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Nathan Young | Misfits | Reserved
Name: Danielle
Age: 23
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Character Information
Name: Nathan Young
Canon: Misfits
Age: 20 (roughly)
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Series 2, Episode 6, before Nathan's subjected to permanent brain damage and before Curtis rewinds time and saves them all. He'd just killed himself on live television ("Oops, there go my brains!") and regenerated, only to run into Kelly--or, more accurately, Kelly's ghost. After she informed him that Brian, the lactokinetic, had killed her in a rage of superpower-related envy, and that he was holding Alisha hostage, but before he left to try and save her.
Background Link: here
Inventory: The clothes on his back (jeans, t-shirt, hoodie, socks, shoes, boxers), an outdated flip-phone, a plastic baggie of marijuana rolled up and hidden in his sock, a lighter.
Personality: Nathan's been called many things and all of these things summarize his personality with neat, tight efficiency. These include, but are not limited to: prick, annoying cunt, dickhead, wanker, pervert, and ASBO shithead. Nathan prefers to think of himself as beautiful, clever, and gracefully tall...but this is partially due to the fact that he's a full-blown deluded narcissist. When Nathan comments on how superior he is to those around him, he's hardly joking. Sometimes Nathan can almost seem oddly charming in his egotistical snark due to the playful nature in which he makes such statements. Most of the time he isn't playing at all. Most of the time he's honestly just a dick. When he's not just being a dick, he likely still sounds like he's being a dick because he really doesn't know how else to express himself. Those two attitudes generally blend together.
Clearly since Nathan's the best, most handsome individual in all of England if not all of the world, there's no real need to sugarcoat anything. Honestly, he means his best (generally) and doesn't (generally) set out with the specific intent to bully others. But, well, he does. For all of the first series and the beginning of the second, Nathan speaks to Simon in a way that can't even remotely be mistaken for friendly. He belittles and torments his fellow community service worker to the point where Simon eventually snaps at him, angry that he was being treated the way he was when he "only wanted to be friends". Nathan, startled, admits that he couldn't even remember calling Simon half the names he had, and replies with an amicable "Yeah, sure, man." The better he likes a person, the easier it is to tell when he's not trying to be hurtful and only trying to be funny, but that hardly makes him less insensitive. At the end of the first series, when Kelly's been brainwashed into being an upstanding citizen, he admits his sincere feelings for her, yet that doesn't stop him from throwing in comments that could also be taken as an insult.
Similarly, given the opportunity, Nathan will always make a wise crack. Preferably at the expense of someone other than himself. He can almost always find an opportunity. And, partially because his brain doesn't seem to be totally functioning, he often does this regardless of the consequences. He never would have gotten community service if he had stopped to think "maybe I shouldn't call this security guard a chick with a dick". Granted, achieving (or rather becoming aware of) his power of immortality only served to make Nathan less cautious, knowing he has little to fear from consequences. At one point he even taunts a gang, risking getting beaten or even murdered in order to steal back his brother's car. At the same time, despite proving that he's a reckless youth and far too witty for his own good, the stunt also proves how much his family means to him. He hides his affection beneath layers of egotism and nonchalance, but despite never having known his younger brother and despite knowing that the boy's existence was proof of his father's infidelity, he embraced Jaime with open arms. He protected him and mourned his later death. Nathan drives away his mother's boyfriends, but does so out of concern for her, wanting her to live the best life that she can--with someone she deserves and who makes her happy. When he realizes that she truly is in love with the man she's currently living with, he backs off. Even his father, who he can hardly stand to look at, wouldn't have such an effect on him if the man didn't heavily affect the way he lives his life. And ultimately, he does decide to give the man a second chance and try to be on better terms with him.
Nathan's situation with his parents is delicate at best, complicated as a rule, and a source of constant antagonism at worst. As a child, he experienced a growing disconnect with his father that exploded into full blown war when his parents separated. Nathan juggled the acts of berating his father at every attempt the man made to stay involved in his life (Nathan insists over breakfast with his father that he left him stranded at an IKEA on his eighth birthday, only for him to be picked up by a shady character who bought him Swedish meatballs--a story which his father denies memory of) with chasing off any and every suitor that came to court his mother. Once, he even claimed that one of them had displayed pedophilic tendencies (when confronted about the lie in comparison to accusations against her current boyfriend, Nathan quickly tells his mother "this is different: this time it's true."). When caught by security for petty theft and damage done at a bowling rink, faced with being arrested or calling his father to pay the charges, Nathan chose to be arrested. A great portion of his snark and attitude can be attributed to lasting effects from perceived wrongs and neglect from his father. With a father who abandoned him and a mother who kicked him out and left him homeless, the last line of defense Nathan has is overconfidence. If nobody believes he's bothered by the trouble he has on the home front, it can't be used against him. In that regard, it simply ceases to be a problem.
Despite his faults, his attitude, and his overall hedonistic view on life, Nathan isn't the sort of person who would rather let other people act while he hides. Sometimes he does need a gentle prod (read: kick in the pants or slap on the head) to get his feet moving, but whenever there's a tough situation, despite how big of a coward he definitely is, Nathan always does what he can do correct the situation. Granted, this isn't always done in a gentle, considerate, or even logical sort of way, but he does try. In the several instances throughout the show that any of his friends have faced death or injury, he's always rushed in to do what he can. When everyone's brainwashd into being prudish, he goes undercover to try and save them. When they're all being held hostage by the man who believes he's living in a video game, he (reluctantly) agrees to face being murdered by a chainsaw, knowing that no matter what pain he experiences he'll be able to come back where they won't. When Kelly's ghost tells him what happened to her, he goes to confront her killer directly. Nathan may not be particularly bright, or particularly brave, but when he finds himself in the middle of a problem he faces it even when he's scared and even when he desperately doesn't want to.
Flavor Abilities: None. Unless you'd count a distinct tingling sensation in his anus that occurs when ghosts are nearby (I wouldn't either).
Suitability: Despite Nathan having no particular skills that would come in handy in order to survive, he has plenty of experience surviving on his own with few resources. Well, more or less. Having been kicked out of the house by his mother on the series pilot, he spends most of his time stealing food and other necessities from the community center in which he sleeps. Foraging around like a small animal and making strange use of anything he can find, as well as going ungodly amounts of time without bathing or changing his clothing, is all pretty run-of-the-mill behavior. He'd also be really excited about being able to communicate (read: harrass) with people over the Network. He's a chatterbox, but at the same time horrible at interacting with people in person without generally winding up with a physical injury. It's the best of both worlds! It'll also be interesting for him to find out that everyone there effectively has his "power" of regeneration, and suddenly not being a special consequences-don't-matter snowflake.
RP Samples: test drive meme 1, test drive meme 2, old game network post, old game action log (slightly nsfw)
ACCEPTED, NOTE
This house has collapsed, but some miracle of coincidence has led to it to collapse around an intact wall with an intact door, forming a single very dark sealed room to stay in overnight if you wish. The inside is covered in dust, debris, and rusting nails, of course, and there's no light inside that you don't bring in yourself, with not even a single window remaining (though there's broken glass implying some must have existed), but it's better than being outside.
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NOTE: Nathan will not have the lighter or marijuana.
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