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Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: "With great power comes great responsibility."
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Pi Patel is the main protagonist of the book and film Life of Pi. He is the son of a zookeeper in India, and practices Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam simultaneously. While on route to Canada with his family on a freighter, the boat capsizes and Pi is the only survivor, sharing a lifeboat with several zoo animals. One by one, the Bengal tiger dispatches each of them until he and Pi are the only ones on the boat. Pi manages to survive for months with the tiger, who he names Richard Parker, by gradually training the tiger to fear him and depend on him for food. At one point, Pi comes across a lush island, but discovers that it is in fact a giant carnivorous plant floating through the sea. Once he reaches land, he and Richard Parker part ways.
He is played by Suraj Sharma as a Teenager and the late Irrfan Khan as a Adult.
Personality
Pi Patel first started out as an eager and curious child, so much so that his father feared his curiosity would get the better of him and tried to teach Pi that wild animals were dangerous. He is also a very pious individual who genuinely wanted to have a closer relationship with God, as he was devoted to Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam, and he respects people that have faith, even atheists, as he believes that it takes faith to believe that there is no god. Pi dislikes agnostics because of how doubtful they are.
After he became the sole survivor of the TsimTsim, Pi started to become desperate to survive, and had to kill many fish and turtles. Despite being a vegetarian, he got used to killing, but he still remained religious as he prayed to and thanked God many times in the lifeboat. He also learned how to tame Richard Parker, but had ambivalent feelings towards the latter as he viewed Richard Parker as both his worst enemy and his closest friend. He also grieved his family's deaths, as well as that of the zebra, Orange Juice, and the fish he killed.
Abilities
Survival Intuition - Pi Patel intuitive understanding in survival, allowing them to actively prepare for emergencies, including possible disruptions in social or political order, on scales from local to international. Survivalists often acquire emergency medical and self-defense training, stockpile food and water, prepare to become self-sufficient, and build structures (e.g., a survival retreat or an underground shelter) that may help them survive a catastrophe.
This also includes clusters of natural disasters, patterns of apocalyptic planetary crises, or "Earth Changes", anthropogenic disasters, general collapse of society, financial disruption or economic collapse, global pandemic, or widespread chaos or some other unexplained apocalyptic event.
Taming - Pi Patel has a skill for taming (tolerant of sentient presence) and/or training (teaching specific responses to specific conditions or stimuli) creatures, possibly to the point of domestication.
