Nathan Kabet

* PotF + MF
* TV (False Memory)

> My pride was too much, and I used it to destroy someone who I cared about. I deserve the blame. I wish to repent.
>
> -Nathan Kabet, On the reasons why he is more responsible for the killing games.

**Nathan Kabet** is a student who applied in the first year of Rimoto Piozumu Academy in Application Group 7B, and was accepted into the academy. He was the mastermind of Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten, and a game-master of Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate.

## Personality

Throughout his entire life, his personality was built around behind better than other people. His goals and actions have always been in order to be able to be presented as someone that is simply, 'better'. Because of this, he is very cold, and seems uncaring when meeting people especially for the first time. However, when he knows someone for a long time, as seen with his class at the academy, he will begin to care about them, and even mourn losing them, which he had previous not done in his previous life.

## History

### Before the Killing Games

#### Early Life

In his early life, he was born to a homeless couple in America, who neglected him in favor of using their money to buy drugs and gamble instead of using them in order to feed him. One day, while they were neglecting him, he picked up a knife off of the ground and began being able to do tricks with it after a few weeks of practicing on his own. Immediately, not caring for their toddler son using a sharp object that could seriously injure him, they had him perform tricks on the side of the road with his ability to balance the knife and throw it accurately.

After a while of him doing simple street tricks, a man would see him performing, who went by Dan Cho. Dan was a ringmaster of a national circus and offered Nathan's parents a lot of money if they would sell their kid into the industry, at the ripe age of 7. They obviously agreed, blinded by the thought of how many drugs they could buy, or how much more money they could potentially make if they won the lottery.

#### The Circus

Beginning that year of his life Nathan became a circus performer. Using his knife tricks to the best they could be. At first, the young Nathan enjoyed the circus, seeing it as a way he got to spend all of his time with his friends who were talented in other unique abilities. It felt like a never-ending summer camp for a kid that never went to school. Before long, though, after a year, the circus began to fall under for having so many younger performers, and so Dan Cho began telling the kids that only those who brought in the most tickets for their events would be kept at the circus, and he would disown his legal guardian's rights to those who fell behind.

Nathan, who was already proficient in his craft before being sold unlike his friends, was the last one standing after no time at all. Being the main attraction at the circus before any time had even passed. One by one as his friends went away, he saw them cry and scream as they were sent away. He saw some of them come to shows afterwards. Some were happy, and had new families, and some were sad, having nothing that they could go back to. Nathan was smart, he knew that he had nothing to go back to, his parents were gone, and they did not care about him at all.

And so, Nathan drowned himself in his craft. Forcing himself to become better, and no longer socializing with anyone around him. He hated that other people had families to go back to, and that he himself, the one he was given, never cared about him. Over the next 8 years of his life, that was all he cared about. Getting better, better than those around him, so that the main attraction would always be him and no one else. The people he impressed cared about him, and the spotlight grew on him. He did whatever it took over and over again, even sabotaging the other performers to be the face front and center for Dan Cho's circus. He did all of this while studying between shows and mastered his intellect along with his performances.

He was so good, in fact, that as soon as he turned 14, he began to get paid for his work. But this was where the spotlight was, he didn't want to leave the feeling that felt so good... being better than other people. But this changed when he turned 15 and saw an advertisement for Rimoto Piozumu Academy and saw it as a new spotlight. A place where he could shine over the TRUE best of the best. He saved up his money, and right as the deadlines were about to hit... he ran away from the circus and made his way to Japan.

#### Rimoto Piozumu Academy

Upon arriving in Japan, he found a cheap motel to stay at for the duration of the application process. It was in this application group that he would initially be acquainted with Nakata Yataro. The two became rivals very quickly, having differing outlooks, but outlooks that intrigued one another in a way that they each wanted to know more. Halfway through the applications, Nathan would move into Nakata's house upon Nakata learning that Nathan had no family that he was staying with. They became inseparable.

That is, until the applications ended, and they both made it into the school, with Nakata being selected as the one with the highest scores, being named the class president.

