Nathan Griffin

Nathan is 15 years old at the start of the Ghost Bird series, turning 16 on October 5undefined.

Appearance
Nathan is the same height as Kota, but more muscled. His chin rubs against Sang's forehead. He has broad tapered shoulders and a powerful physique with defined musculature. He has a deep voice but not as deep as Silas'.

He has short reddish-brown hair that looks soft like rabbit fur. He has a stern face, serious blue eyesundefined with rusty-brown browsundefined, an angled chin and a solemn expression.

His scent is leather and cypressundefined.

Biography
Nathan lives at Sunnyvale Court. His father is frequently absent due to his work as a helicopter pilotundefined. Nathan does his own grocery shoppingundefined.

Nathan is proficient in jujistu, taekwondo, and other martial artsundefined. He also fluent in Spanishundefined.

Nathan and Kota have always lived across the road from each other. Their mothers used to be friends. They have shared everything from toys to clothes, fighting like brothers. Nathan's mother was gone overnight a lot, so he often slept on the rollaway bed in Kota's room. Neither of their fathers were around much, and when they were, the boys didn't like them, as both fathers were physically abusiveundefined.

While growing up, Nathans's mother was sexually abused by her father. She buried it, and married Mr Griffin who also abused her. She would tell Nathan that she could still feel them even when they weren't around. And then one day she found the courage to walk outundefined.

When Nathan and Kota joined the Academy, they learned to get past a lot of it, including the jealousy. Nathan was jealous that Kota was so smart, and seemed to talk down to Nathan. And Kota still had his mother, while Nathan's mother left, and Nathan was jealous of that too. The Academy forced them to share everything, including feelings like jealousy. And it turned out that Kota was jealous of Nathan too, because Mrs Lee would compare them and Kota thought she liked Nathan better than him. That got the issues out in the open, but didn't get rid of the emotions - that happened when they went to the Academy's bootcamp. There they learned that individual possessions aren't important, they share everything. They all have keys and access to each other's stuff at any timeundefined.

Trivia

 * Icon on Sang's phone: hand weightundefined
 * Nathan's pet name for Sang is 'Peanut', she calls him 'Honey'. They bite on each others fingersundefined.
 * Nathan can speak Spanish