XOXO Droplets: Nate path reactions
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That's it that's the path (Ok not quite)
I feel like they were deliberately writing Nate as autistic, it's never stated outright but was handled fairly well imo. And overall this was pretty cute!
When MC asks Nate out he instinctively throws his phone away in horror, but then says it would be impolite not to consider it, and agrees to give it a go. "But if you ever stand me up, if you ever cancel, if you're ever late I will never see you again. Can you handle that?" Dude, she handled Pran, she's fine.
I was worried he'd be too much of a grumpy asshole but this is ok. (Pran is grumpier, but in a tropey traumatised tsundere way I have more patience for)
MC: I'd love to handle you ;)
Nate: D:
OH YEAH THAT'S THE OTHER REASON I WAS AVOIDING NATE.
Well, he can't be any more sex averse than Jeremy.
Haaa Nate is grumpily superior about the evils of soda and bottled water when MC offers to get him a drink.
MC: If you brought your own drink why not say that first? Just want to show off your superior beverage choices?
Nate: Probably.
MC: Awesome, that means you wanted to impress me. And it worked! Oh Nate, you make such smart liquid consumption choices. You're so awesome.
Nate: That's not the reaction I wanted.
MC: Sure it isn't.
Ok that's pretty cute. And it looks like I really did pick the three least straightforwardly communicative guys first haha. I wasn't sure I could deal with more guys like that, but seems like I won't have to!
I do wonder if they're writing him as autistic: he likes rules, is easily emotionally overwhelmed, finds certain fabrics unwearable, and likes plain food and drink.
All that stuff is fine with me but I could do with less impatience, angry outbursts, and judgemental controllingness. He does try for basic social etiquette most of the time, at least, and he's less irritable with MC by herself than he is in group meetings surrounded by people he dislikes.
Nate and MC bump into Lynn at the museum, Lynn is understandably reluctant to interrupt their date but Nate thinks he might keep MC in line. Lynn obediently follows along while Nate leads them on an educational tour, much to MC's amusement.
Lynn: Actually it's having to tell him what to do that feels strange. He's been ordering people around since he was little ahah.
MC: You knew Nate when he was little?!
Lynn: Nate and Everett enrolled around when I was starting highschool.
MC: YOU GUYS KNEW LYNN AS A TEENAGER?! :D :D
Huh! So I guess Lynn was 16 and they were 5? Making him 27-29 over the course of this game? There's been so much detail about teen!Lynn at various points that I wonder if he'll be a character in another game. (EDIT: I later came across a fic implying the devs have said that Lynn will get together with Shiloh's mother??? God. Imagine being Shiloh's stepdad o.O)
Nate wants MC to KEEP HER VOICE DOWN and LOOK AT THE ART, but it comes out that he and Lynn used to butt heads a lot.
MC: You got into fights with a CHILD?
Lynn: Those weren't my finest moments >.>
Heh, Nate's type is MC, followed by Everett.
Ha a message convo that quickly turns out to be Everett, who stole Nate's phone then couldn't figure out what sort of annoying things he could say that were any worse than what Nate would actually say.
"If work is fun you're doing it wrong. You have to work until you hate what you're doing." NATE.
They bump into Jeremy at the archery range when he tells them to take their embarrassing fight elsewhere.
MC: So Jeremy knows archery...I wonder if he's better than you?
Nate: He's not.
Jeremy, who is very good at at archery and knows Nate is a competitive douche: Trying to be the best is pointless. There's always someone better. Why would it be interesting if I was one of the archers who happens to be better than Nate?
Nate: Interesting isn't the word, unbelievable is.
Jeremy: Sigh. You're right. Bye.
Jeremy <3
(And then it turns out even MC is better than Nate, she just pretended not to know how to do archery so he'd teach her sexily, which he did not)
Nate: Please don't. It would be a waste of both our time.
MC: Ok. I'm going to keep asking you out though.
Nate: I can live with that, I guess.
His parents are lawyers, from New York, and he'll probably be one too. His only "dream" is a stable job.
So, while researching a fic I came across this post by the game's creator(s) about everyone's sexuality! It's kinda problematic (I don't think they intended it to be transphobic but, uh) and in general I feel no need to take Word of God as my personal canon. But I am 100% here for Nate as a Very Repressed Pansexual, so that can stay.
