PATTERSON, Nathaniel David

NAME – Nathaniel David Patterson
AGE – Thirty-one [January 1st, 1976]
SEX – Male
ORIENTATION – Heterosexual
SUBJECT NUMBER – 128
STAGE OF BLEEDING EFFECT – Stage III, borderline Stage IV
ALLIANCE – None
PLAY BY – Ben Whishaw


APPEARANCE DESCRIPTION

Nathaniel has always been quite small. Standing at only five foot eight, he has never really been an intimidating figure to anyone. Even when standing straight at full height, some of his female students still towered over him. Then again, this has never stopped Nathaniel from looking down on people. Along with his puny height, Nathaniel is also a bit underweight. He is skinny to the point that rumors went around suggesting that he had eating disorders and probably weighed under one-hundred pounds. While the first rumor was bullshit, the second one was slightly closer to the truth. While Nathaniel was about twenty pounds short of being under one-hundred, he was still very underweight.

However his face seems to make up for his scrawny size. Nathaniel knows that he is relatively good-looking and has many times used it to his advantage. He may be an asshole but people tend to overlook that if you are a pretty asshole. So Nathaniel takes special care of his skin and hair, making sure that he always looks his best. This also means that Nathaniel hates getting his hair touched. There is a lot of it, dark brown and gets messed up easily, and thus he doesn’t like it when people ruin twenty minutes of work.

While he takes care of his hair and face, Nathaniel doesn’t take as much time with his clothes, especially when going to work. Most of the teachers are wearing suits and ties and dresses, Nathaniel will show up in a t-shirt and jeans every day without fail. The only time anyone sees Nathaniel in a dress shirt and tie are at weddings and at funerals.

At Abstergo, this appearance fell apart. Most of Nathaniel’s energy became focused on keeping the hallucinations at bay and then hiding them from the Abstergo staff. His hair became a wild mane and dark circles appeared under his eyes. Somehow, he even became skinnier. When he returned to school the fall following Abstergo, the other teachers had almost been anticipating the mental breakdown that followed. And after being returned to Abstergo, his conditioned has improved slightly as he no longer has to hide his hallucinations and Geoffrey Scolfield had been rather particular about his appearance, which has started to kick in with the Bleeding Effect. Still, Nathaniel is almost unrecognizable compared to his old self.

PERSONALITY DESCRIPTION

[EGOTISTICAL]
It can be debated whether Nathaniel is completely self-obsessed but he definitely acts like he is. There is no question that Nathaniel’s favorite conversation topic is himself and if the conversation isn’t about him, he will make it about him. It seems that Nathaniel can find no fault in himself and believes that he is god’s gift to man. At first, this selfishness had been an act that Nathaniel put on for other people. However the act has almost become a reality for Nathaniel started to believe his words. Nowadays, it is hard to tell when Nathaniel acting and when he is not.

[STUBBORN]
Once Nathaniel has an opinion he sticks to it. No one should believe they can convince him otherwise. For example, it would take him drowning to believe that he couldn’t breathe underwater. Unless he is given complete and concrete proof of something, he will just glare and laugh skeptically. Also trying to get Nathaniel to follow orders is a similar experience to bathe a cat. If he doesn’t want to do it, he will claw and bite until you give up and let him go. It takes a strong pair of hands and real threats to make him do anything he doesn’t want to do.

[LOUD-MOUTHED]
Nathaniel does not have a filter between his brain and his mouth. This has more often than not gotten Nathaniel into serious trouble, especially with the school administration about his treatment of students’ parents. He isn’t afraid to call people out on their idiocy and just say what comes to mind. It also doesn’t help that when Nathaniel wants to say something, even if his opinion isn’t wanted, he will say it and in a very loud voice. This was probably why Abstergo had Nathaniel sign at least one-hundred sheets of paperwork before being released to have a mental breakdown.

