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Player Information ;
Your Nickname: Lisa
OOC Journal: uwaaaah
Under 18? Nope~
Email/IM: email: lyingpieceofcheese@gmail.com // AIM: UnfingSalmon/CommunistCod
Characters Played at Singularity: None.
Character Information ;
Name: Nathan Young
Name of Canon: Misfits
Canon/AU/Other Game CR: canon
Reference: http://misfits.wikia.com/wiki/Nathan_Young
Canon Point: A month after episode 6 of series 2 (but before episode 7)
Setting: To give you an overall sense of the atmosphere of the world Nathan comes from...the easiest way to describe it is 'fucked up.' This is to be expected from a show told from the perspectives of five individuals who are each screwed up and dysfunctional to varying degrees. Morals are twisted or not at all present. Theft, occasional fighting, and drugs are presented as normal or enjoyable to these delinquents. Actually, you know what, the easiest way to give you an idea of this setting is the fact that one of the villains is actually a woman who was lowering teen pregnancy and crime rates.
As for the actual details of the setting... Present-day London. The main difference from our world here is the occurrence of a huge fuck-off storm some several months ago which started off normal enough and then started raining enormous chunks of ice that completely trashed cars and cracked sidewalks. Shortly after this, lightning started happening. Our group of five misfits plus their counselor, all of whom were in the middle of their first community service job (which they were sentenced to by breaking the law and receiving ASBOs), ran like hell to try and escape the storm, but were unable to get inside the nearby community center before they were all struck by lightning. The incident granted them all superpowers based on their personalities. The same occurred to many other individuals all across London. The powers range from the conventional-invisibility, telepathy, immortality-to the bugfuck-bizarre-turning people bald, be-my-daddy powers, lactokinesis. The storm was apparently so large and unusual that it is referred to universally in the show as "the storm." No other explanation is needed, and it seems to be understood by all that 'the storm' in question was the hail-and-lightning storm that happened (from Nathan's canon point) months prior. However, the number of people affected is fairly low and life, at least on the outside, goes on normally as it always has. Despite the low number of people affected, a wide variety of people seem to have been struck by it, ranging from teenagers to animals to toddlers.
Most people have chosen to hide their powers for a variety of reasons (not wanting to tell your lover you're actually a gorilla, not wanting to tell your lover you're actually an 82-year-old granny, etc.) and superheroes are considered a thing of fiction and fiction alone, so don't expect any spandex antics. In the misfits' case, their main reason for not going public with their superpowers is due to an unfortunate murder incident (actually, they always seem to get into unfortunate murder incidents). In the storm, their probation worker received the superpower of Unstoppable Rage and took out his frustrations by killing off one of the community service kids. The misfits killed him in self-defense, but had to hide the murder of both the kid and the worker because surely no one would believe kids with ASBOs killed in self-defense.
However, there were a few instances where people did go 'public' with their powers later on in the show--such as the case of the unnamed 'Virtue bitch' at the end of the first season, a young woman who rose to fame by using a verbal mind control power to brainwash fellow young adults and teenagers into becoming pristine examples of what 'good children' ought to be. (She did not actually ever mention publicly that she had this power, though.) Or the case of Brian, aka 'Monsieur Grand Fromage' with the power to control milk, and our very own Misfits, who all became wildly famous with the reveal of their powers in an alternate timeline, where more often than not, the superpowered people were treated like regular celebrities (i.e., had fangirls, were broadcast on television for entertainment purposes, given luxurious spaces to live, had an agent to handle PR, etc.)
Nathan himself is considered...well, he'd be a juvenile delinquent, if he wasn't 20 years old. As it is, he's just a delinquent. Because for most of the series Nathan is clad in the bright orange Community Service jumpsuit (which he sadly won't have in the game) that marks him as having an ASBO, he is perceived by the general public as a ne'er-do-well criminal type. Friends and family see him as less of a criminal and more of a giant twat and/or burden, enough so that his mother kicked him out of the house early on in the show. (Thankfully, he gets by without a job by stealing from vending machines and the community center.) So tl;dr, Nathan is not highly respected either by society or those who know him. Strangely, though, he apparently manages to make enough of a good impression that lots of girls end up having sex with him, (even though Nathan pretty much outright admits he has to date rape girls to get any pussy, although Ruth the secretly-82-years-old girl was an exception).
