Post by `` nathan flemming on May 9, 2009 10:48:14 GMT -5
( nathan timothy flemming )
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full name: Nathan Timothy Flemming
nickname(s): Nate
age: 16 / a junior at school
gender: male
role: leaser
riding level: intermediate
sexuality: hetero
play-by: Logan Lerman
( appearance )
After being short as a child, his growth spurt was unexpected and welcomed. Though maybe it lasted a little too much. Nate has gotten pretty tall; he is actually just about six feet. He doesn't have much of a problem with his height, it certainly helped when he tried out for the basketball team. Too bad his weight has quite exactly caught up with his height. Nate is not so skinny that all of his ribs are showing but he is wiry, lean and maybe just a touch lanky. The fact that he is an active participant in sports will certainly start to turn things around. He will never be a body builder, or anything close to that, nor does he want to be, but he is pretty fit for a skinny fellow. He played on his school's soccor team during the fall, the basketball team during the winter and the lacross team during the spring. Needless to say, he has become a bit toned; muscle is appearing on his arms and his abs, yet there isn't enough covering his bones to take take away his wiry look. Yet, at least.
Considering all the time time Nate spends outside, either practicing one of the many sports he participates in or playing with his dogs or riding horses, whatever, it would seem pretty strange if he his skin were chalk white. So, naturally, since Nate is not an albino, they boy does have a nice tan. Though, he doesn't have a bit of a farmers tan since he doesn't obsess over tan lines. But many people wouldn't know this, since his usual attire consists of t-shirts or long sleeves with shorts or jeans. No freaky tank tops here folks. As for his eyes, they certainly stand out here. They are a light, light blue that is on the border line of being gray. They are a strange color, though Nate is not the type to spend hours making observations about the exact shade of his eye color. It just depends on how the light hits them, on whether they have a more blueish tint or a metal color.
It is really quite easy to tell that Nate is adopted. I mean, it might not be the first conclusion you come to, but once you know the truth it is a 'oh, thats so obvious, I can't believe I didn't realise' moment. His whole adoptive family, including Claire who is no more related to them than he is, have some varying shade of blond hair with either brown eyes or green eyes or a mixture. Poor Nate is off to the side, not really, with his wavy brown hair and crazy blue-or-gray- eyes and tanned skin. Not to mention, he is taller and skinnier than his other family members. But, if you were to put him and Selena, his birth-mother, side by side, you could easily see the resemblance upon first glance. And that is no insult; both of them are quite attractive. So, Nate has thick, wavy hair that will get more curly if he sleeps on it wet. Right now, it is kept long, and Nate is actually one of those guys to attempts to comb it and keep it somewhat neat ( though he never puts anything more than shampoo in his hair; no gel or whatever ). That isn't to say he is always successful at keeping it tangle free, but he tries, which is more than you can say for some teenage boys.
( personality )
( history )
This isn't easy to say, and luckily people don't say it often, but in all honesty, Nathan was a mistake. Yes, that sounds harsh and most kids would cringe if someone told them that, but Nate understands. I mean, who plans to get pregnant at fifthteen? Now, Selena isn't a slut, so don't go thinking that, because Nate will defend his birthmother firecely if he gets a whiff of talk like that. Selena Elliot was fifthteen, a sophmore at school ( much like Nathan today ), and she was young and pretty naive about boys and stuff like that. She didn't plan to have sex, but when you are as inexperienced as she is it is hard to think when a cute, popular junior approuches you at a party. Tom was the guy every girl wants and he was notourious for sleeping around. Selena slaps herself now for being so stupid, but she was too naive to see that Tom was just looking for a one-night fling and honestly, she was flattered that he noticed her. Anyway, one night can make a difference and suddenly Selena found herself pregnant at fifthteen.
She somehow managed to live through the gossip of her school mates and the disappointment from her parents for nine months. Selena and Tom never went out again, but they tolerated either if only because they needed to discuss what they were going to do with a baby. Selena would love nothing more than to take care of her baby herself, and was dead set against abortion or adoption for a while. Then she saw the light and knew she couldn't handle a baby while juggling school in hopes of getting into a good collage at the same time, so she did that hardest thing a mother can do: she signed those adoption papers. It was hard to find a couple that would allow an open adoption, meaning Selena would be able to visit ( she wasn't going to give up her baby completely, she did love him after all ). But she did find what she thought was the perfect couple. Matthew and Virginia Flemming were a young couple, late twenties, who already had a two-year old son named Benjamin. But for some reason Virginia was unable to have more children, who knows why. But Selena was happy with the family; they were close by, nice, and they were more than happy to agree to let Selena visit. Now all they needed was a baby.
Nathan Timothy was born in Feburary, right on time. Selena kissed her son goodbye and handed him off to the Flemmings, tearful at first, but she soon found it was much easier to finish off school without having to care for a baby. Nate grew up happy, surrounded by his two familys; his birth one, and his adoptive one. He loved both, and he called Selena 'mama' and Virigina was 'mommy'. Tom, who did visit his son from time to time, was 'da' and Mattew was 'daddy'. As a kid, Nate discovered that having two families ment twice as many gifts on birthdays and Christmas, which goes by well with children. So Nate's toddler and younger childhood years mostly consisted of running after Ben on wobbly legs, playing with both sets of his parents and enjoying being the 'baby'. When Nate was, oh, eight the Flemmings decided to foster this sweet little baby girl. Nate was no longer the baby of the house, but he proudly declaired himself a "big brother now". He loved little Claire even before she was adopted into the family; part of it had to do with the fact that she was adopted too, like him.
Of course, Ben never gave his adoptive siblings trouble. There was never any 'they're my parents, not yours' and there was never speical treatment for him. He saw Nate, and later Claire, as any normal older brother would: he sometimes got annoyed with them, but he loved them and was protective of them. Anyway, once Nate reached middle school, Virginia and Matthew decided to put him into a private school with Ben. It was ok; Nate made some friends, and he got good grades, but he wasn't too crazy about the uniforms and the strict teachers. Besides, the majority of his friends went to the public schools and Nate hated having to start a whole new school without them. He endured three years of it all before finally exclaiming that he really didn't like it there. After begging for a while, his parents agreed to let him start public high school with all of his friends. Currently, he is in his second year of high school, Claire is now seven and in grade school and Ben is a senior, about to graduate and move out to go to collage out of state. He still gets frequent visits from Selena, who is now thirty and has a steady job as a math teacher.
Now, as far as the horse back riding goes, Nate started taking lessons when he was ten. It was something Virginia and Matthew had done as kids and it interested Nate. They have yet to buy a horse, but they do lease one of the lesson horses for Nate.
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