check on Clarisse.

Abilities:

Physically formidable—tall, dense muscle, precise control. Weapons hum for him; he reads balance instinctively. In battle he can “rally” allies—his presence sharpens focus and restores morale, the battlefield equivalent of an adrenaline prayer.

Personality:

Blunt, disciplined, unflinchingly honorable. Literal to a fault, slow to trust, faster to forgive once respect is earned. Autistic-coded: prefers rules, hates ambiguity, finds calm in repetition. Treats fights like philosophy. Calls monsters “sparring partners.”

Trivia

• Has never once lost a sparring match because of luck. If he loses, he studies why and fixes it.

• Keeps his mom’s old championship gloves hanging above his bed like a shrine.

• Writes every training routine and monster encounter down in the same spiral notebook he’s kept since he was ten.

• Watches xianxia dramas with a straight face and critiques the fight choreography out loud.

• Once punched a drakon so hard it vomited fire — Clarisse still brings it up like it’s legend.

• Speaks English, Cantonese, and enough Mandarin to argue with his grandparents.

• Drinks tea before a fight because “coffee makes the hands shake.”

• Keeps incense sticks in his bag; says they help him focus before battles.

• Thinks “strategy” is a love language.

• Once tried to meditate under a waterfall; lasted six hours until Luke found him asleep mid–lotus pose.

• Has a surprisingly neat handwriting - Grace drilled it into him.

• Doesn’t really understand jokes, but remembers every one Luke tells him so he can repeat them verbatim later.

• Thinks psychology debates are just “mental sparring matches.”

• Never swears unless quoting his mother.

• Once tried to spar with a hellhound “for research.” It ended fine for him. Not for the hellhound.

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Peter Wu, Skeleton Skeleton Kissed Kissed To To The The Steel Steel Rail Rail, 2005. ink, watercolor and ultraviolet varnish on paper mounted on wood, 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm)

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Peter Wu - Untitled  (with Leon Benn) [Lateral], 2013

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Peter Wu - FFF, 2011

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Peter Wu, “With sixty seven words, eight realizations.”, 2013 India ink on canvas (1), India ink on canvas over wood (2), rubber circle, bendable foam, glass 40-1/8 x 44 x 10-1/4 inches

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