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IC Information:
Name: Nathan Young || Richard Burzek (often ends up going by his middle name Jovan instead though)
Canon and medium: Misfits (TV show)
Age: 21 || now 20, soon to turn 21
Preincarnation Species: human
Preincarnation Appearance: He looks uncannily like that Robert Sheehan fellow!
Any differences: Has glasses due to some pretty intense nearsightedness. He sometimes wears contacts too but a lot of the time, he just sticks to his glasses.
Preincarnated History: Nathan was born and raised Catholic by his mother in Ireland, his father a very distant figure and often callous and careless when he was around. As a result, Nathan developed a grudge and a hatred for his father over the years. He was very much a problem child for his parents when he was growing up.
Also in his early years: Nathan has implied that he was molested on more than one occasion, and possibly even raped. Due to Nathan's status as a compulsive liar (as well as it being canonically confirmed that he has lied about being sexually abused once), it's hard to tell fact from fiction with these claims, but I am absolutely certain that at least one or two of those stories were true.
Sometime (I like to think it was in his mid-teens) Nathan and his mother moved to London, England, and he continued acting on his troublemaking impulses, as usual. Unfortunately, one time, he gets in deep shit because of it. He was at a bowling alley when he stole some candy, in full view of the manager. The manager calls him out on it and the situation quickly escalates, resulting in the manager giving Nathan a choice: either have his father come bail him out, or be arrested. He chose the former, but as things with Nathan and his father tend to go, everything fell through and Nathan volunteered to be arrested instead. The manager began to mock Nathan's relationship with his dad. Nathan, being very very touchy about his family, essentially flips out and staples the manager's hand to the table. As a result, he is given an ASBO and sentenced to six weeks community service.
At the start of his community service, his mother kicks him out of the house, tired of putting up with his trouble and wanting a life of peace with her boyfriend instead of tolerating Nathan's attempts to chase him out of her life.
From there, canon begins:
-On the first day of community service, an unusually strong storm kicks up in the area. Nathan and his other community service delinquents are struck by lightning, but mysteriously survive. They discover that they have gained new superpowers. One girl can make any man have sex with her if she touches them, one guy can turn invisible, another guy can turn back time, and another girl (Kelly) gains telepathy. Nathan, apparently, does not have any superpowers. Unfortunately, their probation worker was also struck by lightning, and also developed a power: unstoppable rage. The misfits are forced to kill the murderous probation worker to save their own lives, but then have to cover up the murder and hide the body.
-They discover that there are more people out there who were affected by the storm.Nathan's stepfather The guy living with Nathan's mother acts like a feral dog whenever he thinks about a childhood pet, resulting in some awkward naked incidents. And, even worse, Nathan finds out that Ruth, the girl he's having sex with, is actually an 82-year-old woman who reverted to her early 20s after the storm. Nathan freaks and runs out. Eventually, he tries making amends with his mother, her boyfriend, and even Ruth, although it seems Ruth has passed before he could ever apologize.
-Nathan is hypnotized by a little baby in the community center who was also affected by the storm. The baby more or less psychically convinced Nathan that he had to be the baby's father and provide food, shelter, and love for the kid. It wears off eventually when Kelly figures out what's happening and they try and make amends between the baby's mother and the estranged father.
-An organization called Virtue sets up base in the community center. Young people suddenly start dressing properly and giving up on sex, drugs, and bad language. As it turns out, the girl behind the organization, Rachel, has mind control powers and is brainwashing people into abandoning their old lives and starting anew. She eventually starts nabbing the misfits one by one, until only Nathan is left. Nathan pays the Virtue'd!Kelly a visit, telling her that he misses the old Kelly even if she was a brash chav, only to be shot down. He nearly runs away, but instead turns back and decides to save his friends by infiltrating Virtue as a fellow 'good person.' He then takes Rachel hostage and threatens to shoot her if she doesn't change them back. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how, and Nathan tries escaping to the rooftop. From there, Rachel ends up tripping and falling off the roof, falling to her death. In the scuffle, Nathan loses his balance and falls, getting impaled on the iron fence below and dying.
(except not, because, as he finds out when he wakes up in a coffin after his own funeral, he did get a power after all: immortality!)
