Nathan Cutter

Player:  James Parkinson

"Leadership is more of a state of mind than a position."

Homid   Shadow Lord   Ragabash

Gifts:  Persuasion, Blur of the Milky Eye, Fatal Flaw, Camouflage, Open Seal, Sight from Beyond, Call of the Wyld
Rites:  Summoning, Binding, Cleansing

    An orphan from childhood, Nathan's parents died in a car wreck when he was three.  Since that time he has been bounced from foster home to foster home due to being what his foster parents called "mischievous".  As far as his early education went, Nathan found it boring in the extreme, and not in the manner of one who falls asleep in class.  After skipping two grades Nathan found himself the youngest person in his grade and, worse than that, without many friends.  Most people took him for a nerd.
    Nathan moved to solve this problem in two ways:  first by learning to brew beer, and second by committing a series of ingenious pranks against some of the school's less liked teachers.  This brought him popularity, but for his skills, not himself.  Upon realizing this, an embittered Nathan started targeting everybody... He was never caught, though there were suspicions.
    Upon graduating, Nathan received a four year scholarship to U of M (the only way he could afford college), where he double majored in math and political science.  After a year of making straight A's, Nathan was courted by a frat, Delta Sigma Phi.  For the past two years Nathan has been making beer for them, tutoring them, entertaining them with his pranks, and generally being on good terms, but ignored the rest of the time.  Also of note is that Nathan met Dr. Matthews, a professor at U of M, during this time.  Nathan took his class and, due to the professor's dislike of his attitude, it remains the only blemish on an otherwise perfect record.  Two months later, Dr. Matthews found his car filled with a viscous green and white foam.  Nathan was never implicated.
    The beginning of Nathan's new life occurred in the beginning of his senior year.  One of his frat brothers overheard Dr. Matthews trying to talk his Math 475 professor into hitting Nathan's grades again.  It was time for a pre-emptive prank.
    Two nights later, Nathan snuck into the chem building with every intention of replacing Dr. Matthew's crystal experiment with something the police would find a little more entertaining.  Unfortunately, he got caught.  Confronted by Dr. Matthews, a group that looked everything like the men in black, and threats about having his mind altered, Nathan's anger boiled over.
    After the immediate flight and subsequent realization of what he was, Nathan was contacted by Darren of the Sept of Work and Wisdom, who offered Nathan a place to hide.  Nathan wasn't up to trusting anybody and bolted again, only to be confronted a couple of hours later by a couple of cyborgs in an animal control van.
    After being caught and subsequently rescued by Darren and his pack, Nathan was taken to the Sept of Work and Wisdom and initiated into Garou ways.  After finding out Nathan's tribe (Shadow Lords), Darren and Company took Nathan to the Sept of Gaia's Strength where he was accepted, kind of.  He found that, with good past reason, Shadow Lords are treated with distrust and suspicion, but are accepted.
    As far as finding out about his Garou nature goes, Nathan has taken it just like all the other changes in his life:  accept it and keep going.  He's been accepted into a rather political pack which may be annoyed with his pranks and penchant for going his own way (nobody previously cared), but the least he can do is give them a shot.
    (Thus far, Nathan has managed to get in trouble every session, but the pack has always managed to get him back out of it, often with advantageous results.  He is well on his way to earning the nickname 'Rockchucker'.--Kelly, the webmistress)