Ten Things! CAUSE EVERYBODY'S DOING IT.
Ten things that you should know about Doctor Nathan Wallace / The Repo-Man.
sweeterthen16 and leftthefather If you guys still want to play with Nathan (or at least, this Nathan) This'll be pretty well what I'm working from until I actually see the movie. :)
X. His parents were both key figures in the Medical Profession. His father was a Los Angeles Surgeon and his mother was a paramedic with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Consequently, they were rarely there although he spent the most time with his mother and her compatriots at the firehouse. He was impressed by the working relationship that they both had-something that heavily influenced how he dealt with people during his life. While they argued and regularly fought they both respected each other’s abilities and worked off of one another. He’d frequently liken them to the Curies.
IX. He prefers classical music (or no music at all) but he has the most tolerance for sixties rock, specifically Jimmy Hendrix. This has to do (in a large part) with his mother’s boss who’d regularly play these sorts of music around the firehouse. To this day Nathan finds the song “fire” a source of intense irony.
VIII. He has never had difficulty with bodies or “gross” things. Both parents thought it important that their son be very aware of how the human body worked. In third grade he took a summer school course where they were required to dissect everything from a grasshopper to a dogfish shark. To his mother’s disappointment, he earned high marks from his teacher who informed his father that “He takes after you in quite a few respects.”
VII. His father died when he was twenty (In keeping with the timeline, that’d be around 2028). This was right before Senator Blake’s bill was actually passed and hospitals were places that you wouldn’t go without some sort of backup. According to his mother, his father was working until he fainted-and they couldn’t get him up. To this day he associates the song “Don’t fear the reaper” with his father’s death since it was the song playing when he got the news.
VI. He supported the bill right until Ken Hasagawa was convicted of murder and released as it stood against the new Federal Law. He actually had a massive-fight with his mother over this as his mother (a former firefighter by now). Was firmly against it. He stormed out of the house after calling her quite a few very nasty names-he was informed of her death just before he met Marni-throwing him into a “funk” of epic proportions.
V. He joined GeneCo as a SurGEN. Possessing his father’s talent for surgery, he excelled particularly at excision and made a name for himself in removing tumors and various other legions as a consequence of NOS (before it was finally eradicated). His mentor introduced him to Rotti Largo and the two hit it off.
IV. I would argue that the relationship between Nathan Wallace and Rotti Largo is like the relationship between William Birkin and Albert Wesker in the Resident Evil (Video Game Kids. Before Milla-Who-Does-Not-Exist-in-That-Universe) while Nathan provided the scientific background, Largo provided the backing and the actual means of accomplishing what they intended to do.
Friendship probably happened. Like Birkin and Wesker, when you form a relationship that close it’s very possible that this is the sort of man who would only care about his work and Wesker (Largo) could profit off of it. Between the two of them, GeneCo seemed to be in good hands and Nathan did his best to provide a sense of humanity. For a while, they had a working relationship that Nathan compared with his parents-arguments that would ultimately result in mutual respect for each other’s abilities-
Right up until Marni.
III. Marni Frazer is the sort of individual who’d break up any relationship. A wealthy socialite turned GeneCo employee she was beautiful, intelligent, and possessing breeding. All things that easily attracted Rotti Largo who was nothing more then a voice and face behind Senator Blake’s plan.
Nathan met Marni only in passing and became enamored with her after being invited out with Rotti and hearing her passionately speak out against what they were doing. He hadn’t considered it in anything but a scientific aspect until she spoke about working in the hospitals during the plague years and mentioning how many doctors and nurses worked themselves to death saving people. “What good is salvation if we have the power to take it away? Are we deities now?”
Surprise of Surprises, he agreed. But given that she was firmly on the arm of Rotti there was little and less that he could do about it.
Here, I’ll hazard only vague details (Because y’know, It’s not November Seventh yet and I have yet to get a ride up to freakin Pasadena) but mutual interest always seems to win out over wealth and power. There’s a very real (and very dramatic, don’t hate me) image of the two in my head with the rain going on in the background and the dramatic “arrival on the doorstep” confession.
