#nathan musings

[tokiwarcube]

I think post-Trindle, Nathan would be a bit... wary, of hooking up with random fans. Maybe it's because of the way things ended with her. So violent, so... final. So when all of the boys pair off with their groupie of the night, you're not too surprised when he lingers, awkwardly, by your side. It sparks a little routine -- concert ends, the rest of the guys fuck off, and you and Nathan pair off to go hang out.

There's been something there, bubbling beneath the surface for a while... but as time goes on, the lines start to blur more and more as distance closes, hands meet thighs, and--

Hell, what harm could one night do?

[katherinehoughtoncastle47]

"If that's my present, I can' t wait to unwrap it."

[drawfee-quot3s]

you've heard of hope floats, but have you heard of ghost floats?

you've heard of root beer floats,.. but have you heard of ghost floats?

you've heard of...f... root beer floats-

You piece of Shit

- willie, jacob, + nathan

[24mirrorshards]

you know, Nathan Explosion is such a good main character in general, but especially for people with any form of developmental asynchrony or who generally struggled to find a niche in life - he's a bundle of contradictions, too. He's inquisitive and has the capacity for thorough knowledge (even as his lyrical work evolves, it shows increasingly sophisticated imagery, thought, and vocabulary), but it takes him a long time to learn. He's prideful and oppositional, but he doubts himself and carelessly lets himself get pushed around. He's charismatic enough to be the front-man of a band, but he's socially-awkward as hell.

[slasherscream]

the crazy ass boys gang or yandere until dawn boys spending the holidays with the reader/reader’s family? 👀

A/N: a little late on this but better now than never! happy holidays my loves (tried to keep the headcanons vague so you could imagine a variety of winter holidays in here, but i'm sorry if it's still christmas centric, honey, that's what i celebrate and so i tend to get carried away with it)

TIP-JAR

crazy ass boys gang + spending the holidays with reader

billy loomis:

It will be a hard sell to get him to enjoy the holidays with you. I won't lie to you. The reason? Besides the fact that he thinks he's too cool for the holidays, they bring up a lot of.... undealt with feelings regarding his own family. You might be tempted to let him grump it out because that will be easier. Resist! He wants you to pull him from his totally-not-seasonal-depression into holiday bliss with you. He just wants you to earn it.

So put on your working boots and get to it. Drag him into tradition, decorate the house, fill it with the smell of well-cooked food. Eventually, the cheer and vigor with which you do everything will get to him. He'll begrudgingly join in and find himself enjoying the holidays for the first time in years.

Pick one battle at a time and leave the roadblock of celebrating with your family for next year's holiday season. Trust me.

josh washington:

Polar opposite of Billy. He loves the holidays. All of the holidays! He's incredibly happy to spend them with you, no matter how many years you've spent them together before. Each year feels special to him, in the corniest way possible.

The biggest problem during the holiday season is deciding who you'll be celebrating with. Are you going to party with mutual friends this year? Go to his family's house or yours? Everyone wants to see you two during the holidays. You're everyone's favorite couple.

You two sometimes stretch yourselves a little thin, practically promising to be in two places at once! While that can add stress to the most magical time of the year, you try and relax and focus on what really matters in your few moments of downtime: each other.

stu macher:

Stu isn't one for traditional holidays at home with the family because that's never how he spent his growing up. The holidays meant trips around the world to far-off places. He doesn't want to give that up now that you're together. In fact, he wants to travel even more, especially if you aren't well-traveled.

The holidays for Stu are synonymous with adventure. If you humor him, he'll make it worth your while and let you pick the location of your trip. The best part is, no matter how expensive the trip gets, he pays for the whole thing.

