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| Nathaniel Damian Couhault; 10th Year Heracles; DADA | |
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| Nathaniel Damian Couhault | Jun 19 2008, 09:20 AM Post #1 |
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10th Year Heracles; DADA
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Main Information Name: Nathaniel Damian Couhault Nickname: Nate, or usually referred to by his last name Gender: Male Age: 25 Birthday: November 9th Year: 10th Blood: Halfblood Wand: 12” Walnut wood, Runespoor fang core Previous School: Muggle public school, home schooled for 5 years for magic Major: Defense Against the Dark Arts Physical Description: Height: 6’1½”, 187cm Build: 72kg (154lbs) of mostly mass muscle. Nate is naturally skinny ever since he was little and he’s used to physical labor so he’s pretty toned and well-built. He has a pretty active lifestyle, he jogs and swims often. He loves the water. Hair: Naturally dirty blonde but sometimes likes making it dark brown/brunette for fun. He’s normally uses muggle hair products, as he is not quite familiar with the whole magic deal. Nate likes to use wax over gel to create a more natural, messy look. Eyes: Dark grey with a tinge of blue to it if seen in fluorescent light. The color changes from lighter to darker depending on his mood/thirst level. Accent: American, usually speaks formally. Ethnicity: Euro-American. (Father is British, Mother is American) Other: Nate has never noticed it, but he is quite lucky to be given good genes. His mother was a very pretty woman, despite her personality and habits, and he never knew his father but he was also quite a dashing, handsome man. Nate was always teased as a ‘pretty boy’ when he was younger, though he quite detested the nickname. He believed he was anything but pretty. Nate’s skin is white, but because of his active lifestyle and constant labor in the past, he retains a relatively healthy glow. He used to be darker, but since he was turned, he’s not as tan but he’s not deathly pale either (unless he doesn’t feed). Nate also has a fairly big tattoo on his back of the Callisto family crest. He is very into the family/brotherhood thing between them, and he finds deep meaning behind the crest. In the middle, there is an eagle, which stands for: protector, a person of action, noble nature, power, strength. In Ireland the eagle, along with other birds, was regarded as one of the 'demons of the air' and was thus a very popular and powerful charge. Then there is the border/bordure around it, which represents honor, as used to differentiate between family members.* On the bottom, there is the family motto in latin, Audaces fortuna juvat meaning ‘Fortune favors the bold.’ This is very true to their family. Nate’s sense of style is very casual. He loves to wear just jeans and a tshirt with some sneakers, but lately he’s likes wearing suits. He never had any kind of expensive clothing before, so ever since he was ‘adopted’ into the Callisto family he’s been given virtually all kinds of things he couldn’t imagine buying or wearing before. He still retains the same casual style, though now that he can afford to buy what he wants, it has been upgraded to branded clothing (Se7en jeans, Armani, True Religion, etc.). He likes to wear suits during special events. Psychological Personality: Nate is surprisingly not screwed up despite his life’s history. He was born in some shady area on New York; his mom works as a stripper and a whore while his dad was one of the one night stands his mother had. He grew up in a pretty rough area but he was always smart enough not to speak too much. He doesn’t have much affection for his mom or anything else around him a great deal because no one ever showed him how to be affectionate. Nate is quite caring by nature but he isn’t weak; he won’t stand down when he’s being bullied or something and he knows he did nothing wrong. He’s been in quite a lot of fights over his years but he never once cried about anything. His mother, Kristina, was generally cold to him so he never expected anything from her. Kristina was the only exception in his book. She isn’t always abusive but there were nights when she was drunken and pissed off because she didn’t get tipped enough or got ripped off, or was sick of doing her job that she would take it out on Nate. Nate tries really hard to excel with his work because a part of him thinks that he will be accepted by others through his. He is a very hard worker and definitely someone to depend on if you needed any help. He believed in justice, so he always tried to help the people around him and distinguish between right and wrong though he would never do anything with his mother. Nate gave up on his mother long ago and that’s why he left her without having any feelings about it. He learns the importance of family through the 5 years he’s been with Caspian and Francis, his sire. Nate is willing to protect the people important to him with all he’s got, and it is his main reason for being in EU. He’s learning DADA, even though technically now he -is- part of the Dark, but he’s only learning it to protect his family. Much of him is still human by nature, he still hasn’t bitten anyone despite being a vampire and drinks blood from the pouches that they buy from blood banks. Nate doesn’t really see himself as a ‘true’ vampire, but rather just one trying to get along with everyone else. Despite the fact that he used to be quiet when he was younger, Nate has become a pretty social