He hangs out most commonly with his fellow community service misfits. He is shown as having several other 'friends' in the first episode, but it's made pretty clear that they dislike him and don't particularly care about him. As a result, he interacts most commonly with his fellow ASBO-receivers, who consist of: Simon Bellamy, an arsonist with delibitating shyness who can turn invisible; Kelly Bailey, a headstrong and sometimes violent not-chav with telepathy; Curtis Donovan, a former Olympic runner who screwed up by having pot once who can time travel; and Alisha Bailey, a seductive but disrespectful girl with the power to make anyone want to have sex with her via skin contact. In particular, Nathan interacts with Kelly the most--he is the most open around her (and not just because she can read his mind), trusts and cares for her the most, and even wanted to enter a relationship with her. He also interacts heavily with Simon, at first by mocking him endlessly (and always thinking his name is 'Barry'), but later by forging a strange but close friendship with him.
The show takes place mostly around Wertham Community Centre, where the misfits are doing their community service, in southwest London in an area full of particularly dreary buildings and council estates. Sometimes, however, there are forays into other areas, like the homes of the misfits or (usually dilapidated) clubs. The show never takes place anywhere in the more 'glamorous' center of London except for that one time when they were all famous (which got retconned as an alternate timeline anyway).
Personality: Prick. Asshole. Douchebag. Jerkass. Inconsiderate young man with no regard for the feelings of others. All of these are valid ways of describing Nathan, who is quite possibly one of the biggest jerks the universe has ever spat out. He will insult you, your existence, and your mother (especially your mother) to kingdom come in the most absurd and often comedic (if you're not the victim) way possible and never take heed of any warnings or requests to shut up. Hell, he won't stop his mocking even if you start hitting or hurting him! Nathan rarely, if ever, lets up on the nastiness and mockery, and even in cases where he can't work up an insult or there are greater things at work, he still approaches everything with an air of arrogance, entitlement, and sarcasm that almost always offends everyone anyway. This is the only side of Nathan most people will ever get to know.
The douchiness actually hints at a much larger problem Nathan has: he's awful at empathizing or sympathizing or just plain reading people well enough to function properly in society. He doesn't seem to understand how much his words can hurt and he can't read the glares or even the punches he receives in response to them as indicators that he should stop. Similarly, he is very self-absorbed and shows a distinct lack of concern for other people's emotions, problems, or needs unless they affect his own directly (usually-there are exceptions, such as his beloved mother and occasionally his fellow misfits, with whom he has become closer and closer). His issues with reading other people become even more obvious when he puts forth an effort to actually be a decent person. Things often go wrong and he usually accidentally makes things worse. He doesn't understand the concept of “personal space” or “TMI” and has outright admitted that pretty much the only way he can get some pussy is by getting the girl drunk enough to tolerate him first. He does improve later on in the series at times, but he's still got a long way to go.
Nathan also has a really bad case of the Daddy Issues. Nathan resents, or even hates, his father greatly due to his father basically being a giant douche to him and his mom during Nathan's childhood (and even though they're trying to patch things up, there's a long road ahead of them). As a result, Nathan trusts practically no one and his father is a very, very touchy subject, and is practically the only way to get Nathan to drop all douche pretenses and get him truly offended, hurt, or even angry. Heck, the only time Nathan ever fights or physically hurts people is when his family situation is under fire, and it appears to be a kneejerk reaction of his.
If, however, you get under this maladjusted guy's skin, you will find that he is surprisingly caring! It's most obvious when he's with his mother, whom he is genuinely concerned about and tries to do right by (which, uh, he often screws up, but he tries, in his own misguided way!) or his half-brother, who he did not approach as an asshole even once and gave as much as advice and help as he could. However, this increasingly becomes the case with his fellow misfits, who he truly tries to help when they need it, be it consoling or taking on the role of the overprotective dad.
TL;DR: Nathan is a raging douchebag with daddy issues, but once you get beyond that, he can be surprisingly caring! Unless you make a snide remark about his family, then prepare to get decked.
Abilities, Weaknesses, and Power Limitation Suggestions: Nathan's power is immortality. In his case, it means Nathan can be killed (and has been already, multiple times), but he comes back to life healed and in perfect physical condition. The first time he was killed, it's implied that it took him about two-three days to revive from his death. Later deaths had him revive much faster--down to what I estimate to be around 8 hours. So in practice, his immortality is more like an absurdly powerful healing factor. However, this only kicks in after his death. Any injury short of death will heal at a normal pace or continue to ail him until death (at which point it would heal). This particular aspect of his power has been used to his detriment before, such as giving Nathan a fate worse than death instead of killing him, from which he would wake up hunky-dory. Also, another weakness of this is that while Nathan is temporarily dead, he's just that: dead. He is essentially a corpse and anyone could have their merry way with him in that state until he wakes up. It also appears that Nathan has a higher pain threshold or...something that makes him withstand life-threatening injuries longer than the average person. So basically, he has to spend a longer time in excruciating pain before he dies. (Or so I think--this is never canonly confirmed, but it took him a good ten minutes of talking after being impaled through the chest until he finally croaked, which I don't think is normal by any means.)
