Nano (Melancholy Timeline)

For the Prime Timeline counterpart of this character, see here. (semi-recommended for context)

### Aliases

• Nano Lee Emerald (Full Name)• The Lightweight Zephyr (Title)

### Relatives

• Melancholy Mark Emerald (father; deceased)• Melancholy Olivia Emerald (mother; deceased)

• Unnamed Melancholy Grandmother (likely deceased)

### Affiliation

• Alexander High (Formerly)• Zephyr University (Formerly)

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

The Emerald Dojo, Western Land of Justice(In the Melancholy Timeline)

## Physical description

### Eye color

Black

> *“I am going to protect Tangerine with my life. Because I couldn't protect the people I cared about since they have been killed by you. You monster.”*
>
> - Nano (Melancholy Timeline)

Melancholy Nano L. Emerald, or just referred to as Nano, is the Melancholy counterpart of Nano. Who instead of training to become a grimdark hunter, he would be Tangerine's caretaker in protecting her from the zombie apocalypse caused from the Frewil from his dimension. Like his prime counterpart, he specialises in using his Hot Wind Blowing ability and using wrestling throws. But he is noticeably more weaker than his prime counterpart due to not getting the training like him.

## **Appearance**

Like his prime counterpart, Melancholy Nano has a very fit build due to always going for a jog as part of his daily routine. He is a turtle who has green skin and a plastron on his stomach. He also has black eyes, taking after her mother.

He has black spikey hair with notably two giant strands that stick out in front of his forehead. Besides the flick, his hairstyle is definitely taken from his father. Speaking of his father, his moustache is taken from him.

His attire is where he looks different. He wears Prime Nano's casual outfit, with the scarf and a new green flannel jacket added, with the latter replacing his jacket seen on his waist. He wears this outfit in the prime timeline too but only when he is attending his university studies. The outfit includes: A white collared shirt, black trousers, black shoes and square glasses. He also has his ocarina attached on top of his trousers. The reason why he doesn't wear the same attire as prime Nano's main hero outfit is because he was never assigned as a grimdark hunter in this timeline. As a result, his hair is more exposed here

The other noticeable difference between him and his prime counterpart is how messy he is. This is likely due to him surviving in the post-apocalyptic world. He has dirt everywhere and blood stains seen near his mouth and his bruised left eye. The left len on his glasses are also cracked, which resembles Monkey AC130's cracked right eye, ironically enough.

When ascended to his incomplete full potential, all that happens is that his eyes go completely green and glow like Prime Nano but he doesn't get the grey skin and white flowing hair. This is mostly because he never got to train properly to complete this transformation.

## **Personality**

At first, Melancholy Nano was like his prime counterpart. But when the tragedy began, Nano became severely depressed over the lost of his family. Even when he was with Tangerine, he tends to vent by either punching a wall repeatedly or slay zombies around him.

But that doesn't mean he isn't what he used to be anymore. He is still a smart person, a polite gentleman and a noteworthy tactician in combat. However, he is extremely protective and cautious towards Tangerine ever since he found her. This is because he wanted to protect her since he never got to protect his family and friends and he wants to stop Frewil from what he was doing but he didn't have the strength to fight him. Which led to his demise.

## **Abilities**

### **Similar to Prime Nano**

Melancholy Nano pretty much has all of Prime Nano's abilities. So his Hot Wind Blowing, wrestling moves and his ascension. However they are way weaker here due to him not getting the training to perfect them like Prime Nano. His ascension is more of a curse here, since his full potential transformation is incomplete and makes him lose control, similar to Helga's Level 3 Ascension. Plus he is not assisted by the other Grimdark Hunters, due to them dying in this timeline. To see his shared abilities with his Prime Counterpart, see here.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

This version of Nano goes through the same events as his prime counterpart, except his mother actually lives up until he starts attending college, when Frewil absorbed the Grimdark Brotherhood and causes the start of the zombie outbreak. Nano would had to evacuate and would rush home to check on everyone at the Dojo but he is met with his mother Olivia as a zombie after they were infected by the zombies. Eon comes in and saves Nano and tells him to run. But Nano refused and wanted to stay but is met with Eon pushing him away out of the dojo. Eon then barricades Olivia successfully and then says to Nano that they'll have to leave them behind. Nano becomes upset over this revelation but still walks off with her. Suddenly, Eon notices Frewil charging his Eternal Gluttony Omega beam attack. She knows she and Nano cannot escape on foot, so she sacrifices herself by using a wind-up punch on Nano to knock him further away from the beam. Nano watches in horror as Eon is incinerated by the beam alongside the dojo he once lived in. Nano lands and rushes back to see that his entire home was completely destroyed, leading to him kneeling down and punching the ground, crying and screaming over his lost.

