Nic

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The following page may contain spoilers about the plot of the Hous SMP. It is also a roleplay page, so keep this in mind.*

## Nic

* Current
* Original Appearance (with Cardboard)

## Basics

### Height

Can fluctuate wildly but typically around 9'0

### Allegiance

[Currently] None[Previously]Sweetberry Bakery, Bakery Rivals

## Other information

### Pets

Baby Cat  (cat, given by Mc)Franklin & Lucas  (rabbits)

### Builds

Shroomhous, the Catboy Wilbur Agenda sign, the Mpreg Gender sign, Tazmily,

### Conflicts

[Previously The Bakery Rivalry

**Nic**, also known as **Niccels** or **Flat Wilbur**, is a member of HousSMP who currently resides in the Erebus Outskirts in his Shroomhous.

As a portion of the Void given form, it doesn't have canon lives.

## Appearance

Nic in its base form is a consolidated and sentient portion of the Void, infinitely dark and chimeric in form, typically consolidating in a reptilian or dragon-like form. While the form it takes can be manipulated to nearly any level, Nic most often appears as a large, wingless 'almost-reptilian' or dragon-like creature with jagged spikes and horns, and glowing membrane on fins on either side of its head.

To attempt to appear more humanoid, it at one point held a cardboard cutout of Wilbur Soot in front of it, which was ultimately very ineffective, as viewing it at any other angle than the front revealed its 2D disguise.

Nic donned a cyan bandanna around his neck for the Festival, and after the event, decided to keep it on. During the Casino's Halloween party, he exchanged his cardboard cutout for one that resembled Berdly.

Over the passage of time and despite enchantments, Nic's cardboard cutout had gathered enough wear and tear via scuffing, sun damage, waterlogging, explosives, and more that it had faded and become frayed at the edges. During his stay away from Erebus in Tazmily, Nic made himself a new bandana after his old one got lost in the nether.

Eventually, Nic's cardboard cutout endured enough damage that in a particularly bad thunderstorm in Tazmily, the enchantment of Unbreaking upon it wore out and it tore entirely in half. Nic waited out the storm in the river, and returned from it with the cardboard having washed out to sea.

## Personality

Nic, upon joining Hous SMP, was not much more than a blank slate when it came to temperament. He was generally calm, generally easy-going, and that modifier- *generic-* could be used to describe him almost entirely, asides from his defining idiosyncrasy; A lack of knowledge and awareness around simply so many facets of life that left him frighteningly defenseless in any social capacity.

This deficit in such an almost-necessary aspect of sentience easily binds Nic to relative seclusion, paired with an barely-there nervous awareness to his own social shortcomings that cause him to keep to himself except when lured out. This also keeps him from being in-the-know with the constant news of the server.

Over time, however, relationships formed by other's first-outstretched hands would form a dent in the socially-apathetic nature Nic was seemingly formed with; Sentiment for gifts, builds, and even just the knowledge given by these players would overbear its self-accompanied lifestyle and drag Nic not kicking or screaming, but into situations he would likely not get into alone. All the more grateful for them.

In interactions with others, Nic is simply most likely to attempt to return whatever social energy is being served at them first- unsure of how to initiate or keep conversations going with much verbal content other than returning one line for another of similar subject matter, call and response. It doesn't know how exactly to handle true aggression, diffusing most already not-too-tense situations with its own nature.

Being typically around 9 feet tall, and much longer, Nic usually holds itself with body language curling in its shoulders, if inside, holding its tail curled and often attempting (futilely) to sneak around other players for no actual reason whatsoever.

During and after a brief isolationist stint, Nic would become more self-aware and self-conscious of its temperament and social interactions to a point of over-self regulation.

## Ideology

Nic has (perhaps unsurprisingly) little of an observable moral code, holding dear to him builds and items due to the inherent worldliness of them that he is infatuated with but not at first comprehending death or politics, as at first neither had applied to him. Logic has since educated him on the concepts of death, life, separate degrees of being, and now Nic has adopted a slightly flimsy stance on his own life; using it to defend and advance those of the sentient humanoids he admires more, usually for their aspirations.

