David Nelson

David Nelson is Nick's older brother, home from university with a rugby build and an easy sense of superiority. He teases and needles more than he listens, treating Nick's world as something to be corrected rather than understood, and his presence at the family table changes the temperature in the room.

He works as a small, precise pressure point rather than a villain: the writing lets his casual jabs about masculinity and normalcy land without ever tipping into cartoonish cruelty, so the discomfort feels domestic and real. Jack Barton plays him with an unbothered swagger that makes his indifference to Nick's inner life sting more than outright hostility would.