[INTELLIGENT]
Since he was a little kid, it has been obvious that Nathaniel is very smart. He was smart to the point that it alienated people. For the life of him Nathaniel could not carry out a normal conversation and would get frustrated when people wouldn’t understand him. In later years, this would start to disappear as Nathaniel finally figured out how to make small talk, it hasn’t completely disappeared. It isn’t uncommon for Nathaniel to completely lose the interest of the other person during a conversation. Nathaniel also has a pinpoint memory, especially in terms of remembering names and dates. He could tell you the exact dates of Qin dynasty of China and the important generals that battled in Lexington and Concord. However, Nathaniel’s short-term memory is horrendous. Chances are he cannot tell you what he ate for lunch or the name of the person he met an hour ago.

[RASH]
Nathaniel never thinks before he speaks, that means he also doesn’t think before he acts. Despite all better judgment, Nathaniel tends to rush into situations headfirst. He will throw all caution to the wind if something seems fun. He rarely thinks about the possible consequences of his actions and would rather live in the moment than despair over what might happen as a result. Again and again this has gotten Nathaniel into trouble. Basically signing over his life to Abstergo has been his biggest mistake yet.

HISTORY

Nathaniel had a relatively normal life leading up to Abstergo. He was born on the first day of 1976, the third child of Mary and Arthur Patterson. From an early age he proved to be insufferably smart and a general pain in the ass but he was loved by his family anyway. However that was not the case with the other school children. While smart, Nathaniel was small and skinny, making him the perfect target for bullying. No amount of words could protect him from the very persistent classmates that were determined to make school a living hell. Instead of hiding away with his books and avoiding the other children, Nathaniel took matters into his own hands.

He became the terror of the school as he defended himself with various traps and pranks that eventually chased off the bullies. These escapades also did not gain him many friends. The few kids that would have befriended Nathaniel were often caught in the crossfire and began to avoid him. Nathaniel’s family would have been worried if the boy hadn’t seemed to be taking his friendlessness in stride. He had formed a shell of egotism and a mouth that could rival his two older sisters. He talked incessantly and his favorite topic was himself.

During high school Nathaniel became fascinated in history. He had always loved reading as a child and history just seemed to be one long never-ending plot line. Every person and every event was connected in some way and he loved to find those connections as he read history book after history book. His parents were accommodating with his obsession but were a bit disappointed. With his brain he could go into medical school or become an engineer but instead, their son had latched onto history and wasn’t going to let go.

After college it became obvious to Nathaniel that he should have become a doctor or an engineer because with a history major, he ended up in the classroom. He greatly disliked children but there was little he could do with his degree and thus, he became a high school teacher. While he was an excellent teacher, his students constantly received great scores on their tests, but he was despised by a majority of the teaching staff and student body. He was considered rude and self-obsessed. He completely disregarded parts of school code such as wearing a t-shirt and jeans every day to work and was often blunt with students and parents.

To put it simply, Nathaniel was bored with his job. However at the end of one school year, Abstergo approached him with a proposition. They offered to pay Nathaniel to be a part of their Animus project as a test subject. At first Nathaniel was weary because of the little information he could find on this ‘Animus project’. He would have refused but the money was much more than he would make in a year of teaching and the little information he could find on it told him it had something to do with history. Money and history were the top two things Nathaniel was interested in. He agreed and was taken to the Abstergo Testing Center.

At first, the Animus project seemed to be dreams come true for Nathaniel. He was able to experience his ancestor’s history first hand. An artist in Renaissance Italy, he got to see many things that Nathaniel would have never dreamed he would ever see. Then as the memories progressed, it was revealed that Nathaniel’s ancestor was part of an Assassin’s Order.

Nathaniel’s Animus sessions became less focused on the history and more on the assassination missions despite Nathaniel’s protests. That was also when the physical tests began. Nathaniel had never been particularly graceful or athletic and suddenly he was being forced through a series of physical gauntlets that would have been impossible before. While in the back of his head Nathaniel knew that he could manage these feats, he continued to fall and hurt himself to make a point. This was not what he signed up for.

The hallucinations started as well. They were brief and blurry at first; Nathaniel had no problem ignoring them. As they increased in length and clarity, it became harder to ignore them but Nathaniel somehow managed. There were a few occasions where he almost caved and told the staff about them but he wanted to leave at the end of the summer. He had no desire to be kept at Abstergo any longer.