Also I am playing this at 2am with insomnia after forgetting my psych meds this morning so this may be incoherent for a little while.
Oh my gosh, Nate actually out-stubborns MC into not going into the haunted house with her, the most he'll do is walk her to the door then spend the time "on a better ride". I mean she is 100% getting him in there eventually, but after so much of her entirely getting her own way it's kind of refreshing. Also when he insults her it's generally at least somewhat on point.
MC: We didn't spend any time together, this is a sucky date >:(
Nate: Fine, we can get a snack together, but then we're going home.
MC: What are you, my dad?
Nate: No, but I feel like a babysitter.
MC: Only because you behave like a grandpa. Now give me a piggyback ride :D
Nate: Sorry, my back's not what it used to be :P
MC: Then at least hold my hand.
Nate: I'd rather use a child leash.
MC: Kinky, I like it ;D
Nate, blushing: NO SNACK FOR YOU
So it turns out when Nate was in middle school he got surprised by a haunted house employee and kicked them on instinct, then ran away. And now he feels angry at himself for being a coward and like if he goes in they'll recognise him.
MC: I can tell you're feeling vulnerable so I won't make you go in today. Let's go get a treat.
Nate: Stop babying me.
MC: Calm down or I'll have to break out the restraints ;)
And then he refuses to talk to her for the rest of the day.
They bump into Everett on a date, who quickly makes his excuses and leaves.
Nate: Too bad.
MC: You're on a date with me, do you like him more?
Nate: Obviously.
MC: Aaw :(
Nate: Hang around another decade, maybe you'll win me over :)
This game has gotten me seeing that as the height of romance.
MC: How much you like someone shouldn't depend on how long you've known them.
Nate: Fine, get to know me as well as someone who's known me a decade, and let me do the same with you.
MC: Okay, time to learn your entire life history :P Tell me about meeting Everett. Were you buddies right away?
Nate: No, I hated him. He was an instigator >:(
MC: He still is.
Nate: Not towards me :D
Aww, kid!Nate was very easy to bait into crying and getting angry, so Everett and the other kids would tease him to get a reaction. MC teases Nate about not having changed and he gets annoyed and refuses to tell any more of the story, but implies he might later. This is cute!
MC finds Nate grumping on the balcony at the school trip and bugs him to tell her what happened.
Nate: You don't care.
MC: I could!
Nate: But you don't.
MC: Well, I'll listen while you complain.
Nate's POV on the school trip drama, which works much better with all the other context: Shiloh was annoying but Nate eventually got used to rooming with him. Then Everett shows upset saying he can't share with Pran any more. Nate is angry at Pran for upsetting Everett (though from how Everett and Pran tell it Pran didn't really do anything, Everett's just still bitter about being rejected a year ago) and finds his negativity contagious, so gets snippy, and Pran storms out.
Nate: I storm out on people! They don't storm out on me!
MC: Uh.
Then Jeremy showed up, saying he refused to room with Bae any more and now Nate has a THIRD person to get used to rooming with.
MC: That doesn't sound so bad, why are you...
Nate: *bursts into tears* I want to go home ;_;
MC: D:
She flails awkwardly in the direction of being supportive.
Nate: You can go now. I'm fine.
MC has no idea what's going with him but to me he seems to be having trouble dealing with an unfamiliar environment.
MC: Good news I want you to be my boyfriend!
Nate: Yes? We're dating?
MC: I meant officially.
Nate: Yes? Do I look like I spend this much time with every girl in the world?
MC: Huh! I guess not.
Lol. I get you, Nate, I never really got the whole dating-but-not-official thing either.
Nate refuses to make out, or admit this is a special occasion, but agrees to the nickname Candy for his strawberry-pink eyes, and to holding hands for a few minutes. BUT NOT TOO TIGHTLY.
After refusing to so much as hold her hand on the Tunnel of Love he says "Look if you wanted to date a hussy you could have dated Shiloh."
Nate do you know how close Everett and MC came to having sex on this boat.
MC: Shiloh's a hussie? I guess he sucks up in more ways than one ;)
Nate: D:
MC: You're not a germaphobe right? What's your issue?
Nate: Getting close to people just causes complications.
MC: If you're scared of intimacy I'd be happy to help you work through it ;)
Nate: I'm not scared of anything >:(
...MC why check for germaphobe and not asexual...