-The misfits dig Nathan up a few days later (anywhere between 3 days to a week, I estimate) and Nathan ends up joining them in community service again out of his own stupidity, despite having escaped it by dying and being taken off the records. However, it's not long before the new baddie of the week shows up—a yandere shapeshifting girl after one of the other misfits. In the chaos to try and capture her, Nathan is impaled on a pipe in a locker room and dies. Again. Later, though, Kelly takes his body off the pipe where he died and waits for him to revive.
-Nathan encounters Jamie, his apparent half-brother. As it turns out, Nathan's dad at one point ran off to have a child with another woman, but abandoned them to stay with Nathan and his mom (more or less). Twenty-ish years later, Jamie seeks Nathan out and despite a rocky start (involving Jamie kidnapping their father and sticking him in the trunk of his car before finding Nathan), the two bond. The same, unfortunately, can't be said of the two and their father. Later that night, though, Jamie, Nathan, the rest of the misfits, and a girl Jamie and Nathan picked up at a bar all go to a party where they try out some drugs. The drugs reverse people's powers...resulting in the girl from the bar, who normally has ice powers, getting fire powers. Nathan hangs out with Kelly for some time, but Jamie has sex with the girl from the bar, whose fire powers grow out of control and cause an explosion. Nathan panics but sees Jamie and calms down, glad that his brother is safe. The next morning, Jamie pushes Nathan to go with him to see their father. Once there, Nathan begins talking (and by talking I mean 'some talking and also some punching') with his father, finding out that Jamie did in fact die in the explosion—it's just that due to his immortality, Nathan can see the dead. Jamie only led him there because he wanted Nathan to try and patch things up with his father. Nathan and his dad start trying to make up and get along.
-NATHAN FALLS UNDER SOME FORM OF MIND CONTROL: THE SEQUEL: THE GAME: THE MOVIE. After mocking a tattoo artist with superpowers, Nathan finds himself lusting uncontrollably for another misfit, a guy named Simon who Nathan had previously bullied mercilessly, moreso than any of the others. Nothing really happens, just some really awkward and hilarious gay lust...
-A guy with milk powers ('lactokinesis') goes public with his powers and becomes a celebrity. Soon enough, so do the misfits, their eavesdropping probation worker having tattled on them to the media. Nathan in particular enjoys living the life and gladly signs up to shoot himself in the head on national television for fun. Unfortunately, as more and more superpowered people come forth, the lactokinesis guy gets shoved out of the limelight because. Well. Milk powers. His jealousy drives him to extremes and he begins killing the other powered people by controlling the dairy products that EVERYONE HAS SO CONVENIENTLY EATEN BEFOREHAND in their stomachs. Soon, the misfits begin dropping one by one, each one getting killed by the milk guy. Unfortunately, Mr. Lactokinesis disposes of Nathan too, using the cheese he ate earlier to put Nathan into a coma: never able to die and come back to life healthy, just permanently comatose.
THANKFULLY, the guy with the time powers is conveniently lactose intolerant and, upon witnessing everyone dead (or comatose in Nathan's case), turns back time before anyone was famous for their powers. He tells the misfits what happened and they take care of the milk guy before he ever becomes a problem. SO THAT HUGE BLOCK OF TEXT UP THERE? Never actually happened!
That's usually where I take him from, but just for completion's sake, here's the rest of Nathan's history too!
Shortly after the milk incident that never happened, the misfits finished their community service stint and left to do their own shit. Months later, Nathan has gotten a job being one of those Santas who goes around collecting donations and cheering kids up (hahaha oh god). Nathan meets a pregnant girl named Marnie, falls in love, porks with her, and then offers her all the money that he owns, all 5 pounds and 23 pence. Around this time, a guy starts offering powers for sale, so all the misfits pretty much cash in and make serious bank by getting rid of their powers to this guy. Nathan suddenly has 20 grand to offer to his not-actually babymama! Shortly after, though, people start dying due to an uppity priest who's begun buying powers that make him look like Jesus. Tl;dr, the misfits kill him and take all his stolen, Nathan has to deliver Marnie's baby and he appoints himself the adoptive father, and all the misfits buy new powers.
Nathan buys what basically amounts to reality warping powers. After that, Nathan and Marnie run off to Vegas, where Nathan plans to use his new powers to scam the casinos, become rich, and settle down to give Marnie and the baby a nice life. Unfortunately, Nathan fucks up when he rolls a die and it comes up as a seven, and after an outrageousgoose rabbit chase involving Nathan pulling a live rabbit out of his anus, he is arrested and put in jail. And that is the last we ever hear of him again.
