Nathan West (The Raider)

Reaper (Formerly)

Leadership

Private **Nathan Charlie West** is the main character and supporting protagonist in the Raider timeline. Serving as a false main protagonist in the 6th chapter, West is a Reaper that is fighting against ARF forces to prevent them from taking over the country.

## Background

Born on December 20, 2027, Nathan's life isn't known until he joined the USMC at the age of 18 and later joined up with the WTO as he was sent to Argentina. According to most WTO operatives, Jay has put several officers into training the USMC recruits (West included) into Reapers while he's in hiding.

## Biography

Nathan is first seen, standing at attention as his sergeant gave the team instructions to take over enemy positions. As the Marines fought hard against the ARF forces, Nathan managed to fight them off before Rattlesnake Riley shot him. Still determined, the injured Nathan fights Riley until he is eventually beaten and thrown off the roof, killing him and ending the conflict as the ARF managed to deal a major blow to the American forces.

## Personality

While not shown, it's rumored by various Reapers that Nathan used to be a reserved, level-headed, and focused individual that cared for the United States. However, it's shown that Nathan is very arrogant and self-confident in his ability to win the war by brutally murdering dozens of ARF soldiers with ease, showing his ruthlessness and viciousness in combat.

Despite his cockiness, Nathan appeared to care about the country and respected his fellow Reapers to a degree, even willing to sacrifice himself to save them.

However, Nathan's new confidence and cocky attitude quickly led him to his downfall and demise, dying a prideful and brave man that wanted to protect Argentina and his fellow Reapers at the hands of the former leader of the same group that he helped found.

## Appearance

Nathan is an American man, standing at 5'8. He has a muscular build, dark blonde hair, blue eyes, and tanned skin. He has been seen sporting a buzzcut and heavy stubble.

He wore the WTO uniform except for a hidden bulletproof vest to protect himself from small arms fire.

## Skills

* **High Intelligence**: Nathan was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical man and was highly adaptable to any situation given to him. He is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts.
* **Intimidation**: Due to his exceptional combat abilities, Nathan is widely known and feared within the ranks of the ARF and was so infamous that even his reputation strikes fear and terror into the hearts and souls of his enemies that incurred his wrath.
* **Multilingualism**: Nathan is shown to be fluent in several languages, including English, Spanish, German, Italian, Latin (to a certain degree), French, and Arabic. Out of the languages, Spanish is his most spoken as he communicated with several Argentinian soldiers.
* **Master Tactician**: As a former USMC Infantryman that is trained by the Reapers, Nathan is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans, assassinations, and raids. He is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of both allies and enemies just by watching them. He's also capable of spotting certain flaws within his environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using the rooftops and picking out the stragglers with ease.
* **Expert Spy**: Having worked with the Reapers, Nathan is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. He's well adept at blending in with his surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded outposts and compounds with ease.
* **Stealth Mastery**: Nathan is a master in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations, using his hacking skills to disable communications and light sources, and using the environment around him to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. He's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where he can easily eliminate them or pass by them to move to the objective.
* **Master Marksman**: As shown in various fights, Nathan is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during his fights). He's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry. Due to his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Nathan has shown to be extremely skilled with bows as well as scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to achieve his goals. Nathan can blend his marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use his enemies' weaponry against them with precision.
* **Master Martial Artist**: Having been trained by various Reaper officers, Nathan is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. His fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, Hapkido, Systema, and Ninjutsu. He can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast his opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once. Due to his quick wit, he can adapt to his opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in his fight with Jack Sharpe, who used his strength to overcome Nathan's speed.
* **Knife Mastery**: Nathan is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with his extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense experience in Kali, Nathan can use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight and has shown deadly expertise with a machete as shown during his fight with various ARF soldiers.
* **Improvised Weapon Mastery**: In addition to his skills with firearms and martial arts, Nathan is very good with using whatever tools that he sees during his fights to gain an advantage over his opponents, as such an AK rifle to bash in an ARF soldier's head.
* **Peak Human Condition**: As a former soldier of the United States Marines, Nathan has displayed peak human physicality for a man of his age. He's extremely athletic, and his strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* **Peak Human Strength**: Despite his size and build, Nathan is very strong, capable of overpowering and restraining even larger opponents, knocking out or outright killing a skilled operator with a single strike, breaking their bones and necks with ease, breaking through glass, and surprisingly ripping out their throats, eyes, and ears with relative ease, which shocked allies and enemies alike.
* **Peak Human Durability**: Nathan is highly resilient and sturdy due to his time on the battlefield. The greatest feats of his durability were surviving a severe beating and being capable of withstanding heavier punches from Jack, who's more skilled in hand-to-hand and utilizes brute strength. His durability also made him tougher to kill, as evidenced when he tries to crawl toward a firearm, despite being nearly crippled and having almost most of his bones shattered from falling off a rooftop.
* **Peak Human Speed**: Nathan is extremely fast, especially for a man of his age. Nathan can outrun his opponents and can run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. In combat, Nathan's speed made him more dangerous as he used his combat knowledge to quickly injure an enemy.
* **Peak Human Agility**: Nathan has extreme amounts of stamina. He can fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. He can flip and spin his way out of incoming gunfire with the impressive feats of an experienced gymnast and vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely injured or tired, Nathan required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* **Peak Human Reflexes**: Nathan has incredible reflexes. Due to his time on the battlefield, Nathan has displayed a fast reaction time, as he can evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to his expertise in guerrilla warfare, he can correctly assess the situation, understand the purpose, and react effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit him in the field. His senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense his enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes, raids, and sniper fire with ease.
* **High Pain Tolerance**: Despite his strong combat proficiency, Nathan is injured throughout the fight with Jack, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near-fatal injuries, such as Jack's physical blows, and surviving a fatal fall with ease. As shown in his fight with Jack Riley Sharpe, Nathan has shown that he can outlast and outwit them by using his injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.

## Equipment

* **Glock 17**: Nathan's main sidearm. He notably tries to use it against Riley but is quickly disarmed and lost the pistol.

## Deaths

**Murders committed by Nathan**:

* **35 ARF Soldiers**: Shot, stabbed and beaten.

## Trivia

* Nathan is the only character to be revealed as a false protagonist.
* Nathan is ranked as the 5th dangerous character due to his young age, and experience with the USMC, and is one of the Reapers' very best operators.
* Nathan is the only Reaper to try to take on Jack Riley Sharpe in H2H and surprisingly lasted for a minute before being killed shortly. It's hinted by a Reaper NCO that Jack can kill people in less than a minute, eventually foreshadowing Nathan's demise.