Also idk how I feel about the sociopath dude being the most unreservedly sexual. Though admittedly Everett is the most openly sexual, and would absolutely be hussie-ing it up if it wasn't for Nate.
The final haunted house date involves MC texting Nate a running commentary from inside, she tells a really cute story all "Log day 2, I continue to explore the haunted mansion where Nate Lawson died of embarrassment. Aaah, I am being attacked! I AM DEAD" and becomes a ghost whose unfinished business is that her boyfriend didn't tell her she was attractive today.
Nate: How am I dead and your boyfriend at the same time? How are you texting me if you're a ghost?
MC: OooOOooooo
Nate: Fine. You're 'attractive'.
MC: :D
MC invites herself to Everett and Nate's lunchdate so she can pump Everett for info on how they became friends. In elementary school Nate saw Everett as competition, and felt like he'd die if he ever lost to him. So he got better at everything to always win, and in the process gained the other student's respect.
MC: So it's all your fault.
Everett: Pfft, he would have been like that anyway.
Everett starting out as the popular kid taunting Nate the awkward weirdo, only to end up with Nate as universally respected Prom King who controls Everett's life as his sort of bff-dad, is a much more interesting trajectory than I would have expected!
It's a weird friendship, not as cute or healthy as Jeremy and Pran's "two loners find the one person they can tolerate" dynamic, but very interesting.
I'm not generally super into D/s-y M/f dynamics, but it feels like they're going for that a little with Nate, except because this game is generally all about MC bullying dudes into doing what she wants it averages out moderately even, just with him saying things like "Ok you've lost messaging privileges for the next 24 hours". She teases him whenever he says anything especially over the top and he seems to find that endearing, so it's kind of cute, like Sound of Music if Maria was a sarcastic hornbag and the "children" were just one bratty fuckboy.
EDIT: Came across a post by the writer saying Nate is sexually subby?? *continues to pick and choose WOG to suit myself*
So! The end of Nate and Everett's epic tale of friendship! By the middle of middle school they'd both outgrown competing with each other and didn't see each other so much. Everett decided Nate was actually kind of cool and wanted to hang out with him, and Nate told him to get lost (did Everett have a crush on him that would be cute)
Nate: Eventually I got used to him hanging around and before I realised it, we were friends.
MC: That's anticlimactic.
Everett: He isn't a friend having kind of guy. He doesn't make some grand statement. Just letting you stick around is a major deal.
MC: I understand that painfully well. How do you think us becoming a couple went? You're hard to win over, Nate.
Nate: True :D
Everett: Fuck yeah he is. But I like it.
MC: Me too. It makes me feel special.
Everett: I know, right?
Nate: Don't talk about me like that. If you want these 'special' relationships to continue you better stop this conversation >:(
MC: You know, I just pretend like you're the boss of this relationship.
Nate: No, that's what I do with you :P
MC: Harsh, but hot. So do you like me more now?
Nate: ..yeah.
AWW
He refuses to play games with her because he's "at his worst" when he's competing and doesn't want to subject anyone he knows to that. Aw.
MC: If I can't handle you at your worst I don't deserve you at your best.
Nate: That's the stupidest thing you've ever said. Everyone deserves me at my best, even you.
MC: 'Even me'? >:(
Nate: You think that kind of stuff is funny, but I'm still not going to subject you to it.
She comes up with the idea of them just throwing darts at the wall at random.
Nate, blushing: Being understanding, trying to accomodate my shortcomings? It's like you're a real girlfriend or something >.>
Oh my god he tries to break up because he was three minutes late to a date and thus unworthy to be anyone's boyfriend. Her persuading him he's important to her and that him being flawed is ok was very sweet (he didn't even pretend he actually wanted to break up)
I don't have any available slots in my date schedule but I have 1 dates worth of points left and haven't seen Nate in his bathers. Come on, game, I am not especially interested in seeing him topless (the topless art in this game is...unfortunate) but it will break MC's heart if she doesn't. Hopefully it will unlock in Spring or something.
HOORAY. SPRING BEACH DATE.
Hahaha he has a full body wetsuit, much to MC's disappointment.
"I didn't ask you to prom because when you want something you say so." Fair.
