Peter Wiggin - A New Peter

A New Peter

In Xenocide, during an experimental trip to the “outside,” Ender accidentally splits his aiúa into three parts: himself, Young Valentine, and Young Peter. Young Peter is more like a caricature of Ender’s childhood perception of Peter; he is angry, sadistic and arrogant. In spite of this, Young Peter carries a cure for OCD to the world of Path.

Fragments and parts of Peter's rule of Hegemon are also explored in Xenocide. For instance, all of the Hundred Worlds are settled (or had colony ships going to them) by the time of Peter's death, and Peter's organization, the Free People of Earth, is replaced by Starways Congress. At the end of the novel, Young Peter calls Hegemon "that book of lies" for cleaning the blood on his hands, for "as long as I was alive, I wanted blood there".

In Children of the Mind, he travels to many of the Hundred Worlds with Si Wang-Mu, now made possible due to the experimental faster than light travel that created him in Xenocide. Both of them are on a mission to persuade as many leaders as possible that the Evacuation Fleet constitutes a second xenocide. Because of him, orders are sent to the Fleet to prevent the use of the Molecular Disruption Device. However, Peter himself is forced to appear on the deck to stop the ship’s captain from taking matters into his own hands, which would have resulted in the use of the Little Doctor anyway. The Fleet is averted. During this process, Ender dies, and his aiúa is passed on to Peter, making him a "self" now. At the end, he falls in love with and marries Wang-Mu.