Reincarnated History: Jovan was born and raised in Locke City. When he was very young, about two years old, his parents decided that things weren't working out. Neither wanted to continue their relationship, and in particular, his mother didn't want to stay and raise Jovan. In the end, his mother won out in the argument and Jovan's father, although he was in over his head, couldn't bear to abandon the child too.
Jovan doesn't remember any of this, though, and grew up only knowing his father. All he knows is that his mother left him.
Jovan was very sensitive and emotional as a child, something his father very vocally disapproved of. He had a few friends in elementary school, but after some fallings-out with most of them, Jovan was left with very few friends and a lot of hesitance to try making friends again. It worked out in his favor, though, because it meant more time at home to do his homework and study. He quickly became one of the top academic performers at school. His father was very pleased. It was around this time that Jovan discovered the wonders of the internet, the beauty of anonymity, and 4chan. It didn't take long before he was trolling with the best of them.
It stayed that way through middle and high school. Jovan was in the top 10% at school and took part in student government, yearbook club, and played snare drum in band. His father encouraged all of his activities and spent more time praising Jovan than getting frustrated with him as he did when he was younger. And of course in his spare time he was commenting on /b/, YouTube videos, the GameFAQs forums, and more.
Jovan ended up staying local for college, since they didn't have the money to send him all the way to Berkeley, but he moved out of the house at least and got to ~explore his independence~. By which I mean he went to a few parties in his freshman year and got laid once, but it was kind of overwhelming so he stopped going to those for the most part. He still mostly stays in his room, plugging away at his homework to maintain his honors status or fucking around online late into the night.
Currently, he is a junior at Locke City University, majoring in public policy (his father's wishes) with a minor in English.
First Echo: Just a few weeks ago, on a dark and stormy day, Jovan was headed towards his Health, Development, and Human Rights class and took the elevator alone up to the right floor. Unfortunately, as he was riding up, lightning struck and all the power in the building went out, sending the elevator to a screeching halt and plunging him into darkness.
At first he was fine, but next thing he knew, he was remembering the feeling of being buried alive and running out of air. Terrified, he started frantically pounding the doors of the tiny elevator and screaming.
Thankfully, the fire department arrived within half an hour and got him out safely. Still, although he made it out of the ordeal fine, Jovan developed some pretty intense claustrophobia, especially in the dark. It wasn't until a week later that he realized there was a string of numbers that kept coming to mind over and over again.
Preincarnation 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! He's a bit of an attention whore, so as long as eyes are on him while he's making a spectacle, he doesn't care how people react. 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). A lot of it is unintentional and is spawned from never having learned these social cues when growing up, but to an extent it very much is on purpose. It's easier to be rude and nasty and not help others than it is to open yourself to the possibility of being hurt, after all.
These issues become even more obvious and it becomes clear where the intentional nastiness ends and the social cluelessness begins 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 ever gets any sex is if the girl is drunk enough to tolerate him first. He does improve later on in the series at times, when he begins to identify signals that indicate he should stop and actually finds himself caring enough to do it, 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 aside from his mother (and, as time goes on, the other Misfits too, to an extent). Also, his father is a very, very touchy subject, and is practically the only way to get Nathan to drop his defenses and get him truly offended, hurt, or even angry. Heck, the only time Nathan ever fights or attempts to physically hurt people at all 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, despite their familial link being through their uncaring father. However, this increasingly becomes the case with his fellow misfits as well. 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.
Any differences: Well first off, being born and raised in Locke, Jovan speaks with a typical American accent using typical American spelling and phrases. His Irish accent and filthy compulsion to stick u's in words that don't need them will have to come back later.
He's less of a party animal and a risk-taker. In the show, Nathan lived a very hedonistic life of partying, drinking, and sex. Lots of it. He wanted to live life and enjoy himself as much as possible, unimpeded by academics, responsibilities or other bullshit. Jovan, however, only recently lost his virginity at age 19. And he has a much stronger sense of responsibility and obligation to his father to become an upstanding, self-sufficient citizen, so he doesn't go to very many parties, either, partially because he doesn't enjoy them enough to seek them out so often and partially because of his school load. However, he isn't opposed to having a drink or a joint if someone offers him one.
