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Character: Nathan Young
Fandom: Misfits

Character Notes:
History:

Not much is known about Nathan’s early childhood save for the fact that his father abandoned his mother. He had very little contact with his father except for visits that Nathan remembers as poor excuses in a string of failed attempts that his father continually makes. A story Nathan tells is that when he was 8 years old, for his birthday, his father took him to Ikea. But his dad ended up buying so much stuff that he couldn’t fit in the car and his dad had to leave him at the giant store for three hours. While Nathan was there, a known pedophile found him and fed him lunch and his dad returned right after he was finishing his ice cream. Whether or not this story is actually true (his father seemed confused when Nathan brought it up) Nathan seems to have a stream of memories that are anything but pleasant, or fond.

Much of Nathan’s adolescence was most likely scattered full of problems, fights, and arguments with people. Part way through the first season it’s revealed as to exactly how Nathan got himself to be a young offender, but in the timeline of events, it obviusly occurred before the show took place.

While bowling with friends, Nathan decided to delve into the bar of snacks, labelled Pick ‘n Mix, that he undoubtedly had to pay for. The owner caught him and said he had to pay and Nathan, being Nathan, refused to do so. Instead of going along with the charges, he tormented the owner of the bowling alley. The owner called the police as well as Nathan’s dad. While they waited, Nathan even went so far as to staple the man’s hand, basically sealing the deal as to whether or not he got into massive amounts of trouble.

Season 1: During community service, Nathan meets a small group of teens - Kelly, Simon, Curtis, Alisha, and Gary. They seem to get along well enough for teenagers (which you can hardly call getting along), but early on in their community service, a storm starts up. Giant chunks of hail fall from the sky and lightening strikes behind them, and everyone goes running. But all it takes is a second and they’re all flung through the air after being electrocuted. Time seems to slow, and this is exactly when each one of them is given a power. Numerous people all across the city are also given a power during this storm but the teens don’t find out until later.

Upon returning home, Nathan finds that his mother has changed the locks to their house. No matter how much he pleads, his mother refuses to let him in. After phoning everyone he knows, he ends up moving into the community center and begins sleeping on a cot, embarrassed and frustrated by the fact that he’s now, lamely, homeless.

Their parole office, Tony, is also given a power -- to, in essence, “hulk out”. During the evening, he goes into a fit of rage, during which, he kills Gary. The next day, the teens find him and end up being hunted down by their parole officer as well. During this fight, Curtis’ power shows itself (time travel) and he saves Kelly. They find that the only way to stop him is to kill him, which they end up doing. They bury both Tony and Gary under a bridge.

One of the next mornings during community service, as the teens are picking up trash, they find a man lying naked on the ground. After a bit of poking, he leaps up and runs off, and Nathan realizes that it’s his mothers newest boyfriend, Jeremy.

Nathan tries to convince his mother of what he saw, but she refuses to believe him, stating that he’s lied numerous times before. The next thing their forced to do for community service is attend a dance at a home for the elderly. There, Nathan meets and begins to fall for a young woman, Ruth, who says she’s also volunteering. He brings her to the community center and they hang out (aka get drunk and smoke pot.) While they’re walking around outside, Nathan spots Jeremy running past and he goes after him, borrowing Ruth’s phone. Moments later, Jeremy lunges, naked and licking at Nathan’s face before he runs off again. Nathan acquires a blurry picture of his ass, which he uses to once again try to convince his mother of Jeremy’s oddity. Much to his surprise, he finds out that his mother already knows about it.

The storm has given Jeremy the ability to personify a dog, and she’s learned to love him in spite of it. Nathan goes to return Ruth’s phone and she invites him in, soon after which, they begin to have sex. During said sex, Nathan is horrified to discover that Ruth is actually an old women (scarily enough, by transforming back into one while they’re shagging) and he runs off. Later, he returns to apologize and finds her dead, after which he goes and attempts to reconcile with his mother. While all of this is going on, the teens have begun to find messages on their lockers in the community center: ‘I know what you’ve done’ in response to Tony’s murder.

Simon discovers that a construction crew is digging beneath the bridge to lay down concrete, so the teens decide to move the bodies, and then move them back with enough time so that they can be buried under the concrete. In a long series of events, their new probation officer Sally nearly drives off with the bodies while they’re in the trunk of her car (they stole her car and put the bodies back there to be moved, seeing as none of them have a car), but Nathan distracts her by throwing a brick at her windshield. Even so, they’re able to safely bury the bodies once again before the concrete is laid over them.

