Nathan Gravillon

**Nathan Gravillon** (ネイサン・グラビロン, *Gurabiron Neisan*) is a professional football player who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Montmartre FC and the France National team.

## Appearance

Gravillon has dark olive-brown hair and matching olive-green coloured eyes. He usually has a stoic expression on his face and often looks rather intimidating. He has a large, muscular yet lean build and is fairly tall.

## Personality

Gravillon is a quiet and stoic individual, not speaking very often, and often maintaining the same fierce expression on his face which often gives him an intimidating appearance. One of Gravillon's most notable characteristics is his tendency to bluntly, but honestly, say what is on his mind, causing him to come off as tactless or rude. Due to his limited social skills and being incredibly earnest, Gravillon can appear awkward and unintentionally funny. He does not seem to be able to read people or certain situations very well, and often takes jokes and figurative language from others literally. Despite this, it is noted that when Gravillon does give actual praise or support, it is completely sincere as he never sugarcoats or minces his words.

He is immensely confident in his skills and does not ever doubt that he or his team will win, to the point that when Julian Loki bragged that he and PXG would be the one's to defeat Montmartre and win the French league, Gravillon genuinely thought that he was confused and corrected him that only one team is allowed to go. Gravillon believes that cultivating one's talent is the most important thing for a player, as shown when he openly criticises his fellow national players for playing for second-rate teams instead of the more powerful and successful clubs such as Montmartre, claiming the former is like "infertile soil". Because of this mindset, he hates those with baseless and unfounded confidence. Despite his blunt and somewhat condescending behaviour, he greatly admires his team captain and respects his every order.

When faced with a defeat, Gravillon appears to not let it bother him in the same manner most others would feel. Instead, he accepts any mistakes he makes and looks to improving himself further. He also appears to look forward to matches against challenging players.

## Abilities

### Archetype

* **Playmaker**: A player who controls the flow of the team's offensive play, and is often involved in passing moves which lead to goals, through their vision, technique, ball control, creativity, and passing ability.

Gravillon is known as one of the best midfielders in the world with his play style being described as cold and calculating. He creates constant ideal plays for his team using his passing and dribbling, essentially controlling the offense and fills in any gaps the defense may have by going to the most critical point using his omnipotent vision and incredibly high football IQ. With every play he makes, Gravillon aims to crush his opponent quickly and efficiently. He operates primarily as an attacking midfielder, but can be deployed as a winger, central midfielder, defensive midfielder and deep-lying playmaker.

### Skills

**Professional Football Technique:** Gravillon is regarded as a mastermind and a football genius with his plays. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders in the world. His skills are highly respected by teammates, opposing teams, club owners, investors, and even other world-class players such as Noel Noa, his fellow countryman. His skill and technique is so high level that his team's style of play revolves around him. He is often described as one of the best and most complete modern day advanced playmakers due to his technique, athleticism, dribbling, work-rate off the ball, vision, crossing accuracy, wide range of passing, and powerful long-range shooting ability with either foot

**Perfect Kick Technique:** Gravillon has the ability to control the intensity, angle, speed, and accuracy of his kicks to an extreme level at any given point in time. Not only is he able to consistently perform complex passes using his superior footwork and technique but added with his level of skill he is able to perfectly manipulate the ball to the point his passes are easy to receive but hard to intercept or block.

* **Pinpoint High Speed Free Kick:** He fires a blazing fast free kick, with incredible accuracy.
* **Vertical Spinning Direct Shot:** A direct shot from the corner spot, which targets the furthest top corner of the goal. This shot can take players off guard if they do not expect it, thought it can be prevented through positioning.
* **Long Driven Pass:** A long pass, usually 40-50 meters long, that gives the ball enough height and power to avoid interception.
* **Lob Pass:** Also known as a Chip, is a shot in which the ball is kicked from underneath with accuracy but with less than maximum force, to launch it high into the air in order to pass it over the heads of opponents.
* **Line Drive Shot:** Gravillon is able to score with a powerful drive shot, taken from the byline and aimed at the other side of the goal. This is a shot that defies the expectations of anyone in the box anticipating a pass and can catch the goalkeeper off guard.
* **Trivela (Pass):** A technique wherein which one puts spin on the ball using the outside of their foot. Gravillon is able to make a pinpoint pass using the outside of his left foot, in an instantaneous motion with his reflex. he is also able to use this pass with his weaker right foot, to still make a pinpoint pass.
* **Ultra-Fast Pass:** From a set piece, Gravillon is able to make an incredibly fast pass that borders on being a shot. By using his reflex, he takes all conditions into account, in order to pass to a place that the opponent cannot reach, as if threading a needle.