He's much quieter and generally more functional. Nathan is almost a piece of performance art, with how he carries himself as a walking disaster, making everyone who so much as looks at him want to punch him. His tendencies led him to leaving school as soon as possible and bumming around for a few years before getting an ASBO. But Jovan keeps very quiet, particularly in school settings and in public when interacting with strangers due to his timidness. He's still not perfect at this whole "understanding people's boundaries" thing, but he can read body language and understand social cues far better than in canon, so he knows how to adjust his behavior if needed. He really only lets loose the douchemonster online, where he is more or less anonymous. No one can hurt him behind some dumb online username, and he probably isn't hurting whoever is behind those other dumb usernames, it's perfect! In fact, as far as Jovan's concerned, the Internet exists to help him get A's on his papers and to start YouTube comment wars.
And, of course, his daddy issues, while still present, are very different. He doesn't hate or resent his father at all, but rather idolizes him to an extent and tries to get his approval by doing well academically and keeping out of trouble. It's made him quite a bit more nervous and self-conscious, which feeds into the shyness and the distinct split between his quiet real life persona and his outrageously vulgar online persona.
Lastly, another noticeable difference is that Jovan's insults are significantly more educated and informed than Nathan's are. That isn't to say that Jovan is above making stupid STD jokes and dick gags, but having finished high school and being three years into a college honors's program has given him a wealth of knowledge to draw from when fucking around that Nathan never built up.
Abilities: Immortality. He can be killed, but only temporarily—after being killed his body will be dead, but he will naturally be revived after a certain amount of time in the same condition he was before whatever it is that killed him (the length of time appears to get shorter each time, although it's not really clear how long it takes. It could be anywhere between eight hours and even as short as under an hour, depending on the severity of bodily damage as well as how much 'experience' he has in reviving after death).
With this he appears to be a tad harder to kill than normal, and has accordingly developed a higher pain tolerance (i.e. he was impaled right through the chest, but was able to keep his wits about him and talk casually with others for another 10-15 minutes before actually dying).
He also can see and interact with ghosts of the dead, although he cannot touch them.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Jovan didn't much care for public policy, honestly. He didn't hate it, at least, but mostly he was taking it for his father, who hoped that his son would graduate with something that could pay off his student loans. He was alright at it, at least--his essays were always A material, his homework was always impeccable, and he was stellar as a TA in the intro courses.
But holy diarrheal shit, it was boring. Perhaps one of the greatest skills Jovan learned in three years of public policy was how to not fall asleep in lecture. Yes, take notes, ask questions, answer questions, but his most successful strategy was to keep a running mental commentary on the material--fun, requires him to pay attention, and a lot more discreet than pulling out a laptop and letting everyone around him see what he was up to online.
Learning about the structure of health care in Indonesia was so much more interesting when you speculated about how that elderly man on the slides got syphilis. Was it some prostitute, behind whatever the Indonesian equivalent of a coffee shop was (did they even have Starbucks there?), or was it a goat he got too attached to and decided to have one last passionate go with before it was sent to the slaughter to provide food for his family? Or maybe it was someone in his family--his sister, perhaps, or worse, his daughter! How would his family take the news that Old Man Gujarati (wait fuck that's an Indian name. Eh, whatever, close enough to Indonesian) was actually a syphilis-infested goat/daughter/starbucks-whore-fucking freak? For shame, Old Man Gujarati. You (literally) fucked up, and now you're being used as a cautionary tale in an undergraduate college course. That's how you know you've lost control of your life.
Jovan was stirred out of his engrossing thoughts by the sounds of students trying to discreetly stuff their notebooks back into their bags for a quick getaway at the end of the class. He paid attention to the last few sentences the professor had to say, jotted down the homework, and left the hall with all the other students, walking at a brisk pace. After all, he had a few readings to finish for his next class, and some papers to grade for the class he was TAing.
Roleplay Sample - Network: Here. Alternatively, have this, with canon Nathan!
Any Questions? How would ye modly ones feel if I changed his ghost-seeing ability to only apply to the ghosts of reincarnates? It would be pretty useful for chatting up, oh, say, Paul Ben's ghost, maybe, but I imagine it could be a little TOO useful, and pretty problematic to deal with, so.... ????
