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[ NAME ] Nathan (Nate) Drake

[ PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION ] Mr. Fanservice. 39 y.o. 6'1", tan, brown hair and blue eyes. Very physically fit from a lifetime of climbing mountains and buildings, scarred from a lifetime of falling off of said mountains and buildings (also, scarred from multiple bullet grazings). Rarely clean-shaven, crooked smiles abound.

[ SOUND ] American, no distinctive regional accent. Traveled a lot as a kid and picked up fluency in other languages. Voiced by Nolan North.

[ DEMEANOR ] Genuinely easygoing, non-threatening, engaging, firm in his opinions and a little arrogant about his knowledge of history. Self-identifies as a smartass. Somehow manages to be the luckiest motherfucker alive for everything he recklessly gets into, but retains an intense, childlike curiosity about new discoveries. Massive adrenaline junkie. Anti-hero do-gooder in the extreme, frequently flouting the law and archaeological protocol while simultaneously self-sacrificing for others he may not even know well. Will literally lose all of his chill if you harm his friends. Distractable, stubborn, the textbook definition of "leaps before looking." Talks with his hands, like, a lot.

[ ABILITIES ] Professional thief and treasure hunter who has been in and out of various prisons more times than you can shake a stick at. Mad parkour skills, rock climbing skills, and a bare-knuckle brawler with a fair handle on an extensive variety of firearms. Career criminal with a history of impulsive pick-pocketing - a brief flirtation with stage magic in his youth lends itself well to his excellent sleight-of-hand. Has inscrutably good luck, to a nigh-unbelievable extent.

Nate's greatest talents are taking a beating and his inability to keep from making terrible puns at inopportune times. Fluent in Spanish, Latin, and Morse Code with a fair knowledge of Tibetan, Indonesian, Greek, Enochian and Mongolian script. Passing familiarity in Portuguese and Italian. Otherwise, a totally normal human being who happens to be really good at drawing and keeping notes, as he carries a sketchbook with him everywhere. More than anything Nate is an adaptable but regular guy, quick to evolve to drastic changes in situations as they occur.

[ BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! ] Extremely exhaustive chronological canon history is here!

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Player;

NAME: Alex
AGE: 21+
PRONOUNS: She/Her
CONTACT: uncalendula / uncalendula#5439
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: n/a

Character;

CHARACTER NAME: Nathan Drake
AGE: 39
CANON: Uncharted (5 games in the series)
CANON POINT: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End / Chapter 15: The Thieves of Libertalia
BACKGROUND/HISTORY:

- Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1976.
- At age 4, his mother, a preeminent historian, committed suicide.
- At age 5, his father left Nate and his older brother, Sam, at the Saint Francis Boys Home Catholic orphanage and surrendered them to the State.
- At at 12, Nate ran away from the orphanage with his brother. They changed their surname from Morgan to Drake to reflect their mother’s research into Sir Francis Drake.
- Nate spent several years country hopping with Sam until he was 15, when he ran into a former Navy man and con artist named Victor Sullivan (Sully), who became something of a mentor to him.
- The brothers ran a number of grifts, built a reputation in the right circles committing low- to mid-level felonies.
- When Nate was 24, the brothers were hired by Rafe Adler to do a job in Panama that went south and ultimately resulted in Sam’s death.
- In subsequent years Nate worked almost exclusively with Sully and the other odd person now and again, doing various jobs.
- At age 31, Nate met his future wife, Elena Fisher, on a job where he was contracted to find Sir Francis Drake’s lost remains. He ended up finding El Dorado.
- Nate and Elena dated briefly thereafter before breaking it off.
- At 33 Nate was roped into a job by two old friends: Harry Flynn and Chloe Frazer, hired to locate Marco Polo’s lost fleet. In the process Nate got shot, derailed a train in the Himalayas, and also discovered the city of Shambhala…which he sort of helped to destroy to prevent The Bad Guys from getting hold of a source of great power.
- Nate and Elena got married but experienced nuptial troubles (because of Nate lmao, dumbass) and became estranged.
- At 35, Nate started a job with Sully to figure out what Sir Francis Drake had hidden on an expedition for the Queen. In the process he reconnected with Elena, almost lost Sully, almost died falling out of an airplane into the world’s largest contiguous desert and unearthed the city of Ubar. Nate leveled the entire acropolis with three poorly placed flares while trying to thwart their competition (please do not ask).
- By 39 Nate had mostly settled. He and Elena made up, renewed their vows, moved to a quiet street in New Orleans and worked for a salvage company and travel company, respectively, trying to live normal lives.
- And then SAM DRAKE (you know, the dead guy) showed up, asked Nate for help, and that…was all she wrote, really.
- Nate was dragged into an old job trying to find Henry Avery’s lost pirate treasure to help dear Sam, and in the process ended up throwing his own life and marriage in jeopardy.

PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY:
Hadriel

Nate arrived alone in a city called Hadriel and did not see anyone from his world for several months into his stay. During his time he explored various worlds, fought various monsters, and kept a haphazard record of things in his sketchbook. In addition to this, his exploring yielded critical information about Hadriel's history and former residents. Nate frequently updated maps for the city, helped newcomers get adjusted, and organized expeditionary and tactical efforts for intelligence and defensive purposes, respectably.

In the weeks preceding the final battle for the city, Nate led a guerrilla warfare-style offensive in an alien jungle environment and helped arrange evacuation for civilians as well as the sabotage of enemy weaponry and resources. While he originally began these efforts out of personal curiosity his approach shifted to more altruistic intentions as friends and residents got involved and began to rely on him for answers in a way Nate wasn't accustomed to - up until this point, Nate's canonical adventures were pet projects that he satisfied with one or two other people, at most. He acquired leadership skills he didn't think he was capable of having and become a considerably more proactive person for it. After his violent and painful death at the hands of a demon he was spying on for the Hadriel Guard, Nate began to utilize more caution with regards to safety and the people who looked to him for guidance. He returned home from Hadriel through a gate he helped to construct with other residents of the city.

Meadowlark

After only a few hours back home – long enough to fall off a high cliff and presumably die – Nate woke up in New Amsterdam, convinced he lost his life. Unlike Hadriel's post-apocalyptic appearance, N.A. was an advanced city on Earth in the remote future, and Nate's adjustment to the environment was substantially harder seeing as he isn’t technologically savvy. After initially working at a bar geared toward helping "displaced" people adjust, he transitioned to jobs for the local crime syndicate as a means of income and information-gathering.

Nate's recon and puzzle-solving skills directly led to the unveiling of a critical figure responsible for pulling the Displaced into N.A., and he was later tapped to be a liaison for the Displaced with the man in question. One of Nate's greatest struggles was coming to terms with his own death and forgiving his brother for the hand he had in the matter, the latter being more difficult than he'd thought. Despite this conflict Nate managed to make a number of strong interpersonal connections, and learned to open up again after shutting himself off from contact.

PERSONALITY: Nate is a career criminal who only recently went on the straight and narrow. He's a talented liar to anyone who doesn't know him well enough, is impatient unless a historical interest is in question and is insecure about what constitutes as "normality." He can be cavalier about his knowledge of history, overwhelmed with the excitement that his work brings him, and it manifests as incredulous arrogance. Stubborn but not prone to arguing, he will change his position on something if provided with a valid reason for doing so. Nate refers to himself as "adaptable," which goes hand in hand with his thrill-seeking and the dangers inherent.

Careless with regards to his personal safety Nate is something of an adrenaline junkie, deriving delight from dangerous circumstances no matter how life-threatening. He also doesn't consider himself a cold-blooded killer in spite of the body count he's racked up, treating such occasions as "it's him or me" scenarios. Accustomed to improvisation he also tends to be reactionary and flexible in those situations, rather than choosing to stick to a concrete plan. Reckless behavior is a gentle way of describing his default that has persisted well into adulthood, and Nate has the prison record to suggest as much. This – and his time in the orphanage – ties into a dislike of authority figures or those who demand respect but give none in return, and Nate is chock-full of sarcastic quips or one-liners for anyone he identifies as an incompetent bully.

When absorbed in the intricate minutiae of a job he can become short-sighted and neglectful, caught up in the fire that only discovery can stoke. With all pistons firing Nate is an unstoppable force of creative problem-solving, leaping to impossible conclusions that have left friends rolling their eyes in frustration for his "Beautiful Mind shit". This tendency to become easily distracted, however, has screwed him in the past. Nate is trusting of his professional partners and has thereby been easily manipulated into lending his expertise, skill, and know-how in return for Brutus' knife in his back.