His family has the money. Why not spend it? Actually, the best part is one of his love languages, as a rich boy, is gift-giving... and he does not consider paying for the holiday vacation his holiday gift to you. You're getting that expensive vacation plus a boatload of gifts under the Christmas tree. He knows how to spoil his partner when he wants to, that's for sure.

jd/jason dean:

Is completely willing to spend the holidays with your family (but I cannot stress this enough); do not take him home to celebrate with your family unless you have a perfect relationship with every single member. He will sense discord in relationships and he will choose to say the tiniest remark perfect for igniting holiday chaos and discontent.

Why? He couldn't tell you why. Maybe chaos is more fun than holiday harmony. When he senses a problem, his instinct is to dig into that problem to find its source. It's an addiction of his.

Other than that, during the holidays, instead of succumbing to melancholy over the past, he strives to make your time together as sweet as possible. He goes along with tradition with minimal cynical commentary and enjoys the happiness the holidays bring you. If you're content, he's content.

kevin khatchadourian:

As disrespectfully as possible, he hates the holidays and hates that you want to celebrate them. Any of them. The more you push, the more irritated he becomes.

Everything about the holidays highlights all the parts of society he finds most unpalatable. The fake cheer people greet each other with. Consumerism. The vigor with which they adore and worship their religious figures. It all makes him sick.

Still... there is a certain glow about you around this time of year. So when you ask him to do things, he goes along with your inane wishes with gritted teeth holding back the venomous words he wants so badly to say (do you have any idea how much he holds back for your sake?) Compliance is truly the best gift you can receive from Kevin any time of year.

nathan prescott:

Before you, he'd spend most of his holidays under the influence of whatever substance he could get his hands on first. He's slowed down on the abuse of most things since being with you. Still, the holidays are no walk in the park for him.

There's no way you'll spend the holidays with his family, even if his father "requested" his presence. He'd break his own leg to keep from having to look his father in the eye.

When you bring up the possibility of spending the holidays with your family, he's a little upset, he wanted to spend the holidays with you. When you clarify that you meant the two of you spending time with your family... well, he had a small panic attack, admittedly.

No matter how much you reassure him that everything will be fine, nothing helps until he actually meets your family and is warmly received. He'll be a little awkward the entire time, but the sheer warmth of love coming from everyone around him is enough to make him cry. Come next year it will be Nathan who suggests spending the holidays with your family again.

sebastian valmont:

To Sebastian, the holidays means receiving a few very expensive (but ultimately quite meaningless) gifts from his father which he reciprocates and then going back to pretending, like neither the holidays nor his father, exist. Cold? Certainly. Sad? Absolutely. But that's how it's always been.

If there was ever a Christmas full of love, it happened before he could remember, so it might as well have never happened at all.

Now you're here and things are different. There's a buzz in the air this time of year. You talk, you dance, you cook, you smile. You do everything together, attached at the hip. You drag him to spend time with your family and even that is tolerable, and Sebastian hates spending time with anyone's family (even yours.)

Being with you has been blissful, even with everything you had to overcome to be happy with one another. How well the holidays went will cement the knowledge in his head that you're what's it for him. You're what he wants, for now and always.

He'll surprise you on New Years Eve with one last tiny present, or that's what he tells you, as he puts you in the car and drives you to an unknown location, blindfolded the whole way there. When you arrive, he'll guide you tenderly up some steps and through a door, and then he'll take off the blindfold. You'll be standing in the most beautiful home you've ever seen. A place plucked directly from your wildest dreams (or all your late night talks with Sebastian).

"Move in with me?" He'd say, somehow smug and earnest at the exact same time.

It's a wonderful way to bring in the New Year.

david mccall:

Will insist on spending time with your family if your relationship with them is good. But if it's bad? Even better, he gets you all to himself.

Goes along with everything you want to do. He's at your beck and call. Whatever you want is yours and nothing you ask is too much. He'll cook with you for hours. He'll clean the house from top to bottom and then smile when you tell him you still have to decorate together. He loves the domesticity of it all.

When you give him his gift he'll be genuinely choked up. You'd already discussed the fact that you were exchanging gifts this year, but it still moves him to receive this physical reminder that you know him, and that you care. Frankly, he hasn't received many gifts in the course of his lifetime. Yours means everything to him.

