Nathan Dan

[beowulf]

Nathan Dan


Friendly, Gracious, Risk-taking

BACK TO BASICS ' '

Full Name: Nathan Lowell Dan
Significance of Name: Nathan means ‘he gives.’ Lowell means ‘little wolf.’ And Dan means ‘judge.’ Beowulf has wolf in his name, he gave his life for his kingdom and he judged whether monsters lived or died.
Nickname(s): Nate.
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Orientation: Straight
Grade: Freshman (held back due to his rampage of justice taking up his time for a year)
Celeb you're using: Logan Lerman
Deity: Beowulf - Norse?
Title of your deity: Ripper, tearer, slasher, punch-you-in-the-facer hero of the epic Beowulf

STRIKE A POSE ' '

Physical Appearance: If it wasn’t for his twin sister Hela, one would strongly doubt that he was part of the Dan family. According to his mother, he looks so much like his father it’s scary. He towers over his sisters at a whopping 5’8”. His skin is fair, like his sisters, and he burns but never tans, also like his sisters. His skin is relatively clear, a blessing considering acne runs in his family and he has a habit of picking his face while he reads. He has an athletic build, though it’s kind of on the lanky side. His hands are calloused from hard work and punching the hell out of things and people during his rampage through the city of San Francisco. Because of this, he has scars on his knuckles, but refuses to let anyone heal them, as he enigmatically calls them a ‘reminder.’ Actually, it’s not that enigmatic, he just likes to seem mysterious and show off. He also has burn scars scattered about his arms and chest, though he’s not embarrassed of them. He tends to forget he has them.

Nate’s coal-black hair is rather shaggy and slightly unmanageable. His mother had many a frustrating time trying to comb it into submission and eventually left it to his slightly more sadistic patient sisters. His face is oddly elegant, like he was a prince in another life. His eyes are smaller than his sisters’, but they are the same blue green. His look more like the starry blue that his sisters occasionally, with dark eyelashes to match. His eyes are generally the first thing people focus on when they see him close up. However, he has slightly dark patches under his eyes from lack of sleep. His mouth is a sensual, though not nearly as full as his sisters’. He also can’t grow a beard for the life of him and he’s beginning to get a little annoyed by it. His neck has only the slightest hint of an Adam’s apple.

Nate dresses comfortably. He’s a meat-n-potatoes sort of guy, so he’s not big on dressing up and kind of thinks little of the upper-classes who do insist on dressing like Abercrombie and Fitch models. He’s the kind of kid who’s comfortable in jeans and a shirt, maybe a hooded sweat-shirt if absolutely necessary. He doesn’t really care what kind of shoes he wears, just whatever happen to be comfortable or necessary that day. It tends to be a Dan trait that the children all dress practically, and comes from the days of living on barely anything.

LET'S GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER ' '

Personality Description: Nate is chaotic good, meaning he favors change for a greater good, disdains bureaucratic organizations that get in the way of social improvement, and places a high value on personal freedom, not only for oneself, but for others as well. He always intends to do the right thing, but his methods are generally disorganized and often out of alignment with the rest of society. He tends to create conflict on a team if he feels others are being pushed around, and often views extensive organization and planning as pointless, preferring to improvise. While he does not have evil intentions, he occasionally may do bad things (even though he does not enjoy doing these things) to people who are, in his opinion, bad people, if it benefits the greater good.

Nate also has a strong allegiance to his sisters. Nemara sacrificed her happiness to take care of him and his sister. Hela, his twin, was willing to give up her body in order to put food on the table. He has an enormous respect for women and has a fierce loyalty to his sisters, more than willing to destroy anyone who even thinks of harming them. They are the only family he has, since his mother doesn’t want anything to do with any of her children after finding out that all three were freaks.

Despite his dedication to being just and fighting for the little guy, Nate knows how to relax. He’s a bit of an adrenaline junky and tends to impulsively act on these instincts. It can be alarming to see as he can be in mid-sentence, then stop to jump off a bridge or something, and return as if nothing happened. It drives his sisters insane. Nate is definitely the more carefree of the Dan siblings. He’s not angst-ridden or sarcastic or cynical of the world like them. He’s embarrassed of losing control and committing murder, but he doesn’t let him eat at him. He prefers to forget it ever happened and changes the subject whenever it’s brought up.

Nate is also willing to help out, no matter what it is (so long as it’s a good thing and not ending in someone innocent getting hurt). He volunteers on regular basis and enjoys doing so. His step-father taught him a great deal about right and wrong, outside of the law, and instilled in him a great sense of standing up for those weaker than him.

Likes:
- Swimming
- Fighting
- Wrestling
- The ladies (seriously, Lady-like women. Tramps need not apply as lovers.)
- Righteousness
- Epic poems
Dislikes:
- Clothes
- Monsters (not reincarnates, but people with monstrous personalities)
- His mistakes being pointed out
- People who mess with his sisters
- That book Grendel. Honestly, who wants to side with the bad-guy?
- Parole Violators
Strength:
- Strong
- Steadfast
- Strong sense of justice
- Willing to sacrifice himself non nobis solum
- Incredibly durable
Weaknesses:
- Sometimes blinded by his chaotic good nature
- Has issues being around those who take advantage of others
- Impulsive
- His sisters (if they’re in trouble, all his morals go out the window)
- Adrenaline addict
Fears: The loss of his sisters because of the evils of the world
Goal: Become a cop like his father.

