Nicholas Phee

Template:Hate Sink

## Background information

### Inspiration

D. Isaac Thomas' former stepbrother, Micheal Price

## Character information

### Other names

**Nick**
A Dick
The Stepbrother

### Personality

Arrogant, haughty, selfish, abusive, petulant, evil, mean, rude, cruel, foolish, intelligent, unorganized, spoiled, bossy, bratty, huffy, crude, whiny, ditzy, envious, impolite, argumentative, impatient, short-tempered, funny (sometimes), kinky (sometimes)

### Appearance

Slender, blonde hair, brown eyes, glasses

### Goal

To become a construction worker (failed)
To dominate his own clique
To make his stepfamily miserable (both succeeded for a while)

### Relatives

* Father
* Mother
* Sisters

### Pets

Callisto
Several unnamed pets (all formerly)

### Allies

Allie, Nicholas Nelson (formerly), Omner Hugh (formerly)

### Likes

Mr. Phee's attentions, being number 1, being respected, calling Charles names, getting bitten by Allie

### Dislikes

Being told what to do by Leah, Charles, embarrassment

### Notable quote(s)

"You're an imbecile, Omner."

*"I know you are, but what am I?"*
―Nicholas Phee's famous catchphrase[src]

*"Well, gf's off the menu, posse boys're off the menu, a real future in mind was never inscribed on there to begin with... reformation isn't for everyone."*
―Charles Hugh[src]
**Nicholas Phee** is the stepbrother and tormentor of Charles Hugh and to a lesser degree Omner Hugh. He was known to be extremely narcissistic and for telling dubious stories. After he began attending Tower Placement School, he met and befriended Nicholas Nelson and became a fast enemy of his older sister, Valiera, becoming the significant other of Allie in the mix. However, he became aggressive towards Omner and bitter towards his mother Leah Hugh. Ultimately, he was left alone with his pompous and hedonistic stepfather with little ambition or social connection, doomed to the fate he fantasized about helping inflict onto Charles.

## Role

Nicholas Phee is a minor antagonist in *Boys vs. Girls 2 Prelude*. D. Isaac Thomas based Nicholas Phee off of his own stepbrother, whom he cited was "unbearable". He has stated that Nicholas Phee's character represents the younger generation's commitment to meaninglessness and their childish egotism, which he imagined would be jeopardized by ambitious people like Charles Hugh and kind ones like Omner Hugh.

## Biography

### Early life

Nicholas Phee was born in August of 2007 to a businessman and someone he had married in Texas. Throughout his childhood, Nicholas became something of a wild child, getting into numerous fights. He was known to strongly dislike his mother, and would constantly receive visits from his father, who took him to parks when he was younger in order for them to relax. During one such outing in 2013, Nick was wondering around in the road and bent down to observe a beetle, oblivious to an oncoming car. An accompanying friend of his father realized Nick was in immediate danger, but Mr. Phee ordered his friend to disregard his son and resume setting the table. His friend grew disgusted and left him, resulting in Nick becoming severely injured and hospitalized, although he was aggravated when his mother visited him in the hospital wing. Despite this traumatic incident, he held no ill will towards his father.

### Moving to Utah

#### Reunion with the Hughs

After his parents divorced, he remained with his mother for a time. In 2022, he moved back to Utah, where a woman named Leah Hugh became his stepmother and her sons, Charles and Omner Hugh, became his step-siblings. Subsequently, he began attending Tower Placement School in his sophomore year, appalling Charles. He met and befriended Nicholas Nelson (unbeknownst to him, the brother of Charles' crush, Valiera Nelson — the two had a love-hate relationship and were both Senior students). He also met Nelson, who angrily said he was not related to her as Nicholas Nelson was, which unbeknownst to him was due to her seeing right through him and guessing from an offhand remark by Charles that they were probably related. For this misperceived insult he held a grudge on her for several months to come. According to Charles, his stepbrother encountered him at school rarely.

In the meantime, Nicholas began bonding heavily with Omner, who gravitated to him, and developed an estranged relationship with Charles, who had little patience for him and even physically attacked him at least twice, with both of them quickly taking credit for martially dominating the other. However, Charles mentioned that they had known each other since 2007. Nicholas once said that Charles' opinion that Leah was a bad parent was invalid, although this may have been an attempt to get his goat and not necessarily imply his opinion of her.

