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Nathaniel “Nate” Delmore

Nathaniel Keaton Delmore has fled the big city corporate life for some quiet and solitude. He looks a bit like Chris Evans, or so the tabloids that used to stalk him have said. He’d 41 years old and celebrates his birthday on June 13th. He is from Washington, D.C., but has homes in Boston, NYC, and D.C.; now he resides in a rural cabin close to the national park where and is currently working as a park ranger, stepping back almost entirely from his life as the CFO of Delmore, Inc. a fortune 500 chemical company. One thing you should know about him is he loves stargazing with his ESD Cosmo - Written by Natty

The Basics:

Full Name: Nathaniel Keaton Delmore

Nickname: Nate

Age: 41

Birthday:  13 June

Nationality: U.S. American

Gender/Pronouns: Cis-Male, He/Him

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Park Ranger (mostly retired, CFO of Delmore, Inc.) - Note Delmore, Inc.: Mirrors Cargill

Physical Appearance:

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Blue

Height: 6′1

Build: Fit

Distinguishing Marks: - Scars on chin, throat, back, wrists, and ankles - Various tattoos on his arms and chest that are not visible when in a shirt with sleeves / professional attire

Other Details: Due to kidnapping for ransom in college, Nate has PTSD, anxiety, agoraphobia, and claustrophobia. Therefore, he has an emotional support dog (ESD/Service dog) to alert him when he’s triggered. He struggles with large gatherings and crowded places, as well as with unexpected loud noises.

Personal:

Profession: Park Ranger (formerly, “Glorified Accountant” and Delmore “Poster Boy” at fundraisers)

Hobbies: Reading, writing poetry, stargazing, jogging

Languages: Fluent in English, Spanish, French; Proficient Japanese and Chinese

Residence: Modest (to him at least) cabin

Birthplace: Washington, D.C. but considers Boston ‘home’

Religion: Christian (non-practicing), considers himself to be ‘spiritual’

Fears: Crowded places, public speaking to strangers

Relationships:

Spouse: None

Children: None and reluctant due to his age and family

Parents: Mother and father are married and live in Wayzata, Montana with homes in various locations around the world “for business”

Siblings: Older sister (Samantha goes by Sam/Sammy with Nate and is 48)

Other Relatives: Yes, all working for the family company and living in various locations depending on their job.

Pets: Cosimo, who Nate lovingly refers to as Cosmo or Cosi, is his service dog and as close to a pet as a service dog can be.

Traits:

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted

Disorganized / In Between / Organized

Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded

Calm / In Between / Anxious

Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable

Cautious / In Between / Reckless

Patient / In Between /  Impatient

Outspoken / In Between / Reserved

Leader / In Between / Follower

Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic

Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic

Traditional / In Between / Modern

Hard-working / In Between / Lazy

Cultured / In Between / Uncultured

Loyal / In Between / Disloyal

Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful

Biography:

Triggers: Kidnapping, assault (specifically torture), ptsd, anxiety, panic attacks, agoraphobia, claustrophobia (If negative family dynamics are a trigger then please do not proceed)

Nathaniel Keaton Delmore was born into the Delmore empire, a leading chemical company in the United States. Being part of the one-percent had a singular perk: never having to worry about money. Nate learned pretty quickly that this was where its benefits stopped. He was the second of the Delmore children, and his mother never let him forget it. While she had reluctantly taken time off to care for his older sister, Samantha Marion Delmore, they waited until she was eight before they had him and more often than not they left Sammy to take care of him as if he was part living doll and part puppy. Developmentally it delayed him in walking because he was either carried or strolled around. It had also resulted in a stammer that was made worse by his parents' frustrations in his inability to articulate words correctly. Though he would overcome those issues with no little to no trace it left him with anxiety and a fragile sense of self.

He learned that if he kept good grades and kept his head down there wasn’t really anything his parents wouldn’t let him try. Anything he showed a natural talent for they supported until he was no longer the best in show, once again treating him more like a pet than a person. Be it piano, singing, basketball, horseback riding, or fencing; Nathaniel found himself having to find his own way. In high school, when his interests turned to debate and forensics teams because of a friend, his parents tried to put their foot down. Despite the lack of a stammer, they told him he’d be no good at it, seeing their quiet son as damaged once more. It was with his uncle’s support that he managed to make excuses and even attend summer camps. Public speaking became a way for him to face his anxiety and, with practice, he became unbelievably good at it.

