Nate Walker is a character from Stranger Things: Runaway Max. He was Max Mayfield's first best friend, and part of her group of friends in San Diego before she moved to Hawkins.
They first met when she was six,[1][2] and were best friends until her older step brother, Billy Hargrove, broke his arm.[3]
Nate and his brother, Silas, introduced Max to skateboarding.[4]
Personality and Traits[]
Nate is physically described by Max as "shorter and skinnier than me, with knobby elbows and the kind of mouse-brown hair that no one stared at or made fiery-redhead jokes about."[5]
She also describes him as shy, but very smart. As he was able to fix her skateboard and his bike, always had ideas on how to make things like catapults and tree forts, and was able to follow along with her dad when he talked about hailstorms or carburetors. [6][7]
Later into the book, after she meets Will Byers, she also briefly remarks on how the two seem similar, as; "He was smaller and quieter than the others and reminded me a little of my friend Nate. He seemed like the kind of boy people didn’t usually notice." [8]
Trivia[]
- Max mentions Nate to Lucas in Lucas on the Line.[9]
References
- ↑ "Nate Walker had been my very best friend since we were six." -Runaway Max, pg 35
- ↑ "On the first day of first grade, I saw this skinny little boy in a red Spider-Man shirt crouched under the slide at lunch. Some of the other boys had been chasing him with a dead worm on a stick until he started crying and then ran away to hide. Even at six, I thought it seemed like a pretty pointless thing to cry over, but I liked his shirt, so I crawled under and sat with him." -Runaway Max, pg 35
- ↑ "The sound was loud. It was like water poured over ice, or the sudden crack when a rock hits a windshield. Then Nate gave a howl and collapsed on his knees in the bottom of the creek bed, holding his arm awkwardly at his side. Billy stepped back, and at first I didn’t understand. I thought that would be the end of it—it was obnoxious and ugly, but it was over. And then I saw the reason Nate’s knees had given out. His elbow was bent the wrong way. His face went white in a way I didn’t know happened in real life, like all the blood had dropped right out of him. We could see the pale knob of the bone jutting underneath his skin." -Runaway Max, pg 107
- ↑ "I’d been skating since forever—since my best friend, Nate Walker, and his brother Silas took a trip to Venice Beach with their parents when we were in the third grade and came back all jazzed up on stories about the Z-Boys and the skate shops in Dogtown." -Runaway Max, pg 12
- ↑ Runaway Max, pg 35
- ↑ "He was shyer and softer than the other guys we hung out with, but he was smart and interesting and always had the best ideas for how to build a tree fort or make a catapult work." -Runaway Max, pg 36
- ↑ Nate actually understood what my dad meant when he talked about hailstorms or carburetors, and I liked that." - Runaway Max, pg 36
- ↑ Runaway Max, pg 51
- ↑ Lucas on the Line