Next, while back to doing basic community service, Nathan finds a baby. He’d already stated previously that the last thing he’d ever want is to have a child. But around this 9 month old boy, he seems to act strangely. The child is lost, and he picks him up, talking sweetly to the child and asking her mother about him when she comes running. He seems almost infatuated. Later, when he sees the baby sitting, he picks him up and runs, trying to steal him. Kelly, by reading the babies mind, discovers that even the baby has acquired a power -- the power to convince certain people they are his father and want to be. Nathan takes baby Finn to the roof and claims that he’d do anything to be his father, “I’ll steal food from other babies!” They finally get Nathan to give up Finn and he instantly returns back to normal and they’re able to return Finn back to his mother. Afterward, Kelly invites Nathan over for dinner.

(Note: Right around this period of time, Simon’s relationship with a girl on the internet is coming to a head. This is exactly when, Sally, their second parole officer, reveals to Simon that she is the girl on the internet. Sally has been getting close to Simon over the internet because she knows what the group of teens did to their first parole officer, a man that she was dating. She used Simon to try to get information out of him. Out of anger, and fear that she was going to tell on them for what they did, Simon kills her and stores her body in a deep freeze.)

The next series of events, starts simply with more community service. But the teens have noticed that a number of other teens in the town have stopped drinking, partying, or doing anything that might be considered deviant. They soon discover that all of these teens are part of an organization called ‘Virtue’ run by Rachel, a girl who seems to have the power of suggestion, which she’s using to make people act more “pure,” forcing them to drop all of their sordid behavior. They need to hear her voice to be effected, but Alisha and Curtis are soon pulled into the cult. Nathan, Kelly, and Simon try to breech the cult while wearing earpods, but Kelly is taken next, followed by Simon.

Later, confronting Kelly in her apartment, he finds that she’s been changed as well, and apologizes for leaving her behind while her expression remains blank. Nathan infiltrates the cult by pretending he’s one of them, donning a suit and a disturbingly cheery expression. He manages to take Rachel hostage while he keeps his earpods in, holding her at gunpoint and running to the roof of the community center with her. At the top of the roof, he makes a wonderfully humorous, but perfect speech to the virtue members... that has absolutely no effect. When Rachel discovers that Nathan’s gun is only a water pistol, her and Nathan get into a hand-slapping sort of fight and she falls from the roof. At her death, her influence is lifted from everyone. But Nathan slips from the roof a well, and even though Simon attempts to save him. He falls and is impaled on a fence, apparently dying.

All of the teens attend Nathan’s funeral and then go to the pub for a drink, each one of them leaving and grieving in their own ways. The season ends showing Nathan waking up in the coffin, hysterical but happy that he’s alive... but quickly becoming horrified by the fact that he’s going to be stuck in the coffin. Forever.

Season 2: Superhoodie, the mysterious person with ninja-like abilities who seems to be helping the teens at various turns, sends a note to Kelly (by means of paper airplane) to go Nathan’s grave. They do so, and after quite a lot of frustration, Kelly is finally able to read Nathan’s mind and realize that he’s still alive.

As soon as he’s rescued from the coffin, he returns home to tell his mother that he’s alive and comes back for community service the next day. Much to his immense displease, he finds out that he didn’t need to come back, but life continues as usual. Lucy (a girl who was introduced before Nathan was rescued, as a girl who’s been obsessed with Simon since they met in a mental institution) blames the group of teens for taking Simon away from her, and begins to exact her revenge.

Lucy’s power is to shape-shift, and through a long series of events, manages to confuse the group in a variety of ways. The entire group of teens also discover Sally’s body, much to Simon’s great displeasure. During the continued scuffle, Nathan ends up dying once again, after which they finally try to convene and figure out how they can tell Lucy apart from themselves. Once they finally figure out who she is, Simon and Lucy work out amongst themselves what to do about her anger towards him. Later, the group of teens take Sally’s body to be dumped in the river near where they all live.

While relaxing on the top of the community center building, Nathan sees someone down below who says that he’s looking for Nathan and that he, Jaime, is his brother. After some more shouting back and forth, Nathan finally takes his younger brother to the pub for a chat. While they talk about their piss-poor father, Nathan meets a girl, Lily, who has the ability to freeze any liquid. Soon thereafter, Nathan gets into a confrontation with the owner of the pub, and he’s punched in the face, after which he and Jaime leave. Lily follows them out a few moments later, and gives Nathan her phone number for his troubles.