guy. He’s friendly and outgoing, and if the atmosphere began to change, he would kindly back out of a situation or try to talk himself out of it unless he was forced to fight. He’s been around women a lot and knows how to be a gentleman, though he would never sleep with anyone if he didn’t truly and really liked them. He learned from his mother that women can’t simply be screwed around with or they might end up the same way she did, so he does his best to treat them all with respect. History: Nate had a poor childhood, to put it simply. He was born as a result of a one night stand from Kristina, his mother, and Bryce, his father. Bryce was a drunkard, he liked to be in the muggle world, particularly LA, New York, and Miami to party and woo girls with magic. Of course he never did anything big, he would do what commercial magicians did, take a rose out of nowhere, etc. etc. and always promised the girls he wanted to get with a future with him in Europe. They all believed him of course, being young and naïve, thinking that Bryce was telling the truth. Bryce always left them after a few days together, but Kristina was so in love with him that she decided to keep the baby inside of her in dreams that Bryce would come back for her again. The first few months she was still optimistic, but later it was obvious that Bryce was not coming back. Kristina regretted it but she did not want to abort the developing baby and went through with it anyway. She was a stripper working in a club in the main city, and being beautiful and young, she received quite enough money to have her own small apartment in a remote area of New York. Kristina named Nate after his father’s last name, and gave him a middle name as Bryce did as well. She always dreamed about having a handsome European child, and that’s what Nate was. Kristina was a bad mother, to say the least. She didn’t know how to raise one and never asked for anyone’s help, so she treated him more like a roommate rather than her own child. They weren’t in poverty, but Kristina never cooked and always got him some fast food instead. Nate was put into public school for kindergarten in their neighborhood and they never really had any problems getting along. Nate was not a whiny, needy child so he always did what he had to do to keep out of Kristina’s way. Often throughout the week Kristina would take home a different guy every night; either that or she sometimes wouldn’t return until the next morning. Throughout elementary school, Nate was always first in his class. He was a bright kid and he liked to borrow books from the library because he couldn’t afford to buy them. Kristina hardly gave him any allowance, she only did so when she was drunk and felt generous. “Here, go buy yourself something nice from ya Mom,” she would say as she tossed a 20 dollar bill at him. Nate saved up all his money; he never spent any of it because he figured he could buy something nicer later on. When he received his letter to join Hogwarts at age 11, his mother laughed and disregarded it, thinking that it must have been some prank some bastard was playing because they had something against her. Nate read the letter but didn’t quite understand what it meant. He didn’t know what magic was, and thought that if it was a prank, at least the letter was nice so he kept it in his drawer. He kept receiving the same ones over and over again throughout the week which pissed Kristina off. She put them all in a bag and burned it. Fewer letters were sent, though it was now directly given to Nate. He kept them all in his drawer, still not giving it much thought. If it was a prank, someone must be going through a lot of trouble just to do this. He shrugged it off and continued with his life. In middle school, that’s when things got bad. There were times when Nate tried to talk to her out of her job, and he even took on many part-time jobs that were labor intensive apart from his school so that he could help support her. Despite all the money he’s earned to help her, she blew it off on clothing and other useless things instead of paying the bills and the rent. Nate basically gave up on her since then, he figured that Kristina would never learn her lesson and go on with her ways. Nate finally got fed up with her behavior during the summer before he was about to enter high school, and left her with a small note saying, “Thanks for taking care of me.” and took whatever important things he had left with him. The first thing he did was go out of their neighborhood area and avoided all places that Kristina would come by. He never wanted to see her again since he’d made his decision. He worked all kinds of jobs, usually that had to do with labor such as a construction worker but he finally settled down on being a bartender. He was paid well and tipped well in NY for his looks and he had no problem with that. However, he always struggled with the meaning of life. What was his purpose? That’s when he met his about-to-be-sire, Francis Callisto. It was another night for Nate when Francis approached him more out of pity than anything. Throughout his life experience, he was able to read people through their eyes and Nate’s was empty. Nate didn’t see a purpose in his life and thought about ending it a few times, so Francis was more or less his savior. Francis saw the potential in Nate, and could tell he had magic in his blood, so he offered to take Nate back to Europe as his adopted son. Nate wasn’t quite sure why, but he didn’t reject because he had a feeling it had something to do with his