Cue the fit of rage and possibly Nathan acting out for the first time in anger. It’s anger that I think we would have seen bits and pieces of before, in his argument with his mother-in various instances with other people-but he’d have to really put the fear into Rotti Largo without having him either shoot him in the face or y’know-fire the guy. Nine times out of ten (at least in my experience of watching numerous movies) big scary corporate guys respect scary people. They get their revenge the back way-Dutch door action-if you’ll pardon the crude term.
So he’d let them be on their way (and Nathan would leave out of fear for Marni and their happiness anyway) and he’d plot his revenge.
II. Coming back. How would Nathan handle coming back?
Well. Lacking any solid proof save that he failed (FAILURE. YOU CAN HAS IT.) There’d be definite anger and then acceptance. During his time with Marni I think he really opened up (first person he’d probably ever done that with) so loosing that would be like loosing a part of himself. (OBVIOUS) crawling back to Rotti, the guy he sort of screwed over would be admitting that he’s wrong and he hasn’t had to do that. (While I think Shilo got most of her pride from her mother you’ve got to wonder if dad didn’t have something to contribute. The man doesn’t strike me as the sort of fella who’d like-kill people and then pull a phantom of the opera about it. Oh no! It’s a secret, but it’s a secret he’s PROUD of. Bitter about, but PROUD of.)
Right. So. You’ve slept with your boss’s girlfriend (and your boss isn’t Steve Carell) how do you go home again? Answer, you take whatever you can get.
Nathan: [EMO FACE] I need meaning in my life again.
MR. BURNS/LARGO: mm hmm. Well, I’m afraid I only have one-particular-job opening for you here…
Nathan: I’m not liking the sound of this. It’s not toilet scrubber is it?
MR. BURNS/LARGO: No, no, you’re too under-qualified for that. Ah yes, here it is-REPO-MAN.
Nathan: Why did I just have this mental image of me fearing for my immortal soul?
MR. BURNS/LARGO: SILENCE MORTAL! GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE AND GET ME BACK SOME ORGANS!
At some point when I have a better grasp on this particular character there is the definite idea of the dichotomy of “so…I failed at being a doctor but I’m good at killing people?” Or something along the lines of “…Why save anyone when I couldn’t save her?” which is I think the point where Nathan started out.
But y’know-killing things is fun! His motivation behind being the Repo-Man is somewhere between revenge (HOW COME ALL OF YOU ARE ALIVE AND THE PEOPLE I CARE ABOUT ARE ALL DEAD? BASTARDS!) And y’know, genuinely being sick and not having sought treatment for it and not getting it and then going-fuck this.
Plus-
Okay, so this was in my head back when I had ambitions to write a mountain of back-story the size of Kansas or Texas or some other gigantic state.
And you loved him?
You loved him didn’t you Marni, I can see that now
It doesn’t matter anyhow
For while you’re dead and he’s among the living
I shall not be as forgiving!
I’ve been patient and bided my time,
And now seeing truth with your angelic eyes
I’m sure you will no longer tolerate my lies.
You would not love me? So, DESPAIR
And know that while you’re watching there
Your beloved toils on earth below
And while he remains in earthly pain
His loss, Marni is my gain!
You cast me out!
I was double-crossed!
Nathan (well, we all know what he lost)
But you as final punishment in heaven above
Shall weep to know your husband, your one true love
Shall never share your eternal rest!
If there be a diety
In this cruel cage we call a life
I bid him bring your wretched family nothing but the grief and strife
… You’ve caused me.
And I swear to you
That if there be a heaven and a hell
And your soul rests in blessed rhapsody above
Your beloved shall elsewhere dwell.
Or something. Obviously I only have minute talent when it comes to writing lyrical poetry/songs. Nathan’s too valuable to kill.