In October, Phee also began dating a girl named Allie, who his younger stepbrother had a crush on, after taking her to Homecoming. He became heavily addicted to texting her and frequently invited her to his house, visiting her far less consistently. He was also surprised and amused when he learned Nicholas and Valiera were related. On November 8, he and Nicholas Nelson went hunting for another student, though Phee playfully confirmed the term was not "ambush", but merely "approach". Phee also told Charles Hugh that Valiera had not been seen in Tower Placement School for at least two weeks, which baffled Charles, as he had seen her the day before.

#### The death of love

*"No, Valiera doesn't even have any real friends. She's just got people who're afraid to say she's not their friend anymore."
"Even if you're right, which you rarely are, she clearly has a personality only a genius could love."
"No! She has a personality only an idiot and a zealot of a brother could love!"*
―Nicholas Phee and Charles at an arcade[src]By January of 2023, Nicholas and Charles' relationship had become far more strained, as Nicholas was more consistently attempting to hurt Charles' pride deliberately, and make cruel jokes about Valiera Nelson, causing Charles to lose his empathy for Nicholas entirely. Despite this, he still tried to help her mend her relationship with Nick, but they reportedly broke up by Valentine's Day because Allie's mother had enforced it.

When their family went to an arcade, Nicholas Phee went so far as to spitefully claim that Valiera Nelson was disliked by nearly everyone, considering Charles moronic just for thinking otherwise, and has said that her friends only remain her friends because they feared doing otherwise, the sole exceptions being Charles due to his perceived stupidity and Nicholas due to his perceived zealotry. Steven saw this and asked Charles why his brother was so contemptible and unintelligent, but Charles verified he was a product of fake marriage and hardly biological.

On March 17, Nicholas Phee accompanied his family and Rose Johannson to dinner, at which point he was receiving awful grades in school, enraging his father. He also began hanging out with Johannson at school. Johannson was very taken with him, at least physically, although she was unusually experienced for her age when it came to relationships and so chose not to tell him yet. When April arrived, Charles hacked into his computer as an April Fools' Joke, although it took him two days to notice this. Mere hours after putting two and two together with Leah's assistance, he went to dinner with the same people.

At some point in April, he broke Leah's car window because she had grounded him. Throughout that month, he became increasingly abusive towards Omner and began abrasively threatening Leah on a consistent basis. However, he was not as hostile towards Charles because of his frequent bold retorts and psychological fearlessness, though it was obvious Charles was glad he and his family would soon come apart from the Phees.

#### Permanent separation

*"You think he misses your brother at all? He's having a party that we're gone, they both think they're winning."
"Yeah no kidding, in a matter of hours they'll be using my notebooks for toilet paper games or some shit."
"I* highly *doubt that."
"Well, gf's off the menu, posse boys're off the menu, a real future in mind was never inscribed on there to begin with... reformation isn't for everyone."*
―Leah and Charles[src]
On May 12, he was restrained in his backyard with his father by police officers while Leah and her children gathered their possessions and left, never to see them again. Leah and Charles both suspected that Nick and his father were delighted by their departure. In spite of this, having lost his girlfriend and only two real friends and with no real ambitions or plans for the future in mind, it can be assumed that the bully who desperately wanted Charles to be miserable received a quite undesirable fate himself.

### Alternate Universe

Nicholas Phee's stepmother, Leah Hugh, forced him to look after Omner Hugh most of the time. The two hated one another out of spite for how broken each of their respective families were. Hence, he used Omner as a lightning rod to absorb his bitterness, making his life a living hell.

## Personality and traits

*"Ya know, half of the twelfth grade are my friends, as is the entire sophomore unit. I brought us together within the first week of school. It's the biggest accomplishment your little mind can fabricate."
"And that is the biggest fish story I have ever heard."
"Charles, come closer. Hey, why is your brother a slime-guzzling shmuck?"
"Stepbrother, not brother, there was a fake wedding. Most likely he was born the way you just described him."*
―Nicholas Phee, Charles, and Steven Thompson[src]
Highly condescending, arrogant, and self-righteous, Nicholas Phee epitomized the aspects of the typical characteristics of a member of the Phee family. He idolized his father despite knowing about his revolting disregard for others from a young age and was obsessed with Allie and only ever hung out with her and his posse, having no other long-lived friends, even though he was able to bond with people quickly. In spite of his experiences with Allie, he continuously made fun of his stepbrother Charles Hugh for feeling the same way about Valiera Nelson. Like the majority of his family, Nicholas despises anyone who has dabbled in the use of drugs.