Which is exactly when Jaime realizes that his car has gone missing. This is a problem specifically because Jaime reveals that he put their dad in the boot (trunk) of the car. After some shouting between Nathan and Jamie about why he was put in the boot in the first place (because their father had been ignoring him, and therefore Jaime hit in with a toaster and tied him up) they think they might have found Jaime’s car... except that it’s on fire. After some heated moments, they get the trunk open and much to their happiness, realize that their father is not in the trunk. But moments later, Jaime’s actual car goes zooming by and stops a short ways away from them, only to have a couple of gang members hop on out. After an amusing confrontation, they finally steal their car back and begin to free their father, only for the cops to show up.

They’re all taken into the station and Nathan and his father have a taxing argument, during which it’s explained that Nathan’s father just completely ignored his illegitimate child for the entirety of his life. He ends up stomping off with Nathan yelling at his back.

Later, Nathan and Jamie and the rest of the gang go out to a nightclub. Jaime gives them all drugs (and spikes Simon’s drink) that end up reversing all of their powers. Nathan and Kelly get into an argument because Kelly can’t stop saying everything that she’s thinking, and Jamie and Lily go out to her car to have sex. Lily’s powers reverse while they’re in the backseat getting it on and she spontaneously bursts into flames. Nathan makes it out of the club just in time to see the car explode, and to see Jaime supposedly standing on the other side of the car.

Later, Nathan and Jamie have a heart to heart of their own, and Jaime tells Nathan that he should try to make up with their father. Nathan is finally convinced, but only if Jamie will come with him. When Nathan and his brother arrive, Nathan is invited inside (only after punching his father in the face.) After some tense conversation, it’s revealed that Jamie actually died in the fire, and that Nathan can see dead people. After a heart to heart with his father as well, where Nathan’s father admits to his mistakes, Nathan’s father agrees to take Nathan out to lunch.

Later on, Simon and Nathan go with Kelly to the tattoo parlor, just because they have nothing to do but follow along after Kelly. And it’s a surprise to no one that Nathan and the tattoo artist, Vince, get into an argument. In a seemingly unimportant moment, Vince does something that makes the back of Nathan’s shoulder hurt, but they carry on with their business. On returning to the community center, Nathan almost immediately starts trying to seduce Simon, which angers Kelly, and confuses the snot out of Simon.

When Kelly notices a heart-tattoo on Nathan’s shoulder with Simon’s name on it, she goes to talk to Vince, and he does the same exact thing to her -- using his newfound power to put a tattoo on her shoulder as well. But this one makes her fall for him. Simon’s the one that recognizes what’s going on and drags them all back to the tattoo parlor, where he confronts Vince, while Kelly and Nathan do nothing but cause more problems.. A scuffle ensues, during which Simon sees a sign in the store that Vince has a peanut allergy. During a ridiculous scene, Simon manages to lodge a peanut in Vince’s throat, and saves all of them, including convincing Vince to get rid of their heart-tattoo’s. After returning to the community center, and later in the evening, Kelly and Nathan almost begin to have sex. But moments into it, Kelly tells Nathan to stop, and that she’d really rather that they just be friends. Nathan isn’t sure that he agrees, but the moment ends about as awkwardly as it starts.

During another morning of community service, they acquire a new group member, Ollie, who really only provides Nathan one more person to torment. They’re sent out to pick up litter, where they meet a man, Tim, who seems a little bit out of his mind. The show provides the information that the man believes he’s in a video game, but this information is unknown to the Misfits. Tim is looking for a man by the name of Conti, and Nathan jokingly says that it’s Simon. Tim believes all on his own that Kelly is his ex-girlfriend, who betrayed him. When Ollie tries to make everything alright, he’s shot. And then everything goes to hell, with the majority of time spent running away from Tim. They realize he’s in a video game, and try to play along to save themselves (which ends up involving robbing a bank, and stealing a car.)

Even though they give him the money, Tim carries on to the next level of his ‘game’ where he’s looking for an undercover cop, and he takes all of the Misfits hostage. He threatens to kill all of them with a chainsaw until one of them confesses. Nathan tries to save the group by confessing that he’s the cop (and hoping that his immortality will save him) but after a series of events involving a future version of Simon that nobody but Alisha knows about, Tim carries on elsewhere, leaving the Misfits in peace.

Back at the community center, Nathan walks in on some girl changing in the locker room , and obviously takes the opportunity to offend her as much as possible. Moments later, the lights go out in the locker room and he’s beaten to death. Later, when Alisha and Simon get to the community center, Nathan’s alive again and he warns them about the girl. Soon enough, the girl is revealed as Jessica, a charity worker who’s helping out at the community center. Jessica and Simon get along well and end up deciding to go on a date and Nathan keeps trying to warn everyone about her.