I. I got nothin’ for one. Perhaps I’ll come up with something later.
sweeterthen16 and leftthefather If you guys still want to play with Nathan (or at least, this Nathan) This'll be pretty well what I'm working from until I actually see the movie. :)
X. His parents were both key figures in the Medical Profession. His father was a Los Angeles Surgeon and his mother was a paramedic with the Los Angeles Fire Department. Consequently, they were rarely there although he spent the most time with his mother and her compatriots at the firehouse. He was impressed by the working relationship that they both had-something that heavily influenced how he dealt with people during his life. While they argued and regularly fought they both respected each other’s abilities and worked off of one another. He’d frequently liken them to the Curies.
IX. He prefers classical music (or no music at all) but he has the most tolerance for sixties rock, specifically Jimmy Hendrix. This has to do (in a large part) with his mother’s boss who’d regularly play these sorts of music around the firehouse. To this day Nathan finds the song “fire” a source of intense irony.
VIII. He has never had difficulty with bodies or “gross” things. Both parents thought it important that their son be very aware of how the human body worked. In third grade he took a summer school course where they were required to dissect everything from a grasshopper to a dogfish shark. To his mother’s disappointment, he earned high marks from his teacher who informed his father that “He takes after you in quite a few respects.”
VII. His father died when he was twenty (In keeping with the timeline, that’d be around 2028). This was right before Senator Blake’s bill was actually passed and hospitals were places that you wouldn’t go without some sort of backup. According to his mother, his father was working until he fainted-and they couldn’t get him up. To this day he associates the song “Don’t fear the reaper” with his father’s death since it was the song playing when he got the news.
VI. He supported the bill right until Ken Hasagawa was convicted of murder and released as it stood against the new Federal Law. He actually had a massive-fight with his mother over this as his mother (a former firefighter by now). Was firmly against it. He stormed out of the house after calling her quite a few very nasty names-he was informed of her death just before he met Marni-throwing him into a “funk” of epic proportions.
V. He joined GeneCo as a SurGEN. Possessing his father’s talent for surgery, he excelled particularly at excision and made a name for himself in removing tumors and various other legions as a consequence of NOS (before it was finally eradicated). His mentor introduced him to Rotti Largo and the two hit it off.
IV. I would argue that the relationship between Nathan Wallace and Rotti Largo is like the relationship between William Birkin and Albert Wesker in the Resident Evil (Video Game Kids. Before Milla-Who-Does-Not-Exist-in-That-Universe) while Nathan provided the scientific background, Largo provided the backing and the actual means of accomplishing what they intended to do.
Friendship probably happened. Like Birkin and Wesker, when you form a relationship that close it’s very possible that this is the sort of man who would only care about his work and Wesker (Largo) could profit off of it. Between the two of them, GeneCo seemed to be in good hands and Nathan did his best to provide a sense of humanity. For a while, they had a working relationship that Nathan compared with his parents-arguments that would ultimately result in mutual respect for each other’s abilities-
Right up until Marni.
III. Marni Frazer is the sort of individual who’d break up any relationship. A wealthy socialite turned GeneCo employee she was beautiful, intelligent, and possessing breeding. All things that easily attracted Rotti Largo who was nothing more then a voice and face behind Senator Blake’s plan.
Nathan met Marni only in passing and became enamored with her after being invited out with Rotti and hearing her passionately speak out against what they were doing. He hadn’t considered it in anything but a scientific aspect until she spoke about working in the hospitals during the plague years and mentioning how many doctors and nurses worked themselves to death saving people. “What good is salvation if we have the power to take it away? Are we deities now?”
Surprise of Surprises, he agreed. But given that she was firmly on the arm of Rotti there was little and less that he could do about it.
Here, I’ll hazard only vague details (Because y’know, It’s not November Seventh yet and I have yet to get a ride up to freakin Pasadena) but mutual interest always seems to win out over wealth and power. There’s a very real (and very dramatic, don’t hate me) image of the two in my head with the rain going on in the background and the dramatic “arrival on the doorstep” confession.
