History Characters / LifeIsStrangeMainCharacters

--->''Victoria'': You do that...I know where you live...So does Nathan...

* IcyBlueEyes: Especially noticeable he's doing one of his usual {{Death Glare}}s, and they certainly enhance his creepy image.

* WouldHitAGirl: His hobby involves a lot of young girls being violated for his own amusement. Also, if Max warns David too early in Episode 5, Jefferson says that it's time for her to [[PrecisionFStrike shut the fuck up]] and strikes her in the head with a camera tripod, forcing her to rewind.

* WouldHitAGirl: Gives Chloe a quick but vicious bitch slap in her room if Max doesn't jump out of Chloe's closet to intervene on her behalf. He deeply regrets it and admits as much in a later episode, but it remains a painful scene to watch regardless.

* WouldHitAGirl: He's not above threatening Chloe with a knife or attempt to strangle Max.

* FieryRedhead: A red-headed kid who's also TheMentallyIll.

* TheMentallyIll: Oh boy, where to start. Nathan has serious psychological issues due to his father's emotional abuse. The fact that the latter refrains him from psychological getting help not to "taint the Prescott name" does not help him the slightest, which worsens Nathan's mental health and causes him to act the way he does during the game.

* HasAType: "Open and honest" young girls, in contrast to the "cynical" models he remembers working with.

* OffscreenVillainy: He has a cupboard full of binders with his victims' names, suggesting he has about sereval dozen kidnappings to his name, but because the exact circumstances behind those incidents and whenever the victims were killed or not are unknown, it is quite difficult to pin-point the exact number and scale of his crimes.

* PragmaticVillainy: Usually refrains from murder to avoid attracting unwanted attention. However, Nathan accidently overdosing Rachel messed up his plans, causing Max and Chloe to start digging into Rachel's disappearance and uncovering his operation.

* StalkerWithACrush: If you look outside of Max's dorm window at the start of Episode 2, you can see Warren trying to peek into her room from a nearby building.

--->'''Frank''': [''in shock''] DAMON, WHAT THE FUCK?!
* EvilFormerFriend: ''Before the Storm'' shows that Frank used to be on good terms with Chloe before their tolerance for each went severely downhill.

* LibationForTheDead: He pours out some liquor for [[spoiler:Damon after killing him at the end of ''Before the Storm''.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: Rachel and Rose accuse him as one for holding personal opinions of people who do shady things for themselves, [[spoiler:even though ''he's'' done some shady things to protect his image]].

** Indirectly, to the people of Arcadia Bay in general. Looking at the profiles of Rachel Amber, Chloe Price, Max Caulfield, Kate Marsh, Frank Bowers, and Joyce and David Madsen alone are a case study in the effects that his operation, with Nathan as his accomplice, had had on the people around him, whether through direct suffering incurred (in some cases up to and including death) or through indirectly straining their relationships and interactions with one another.

** Indirectly, to literally ALL of Arcadia Bay. Looking at the profiles of Rachel Amber, Chloe Price, Max Caulfield, Kate Marsh, Frank Bowers, and Joyce and David Madsen are a case study in the effects that his operation, with Nathan as his accomplice, had had on them, whether through direct suffering incurred (in some cases up to and including death) or through indirectly straining their relationships and interactions with one another. Furthermore, Jefferson corrupting Nathan leads to Rachel's disappearance and death, Chloe being left to deal with a debt to Frank on her own, and Nathan drugging Chloe at some point, all of which factor into how Nathan, his gun, and Chloe all end up in that restroom with Max. That event awakens Max's powers and incurs Chaos Theory over the town itself, which is why the "Bae or Bay" SadisticChoice ever has to happen.

** Indirectly, to literally ALL of Arcadia Bay. Looking at the profiles of Rachel Amber, Chloe Price, Max Caulfield, Kate Marsh, Frank Bowers, and Joyce and David Madsen are a case study in the effects that his operation, with Nathan as his accomplice, had had on them, whether through direct suffering incurred (in some cases up to and including death) or through indirectly straining their relationships and interactions with one another. Furthermore, Jefferson corrupting Nathan leads to Rachel's disappearance and death, Chloe being left to deal with a debt to Frank on her own, and Nathan drugging Chloe at some point, all of which factor into how Nathan, his gun, and Chloe all end up in that restroom with Max. That event awakens Max's powers and incurs ChaosTheory over the town itself, which is why the "Bae or Bay" SadisticChoice ever has to happen.

** Indirectly, to literally ALL of Arcadia Bay. Looking at the profiles of Rachel Amber, Chloe Price, Max Caulfield, Kate Marsh, Frank Bowers, and Joyce and David Madsen are a case study in the effects that his operation, with Nathan as his accomplice, had had on them, whether through direct suffering incurred (in some cases up to and including death) or through indirectly straining their relationships and interactions with one another. Furthermore, Jefferson corrupting Nathan leads to Rachel's disappearance and death, Chloe being left to deal with a debt to Frank on her own, and Nathan drugging Chloe at some point, all of which factor into how Nathan, his gun, and Chloe all end up in that restroom with Max. That event awakening her powers is why the "Bae or Bay" SadisticChoice ever has to happen.

