And the homosexuality metaphor for Nathan's powers tickles me pink. It's perfect.

*beams* Isn't it just? I tried it first out on cadesama a couple of months ago during the hiatus and she agreed; this is a somewhat more elaborate version. Though I haven't found it anywhere else regarding Heroes in general and Nathan in particular, I still can't claim complete originality, since the "mutant powers = homosexuality" thing really is tradition with the X-Men (both in meta and in what the creators back then have even publically said later what they intended - those comics started in the 60s, after all). But as I said, with the X-Men, it's tied to teenagers discovering their sexuality mutant power.