Nick was also one to hold grudges: when Valiera angrily stated the obvious that he was not her sibling, he unjustifiably hated her for it knowing nothing about her. He considered himself superior to her and claimed that no one liked her. Indeed, Nick was overly critical of Charles and pushy and insensitive in questioning him. He continually made mean comments attempting to make him feel out of place. He had all of his family's hypocrisy — he saw himself as being perfect and simply couldn't come to terms with the fact that he had any weaknesses or flaws to begin with.

Nick is easily enraged and considerably aggressive, having been physically abusive to both Charles and Omner for a long time. While Omner sometimes helped Nick beat Charles and took sadistic pleasure in abetting his older stepbrother, Charles always left Nick to beat Omner alone, and was always angered by it. Like both of them, he has been seen acting brutally around his friends, chucking food against the walls and worming his way out of punishment. Additionally, Nick was constantly openly insulting people (especially his stepbrothers) or pointing out exaggerated facts or opinions about said people (especially Valiera, whose negative encounter he blames on her somehow knowing he was Charles' relative, even though he did not tell her), often telling "fish stories" solely for want of shock factor. Indeed, he believed several people were inferior to him. He believed he was superior, for instance, to his "uncaring" biological mother, blaming her for neglecting him, the "idiot" Charles, projecting by blaming him for abusing him, the "bitch" Valiera, baselessly blaming her for being bad through and through, the "zealot" Nicholas Nelson, for following him around like a sheep, the "little one" Omner, for copying him frequently, and the "fool" Leah Hugh, just for telling him what to do despite her being an authority figure. He also disliked children enough to ignore the harmless and naive Saul Nelson entirely when they met. He did, however, look up to his father. In fact, Charles claimed that he aspired to be just like his father someday. Initially, it was believed that this was probably only the truth in the stepbrother's eyes and not necessarily the accurate truth; yet Charles was later revealed to be right. In fact, it would seem Nick was so arrogant that he (aside from his father) considered himself, more or less, better than everybody, regardless of intelligence, strength, status, or relationship. In fact, his narcissism is so extreme that he falsely claimed that every single sophomore student and half of the students in twelfth grade were his friends. With all being said, Nick clearly suffers from a superiority complex and possibly suffers from a narcissistic personality disorder, in spite of Leah vigorously contradicting the latter.

Solely attached to Allie prior to their breakup and cozying up to his father, Nicholas was a hateful and umambitious "family man", whose hobbies and interests were focused solely on card games, piano practice, memes, and television. Charles has claimed ignorance as to what Nick plans on doing for a living when he comes of age. Leah has also mentioned that he is *"a narcissist in the making"*. Even though Mr. Phee once claimed it was his ambition to become an architect, he has done little to prepare for his career, and he receives poor grades in school. He was very fond of DS video games, often playing games revolving around franchises such as Pokemon.

Despite his obnoxious demeanor and unbelievably violent, conceited, and hypocritical personality, Nick has a few redeeming qualities, mostly shown by the decency for which he treats Allie and the deep respect he has for his father. During the months they spent together, Nicholas enjoyed getting bitten by Allie, demonstrating he has a kinky side to him. He also tolerates Omner's dimwitted antics rather well, at least for a while. He also has a broad sense of humor, though most of his jokes are at the expense of others, many of them poking fun at foreign cultures, especially Mexico and Europe.

## Relationships

### Parents

Nick detests his biological mother, considering her to be uncaring and abusive. Meanwhile, he has a good relationship with his father and looks up to him. Charles claimed that he aspired to be just like his father someday, and while it was speculated that this was most likely only the truth in the stepbrother's eyes, and not necessarily the accurate truth, Charles was later proven correct.

### Former friends

Nicholas Phee's obnoxious and selfish nature resulted in him never having any long-lived friends, even though he was able to bond with people quickly. He used to be Allie's boyfriend, but they were rightfully forced to break up after both of their respective fathers read their unhealthy text messages exchanged betwixt the two. She enjoyed biting him, which he did not mind nor did he ever do back to her. He was solely attached to her (even his father has said this) prior to their breakup. Nick was a close friend to Nicholas Nelson, a fellow chess player who became a member of his posse and shared his first name. The two enjoyed throwing food against walls during lunch hour. Despite thinking poorly of both his intelligence and fighting prowess, it is clear that Nick was fond of him. However, Nick claims that Nicholas stalks him, which he is indifferent about. Furthermore, Nicholas apparently follows Nick out of fear, not loyalty.