Even though you both agreed to just one gift each, when you wake up that morning there will be a pile of gifts waiting for you. What can David say? He likes to spoil you.

sparrow!ben hargreeves:

The holidays are the busiest time of year when it comes to preventing crime. People are more desperate around the holidays, more prone to violence than words during the most "magical" time of the year. The holidays have never meant much, just a promise of more crime to fight. Still, this is the worst holiday for him yet.

Stuck in some strange, alternate world his father created, all his Sparrow siblings dead and all the Umbrellas having gone their separate ways? When he's not fighting crime, he's keeping himself wasted. Rebuilding a legacy for himself as a superhero when he did all this groundwork for himself when he was just a kid in the original timeline. It's brutal. It's humiliating.

It's not all bad though... there is, of course, you. The super-powered plus one that the Umbrellas had dragged along through two separate apocalypses until you'd apparently manifested into his reality. When everyone went their separate ways, you'd, for some reason, stuck with Ben.

He tries to pretend, but you both know he's grateful for your company, even though he's an asshole on his best of days.

You're not an Umbrella anymore. And he isn't a Sparrow. Now you're a super-hero duo and it works, somehow. You make a good team.

In a short time, against the odds (the odds being Ben's award-winning personality), you've become friends. Maybe even a weird, two-person family. Except he's pretty sure most families don't have the suffocating amount of sexual tension you do.

You've kissed before. Under the light of a dying universe, when you were pretty sure you were both going to cease to exist. You opened up to each other that night. But then there was the stress of... kinda saving the world? And then you wound up in this new, broken, strange one. You haven't talked about the kiss since.

He feels like he's going crazy.

Especially because you live together. He's not sure why he insisted on moving in together (because he's in love with you? because he's never lived alone before? because he misses his family?) but he did. Now he deals with the consequences every day. He hears you singing in the shower to start your day. He hatefully makes you cups of coffee that he insists are poison for the body (don't bring up the fact that he got blackout last night) when you have a long day ahead of you. He preps you for the interviews you two have started doing together, the whole world entranced by this new super-hero duo that the two of you make. He even holds your hand before your public appearances, because he knows you get stage fright.

There's something deeply wrong with him.

He tries to get you both to focus on crime this year, but you fight him every step of the way. Let's decorate, you chirp! Let's watch holiday movies, you smile. Let's cook our favorite foods together instead of getting them delivered, you beg. It's all maddening!

And now, having made it through all the holidays relatively emotionally distant and unscathed, you have the nerve to be laid up against him, staring up at him with big, drooping eyes waiting for midnight to hit on New Years Eve, and you ask him if he misses his family.

He snaps and finally kisses you, months of wanting and waiting and burning boiling over into this moment.

How could he miss his family when you're sitting right beside him?

[wraithofmorhogg]

I wonder what happened to Nathan between Before the Storm and LiS. He was angry, but didn't seem nearly as mentally unstable. Was it Jeffershit that pushed him over the edge? Encouraged him to go off his meds? The father refusing to accept anything was wrong and refusing Nathan his meds?

[kaitlinamberxo]

“I wanna be somebody who's good enough to be seen with you.”

kaitlin's 100 favorite fictional muses — 28/100: Nathan Scott

[helloxdesire]

Consequences

@cxncordia

Nathan was a skilled mage and a fast learner. Unfortunately he was also very aware of this, and somewhat overconfident. When he challenged his teacher, Addison, he was confident that he could win. He knew Addison outranked him, and had done this for much longer, but Nathan genuinely believed himself to be a natural, and while he considered the possibility that he might lose, he didn't actually believe it to be an option. Of course, that delusion only lasted until midway through the certamen, when it became apparent just how much better than him Addison was. Nathan didn't stand a chance, but at that point it was too late to back out, and he could only do his best, hope Addison would make a glaring mistake, and lose with some dignity at least.