If not seeing the ghosts of reincarnates, I'd limit it to seeing the ghosts of people he's met before, reincarnate or otherwise. (Otherwise he'd be seeing millions upon millions of dead people from like four centuries ago.)
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IC Information:
Name: Nathan Young || Richard Burzek (often ends up going by his middle name Jovan instead though)
Canon and medium: Misfits (TV show)
Age: 21 || now 20, soon to turn 21
Preincarnation Species: human
Preincarnation Appearance: He looks uncannily like that Robert Sheehan fellow!
Any differences: Has glasses due to some pretty intense nearsightedness. He sometimes wears contacts too but a lot of the time, he just sticks to his glasses.
Preincarnated History: Nathan was born and raised Catholic by his mother in Ireland, his father a very distant figure and often callous and careless when he was around. As a result, Nathan developed a grudge and a hatred for his father over the years. He was very much a problem child for his parents when he was growing up.
Also in his early years: Nathan has implied that he was molested on more than one occasion, and possibly even raped. Due to Nathan's status as a compulsive liar (as well as it being canonically confirmed that he has lied about being sexually abused once), it's hard to tell fact from fiction with these claims, but I am absolutely certain that at least one or two of those stories were true.
Sometime (I like to think it was in his mid-teens) Nathan and his mother moved to London, England, and he continued acting on his troublemaking impulses, as usual. Unfortunately, one time, he gets in deep shit because of it. He was at a bowling alley when he stole some candy, in full view of the manager. The manager calls him out on it and the situation quickly escalates, resulting in the manager giving Nathan a choice: either have his father come bail him out, or be arrested. He chose the former, but as things with Nathan and his father tend to go, everything fell through and Nathan volunteered to be arrested instead. The manager began to mock Nathan's relationship with his dad. Nathan, being very very touchy about his family, essentially flips out and staples the manager's hand to the table. As a result, he is given an ASBO and sentenced to six weeks community service.
At the start of his community service, his mother kicks him out of the house, tired of putting up with his trouble and wanting a life of peace with her boyfriend instead of tolerating Nathan's attempts to chase him out of her life.
From there, canon begins:
-On the first day of community service, an unusually strong storm kicks up in the area. Nathan and his other community service delinquents are struck by lightning, but mysteriously survive. They discover that they have gained new superpowers. One girl can make any man have sex with her if she touches them, one guy can turn invisible, another guy can turn back time, and another girl (Kelly) gains telepathy. Nathan, apparently, does not have any superpowers. Unfortunately, their probation worker was also struck by lightning, and also developed a power: unstoppable rage. The misfits are forced to kill the murderous probation worker to save their own lives, but then have to cover up the murder and hide the body.
-They discover that there are more people out there who were affected by the storm.
-Nathan is hypnotized by a little baby in the community center who was also affected by the storm. The baby more or less psychically convinced Nathan that he had to be the baby's father and provide food, shelter, and love for the kid. It wears off eventually when Kelly figures out what's happening and they try and make amends between the baby's mother and the estranged father.
-An organization called Virtue sets up base in the community center. Young people suddenly start dressing properly and giving up on sex, drugs, and bad language. As it turns out, the girl behind the organization, Rachel, has mind control powers and is brainwashing people into abandoning their old lives and starting anew. She eventually starts nabbing the misfits one by one, until only Nathan is left. Nathan pays the Virtue'd!Kelly a visit, telling her that he misses the old Kelly even if she was a brash chav, only to be shot down. He nearly runs away, but instead turns back and decides to save his friends by infiltrating Virtue as a fellow 'good person.' He then takes Rachel hostage and threatens to shoot her if she doesn't change them back. Unfortunately, she doesn't know how, and Nathan tries escaping to the rooftop. From there, Rachel ends up tripping and falling off the roof, falling to her death. In the scuffle, Nathan loses his balance and falls, getting impaled on the iron fence below and dying.
(except not, because, as he finds out when he wakes up in a coffin after his own funeral, he did get a power after all: immortality!)
-The misfits dig Nathan up a few days later (anywhere between 3 days to a week, I estimate) and Nathan ends up joining them in community service again out of his own stupidity, despite having escaped it by dying and being taken off the records. However, it's not long before the new baddie of the week shows up—a yandere shapeshifting girl after one of the other misfits. In the chaos to try and capture her, Nathan is impaled on a pipe in a locker room and dies. Again. Later, though, Kelly takes his body off the pipe where he died and waits for him to revive.
