Nathan Goodbrand

> I know you're trying to take Lilly Young from us!"
>
> Nathan's first line in Prologue.

Nathan is the main antagonist of the wattpad book series: Love Is War. He is the arch-rival of Logan Maddicks and a manipulative, badass psychopath who will do anything to get his way. He originally was a simple villain, just wanting to date Lilly, but after Logan barely escaped being killed, he turned into a total psycho, taking control of the jocks, and Paramvir Singh.

## Biography

### Prologue

Nathan's first apperance is when Logan is walking to the park to meet with his friend, Kolton, where he, Harshvir and Paramvir cut him off with their van and Nathan has a short monologue before he knocks out Logan. He brings him to the warehouse which he has rented out as his base of operations. He straps Logan to a chair, and tortures him in means of waterboarding to make sure he won't talk to Lilly anymore. Even after Logan says he won't, Harshvir does not believe this so Nathan decides to send him to the cliffside which he will throw Logan off of it. He has Paramvir stay back as he and Harshvir drive Logan over to the cliff.

He stops the van and Harshvir goes to admire the view. He opens the van and sees Logan who lunges at him with a screwdriver, and the two fight briefly, which Nathan comes out victourious, barely. He and Harshvir have Logan lying there, thinking he's dead. Harshvir goes to throw the body off the cliff but then sees that the body is missing, and the two quickly drive back to the warehouse to meet up with Paramvir. Their next plan is to meet with Lilly at the party, and once Paramvir brings up Logan being dead, Nathan gets angry at him but Harshvir defends his brother, threatening that he and Paramvir won't attennd the party if Nathan keeps this up. This shuts Nathan up and the three get back in the van and drive to the party.

### The Party

In the second chapter, Nathan is in the party and with Harsh and Param, he lurks behind Logan and Lilly as they walk through the party, Logan notices them so they quickly hide, waiting for the right time to strike. Once Lilly heads to the drinks table to get drinks for her and Logan, Nathan ambushes him and threatens him with a knife, telling him that he will know what happens now. Kolton and Carson suddenly attack the three and Logan gets renewed strength, kicking Nathan in the groin and fighting him with Kolton as Harshvir attempts to escape down the hall, being followed by Carson as he and Param fight a losing fight against Kolton and Logan.

He loses the battle against Logan and he and Paramvir attempt to escape the house with bad injuries, Harshvir would then suddenly arrive in the van, they get in and head to the hospital where they must stay the night as Harsh has a broken arm, Nathan has a stab wound, and Paramvir has wounds all over. The next morning, they head to the warehouse and Nathan thinks of a dangerous plan to get Logan back for injuring him.

### The Figure

In the third chapter, Nathan is not seen at all, but it is implied that he is the figure who murders Kolton and the police officer, and almost kills Carson.

### Aftermath

He is only seen when Harshvir and Paramvir go to confront him about the murder of Kolton, he tells them that he did not do anything and that they need to chill out. Harsh does not believe him and when Harsh and Param are walking home, Param reveals himself to be the murderer and stabs Harshvir, leaving him for dead, and later killing his own parents.

### Betrayal And Alliance

In Chapter 5, he plays a bit more of an important role after two chapters of almost no scenes. He comes home from the Police Precint to his abusive father who is an alchoholic. He looks at his watch and sees that it was Five PM, he gets up and now tries to beat Nathan but he flees and runs around back to the tree line, hoping to wait it out until his dad passes out. He succeds and when he his taunting the unconcious father, a wounded Harshvir comes crawling down the sidewalk, pleading for help. Nathan interrogates him about who did it, Harshvir reveals that Paramvir murdered Kolton and instead of helping Harshvir, Nathan finds this usefull and he wants to take Paramvir under his wing, leaving Harshvir with only one option; Carson.

### Pit Of Dispair

Once again, Nathan is not seen, instead he is mentioned.

### It's All My Fault

In thi chapter, Nathan and Paramvir, now allied, think of plans to go after the heroes after Harshvir is revealed to be working with them. Nathan thinks of a plan to turn them against eachother and reveals that when his dad was passed out, he exchanged all the funds out of his bank account and would pay them off to fight eachother.

### Recovery

In this chapter, after Chris is revealed to be dead, Nathan is cleaning blood off his knife while talking to the rest of the jocks with Paramvir, and he lies to them, explaining that Logan murdered Chris to get with Lilly. Now, they all want to fight Logan, and Nathan now tells them that they will also be recieving payment if Logan is dealt with. They now agree to help him and he sends Paramvir to lead them to the warehouse.

### Warehouse

In this chapter, Nathan is seen in the last scene in his van, going after the four remaining heroes after they escaped Paramvir and the jocks at the warehouse.

### Final Fight

It starts in Nathan's perspective as he continues the chase through a field against the heroes, he then figures out that they are heading to the construction site, and takes a diversion route and then drives off the hill, getting behind them and hitting them off right into the construction site. He, Paramvir and Simon Bell exit the van and now enter the site, searching for the four of them.