Nate's foremost fear is ending up alone. This deep-seated anxiety is reflected in his decision-making process, selfishly leading to an overprotectiveness of loved ones not for their sakes, but for his own. Frightened of losing people he tends to overstep, and in an almost contradictory fashion has a habit of pushing them away in the process or orchestrating his own failures as a self-fulfilling prophecy. His abandonment issues summarily become an ouroboros of internalized guilt, wherein he blames himself for things going wrong because he believes he is the one to blame (even when he's not).

Consequently, Nate has the looks of Action Guy No. 4 without coming across as a hyper-masculine stereotype: for all his emotional parkour conveying his feelings, he is open and honest with those he cares about. However, while he feels very strongly, he has a poor concept of how to express those emotions in a healthy, constructive way.

Also, he's terrified of clowns.

SUITABILITY: Extremely suitable, not to put too fine a point on it. Nate thrives in dangerous environments and risky scenarios with high stakes. He spent two years in Hadriel, which was effectively a post-apocalyptic world, on top of his wealth of experience in treasure hunting with volatile and violent competition. In addition, he's incredibly curious and adventurous, which makes this new world excessively interesting to him. Seeking out its various secrets will be a priority for him after settling in.

ABILITIES/SKILLS: Professional thief and treasure hunter with an annoyingly intimate knowledge of historical minutiae and the esoteric. A career criminal, Nate is preternaturally skilled at running away from his problems, rock (and building) climbing, scuba diving, picking fights, and not dying in spite of the multitude of dangerous scenarios in which he finds himself. Can fly a plane, can also survive falling out of a plane. He has inscrutably good luck, to a nigh-unbelievable extent,¹ and a brief flirtation with stage magic in his youth lends itself well to his excellent sleight-of-hand, useful for picking the pockets of unsuspecting marks. Nate's experience in various illegal doings also lends him some minor mechanical engineering skills, mostly with regards to hot-wiring vehicles and disarming alarm systems. While not a professional getaway driver, he has exceptional vehicle handling and quick reflexes.

Highly talented with firearms and back-alley brawling Nate's greatest talents are fighting dirty, taking a beating, and his inability to keep from making terrible puns at inopportune times. Fluent in Spanish, Latin, and Morse Code with a fair knowledge of Tibetan, Indonesian, Greek, Enochian and Mongolian script. Otherwise, a totally normal guy who happens to be really good at drawing and keeping notes. More than anything Nate is an adaptable but regular human, quick to evolve to drastic changes in situations as they happen.

¹ It was suggested by Uncharted developers that his "health bar/meter" is actually his "luck," and that Nate tends to wander through firefights and bullets just miss him until he pushes it too far. Ol' Nathan "Human Cockroach" Drake.

In Hadriel, Nate spent approximately six months training with Taako Taaco the wizard, learning magical skills, spells and cantrips. He is effectively a Level 1 Wizard, which should terrify anyone and everyone in proximity.

Cantrips
◆ Mage Hand [x] - A spectral hand manifests and can only interact with/pick things up within 30 feet. Can't lift more than 10 pounds. Missed leg day.
◆ Shocking Grasp [x] - Like when you rub your sock feet on the floor and touch a doorknob, but bigger. A startling jolt from contact.
◆ Prestidigitation [x] - Harmless sensory effects, largely illusory magic. Cool minor shit like David Blaine wishes he could do.

Spells
◆ Feather Fall [x] - Can fall, but like, gently. And not die in the process.
◆ Expeditious Retreat [x] - Making a very hasty exit (as if pursued by bear).
◆ Comprehend Languages [x] - Provided the spell is cast, enables him to understand languages he doesn't know. Cannot necessarily speak them without practice.
◆ Shield [x] - Manifests a completely invisible Captain America-esque shield to block projectiles.
◆ Disguise Self [x] - Change appearance (clothes, et cet) to look like anyone else, but cannot change body type. Can only add or subtract up to a foot in height for this spell.
◆ Magic Missile [x] - Create three glowing darts of magical force. They hit at the same time, but can strike different targets simultaneously.

INVENTORY:

❖ Set of leather shoulder holsters
❖ One (1) custom handgun with magazine
❖ Weather-beaten sketchbook and pencil
❖ A small Tibetan phurba
❖ Flashlight device that adheres to one's temples with retinal tracking

Samples;

SAMPLE ONE: communication
SAMPLE TWO: thinking
SAMPLE THREE: conflict