Nathan was furious. In a fit of anger, he leaked to the press a lie about Nakata, one that would ruin his public reputation he had gained through years of public speaking and being a genuinely charismatic person to all of Japan. Causing Nakata to be exiled from the academy, rejected, and hated by all. Nathan gained the number 1 application spot, and Motoki Maekawa took the now vacant spot at the bottom of the class. Nathan lived for a year in peace at the academy, until Nakata had successfully procured his revenge.

He spent a year studying at Rimoto Piozumu Academy as the class president of Class 7B, during this year he formed deep connections with those in his class, and other various students at the school.

### Danganronpa: Shallow Words

It was during this killing game that Nathan was kidnapped alongside his whole class by Nakata Yataro. Nathan, however, didn't participate in the killing game, and was instead subjected to torture by watching the killing game take place, watching his classmates that he grew so fond of kill each other one by one.

#### Chapter 6

In the sixth chapter of the game, unable to constrain himself any longer after seeing Nakata kill Miya Katumi, Nathan broke himself out of the chair that he was tied to, as he waited patiently for the sixth trial to end right next to his chair, wearing the same cloak that Nakata had used to kill Miya. Nathan announced to the group still alive, those being Theodore R Wyvern, Sankara Nobakku, Motoki Maekawa, Asuri Torena, and Rei Kimura, that he would take care of Nakata, and that they should run for the city.

> I hate to break it to you, Nakata. But I really am... better than you.
>
> -Nathan Kabet, Upon revealing he had escaped

#### Post Game

After neither him or Nakata were able to gain an advantage over the other in a fight, they both retreated and went into hiding on their own terms. Over this time, Nathan refused to go back to the school, to create the illusion had kidnapped him once again, and to fuel his rage. Eventually, during this rage, he would hatch a plan to create another lie against Nakata, that being to create a new killing game and host it exactly like Nakata's, and blame the whole game on him. And thus, the planning for Plight of the Forgotten had begun, featuring the 17 students who were rejected form their class, plus Akira Hashiru, the son of a very powerful man in the underworld, to send as many people after Nakata as possible.

### Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten

#### Chapter 2

During the first chapter of the game, Nathan initially spectated, but after watching for a chapter intended to join into the game and become a participant of sorts. Fukushu told the group that this was a new addition, and that he simply woke up later than anyone else did. Immediately upon entering, Nathan was threatened by Ayako Suzuki, with a knife to his neck, when he scolded her and said she was holding the knife wrong, foreshadowing his Ultimate Talent. He developed slight bonds with Opal Petrovich and Ren Aiuchi, however they were not very developed, as he found them disgusting, lesser people than him.

> You all seem like quite the ragtag group. Thank you... what do I call you?
>
> -Nathan Kabet, Upon entering the killing game

#### Chapter 3

Nathan simply stood back and relaxed during this portion of the game, socializing when he was able to, and formed a new relationships with Akira Hashiru and Jackie Dive, since he had seen Akira and Jackie being someone at the center of most of the attention in the game, and wanted to be close with those who everything was circling around. He would also save Isuma Tsutsumi from a bad sunburn when she fell asleep outside during this phase of the game, becoming a pseudo-hero to the group for his heroicness.

#### Chapter 4

Continuing on his quest to become close with those who took center stage, Nathan made it his mission to befriend Marcelle Treillard, completing the three that he saw as the most influential in the game. (With the exception of Ayako, who he had grown a genuine dislike for). Aside from this, he simply attempted to keep himself in good standing with the group. The motive this chapter had to with the ability to ask Fukushu any one question, and receiving a true answer no matter what. When Dachi Maru did murder, he asked Fukushu who was behind the killing game, and was told that Nathan was the one responsible. Dachi wrote this name in a book, planning to tell the group about the book once the trial had reached its conclusion. That night, Nathan snuck into Dachi's room and changed the name to read Nakata Yataro.