Power/Ability: Superhuman Strength- Nate is unusually strong, even for a superhuman with strength, being able to tear people in two and last really long in sports activities. And especially strong for being a humanesque reincarnated guy. He once hugged his sister so hard her esophagus squirted out (see Hela’s profile for more info). He also has issues controlling it and tends to accidentally break a lot of stuff.

WELCOME TO MY LIFE ' '

Origin: San Francisco, CA
History: By now, people should know his older sisters’ history. They were born literally nine-months after Nemara and his twin sister was called Hela, who’s older by two minutes and tends to hold that over him quite often. After Nemara accidentally torched Gary, they lived out of a van with Nemara trying her damndest to provide for them. For that, he’s forever grateful to his older sister. She gave them a chance at a childhood, though misfortune seemed to follow her around. Neither he nor Hela were ever affected by her strange ability, being the only two people who could touch her without being trampled by escaped wildebeest from the SF Zoo. Nate was finally given a father figure when Slug joined the family. Nate loved Slug a lot. He treated Nate just like a son and gave him someone to look up too. When he died, Nate didn’t blame Nemara. However, he was devastated by his death, losing a rather good father figure.

Nemara influence Nate’s sense of justice rather heavily. She left for a week and came back quiet and somber. He found out later that she had taken out an entire bar full of bikers who were responsible for Slug’s dead and their mother’s being paralyzed from the waist down. It was then that he realized the importance of justice, even if it be the vigilante sort. Nemara eventually was taken to a special school for those with gifted and special needs. He hadn’t seen her since.

Then, Hela died. A rich playboy decided he liked the girl and wanted to pay her for something he had no right taking from her. She ‘fell’ from a high-rise shortly after. Nate was distraught. Not only did he loose Nemara to a mysterious school, but he lost Hela to death. It was then that his Beowulf-side kicked in.

Nate found the young man’s flat, where he waiting in the darkness for the rich snob to return. Nate was eventually rewarded when the young man returned home. There, Nate attacked and something happened. His body was much stronger than he had anticipated. He beat the young man to a pulse, ripping off his arm in the process, savagely claiming that he was keeping that a prize. Shortly after, his sister’s murderer bled to death. Nate left, dragging the arm with him as a prize. He buried it near his house. Truth be told, afterwards, Nate was frightened of what he’d done. The lost control and a burst of superhuman strength had overcome him. Even at home, he couldn’t manage his strength. His mother was distraught that another of her children had ‘special needs.’ Nate became the man of the house and worked for money under the table at various jobs that required heavy lifting. He was always careful to not harm his mother, but he is yet able to control his strength and has to be extremely delicate with everything he does.

That wasn’t the end of it though. The young man’s mother was a high ranking and corrupt official, who frequently took advantage of the people and those below her. She immediately employed her less savory connections to find the person who killed her son. She managed to find him and sent a bunch of her ‘connections’ to take vengeance on Nate. Nate finished them easily and then went looking for the young man’s mother. He found her. After she tried to shoot him, planning on tossing the body into the bay, he attacked and ripped off her head in rage. Again, he was terrified of what he’d done. That was two deaths under his belt and he was only fifteen.

At the loss of one of their biggest asset, a secret group, notorious for kidnapping people with special needs, sent some agents to capture Nate. Nate had to run, for his mother’s safety. He managed to escape by swimming for several days up the coast to the California-Oregon border. He was attacked by various sea life and killed them, arriving later than he expected. However, the group anticipated this and was waiting for his arrival. Ready to take him to their European base where several people had already been taken (as they revealed in a very James Bond bad-guy monologue), they prepared several tranquilizer darts and flame throwers, believing these to be the best to take down the young man. Though he was severely burned, he managed to dodge the darts and rip the remainder of the group to shreds. It was a bloody mess and he passed out from the fight. He later woke up at San Francisco General, where he had sustained burns to his arms and chest. He was alive, but the scars wouldn’t go away.

When he was sixteen, something amazing happened. Hela emerged on his door-step. She was biologically dead, yet alive. It was strange and Nate ended up having to save her before she taken away for experimentation (he suspected it was the same group that tried to take him in). Soon after, the same school that took Nemara in, took the twins in as well.

CONNECTION TO THE MYTH ' '

- Beowulf was a prince and Nate was the son of a biker-gang leader.
- Beowulf was a king and Nate became man of the house after Slug’s death.
- Beowulf fought Grendel and Nate fought his sister’s killer.
- Beowulf fought Grendel’s mother and Nate fought his sister’s killer’s mother.
- Beowulf fought a dragon and Nate fought a secret organization that was fond of kidnapping super-powered children (notably, the de la Mer sisters). Secret organization are sort of like dragons, in their own way.
- Beowulf swam for an almost stupidly long amount of time. Nate swam up the coast to escape the organization.
- Beowulf was absurdly strong with a fondness for ripping stuff apart. Nate accidentally rips stuff away.

ROLEPLAYING SAMPLE ' '

Look at Melody’s. Um… but not too hard… it’s really not important… >.>

BEHIND THE SCENE ' '

Your name: MJ
Age: Sixty billion years old. I was on a first name basis with a T-Rex.
How long have you been RPing? Dunno, ask the T-Rex.
Where/How did you find us? Inside a Triceratops’ stomach.

[izzy]

Oh Beowulf how you made my freshman, sophomore, and senior English a living hell xD I love the app though.

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