And lose he did, though the part about dignity was up for debate. Addison metaphorically mopped the floor with him, and it was obvious that Nate had severely overestimated his own abilities. With the duel over he'd looked up at the teacher, humility settling in his expression for the first time in a long time. He knew that he now was Addison's to do with as he pleased, but he'd had no idea what to expect. He knew Addison as a fair, somewhat strict teacher who pushed his students to be their best, but knew very little about him beyond that.

Now, on his knees, looking at the clothes the man expected him to wear he swallowed thickly. The pink frills of the dress and lace of the panties glared up at him and he felt a blush creep up his neck, coloring his cheeks. "You can't be serious," he heard himself say, "this is a joke, right?" He reached out, running a finger over the fabric, frowning at the feel of it. Maybe the man was just messing with him. He couldn't really expect him to wear that, right?

[ofyorkshire]

hummmms... reminded that bj would actually be very susceptible to cults.

desperate for connection, love, and acceptance in multiple angles. would bend, quite frankly, to any amount of it and forgives a lot in order to get it.

[melpomeneprose]

For reference.

[styxisms]

@riprachel ♥

"What? I just want to get high and forget about it." He had the misfortune of having a talk with his father today. It covered all of the usual subjects from his lack of masculine interests to his various shortcomings. All he could do was stay quiet and take it. Which led to him getting totally wasted and getting into a fight in town. He hated this place. He hated his dad. He hated his shitty life. He thought at least Rachel would just be chill about it (and distract him). Not like she gave a shit about him, right?

[katherinehoughtoncastle47]

8.07 - THE LAST SEDUCTION

[drawfee-quot3s]

i mean, i feel like if i was dumpgoat i Would love it, 'cause i wouldn't be Me any more, i'd be dumpgoat

Nathan if Anyone is dumpgoat it's You

- nathan + willie

[adder24]

Hear me out

I'm musing here but I had epiphany of sorts. We all know that scientists are working on the theory of multiverses and alternate realities and the possibilities of them being a thing are quite high.

With that being said, this thought came into my head...what if the reason why we crush on certain celebs, is because in an alternate reality/universe, we're married to them somehow?

Like think about it, your crush, in an alternate realm could be the local refuse collector and you're someone on their route. You could be a successful business person or you could be someone on a similar wage to them. You lock eyes OVER A BIN/TRASH CAN! They could be handing it back or taking it to the truck and you make contact over that damn Bin/Trash can!

You absolutely do not care though because you find them stunning, beautiful even and you stumble over your words. Instead of saying thank you, you say something dumb like "I like your gloves!" and they find it cute and giggle. That giggle could be the thing that makes your day in this realm and so every week you make an effort to stand outside and wait for them, to greet them, make them laugh and fall hopelessly in love WITH THE BLOODY RUBBISH/TRASH/BIN PERSON!

Maybe you leave them a note asking them on a date and they empty the Bin/Trash can and leave their reply on a note under the lid and when you see it, your heart goes stupid like and you get giddy when the reply is yes!

Then it get's serious, you have a freaking anniversary which you celebrate by taking that damn Bin/trash can out together! HOLDING FREAKING HANDS! YOU DO THIS EVERY YEAR! YOU EVEN HAVE IT INVOLVED IN THE WEDDING CEREMONY AND THE CHRISTENING OF YOUR KIDS!

FUCK!

Anyway here is my Bin person.

Dork

Sharing my musings with this lot. Go to town people

@nuggsmum @hellostickerdoodle @captkatecastle @alwayscaskett810 @idiotdotdotdot @gracielaposts @emelinelovesjc @superlc529 @profwonderbearthementalista @untilthe12ofnever @happiness-in-the-dark @imwithyoualways

[amischiefofmuses]

Aaaand, his profile is up.

[edgarwayne]

@ghostsbrokenbyfairytales