It has been implied a few times that Nathan would live forever in eternal youth, but nothing is ever stated for certain as to the length of his life span, as it was never particularly relevant (and unless I end up playing Nathan in Singularity for the next 80 or more years, which I kind of doubt, I imagine it will be largely irrelevant here too).
He also has a secondary ability of being able to see and communicate with the dead. Nathan really has no way of telling if these ghosts are dead or not, unless they explicitly tell him or he recognizes them as a dead person he once knew (since the ghosts' physical appearance is exactly identical to what they looked like in life). I'm not sure if Nathan can interact with them physically (i.e. touch), since it never really came up, but I'm going to say for future reference that he can't. There's...not really much of a weakness to this one, aside from Nathan looking like he's completely insane every time he interacts with ghosts, since he's the only one who can see them. Oh, yeah. And if the ghost(s) wanted to, they could haunt him. Forever.
As for limiting these powers...the only way I can really think to limit them is by having Nathan take a longer time to revive from death. More than eight hours, more than two days. Maybe four or five? Maybe even a week, whichever sounds more reasonable to you mods. He could also wake up from death with some pretty nasty occasional phantom pains wherever he was fatally injured, which would last around maybe...two weeks. (Let me know if this sounds unreasonable or you want to change anything about these limitations, mods!)
I don't think his ability to see the dead can be limited, really... It will only be used with mun permission and I doubt much will be happening with this, since everyone comes back from the dead perfectly fine anyway (unless there are like deceased NPCs chilling out or something?)
Inventory: ₤5.72. The clothes on his back. A bunch of condoms. Some weed that's been tucked into his shoe. His cell phone.
Appearance: He is a fairly tall white Irish guy with absurdly curly brown hair and green-gray (is that called hazel? I'm...not actually sure) eyes. He's approximately 6' 0" and his wardrobe consists of not-exactly-the-cleanest casual clothes, since he doesn't exactly have access to a laundry machine. (Plus one suit, apparently.) He's not exactly a paragon of good posture, but he doesn't slouch either, instead giving off an air of casual nonchalance most of the time (and flailing like a wet noodle at whatever absurd bullshit he gets thrown into the rest of the time). Often, he's either smirking at you mockingly, or smirking at you hoping to get in your pants.
Or, hey! Images are pretty cool too!
Age: 20
Samples ;
Log Sample: Barry Simon had a girlfriend. Barry Simon, of all people! Seriously? Sure, the guy had loosened up and finally lost his virginity, but the day he had a girlfriend and Nathan didn't was a sorry day indeed. Wasn't Nathan supposed to be the teacher and Simon the student? How on earth was he supposed to show Simon his way around the female body without a girlfriend of his own to demonstrate on?! (The fact that Simon couldn't touch Alisha without being affected by her power did not even occur to Nathan. Besides, the guy was 20 years old and could barely tell a vagina from a ham sandwich! Even if his girlfriend was off-limits, that was practically a cry for help--one that Nathan could not bear to ignore.)
It was on this night--this night where Simon couldn't go out to the club with the rest of them because he and Alisha had a date, of all things--that Nathan decided enough was enough. For both his and Simon's own good, he would find a girlfriend. One that wasn't fussy or demanding, got drunk easily, looked safe, and preferably wasn't an 82-year-old not-granny. (Nathan still had nightmares about that. Not like he'd tell anyone.)
He armed himself. A fresh, unopened pack of Fisherman's Friend (Super Strong Mint variety)? Check. Deodorant? Deployed. Condoms? Check. Extra condoms? Double check. Sleazy nightclubs across London, watch out. Nathan Young is on the hunt, and he won't stop until his duty has been fulfilled.
Network Sample:
[By the time Nathan manages the communication device in his possession, he's already made it out of Zone 00 and is standing in Garden Zone 01. He's gathered enough of his wits by now to actually manage words, instead of gape at his surroundings and completely freak out.]
Alright, what the fuck?! Can't a man finish his kebab in peace? I paid good money for that! I want my money back! ...And the two girls who were hanging off of me! I was in the middle of something delicate, what kind of arsehole thought that was a good time to dump me on...wherever the fuck this is?!
[A snap of the fingers.]
I bet it's that teleportation twat! Finally worked out how to teleport other people, and decided to send me to some overgrown junkyard, just because I shat on her bed once! Well, she'd better get--
[You might be able to hear the beginning of Hypatia's introductory holographic spiel-but not much more, because you can hear Nathan shriek and flail.]
FUCKING GHOSTS, JESUS!