Nicolai "Nico" Yakovich Petrov

, also known as , is a character in Digimon World Re:Digitize.
Nico lives in the same building as Taiga, and is a player of Digital Monster whose rank number is 4.
==Appearance==
Nico is a teenage boy with lightly tanned skin, cream-colored hair, and brownish gray eyes. He wears gray and white glasses with retangular octogonal lens, a zipped, turtlenecked sleeveless dark green and green shirt, orange pants, dark green and green sneakers with white soles, and a dark green digital wristwatch on his left wrist.
==Description==
Nico is competitive and can't stand receiving orders from women. He occasionally uses Russian exclamations, and is very knowledgeable about models.
==Etymologies==
;Nikorai Yakovich Petorofu (ニコライ・ヤーコヴィッチ・ペトロフ)
Full name listed in some Japanese gaming sites,4Gamer.net: "Bandai Namco Games reveals the latest info on Digimon World Re:Digitize. What is the "united battle" where you fight with allies." although the is omitted from both official sites. Name and surname officially romanized as "Nikorai Petorofu" in Digimon World Re:Digitize: Decode trailers.YouTube: "Digimon World Re:Digitize: Decode" Special Movie 1
*Ru: Mistranslation of or . Masculine East Slavic name that means "victory of the people", possibly a reference to , who carries a and attacks with "Winning Knuckle". Possibly taken from Japanese , as Niko is usually the second character listed in official character lists.
*. Intended as a for "Yakov". However, the correct male patronymic for "Yakov" is .
*Ru: Mitranslation of . Russian surname that means "rock", possibly a reference to the Memorial Stela. May also be a reference to .
;Nicolai Petrov
Named used in the English version of the .
*Ru: Alternate translation of . Masculine East Slavic name that means "victory of the people", possibly a reference to , who carries a and attacks with "Winning Knuckle". Possibly taken from Japanese , as Nico is usually the second character listed in official character lists.
*Ru: . Russian surname that means "rock", possibly a reference to the Memorial Stela. May also be a reference to .
;Niko (ニコ)
Commonly used nickname in the Japanese version. English would presumably shorten it to "Nico" rather than "Niko", since his name is translated as "Nicolai" rather than "Nikorai".
*Diminutive of his name, although not a . Possibly taken from , as Nico is usually the second character listed in official character lists. "Ko" may be a reference to , a suffix common in Japanese feminine names, in contrast with "Akiho", which when written as 陽 can mean "masculine". Nico and Akiho appear to be designed after an theme, as Nico is partnered to a Gaomon, a blue Digimon whose Mega form, , is associated with the moon, and Akiho is partnered to a Biyomon, whose Digivolution line is mostly composed of Digimon who are red or a variant of it, and whose Mega form, , is associated with light. There also are some moments in Re:Digitize where Taiga must choose which of the two he'll follow.
==Fiction==
===Digimon World Re:Digitize (manga)===
Nico lives with his father, Yakov Borisovich Petrov, and is Taiga's neighbor. He is a player of Digital Monster and his Partner is a Gaomon named Sashenka.
===Digimon World Re:Digitize===
===Digimon World Re:Digitize: Encode===
==Notes and references==
Category:Tamers
Category:Characters in Digimon World Re:Digitize
Category:Protagonists