-Nathan encounters Jamie, his apparent half-brother. As it turns out, Nathan's dad at one point ran off to have a child with another woman, but abandoned them to stay with Nathan and his mom (more or less). Twenty-ish years later, Jamie seeks Nathan out and despite a rocky start (involving Jamie kidnapping their father and sticking him in the trunk of his car before finding Nathan), the two bond. The same, unfortunately, can't be said of the two and their father. Later that night, though, Jamie, Nathan, the rest of the misfits, and a girl Jamie and Nathan picked up at a bar all go to a party where they try out some drugs. The drugs reverse people's powers...resulting in the girl from the bar, who normally has ice powers, getting fire powers. Nathan hangs out with Kelly for some time, but Jamie has sex with the girl from the bar, whose fire powers grow out of control and cause an explosion. Nathan panics but sees Jamie and calms down, glad that his brother is safe. The next morning, Jamie pushes Nathan to go with him to see their father. Once there, Nathan begins talking (and by talking I mean 'some talking and also some punching') with his father, finding out that Jamie did in fact die in the explosion—it's just that due to his immortality, Nathan can see the dead. Jamie only led him there because he wanted Nathan to try and patch things up with his father. Nathan and his dad start trying to make up and get along.
-NATHAN FALLS UNDER SOME FORM OF MIND CONTROL: THE SEQUEL: THE GAME: THE MOVIE. After mocking a tattoo artist with superpowers, Nathan finds himself lusting uncontrollably for another misfit, a guy named Simon who Nathan had previously bullied mercilessly, moreso than any of the others. Nothing really happens, just some really awkward and hilarious gay lust...
-A guy with milk powers ('lactokinesis') goes public with his powers and becomes a celebrity. Soon enough, so do the misfits, their eavesdropping probation worker having tattled on them to the media. Nathan in particular enjoys living the life and gladly signs up to shoot himself in the head on national television for fun. Unfortunately, as more and more superpowered people come forth, the lactokinesis guy gets shoved out of the limelight because. Well. Milk powers. His jealousy drives him to extremes and he begins killing the other powered people by controlling the dairy products that EVERYONE HAS SO CONVENIENTLY EATEN BEFOREHAND in their stomachs. Soon, the misfits begin dropping one by one, each one getting killed by the milk guy. Unfortunately, Mr. Lactokinesis disposes of Nathan too, using the cheese he ate earlier to put Nathan into a coma: never able to die and come back to life healthy, just permanently comatose.
THANKFULLY, the guy with the time powers is conveniently lactose intolerant and, upon witnessing everyone dead (or comatose in Nathan's case), turns back time before anyone was famous for their powers. He tells the misfits what happened and they take care of the milk guy before he ever becomes a problem. SO THAT HUGE BLOCK OF TEXT UP THERE? Never actually happened!
That's usually where I take him from, but just for completion's sake, here's the rest of Nathan's history too!
Shortly after the milk incident that never happened, the misfits finished their community service stint and left to do their own shit. Months later, Nathan has gotten a job being one of those Santas who goes around collecting donations and cheering kids up (hahaha oh god). Nathan meets a pregnant girl named Marnie, falls in love, porks with her, and then offers her all the money that he owns, all 5 pounds and 23 pence. Around this time, a guy starts offering powers for sale, so all the misfits pretty much cash in and make serious bank by getting rid of their powers to this guy. Nathan suddenly has 20 grand to offer to his not-actually babymama! Shortly after, though, people start dying due to an uppity priest who's begun buying powers that make him look like Jesus. Tl;dr, the misfits kill him and take all his stolen, Nathan has to deliver Marnie's baby and he appoints himself the adoptive father, and all the misfits buy new powers.
Nathan buys what basically amounts to reality warping powers. After that, Nathan and Marnie run off to Vegas, where Nathan plans to use his new powers to scam the casinos, become rich, and settle down to give Marnie and the baby a nice life. Unfortunately, Nathan fucks up when he rolls a die and it comes up as a seven, and after an outrageous
Reincarnated History: Jovan was born and raised in Locke City. When he was very young, about two years old, his parents decided that things weren't working out. Neither wanted to continue their relationship, and in particular, his mother didn't want to stay and raise Jovan. In the end, his mother won out in the argument and Jovan's father, although he was in over his head, couldn't bear to abandon the child too.
