#nathaniel nero

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Character opinion bingo- diabolus, nigel, nathaniel?

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Diabolus:

Nigel:

Nathaniel:

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Nathaniel: I love all my kids equally , Raven , Diabolus *looks at smudged writing on architectural plans* …Mash

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Imagine a H.I.V.E. scrabble game.

Otto, Laura and the Professor would be making technological words the others aren't sure are real.

Raven's not really bothered, but participates anyway to stop nagging. However, she will form words in other languages if she sees them before an English possibilty and will send the others her most deadly glare if they say anything.

Seeing that Raven's technique works, Nero will put a random bunch of letters together, saying that it's Latin because, damn it, he is BUSY and wants the game over and done with. Nathaniel knows it's fake, but says nothing as he too has work to do and could bring it up in a later argument. Max makes a point of making the word homework as he looks at Shelby.

In response, Shelby forms the word no. (Uh oh, someone's getting detention).

Franz loses because H.I.V.E.mind, who is counting scores, deducts points for spelling errors. Franz doesn't use German unless he's really stuck because he "can be developing his English."

H.I.V.E.mind stops counting Nero's score. But if he didn't, Nero would win because of his cheating.

Nigel, Penny/Tom/Lucy- depending on who is alive at the time it's set- play the game like normal human beings. So does Wing, but he uses quite a few long and formal words.

If Diabolus participates, he has a habit of making words like "dick" (I don't know, he strikes me as that kind of person for some reason). Nigel is really embarrassed.

If Ms Leon plays, she messes up the board on her turn because she is a cat and won't let someone else put down her word. The Colonel uses this to his advantage.

If the Contessa's around, she refuses to play, but will watch if she thinks something will happen. She gets called a spoilsport for a few days after.

Uhh... I don't think I missed anyone?

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So it’s canon that Professor Pike and Nathaniel Nero have a long running game of correspondence chess going. And since the Nero family spat was so bitter, it’s hard to imagine that he and the Professor could possibly have had communication for its duration. The Professor “thought he had” Nathaniel for that whole time.

Picture it - the Professor is at the temporary H.I.V.E. facility, waiting for Nero to come back from his meeting with a little envelope from Nathaniel, containing the next move in their chess game. The Professor’s king is horribly exposed, and his position is appalling (judging by the move that eventually mates him in canon, this virtually has to be the case) but he has a perfect combination teaed up, and he’s sure it’s going to blow Nathaniel out of the water. Instead, Nero returns with a half dead teenager, a stormy expression on his face, and an explosive rant about his father on his lips. On his orders, Professor Pike removes Nathaniel’s contact information from all their servers, but before he does, he briefly breaks the rules of their letters-only correspondence game, so desperate to play his winning move that he messages it to Nathaniel before cutting communications. Then he waits, with bated breath, for fifteen years. When he finally sees him again, Nathaniel fucking demolishes him within five minutes . Iconic.

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nathaniel nero

one aspect about them i love

I love how suave he is. If we were doing a live action film, some type of Jeff Goldblum or Robert Di Niro (lol) BUT ACTUALLY I JUST CHANGED MY MIND BECAUSE actually I would cast TIM CURRY and he would be a BEAUTIFUL HORNY GRANDPA and we would all be 10% more gay after encountering him.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

He is both charming and insufferable in equal parts. I had a grandfather who was much like him, to be honest (or perhaps it is just a quality of beloved old men). But I think there is something enneagram-4-ish in Nathaniel that is that he spends so much time individuating from everyone else and getting wrapped up in being The Architect that results in something more depressing and self-isolating than he might be willing to admit out loud.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

out of everyone in the series, nathaniel has had the most sex! this is partially because of his age. this is also because he is a whore.

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one character i love seeing them interact with

Obviously it's Max. I love how much they do NOT get along. Obsessed with them both.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

Laura. No explanation just vibes!

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

I 100% believe that Nathaniel has had other children and grandchildren by random women who he is no longer in touch with. And he can't tell Max because he will a) get yelled at and b) potentially have to get in contact with those people to assuage Max's Attitude About the Situation. So the two or three secret families he has created over the years have an absent father and they resent him for perfectly ordinary reasons, never knowing that their absent father is kind of a big shot.

maximilian nero

one aspect about them i love

He's my best friend, he's my pal, he's my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy. What's not to love?

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

He would kill the person he loves most in the world. He wants to save everyone, and will try, and when he can't, he will kill them, because that's the person he has to be, because no one else can be.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

It's pretty much my headcanon that he's secretly nice which more or less influences all my writing about him. Is it correct? Nah. But that's okay. :)

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one character i love seeing them interact with

mmm! raven. lol.

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

Diabolus!!! nero darkdoom prequel WHEN

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

He and the Contessa would go on holiday together before the enemy times and would like go to wine tastings and museums and things and would get dreadfully bored with one another and yet SOMEHOW they never actually stopped doing it.

raven

one aspect about them i love

I love how much is unspoken in her character. She never says she loves Nero because she doesn't need to. She never needs to say that she's loyal to Otto, or to Diabolus, or to anyone, because she doesn't need to. She doesn't need words to be the woman she is which is frankly insane in a book which is, as you may know, primarily consisting OF words.

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

Raven is truly the H.I.V.E. Barbie. This is all to our universal benefit.

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

She has a dark sense of humor and she's a little rude and she doesn't often make a good first impression. She accepted this when she was not a teenager anymore.

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one character i love seeing them interact with

Diabolus!!!!! THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS OKAY

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

SHELBY. WHERE HAS ALL THE FEMINISM GONE AND WHY CAN'T THESE TWO HAVE ANY

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

Raven is really quite fond of playing jackbox games with the c4. Party games completely blow her mind and she especially likes Tee KO because to her it is the most insane thing that children play with and she never got to.

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Nathaniel: what if we named the submarine after my favorite book

Darkdoom: no! I hate reading

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I love nathaniel's character because darkdoom and raven and otto come to visit him in full edgelord gear, dark suits, trench coats, black jeans, black sweaters, the full neutral wardrobe package. and they are like, hello, architect, "how are you? i admire your orbital platform very much; would you please consider joining us as the next plot point in our quentin-tarantino-esque lives?" and then nathaniel is like, "first of all, dumbass, that's a space station: i only design campy things. second of all, this is the gene wilder willie wonka movie at best!!" and then he is immediately betrayed by a twenty-something in overalls, which, in fact, only futher proves his point

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Nathaniel Nero: my son is a two-timing son of a bitch who put a school in a volcano and i hate him

Nathaniel Nero: my son-in-law, Diabolus Darkdoom, however, is perfect and my son does not deserve him