the personality

likes • working out problems, talking to people, his family, naomi, horses, working, sleeping in on sundays, outdoor grilling, cartoons, animals.
dislikes • injustice, lonely holidays, when his kids cry, his kids being hurt, puzzles with missing pieces, prickly plants, peppermint, permanent markers in his kids hands, plain water, warm beer.
strengths • people skills, good with his hands.
weaknesses • tears, animals.
dreams • that his kids grow up happy and healthy.
fears • an uncapped marker.
overall personality • nathan is many things, he's kind, he's caring and he's warm and open. he's been blessed with an even temper, and he really only gets his back up when his family are involved. he can't stand to see his family hurting and when his kids cry it's like knives straight through his heart. he's supportive of people's dreams and he likes to see people succeed. he's not very quick to discipline his kids but he does try, he just finds it hard to look past their puppy dog eyes and he finds it almost impossible not to melt, but he does try his darndest. he's a little unsure of himself though, and his ability to raise well adjusted kids, he worries that he works too much and he knows that it can sometimes keep him away from his family but it's a habit he can't break.

the history

father • oscar thorne, architect, 59.
mother • ellen thorne, geologist, 58.
siblings • --- thorne, sibling, 33, farmer (took over the family farm)
--- thorne, sibling, 25.
important people • NAOMI EMILY CLARKE , partner.
CARA-JEAN KITCHI , daughter.
EMMA SCARLETT YOUNG , daughter.
CASEY ALEXANDER LLOYD , son.
sebastian thorne, 2, son.
viola thorne, 2, daughter.
kyoto kitchi, 3, granddaughter.
hometown • hickstead, uk.
overall history • nathan is a born and breed hickstead boy. he was raised in the town and he can't see himself going anywhere else, at least for a long period of time. he grew up sort of simple, he had two parents who loved each other and he's the middle child of three siblings but lucky for them he didn't seem to suffer from middle child syndrome. his days were spent riding horses on the family farm, his grandfather running that operation because his father bucked the life to work in an office. there was no bad blood in the family because of it though, his grandfather just wanting what was best for his family and he wasn't going to force the farm onto any of them.

as he grew up he was torn on what he wanted to do, he loved the farm but he wasn't sure it was what he wanted to do with his life either. luckily, his older sibling took the reins from them all and decided from a young age that it's what they wanted, so nathan was happy to take a step back, to help when needed but to focus on where he wanted to take his life. once he'd graduated high school, he'd formed a plan for his life. he went to university and he studied to become a physiotherapist. he'd grown up with people who had suffered injuries and they'd either been too stubborn or not had help available to heal correctly and he wanted to change that, he didn't want anyone to suffer through an deformity that could either be eased or helped with the right intervention.

it wasn't long after that that he reconnected with someone he'd seen a few times when he'd been a child. vacations to visit his mother's family over in the states had yielded dinners with her family and he was happily surprised when he found out that she'd moved to hickstead. it seemed that the universe was going to gift him the best of both worlds because she'd inherited a family property, something like he might have, and he agreed to help her manage it, while starting his career at the local hospital. it was hard work but he loved it.

soon he and naomi added to their family in the form of three teens, all who had come to them under vastly different circumstanced but who were welcome none the less. he struggled at first, because he didn't know how to be a parent but he and naomi figured it out along the way and now he can't imagine their family without them. there have been a few more welcome additions to the family recently, his and naomi's twin toddlers and then cara's daughter kyoto. their family life is chaotic but he wouldn't have it any other way. now he's just focusing on keeping his kids alive, healthy and happy and trying to get enough sleep at night between long hours at the barn, the hospital and the worry for his kids future keeping him awake at night.

the role player

alias • dicta-- i mean shadow.
age • old enough.
other characters • eleven hundred and seventy ninteen.