Nate: For as long as I can remember, everyone has been a stranger I couldn't trust or rely on. Every tiny mistake or failure felt like it could crush me. The world is a monster, if I'm not prepared I'll be consumed.
MC: That's....not good. But you have a few things you can rely on. Like Everett. He's so easy to figure out there's nothing to worry about.
Nate: It seems like I know where he's coming from but I could be wrong. No matter how much I wish things could be simple, they're not.
MC: No-one can make that call but you. But maybe some things are that simple, that's how I feel about you.
Nate: ...maybe they are. Or at least, maybe they could be.
MC: <3 *goes in for a kiss*
Nate: No, if I'm going to kiss someone it has to be perfect. Thanks for listening though :)
MC: Hey Everrett, I want to do something nice for Nate, any suggestions?
Everett: The biggest favour you can do for him is not do anything.
MC: Thought so. Cool, that's taken care of :D
Everett: Shit, if Nate had to have a girlfriend, you're not a terrible choice.
MC: Maybe I can do him a favour by making sure his best buddy doesn't get into trouble.
Everett: If you and I hang out we're gonna make more trouble.
MC: True. Let's do that but not tell Nate.
Everett: Sounds like a plan, though he'll find out sooner or later.
MC: He'll be glad the two of us are getting so close.
Everett: No he won't.
MC: True. Ok, not doing that plan is my favour to him.
I liked the friendly MC and Everett dynamic on his path, it's nice to see a little of it here too.
MC: Happy birthday handsome, glad you became legal before we crossed the line ;)
Nate: I'm one month younger than you and we were nowhere near that line >:(
Aw, he doesn't dump her, but just gives her space to dump him if she wants. All the change that's coming after graduation freaks him out, so he's glad to still have her by his side.
She cheers him up saying they'll be fine and he's amazing, and he's all "You're right I AM amazing" and then he either kisses her or hugs her, then starts walking towards graduation, telling her to keep up.
THE END
That was sweet. He was probably the only guy to genuinely try to be a good boyfriend with no caveats?? I mean he was in fact a somewhat shitty boyfriend by any objective measure, but by the standards of this game he was boyfriend of the year.
And that's it for the main boys! Now there's three side boyfriends and the friendship ending, as well as some main boyfriend ending variants.
That's it that's the path (Ok not quite)
I feel like they were deliberately writing Nate as autistic, it's never stated outright but was handled fairly well imo. And overall this was pretty cute!
When MC asks Nate out he instinctively throws his phone away in horror, but then says it would be impolite not to consider it, and agrees to give it a go. "But if you ever stand me up, if you ever cancel, if you're ever late I will never see you again. Can you handle that?" Dude, she handled Pran, she's fine.
I was worried he'd be too much of a grumpy asshole but this is ok. (Pran is grumpier, but in a tropey traumatised tsundere way I have more patience for)
MC: I'd love to handle you ;)
Nate: D:
OH YEAH THAT'S THE OTHER REASON I WAS AVOIDING NATE.
Well, he can't be any more sex averse than Jeremy.
Haaa Nate is grumpily superior about the evils of soda and bottled water when MC offers to get him a drink.
MC: If you brought your own drink why not say that first? Just want to show off your superior beverage choices?
Nate: Probably.
MC: Awesome, that means you wanted to impress me. And it worked! Oh Nate, you make such smart liquid consumption choices. You're so awesome.
Nate: That's not the reaction I wanted.
MC: Sure it isn't.
Ok that's pretty cute. And it looks like I really did pick the three least straightforwardly communicative guys first haha. I wasn't sure I could deal with more guys like that, but seems like I won't have to!
I do wonder if they're writing him as autistic: he likes rules, is easily emotionally overwhelmed, finds certain fabrics unwearable, and likes plain food and drink.
All that stuff is fine with me but I could do with less impatience, angry outbursts, and judgemental controllingness. He does try for basic social etiquette most of the time, at least, and he's less irritable with MC by herself than he is in group meetings surrounded by people he dislikes.
Nate and MC bump into Lynn at the museum, Lynn is understandably reluctant to interrupt their date but Nate thinks he might keep MC in line. Lynn obediently follows along while Nate leads them on an educational tour, much to MC's amusement.
Lynn: Actually it's having to tell him what to do that feels strange. He's been ordering people around since he was little ahah.
MC: You knew Nate when he was little?!
