NateThren

"Threnody... you are a miracle in the making."

- Nate Grey; X-Man #21

NateThren is the het ship between Nate Grey and Melody Jacobs from the Marvel fandom.

Canon
While in the service of Mr. Sinister, it was Thenody’s duty to watch unknown mutant data. By doing so, she learned of Nate Grey’s existence and felt that she could trust him. When she finally ran away from Sinister, with the Marauders hot on her trail, Nate helped her to defeat them, as Sinister was his enemy too. Threnody asked to accompany Nate and they soon started to care for each other. Nate even tried to remove her implants that were regulating the energy flow within her, though with no success. For the whole time, there was a suspicion that perhaps she was being used by Sinister to get to Nate, and even Threnody herself did not really know. Still, Threnody showed Nate how to dance and helped him to get along in New York City. They even moved into an abandoned penthouse and enjoyed themselves. Visiting her mother’s grave, Threnody was approached by Madelyne Pryor, demanding to know Nate’s whereabouts. She became very angry when the death-energy sensing Threnody told her that she was not really back alive, and Madelyne killed her in an outburst.

However, feeding on her own death energy, Threnody woke up in the morgue with her powers slightly changed. In her wake, she animated corpses who kept following her, chanting her name. She kept stalking Nate and secretly hid in the apartment, waiting for him. However, whenever he showed up, he was accompanied by Madelyne, her murderer. Aside from her other problems, Threnody was also pregnant and, shortly after Madelyne left, Threnody gave birth and was overwhelmed by dead corpses. Nate came to her rescue but, wherever they went, the dead followed. Threnody saw that she was only endangering Nate, so she decided to leave. When he did not want to let her go, Threnody pretended that she never loved him; she was only feeding off him as Nate’s powers were slowly burning out and killing him. However, behind Nate’s back, she had tears in her eyes, showing her true feelings. After she left, Nate dumped the many corpses in the ocean. In a secret hideout, Threnody picked up her child, of whom Nate had no knowledge.

Fanon
NateThren is a rarepair, with there being very few fanworks of the pair. The fact that Threnody is a rather obscure characters within the X-Men, and Marvel is possibly a factor in this. Additionally, the fact that Nate and Threnody haven't been together since the 90's may also add to the obscurity.

Being a rarepair there is exceedingly little fanart that appears to exist for this ship. Most fanart of the pair that does exist happens to be NSFW however.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Nate/Melody tag on FanFiction.net