**Counter Dribbling:** Gravillon's dribbling is "passive", in comparison with the more proactive dribbling of players like Meguru Bachira. Rather than actively moving past defenders, Gravillon will observe the defender's rhythm and motions, before flowing past them in a counter. His dribbling is world class, being able to effortlessly blow past the likes of Adam Blake within one fluid movement. He is also shown to be able to overcome his teammate, Fujikata, with relative ease, nutmegging him in each of their engagements. With Fujikata noting that the tempo of each of his touches when he dribbles is incredibly fast. Gravillon will often prioritise passing to progress the ball up the field, but when he wishes to play seriously, he changes his style to breaking through by himself with his dribbling, drastically increasing his teams options.

* **Hyperspeed Scissors:** Gravillon performs a scissor feint at incredible speed, making it hard to follow.
* **Double Touch:** Gravillon knocks the ball from one foot to the other, before using the second foot to knock the ball past his opponent and break past.
* **Marseille Turn:** Gravillon stops the ball with the outside of his foot, shielding the ball from his opponent, before performing a roulette to turn past them.
* **Nutmeg:** Gravillon dribbles the ball through the legs of a defender effectively getting past their defense with little effort.

**Spatial Awareness:** Gravillon analyses the entire field, including the positions of himself, his teammates and his opponents, in order to determine the best play. Gravillon's tactical ability and spatial awareness are at such a level that only the best football minds in the world can understand, counter, and rival his analytical ability. He is routinely able to predict the positioning and movements of other players, setting up traps and baits to lure them into unfavourable positions, intercepting their plays and setting up his own.

* **Spacing:** By reading the weapon of his opponent, as well as the positions of other players on the field, Gravillon spaces himself in such a way as to allow for him to predict and respond to whatever they decide to do.
* **Synchronization:** Gravillon is also able to use his spatial awareness defensively, through reading and understanding the core of his opponent's football he can overlap his thoughts with theirs to predict what they will do next.

**Off the Ball Movements:** A term used to describe the moments where players are not in possession of the ball. Gravillon makes use of these movements to position himself in an opponent's blind spot, as well as to manoeuvre into goal assisting positions. He does this after determining the field of view of the players on the pitch.

**Puppet-Controlling Soccer:** Gravillon's main play style is about controlling and manipulating what his opponent thinks. After identifying the strengths and weaknesses of each player on the field, Gravillon uses his superior technique, tactical and physical ability to manipulate them into scenarios that will result in a goal. He can do this by using his own abilities against the opponent, or by combining his strengths with his team's. This style of soccer, pushes his team's abilities to their limits and beyond, resulting in highly complex and effective passages of play that often result in a goal.

* **Feints:** By positioning himself at a range where he can shoot, Gravillon manipulates his opponent into thinking he *will* shoot. This draws in the opponent to attempt a block, before he feints in order to bypass them. He can also use this in reverse. By changing his form and hiding his motion he fools his opponent into thinking he *won't* shoot, before he does.
* **Marseille Turn:** After manipulating his opponent into thinking he will perform a regular feint, Gravillon transitions into a roulette, to get around their defence.
* **Elastico Nutmeg:** Gravillon knocks the ball sideways with the outside of his foot, in order to force a challenge from his opponent, before using the inside of his foot to push the ball between their legs and get past them.

**Reflex:** With his incredible reflexes, Gravillon is able to take into account all the conditions of the field and make decisive plays to get the ball down the field and in the hands of the forwards in the best way possible. Gravillon will determine who has the most "heat" towards the goal and play the ball to them, meaning he has no bias towards particular strikers. This incredible reflex makes him hard to read and stop, as he makes split-second judgements to constantly move the ball and change positions. It is this reflex which enables Gravillon to operate on the same wavelength as Alexandre and exploit his abilities to their full potential.

**Meta Vision:** A term used to describe a player's evolved vision that gives them an omnipotent perspective of the field. Using his eyes to constantly take in information from his central and peripheral vision, Gravillon constantly collects data on every player, every play they make, and their positions on the field; mixed with his high football IQ, he is able to interpret that data and use it to heighten every move he makes to unpredictable levels and find opportunities before others can. This ability escapes the logic of even the most highly advanced football players. Mixed with his other abilities, Gravillon is able to dominate the field creating illogical opportunities born from his vision.

## Trivia

* His favourite players are Zinedine Zidane and Michel Platini.