Nathan Blackriver

Bully

**Nathan Blackriver** is a fictional character in *No Escape* and he was an antagonist portrayed by Josh Hutcherson. He was the son of the prestigious and influential Blackriver family, who funded Blackriver Academy, and was a bully and star athlete at the academy who practically ruled it. He was an enemy of Jesse Banks.

## Personality

Due to his wealthy and neglected upbringing, Nathan developed into a volatile, abusive and hostile bully who believed that money would be the answer to every problem and used his family's status and wealth to escape his responsibilities of antagonizing, intimidating and even physically assaulting and humiliating his victims. He was a naturally violent psychopath who gets into brawls easily, often with little provocation, and was an arrogant, selfish and cruel athlete who would talk down to many people and felt that he was above them in society. Nathan is an extremely mentally disturbed person, with his extreme behavior even concerning some of the thugs and bullies he hung around with. He displayed signs of schizophrenia and showed no remorse for anything despicable he's done in his life, as well as displaying very hateful and xenophobic views towards various groups of people, such as often insulting and hating on blacks, homosexuals, women and more groups. Nathan is obsessed with the idea of everyone showing him respect no matter how he treats them and will prove to be very petty and vengeful to people who stand up to him, especially in public.

Nathan's extreme cruelty had led him to committing various violent and despicable crimes for one reason or another, but it is often out of sadistic pleasure to hurt those around him. He had relentlessly and ruthlessly bullied Jesse Banks because he defended another student from Nathan's aggressive nature, doing horrible things to him such as beating him up with other bullies, partially carving his name on his stomach with a switchblade, vandalizing his car and property to taunt him and, when he was left further unhinged after his father punished Nathan for stumbling on him cheating with another woman by beating him up with a pool cue and even snapped one of his fingers to keep him quiet, he took out his enclosed rage on Jesse again after getting incredibly drunk and high. He violently attacked Jesse with the same pool cue and he tried to drown him in a lake though he was stopped before he could continue, but would have probably killed Jesse should he had been allowed to.

Nathan also bullied many students at his school boys and girls alike, with the only exception being his fellow athletes and his girlfriend Victoria Sturgess and her friends. This included sexually harassing Hannah and then he spitefully humiliated her when she turned him down, spread rumors about Katie Miller's secret of being a lesbian, broke a boy's arm for standing up to him and his extreme racism led to him targeting non-whites such as blacks, Hispanics and Asians by tormenting, humiliating and physically assaulting them. Nathan's racism and homophobia stemmed from his horrible elitist father. However Nathan has proven to be very cowardly when he is on the other side of all the violence and hate, notably when Jesse fought back and beat up Nathan to the point of him crying for mercy.

## Biography

### Early Life

The Blackriver family is known to be the oldest and most influential family in Rockford, being very wealthy and supplying substantial funding to Blackriver Academy. Nathan's father, Montgomery, has a lot of influence on Principal Adam Greene which, in turn, affects his son's treatment at the academy. Nathan's parents were extremely negligent and abusive towards him, as well as placing massive pressure on their son in order to keep the family's reputation intact. As a result of the negligence and pressure, Nathan's mental health suffered greatly and he developed into a very hateful and aggressive bully. Montgomery was willingly disconnected from his son and his son's mental health and instead abuses Nathan emotionally and physically as well as occasionally putting blame on the school and had threatened it and its financial support supplied by the Blackrivers.

Nathan and his friends became the most popular athletes at the academy and were treated as the pillars of the school. With his status at school and his already powerful family being well respected and known Nathan became an egotist and indulged in hedonistic activities such as partying, drinking, taking drugs and sex to satisfy himself. Nathan and his friends began bullying everyone at Blackriver Academy for their own amusement with the staff not enforcing the rules unless they went too far, out of the fear of Montgomery pulling out his finances from the school which would lead to its downfall. Feeling that everyone owes him and should respect him in someway, Nathan's bullying only worsened in terms of violence to the students who defied and stood up to him in some way, which included breaking a boy's arm for publicly disrespecting him in a fit of rage. Nathan was also very hateful towards various groups of people, showing extreme racism, sexism and homophobia against multiple students.

### Season One

In the hallway of Blackriver Academy, Nathan was seen hanging around with his jock friends which included Sammy Criss and Dominic Lavi. Hannah Valentine, one of the students, witnessed Nathan and his friends picking on another kid by shoving him to the floor.