Bao Van Nguyen

Bao Van Nguyen is a minor character in the fancomic, Fanstuck.

Official Art of Nguyen by Footboy (🦶👦)

## History

### Introduction

When he is first added to The Group Chat, he is extremly repentful and asks for forgiveness, believing that he had joined in a private group chat accidentally. After profusuly apologising for annoying Fasist Cishet, he is finally informed that you cannot leave The Group Chat, he calms down for a few moments before discovering a video left by Fasist that displays his British accent. Due to Nguyen finding British accents incredibly attractive, he immedietly sides with Fasist on everything and pledges his loyalty to him. This leads to him travelling with his Bà to Alternia to meet up with Fasist.

### Post-Party/Pre-Birthday

It is important to note that this is the arc that Nguyen was introduced in. After his initial introduction, he then went on to go and meet Fasist and Sueva Magnaa at Grayin Salvay's hive. Something interesting to note is that their interaction is the first time that Fasist has ever met a human. From Grayin's hive, they go back to Fasist's, however he forgets his Bà, and it is confirmed that she is still wondering around there, still unaware that they are no longer on Earth as she is blind.

Back at Fasist's hive, Fasist forces Nguyen to take drugs. After insisting that he would rather not multiple times, he finally caves and does alien heroine. This eventually leads to the three of them venturing out onto the beach, where they meet Caddie DeVill and Dianna Forlan. Nguyen passes out while the intoxicated Sueva and Fasist exchange harsh words with both Caddie and Dianna. Nguyen awakens from his half-overdosed state however when he senses that his m'lady, Sueva, had been shot. This then causes a fight to break out between Caddie and Nguyen, in which he chased her on horseback attempting to run her over while she skated out of the way. He loses the confrontation however and passes out once more on the beach. This is brought up multiple times after for comedic effect, commenting that he was still there.

Nguyen remained there until he awoke seemingly days later. He then went on The Group Chat and asked for help, from which Hanjop Jeypeg goes to save him. He then immeditely falls in love with her as well due to her having a British accent. He exchanges a few words before she leads him away. His last appearance was in the forest, in which he was still being lead by Hanjop.

## Personality

> "*He will do anything for anyone moderately attractive and is the biggest pushover in existence. He also believes in ghosts and loves everything paranormal. He is also from Vietnam, and lives there to this day, however he has always wanted to move to Britain since he finds the accents from there really hot*." - Official description, Footboy (🦶👦)
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Nguyen is characterised by his tendencies to be easily wooed and his absolute lack of self confidence. Due to this, he is basically a human doormat and the perfect target for manipulation. This has led him to be mixed up in what some may call 'the wrong crowds', first with Fasist and Sueva and then with Hanjop, who, while is undergoing a redemption arc, still has manipulative and cruel tendencies.

He allows himself to be pushed over by everyone he meets, including his Bà. It is likely that one of the reasons that he is like this is because she was so harsh on him from a young age, as well as being overly protective due to his parents dying in a volcanic explosion. He has learned to be very obedient, and is not used to being in control of everything. Whenever he is placed into a situation such as this, he Immedietly panics and becomes immobile. He is very emotionally vulnerable, and is also very mentally ill. This has made him scared of anyone being upset or angry at him, and if they are he is shown to shut down or to profusely apologise and beg for forgiveness, offering his loyalty.

It has been seen, however, that Nguyen's 'loyalty' is not very loyal at all. He is incredibly loyal to one person until he is whisked away by another. This was displayed when he got abandoned on the beach by Fasist and Sueva, whom he had pledged himself to be the slave of. Instead of going to look for him, he then pledges himself to the next attractive person that comes by, which happens to be Hanjop. This shows maybe not just a lack of loyalty, but also lack of attention span.

## Relationships

### Fasist Cishet

His relationship with Fasist is very surface level, even though he pledged himself to be his slave for all of eternity. Their dynamic is extremly toxic, with Nguyen being pushed around by him and Sueva. He did whatever he said, even when it could have very negative effects on his own health. Their connection however wasn't very long and short-lived, so we do not know if he still is faithful to Fasist after meeting Hanjop. Due to how he treats everyone around him, it is most likely that if they meet again, he will be just as dedicated to pleasing him as the last time they met.

### Sueva Magnaa

Sueva and Nguyen have a very weak connection, having barely interacted. The reason that this is of note however is even though that Nguyen does not seem to care for Sueva as much as her moirail Fasist, he still risks his life for her. When he sees that she is hurt, he immedietly pushes aside his horrible ailements to go and tend to her, to defend her honour and save his m'lady.

### Hanjop Jeypeg

It is important to note that this paragraph will be updated in the near future when the comic goes back to the scen of Hanjop and Nguyen in the forest. We are currently at the beginning of their relationship together, yet it is interesting that quite a few fans have already began shipping Hanyen (a red ship between Hanjop and Nguyen). Their cannonical interactions have been very short, however, with them only have just met. Nguyen has already latched himself onto her due to her, and Footboy (🦶👦) has confirmed that they will have very humurous interactions in the future.

### Bà

From what we have seen between Nguyen and Bà so far, it is very clear that at least some of his people-pleasing needs came from her, as she is a very dominant and strict woman, having even arranged his marriage with another girl (Hà Kim Ly) from the village who is openly a lesbian. She appears to be the first woman who ever began controlling him, which set him up to want to be controlled by everyone. It is loosely canon that this treatment of conditional love and control is why he seeks affection from everyone around him.

## Trivia

* Nguyen has been confirmed to be based off of the song "M'lady" by Dorian Electra
* He suffers from chronic anxiety and has ADHD
* He was originally the humanstuck version of one of Footboy (🦶👦)'s old ocs named "Terreo Effges"
* His original pesterchum tag was ghoulishWebber
* His birthday is on 5th of October