Nic also does not comprehend the semantics or what it means to have an aspiration, but admires greatly the sentient ability to have one or a self-given purpose. This is why he has become devoted to and follows along with the expansion of other characters' own aspirations and motives- whether his guesses and interpretations of what these may be are correct. With the one he had previously taken as his own to further fallen through, Nic currently has almost reverted to a parallel of what he was like upon first touching down on the overworld- but much less ready to take in the world around him this time around.

Nic is ambivalent and casual to other deities, being the fragmented aspect of near-one himself.

## History

### The Void From Nowhere

Before Nic was of his own sentience, he was apart of the greater collective mass of living Void in the stretch under the world beneath the layers of bedrock separating it and the overworld. Eventually, for reasons unknown by Nic, a chunk of this sentient void was compressed into a near-tangible form, able to manipulate and control its shape and size and to have a sentience of its own. He ended up coming to sentience in a desert house, observing humanoid behaviour and recognizing it from a knowledge pool that he found himself awake with.

Eventually Nic found itself a name and a longing for a humanoid image of its own; pulling out a cardboard cutout of a brown-haired, yellow-vested figure that it thought pretty enough to wear as a frame, and attempting to hide behind it. Nic left the desert town and began collecting items and tools, coming upon the Village and making a temporary base there before finding a dark forest biome with a shallow lake and made a permanent home there.

### Integration

Despite his love for his collected humanoid form, Nic socialized little outside of occasional crouching spam with passerby, or trading items informally. He built small foundations of relationships with these small interactions, all the while getting gear and creating facilities at Erebus Outskirts for himself, including a spider spawner, farms, a nether gazebo, and expanding the stretch of forest he claimed, eventually spiralling his home into near artificial mini-biomes.

He was caught up in small events such as the Georgebur Pit, building the MPREG GENDER sign, and joined the Borderline Romantics as Maid Awesamdude before attending the Festival after finding an invite that had blown across the highway and struck him in the face. At the Festival, he encountered multiple individuals with faces similar to his chosen one in appearance, and from then on, regarded similar humanoids with positive intent. He did not openly interact with anyone else there, and mostly hid behind Mill or Lowkey at the event near the back.

He left the Festival halfway through, both confused at what other activities there could be and also socially exhausted, and thus does not know anything that occurred after he left.

### Sweetberry

After meeting up with Mill on July 1st to inquire about where his house was located, the pair explored the immediate area around the hills outside of the village, running across Karmic's Bakery, and going inside. They began to explore, and Mill began a string of banter about the bakery and basement's condition, the pair joking that the food would be contaminated with mining debris or that the cookies were accented with coal chips.

Mill began making more lighthearted comments on how he could run a better bakery, slowly but surely escalating to coming to the decision to indeed make his own. Nic became eager to decipher Mill's sudden motivation, and prodded at the topic of aspiration, to which Mill mildly answered, turning the conversation, but unknowingly giving Nic the realization that greater purpose and motive was something to be held important.

The two began building their new rival bakery, eventually planning to call it the Sweetberry Bakery, purposefully creating a cute aesthetic to, "Be extremely adorable and to completely defame the opposition." Mill took upon himself leadership of the business and facility, and offered employeeship to Nic with the title 'minion,' which it agreed to without pause.

A rivalry between the two pastry-flavoured establishments sprung up immediately- as did a series of 'minor property damages' to the opposing bakeries. Karmic had hired Logic on the rival side, and Logic left a sign on Sweetberry's outside wall that read 'Nic is a c!Slimecicle kinnie,' which offended Nic greatly for the pure reason that he did not know who he was being compared to. Nic would take this action and remember it with a slight grudge for the next few weeks, which were similarly filled with prank wars.