With no support for college unless he legally agreed to major in microeconomics, Nathaniel finally left home to experience a slice of the real world. MIT was practically an entirely new planet for him and, despite being low key, there was really no surprise that people figured out who he was with the last name of a major American business. Just when he thought he was settling into a routine after a few years at MIT with a bartending job (much to his parents’ dismay), a co-captain position on the forensics team, and a close group of friends, he was kidnapped, tortured, and held for ransom.

After his rescue, Nathaniel would find the hardest part of the ordeal being the realization that no one knew he was missing for weeks. His job thought the rich kid had quit, though he never flaunted his money other than picking up the tabs shitty people cut out on. His friends thought he was sleeping with ‘that one girl’ that kept flirting with him at every party, though he swore there wasn’t anything there- just lending an ear to a heartbroken friend. His professors’ T.A.s were too overwhelmed to note his absences in the large classes. Then the forensics team thought his parents had finally pulled the plug on his participation because he’d divulged that they never really supported it when they didn’t attend any of the big competitions.

Through physical therapy his body healed from the torture, even though the scars remain. Concerned that therapy would look bad for the family they decided to allow him a service dog that was discretely trained and, after a hefty donation to the university and NDA paperwork, Sirius was allowed to follow him into his classes and any place around campus. Trying his best, the rest of his college experience was very much left in recluse. He took to reading and running to clear his head and avoid the reality that upon graduation he would be stepping into the CFO position of Delmore, Inc. Life seemed to be filled with dread outside of the travel the job would entail.

Managing to coerce his parents into agreeing to a masters, he delayed the inevitable a bit longer. Now, a decade later, he was settled into the monotony of corporate life and after Sirius passed and he took on a new service dog with the refusal to hide that part of his life any longer. It wasn’t lost on him that Samantha’s pep talk to do so likely stemmed from her own desire to climb the corporate ladder. The result was the same, his parents used him as the mouthpiece for the company’s charity work. They called the dog Cosimo, he called him Cosmo. They called him a survivor, he held his tongue that they’d treated him just as poorly. 

Through it all, Nate remained dutiful, loyal, reserved; if not a bit more inclined to speak out against injustices than the average person. However, with his parents' continued puppeting of his life, Nathaniel began to see even the smallest work trips or public conversations with friends photographed in tabloids. Though they were reluctant, they let Nate take a step back, doing what he could for the company virtually or with quarterly business trips. He’s altogether disappeared from his city life, instead training as a ranger for a national park and putting himself first for the first time in his life. The introvert can only hope that there will be some peace in his move to Colorado.

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i know i have a backlog of replies to do (which i promise i’ll get to soon, will prioritise event01 threads to complete them too!) but i’m here with a plot call for the third event — i'll leave some ideas below the cut but i'm open to brainstorming as well! my drafts are also fixed (finally!!!!!!) so i'm hoping to be more productive now. i'm down to plot with anyone and everyone, whether we have ongoing threads or not! i ramble a lot but we can try one para threads if we already have ongoing threads, or if you'd rather just plot for a gg tip, i'm down for that too! hit me up if you'd like to plot, i also have discord if that's better for you!

in true nate archibald fashion, i’m gonna need him to kiss the wrong person when they have their masks on LOL (ref: gossip girl season 1, episode 6)

i’d also love for someone to ruin his all-white outfit by leaving lipstick marks on it at the end of the night. i’m down for anything that could lead to this, could be a dare, they could’ve made out and/or hooked up (i see that there are private rooms? 👀) or even did it on purpose to create a scene for whatever reason

his date/plus one to the party (does not have to be romantic, could just be a friend! maybe your muse found the party intimidating or they're trying to avoid someone there so they needed his support, or maybe they didn't want to go and he convinced them to?)

this might be crazy but maybe your muse and him got into a physical fight when they had too much to drink? could be over a girl or anything big enough (he wouldn't risk ruining the party over something petty)

a friend he plays wingman for and hooks them up with someone they're interested in (what better time to do this than while he's dressed as eros/cupid lol)

someone he finishes their drinks for because they seem to be pretty drunk already/peer pressured into drinking, he could end up even more wasted than them so they take care of him to return the favour

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Concept

learn about the ol’ muse drawing board // accepting

(( You get OC things because those stories are probably more interesting :V

Yun, Scarlet, and Nate are pretty much an inseparable trio at this point, but...surprise, surprise, it wasn’t always that way.

I created Scarlet and Nate first, sort of on a whim with my friends when we’d just gotten into Mogeko/Funamusea stuff. Scarlet was an unnamed ladybug, and Nate was an unnamed sparrow. Their designs are actually largely unchanged from their originals, which I think I lost somewhere along the way, oops. I need to draw proper refs again someday too. Anyway, they were supposed to be animal-familiars along the lines of Memoca or Lobco and...I guess their design was somewhat unintentionally influenced by them too. I always used to draw Nate with bird wings for hands like Memoca, but I guess it’s kind of silly so I’ve been scrapping that lately, that and the fact that I almost always put the three into AUs and not the Mogekoverse they were supposed to be part of.