At the end of the summer, Nathaniel didn’t seem affected by the Animus at all. He showed no signs of the Bleeding Effect and one day very calmly asked if he would be allowed to leave. He had a job to return to. After signing mountains of paperwork basically suggesting that Nathaniel would not disclose what he knew about the Animus Project or be killed, he was released. The scientists assigned Nathaniel’s case were baffled and poured over his files, searching for any signs of a mistake.

They found the evidence a little too late. While searching through the hours of footage taken of Nathaniel’s room, it became obvious that Nathaniel became very good at hiding the effects. He had hid them by lying down and pretended to be asleep as he tried his best to ignore the hallucinations. The only symptoms the staff managed to catch was one particularly bad hallucination that borderlined Stage IV symptoms.

In a panic, Abstergo raced to get Nathaniel back into the facility before he drew attention to himself. They found him too late. A week into the school year, Nathaniel was lecturing a group of sophomore students when the hallucination settled in. At first, Nathaniel tried to ignore the hallucination. He had been convinced that if his exposure to the Animus reduced then the hallucinations would go away.

The hallucinations grew into a full-blown breakdown for Nathaniel. He collapsed in front of his students and tried to tell them to get the nurse but the words that came out of his mouth were a mixed mess of Italian, Latin, and English. It took at least five minutes before one stunned student managed to rise from her desk and started toward the phone. It was knocked from her hand by Nathaniel, completely lost in the hallucination, who had thrown an eraser with pinpoint accuracy.

Hearing the noise from another room, a different teacher called security and a fight ensued. Nathaniel held off the security guards at first, using Geoffrey’s skills, but due to his small size was quickly overpowered. He was dragged to the office where he was supposed to be collected by the police. The police would never take him into custody because Abstergo intervened before they could. Nathaniel, now coherent, was bound and taken by a few employees back to the Testing Center.

Nathaniel hoped that he was being taken back to Abstergo for protection as his hallucinations cleared away. The opposite started to happen. Abstergo wanted to know how he managed to resist the hallucinations for this long and what would happen if his bleeding effect worsened, to see if he could fend off the effects as it progressed.

ANCESTOR -

[/u] SCOLFIELD, GEOFFREY
LOCATION – Rome, Italy
TIME PERIOD – 1508
ALLIANCE – Assassin
OCCUPATION - Assassin/Artist
NATIVE LANGUAGE – English
OTHER LANGUAGES – Italian, Latin

HISTORY –

Geoffrey Scolfield was born into a family of assassins during the late fifteenth century in London, England. From a young age he was taught the skills he would need to one day continue the family tradition. He was a skilled free-runner and marksman but struggled when it came to hand to hand combat. Geoffrey could hold his own for a while but would be quickly overpowered by larger enemies. This made him lean more toward improving his skills with his throwing knives and crossbow for long-range kills.

While he was a skilled assassin, Geoffrey also had an interest in art. Living in London meant that ships were constantly coming in to port with all kinds of treasures from Italy and the Middle East. This is where Geoffrey was exposed to the artists living in cities such as Florence and Venice. He wanted nothing more than to travel to Italy to study with the masters.

That was when he convinced his parents to grant him passage to Italy. It took several months to reach Italy and when Geoffrey arrived in Rome, he did not find what he was expecting. He wanted to study art and instead discovered the Assassin’s Bureau in Rome. After showing his skills in free-running and long-range weapons, he was inducted into the order.

While Geoffrey never came into contact with a piece of Eden or was even in the presence of one, he became an interest for his interactions with Ezio Auditore in the early sixteenth century. Abstergo hoped that while he may have not personally come into contact with a Piece of Eden, he would at least had some information about it.

Geoffrey died in 1533 at the age of 45 due to the flu in London, England. He returned to England after spending nearly twenty years in Italy. He had married while in Rome and brought his wife back home with him and they had four children, two of which would later continue on the tradition of becoming assassins.

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