A couple days past and Nano was left by himself, trying to survive the best he can using his Hot Wind Blowing and eating from the food he can find around each area he visited. He then arrives at the now Abandoned Terrifang Lab in hopes of shelter. Upon entering, Nano would see a small figure for a split second but it started hiding in a bed. Nano would move the covers to reveal a little boy curled up in fear. Nano was surprised to see a living person here. He was very scared seeing him, yelling at him to leave him alone. Nano introduces himself but the boy wouldn't do the same, that was until Nano started playing his ocarina that he found one day. The innocent little boy opened up to Nano and introduced herself as Tangerine. On that day, Nano vowed to protect Tangerine as her caretaker due to him wanting to protect someone when he couldn't save his family from back then. **(NOTE: Tangerine will now be referred to by her female pronouns due to her future transition.)**

Nano and Tangerine, after dealing with zombies every single day. Would eventually find their way to the abandoned Aranea Draco Kingdom. While roaming, they had to keep quiet due to the zombie aranea dracos; as the females are capable of flight. Sadly the silence didn't last long; as Frewil woke them all up just by walking towards the area. Nano would fight the aranea dracos head on while Frewil looms over them. It's there where Nano unlocks his incomplete full potential and goes on a rampage; losing himself completely. Nano was done with the zombies but he still beat up their corpses. Tangerine was scared of Nano but was trying her best to tell Nano to stop. Nano hears this and looks at her; running straight towards her while Tangerine attempts to run away but then she gets out the ocarina that Nano dropped during his rampage. She plays it and was surprisingly good at it. However the noises annoyed Frewil. This calmed down Nano; enough to get him to control of his full potential.

He looks up to see a furious Frewil. Nano says Tangerine should stay put while he deals with Frewil. She agrees and Nano flies up to deliver a massive Drillnator on Frewil. After that, Frewil gets the Grim Armageddon out; not knowing what it can do. Nano tries to stop Frewil but it was too late. The slash of the great sword completely erases Nano and rips a black hole that engulfs the world around it.

This was the end of Melancholy Nano. All he ever wanted was to protect someone after he couldn't do so in the past. Although more weaker than his prime counterpart, this version of Nano proved to be a very important figure in Tangerine's life.

## **Relationships**

### **Mark Emerald**

This version of Nano wouldn't even know his father was killed during Frewil's return. But due to the outbreak killing several people, Nano already assumed that he was dead. His feelings for his father are the same as his prime counterpart.

### **Olivia Emerald**

Unlike the prime counterpart, Nano grew up with his mother However, Prime Nano wouldn't witness Olivia becoming a zombie and attempting to eat him whole. Nano was extremely upset to see his own mother turned into a zombie that he became permanently scarred about it until he becomes close with Tangerine. His feelings for his mother are the same as his prime counterpart.

### **Eon**

Melancholy Nano is extremely scarred over seeing Eon die to Frewil's Eternal Gluttony Omega. But like with Olivia he leaves these thoughts behind him. His feelings for his "aunt" are the same as his prime counterpart.

### **Monkey AC130**

Unlike Prime Nano, Melancholy Nano wouldn't meet up with his rival ever again. Unaware that he is absorbed into Frewil. Meaning that he doesn't know that he was on a mission to overpower and kill him.

### **Tangerine Gonzalo**

Tangerine became the reason why Nano ever got the chance to protect someone when he couldn't beforehand. When Tangerine goes to the prime timeline, she started talking to Helga about why she acts the way she does. Tangerine would reveal that she is from another dimension and would then have flashbacks of his time with Melancholy Nano. Besides showing wholesome moments like the two of them laughing together, Nano playing the ocarina to teach Tangerine how to play it, him protecting her from a rain storm and him playing a puppet show for her, it shows that Nano really cared for Tangerine despite going through a harsh depression. In fact, Tangerine was the reason Melancholy Nano became less depressed, as she was the one who gave Nano a meaning in his life, making him leave his past behind. Tangerine says that she won't let the prime timeline suffer the same fate as her own timeline and showing a rare moment of crying in front of Helga. Melancholy Nano valued Tangerine a lot and if it wasn't for her, he would go down a horrible path of depression. Tangerine feels the same way too and would take after him when taking care of Gregory.

## **Trivia**

* Like his prime counterpart, Nano's first name is a pun on "Nanoseconds".
	+ His middle name is based on Bruce Lee.
	+ His last name, Emerald, refers to his birthstone.
* There has been *several* ideas of a Nano from a alternate timeline. In fact, Nano is the reason why the concept of alternate timelines are a thing in later concepts. This example shown is Heel Nano. Named after a heel wrestler. He was a Nano who got his body taken from him via a unused character named Jayto O' Gonzalo. Tangerine's now unused evil great grandad, who did everything that Melancholy Frewil does. Melancholy Frewil would be his replacement in terms of being the main threat in Tangerine's timeline. Heel Nano, or rather Jayto in general, would go unused in this new concept for Wowlife.
	+ Jayto's concept of a villain taking a hero's body to wreak havoc seems to be based around the ideas used for the character of Goku Black from Dragon Ball Super.
* Like with Prime Nano's normal casual outfit, Melancholy Nano's outfit is based on the outfits worn in Darland High School. A school Con Air went to. The only difference is that the jacket is replaced with a green flannel jacket that he now wears normallly, instead of on his waist.
* Melancholy Nano and Tangerine's relationship is based on Simon and Marceline's relationship from Adventure Time. With how they were both surviving in a post-apocalyptic world and how Simon takes great care of the young Marceline. The only major difference is that Nano dies sadly.