P e r s o n a l i t y
Quick summary: Jaded asshole who seriously needs to work on her anger management issues.
Nick is angry. She’s angry at her parents and sister for leaving her. She’s angry at the Order. She’s angry at the whole damn world for going to shit. She’s angry at herself. Most days she channels the anger into being productive, but sometimes it just pours over and she feels like she just wants to scream. Sometimes she tries to not let this affect other people, tries to cover it with a joke or a sarcastic comment. Most times she just doesn’t care, and lets it out over whoever’s unlucky enough to get in her way. She doesn’t want to be an asshole, honestly, but sometimes it's just...hard not to.
She doesn’t think she was born mean or anything - she can be nice! - but rather it was how the world has made her. If she can only get her sister back, if they can only escape the Order, if, if, if. If things could only work out alright for once, she’ll be okay. Maybe. | B a c k g r o u n d Nick was born in 2024, and lived the first 6 years of her life in relative happiness. Her parents had had Nick young and never had much, but they made do. Then the world went down the sewer and took Nick’s happy childhood right along with it. Her parents, already struggling to stay above the poverty line, joined a gang to stay alive. Drugs and violence became a natural occurrence in Nick’s life. Her parents tried to protect her from the worst of it at first, but their humanity was slowly chipped away. Nick’s only lifeline was her baby sister Andrea, born in 2032. Nick was tasked with raising her when her parents were away, which grew to be basically always. Nick’s parents worked hard and rose in rank, which unfortunately meant that when their gang was busted, they were important enough to be publicly executed. Nick was 11 and her little sister was only 3 when they were forced to watch their parents hang. Friends of her parents took them in after that. They lived hidden with her parents' friends for a while, but it soon became too high of a risk and they were kicked out and forced to fend for themselves. After 2 years of living in the streets, Nick and her sister were caught by the Order and drafted into the military. Nick was 14 and her sister 6. Andrea, showing skills above the ordinary, was selected to be trained in the Specials unit. Nick, desperate to not be separated from her sister, did everything to also be selected and succeeded by a hair’s breadth, only to then be separated anyway once they were in. The emails from Andrea became increasingly fanatic over the following years, and Nick saw less and less of the sister she had known in their correspondence. Did she even remember their parents? Did she care what the Order did to them - was still doing to them? Feeling as if she was losing her sister and growing desperate, Nick tried to find a way to meet her and talk to her directly. After years of planning, she finally thought she’d found a secure way to meet, and possibly flee the Order together. Nick enacted the plan on her sister's 15th birthday, in the year 2047 when she herself was 23. She got as far as being face to face with her sister, but to her horror, her sister refused to flee and even allerted the Order of what Nick had tried to do. Nick was apprehended, shot through the neck, and thrown outside the walls, thought to be dead. Despite having finally developed strength abilities, Nick had no value to the Order as a traitor. Nick had all but given up on life, but as she waited for death to take her, she was picked up by Disorder scouts and miraculously nursed back to health. Since then, she has spent all her energy trying to find a way to get her sister out of the Order, even if she’ll have to drag her out kicking and screaming. Or even better; burn the Order to the ground. |