Nicole and Steve's Relationship

Steve Nefarious is Nicole's Biological father, with whom she shares a strong father-daughter relationship with.

## Pre Events

From when she was born, she had a strong connection with her father, looking up to him like a hero and seeing him do great things when he was working for the rangers. They were connected hip to hip, never wanting to leave him when it was time for school or when Diana would take her home. Nicole saw her father as an important part of her life, before he went insane and tried atomizing Aleero city, which led to her being taken to Earth under Diana's actions.

## Nefarious

When she reunites with him on Quartu after he hacks her phone to contact her, she is skeptical about him being her father (since Diana wiped her memory), before he reveals further information that he truly is. This makes Nicole to question him further, before leaving the factory after Drek returns, demanding she get back to Kerwan to stop the warbot invasion.

After the invasion, she is told by her father that he is on Gaspar. Nicole, (who is secretly seeing him, unaware about Quarks rule to NEVER venture on a mission alone) goes and meets up with him on Gaspar. Nicole, upon arriving, is shown around by Nefarious, who is impressed with the facility, but wishes to connect with him on a deeper level than what they have at the moment (which is little to nothing since it's been 10 years).

During her time with him on Gaspar, she shares her years on earth and hopes that maybe she and him could become a family again, something he deeply wanted, but knew it was dangerous to just return to Kerwan. She tries getting closer to him, only for him to push away, scared to death he could get her killed. This creates a temporary void between the 2.

On the Deplanetizer, she and Nefarious still display a void, when he sees her, he tries avoiding her and not paying any attention, which annoys her to the point she gets him alone in a room and addresses the issue, which makes him crack. She becomes angry and argued about how he has been doing nothing but avoiding her, rather than coming up with a plan to take down Drek. Nefarious snaps back, leaving Nicole to leave the Deplanetizer, leaving her father to his own devices, which hurts him mentally, that she could bail out on him like that.

As she flies back to Kerwan, she is immediately reminded about what her father said to her as a child. That no matter how angry they may get at one another, they will always have each other's back. She annoyingly turns around and heads back. When she returns and once more faced him, she explains that she was wrong to walk away, since he never walked away when she needed him most. This gives him a slight realization that what he is doing is stupid, before Nicole created a hologram of herself as a child fully snaps him out of it.

When asked if he really made his decision clear, he nods. He then hugs her, promising that they will win this, no matter the sacrifices that are taken. After they send Drek to New Quartu, Nicole and Nefarious face off with Quark, before Nicole send Nefarious to flee the station, which he does, so she can finally put an end to the Deplanetizer.

After Nicole uses the Medallion of Solana to restore the System to its original state, Nefarious and Nicole go back to Kerwan. When Nicole demanded Quark be arrested and imprisoned instead of her father, he asks why, and she simply replies, "family doesn't betray family".