Lynn: Nate and Everett enrolled around when I was starting highschool.
MC: YOU GUYS KNEW LYNN AS A TEENAGER?! :D :D
Huh! So I guess Lynn was 16 and they were 5? Making him 27-29 over the course of this game? There's been so much detail about teen!Lynn at various points that I wonder if he'll be a character in another game. (EDIT: I later came across a fic implying the devs have said that Lynn will get together with Shiloh's mother??? God. Imagine being Shiloh's stepdad o.O)
Nate wants MC to KEEP HER VOICE DOWN and LOOK AT THE ART, but it comes out that he and Lynn used to butt heads a lot.
MC: You got into fights with a CHILD?
Lynn: Those weren't my finest moments >.>
Heh, Nate's type is MC, followed by Everett.
Ha a message convo that quickly turns out to be Everett, who stole Nate's phone then couldn't figure out what sort of annoying things he could say that were any worse than what Nate would actually say.
"If work is fun you're doing it wrong. You have to work until you hate what you're doing." NATE.
They bump into Jeremy at the archery range when he tells them to take their embarrassing fight elsewhere.
MC: So Jeremy knows archery...I wonder if he's better than you?
Nate: He's not.
Jeremy, who is very good at at archery and knows Nate is a competitive douche: Trying to be the best is pointless. There's always someone better. Why would it be interesting if I was one of the archers who happens to be better than Nate?
Nate: Interesting isn't the word, unbelievable is.
Jeremy: Sigh. You're right. Bye.
Jeremy <3
(And then it turns out even MC is better than Nate, she just pretended not to know how to do archery so he'd teach her sexily, which he did not)
Nate: Please don't. It would be a waste of both our time.
MC: Ok. I'm going to keep asking you out though.
Nate: I can live with that, I guess.
His parents are lawyers, from New York, and he'll probably be one too. His only "dream" is a stable job.
So, while researching a fic I came across this post by the game's creator(s) about everyone's sexuality! It's kinda problematic (I don't think they intended it to be transphobic but, uh) and in general I feel no need to take Word of God as my personal canon. But I am 100% here for Nate as a Very Repressed Pansexual, so that can stay.
Also I am playing this at 2am with insomnia after forgetting my psych meds this morning so this may be incoherent for a little while.
Oh my gosh, Nate actually out-stubborns MC into not going into the haunted house with her, the most he'll do is walk her to the door then spend the time "on a better ride". I mean she is 100% getting him in there eventually, but after so much of her entirely getting her own way it's kind of refreshing. Also when he insults her it's generally at least somewhat on point.
MC: We didn't spend any time together, this is a sucky date >:(
Nate: Fine, we can get a snack together, but then we're going home.
MC: What are you, my dad?
Nate: No, but I feel like a babysitter.
MC: Only because you behave like a grandpa. Now give me a piggyback ride :D
Nate: Sorry, my back's not what it used to be :P
MC: Then at least hold my hand.
Nate: I'd rather use a child leash.
MC: Kinky, I like it ;D
Nate, blushing: NO SNACK FOR YOU
So it turns out when Nate was in middle school he got surprised by a haunted house employee and kicked them on instinct, then ran away. And now he feels angry at himself for being a coward and like if he goes in they'll recognise him.
MC: I can tell you're feeling vulnerable so I won't make you go in today. Let's go get a treat.
Nate: Stop babying me.
MC: Calm down or I'll have to break out the restraints ;)
And then he refuses to talk to her for the rest of the day.
They bump into Everett on a date, who quickly makes his excuses and leaves.
Nate: Too bad.
MC: You're on a date with me, do you like him more?
Nate: Obviously.
MC: Aaw :(
Nate: Hang around another decade, maybe you'll win me over :)
This game has gotten me seeing that as the height of romance.
MC: How much you like someone shouldn't depend on how long you've known them.
Nate: Fine, get to know me as well as someone who's known me a decade, and let me do the same with you.
MC: Okay, time to learn your entire life history :P Tell me about meeting Everett. Were you buddies right away?
Nate: No, I hated him. He was an instigator >:(
MC: He still is.
Nate: Not towards me :D
Aww, kid!Nate was very easy to bait into crying and getting angry, so Everett and the other kids would tease him to get a reaction. MC teases Nate about not having changed and he gets annoyed and refuses to tell any more of the story, but implies he might later. This is cute!
