Nathan Shorthorn

## Physical information

* The beach
* Neon colors
* Long equations
* Apples
* Sleeping on the grass
* Noise
* Crowds

**Nathan Shorthorn** is a character in *Technopunk*.

## Official description

*"**Nathan Shorthorn** has indomitable knowledge about mathematics and appreciates nature a lot -in fact, it's his main inspiration and his escapade. It can be hard to get to know him well, but once his trust is gained, he will protect those with his life."*

## Character

### Physical appearance

Nathan is a young adult with tanned skin. He has ocean blue eyes, an inverted triangular face, edged eyebrows, sports short, black hair with a bang divided into three spikes, and has a blue lightning bolt painted on his left cheek.

#### Default outfit

He wears a black-and-white striped shirt, denim pants, black-and-white striped socks, and green loafers with white soles.

### Personality

Nathan is soft-spoken and doesn't like to talk when he doesn't need to. He tries to find the most peaceful answer to the problems he gets involved in, disliking violence at most points. While it is extremely hard to make him angry, he can turn aggressive with his words to a point he can, unconsciously and emotionally, hurt himself. Despite having a sense of regret, he may choose not to talk to anyone until he feels less bad.

Nathan is smart, especially with math problems, has ethical reasoning he envies, and once he gets to know someone well enough, he will become caring for them and burst his bubble, sometimes becoming talkative to a point he can be unconscious about it. He is poetic, inspired, and responsible with himself, his brothers, and his elders.

## Development

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While Nathan's concept initiated in 2018 when he was developed as Rogue Springtron, his initial form was that of a recolored Spring Man. Some features and interests -including the love for beach and snow, the human name, and the deadly fate that would later become resurrection- were kept, but otherwise, the concept was, at first, barely developed.

In 2020, once LastyGhost turned Rogue into a public counter, started to play *Animal Crossing: New Horizons* and founded her first island under her account intended for him, the Human Rogue concept took its own shape, and his story in that form was modified completely, from a rejected challenger lookalike to an average high school student with not-so-average pacifism and knowledge. As she played and simultaneously continued to develop Nathan's robot self, more ideas about his human self -including hobbies, dreams, and costumes- surged and most of them got applied.

In Mid-2023, it was decided that Nathan would be stuck and alive as a human and would no longer be the star of his own story. *Ingalls* was merged with *Technopunk*, though it is still planned for him to be a major character. His last name was also changed, from *Ingalls* to *Shorthorn*, to prevent further confusion with DJ-Nate's actual name, Nathan Ingalls.

### Design

Nathan's proper design was conceptualized in 2020 when LastyGhost made her island in *Animal Crossing: New Horizons*.

In Late 2022, Nathan was redesigned to feature more epic, robot-like armor, produced using Hero Forge. It also depicts LastyGhost's art style evolution.

In Mid-2023, in addition to his design being reverted to his human self, his skin was darkened to match that of his brothers.

### Name

His last name is a literal opposite of *Longhorn*.