Nathan Questions
Hi, y'all, I'm working on what looks like it will be a fairly epic Nathan and Peter (and almost certainly Nathan/Peter) fic and I need your help figuring out some stuff in Nathan's past.
1. We know Nathan was in Bosnia, so are we thinking he was in the army? I think the Marines were there too, though.
2. I'm making him 12 years older than Peter. Peter is supposed to be 26, and we don't know how old Nathan is, but Adrian Pasdar is 40. Is there anything to contradict Nathan being 12 years older?
3. A chronology:
1968 -- Nathan born
1980 -- Peter born
1986 -- Nathan goes to college
1990 -- Nathan graduates from college
And here I get fuzzy. Nathan needs to go to Bosnia and Law School. Maybe he goes into the Army/Marines as a 2nd Lt. in 1990, is trained up and has to go to Bosnia in 1992 when the conflict starts. He's in the army until 1994 at a minimum, then gets out, goes to law school, graduates in 1997. When Peter goes to college in 1998, Nathan has just started working in the D.A.'s office. (I'm also thinking that Peter doesn't finish college, has some sort of crisis, spends some time figuring out what he wants, then enrolls in nursing school when he's 21 or 22 for a 4 year program or 23 or 24 for a 2 year program. Or maybe he takes longer to get through nursing school because he's paying his own way. I see him driving a cab, just for fun *g*.)
That's the chronology I'm going with for my fic, but I'm trying to make sure there aren't any holes in it.
4. Do we know how old Nathan's sprogs are? I remember hearing he had children, but I don't know if we've met them. Because I want him to meet his wife about around 1998 or 1999.
5. This is pure speculation, but the only explanation I can think up for how Nathan went from being an ADA in "Six Months Ago" to having an established Congressional campaign in the present, a few weeks before election day, is that he took over the campaign of someone who died or got sick and dropped out of the campaign. Otherwise that's not enough time. Maybe the original candidate was someone that Linderman's organization was supporting, and at Petrelli Senior's funeral, someone approaches Nathan about taking over.
Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!
1. We know Nathan was in Bosnia, so are we thinking he was in the army? I think the Marines were there too, though.
2. I'm making him 12 years older than Peter. Peter is supposed to be 26, and we don't know how old Nathan is, but Adrian Pasdar is 40. Is there anything to contradict Nathan being 12 years older?
3. A chronology:
1968 -- Nathan born
1980 -- Peter born
1986 -- Nathan goes to college
1990 -- Nathan graduates from college
And here I get fuzzy. Nathan needs to go to Bosnia and Law School. Maybe he goes into the Army/Marines as a 2nd Lt. in 1990, is trained up and has to go to Bosnia in 1992 when the conflict starts. He's in the army until 1994 at a minimum, then gets out, goes to law school, graduates in 1997. When Peter goes to college in 1998, Nathan has just started working in the D.A.'s office. (I'm also thinking that Peter doesn't finish college, has some sort of crisis, spends some time figuring out what he wants, then enrolls in nursing school when he's 21 or 22 for a 4 year program or 23 or 24 for a 2 year program. Or maybe he takes longer to get through nursing school because he's paying his own way. I see him driving a cab, just for fun *g*.)
That's the chronology I'm going with for my fic, but I'm trying to make sure there aren't any holes in it.
4. Do we know how old Nathan's sprogs are? I remember hearing he had children, but I don't know if we've met them. Because I want him to meet his wife about around 1998 or 1999.
5. This is pure speculation, but the only explanation I can think up for how Nathan went from being an ADA in "Six Months Ago" to having an established Congressional campaign in the present, a few weeks before election day, is that he took over the campaign of someone who died or got sick and dropped out of the campaign. Otherwise that's not enough time. Maybe the original candidate was someone that Linderman's organization was supporting, and at Petrelli Senior's funeral, someone approaches Nathan about taking over.
Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!