Peter Pigeonhole

Peter Pigeonhole is an accomplished psychologist, sociologist, and metaphysical researcher. Together with Albert Hawking and HP LoveHart he is one of the key intellectuals responsible for humanity's recovery in a post-1992 earth. Pigeonhole is known for his earnest personality agreeable disposition, working to encourage the understanding of anomalous forces within habitable reality. His ultimate philosophy is that humanity can coexist with anything - or at least work around it - provided they have access to enough information. He is responsible for Drip Theory, The Supernatural Classification System, and The Power Postulate. He is also a prominent background character in "Pigeonhole Postulate" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pxFPjPhAF1ulkXFRmxm3wM4ISQhX\_6YL\_oxqhk0QfgU/edit), where his contributions to mankind are heavily referenced.

Of his peers, he is considered the friendliest and most successful.

## History (Pre-1992)

Peter Pigeonhole was born in northeastern New Mexico between 1972 and 1973, though his official birthday is January 1st. He kept largely to himself in these earlier years, though his autobiography states he had his share of close childhood friends. Much of his younger years were spent exploring the wilderness around his town, where he found himself entranced by the ecosystem of a place he did not understand. He would wander these foreign places for hours on end, slowly piecing together the structure of the forest and lifestyles of its inhabitants until he arrived at his own working understanding of life. His hobby came and went during an era where the woods were less dangerous and the only real threats were wild animals and starvation. Pigeonhole claims he never got lost during his wanderings, but he admits he came close several times.

In middle school he became a voracious reader, with a heavy preference for nonfiction. He was intrigued by the ways the things he learned from books matched with what he thought he knew. Through many articles of biology and history he came to understand the nature of the world he'd only assumed through youthful observation. This dichotomy between his mind and others - what he "learned" vs what he was "told" - fascinated him to no end. He reasoned that for every situation there was a truth or series of truths, and that each person was usually capable of deducing only part of that truth. The only way to optimize arriving at the purest truth was through gaining experience or pooling with the experiences of others. With this in mind, a preteen Pigeonhole embarked on a quest to understand as much as he could.

After finishing highschool with honors, Pigeonhole enrolled into a prestigious university in Brazil. There he dabbled in chemistry, psychology, and biology, since he saw them as directly linked to each other. At the optimistic age of 18, he felt like he was close to arriving at a universal theory about the relationship between the chemicals present in a world, the cellular development of its denizens, and from there, the exact nature of consciousness. In 1991, His work was forever altered by the nearby emergence of Fish Town: an impossible island housing a village which upended everything he - and those he learned from - thought they knew. Fish Town was Pigeonhole's first exposure to the nature of the anomalous; a part of the world undiscovered and terrifying in its mystique. As the years past and the full effects of 1992 took hold, it became more and more clear Pigeonhole's old world was crumbling and a new world with new truths was taking its place.

And so, armed with pen and an empty diary, he entered the woods once more.

## History (Fever Years)

Due to the circumstances of the decade following 1992, information below cannot be accurately dated.

Peter Pigeonhole's quick wit and quicker ability to learn served him well in the new age. His studies of the Fish Town anomaly and connections to other burgeoning Brazillian fauna earned the respect and attention of his peers. As more and more abnormalities appeared, Pigeonhole attempted to find connections between them and those he'd already experienced while simultaneously trying to devise patterns to their behavior. His endeavors to predict the unpredictable were met with failure time and time again, but his tenacity attracted the attention of HP LoveHart, who was conducting similar experiments in Britain at the time. LoveHart found himself impressed with the scope of the youth's work, especially given his age. It did not matter that he had no results to show for all his efforts, only that he devoted considerable time and energy to learning what he could and applying what was available.

After a few months of correspondence, HP Lovehart agreed to fly to Brazil to see his young associates work. Impressed with the findings, he invited his new friend to a conference in America, where he was planning to meet with an older friend by the name of Albert Hawking. Together, he reasoned, the three of them could form a trifecta of researchers, with Peter being the youngest and most adaptable, LoveHart being the oldest and most experienced, and Hawking being the perfect middle man. Their conference circa 1996 forged a deep bond between the trio. They made a unanimous vow to fight against the darkness that had brought them together.

The three scientists collaborated with many others, but frequently shared their work and results amongst eachother. All of them worked to turn the anomalous and chaotic aspects of life into things that could be understood, predicted, and either defeated or lived alongside. Only a year after their meeting, Hawking published his Disruption Theorem, which provided a classification system for the hazard level of any given anomaly. Shortly after, he claimed to have found a "Silver Bullet" equation that could trace the lineage of any given supernatural force. It would, as quoted "allow anyone to infer the previous identity of a transformed anomaly, as long as we know the anomaly in question *has transformed*, and does have a previous identity." This had the promise to be an incredible asset - by being able to trace any mutating or evolving anomaly back to its original identity, you could assign probable patterns to its behavior or even successfully infer its weaknesses. Hawking gradually separated from his coworkers, becoming more and more consumed with his individual research.

During Hawking's absence, Lovehart and Pigeonhole continued work on their own means of classifying the unknown. LoveHart's efforts eventually culminated in The Caliber System, which can be quickly and intuitively used to calculate the inherent "power" of a given entity. While not entirely perfect, his factors and analogies could be readily understood and applied to most situations on earth. Peter, meanwhile, designed a different method of subdividing anomalous entities based on how closely they were bound to the rules of normal reality. The Supernatural Classification System was less popular than The Caliber System, but remains an important milestone in mankinds attempts to understand its new environment.

Unfortunately the end of the fever years marked the end of the iconic trio. After a short disappearance, Hawking was discovered dead amongst his unfinished theorem. His body did not appear to have external or internal injury, nor did it seem there were signs of a struggle. For all intents and purposes, the middle-aged professor had simply ceased to be. No one could determine whether the professors passing had been natural or unnatural, and so no justice could be sought. Only a single manuscript of his remains today, and its inscrutable notes remain an enigma.

Peter Pigeonhole and Hawking did not take well to this news. They entered a period of deep mourning, not only for their friend, but for what his fate meant to mankind. LoveHart gave up his research, proclaiming that no science can save a world where people simply die without rhyme or reason. If he could not do his late friend the justice of discovering why or even how he was killed, he felt he had no chance of contributing anything else meaningful to the world. He devoted himself to smaller scale experiments and studies more common at the time. His future works are respectable, but no more so than the many unnamed men and women who have no page on this wiki.

Peter, on the other hand, sought to finish what Hawking started. If he could not complete his friends Silver Bullet, he pledged he would devise a new system from the ground up.