Cue the fit of rage and possibly Nathan acting out for the first time in anger. It’s anger that I think we would have seen bits and pieces of before, in his argument with his mother-in various instances with other people-but he’d have to really put the fear into Rotti Largo without having him either shoot him in the face or y’know-fire the guy. Nine times out of ten (at least in my experience of watching numerous movies) big scary corporate guys respect scary people. They get their revenge the back way-Dutch door action-if you’ll pardon the crude term.
So he’d let them be on their way (and Nathan would leave out of fear for Marni and their happiness anyway) and he’d plot his revenge.
II. Coming back. How would Nathan handle coming back?
Well. Lacking any solid proof save that he failed (FAILURE. YOU CAN HAS IT.) There’d be definite anger and then acceptance. During his time with Marni I think he really opened up (first person he’d probably ever done that with) so loosing that would be like loosing a part of himself. (OBVIOUS) crawling back to Rotti, the guy he sort of screwed over would be admitting that he’s wrong and he hasn’t had to do that. (While I think Shilo got most of her pride from her mother you’ve got to wonder if dad didn’t have something to contribute. The man doesn’t strike me as the sort of fella who’d like-kill people and then pull a phantom of the opera about it. Oh no! It’s a secret, but it’s a secret he’s PROUD of. Bitter about, but PROUD of.)
Right. So. You’ve slept with your boss’s girlfriend (and your boss isn’t Steve Carell) how do you go home again? Answer, you take whatever you can get.
Nathan: [EMO FACE] I need meaning in my life again.
MR. BURNS/LARGO: mm hmm. Well, I’m afraid I only have one-particular-job opening for you here…
Nathan: I’m not liking the sound of this. It’s not toilet scrubber is it?
MR. BURNS/LARGO: No, no, you’re too under-qualified for that. Ah yes, here it is-REPO-MAN.
Nathan: Why did I just have this mental image of me fearing for my immortal soul?
MR. BURNS/LARGO: SILENCE MORTAL! GET YOUR ASS OUT THERE AND GET ME BACK SOME ORGANS!
At some point when I have a better grasp on this particular character there is the definite idea of the dichotomy of “so…I failed at being a doctor but I’m good at killing people?” Or something along the lines of “…Why save anyone when I couldn’t save her?” which is I think the point where Nathan started out.
But y’know-killing things is fun! His motivation behind being the Repo-Man is somewhere between revenge (HOW COME ALL OF YOU ARE ALIVE AND THE PEOPLE I CARE ABOUT ARE ALL DEAD? BASTARDS!) And y’know, genuinely being sick and not having sought treatment for it and not getting it and then going-fuck this.
Plus-
Okay, so this was in my head back when I had ambitions to write a mountain of back-story the size of Kansas or Texas or some other gigantic state.
And you loved him?
You loved him didn’t you Marni, I can see that now
It doesn’t matter anyhow
For while you’re dead and he’s among the living
I shall not be as forgiving!
I’ve been patient and bided my time,
And now seeing truth with your angelic eyes
I’m sure you will no longer tolerate my lies.
You would not love me? So, DESPAIR
And know that while you’re watching there
Your beloved toils on earth below
And while he remains in earthly pain
His loss, Marni is my gain!
You cast me out!
I was double-crossed!
Nathan (well, we all know what he lost)
But you as final punishment in heaven above
Shall weep to know your husband, your one true love
Shall never share your eternal rest!
If there be a diety
In this cruel cage we call a life
I bid him bring your wretched family nothing but the grief and strife
… You’ve caused me.
And I swear to you
That if there be a heaven and a hell
And your soul rests in blessed rhapsody above
Your beloved shall elsewhere dwell.
Or something. Obviously I only have minute talent when it comes to writing lyrical poetry/songs. Nathan’s too valuable to kill.
I. I got nothin’ for one. Perhaps I’ll come up with something later.