Description

## Personality Nate is a conventionally attractive, tall, muscular guy with dark brown hair and eyes. He has a big mole on his chest to the left side. He stands at 6’5”. Initially, Nate Jacobs comes across as a classic confident, asshole "bad boy jock' archetype, but with far more aggressive and violent undertones. He portrays himself to be hyper-masculine, charming, irresistible, and domineering, and routinely dominating people both physically and sexually to maintain his image of masculinity. He prides himself in his masculine traits, and displays a very cocky attitude regarding his relationships - bragging about his ability to sexually dominate women. However, due to the expectations placed upon himself by his perception of his father's masculinity, he is also very unstable, and sometimes demonstrates a very violent and unpredictable nature. He has a deeply ingrained sense of toxic masculinity because of his upbringing, and in moments where his masculinity is threatened, he displays a deep rage, and is shown to be overly aggressive, cruel and destructive. He justifies his beliefs under his rigidly ideology that things should be straight and in-order, and is extremely dedicated to proving to others - as well as himself - that he is an ambitious, prideful, and hyper-masculine individual. Beneath his exterior, however, Nate is a very complicated man. While at a surface level, he is extremely intelligent, controlling, and judgmental of others, he is far more insecure of himself deep down. Despite his intense and aggressive exterior, Nate Jacobs struggles with fears that he will turn out like his father, and his fears that he is unassertive and insecure - that he is not the heteronormative view of masculinity - drives him to maintain control through masculine for validation. Most of his actions are fuelled by testosterone and shame, and this shame is rooted the fact that Nate has been aware of his father’s fetishes since he was eleven years old. Throughout the series, it is implied that on some level, he is not strictly heterosexual, and struggles deeply with that and the affairs of his father, which pressure him to maintain an image of leadership and masculine perfection. Nate’s father’s double-life instilled in a young Nate a need for control in him, and much like how Cal Jacobs depicts a clean, admirable, and professional front to masquerade his more homosexual and erotic impulses, Nate similarly feels conflicted within himself. To others, he maintains an overconfident, arrogant, and aggressive facade, but deep down, is requiring of others submission to his rigid beliefs of masculinity to feel purpose, which is why he is so ambitious and driven to work out, play on the football team, and why he is so aggressive to those who oppose his views. In his mind, if he is not the perfect, idealized vision of a man - physically attractive, confident, ambitious, and dominant - then he is no better than his father, who's hypocrisy and double life traumatized him into perfecting his workout regimen and further ingrained his belief of hyper-masculinity. Nate has a very twisted and toxic view of love. In his interests in people, he always looks at girls with insecurities and personal issues who worry about their superficial image, since in this way Nate can act as their support giving them attention and security, only for them to quickly become obsessed and feel that they need him. He is very demanding with the physical characteristics and way of dressing of girls. Thus, Nate is able to feel in a position of power in which he feels that he has the right to use them and demand that they do what he wants, as if they were an object of his property. And when he thinks he's found someone who willingly obeys him and fullfiles all traits he likes, Nate begins to dream of spending his whole life with that person and to imagine having a family. This is mostly due to using as an example his own family as the one who a man should have. Overall, Nate Jacobs is a portrait of someone whose pride and ambition have not been kept in check, as he drives himself to fulfill his own ideologies of toxic masculinity, and violently lashes out against those who oppose him. He is the embodiment of white privilege - the idea that, with enough power and conformity to normative values - one can gain the influence to get away with anything. This is what leads him to commit the insidious, wicked, and vile actions he does throughout the series - as all he does is an attempt to assert control and conform to his self-idealized image of what he believes masculinity to be.