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| User: | deputynatedavis (240925) Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all...
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| Name: | Deputy Nathan Davis | |||||||||
| Bio: | Basic Info Full Name: Nathan Andrew Davis (Nate) Date of Birth and/or Age: February 11, 1843, Age 24 Sexual Preference: Heterosexual Ethnic Background: Irish, English, Scottish, German...Half of Europe, really Occupation: Sheriff's Deputy Family: Parents James and Elizabeth Davis (Live back East); Brothers Lewis (19) and Garrett (16) (Lewis is in Oregon, Garrett still at home with his parents); Wife Erin Lander Davis (deceased); Daughter Colleen Elizabeth Davis (Deceased) Current Residence: His own cabin outside of town (It's on the way to the Sackett Ranch if that helps...) Appearance: Tall and trim with bright blue eyes and dark brown hair, when he was a teenager, his mother told him he was too handsome for his own good. He grew up on a farm, which contributed to his strong build. Baling hay strengthened his upper body, while running everywhere kept his legs in shape. He is generally seen in comfortable, functional clothing, and doesn't like dressing up anymore. He also has a tendency to "mess with" his hat a lot. Personality: He's always been helpful, trying to find ways to give people a hand. He can be shy. He has a fierce sense of justice, and an even fiercer love for his family and closest friends. Since the death of his wife and daughter, however, he's become bitter, very different than the man he was. Still trying to be helpful, but with much less heart. Special Skills/Weapons Used: Carries a Smith and Wesson revolver as deputy. As for special skills, he's quick with languages and can speak several of the surrounding Indian dialects, as well as Spanish Weaknesses: Making friends. This is also a recent development since the loss of his family. He has a hard time talking to women, and that's always been true. It took forever for him to talk to Erin when they were in school. He'd known her for 7 years before he asked to walk her home from a corn-shucking, and 10 years before he ever got up the nerve to ask her to marry him, when he was 22, and she was 17. History Born into a wonderful family, Nathan appreciated growing up knowing that he was loved. His father taught him how to farm, and his mother taught him to cook, concerned that her shy son would be a perpetual bachelor, when, at the age of 12, he told her that he was scared of girls. Especially Erin Lander, a girl who, 5 years his junior, could read better than him, and followed him around everywhere. He confided in his mother that he didn't know what to do about her, being that he was pretty sure she was "sweet on" him and could only cause problems. Elizabeth Davis felt certain her son, though handsome, would never have enough nerve to talk to a girl, much less court and marry one. He finished school, just barely, and, much to his very Christian family's delight, decided to become a minister. He didn't go to seminary, but instead, trained under the town minister, Robert Hughes, who was advancing in age, and wanted to train his own replacement. At age 19, Nathan preached his first sermon at the town church. For some reason, behind the pulpit, his shyness would melt away, and he was glad that he'd found his place. It was after this that Nathan attended the fateful corn-shucking where he shucked an ear of corn that was marked, according to the rules, meaning that he had to kiss a girl. Far too shy for that (and given the fact that kissing a girl in public was hardly preacher-like), Nathan instead asked Erin Lander if he could walk her home. The girl agreed, and he walked her home, though her brothers were close by. After that, he spent a great deal of time with the girl, slowly but surely getting to know her. She was sweet, pretty, and, despite his fear of her as a 12 year old, he began to discover that she wasn't so scary after all. Still, asking her to marry him terrified him, though he knew it was what both of them wanted. It was Preacher Hughes who finally got him to pop the question by informing him that a preacher without a wife would not look good to the community, especially not when he'd been courting a girl for nearly 3 years. He further explained that a single minister would be chased constantly by women, a thought that terrified Nathan even more than asking Erin to marry him. After talking to her father, who was more than happy to welcome a minister into the family, Nathan asked Erin to be his wife in March. They were married later that spring, and moved into the parsonage when Robert retired to his spinster sister's house with his wife, Emma. Nathan took over at the church, and the town loved the new preacher and his wife. By the end of the summer, Erin was pregnant. Nathan was ecstatic, and so was his family. Baby Colleen was born in May of the following year. After a visiting missionary came to the church to speak about the immorality in the "Wild West," Nathan felt that it was his call to go serve as a minister in a western town, and had grand dreams of preaching to reformed outlaws and prostitutes with Erin and baby Colleen at his side. With Erin's agreement, Nathan packed up to move west, bidding farewell to the town, while Robert returned to the pulpit, the spry old man convinced that he could preach for another 50 years. On the wagon train, Erin revealed to her husband that she was pregnant again, both thrilling and terrifying him. The trail was hard on pregnant women. That was when tragedy struck. Several people on the trail came down with scarlet fever. Despite Nathan's insistence that she stay away and protect herself and the baby, Erin kept caring for those who were sick. When she came down with it, already pregnant and worn out, Nathan knew that it was bad. He kept fighting for her life, caring for her day and night, never leaving her side. But it was no use. Erin died somewhere in Colorado, and Nathan buried her there. Clinging to baby Colleen, promising to protect her, Nathan continued on, still believing he was called to the West. Until Colleen, too, contracted scarlet fever. The baby didn't fight as long as her mother had, and died in Nathan's arms only a week after her mother died. After all of his prayers that God would protect his family, Nathan hated Him. He'd felt called by God to this land only to have his wife and baby die. Unable to reconcile the God he'd once preached, and the God who'd taken his family, Nathan turned his back on his faith. Nathan continued on to California, but didn't report to the town he'd been commissioned for. Instead, he wrote home to his family and told them about the deaths, then wrote the missionary team he'd been working for to tell them that he had withdrawn from the ministry. Finally, he wrote to Robert and told him that he was sorry, but he wasn't cut out for the ministry. He built a house just outside of New Shelby, and was sworn in as a Deputy Sheriff. He tells few where he came from or why, and has few friends. | |||||||||
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