I’m not really sure how their personalities came out, but it just happened as I drew them more. Nate looked like a nice bird, and Scarlet ended up...the opposite. Their names were kind of random, too, and in hindsight maybe I should have picked names that matched with each other more. Nate was the name of an old, old OC/NPC I had and scrapped waaay back when, and Scarlet was just because her color scheme was red. (Fun fact, if I hadn’t named them Nate, their name would be Quentin.)

Yun didn’t come until waaaay later, when I decided I wanted a witch OC, also kind of inspired by Wadanohara. I hadn’t had much figured out other than the fact that I wanted a more playful witch who specialized in weather and rain. Also, the messy hair bun thingy. I wanted that for sure. Then I decided that for all my weeaboo tendencies I didn’t have a Chinese OC, so the two were combined. Chinese witch. But she works a little more like a medieval witch than a Chinese sorceress, so she ended up being more America/modern-focused than anything.

Around the time I was figuring out Yun’s history and powers, I realized I wanted to have familiars, which would have been a cat and/or owl/crow, but those were way too conventional...and making more OC designs was hard. That’s when I decided to join the three together, make Scarlet and Nate Yun’s familiars, and slip in some shapeshifting/morphing abilities into her backstory, which is something I’d also like to expand on another day.

This isn’t really a concept, but felt like the best context to put this in -- I was pretty hesitant to bring the trio onto the Tumblr scene or do anything with them outside of doing silly stuff, honestly, because Scarlet looked and acted terrifyingly like Maki from Love Live, which was an absolute coincidence. I don’t remember if I’d gotten into the series then, but yeah. Also coincidentally, Scarlet’s design ended up a lot like Ruby Rose’s outfit, or Sekibanki’s, and it felt bad having so many similarities especially when I have Sekibanki as a muse. Maki was going to end up Scarlet’s faceclaim and I would’ve hated to be that person with an ‘OC” who’s just the faceclaim. Small thing, but I happened across a close enough faceclaim in the form of Chika from a cute little manga called Kamisama bakari Koi wo Suru. That made me feel a little better, honestly, so I was less hesitant about making her a muse. (A little shoutout to my friend @shattered-unity, you actually played a huge part in making me like how I made this trio, develop them, write them, and drag me a little further into OC hell.)

Anyway, Yun’s faceclaim, Kanako from Futari no Renai Shoka, was also a happy coincidence. Nate’s just ended up being Mochizou though....

So you can tell there was a lot of “go-with-the-flow” with these three muses, but I think I’m happy with the way they ended up. I’ve rambled on enough now-- ))

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QUICK REF SHEET || ME AND CHARACTER EDITION!

TAGGED BY: @mcrkiplicr (you’re so sweet!) RULES: Tag 10 of your followers that you want to know better! (also can u tell how much i dislike the word ‘mun and muse’?)

character:

NAME: Gabriel Reyes | Reaper NICKNAME: Reyes, Gabi, Gabe ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius GENDER: Cismale FAVOURITE COLOR: ???. AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 30 min - 1hr ( Reaper ) ; 8 - 9hrs ( Gabriel ) LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: “tommy’s burgers near me”  ( Gabriel ) HEIGHT:  6′1″ ( Gabriel ) ; 6′2″ ( Reaper )

me:

NAME: Nate. NICKNAME: Nate or Sardines ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius GENDER: Smelly fish FAVORITE COLOR: PASTELS AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: 6 - 8hrs. LAST THING YOU GOOGLED: twinkie experiment HEIGHT:  5′0″

tagging: @ryu-no-hakai | @revengebound | @histwohands | @mindkept | @sillyevil | @rulerblade

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Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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Nathaniel Delmore’s 5th Ave Townhouse in Manhattan, NY

As Nate’s job as CFO of Delmore Inc. demands travel, he spends roughly 1/3 of his year in his Manhattan townhouse. Like his D.C. townhouse, much of the property was designed with little say from Nate. However, the little pops of color and texture throughout the house that have been added through the years are all very much to his taste. When he’s in New York he doesn’t spend that much time in the place, typically working or preferring to hang around the public library, enjoying the park with Cosmo, or checking out quiet restaurants. When he is home you’ll usually find him in the smaller home library. Like all of the Delmore homes, he has a cleaning service that comes a few times a week and security at the front and back of the home.

D.C. Townhouse  |  Boston Cottage

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