IT IS QUITE PERFECT. i think airie_faerie started calling him that right after the finale, and it was my favourite of his nicknames. i'm not sure why. maybe because it seemed the most suitably mundane and yet absurd? i like it as a meta-name for him, like handy, but he's got an actual name in the fic i'm writing.

his actual name may change from fic to fic, and author to author -- john smith, john noble, donald, arthur, etc., but he was still always be NATE. yes.