NICOLE SHORTER

ZIGZAG ZIGZAG ZIGZAG

Nicole Shorter was both a character from the fictional game Zigzag Dolls and the antagonist of chapter 4.

## Background

Nicole's background was written by Iruka NO.2. In this background, Nicole is a devil doll that grants people three wishes. Those who give in to the temptation of his power become at risk of having parts of their body taken away by Nicole, or as he says "ZIGZAG". The more wishes a person makes, the more of their body is taken by Nicole. However, if one were to pass Nicole's normie test, they will not lose any body parts.

## REAL WORLD

In the real world, Nicole Shorter was a character in Judgement 7's game, Zigzag Dolls. Because Zigzag Dolls was a simple puzzle game, most of Nicole's background as a devil was left on the cutting room floor.

## NEW WORLD

### CHAPTER 4

In the new world, Nicole takes on a much more sinister role than his real world counterpart. His cut character background as a devil is now his prominent character trait.

At first, Nicole simply acts as a shy and quiet child who is quickly taken in by the members of Judgement 7, especially Asano. Nicole reveals a small part of his power during Reiji and Yuno's date to gain normie points, when he brings a roller coaster back online.

After this date, Nicole reveals his true nature. Although the members initially agree not to make any more wishes, they (excluding Reiji) almost immediately use up all their respective wishes on various nonsense. Reiji then uses one of his wishes to undue Asano's wish to have large breasts.

During the events of the normie game, Nicole would spend a large amount of time running away from and avoiding Asano, who wanted to do lewd things with him.

At first, the members took a more relaxed approach to gaining normie points, mostly out of a lack of fear of Nicole and the belief that he couldn't actually hurt them. In an effort to show how much of a threat he was, Nicole would swap the heads of Iruka and Asano, before swapping them back after seeing everyone's fear.

With every Judgement 7 member now truly fearing Nicole and the risk of losing their body parts, they all scramble to get 100 normie points and win Nicole's game.

Nicole would grant Reiji's wish to look like himself.

Upon seeing that everyone gained 100 or more normie points, Nicole accepted his defeat and disappeared.

### CHAPTER 8

Nicole would return in Chapter 8, during the Junkuma Party event.

In order to allow Natsumi and Iruka to participate in the Junkuma Party as mother and father, Owari would use the W.O.R.L.D. Program to summon Nicole to play the part of their child.

Using their position as his creators, Natsumi and Iruka would threaten to change Nicole's character design if he did not follow their orders.

With his "knowledge of many realities", Nicole would easily get past Junkuma's riddle game and used his abillity to see in the dark to get through the haunted house maze.

Nicole would prove truly useful in this chapter by granting Reiji his wish for a chocobar as he still had a single wish left over from the normie game. Nicole would then be forced to create another chocobar as the first chocobar was a "homerun", entitling the owner to an additional free chocobar.

After this, Nichole would then vanish again to avoid Asano's harassment.

### CHAPTER 16

Nicole would make his final return in chapter 16, after being summoned by Reiji, using the World Plus program.

Nicole would initially refuse to help the members fight the Obscenity Men, but Natsumi would bully him into changing his mind.

Nicole would ZIGZAG several Obscenity Men during the fight.

Before disappearing for the final time, Nicole would request Iruka to clarify his background, only to be told by Natsumi to decide it for himself.

Although CHAPTER 17 would reveal that this event was just a false simulation created by Akashic, it's likely that the AI for Nicole really was summoned and was unaware of the ruse.

### CHAPTER 17

The AI Nicole would be erased off-screen along with the rest of Akashic at the end of CHAPTER 17.

## TRIVIA

.As expected, Nicole cannot grant a wish for more wishes or for normie points.

.As the host of the normie game, Nicole cannot interfere with the players, even if one wishes him to do so.

.Nicole cannot grant a wish that forces him to do something

.Despite being an all powerful devil, Nicole is still limited by his child body and requires naps.