goddammit nathan prescott [LIS SPOILERS]

UGH seriously! I NEED to know what happens next but we gotta wait and it's killing me.

In the first episode Max notes that Nathan "doesn't seem like he's in control, like he's over-medicated" in her journal, so that kinda got me interested in what's going on with him but we don't find out more until after the option to get him suspended comes up but I guess that's kinda the point that they make him antagonistic and only reveal his depths later. The more that I actually think about it, his bad actions are explained by his situation. He brings a gun to school and to his confrontation with Chloe because he fears for his life, and when he shoots her he exclaims 'no, no, no, no!' like he didn't mean to and seriously regrets it, because he only wanted to threaten her. If you report him to the principal he vandalizes your room and sends you a threatening text, and if you get him suspended you find a letter in the Dark Room from his father that's about how pissed he is that he got suspended and Nathan's jacket is in the Dark Room too suggesting something bad might have happened to him. So like maybe he knew his father would react badly to him being suspended and that's why he threatens you into backing off?

And like, with him drugging Chloe... Firstly it's a common thing for abuse victims to emulate stuff that's happened to them or what they've witnessed, so there's that. But I also get the impression that Nathan is not into the same fetish or whatever that Mr. Jefferson and his father are. He's being manipulated into it but he doesn't see the beauty that they see, he's disturbed by it. So I feel like him drugging Chloe to take pictures of her was his way of trying to understand it. He wants his father's approval so he thinks that maybe if he drugs a girl and takes photos of her he'll see the beauty in it and understand that what his dad is doing is good and something to be apart of. But Chloe comes to and escapes so it only leaves him more confused and afraid. It's a kind of theme in the game for Max and David to 'see through their cameras', so I think this is what Nathan was trying to do as well. So many people are like "how can you like Nathan, he tried to rape Chloe and Kate!!" but he really didn't. He drugged them and that's completely fucked up but if he wanted to rape Chloe wouldn't he have tied her up because he's into bondage? Or taken her clothes off? And there's some unused audio where Max asks if he raped Kate and he replies "You are fucking evil, Max. I didn't touch her, and I wouldn't." Principal Wells does say that he features prominently on the video with Kate which might have meant he made out with her on it but it's not clear and he was probably super wasted too... IDK.

Like he's done some messed up stuff and there's also the homophobic/sexist comments he makes which are shitty but he's honestly this terrified mentally ill abuse victim who's just lashing out. I really hope there's some sort of ending where he gets some redemption and stuff.

I suspected Mr. Jefferson was involved in the Dark Room plot before it was revealed, actually, I just wasn't entirely sure... He's kind of creepy in the first two episodes, a lot of his photos are of young girls looking vulnerable, with their clothes falling off, etc., which is kind of a red flag for a teacher. Kate helped him in class, but when she goes to talk with him, he's a complete dick to her, if you walk toward them from the science lab before Kate walks off, you can hear him yelling at her, saying that "maybe this is just your way of getting attention" and shit like that. Then when you talk with him about Kate, he almost sounds jealous when he talks about the viral video, and the way he reacts to you mentioning Rachel, especially after Stella said that he slept with her, was pretty suspicious. It kinda threw me off seeing him in front of the dorms and having Chloe flirt with him, though.