Later, Nathan watches from afar as Jessica gets upset after another boy advances on her, and watches her run off. The boy chases after her and Nathan follows along, only to find the boy dead moments later. Nathan tries to call everyone to tell them, but he can only get ahold of Alisha. Alisha and Nathan follow Simon on his date with Jessica, but he ends up spotting them, and after a tense conversation, agrees to at least hear them out about her. The three of them return to the community center and find the boy’s body missing, but Simon refuses to believe that Jessica hid the body.

On another day, Jessica invites Simon to her party and Simon invites the rest of the Misfits; Nathan deciding that they can take the opportunity to try to find out who the killer is. While at the party, the group tries to find out who the killer might be, while it’s shown that Jessica’s father is watching her every move with Simon incredibly closely. It’s reveled soon enough that he’s the killer when he stabs somebody to death that’s in the same costume as Simon.

Soon, the police end up crashing the party and everyone runs, including Nathan. Alisha ends up being the one who deals with Jessica’s father, and the next day Nathan comforts Alisha because the boy who she was interested in, turns out to have been a gorilla who’s power is to turn into a human, a fact she only found out during the party.

Days later, while watching a news report, the Misfits see a boy on tv, who has the power to coagulate milk. They decide that he’s got a stupid power, and continue on with their life. After a long and horrible series of events involving Brian, the guy who can coagulate milk, Curtis ends up being the only one left alive. He reverses time, and instead of allowing their powers to be reveled to the world, before Brian even ends up on tv, Curtis takes them all to punch Brian in the face.

Note: Two episodes of Misfits aren’t fully included in Nathan’s history. Episode six is only partially mentioned because Curtis practically erases part of that timeline. Since Nathan’s ability has absolutely nothing to do with time travel, he and the rest of the misfit’s don’t experience this possibility of their lives. It doesn’t actually occur to them, though it does happen to Curtis. But since Nathan doesn’t live through it, it has no actual relevance to his history.

The last episode of the series, the Christmas special, also isn’t included in Nathan’s history, because it’s not believed to actually be relevant to the canon of Misfits. People aren’t entirely sure whether or not it actually occurred, or whether it’s some sort of other ‘timeline’ that’s set apart from the rest of the episodes.

Personality: A frustrated adult might call Nathan a psychopath, especially any adult that would have to deal with him for a long period of time. And in a way, they might be a little bit right. But only in the same way that a number of teenage boys could be considered a little bit psychopathic. Or maybe it’s simply that a large number of teenage boys try so hard to convince themselves that they are -- emotionless, and uncaring about anyone’s needs apart from their own.

Outwardly, at least, Nathan shows very little feelings or remorse for the things that he does. He torments Simon (not to mention, he can’t even remember his name throughout the entirety of the first season (and a good chunk of the second), calling him Barry) makes fun of peoples accents, makes incredibly sexually rude remarks at every given opportunity, and all in all just does what he can to make other people as upset with him as possible. While continuing not to give a flying flip about their feelings.

His mother and father both comment on a claim that he obviously made when he was younger -- that his mother’s ex-boyfriend was sexually abusing him, a clam that even Nathan admits was a complete and utter lie. Even while claiming this, he seems to have absolutely no guilt about it, and blows it off as if it’s something that he says fairly often about anyone. Nathan is accused of crying wolf because if he lied about that, how can he be taken seriously for anything else ever again?

And it’s true -- he’s fairly difficult to take seriously because of how often he dismisses everything and everyone. He rarely shows a glimmer of his own feelings, save for when his brother shows up, much preferring to cover them up under a barrage of sexual innuendo and insults.

But this could be said for many, many young males. Nathan just takes all of it to the extreme, which is exactly why, it could be said, that he ended up as a young criminal offender. He spares the details and the profanity to no one, he leaves no one behind in his constant attempts to make everyone as uncomfortable as possible. The number of times the he takes about his anus and ballsack would require more than two hands to count.

He tells everyone the only reason that he became a young offender is because he was eating some Pick ‘n Mix, taking the blame entirely off of himself and putting it on someone else’s shoulders. But in reality, he could have dealt with his crime far differently and ended up with maybe just a warning. Instead, he tormented the owner of the bowling alley, made a fuss the entire time, and refused to be taken into custody, thereby labeling himself as a young criminal and miscreant -- he’s not exactly somebody most adults would want to have to deal with for a long period of time.

