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APPLICATIONS -- 2010; 001

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To sum up his history of four seasons, he was a Son, a Brother, a Potential-President, his brother's only hope, a drunk, a recluse, a motivated door-knocking shot-gun carrying bad-ass, someone ready to expose abilities to the world, Dead, a born-again re-motivated guy trying to prove that he had a higher purpose. He was a ring-leader, used to try and control all of the people with abilities (which didn't work out so well) and once he realized that was a bad plan, he was the fall-guy when the plan went south. So... he went South. Mexico to be exact. There he tried to win over his daughter, again, by proving that he wasn't exactly the dick that he'd been perceived as. That he could fix this (again) and make things right. That he could talk to the President and get them to stop this crazy Government squad that was taking all of the people with abilities. (Even though that was all his fault anyway.)

Of course, he gets this idea when he's drunk and when he's sober again, he realizes that he won't be able to pull that off. That he's just one man and no one will listen to him. Which doesn't seem to matter (in Heroes the focus always seems to shift to the Plot of the Week, so I'm not chaotic -- it is. :D ) They all plan to meet up and have a Petrelli Pow-Wow to discuss just how screwed up the world has gotten... again. While they are there, they realize that Nathan wasn't the only one to think about locking up all the people with abilities, and it seems history had repeated itself. They decide that they have to stop it in order to avoid another problem where too many people die. Only to find out that Sylar, as Nathan, has indeed gotten the chance to have that meeting with the President to listen to him and his "great plans" and that doesn't bode well at all. They all know that if Sylar gets to the President, he'll just kill him and then Sylar will be the President - which... not good.

Nathan and the Petrelli family rush to DC in order to try and stop Sylar from his plan unfolding. Nathan in an attempt to save his brother, again, takes the risk and flies with Sylar out of the room they are in. It's another time where Nathan has decided to make the right choice, but with horrible outcomes. The fight ends with Nathan's death.

General Personality Notes:

He's a charmer, which comes in handy with the politics and smoothing over problems. However, the charming doesn't always translate and he's not seen as someone that has the ability to be loyal to one particular person for a long time. The only person he does seem loyal to, almost throughout the entire series, is his brother - Peter and his daughter - Claire.

He's got an ego and a sense of humor about his ego. It's probably part of the charming, but it does tend to get him into trouble more times than not. In Mexico he tries to win money off of them by drinking. He's not exactly the same guy that was in the Navy as a pilot when he was younger, and his ego doesn't help him hold his booze.

He trusts others almost too easily, which usually leads to him getting taken advantage of. Despite always being taken advantage of, he doesn't seem to learn the lesson either - and just moves onto the next person to believe in.

He can be borderline obsessive about things that are important to him. When Peter is missing and believed dead, he refuses to believe that and falls into a deep alcoholic state as he tries to search for Peter.

He wants to do the good thing, the right thing, but he's so eager for that to be accepted that he often takes the first thing offered to him. The first suggestion given to him that sounds right, is often the one he runs with, even if there should be someone telling him to think about a different choice.

He seems to favor blondes, even though he married a brunette. My personal belief is that he married Heidi out of guilt and because she was "acceptable" as the wife of a President, more-so than someone like Meredith Gordon. The blondes are also nothing like his own mother, which is him trying to put distance between that sort of association, since that relationship is always bordering on unhealthy.

He's a good guy - he just has trouble picking what he should be supporting and figuring out who has his back.

Additional Links: Nathan Petrelli @ Heroes Wiki - http://heroeswiki.com/Nathan_Petrelli

First Person (entry type):

[the sound of his voice cuts in sharply, nearly mid-word, and all that's visible is a man from the neck down, dress shirt, buttoned, but not looking pressed]

-re? I know I had it last night. Just... [it's a slightly annoyed tone, but he blames that on the headache that is slowly creeping in on colossal in size]

No... I'll find it. [he's suddenly aware of the laptop being not only on, but the webcam open and online -- which... makes him cant his head to the side and glance over to where he thought Claire had been standing]

Claire? [called out to the other room... where she's probably looking for the bottle of aspirin]

I think you left your... thing... on. [he's clicking around on it trying to get the thing to turn off] How do you...? I can't get it to stop.

Third Person: This is a prompt I wrote in my other Nathan Journal, it's in regards to a canon event during Season 2:

Parkman has the answers right behind that damn door. The little girl, stuck somewhere in her mind, is back home and he's just standing there. Hesitating. Nathan knows that hesitation, that fear of what isn't known. He's been blinded and paralyzed by it, following orders because he figures that's the only way to survive.

He can fly for Christ sake, and yet he's been in the same spot as Parkman... stuck without knowing if what he's about to do is the right choice or not.

Studying his face, he can almost watch the gears grinding to a sudden halt. The only thing trying to force them forward is curiosity and a need to fix his family. That is the motivation behind every action he's seen so far. Fixing something... someone... trying to change events so that something can come of it in the end.

Standing in the hallway, though, isn't going to get them anywhere.

It won't even get them into the apartment, that might not even have the answers they're looking for, but it's a start.

That hesitation is there and Nathan knows it's not going anywhere on it's own. The fear of what could be has gripped too tight, and Nathan can sympathize with him for the lack of wanting to move.

So, he knocks for him.

Because, that's the sort of man he is today.

Can we have another first person sample, please?

[[ Note: I went ahead and just went with a straight - 1st person sample, written, not a video/dictation or anything. If you were looking for another video type post for him, please just let me know. I assumed that you were looking for more of his voice, but I realize that the format of the game doesn't always allow for this sort of rambling on and on. ;D ]]

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I'm not going to surprise anyone by saying that I'm stubborn. I am the sort of man that plants his feet firmly in the ground and it takes a lot to make me step away from something I think is the right choice. It goes without saying that because of this tendency I do often have a lot of things that I wish I had done differently. Hindsight is always going to give me a better perspective on something I've done and there's never going to be a chance to do it over. There are moments that you can look back on, though, and use them to make a difference in your future. You can learn from your mistakes, and push forward with whatever new-found knowledge you have.

I'm not saying I don't have regrets though, because I do. All those moments I wish I could do over again are among the many regrets I've had. Those moments where I think if I had said no or said yes instead, I could've changed any number of things.

Maybe that's the problem I have with regret, it makes you wonder what could've happened. In my life there is already too much put at chance, too many risks taken because of what might happen... or what is supposed to happen. Words like destiny and fated to happen get thrown around and it's any wonder why the world is filled of people wishing they had done something different. Regret means you want change and wish there was an easy way out of it all, if only you could just take it back, or do it again. Regret can also mean that it's not over though, and I think that's the part we forget. We're all so busy looking back to find that one moment where it all changed, where one thing started the mistake... that we forget that there's nothing more that can happen with what's done.

We should all try to focus more on how we're going to try and not have any more regrets in the future, how we're going to learn from those mistakes and heal the wounds we've caused. It's not simple, and I've never taken a stance that it's going to be easy, but it is something we're capable of.

You got it exactly right! Samples like this are probably the best way to show you know the character, even if in-game they might not ramble that much. :)

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