MC finds Nate grumping on the balcony at the school trip and bugs him to tell her what happened.
Nate: You don't care.
MC: I could!
Nate: But you don't.
MC: Well, I'll listen while you complain.
Nate's POV on the school trip drama, which works much better with all the other context: Shiloh was annoying but Nate eventually got used to rooming with him. Then Everett shows upset saying he can't share with Pran any more. Nate is angry at Pran for upsetting Everett (though from how Everett and Pran tell it Pran didn't really do anything, Everett's just still bitter about being rejected a year ago) and finds his negativity contagious, so gets snippy, and Pran storms out.
Nate: I storm out on people! They don't storm out on me!
MC: Uh.
Then Jeremy showed up, saying he refused to room with Bae any more and now Nate has a THIRD person to get used to rooming with.
MC: That doesn't sound so bad, why are you...
Nate: *bursts into tears* I want to go home ;_;
MC: D:
She flails awkwardly in the direction of being supportive.
Nate: You can go now. I'm fine.
MC has no idea what's going with him but to me he seems to be having trouble dealing with an unfamiliar environment.
MC: Good news I want you to be my boyfriend!
Nate: Yes? We're dating?
MC: I meant officially.
Nate: Yes? Do I look like I spend this much time with every girl in the world?
MC: Huh! I guess not.
Lol. I get you, Nate, I never really got the whole dating-but-not-official thing either.
Nate refuses to make out, or admit this is a special occasion, but agrees to the nickname Candy for his strawberry-pink eyes, and to holding hands for a few minutes. BUT NOT TOO TIGHTLY.
After refusing to so much as hold her hand on the Tunnel of Love he says "Look if you wanted to date a hussy you could have dated Shiloh."
Nate do you know how close Everett and MC came to having sex on this boat.
MC: Shiloh's a hussie? I guess he sucks up in more ways than one ;)
Nate: D:
MC: You're not a germaphobe right? What's your issue?
Nate: Getting close to people just causes complications.
MC: If you're scared of intimacy I'd be happy to help you work through it ;)
Nate: I'm not scared of anything >:(
...MC why check for germaphobe and not asexual...
Also idk how I feel about the sociopath dude being the most unreservedly sexual. Though admittedly Everett is the most openly sexual, and would absolutely be hussie-ing it up if it wasn't for Nate.
The final haunted house date involves MC texting Nate a running commentary from inside, she tells a really cute story all "Log day 2, I continue to explore the haunted mansion where Nate Lawson died of embarrassment. Aaah, I am being attacked! I AM DEAD" and becomes a ghost whose unfinished business is that her boyfriend didn't tell her she was attractive today.
Nate: How am I dead and your boyfriend at the same time? How are you texting me if you're a ghost?
MC: OooOOooooo
Nate: Fine. You're 'attractive'.
MC: :D
MC invites herself to Everett and Nate's lunchdate so she can pump Everett for info on how they became friends. In elementary school Nate saw Everett as competition, and felt like he'd die if he ever lost to him. So he got better at everything to always win, and in the process gained the other student's respect.
MC: So it's all your fault.
Everett: Pfft, he would have been like that anyway.
Everett starting out as the popular kid taunting Nate the awkward weirdo, only to end up with Nate as universally respected Prom King who controls Everett's life as his sort of bff-dad, is a much more interesting trajectory than I would have expected!
It's a weird friendship, not as cute or healthy as Jeremy and Pran's "two loners find the one person they can tolerate" dynamic, but very interesting.
I'm not generally super into D/s-y M/f dynamics, but it feels like they're going for that a little with Nate, except because this game is generally all about MC bullying dudes into doing what she wants it averages out moderately even, just with him saying things like "Ok you've lost messaging privileges for the next 24 hours". She teases him whenever he says anything especially over the top and he seems to find that endearing, so it's kind of cute, like Sound of Music if Maria was a sarcastic hornbag and the "children" were just one bratty fuckboy.
EDIT: Came across a post by the writer saying Nate is sexually subby?? *continues to pick and choose WOG to suit myself*
So! The end of Nate and Everett's epic tale of friendship! By the middle of middle school they'd both outgrown competing with each other and didn't see each other so much. Everett decided Nate was actually kind of cool and wanted to hang out with him, and Nate told him to get lost (did Everett have a crush on him that would be cute)
Nate: Eventually I got used to him hanging around and before I realised it, we were friends.