#### Chapter 5

At this stage of the game, with the end quickly approaching, Nathan decided in order to finish his deception of the rest of the students, he needed to have someone on his side wholeheartedly, and chose the only other admitted student to the academy (that being Akira Hashiru). When they were both at the shooting range, Nathan unveiled his talent as the Ultimate Knivesman, be being able to hit the target with a perfect bullseye in the blink of an eye. During the motive this chapter, everyone received dreams of what they desired the most in their lives. To keep his illusion alive, Nathan subjected himself to the motive aswell. And in these dreams, he saw himself being admitted into the academy with Nakata Yataro, being his friend. This causes major distress, as he doubted whether or not he made the right choice betraying Nakata, which was the base of why he was doing any of this. He lied to the other students, saying he saw his parents with him, being shocked that they came back to him after they sold him off to the circus, mainly to Marcelle Treillard before her death.

#### Chapter 6

With the distress till in his mind, Nathan made a decision that he would give himself up and end the killing game, not wanting to hurt people anymore. He began to see Nakata Yataro within them. He still saw himself above them, but doubted whether or not that meant their lives held no value. Fukushu's initial plan to set a murder in motion was already in place, and he could not stop it. The point of this plan was to incriminate both Akira Hashiru and Kazuoki Doko. The latter not being suspected since he did not show up to the proper meeting place that he was requested to go to. When it was time for the murder to take place, he met with Ayako Suzuki at the top floor of the tall building, where he had a confrontation with her. He told her they would fight, and that the winner would be the killer, the other being the victim. He then whispered into her ear, saying that no matter what the result, she would still survive, and he would use a body double and come back for her later. When Akira finally showed up for his scheduled meeting, he entered the top floor of the building, he saw Nathan in a hooded cloak holding up Ayako by the neck, with three knives stabbed in her stomach. He dropped the body, which was a double, and escaped out of the back window.

At the trial, as everyone began discussing the crime, and deciding who they thought would be the mastermind (who they concluded the killer had to be), Nathan tried to lead them in the direction of suspecting him. However, they all had tunnel vision on the odd one out being Akira, based on a list they had found about the students in their class. They were correctly able to determine that Akira was not a part of their application group. However, after enough convincing, the group finally believed and listened to Nathan, who was in tears, telling them all to send the one behind the game to hell.

> The one who did this, please, SEND THEM TO HELL, MAKE THEM REPENT
>
> -Nathan Kabet, During the final stages of the Chapter 6 trial

#### Post Game

After Nathan was voted, he prepared to accept his execution, and when Fukushu began to begin, they all shut down, and a figure in a brown cloak appeared from the roof of the trial room, that being Nakata Yataro. Nakata tells everyone to leave, and that he had unfinished business with Nathan. Nathan tries to apologize to Nakata, and say he was wrong. Nakata however is so blinded by rage that he says he will attack Nathan anyways. Nathan quickly changes his mind again, and prepares to fight for his life.

After they fight, Nathan goes into hiding, unsure of what his place would be in society if he returned. Eventually, he was contacted by Amari Kamlyn, who invited him to be the game master of a killing game in Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate, in order to lure Nakata there so that he can get his revenge.

### Danganronpa: Mirrored Fate

#### Chapter 1

After arriving at the location of the killing game given to him by Amari Kamlyn, Nathan hides himself inside of the restaurant by the parks exit as he was instructed to do so. He was told that the 14 participants would wake up in the trailers across the courtyard from the restaurant. Once they woke up, Fukushu would introduce himself and then once Fukushu had finished speaking Nathan could make his way out of the building at any time.

When it was time for this, Dyson Kyosko jumped the gun, and attacked Fukushu in order to be a forefront figure of the group who was scared at the announcement of the game. When he did, Fukushu would retaliate by self destructing. Once it did, Nathan realized that he may as well show himself then, and exited the restaurant much to everyone's surprise.

During this chapter, Nathan would show up when Foujita Oba was being beaten by the rest of the players in his group, saying he wanted to warn them about the dangers of wailing on a singular person together, about how hard a trial would wind up being should Foujita die from this. He dodges a punch thrown at him, and displays his strength by throwing a knife through a hanging piece of meat in the freezer, setting a tone for anyone who attempted to mess with him for any time to come. A similar situation takes place with Anthony Malthe is knocked out by a group of people, and Nathan comes by to see if he had truly died.

When the murder does initially happen, Nathan takes offence to the group wishing to tamper with the crime scene by removing Oshiro Usagi's body from the meat hook where she was hung. He also takes more offense to him being accused.

