#patrick dimaccio

Little baby Nathaniel who throws himself from couch to couch, his tiny legs wobbling as he tries to balance himself while maintaining the zoomies.

Little baby Nathaniel who giggles as he runs to hug Mary's knees, babbling nonsensically, like all babies do.

Nathan who recognises this talent and immediately decides to foster it within his son. Nathan who teaches his son to run faster and faster. Nathan who, when Nathaniel is deemed old enough, decides to encourage this even more by making his subordinates chase Nathaniel around the garden.

It starts as a meaningless game of cat and mouse meant to help his prodigy with endurance, and then later ends up as an actual challenge when Nathan realises that his son can no longer be caught so easily.

All started fairly simple, marry Nathan Wesninski and form an alliance between the Hatford’s and Moriyama’s.

Nathan was charming at first, treated Mary as someone to be respected, didn’t dare say anything that would have her walking out.

Only for Mary to fall pregnant and for her husband to drop the niceties

He informed the Hatford family that she was unwell due to the pregnancy and wouldn’t be able to get in contact with them for the time being.

Brought in his whore, Lola Malcolm, and her brother plus a man named Patrick, to watch over Mary - to ensure she couldn’t get in contact with Stuart.

Mary Hatford-Wesninski began to plot Nathan’s death around then, spent the 9 months pregnant studying poisons

Had fantasied all the brutal ways she could kill him, she even came across and read a fascinating article about a woman named Katherine Knight (this happened 2001 but we’re gonna ignore that-)

She considered aborting the child growing inside her - the pest that was holding her down - but then time flew by and January 19, 1988 at 4:30AM Mary gave birth to a baby boy who resembled Nathan Wesninski

It took everything in her not to puke

Mary wasn’t even allowed to name the child, watched as Nathan told the doctor and nurses that the child’s name would be Nathaniel Wesninski - though, she was able too tell them the boys middle name would be Abram

Then just like that, motherhood was before her. Raising a baby was hell, it cut into her planning time on how to get rid of the Malcolm siblings so that she could get her hands on Nathan

Even though she and her husband shared a bed, they were both light sleepers so any plans to kill him in his sleep had been thrown out the window long ago

The years went by, Nathaniel clinging to Mary whenever Lola tried to touch him and she found herself protective of the little boy - he was her flesh and blood after all

Just, some days, he was hard to look at because of him inheriting Nathan’s looks.

And then the Exy practices started, Nathaniel was introduced to Kevin and Riko, played with the two with such joy in his eyes that Mary would rather he stay with those two then be home

Only for her to learn that this was a test, a way for Nathan to sell his - no, her son - to the Moriyama’s

Patrick DiMaccio was the first to go

Mary had been washing the dishes, playing the part of an obedient wife, when he waltzed into the kitchen and had let it slip that Nathan, Lola and Romero were out on a job for the next few days

Had tried to touch her

She drove a fork through his hand and took enjoyment out of using her husbands torture room.

Patrick’s body was disposed of and despite the manhunt to look for the man, Lola and her brother came up empty as did all the Butcher’s men.

Nathan had suspected Mary at first, but over the years she played the part of a submissive fragile house wife so well that he shrugged the thought away, finding the very idea hilarious

Lola and Romero kept an eye on her even if their boss didn’t

And then Abram was being sold off, had a 3 being drawn on his cheek every day with permanent marker by Riko Moriyama

Mary smiled, showering her son with affection and taking him to all the practices while wondering if she should of ran before this happened

Read Abram to sleep which night and did everything she could to make sure Nathan didn’t raise a hand to either of them

Only for Nathan to spring on her at random, that Lola was to train Nathaniel with knives so that he could be a reliable asset to Riko when they were older

Mary bit her tongue, patching her son up every night so that he would be fine in time for his next Exy practice

Reasoned that this worked in their favour, had even slipped the thought to Nathan during sex that he should train Nathaniel himself to be the next Butcher

Had convinced her husband that Riko would want his own Butcher, just like his father, when he was older

A year later of Lola overseeing Abram’s training, Nathan took over. Bringing his son down to the basement and had him skin random people picked up off the street, see how skilled he was with a knife

Mary hated it, but she just had to be patient. Get Lola and Romero out of the picture

Then she could focus on getting rid of Nathan

But first, she needed to get in contact with her brother

watch me not even continue this lmao - tho if I do, Andrew will make his way in eventually same with Ichirou

“Neil was much better at instigating fights than winning them.” - The Foxhole Court, ch. 5.

I want to know when he learned that about himself, because he says he was very mild mannered in Millport. “Starting a fight was to out of character for who he portrayed “Neil” to be.” - The Foxhole Court, ch. 5.

So either it was his childhood with his parents in Baltimore, or the years on the run with his mother.

Can you imagine a very young Nathaniel being a problem child because he inherited his father’s temperament.He probably gave Lola and his fathers other people hell when he was growing up. I mean he says DiMaccio never laid a hand on him or his mother before, because he was so big he could have killed them with one careless hit. I gonna assume at some point he wanted to.

I also assuming he didn’t attend school, because he said when he meet Kevin and Riko he was excited to see kids his age. So like did he have tutors that his family trusted, was he an awful student?

Als the fact that he learned very quickly how to recognize any signs of anger in his father, shows that he probably brought his wrath down on himself a lot. I know it states that his father will hit him without much reason, like with the iron, but this is Neil he can’t control what he says whenever he loses his temper.

Then during the years he was on the run with Mary did he get into random fights with people he meet?

I don’t think he would have talked back/ or got into it with Mary. He actually says they “never talked about anything real... It was always about the weather or our current language or the local culture.” - The Raven King ch. 7.