Nate Shelley’s issues can only be directly understood in the context of Roy Kent.
Nate is consumed with jealousy of the former AFC Richmond captain, and his marked downturn this season really starts when Roy quits his job as a sports anchor and returns to be an assistant coach alongside Nate for the team. Everyone is ecstatic to see Roy return, except for Nate. It’s the first big, “Wait, what?” moment of the season, but it’s also a signal to pay attention to what’s coming. Because while Ted and Beard are going to be off fighting mental battles and inner demons, Roy and Nate are about to engage in a silent war that will tear the coaching staff apart.
Nate and Roy are foil characters, but in a fascinating way. They aren’t foils because they are equal and opposite; they are foils because Nate wishes they were equal, but they aren’t, although they are of markedly opposite character.
Unlike Roy - who looks mean but is nice - Nate looks nice but is mean.
Nate is what happens when an underdog finds himself suddenly with the power to do something to his tormentors, and he chooses to lash back. We’d all like to think that at the heart of every bullied child is a kind person waiting to forgive and forget. That everyone who’s ever been trod upon would refuse to tread on someone else if given the chance. That tortured people get beat up because they are meek or because they choose to turn the other cheek. Sometimes all of these things are true, but sometimes bullied people build hard shells around themselves because of the pain. Sometimes people who have been stepped on their whole lives are more apt to fight back when given the opportunity because they’ve been storing up rage and they’re ready to let it go.
Roy unintentionally torments Nate by his very presence at AFC Richmond. Roy is everything Nate wishes he was. He commands a room without trying, he’s Keeley’s boyfriend, he’s a famous footballer, he’s athletic and handsome, and when he comes back to Richmond to be an assistant coach, it makes Nate feel like he has to share space and attention with someone who is impossibly cooler than he is.
And Roy is totally unthreatened by Nate, which drives Nate crazy. When Nate confesses to Roy that he kissed Keeley, Roy shrugs it off. Nate challenges him, asks him if he heard what he said, and Roy doubles down—it’s no big deal. Nate doesn’t confess his indiscretion out of moral compunction; he confesses because he’s desperate to get a rise out of Roy—a rise he fails to elicit. Likewise, Roy isn’t being benevolent to Nate by forgiving him, and Nate knows it. Roy simply doesn’t view Nate as competition, which causes Nate to feel emasculated.
All the ways in which Nate lashes out at Ted boil down to Nate and Roy.
[Nate is] the underdog and [Roy is] the popular jock who doesn’t even realize he has anything to do with it. Which is, to Nate, a huge part of the problem. Nate’s character progression makes sense because Nate can’t share, and he definitely can’t share with someone like Roy because he’s simultaneously too jealous of Roy and cares too much about what Roy thinks of him. Nate has spent too much of his life being ignored, overlooked, and stepped on.
Ted is blindsided by Nate’s betrayal because Ted gives out love and acceptance equally to all, but Nate has to be the “Wonder Kid” or Nate feels undervalued. Maybe it’s more accurate to say, if Nate’s not the star of Ted’s coaching staff, Nate feels afraid that he will lose everything and become a nobody again.
- K. B. Hoyle
Excellent analysis of Nate Shelley here
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I’ve discussed this with @whatupitshuff and @blackmissfrizzle
Imagine an AU, with Frank, Billy and Curtis in a motorcycle club. Frank as President, Curtis as Vice President and Billy as an enforcer.
Inspired by this
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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The American fencing team is not happy to have Alen Hadzic representing the U.S. at the Tokyo Olympics.
Almost immediately after making it on to the roster, the 29-year-old was accused of sexual misconduct between 2013 and 2015 by three women.
Hadzic denies the allegations and successfully appealed a suspension that would have kept him off the U.S. team.
On Friday, the men's team conveyed their displeasure to the world, wearing pink face masks in support of sexual assault victims. It made for a striking image as Jake Hoyle, Curtis McDowald and Yeisser Ramirez appeared in the light-colored masks, while Hadzic was the odd-man-out in black.
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HELLO I’VE BEEN MELTING IN MY BSD PHASE FOR A VERY LONG TIME!! and i was thinking i needed to draw something mha FOR THIS ACCOUNT but i wanted to draw something for bsd...... SO WHY NOT MIX THE 2 TOGETHER???
presenting my dumb erasermic bsd crossover au where eraser is edgar allan poe, writer and detective, and mic is ranpo, the greatest detective in the entire world and owner of the most handsome green eyes amiright lads
2gether they solve cases and fall in love 🔥🔥🔥🔥
(also eraser, instead of having a raccoon named karl, has a cat named capture)
Comic Script:
Mic: This case is nothing for SUPER DEDUCTION!
Mic: The moment I take these glasses off, I’ll deduce everything about this case!! Motives-- you name it!!
SFX: tap tap. turn!
Eraser: I get it.
Mic: Super deduction activate!
SFX: Thunk!
Mic: Aizawa-kun??
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