### Enemies

#### Leah and Omner Hugh

*"Your mom's twisted, and I despise her. Very, very, very much."*
―Nick[src]
Although he hero-worshiped his stepfather, Nick has difficulty respecting Leah Hugh's authority, though he considers her a better person than his biological mother. However, this may have been a loose claim futilely trying to get Charles' goat, especially because he wonders why he should have to obey her. On the other hand, Leah, while initially fond of him, is clearly very repulsed by his arrogance, almost as much as Charles is. He even broke her car window because she grounded him and she pressed charges. So while he looks up to his father, he (literally and figuratively) looks down on his stepmother.

On the other hand, Nick initially had a very good relationship with Omner Hugh, though he is often condescending to him, something Charles would occasionally join him in doing, so it seemed to all appearances that they functioned like normal siblings did. Charles told Rose he can often hear them laughing about something strange upstairs. However, he became increasingly abusive towards him, much to Leah's outrage.

#### Charles Hugh

*"Ooh, clever!"
"Your* face *is clever!"
"You know what, that's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all week."*
―Charles and Nick[src]
Nicholas initially had a love-hate relationship with his stepbrother, Charles Hugh, though the latter still respected him, if not slightly. He was alarmed when he learned that Nick had inadvertently become close friends with the brother of Valiera Nelson. Nick continually labels Charles as psychopathic and Charles continually labels him as idiotic, and Nick makes fun of Charles by showing off his own prodigious athleticism and Charles makes fun of him by joking about his girlfriend Allie (though Nicholas made jabs at Valiera, who he unjustifiably hated, constantly). However, as they have both admitted, this is merely the way they operate (not unlike Zachary Brown). Nicholas also refuses to be in any of Charles' Instagram posts.

In recent months, however, their relationship has become far more strained, as Nicholas has more consistently attempted to hurt Charles' pride deliberately, and make cruel jokes about Valiera Nelson, causing Charles to lose his empathy for Nicholas entirely upon accepting this wasn't just a phase. The fact that Nick and Charles' perceptions regarding Valiera Nelson were complete opposites strained their relationship even further. Indeed, one of their only similarities is that they both like Nicholas Nelson and consider him "cool". Their negative attitudes toward each other, while initially a joke, became very genuine. He considers Charles moronic just for thinking Valiera has any good qualities whatsoever.

#### Valiera Nelson

*"She has a personality only an idiot and a zealot of a brother could love!"*
―Nicholas Phee[src]
Nick despised Valiera Nelson, who was not only his stepbrother's idol but also the sister of one of his three best friends. Nicholas Nelson introduced her to Nick at the beginning of the 2012–2013 academic year. She became snippy with him and told him he shouldn't consider himself her brother, though Nicholas had no idea Valiera guessed he was related to Charles and that regardless of if she loved or hated him, Nicholas was endlessly narcissistic and undeserving in her eyes. This encounter severely hurt Nick's pride, and he considered her a "b\*tch" and genuinely hated her. Nick probably disliked her even more after he learned Charles was in love with her, since he hoped a relationship between the two would never work. However, Nick has met her hated family. The fact that Nick is self-righteous and despises anyone who has dabbled in the use of drugs causes him to hate her even more. Ironically, the fact that Nick and Charles' perceptions regarding Valiera were complete opposites strained their relationship even further.

Nick even went so far as to claim that she is disliked by nearly everyone, considering Charles moronic just for thinking otherwise, and has said that her friends only remain her friends because they fear doing otherwise, the sole exceptions being Charles due to his perceived stupidity and Nicholas due to his perceived zealotry. However, this was most likely a "jab", as he frequently made disparaging comments about her. As Nelson had moved away, this is even more dubious.

## Trivia

* It is unknown how Nicholas Phee learned about Miranda Patrick, as he should have had no idea she existed at all.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `Prelude`
2. ↑ *Boys vs. Girls 2 Prelude (original version)*

Template:D.I.T. Literary Universe