Full Name: Nathaniel James Sterling
Nicknames: Nate and "Sterling Silver"(when he is being picked on, generally a derogatory reference to his squeaky clean reputation)
Age:18
Godly Parent: Aphrodite
Birthdate: July 5th
Home Town: Winter Harbor, Maine
Sexuality: Heterosexual
Likes:
Fast Cars
Music, particularly late 60's and 70's classic rock
Lacrosse
Psychology
good company
(Secretly;) being in love
Dislikes:
Chaos
Intentionally mean people
negative emotions (hate, fear, distrust, malice. etc.)
broken relationships
two faced people, (lying)
Cilantro
Fears:
Taphephobia- fear of being buried alive
For some unknown reason Nate developed this fear since the day his father's casket into the ground, he knows that it is irrational but cannot seem to break the gut wrenching feeling.
Nosocomephobia- fear of hospitals, PTSD From the ordeal with his father.
Skills/ Demi-God powers:
-He is a natural matchmaker, and a conflict resolver
"I really just want everyone to be happy, is that so wrong?"
-He has an attractive personality and can be extremely seductive if he so wishes (very rarely)
"I refuse to fall into the stereotype! I refuse to be a flirt... even if I can turn on the charm at the drop of a hat".
-Possesses the power of empathy (highly in tune with the feelings of those around him)
amokinesis; the ability to manipulate feelings of love in those he touches.
The drawback to this power comes when Nate touches someone. His power manifests through his skin, but most strongly through his hands and as such, if he were to touch someone they would instantly be rendered under his influence. This influence can sometimes change the whole demeanor of a person and erase any natural feelings the person might have for Nate. He found out the hard way when he touched his Aunt and she tried to french kiss him. Thus, appalled by this aspect he has vowed not to touch anyone until he is sure he has his power under control. After three years of hard study he can dim the power to trace amounts but he has to concentrate hard on it. He worries that if he were to ever have a girlfriend they wouldn't be able to touch or kiss because of this.
-Fluent in French
"Nous devons toujours vivre la vie comme si nous mourons demain, sinon ce serait une existence terriblement ennuyeux"
Personality:
Nathaniel is deeply receptive, accepting, emotionally stable and serene. He is Trusting of self and others, is at ease with self and life, and is innocent and simple. He is patient, unpretentious, good-natured, and a genuinely nice person.
Nathaniel is a Peacemaker, he excels at finding common ground between two parties and settling disputes. He is typically considered a “spiritual seeker” who has a great yearning for connection with other people. He works to maintain his peace of mind just as he works to establish peace and harmony in the world around him. For a person so outwardly oriented to the thoughts and feelings of those around him, he can often feel he his torn between two places, his own body and the emotions of those who surround him. Nathaniel is potentially far more grounded in the physical world than those around him. Usually Nate is in touch with his instinctive qualities and has tremendous elemental power and personal magnetism but some times when he has been in contact with or around highly charged emotions like anger he can be cut off from his instinctual strengths, disengaged and remote. Nathaniel has a tendency to mirror the best qualities of those he comes into contact with, such as strength, a sense of fun and adventure, dutifulness, intellectualism, creativity, emotional attractiveness, generosity, and idealism. However, because of this he tends to lack a sense of really inhabiting himself—a strong sense of his own identity.
Nathaniel demonstrates the universal temptation to ignore the disturbing aspects of life and to seek some degree of peace and comfort by “numbing out.” He responds to pain and suffering by attempting to avoid or ignore those feelings by creating a state of premature peacefulness within himself. He has a tendency to run away from the paradoxes and tensions of life by attempting to transcend them or by seeking simple and painless solutions to his problems. Conversely Nathaniel is often attracted to people with pain or suffering within them, because of this he is often the venting point for those types of people.
If Nathaniel sees the silver lining in every cloud as a way of protecting himself from the cold and rain, other people have distorting viewpoints, too. For example, someone else might focus on their own victimization, another on what is wrong with how things are, and so forth. He must remember that “the only way out is through.” Because Nathaniel is so in touch with those around him he has difficulty focusing on the battle ahead.
Nathaniel is accepting, trusting, and stable. He is usually creative, optimistic, and supportive, but can also be too willing to go along with others to keep the peace. He wants everything to go smoothly and be without conflict, but he can also tend to be complacent, simplifying problems and minimizing anything upsetting. He typically has problems with inertia and stubbornness.
History:
James Sterling, a successful real-estate broker spent much of his short career being fawned over by women of all ages. He was a charming, handsome young man who enjoyed spending nights out on the town and had a reputation for being a charismatic if short lived romantic partner. He was married to his job, as a high powered investor he spent many nights wooing his International clients with pleasant conversation and fine wine. Yet, when the evening was over he would politely excuse himself and return home never succumbing to the temptations of flirtatious women and the occasional man.
Aphrodite, intrigued by this man's seeming lack of interest in carnal desires began to follow his movements more closely. Unable to understand his mind she began courting him and began to inquire about incredibly expensive accounts on a regular basis under the alias of Abigail Amos. For a few months she toyed with him, like a cat with string; and as she flirted with him, her Amokinesis began to weave its way into his subconscious. She was never long from his thoughts and as his infatuation grew his connection with this enticing enchanting mysteriously beautiful woman grew and he began to disregard his own feelings of confusion. The night she signed the paperwork for a 500 million dollar pent house in lower Manhattan was the day they went back to his humble apartment and finally made love.
The next few weeks were a haze of rose tinted happiness for James as he doted on Abby and bent to her every need and desire and their love burned hot and fast. Then as quickly as she had stepped into his life she disappeared leaving only a note that read
My dearest James,
There are many things in this world that are hard to understand, and I know our love has been strong but I cannot stay. There are things I must attend to away from here. I will always hold you close to my heart and I hope you can forgive my absence one day,
~A
With little more than a kiss on the forehead of his sleeping form she slipped from his life. And in her wake she left a trail of confused lonely feelings, but those soon to began to fade as her touch faded from his mind and he regained his clarity of thought. Life went back to the way it was before the mysterious woman had entered his life, yet it seemed he had greater success in his sales and began to build his reputation as one of the most successful real estate brokers in the north east.
Nine months later a small basket was left on the doorstep of James's apartment building, a small babe bundled in pink and lilac cloth and clothed in baby blue pajamas smiled up at the surprised James his big bright blue eyes the exact shade as his own.
James took the surprising development in stride and was a caring attentive single father, organizing his work schedule around his new son Nathaniel and moving to Winter-port Maine to raise his family in a sprawling farmhouse with a view of the ocean. Nate had a relatively uneventful childhood, with a strong positive relationship with his father a strong group of friends he excelled through most of middle school, finding a passion in lacrosse and Music.
The summer of his 12th birthday things began to fall apart, after a minor car accident James was diagnosed with stage 3 liver cancer and things began to spiral for the family. Nate spent many weeks by his fathers side in the hospital as he endured radiation treatments and chemotherapy and yet despite the treatments he began to fade, and passed on the 9th of December.
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