I've never previously considered putting Nate in a 'dying kicks you back' time loop, but he does seem like a fun character for it! I'd need more of a concept than that, though.

Yeah, you'd need a good goal that he'd persist at even after he kept dying in the attempt.

Nate never goes, "Sorry, Elena; I need some time to sit with the weight of my sins

I get the impression if he said that she would laugh.

I've had to stitch my bra straps together multiple times because Dipper keeps chewing through them. Nathan Drake, to my knowledge, has never done this.

Well, not your bra straps.