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Marvel 1602 is a slightly obscure project even for regular comics readers, and Petros isn't a particularly major character, so I thought I'd include a basic introduction. Petros is taken only from the original, Neil Gaiman-authored run. New World and Fantastic Four are fair-to-bland but mostly irrelevant, and Spider-man 1602 showcases some of the worst writing in comics.

The basic premise is that, due to a hole in time that threatens to tear the multiverse asunder (so, you know, Tuesday for Marvel), the founding heroes of the Marvel Universe emerge in the High Renaissance instead of mostly around the twentieth century. Most prominently featured are the X-men, Captain America, Nick Fury, the Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange, and Thor, with some appearances by the likes of Daredevil, Black Widow, Hulk, and Spidey. I'll leave the plot out of it so as not to spoil (I do recommend the original series highly), but if you imagine super heroes mashed into Shakespeare and contemporary history, you can imagine most of it.

Petros and his twin spend the series in service to Magneto without any knowledge of his actual relationship to them, and largely ignorant of the more overtly evil aspects of his schemes and ideology (though Petros is a bit more worldly than Sister Wanda), but at the conclusion of the series are left in Javier's keeping without any further information from their not too responsible father, leaving both at sort of odd ends. So he's grumpy, emotionally fragile, potentially vicious, and generally prickly at the best of times.

So Quicksilver's still Quicksilver, is what I'm saying.