NATHAN MEYER ; he saves people because he couldn't save her
Diane Meyer; his mother.
His mother ran a small ceramics studio out of their home, clay stained fingers on the daily. She was the spark in the relationship with Mark. While Nathan was more like his father, it was Claire that was much more like their mother. She had the same wild and uncontained spirit he had always known his mother to have. While they didn't have the same closeness as Nathan did with his father, they used to speak the same language. After Claire's death, she stopped creating and her space became a museum of grief. To this day, Nathan brings her coffee when if he's working in the morning. Neither of them know how to talk about losing Claire, but he just keeps showing up because it's the only language the two have in common anymore.
Mark Meyer; his father
He grew up in the shadow of his father's quiet steadiness. His father was a maintenance man for the local school district with calloused hands and a quiet sense of humor. Much like Nathan is today, his father was a man of few words. He knew how to fix what broke but didn't say much about he felt like doing it. Nathan has turned into a man that mirrors his father in the last nineteen years. Things between them used to be lighter, a silent trust between the two of them when Nathan worked with his father as a teenager. After Claire's death, Nathan and his father had a heavier silence. Both of them went back to work too soon, both working to undo the universe's single fracture. Despite his father's health slowing him down some, the two can still be seen working side by side. They both know Claire is there, but neither will speak her name.
Claire Meyer; his sister
Claire did not have an off switch. She'd always been fearless, magnetic, someone that people flocked to. Someone that people followed and one day wanted to be. The two were close, thick as thieves while growing up but he never once got in the way of her bright light. When she died, his world shifted and it shifted permanently. It would always be out of alignment, much like his old truck. His guilt is bone deep and it's never faded. While he doesn't talk much about it, he doesn't have to. It's the way he drives more cautiously, checks his phone twice before every call and keeps his rescue radio on and close, even on his days off.
Overall Family Dynamics
- The Meyers don't say "I love you". They are the type of people that show it. - Nathan learned emotional restraint from his father and grief from his mother. His steadiness isn't peace, it's been a way to survive. - They have a tradition of repair. His father fixed with tools, his mother with clay and Nathan fixed people. Or he very well tries to. However, no matter how much any of them try to fix, they can't fix the one loss that mattered the most.
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