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onehundredbeers) wrote2011-02-06 06:18 pm
onehundredbeers) wrote2011-02-06 06:18 pm
SCRIBBLES MADE ME DO IT ON RS SO JUST COPYPASTA HERE.
What are five ideas/concepts/etc you keep in mind while writing your character that you believe are essential to accurately depicting them?
First and foremost, Nathan is aware of his shortcomings. Especially his intelligence. Nathan unfortunately has the burden of self-awareness, in a sense. He knows, at every moment in his life, everything he isn't good at, everything he fails at, everything he's done wrong. He knows without doubt that he's stupid, and that's actually a sort of heavy burden. It's something he can't get away from and tries to ignore, but fails at, unlike the rest of the band who manages to go on in blissful ignorance over their own stupidity, and at times their own flaws. He would kill to be able to be unaware of how dumb he is.
Nathan is a perfectionist. Which in part ties to the bit above. Nathan is a perfectionist when it comes to things he does to the point of irrationality. He's destroyed thousands of songs because one thing was off. There's no retooling, no reworking, no compromising. Everything must be perfect on the first attempt or it's garbage, complete trash. He's amazingly creative, and he loves to harness that creativity, but things override him. He destroys his work over and over and over. It fucking pains him but he can't stop, no matter how he tries.
He's not as brutal as he seems. To be quite honest, Nathan's a nice guy. He's friendly, he's a bit nervous, he's social, he loves to hang out and pal around. But he's spent over ten years having to maintain an image of brutality, and sometimes even though he just wants to be a normal guy, that tough, brutal persona is just smeared over everything. It can be a bit off putting to start with, but when given the chance, the fact he's not that bad can really shine through.
Friends and family are the most important things to him. As materialistic and dismissive of any sort of relationship he may seem to be, it's really just a ruse. Nathan cares about the people in his life like nobody's business. He'll run into a burning building to save Toki. He'll leap into the fray (sort of) to try to save Charles. The band and the people he befriends are the things he truly loves other than his music, and he would do just about anything to save them or protect them. Nathan will risk life and limb for the people in his life without a second thought.
Despite everything, he's still a force of apocalypse. As human as he may seem, as normal as he may try to be, it's a fact he can't escape from (though he doesn't know it's even there). He's a herald of the metalocalypse; wherever he goes, a trail of destruction is left in his wake. He's been the death of millions, the ends of countries and states. Natural disasters, monsters, bizarre mass deaths, all of it happens whenever he's around. Nathan (along with the band) has been prophecized as the ender(s) of their world. Multiple cultures from around the world have prophecies depicting them. The earliest known one mentioned in the show is from 3000BC. It's something he may never be able to escape from - his fate is to end the world.
First and foremost, Nathan is aware of his shortcomings. Especially his intelligence. Nathan unfortunately has the burden of self-awareness, in a sense. He knows, at every moment in his life, everything he isn't good at, everything he fails at, everything he's done wrong. He knows without doubt that he's stupid, and that's actually a sort of heavy burden. It's something he can't get away from and tries to ignore, but fails at, unlike the rest of the band who manages to go on in blissful ignorance over their own stupidity, and at times their own flaws. He would kill to be able to be unaware of how dumb he is.
Nathan is a perfectionist. Which in part ties to the bit above. Nathan is a perfectionist when it comes to things he does to the point of irrationality. He's destroyed thousands of songs because one thing was off. There's no retooling, no reworking, no compromising. Everything must be perfect on the first attempt or it's garbage, complete trash. He's amazingly creative, and he loves to harness that creativity, but things override him. He destroys his work over and over and over. It fucking pains him but he can't stop, no matter how he tries.
He's not as brutal as he seems. To be quite honest, Nathan's a nice guy. He's friendly, he's a bit nervous, he's social, he loves to hang out and pal around. But he's spent over ten years having to maintain an image of brutality, and sometimes even though he just wants to be a normal guy, that tough, brutal persona is just smeared over everything. It can be a bit off putting to start with, but when given the chance, the fact he's not that bad can really shine through.
Friends and family are the most important things to him. As materialistic and dismissive of any sort of relationship he may seem to be, it's really just a ruse. Nathan cares about the people in his life like nobody's business. He'll run into a burning building to save Toki. He'll leap into the fray (sort of) to try to save Charles. The band and the people he befriends are the things he truly loves other than his music, and he would do just about anything to save them or protect them. Nathan will risk life and limb for the people in his life without a second thought.
Despite everything, he's still a force of apocalypse. As human as he may seem, as normal as he may try to be, it's a fact he can't escape from (though he doesn't know it's even there). He's a herald of the metalocalypse; wherever he goes, a trail of destruction is left in his wake. He's been the death of millions, the ends of countries and states. Natural disasters, monsters, bizarre mass deaths, all of it happens whenever he's around. Nathan (along with the band) has been prophecized as the ender(s) of their world. Multiple cultures from around the world have prophecies depicting them. The earliest known one mentioned in the show is from 3000BC. It's something he may never be able to escape from - his fate is to end the world.