David Fisher (Six Feet Under)
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David James Fisher is a fictional character on the HBO television series Six Feet Under played by Michael C. Hall.
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[edit] Biography
David is the other son (four years younger than Nate) who was co-operator of Fisher & Sons (later Fisher & Diaz).
[edit] Prior to Pilot
David is in many ways conservative; more than either of his siblings (he was even a Young Republican when he was in college). He yearns for a marriage and children, but his dreams are shattered when he realizes he is gay. He keeps it a secret until he reaches his early thirties, and for a time is even engaged to a woman named Jennifer. David wants to be a lawyer but joins the family business because Nate has left home. David begins dating Keith Charles, a police officer whom he meets in a gay-friendly church.
[edit] During the series
Soon after his father's death, David becomes angered at Nate's return as well as their father leaving half of the business to Nate. David is very distant towards Nate and their younger sister Claire but after they learn he is gay and they all lean on each other following their father's death, he becomes much closer to them. David has self-hatred issues and is reluctant to come out, which Keith desperately wants him to do; when he won't, they break up. David has a series of one-night stands and risky sex, all while being ashamed of his sexual orientation, but the brutal murder of a young gay man spurs him to try to cleanse himself of the guilt and come out. His family accepts him, but he is thrown out of his church (where he serves as deacon).
By the time David comes out, Keith is in another relationship. During their months-long separation, David dates a lawyer named Ben. David is not in love with him, however, and he soon reunites with Keith. Slowly but surely, David moves into Keith's apartment. David also bonds with Keith's young niece Taylor and wants to help Keith raise her. Keith had become more and more distant and verbally abusive to David; David is so needy that he stays silent until Keith sends Taylor away without even bothering to tell him. They begin shoving each other and arguing, which ends in rough, angry sex on the living room floor; the intensity of which both arouses and frightens them. They go into therapy, which helps resolve some of their communication issues.
David begins singing in the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, but Keith resents his friends. Keith drags him to a paintball game which leads to a threeway with a man named Sarge. A part of David enjoys the open relationship, but he feels insecure about Keith's love for him. At a family funeral, David tries to mediate an explosive scene between Keith and his father. Keith tells David he is not family, and a hurt David dumps him, only to take him back some weeks later. David has a quick tryst with a plumber and has to help his ex-fiancee Jennifer plan her father's funeral, and they finally resolve the lingering anger she feels about his sexuality.
Soon after, David is kidnapped at gunpoint, forced to smoke crack cocaine, beaten, and finally doused in gasoline and forced to beg for his life. At this time, Keith is often out of town working security and he is closeted to his coworkers, which makes David feel Keith is ashamed of him. A lonely David begins smoking marijuana and sleeps with former threeway partner Sarge. When Keith (who had slept with a pop starlet) returns, they each confess their adulteries, and David worries Keith will leave him for a woman. The pressure builds until finally, an irrational David assaults a man at a restaurant and Keith has to have sex with the man in order to avoid a major lawsuit. This man later becomes Keith's employer and it is is eventually revealed that he had videotaped the sexual encounter with Keith. Apparently David later deals with some of these problems through medication.
As their lives begin to settle down again, David and Keith decide to become parents. After several attempts at surrogacy fail, David adopts two children with Keith; brothers Durrell and Anthony. David loves the children from the start and through hard work and care, overcomes their reticence and Keith's coolness towards them. When Nate dies, David begins to fall apart, but with some time alone he overcomes his demons. David and Keith pool their savings to purchase the shares of Fisher & Sons owned by Brenda and Rico, and they redecorate and move into the Fisher home.
[edit] David's future and death
A few years after these events, David's lifelong dream is finally fully realized as he and Keith are married (a legal gay marriage, recognized by the state - the first on a fictional American series); they remain together for many years until Keith is murdered in 2029. David later retires from Fisher & Sons (Durrell continues the business) in 2034, stars in many local community theater productions, and finds love again with a man named Raoul Martinez. David dies, apparently of a stroke, at a family function in 2044 at age 75, his last vision being a young and healthy Keith catching a football and smiling at him.
| Six Feet Under |
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| Episodes | Crew | Characters | Deaths |
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| Nate | David | Ruth | Claire | Brenda | Keith | Rico |
