#and the man had this weird obsession with nathan which escalated over the years

[ruvviks]

🙈, 🙊, 📚, 🧳, 🌠, 💔, and 💤, for nathan?

nathan asks!

🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL: What’s the worst thing they’ve ever seen? Do they tend to be a bystander or do they intervene?

answered here!

🙊 SPEAK-NO-EVIL: Are they talkative or quiet? Are they the type of person who talks more the more you get to know them?

nathan is pretty quiet and reserved when it comes to regular conversation. he prefers to hang back and listen to others talk, and generally only speaks when spoken to or when something that's brought up prompts him to jump in. however, when it's something work-related, he tends to talk a lot more, since he's good at strategizing and needs to give his input so people will know what his opinion on the matter is

he definitely starts talking more when you get to know him better, slowly but surely feeling more comfortable to bring things up out of the blue rather than wait for others to start a conversation with him instead. though he still tends to be a man of little words; very short and straightforward answers, doesn't like dancing around the point of his sentence. unless he's talking about tech-related stuff, in which case he can talk for hours about whatever code he's been working on

📚 BOOKS: Do they like to read? What kind of books do they like?

nathan isn't a big reader, mostly because he struggles with it and he doesn't have the attention span or the patience to sit through that much text. if he needs to pass the time somehow, he might end up reading some short stories or articles online or in a magazine. he prefers articles about technology or science, and in fiction, naturally so, likes sci-fi, but also thrillers and mystery books!

🧳 LUGGAGE: Do they like to travel? What’s their favorite place to visit?

nathan hates traveling and generally doesn't leave the krimson city area unless he's being forced to (when he was with mobius he'd occasionally have to go to the east coast for business, which he hated, but at least the pay was good). nowadays there's absolutely nothing that can be done to get him to travel anywhere, though he would really love to visit yellowstone national park one day. it's mostly just a daydream scenario more than anything else, though, he doesn't know if he would actually commit to it if given the opportunity

🌠 SHOOTING STAR: If they had one (or three) wishes, what would they wish for?

nathan would wish for financial stability forever (which he sort of gets when ruben gets his job at the research lab because the pay is very good), a chance to get to kill the administrator with his bare hands, and to make him forget about what went down in STEM (but in such a way where he does remember that it happened, but he just doesn't remember all the traumatic events, and he doesn't get curious about it so he won't go digging for it either)

it'd make sense for him to wish that rosie was still alive, and if he only got one wish then he would consider going with that option, but her death also shaped his whole life and he's too scared to find out how different it would've been if she hadn't died; his parents had still hated him, and he wouldn't have had a pleasant childhood either way. and in addition to that, he also doesn't know how his parents would have changed; maybe they would've started hating rosie too at some point, and he really doesn't want to accidentally expose her to any of that. so he wouldn't wish for that at all, just because there's too many uncertainties that would come with it

💔 BROKEN HEART: What would break their heart? What’s the worst thing a significant other or a close friend could do to them?

nathan's heart breaks very easily over the littlest of things, but he knows it's because he's very sensitive especially to stuff like rejection or disagreement. he generally gets over it pretty quickly, so it's never really an issue. if we're talking about irreparable damage, it'd be permanently walking away from him; whether it's done by ruben or any of his friends. he often worries that it'll happen, especially because of his own tendency to just vanish off the face of the earth sometimes because of his episodes, and if people were to walk away from him forever it'd break him

💤 ZZZ: What are their sleeping habits like? Do they snore, move around a lot, etc.?

nathan is a very light sleeper, but he can also easily fall back asleep when woken up by something. whenever he does slip into deeper sleep he tends to have very bad nightmares or gets sleep paralysis due to the longterm effects STEM has had on his psyche, so he prefers to go to sleep in a room with a light on or some music playing so it won't have to get to that point

he sleeps about five to six hours a night on average, which is not a lot and tends to be even less when he’s working on an important project. all of this generally results into him being out of commission during the weekends which he tends to spend in bed for most of the time, albeit wide awake. later on when he gets some proper medication, he starts sleeping a lot more and ends up with an average of nine hours a night, which is more or less the amount he needs to be able to function properly