Peter and Sarah

Peter and Sarah is both a rivalry and friendship seen in Mystery Spell.

## Overview

Peter and Sarah is a recurring rivalry/friendship seen in all story routes that consists of Peter Bartholy and Sarah Osborne. In most story routes, their relationship is usually the same, the two start out hating each other but eventually develop an unlikely friendship since they're able to look past their differences for the players sake and work together.

In story routes such as Drogo's and Sebastian's, their relationship mostly starts and ends the same. The two hate each other because of their family's history and also because Sarah believes that Peter and the Bartholys are monsters. But usually around season 2, the two begin to be friendlier to each other and eventually become friends after they have to take down a common enemy, this also happens in Peter's story route, but the relationship they have there is a bit different. The only story route where they don't interact that often or make amends is Nicolae Bartholy's, where they are still considered rivals.

In Peter's story route, the hatred they have for each other is much more evident and more intense than anything from other story routes, and it's clear that Sarah has the most disdain and hatred for Peter out of the Bartholy brothers. In season 1, Sarah has a very big crush on the player and develops feelings for her, but the player does not feel the same way about her since she's in love with Peter. Peter and Sarah at first hate each other due to their family feuds and Sarah disliking vampires, but later on it's more apparent that the two actually hate each other because they both have feelings for the player and are jealous of each other.

In season 1, Sarah often begs the player to leave the Bartholy Manor because she is afraid for her safety, and warns her that they are vampires and aren't safe. Sarah seemed to dread the fact that the player liked Peter and always tried to convince her to not date him, and even strived to try and separate them so they couldn't get close enough to be together. Sarah gets jealous of the feelings the player has for Peter and wishes that she could be with the player instead, and she becomes sad when she thinks that player prefers Peter over her and hangs out with him a lot and even annoyed when Peter is the only thing she talks about.

Peter gets jealous of Sarah as well because of how much time the player spends with her, since he knows that Sarah loves her and is afraid that the player will feel the same way about her too one day and leave him. Before he and the player got together, his mood would always change to bitterness when he saw the player hanging out with Sarah, and it wasn't clear if it was out of jealousy or just spite for Sarah.

Peter and Sarah constantly argue and bicker and argue throughout season 1 and often put the player in the middle of their arguments, forcing her to choose sides sometimes which upsets her. Sometimes when the two try to get along for the player's sake, they only end up fighting again due to their animosity and Sarah is usually very uncomfortable around Peter which upsets the player because she wants her two best friends to get along. Sarah will often get mad at Peter and confront him if he upsets the player in any way and Peter will sometimes try to convince the player to stop being friends with her in private.

Despite the hatred they have for each other, the 2 can and will put their differences aside when it comes to the player's sake. After Peter was shot with poisoned bullets by the Descendants of the Templars, it was Sarah who helped him get the poison out and saved his life, which she did for the player and because she doesn't actually hate him enough to want him to die.

In season 2, after Peter and the player have an established relationship, and due to them having to previously work together, the two are friendlier to each other and have a better relationship. Sarah even helps Peter do things such as banish Lizabeth's ghost and help him take down Charles Huxley. Peter always seems grateful for Sarah's help and even supported her relationship with his cousin, Dorothy Rakoczy. The two can be considered friends by season 2 as they hardly ever fight like they used to do in season 1 and get along. This could be due to Sarah being replaced as the second love interest by Haku Kobayashi and them not being jealous of each other anymore.

Sarah and Peter mostly have a classic 'enemies to friends' type of relationship. They also begin to get along and be friends in seasons 2 of Drogo and Sebastian's route like they do in Peter's, and work together there as well. Them getting over the dislike and spite they have for each other in Peter's route was much more mature and impressive though due to the history they have of both being in love with the player.

Peter ended up with the player and Sarah didn't seem to actually hate him for it since she wanted the player to be happy, which is very big on her part since she was raised to hate the Bartholys and never trust them. Sarah was able to get over her prejudice of the Bartholys and see that Peter is a very caring and kind man that is good for the player and someone that she truly loves, and Peter was able to get over his jealousy to see that Sarah was a good friend to the player who genuinely cared about her and someone that the player needed in her life.

## Trivia

* They both used to be on the cover of Peter's story route (until it was updated).
* They are 2 of the 9 original Mystery Spell characters.
* In Peter's season 1, when Sarah wears her white dress, Peter is often wearing his black jacket and red shirt and vice versa, this usually shows that the 2 characters are opposites and do not get along.
* They were the first male-female set of love interests in a story route.
* Sarah ended up dating the woman that had a crush on Peter in his route (Dorothy), meaning both of the women she had an interest in, had interests in Peter.