Nathaniel Lucas

Nathaniel was a botanist who travelled the world searching for new plant species to make him famous after he ran away from home.

He drowned at Button House in 1910.

Physical Appearance
Nathaniel is thin, with fair skin and dark, dishevelled hair and dark eyes. He wears period attire, and remains soaked to the skin in the afterlife due to his death-by-drowning.

Inventory
In the afterlife, he retains his satchel, notebook and a pencil.

Personality
He’s a introverted troublemaker who enjoys breaking any rules in place, going on long explanations about plants on anyone who will listen and climate change. He has all the bravado of a confidence man at first, picking arguments with any ghost who decides they want to try and hold him down but as soon as a fight presents itself he almost always backs down and reverts back to the early years of his life and the abuse he lived through. Overall he’s all bark no bite.

History
He grew up in the Basilicata region of Italy with his family; his older brother, mother father and two younger sisters. He was the black sheep of the family with his interests in science and literature rather than the politics his family was involved in. He often verbally fought with his mother due to him refusing to take part in any gentlemen etiquette he was forced to learn. One night after a particularly bad fight he decided to run off into the night only taking his satchel and notebook with him. He spent the rest of his living life travelling and trying to make money in anyway he could.

He eventually drowned in the lake of Button House because he fell through the wooden jetty while collecting pond weed samples.

Strengths and Weaknesses
He’s extremely focused; once he puts his mind to carrying out a task he will try to finish it to the end. He’s also got great survival skills from living on the streets for years and more often than not can wiggle himself out of a problem verbally.

Aside from being physically weak he’s very closed off, not wanting to bring up elements of his past aside from a few happier memories. He’s stubborn, not changing his ways for anyone or anything

Special Ability
If Nathaniel stays in one place for a long time, a damp spot remains behind.

Skills
Nathaniel speaks fluent Italian. At one point he picked up drawing/sketching, and is not too bad at it.

Trivia

 * He often refuses to talk in English, as he finds the other Ghosts in the House annoying.
 * His favourite plants are brightly coloured flowers, and pond weed.
 * He desperately misses his home, and despises the English weather at Button House.