Nicknames: Always Nathaniel, Usually Nate, Sometimes Nat, Never Nathan.
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Relationship Status: Single
Likes:
- Reading
- Writing
- Office Supplies (especially pens)
- Solitude
- Music
Dislikes:
- People touching his things
- Large crowds
- Asking for help
Personality: Diagnosed with an extreme case of OCD, Nathaniel can be quite "quirky" to an outsider. Generally good natured, he prefers to wear a smile and not a frown. He forgives and forgets without difficulty in most cases, but when he feels someone has truly wronged him, his good favor is never to be won again. His sense of humor is a slightly questionable at times, but he’s rather charming and respects social norms and limits. At least most of the time. He is also easily distracted. He prefers solitude and books to social outings and people. He can become easily overwhelmed in a group, which causes him to act out some of his compulsions. He likes to do things his way, which means doing them the same way each and every time. While he can be very stubborn and set in his ways, he will usually bend to the will of others if confronted.
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 5 feet 10 inches
Weight: 147 pounds
Typical Clothing Style: Nathaniel usually goes for comfort over style. While at home, he loves being in a t-shirt, hoodie and either cargo shorts or blue jeans. His shirts never have words on them while his hoodies are only allowed to have simple, one worded logos on them, such as "College", "Yale", etc. He tends to stick to a monochromatic scale in his clothes, usually of blues and grays. His socks are the one place where he enjoys adding a little bit of color to his life. He often has bright, vibrant, mismatched socks with strange markings or designs on them. When going for a more business/business-casual look, he wears button downs and a blazer, once again keeping to a monochromatic scale with his mismatched socks.
Distinct Markings: He has a scar on the back of his head hidden by his hair.
Nathaniel found that he excelled at the academic aspects of school, but not the social. He had a hard time making friends due to his rather shy and introspective nature. He became consumed in his studies, but did make a few close friends throughout the course of his school life. He decided to go to Montana for school as he earned a full scholarship to the university. His grandfather passed away during his freshman year, during which time Nathaniel slipped into a depression that aggravated his OCD symptoms which had begun showing around the age of seventeen. It was only when he was hospitalized for his depression that he was diagnosed.
He took a year off to focus on his mental health, so although he is twenty, he's only a sophomore.
Other:
Obsessions:
- Sticky substances or residues (avoidance of, especially ketchup)
- Diseases (Specifically Syphilis)
- Worry about throwing things away, even seemingly useless items
- Urge to collect useless things
- Feeling uncomfortable with empty space in the home and having a need to fill it
- Urge to purchase multiples of the same item
- Urge to maintain purchased items in pristine condition, resulting in not using them
- Urge to pick up useless items from the ground
- Excessive concern that handwriting be perfect or “just right”
- Concern with aligning papers, books, and other items (i.e. pens) a certain “perfect” way
- Excessive worry of having blasphemous thoughts and being punished for them
- Excessive irrational fear of losing control and harming himself or others
- Excessive irrational fear of acting on unwanted impulses (such as running over someone with his car)
- Excessive irrational fear of choking or stabbing someone
- Excessive irrational fear of blurring out insults, obscenities, or racial epithets
- Excessive irrational fear of doing something embarrassing or looking foolish
- Unwanted, worrisome, and intrusive sexual thoughts, images, or impulses of “snapping” or losing control
- Unwanted, worrisome, and intrusive thoughts of molesting your own or other children
- Unwanted, worrisome, and intrusive thoughts of groping others
- Unwanted urge to know, seek out, and remember useless information (license plate numbers, names, words)
- Fear of saying something wrong, not saying something just right, or leaving out details
- Worry about losing things (especially those he hordes)
- Worry about making mistakes
- Worry that he didn’t perfectly understand something he read
- Worry that he wrote imperfectly
- Worry that he wrote an expletive or racial epithet without knowing it
- Being easily bothered by certain sounds and noises (buzzing and certain voices)
- Being easily bothered by the feeling of clothing or other textures on the skin (especially on knees)
- Intrusive nonsense sounds, music, or words
- Fear of saying certain words because of superstitious beliefs about those words
- Excessive superstitious fears and rigid adherence to them
- Excessive concern with lucky and unlucky numbers (odd vs. even)
Compulsions:
- Showering or bathing preformed in a ritualistic way
- Avoidance of objects considered contaminated
- Checking that he didn’t make a mistake
- Checking that nothing terrible happened
- Checking that the jars are closed by excessive tightening
- Saving or collecting seemingly useless items
- Picking up useless items from the ground
- Difficulty throwing seemingly useless items away as they might someday be useful
- Reading and rereading things excessively
- Excessively writing and rewriting things
- Doing certain activities a particular number of times
- Counting items (pens, tiles, books on a shelf)
- Counting during compulsive activities
- Arranging items in a certain order
- Reassuring self-talk or mantras
- Need to touch, tap, or rub certain items and people (textured walls)
- Measures, other than checking, to prevent harm to self or others, such as avoidance of certain objects or extreme precautions to prevent highly unlikely harm or danger
- Eating ritualistically according to specific rules (arranging food, eating at certain times, eating food in a particular order)
- Pulling hair from his scalp
- Acts of self-damage or self mutilation such as picking skin and cuticles
- Compulsive shopping (related to hoarding; buys a number of things for fear of running out)