#tend

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

That's harder to answer than I initially thought, because I realised that there are not really that many romantic ships I know of to begin with ... so unless I'd say Nate X OC, which would be heavily dependent on the OC, I'd go with Chloe and Nadine.

I was thrilled to see Chloe in action in LL, thinking I'd get some idea of how she might be with Nathan. Instead, I was served a super fun relationship between her and Nadine, and I think that they would work great both as a romantic as well as platonic pairing. They had a great development, especially Nadine, coming from U4. The first time she said "Chloe" instead of "Frazer", I squealed.

Finished it today, and honestly this ending felt so much more wholesome than U4's. Look at the girls being girls, after saving the world.

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

That's easy, and I bet you already know what comes: Natelena.

Even though it might be a stretch to say I never liked them. I did like them at the beginning, but then it sort of went down as soon as I learned more about their characters. It was fun while it lasted, but there are so many problematic things about their relationship... right now, I imagine them becoming friends at the most. The sort that once tried to be more, but found out that it didn't really work. I'm all for bickering and teasing in fictional relationships, but they dont really do anything else, other than perhaps fight. Besides, I watched a view of their interactions in the earlier games, and the way Elena reacts to Chloe in U2? Not cool. I dont like how snappy she is. Gives me bad jealousy vibes. Chloe was a lot cooler.

I think that loose friends might work, everything beyond that just feels sort of toxic and forced.

So yeah. Should there be more Natelena in a possible U5, NaughtyDog will have a hard time to make me feel that. Nate should be going back to Chloe (I like Chloe. Did I mention that? Also, short side note, Chloe seems to be great with that girl in LL. She'd be a great mum. Just saying)

Only problem is that after LL, Nathan would come back to Chloe only to find Nadine in her sheets lol. And perhaps, on a good day, Sam padding out of the bathroom only in his boxershorts. Poor Nathan.

S - Show us an example of your personal headcanon (prompts optional but encouraged)

One headcanon I have developed regards the time shortly after Sam "died" in Panama. I think that Nathan had the worst time of his life after that (watching the only family you have die right in front of you, and being forced to leave him behind), and has tried to cope with that via his sketchbook.

I think that he has drawn Sam a lot, trying not to forget his face, maybe trying to "summon" the feeling that he's still there, that there's still hope. There will be a few "failed" attempts at the start, where you can still see the smudges when tears had hit the paper or the stain of a pencil that broke after he pressed it to hard on the paper, but eventually, he could draw Sam's face without a second thought, like others doodle a flower.

I don't want to say too much about it, because I'm actively writing a fic that is partly exactly about that, and I dont want to spoiler you (or anyone else), so that'll have to do for now. Nathan is an artist, and it helps him to bring some order into his thoughts.

Z - Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go! (Prompts optional but encouraged.)

Not meaning to turn this into a hyper-emotional answer on the homestretch, but I'm super glad I found this fandom and the little persistent community. So many great fics on Ao3 are abandoned or the author seems to be absent, and there's little activity here, but seeing especially @lilsnatch and @n4tethegre4t show up after I post something about Uncharted makes me feel like there's somebody home. I still remember @nathandrakeisabottom 's answer to my very first post in this fandom, and, knowing that there's somebody who is still writing fics about Nate, like TEND, gives me hope that this fandom is not bleeding out completely. I'm finding myself encouraged to dive deeper into the characters because I want to find out why other fans love them (like with Sam) or why they dislike a pairing and so on.

So yeah, rambling along to say thank you for the warm welcome you gave me, and for encouraging me to go from "hm, that man hot" into deep character analysis - and for always being along for my rambles <3

To avoid any confusion a camping tent is now called ‘una tienda de campaña’ (or ‘carpa’ in LA).

“Can you tend the shop for a few hours?”

She bought the book in that shop. Ella compró el libro en esa tienda.