MC: That's anticlimactic.
Everett: He isn't a friend having kind of guy. He doesn't make some grand statement. Just letting you stick around is a major deal.
MC: I understand that painfully well. How do you think us becoming a couple went? You're hard to win over, Nate.
Nate: True :D
Everett: Fuck yeah he is. But I like it.
MC: Me too. It makes me feel special.
Everett: I know, right?
Nate: Don't talk about me like that. If you want these 'special' relationships to continue you better stop this conversation >:(
MC: You know, I just pretend like you're the boss of this relationship.
Nate: No, that's what I do with you :P
MC: Harsh, but hot. So do you like me more now?
Nate: ..yeah.
AWW
He refuses to play games with her because he's "at his worst" when he's competing and doesn't want to subject anyone he knows to that. Aw.
MC: If I can't handle you at your worst I don't deserve you at your best.
Nate: That's the stupidest thing you've ever said. Everyone deserves me at my best, even you.
MC: 'Even me'? >:(
Nate: You think that kind of stuff is funny, but I'm still not going to subject you to it.
She comes up with the idea of them just throwing darts at the wall at random.
Nate, blushing: Being understanding, trying to accomodate my shortcomings? It's like you're a real girlfriend or something >.>
Oh my god he tries to break up because he was three minutes late to a date and thus unworthy to be anyone's boyfriend. Her persuading him he's important to her and that him being flawed is ok was very sweet (he didn't even pretend he actually wanted to break up)
I don't have any available slots in my date schedule but I have 1 dates worth of points left and haven't seen Nate in his bathers. Come on, game, I am not especially interested in seeing him topless (the topless art in this game is...unfortunate) but it will break MC's heart if she doesn't. Hopefully it will unlock in Spring or something.
HOORAY. SPRING BEACH DATE.
Hahaha he has a full body wetsuit, much to MC's disappointment.
"I didn't ask you to prom because when you want something you say so." Fair.
Nate: For as long as I can remember, everyone has been a stranger I couldn't trust or rely on. Every tiny mistake or failure felt like it could crush me. The world is a monster, if I'm not prepared I'll be consumed.
MC: That's....not good. But you have a few things you can rely on. Like Everett. He's so easy to figure out there's nothing to worry about.
Nate: It seems like I know where he's coming from but I could be wrong. No matter how much I wish things could be simple, they're not.
MC: No-one can make that call but you. But maybe some things are that simple, that's how I feel about you.
Nate: ...maybe they are. Or at least, maybe they could be.
MC: <3 *goes in for a kiss*
Nate: No, if I'm going to kiss someone it has to be perfect. Thanks for listening though :)
MC: Hey Everrett, I want to do something nice for Nate, any suggestions?
Everett: The biggest favour you can do for him is not do anything.
MC: Thought so. Cool, that's taken care of :D
Everett: Shit, if Nate had to have a girlfriend, you're not a terrible choice.
MC: Maybe I can do him a favour by making sure his best buddy doesn't get into trouble.
Everett: If you and I hang out we're gonna make more trouble.
MC: True. Let's do that but not tell Nate.
Everett: Sounds like a plan, though he'll find out sooner or later.
MC: He'll be glad the two of us are getting so close.
Everett: No he won't.
MC: True. Ok, not doing that plan is my favour to him.
I liked the friendly MC and Everett dynamic on his path, it's nice to see a little of it here too.
MC: Happy birthday handsome, glad you became legal before we crossed the line ;)
Nate: I'm one month younger than you and we were nowhere near that line >:(
Aw, he doesn't dump her, but just gives her space to dump him if she wants. All the change that's coming after graduation freaks him out, so he's glad to still have her by his side.
She cheers him up saying they'll be fine and he's amazing, and he's all "You're right I AM amazing" and then he either kisses her or hugs her, then starts walking towards graduation, telling her to keep up.
THE END
That was sweet. He was probably the only guy to genuinely try to be a good boyfriend with no caveats?? I mean he was in fact a somewhat shitty boyfriend by any objective measure, but by the standards of this game he was boyfriend of the year.
And that's it for the main boys! Now there's three side boyfriends and the friendship ending, as well as some main boyfriend ending variants.