* TheCorrupter: To Nathan Prescott. Although Nathan was already showing a lot of dark and disturbing traits even before the whole Dark Room thing, it was Jefferson who encouraged his worst traits and convincing him to assist him in his operation.

* GrayscaleOfEvil: He has an omnipresent grayscale motif; aside from wearing a black jacket over a white shirt with dark trousers, the Dark Room studio is practically a void of white and gray dotted with black furniture. What we see of his legitimate artwork is also monochromatic, dour, and depressive. His preoccupation with grayscale applies to his crimes as well; he's obsessed with degrading pure, innocent girls into broken, corrupted women. "That shift from black to white to gray...and beyond." Jefferson's limited color palette contrasts starkly with the vividness of Arcadia Bay's environment and the colorful characters within it, which symbolizes how joyless and warped his worldview is. His contrast with the lively characters and environment, combined with the theme of suffering that seems to be all over the Bay, also dovetails in with the evil effect he has had on notably every single major character in the plot.

* GrayscaleOfEvil: He has an omnipresent grayscale motif; aside from wearing a black jacket over a white shirt with dark trousers, the Dark Room studio is practically a void of white and gray dotted with black furniture. What we see of his legitimate artwork is also monochromatic, dour, and depressive. His preoccupation with grayscale applies to his crimes as well; he's obsessed with degrading pure, innocent girls into broken, corrupted women. "That shift from black to white to gray...and beyond." Jefferson's limited color palette contrasts starkly with the vividness of Arcadia Bay's environment and the colorful characters within it, which symbolizes how joyless and warped his worldview is.

* RedIsViolent: He's Blackwell's resident BarbarianBully with a distinct red letterman jacket.

* SoftSpokenSadist: Speaks in a low, whispering voice while talking down to his victims.

* HarmlessVillain: Sure, she's still nasty enough to gaslight Kate to the point where she (successfully or not) commits suicide, her dastardly shenanigans are nowhere near as bad the exploits of her loony friend Nathan and [[spoiler: serial kidnapper Jefferson]].

* {{Foil}}: To Chloe. While both are juvenile delinquents with emotional problems and association with drugs, Chloe is described as being poor and protective to her friends, the rich Nathan on the other hand is violently unstable and desperately trying to prop up his shattered self-esteem by crushing and bullying other people. Not only that, but they have polar opposite paternal figures: William being a kind-hearted man who loved his daughter and David is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who just wants the best for Chloe and her mother. In contrast, Sean is an abusive father who is fine in leaving his son to deal with his problems alone and [[spoiler: Jefferson]] is a psychopathic WolfInSheepsClothing who merely uses Nathan in order to advance his own goals all while hiding behind a façade of being a [[spoiler: polite and gentle teacher]]. Both are also represented by opposite colors, blue and red.

* IcyBlueEyes: Especially noticable he's doing one of his usual {{Death Glare}}s, and they certainly enhance his creepy image.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His red jacket and black pants clearly indicate what side he is on.

* PrivilegeMakesYouEvil: Him being from a rich family allowed him to get away with all sorts of nasty things in the past, and his family's [[SlaveToPR obsession with good PR]] and blatant negligence led to his mental issues being ignored and enabled, leading him right into [[spoiler: Jefferson's]] hands.

* {{Sadist}}: Jefferson's sole motivation for all his crimes in the story is, in his own words, his obsession "with the idea of capturing that moment innocence evolves into corruption." By that, he means he's obsessed with watching innocent girls suffering. Models are too "cynical" for him; traumatizing and breaking them has either already been done or won't be visceral enough for him to get a kick out of. No; he wants to hurt pure, optimistic girls, and picture their breaking point. And since he's frighteningly particular about the perfect shot, even that has to be on his terms.

* CameraFiend: A [[PlayedForHorror particularly dark example]]. He's a renouned and famous photographer who moonlights as a maniacal MadArtist who kidnaps girls for his illegal and unconsenting photo-shoots.
* ControlFreak: Why he forces his victims to pose for him. If they move even slightly, he flips out and swears.

* PragmaticVillainy: Usually refrains from murder to avoid attracting unwanted attention. However, Nathan accidently overdosing Rachel messed up his plans, causing Max and Chloe to start digging into Rachel's disappearence and uncovering his operation.
* {{Sadist}}: Jefferson's sole motivation for all his crimes in the story is, in his own words, his obsession "with the idea of capturing that moment innocence evolves into corruption". By that, he means he's obsessed with watching innocent girls suffering. Models are too "cynical" for him, he wants to hurt pure, optimistic girls.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: There's no real reason to think he's anything but a kindly hipster photography teacher until shortly before TheReveal.