Jovan doesn't remember any of this, though, and grew up only knowing his father. All he knows is that his mother left him.
Jovan was very sensitive and emotional as a child, something his father very vocally disapproved of. He had a few friends in elementary school, but after some fallings-out with most of them, Jovan was left with very few friends and a lot of hesitance to try making friends again. It worked out in his favor, though, because it meant more time at home to do his homework and study. He quickly became one of the top academic performers at school. His father was very pleased. It was around this time that Jovan discovered the wonders of the internet, the beauty of anonymity, and 4chan. It didn't take long before he was trolling with the best of them.
It stayed that way through middle and high school. Jovan was in the top 10% at school and took part in student government, yearbook club, and played snare drum in band. His father encouraged all of his activities and spent more time praising Jovan than getting frustrated with him as he did when he was younger. And of course in his spare time he was commenting on /b/, YouTube videos, the GameFAQs forums, and more.
Jovan ended up staying local for college, since they didn't have the money to send him all the way to Berkeley, but he moved out of the house at least and got to ~explore his independence~. By which I mean he went to a few parties in his freshman year and got laid once, but it was kind of overwhelming so he stopped going to those for the most part. He still mostly stays in his room, plugging away at his homework to maintain his honors status or fucking around online late into the night.
Currently, he is a junior at Locke City University, majoring in public policy (his father's wishes) with a minor in English.
First Echo: Just a few weeks ago, on a dark and stormy day, Jovan was headed towards his Health, Development, and Human Rights class and took the elevator alone up to the right floor. Unfortunately, as he was riding up, lightning struck and all the power in the building went out, sending the elevator to a screeching halt and plunging him into darkness.
At first he was fine, but next thing he knew, he was remembering the feeling of being buried alive and running out of air. Terrified, he started frantically pounding the doors of the tiny elevator and screaming.
Thankfully, the fire department arrived within half an hour and got him out safely. Still, although he made it out of the ordeal fine, Jovan developed some pretty intense claustrophobia, especially in the dark. It wasn't until a week later that he realized there was a string of numbers that kept coming to mind over and over again.
Preincarnation 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! He's a bit of an attention whore, so as long as eyes are on him while he's making a spectacle, he doesn't care how people react. 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). A lot of it is unintentional and is spawned from never having learned these social cues when growing up, but to an extent it very much is on purpose. It's easier to be rude and nasty and not help others than it is to open yourself to the possibility of being hurt, after all.
These issues become even more obvious and it becomes clear where the intentional nastiness ends and the social cluelessness begins 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 ever gets any sex is if the girl is drunk enough to tolerate him first. He does improve later on in the series at times, when he begins to identify signals that indicate he should stop and actually finds himself caring enough to do it, 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 aside from his mother (and, as time goes on, the other Misfits too, to an extent). Also, his father is a very, very touchy subject, and is practically the only way to get Nathan to drop his defenses and get him truly offended, hurt, or even angry. Heck, the only time Nathan ever fights or attempts to physically hurt people at all 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, despite their familial link being through their uncaring father. However, this increasingly becomes the case with his fellow misfits as well. 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.
Any differences: Well first off, being born and raised in Locke, Jovan speaks with a typical American accent using typical American spelling and phrases. His Irish accent and filthy compulsion to stick u's in words that don't need them will have to come back later.
He's less of a party animal and a risk-taker. In the show, Nathan lived a very hedonistic life of partying, drinking, and sex. Lots of it. He wanted to live life and enjoy himself as much as possible, unimpeded by academics, responsibilities or other bullshit. Jovan, however, only recently lost his virginity at age 19. And he has a much stronger sense of responsibility and obligation to his father to become an upstanding, self-sufficient citizen, so he doesn't go to very many parties, either, partially because he doesn't enjoy them enough to seek them out so often and partially because of his school load. However, he isn't opposed to having a drink or a joint if someone offers him one.