#### Chapter 2

The chapter begins with Nathan delivering the motive for Fukushu, which shows a television screen where various people have small things happen to them that mildly inconvenience their lives. He tells the participants that as time goes on, these inconveniences will become more and more dangerous, until they may reach the point of hurting the individuals.

When Anthony Malthe died, Nathan was found looking at the body before it was found by the group. When asked why, he simply said he knew someone who died in the same way once, and was remising about the painful time. This was referencing Ayako Suzuki, who was still alive, but Nathan was unable to go check on her after he saw that Amari Kamlyn and Takai Kado had found her.

At the trial when Mal Burnow is convicted, right before the execution Nathan breaks down and screams at the sky, asking why he had to relive the pain that he already had to witness. Explaining to the group that he knew a girl who went under a false name. She also killed someone, and was executed. This is referencing Zikona Syuka. Feeling remorse for what happened, he couldn't bear to watch the execution. At this moment, he begins to question himself once again, and the pain he is forced to feel.

#### Chapter 3

As the motive that Nathan presents, he hits a button on a remote that plays a very loud noise throughout the area of the park that the group is able to access. He says that every hour, the noise will go off.

Some time after this, Nathan get's particularly annoyed at Zaraha Phonaz. He begins to go off on Zaraha as it is obvious more than what happened is going on. He says that he knew he would have to relive the pain of his brother when he saw him. He begins to describe Alexander Phonaz to his brother in a good light, as Zaraha begins to be filled with hope. But, as he smiles at the idea of his brother having a nice life, Nathan tells him that he died, and Nathan was forced to watch. Nathan leaves angrily. At the climax of the argument, Zaraha begins to prepare to fight Nathan along with everyone else, and as the loud noise goes off causing everyone to break down and wince in pain. Nathan loses no ground and is unaffected, not even losing his stride.

> When you wanna fight... I'll fight you. It would only be self defense. I'm simply... better!
>
> -Nathan Kabet, Walking towards Zaraha slowly as the ear piercing noise plays.

From that time forward, Nathan became much more cold with the group.

#### Chapter 4

Before the next announcement, Zenkichi Otohashi tells Nathan that he saw a boy with blue hair running around the forest of the park. In the conversation, Zenkichi tries to connect with Nathan and tell him that he doesn't want to hate him and that he feels there's more going on here. Nathan says that he is right, there's alot they don't know about, and that it isn't his choice whether or not they should hate him, but they get to make the choice on their own based on what they do know.

> To be completely honest, there is alot that you all don't understand or know about. Whether you should hate me or not I can't say, I'm the one keeping you all here. I don't know what I'm saying... hearing someone else is here just throws me off.
>
> -Nathan Kabet, Speaking to Zenkichi about how he feels that he should be viewed by the group.

Nathan reveals the motive over the loud speakers, this time, with a great threat that says that if no one is dead by a certain time limit, then all traces of the participants will be erased from every database possible. Some time later, after it get's close to the time, a secondary motive is added in the form of a commercial for Rimoto Piozumu Academy. When finding the corpse of Kana Yanamine, he winces at the Ultimate Mangaka talent being so similar to an artists, reminding him of Ayako Suzuki, and other people from his past.

He shows remorse once again, reluctantly, and helps aid Yoshimura Osamu with a little bit of a quicker death.

#### Chapter 5

When Nathan begins to deliver the motive, he's told by Zaraha Phonaz that the group doesn't even need a motive, and one of them would break soon enough. Nathan seemingly agrees, but says it's only because there is no motive listed on the notes he'd been given. After entering the mirror house with his group, he sees flashes of Red but shrugs it off as seeing things.

When reaching the meeting room, his fist collides with Nakata Yataro's on the other side of the mirror as the mirror is smashed, and the participants from the two games meet each other. Amari Kamlyn breaks in, and forces both of them to stop fighting. She takes both of them with her to a place to have Nathan and Nakata talk. Amari tells them that from this point forward, they are forced to stay together, and that if they leave each other's side even once that the Fukushu dolls will kill them on the spot.

