Nathaniel Zsoldos

[Nathaniel Zsoldos]

Zsoldos; Nathaniel; Meister

Name: Nathaniel John Zsoldos

Nickname: Nat, Nathan, Nate, Giraffe

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Race: Meister

Position: Student

Class: One Star

Partner: Arlie Davis

A Strong Body

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Appearance:

Nathaniel is lanky and very tall, towering over the heads of many of his classmates. He has light freckles on his shoulders, big brown eyes, and a carefully spiked head of blonde hair. It takes him quite a while to get his hair just right, but he gladly puts the effort in for the sake of looking devastatingly cool - at least, he likes to think so. When it isn't spiked up with copious amounts of hair gel, it falls messily over his forehead and is stick straight. His right ear has four piercings, his left ear has five, and he has a piercing on his tongue. He wears simple studs or small silver loops that match the rings he occasionally wears on his fingers. When he's bored or nervous, he twists them absentmindedly.

A typical outfit is usually a pair of (often ripped) skinny jeans, with some sort of button-up or tank top below a jacket or jean vest, usually with buttons or studs as decoration. He also likes layering, putting a long sleeved shirt under a tee, throwing a hoodie on under a denim jacket. Nathaniel also enjoys wearing simple silver chains around his neck or hanging from his belt loops, and has a leather collar necklace he wears near constantly. He sometimes throws on a tie (hanging loosely around his neck) or a slouchy hat. Nathaniel wears belts as well, out of necessity, for his skinny frame makes it hard to find pants long enough that also fit his waist.

Height: 6'4"

Weight: 180 lbs.

Fighting Style:

Nathaniel has never been in a fight in his life, but he's seen movies! He's an inexperienced fighter, but what he lacks in physical training he makes up in a quick mind and a sharp intelligence that finds it easy to follow his opponents moves. He isn't very fast, but he's bright and knows to look for weaknesses, if he can avoid getting hit long enough to exploit them.

Personality:

At first glance, Nathaniel appears intimidating. He's tall and wears clothes that look straight out of a punk rock music video, with piercings and safety pins, looking slightly disheveled and sloppy. He began wearing these clothes in high school, encouraged by his parents, who were great believer in fostering creativity. (It was mostly because Nathaniel had studied social movements of 1980's London and he had become enamored with the style - he had a tendency to spike his hair and wear torn jeans anyways. All he really had to do was add more spikes and pierce things.)

However, within the first five minutes of meeting Nathan it's obvious he's a huge teddy bear who wouldn't hurt a fly. His intimidating frame becomes much less scary and more like a huge container for his big heart. He's very easy to talk to and he's easy to be friends with - although he is patient and tries to be as kind as he can, he has limits and is often astounded by the people around him for varying degrees of obtuseness or petty behavior. He's very book smart, but some social smarts elude him (especially when it comes to what to do in a romantic situation or anything that requires tact. He can blurt out harsh truths at inopportune moments, usually accidentally).

He likes sewing and baking and shopping online for plaid pants. He doesn't see any sense in being secretive about it - he's always ready to go see a romantic comedy or sew a teddy bear for his sister. He also doesn't balk at the occasional tea party or game with his kid sister. She's his best friend and they get along famously, his entire family being very close-knit and loving. Family and friends are the most important things to him, and he is unwaveringly loyal and protective of them.

Nathaniel is also interested in art, although he rarely ever makes it himself. He loves looking at paintings and reading poetry, usually dragging some poor soul along with him. He also is a bit of a hopeless romantic, and that is probably due to all the romance books he tends to read (which he also considers art, despite how crappy most of them are).

Inside the Soul


Abilities:

Soul Perception: By focusing on an individual soul, Nathaniel can 'read' a soul and make accurate judgments about the person's characteristics, personality and Soul Wavelength. Knowing the Wavelength of a soul can allow Nathaniel to match or disrupt the opponent's Wavelength in or outside of combat, making it easier to analyze the opponent.

Resonances: N/A

Out of your Mind

Strengths:

• Strong hitter
  
• Excellent strategist
  
• Good endurance
  

Weaknesses:

• Slow
  
• Inexperienced fighter
  
• Old injury in his knee
  

Hobbies: Watching movies, reading comics, sleeping,

Likes:

• Cheesy romance movies
  
• Coffee
  
• Anything that he can put ketchup on and eat
  
• Really objectively bad music
  
• Art and Poetry
  
• Makeouts
  

Dislikes:

• People assuming things because of his appearance
  
• Tomatoes
  
• Rain
  
• Plaid
  
• Anyone messing with his bros
  

Aspirations: To be a Meister like his father and follow in his shoes - it makes him feel a bit more connected to him and his parents in general! And to keep safe, for his adoptive parent's sake.