He's much quieter and generally more functional. Nathan is almost a piece of performance art, with how he carries himself as a walking disaster, making everyone who so much as looks at him want to punch him. His tendencies led him to leaving school as soon as possible and bumming around for a few years before getting an ASBO. But Jovan keeps very quiet, particularly in school settings and in public when interacting with strangers due to his timidness. He's still not perfect at this whole "understanding people's boundaries" thing, but he can read body language and understand social cues far better than in canon, so he knows how to adjust his behavior if needed. He really only lets loose the douchemonster online, where he is more or less anonymous. No one can hurt him behind some dumb online username, and he probably isn't hurting whoever is behind those other dumb usernames, it's perfect! In fact, as far as Jovan's concerned, the Internet exists to help him get A's on his papers and to start YouTube comment wars.
And, of course, his daddy issues, while still present, are very different. He doesn't hate or resent his father at all, but rather idolizes him to an extent and tries to get his approval by doing well academically and keeping out of trouble. It's made him quite a bit more nervous and self-conscious, which feeds into the shyness and the distinct split between his quiet real life persona and his outrageously vulgar online persona.
Lastly, another noticeable difference is that Jovan's insults are significantly more educated and informed than Nathan's are. That isn't to say that Jovan is above making stupid STD jokes and dick gags, but having finished high school and being three years into a college honors's program has given him a wealth of knowledge to draw from when fucking around that Nathan never built up.
Abilities: Immortality. He can be killed, but only temporarily—after being killed his body will be dead, but he will naturally be revived after a certain amount of time in the same condition he was before whatever it is that killed him (the length of time appears to get shorter each time, although it's not really clear how long it takes. It could be anywhere between eight hours and even as short as under an hour, depending on the severity of bodily damage as well as how much 'experience' he has in reviving after death).
With this he appears to be a tad harder to kill than normal, and has accordingly developed a higher pain tolerance (i.e. he was impaled right through the chest, but was able to keep his wits about him and talk casually with others for another 10-15 minutes before actually dying).
He also can see and interact with ghosts of the dead, although he cannot touch them.
Roleplay Sample - Third Person: Jovan didn't much care for public policy, honestly. He didn't hate it, at least, but mostly he was taking it for his father, who hoped that his son would graduate with something that could pay off his student loans. He was alright at it, at least--his essays were always A material, his homework was always impeccable, and he was stellar as a TA in the intro courses.
But holy diarrheal shit, it was boring. Perhaps one of the greatest skills Jovan learned in three years of public policy was how to not fall asleep in lecture. Yes, take notes, ask questions, answer questions, but his most successful strategy was to keep a running mental commentary on the material--fun, requires him to pay attention, and a lot more discreet than pulling out a laptop and letting everyone around him see what he was up to online.
Learning about the structure of health care in Indonesia was so much more interesting when you speculated about how that elderly man on the slides got syphilis. Was it some prostitute, behind whatever the Indonesian equivalent of a coffee shop was (did they even have Starbucks there?), or was it a goat he got too attached to and decided to have one last passionate go with before it was sent to the slaughter to provide food for his family? Or maybe it was someone in his family--his sister, perhaps, or worse, his daughter! How would his family take the news that Old Man Gujarati (wait fuck that's an Indian name. Eh, whatever, close enough to Indonesian) was actually a syphilis-infested goat/daughter/starbucks-whore-fucking freak? For shame, Old Man Gujarati. You (literally) fucked up, and now you're being used as a cautionary tale in an undergraduate college course. That's how you know you've lost control of your life.
Jovan was stirred out of his engrossing thoughts by the sounds of students trying to discreetly stuff their notebooks back into their bags for a quick getaway at the end of the class. He paid attention to the last few sentences the professor had to say, jotted down the homework, and left the hall with all the other students, walking at a brisk pace. After all, he had a few readings to finish for his next class, and some papers to grade for the class he was TAing.
Roleplay Sample - Network: Here. Alternatively, have this, with canon Nathan!
Any Questions? How would ye modly ones feel if I changed his ghost-seeing ability to only apply to the ghosts of reincarnates? It would be pretty useful for chatting up, oh, say, Paul Ben's ghost, maybe, but I imagine it could be a little TOO useful, and pretty problematic to deal with, so.... ????
If not seeing the ghosts of reincarnates, I'd limit it to seeing the ghosts of people he's met before, reincarnate or otherwise. (Otherwise he'd be seeing millions upon millions of dead people from like four centuries ago.)