In this way, Nathan is bold. Fearless. And at least doesn’t hold back with most of his thoughts, especially the inappropriate one. And somebody could make the claim that he doesn’t have much in his brain apart from dirty thoughts. But he has feelings, which is why he fights for his brother, which is why he makes up with his mom and his dad and even tries to protect her in the first place. It’s even why he tries to go back to see Ruth one more time.

Nathan refuses to go down without a fight. Which is why the boy’s ability is immortality. He doesn’t give up, he refuses to go down, and he struggles to the very end. As much as he won’t admit it, Nathan is also relatively close to his family. He fears being disowned by his mother because of being abandoned by his father. Pushing all of his mother’s boyfriends away did get him kicked out, but at the same time, proves the fact that he really only wanted her to himself.

Nathan is even stubborn when it comes to his relationship with his father. He feels disowned, left behind, and stubbornly refuses (at least for awhile) to rehash connections that he believes are long dead. But even then, he was convinced by his brother to try to make things work. Once more. Even Nathan hadn’t completely given up on something that he claimed that he had. Even Nathan had enough hope left to believe that maybe, maybe his Dad would be able to understand him, to apologize.

Other: Nathan’s ‘superhero ability’ is immortality, as well as seeing people who’ve died. Nathan is not able to heal, shown by the fact that he has damage done to his spinal cord in a possible future, and since he didn’t die, he would have continued to live in a vegetative state. It seems that he’s able to simply regenerate if he does completely die, but if he was to be stabbed, or wounded in a way that didn’t kill him, he would not be able to heal. But if he bled out from said stab wound and died, then he would come back to life.

The show makes a point of stating (or, showing, since it’s never really explicitly stated) that the powers that people have gained, are things that they wanted to have. Simon didn’t want anybody to be able to see him, so he became invisible. Kelly wanted to know what people thought of her, so she could read minds. Alisha wanted everyone to desire her, so at a single touch, all people wanted was to shag her senseless. Numerous other characters explicitly say that they’ve gotten what they wanted, and in the case of Nathan, all he wanted was to survive.

Additional Links: Misfits @ Wiki (“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfits_%28TV_series%29”)

First Person (entry type):

[ there’s a close up of Nathan’s face, squinting at the computer screen. when he actually starts to talk, he’s very obviously irish. he doesn’t exactly sound irritated.. well, he barely sounds irritated at all, actually. more just, amused. ] So what’s this thing, then? A forum for sexual deviants and miscreants to get off on whatever they’d like to? Panty sniffers anonymous?

No?
Yes?

That’s what the internet’s for anyways, isn’t it? People who haven’t got anything better to do but sit on their asses for hours and click around until their eyes roll back in their head.

I’ll have you know that i’ve got far better things to do than that, though. A fine gentleman like me? My to-do list’s full to the brim of girls looking to get what they know i’ve got to offer, and not a single one of them hasn’t been satisfied. They’ve always given me a standing ovation, if you catch my drift. And if you don’t, they’ve always given me an erection, thanks for asking.

But i’ve also got my community service to do. Helping the poor, the homeless, walking old ladies across the street, that sort of thing. So you can see i’ve got a busy day ahead of me, and I can’t be stuck on this site all day.

Third Person:

Nathan didn’t exactly want to return back to the community center for one more night spent homeless. But who would, really? It’s not like anybody asked to be homeless, and nobody certainly asked for their mum’s to kick them out into the cold, cruel world, expecting their criminally minded children to somehow fend for themselves. What did she expect, anyway? That by kicking him out, he'd turn into an angel? That he'd never go to the dark side ever again, convert to Christianity, and wait until he was married to fuck some other girls brains out? That was unlikely. More like impossible.

Kicking him out only gave him ammunition to break even more laws. Which meant breaking and entering, squatting, and being just about as lame as anyone he'd ever known.

He couldn’t stand how lame the word sounded, even in his head. But he couldn’t really be homeless if he had a place to stay. Right? Right? He had food to eat, a roof over his head -- therefore, he wasn’t homeless. The community center was his home now and Kit Kat’s where his breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Wasn’t so bad, really. And it hadn't even taken that long to convince himself of that.

But he was. Homeless. His mum had kicked him out, chosen her boyfriend over him. Chosen her freaky, werewolfly naked pervert of a boyfriend over him. And that’s part of what made this so horrible. He was homeless because of a werewolf. How unfair was that?

And some poor, pitiful lonely soul might possibly take pity on him. Considering his own... well, the possibility of his own powers, it wasn’t that hard to have a little faith in this worldhopping business, so why not. Anywhere had to be better than the community center. But he wasn't about to ask.

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