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Nathan Young || Misfits || Reserved 7/?

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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.