destiny. When taken back to the Callisto mansion, Francis explained exactly what he was and asked Nate if he wanted to join the ‘family’ and the pros and cons to joining. He told Nate of his unawakened abilities as a wizard as well as the future abilities he would have if he joined, and so Nate agreed. The turning process was then done immediately, and Nate remembers nothing specific about it (or rather, didn’t want to) aside from the fact that it was very painful. He was knocked out for a while, and suffered a few days after that while his insides were completely changing. The one to help him through all the pain was Caspian, his new brother. Caspian had been turned earlier than he had, and Nate was glad he was no longer alone. The following years after that, Nate struggled with his thirst for blood, he didn’t have incomplete lack of control of himself but sometimes he would be so overwhelmed he would end up ‘feeding’ as his conscious was completely taken over. He trains himself not to feed on humans as best he could, because he found it revolting whenever he thought about it, it was like cannibalism. Instead he would hunt in the woods and hunt on huge animals instead such as bears, deers, etc. He studies magic and control of his abilities during his 5 year stay with Francis & Caspian, and he is now in EU to further learn DADA in magic to protect the family. It’s rather ironic that Nate is more or less the dark itself, but he chooses to ignore that fact and continues to proceed his life, coping the best as he could as a new-born vampire. Family: Nathaniel has two ‘families. His real one (by birth): Bryce Locke Couhault: Father (half blood) , in his 50’s, though Nate has never met him. He is still alive right now, somewhere around the world. Even if Nate saw him, he wouldn’t recognize him and vice versa. Nate has never gone through the effort of trying to find his father. Kristina McCarrell: Mother (muggle), in her late 40’s, though Nate was never particularly attached to her. He left her during his teenage years through all the fights, and he doesn’t regret it. His other family (by brotherhood/blood): Francis Callisto: The French-Italian vampire in his hundreds (177 to be exact), he was originally a muggle but is now a vampire from being turned many ages ago, and has separated from his ‘turner.’ Nate is very close to Francis, he is the closest person to a father figure, and considers him his real father. Francis has taken care of him for 5 years now. Nate feels like a lot is owed to him. Caspian Visale: The other closest person to Nate, his brother (30 years old). Though not necessarily by blood, they were turned by the same sire and therefore have a deep brotherhood connection together as if they’ve been together ever since they were small. Caspian is a mentor to Nate, the second father figure he looks up to and wishes to protect. Miscellaneous Pet: Nate is surprisingly very interested in animals. He has never really had a pet of his own ever since he was little but as he walked past the pet shop he saw a guinea pig and decided to start small. Hamsters were too small for him, so instead he chose a chubby, black and white guinea pig he named Panda (because of his colors) to become his first pet. Panda is particularly attached to Nate and likes being cuddled a lot. Knowledge/Talents: Hard worker, particularly good at physical labor, and even though he’s never finished ‘school’ properly, he’s actually a very bright man. He was a straight A student back when he was in muggle school but he quit because he had to, not really because he wanted to. He teaches himself lots of random things by reading many books, and is a fast learner. He learned everything that other kids learned from their 1st-7th year plus the first two years of university within 5 years with private tuitions. He has a curious mind and is interested in broadening his knowledge, but his main focus in EU is just to learn ‘useful’ magic for himself to protect the ones he cares about. Magical Weaknesses: Nate is still relatively new to the whole magic thing, since he’s only used it in the last 5 years after being turned. He doesn’t know his way around the magical world, so while he was in the muggle world, he would only wonder what kind of abilities he had. His mom had laughed at the letter he received at age 12 thinking it was a joke someone was playing on her, but Nate wanted to believe that it was real. Despite that, he never really got to try so he went on as a normal muggle with his life. He only began to use magic after being turned, with the help of Francis, who knew his way around the magical and muggle world, who bought him his wand and had him tutored by private teachers. Nate prefers doing things the ‘normal’ way, such has fetching his things from far away instead of using his wand to call it out. Still, he always keeps his wand with him somewhere, just in case. Special Ability: Vampire attributes. The usual heightened senses, immortality (aside from being killed with a stake through the heart, etc.), sight in the dark, stopped aging, lightning fast reflexes, ability to tell the difference between creatures (vampire – how old/powerful they are, human, or ‘other’). Since Nate was originally a human and was turned when he was 20 years old, he can adapt well to sunlight. He also heals at a faster rate of healing compared to other people because of his vampire blood. Notes: [MS] * Information on the crest symbol meanings obtained from irishsurnames.com |
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