Along with this, Nathan and Nakata are forced to put into place glass displays of certain deaths throughout the killing games that they hosted. (From Danganronpa: Shallow Words and Danganronpa: Plight of the Forgotten). Throughout their time forced to stay together, they interact with students from both killing games many times, and their underdstanding of each other slowly becomes more and more understanding.

In these conversations, they drop slight insults at one another about mistakes they made during hosting their own killing games. Sending nods at moments such as Marcelle Treillard burning down the cabins. In a specific conversation with Katie Cross, he again shows empathy for Mike Zeal's death.

> Mike was one of my closest friends for over a year. I am deeply sorry that you have to feel this pain. I would never do something like that... Say whatever you want about me, but don't blame me for that. When he died... I lost hope. Goodbye.
>
> -Nathan Kabet, Speaking to Katie when asked about Mike's death

In a late night conversation with the two and Seta Torvald, the two have a lengthy conversation about the dead bodies all being from their original application group. A similar conversation takes place with Jou Andori, where both Nathan and Nakata grew closer with him.

At the trials when he finally gets to split up from Nakata and watch his groups trial, Nathan does soul searching and decides to wholeheartedly try and forgive Nakata once again.

#### Chapter 6

The chapter opens with the announcement, where Nathan stands on stage with Nakata Yataro where they apologize to Nakata. Once they do, and let out their grievances with their own actions, Amari Kamlyn shows up and shows her support for their decision to forgive one another. She simply then adds on, that as long as no one dies in 24 hours, they game will end and all alive participants will be admitted to the academy.

When it was time for the deadline to be reached, he stands at the exit of the park along with Nakata and the rest of the participants waiting for the gates to be opened by Amari. When they hear the body discovery announcement, they begin racing to where it was, not believing what they heard could be true.

After blaming each other briefly and then understanding they never left each others side, they begin to theorize together when Nathan remembers when Zenkichi Otohashi saw a man with blue hair outside in the forest. Before long, the two find out who it was, and as they were about to reveal it to the people they were near Fukushu showed up and threw a piece of paper in the mouth of Nathan and Nakata.

They're forced to be quiet for the rest of the time, but Nathan does reveal his secrets of hiding behind doors as people opened them to get around secretly, which leads the participants to doubt Oshiro Usagi's suicide, since Nathan admits he did not see the suicide happen directly.

During the trial, he promises along with Nakata Yataro that no one else of the participants will die after the trial should they succeed.

#### Chapter 7

When he, along with Nakata Yataro went to the front gate this time to have everyone leave. When they arrive, they are met with Takai Kado, along with the survivors from the previous two killing games. Takai says no one is going anywhere yet, since he received a distress call from Amari. Nathan awkwardly converses with the ones who had just arrived, apologizing to them profusely once again.

When Takai returns and announces the trial that will take place to decide who is more to blame out of Nathan and Nakata, Nathan (as-well as Nakata) decides that he is the one more to blame, and any conversation involving him involves telling people how he wants to repent, and regrets all of his actions against Nakata but they are too bad to be forgiven.

> My pride was too much, and I used it to destroy someone who I cared about. I deserve the blame. I wish to repent.
>
> -Nathan Kabet, On the reasons why he is more responsible for the killing games.

After the trial, Nathan is dragged into the execution the same as Nakata. They fight together to survive the execution. At the end of the execution, Nathan begins to be overwhelmed as Nakata goes to help him, but as he does Nathan accidentally cuts Nakata's neck. From then on, Nathan focuses on protecting Nakata. And while he does, he is attacked from behind and is stabbed multiple times and stabbed all over his body.

As he lets out his final breaths and the life vanishes from his eyes, Nathan whispers something into Nakata's ear. Later being revealed that he told Nakata about Ayako Suzuki being alive, and where to find her.

### Danganronpa: Tainted Visions (Memory)

#### Chapter 5

While this is a small role he played, whenever he was talked to by any of the participants, he spoke to them as if he was Nakata Yataro. The memory that this version of Nathan was from is a false one, where they are in an abandoned room together sometime during the timeline. In this memory, Nakata is tied to a chair and stopped from moving by Nathan, who refuses to let Nakata know where they are.

## Trivia

* Nathan was the second character created for the lore, the first being Nakata
* Nathan's last name, Kabet, loosely translates to Knife in Japanese.