History:

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Nathaniel never knew his birth parents, adopted by Ana and Henri Zsoldos at barely 7 months old. They were friends of his birth parents, a British weapon and meister team who were killed by a witch, and Ana and Henri were more than willing to take poor Nathaniel in. However, Ana and Henri were loving and attentive, and were sure to talk early on with Nathaniel so that he knew that he had been orphaned - and so he grew up without the angst that would usually accompany such news. He couldn't miss the people he had never really known, and it was enough that his birth parents had loved him. He often thought that he was lucky enough to have adoptive ones that loved him just as much, if not more.

When he was 10, Ana became pregnant, and nine months later Angelica was born. From the start, Nathaniel was a protective big brother, checking on her and feeding her and offering to help with her diapers (although that died out very quickly).

Early on, he showed an aptitude for studies and was a diligent and gifted student - no genius by far, but smart and quick and attentive, and had an easy time in school. He enjoyed English and Math the most, although he also took many history and art classes. His art classes were his favorite, even though he liked learning about art more than creating it himself, and although was bullied because he was tall (even from an early age) he took it rather in stride.

When Nathaniel turned 15, Ana and Henri sat Nathaniel down and reminded him that, although his parents were killed by a witch, they were very usually good at what they did and if Nathaniel so chose, he could follow in their footsteps. There was a long line of meisters on his birth father's side, and on his mother's side as well (although she was a weapon, herself), so they were fairly confident that Nathaniel was one as well. They were worried, but wanted him to have the choice, and Nathaniel thought it might bring him closer to the parents he never knew. So he decided to go to Shibusen, but his parents asked him to wait until he was a little older, for their sake.

Right before his 17th birthday, he tore his ACL. It pushed back his plans to go to Shibusen, which bummed him out, but he accepted it and gave himself time to heal. The surgery went without a hitch, and they ended up inserting a cadaver tendon, and Nathaniel only needed crutches for less than a wee. He worse a knee brace for another week or so. His leg healed quickly, and when he was sent to Shibusen four months later, he could walk and drive a car and jump with relative ease, his knee pretty much back to where it was pre-surgery. However, during an especially intense sparring bout during his first week at Shibusen, his knee began hurting again, and he began focusing on punches and more strategy work to give his knee a rest.

Extra Notes: Nathaniel is quite superstitious. He won't cross a black cat's path, refuses to open an umbrella inside, and is wary of the number 13.

Behind the strings

Alias: Kat

Other characters: Zia Leroux

Face Claim: Nobuo Terashima from NANA

RP Sample:

"Thank you for coming to our tea party, Prince of Fairyland!"

"The honor is mine, Fairy Queen Angelica of the Rainbow. I brought snacks for your soiree!"

Nathaniel's sister, seven years old, clad in a shiny plastic tiara and fairy wings made out of wire and pink pantyhose, leaned forward. "What's a swar-ey?" She whispered.

"It means a party, but in fancy-speak," Nathaniel, 17 years old, whispered back, another plastic crown perched on his hair and a sparkly wand in his hand. He set the Oreos on the makeshift table and picked up a plastic play teapot filled with water and started to serve Angelica. "Do you take your tea with sugar?"

"No, I'm sweet enough," his sister said sensibly.

Nathaniel handed her a cup and saucer, poured himself his own cup, and clinking their glasses and holding out their pinkies, they sipped at the "tea." Angie set the teacup down and gave him a blue-eyed stare. "Are you really going to go to Sheetsun?"

"Shibusen? Yeah."

"Are you going to fight bad guys?"

"I'll try to keep people safe. I don't know if it's as simple as good guys and bad guys."

"Oh."

"But don't worry! I promise I'll come home safe!" Nathaniel gave her a reassuring smile.

Angie scrutinized her older brother, and as serious as a 7 year old could be, she stuck out her pinkie. "Pinkie promise you'll come back safe?"

Nathaniel hooked his pinkie around hers, looking into her worried eyes. "Hey, don't worry! I pinkie promise. I'll come home safe. I swear. but in the meantime..." He held up the teapot. "More tea?"

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