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.