#“but nathan said and did awful things and was a selfish little brat” so did jamie! so did rebecca! so did roy!

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I get why we all disliked his character by the end of season 2 (good writing, acting, and character development), but fans who are still so angry with Nathan and SO against him having a redemption arc here in season 3 perplex me so much. Realizing your fuck-ups and bettering yourself by finding the positives in the people and life around you and in turn helping those people to do the same are surface level themes of the show, and instead of engaging with that you’re going to roll your eyes and say the show should just abandon Nathan by the wayside? Another frequent theme is the ways we mask our insecurities and how often those defenses are actually damaging to ourselves and the people around us. Which, again, is prominent in So Many characters, but you just choose not to care when it's about Nathan? You watched Jamie's and Rebecca's (also well-written) whole turnaround stories but don't think Nathan deserves or could have the same thing, huh?

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Don’t hate them? Love them. But you can hate me.

And please plot with them okay I swear they’re all lovely!

AMBER STEWART looks an awful lot like ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY. SHE is TWENTY-ONE and while they're INTELLIGENT, they have a tendency to get pretty SELFISH. You’ve probably seen them around Kola listening to CLYDE by ALYSSA REID.

Amber was actually born as Elena Richmond, and was 7 years younger than her brother. Their parents had money problems, mostly due to the father’s gambling addiction, and it lead them to get tangled with a mob.

She was only one when her brother left. She never knew what happened, her parents just said he disappeared. But for a while, she believed he just left them since he would go nowhere with that family.

Their problems with the mob just got worse and when she was 13, some of their men came in to get some late payment. But her parents didn’t have the money, and since they’d been late for quite some time, they were executed right in front of her. Before they left, the men mentioned her brother and how great he was doing with them, and that if she wanted to see him again, she shouldn’t tell the cops what they looked like.

So she didn’t. Their faces were tattooed in her mind, but she kept that a secret. Since she had no family that wanted her, Elena was placed in the foster system. Never got adopted because she always acted like a brat(and for that purpose, she didn’t want parents, the ones she had were bad, she believed they would all be the same).

As soon as she turned 18, Elena left the foster place to go on her own. Her goal was to find her brother, so she settled for that. She found bits and pieces of information about him here and there. It was only a year and a half later that she found him.

He had no wish to remain with that gang, and after developing a small plan, the two made their escape, and started living like Bonnie and Clyde, except they were siblings.

Authorities were getting wary about them, suspecting them of multiple crimes. So in order to be safe, and using her brother’s connections, Elena changed identity for Amber Stewart and moved to Kola with him.

And now she’s not really any better: she’ll rob a bank or send you to the hospital if needed.

JOSEFINA DEAN looks an awful lot like EIZA GONZALEZ. SHE is TWENTY-SIX and while they're PASSIONATE, they have a tendency to get pretty BLUNT. You’ve probably seen them around Kola listening to ROYALS by LORDE. 

Josefina Flores was born the middle of three child, in one of the bad neighbourhoods of Kola. She grew up in crimes and constant gun fights, so at a young age, she was brought up to know how to defend herself and fight if required.

Honestly, she hated that life, and would do anything to get out of it. But she knew with the little money they had, she had to get there another way. So she worked incredibly hard at school in order to score scholarships.

Which she did, making her able to join Kola University, with a major in criminality. Which she never finished.

A year in her college life, Josefina met a boy, she fell head over heels for. He was a few years older, and was already doing well in life: he had his company, which he inherited from his father, and lived quite the luxurious life.

It was like love at first sight, and not even half a year later, he’d proposed to her. And she obviously accepted. From then, she stopped going to college, embracing her now much wealthier life and becoming a socialite.

They married on her 21t birthday, and now that it’s been 5 years, she can tell the love isn’t as strong as it used to be. They’re still doing well, the love is still there, but it’s less passionate.

She’ll still kick your ass if you mess with her. And she won’t hesitate to kill someone if required.

NATHAN STEWART looks an awful lot like NICHOLAS HOULT. HE is TWENTY-EIGHT and while they're RESOURCEFUL, they have a tendency to get pretty INSTABLE. You’ve probably seen them around Kola listening to MAD WORLD by GARY JULES.

Tyler Richmond was the actual sweetest kid. He was that adorable awkward kid, and when his sister Elena was born, he just loved her deeply. Although she was barely one when he was taken.

Despite being the nicest kid in town probably, his parents had horrible money problem, his father’s gambling addiction leading him to get in troubles with a gang. And when he was 8, Tyler was used as payment, since they’d been late to pay back the gang. So he was taken from his family, forced to live with one of their members. And obviously, his last name was changed to Oaks(they kept his first name since they didn’t want him to get confused).

He was then trained, by the very own man that “adopted” him, to become a hitman like him, and to work for the gang. So unlike other kids who played sports or did theatres in extracurricular activities, he learned how to handle guns and other weapons.

After graduating, he didn’t go to college, even if that was something he would’ve loved. Instead, he was initiated to become a full member of the gang. And that’s literally had he did until his sister found him his life was an actual living hell. He hated what he did, he felt terrible, but he couldn’t get away, he couldn’t get out of it.

Although some of the more compassionate members, or connections, noticed he was unhappy, and was starting to develop some troubling symptoms. So when his sister arrived, they helped them get away. Not without leaving a few bodies behind.

And with that, it brought authorities after them, and the only safe thing to do was change identity to Nathan Stewart, and try to start over in Kola.

He still always has a gun somewhere on him, just for safety, but while his sister kept going with the stealing and other criminal activities, he tried to mix in with the normal people. So now he works as a barista, and his first coffees were disgusting but now he’s quite good at it.

PRESTON WAGNER looks an awful lot like CODY CHRISTIAN. HE is TWENTY-TWO and while they're EMPATHETIC, they have a tendency to get pretty SAD. You’ve probably seen them around Kola listening to YOU SAID YOU’D GROW OLD WITH ME by MICHAEL SHULTE.

My sweet openly bisexual boy with big dreams he’s never gonna reach.

He was born in the upper middle class, but since he was an only child and was given almost everything he wanted, Preston also thought they were the richest. He learned later on that they weren’t, and he was cool with it.

He was literally 4 when he saw his first lacrosse game and said “i wanna do this when i grow up”. Becoming a professional player has been his dream ever since, but now it’s dead.

He was always in the popular crowd, if not the most popular guy in school. He was fine with it, but he tried to break down those social barriers and befriend everyone. Not that it worked, the less popular most of the time believed he was just using them to humiliate them later.

Always been kind of a hoe but less of a hoe now.

Because he met a girl he really loved. She transfered when she was 15, and they started dating just a few weeks later. Most of their friends said it wouldn’t last long, but if that accident didn’t happen, they’d still be together by now.

It was near the end of senior year, Preston and her were facetiming, when someone broke in her house. He didn’t really see who did it, or what happened, but he heard gunshots, and next thing he knows, she was dragged out of her room. He called the cops, of course, but by the time they got there, they only found bodies. He then learned that family was under the witness protection program, but their cover was busted.

Preston never got over it, he still hasn’t, even if he pretends he did. He was originally supposed to go study in Harvard with her, but he couldn’t bring himself to go. So he got late acceptance for Kola University. 

He’s in his last year of kinesiology, he’s been playing lacrosse for them all four years, although since his girlfriend was murdered, he didn’t find the motivation for anything, and that included pushing his limits, so becoming a professional player is not going to happen.

Also, plEASE bring him a Dylan Sprayberry. Like... a secret relationship because the other isn’t out, but it’s SO good on Preston because it helps him recover from what happened to his girlfriend.