During this exchange of insults and disses to each business' products, Nic was approached by Logic, who took him out around the land by the Village for a 'lesson' to teach him about death; Nic had previously expressed not understanding the concept of it when Logic had threatened him. She displayed health and death on multiple very innocent chickens that didn't do anything wrong, and finally managed to get the point across before elaborating that players had numbered lifes themselves. Nic was then curious to feel what dying was like himself, and persuaded Logic to kill him with *[the weak b\*tch killer]*, respawning and wanting to 'go again' before Logic reiterated the numbered aspect of lives. Somehow, this teaching ordeal resulted in both a less hostile relationship between them, and unbeknownst to Logic, the instinctive pact with itself that Nic would risk the newly-found concept of death for her and other bakery rivals.

Nic met MC when they were hired to Sweetberry as another employee, and built a rapport with them quickly. Acting without permission, Nic dug out a tunnel between the basement of Sweetberry and to Karmic and Logic's Bakery, asking MC to keep it a secret as he didn't ask their boss if it would be toeing the line of a business strategy or simply a dick move first. Nic was later called over for a meeting between Sweetberry Bakery and Karmic and Logic's to extend an alliance between the businesses for purposes of eventually assisting the Village's slowburning revolution. Nic didn't process most of this information, letting the politics sail right over its head, and was just estatic that its tunnel between the bakeries could have potential use and showed them off in front of the gathered patissiers.

With the guise of *rival* bakeries needing to be kept up in front of everyone not in on the alllegiance plans but the actual relationship underneath gone soft, Nic's demeanor towards the owners of Karmic's and Logic's turned more cartoonish in anger, with genuine affinity being built underneath. Nic also helped provide Sweetberry with a side product, strings renamed Worms On Strings, during this period.

### All Things...

During a quiet period of activity from the bakeries, Nic found themself repeating the same material farming actions at their base and hardly anywhere else. In time, he began to ruminate during this farming cycle and finally realized just how deeply flawed his social nature was, and so came to the spontaneous and somewhat irrational non-decision that he should run a bunch a blocks in the nether and build a faraway house to serve as distraction from this revelation.

Nic set up a portal in the nether which came out in the overworld to Ice Spikes in new chunks, where he took a long duration to explore before setting up a very modest wood house, and called the place Tazmily. Here, they took upon themself a sort of voluntary isolation with very little reasoning behind it, and simply built up Tazmily and sparse surrounding areas. Nic's ideology shifted in slight hue during this stay due to lack of outside influence and possibly too-much time to himself gave him ample time to look into his own behaviours and alter them when he struck unease; namely his traits reflecting more outgoing or acting-first aspects- all in attempts to remedy sterile social relationships it never had a full grip on in the first place.

Eventually, this personal self-exile in Tazmily would end, and Nic would find himself dragged back into the bustle of Sweetberry once more, before he would close the bakery's doors.

With Sweetberry's doors closed and this finalized lack of people to interact with, Nic retreated back to original habits since it joined the server, and since before that; expanding the area it called home and not going out of its way to see what would be happening elsewhere.

For the time being, it seems, Nic has found a quiet sort of contentedness by themself.

## Relationships

 Karmic | Positive

 Logic  | Positive

More recently, Logic took it onto herself to investigate her bakery's competition, and discovered Nic's complete and utter lack of comprehension of certain topics, in particular the concept of death. After teaching Nic how life, health, and canon lives work via the death of multiple chickens, Logic reluctantly offered to kill Nic after he expressed interest in experiencing the phenomena for himself, and did so with [the weak b\*tch killer]. Somehow, this teaching ordeal resulted in both a less hostile relationship between them, and unbeknownst to Logic, the instinctive pact with itself that Nic would risk the newly-found concept of death for her and other bakery rivals.

Their active dynamic was that of competitive business rivals, mostly operating in pranks, volleyed insults and the occasional trade of axe blows until the pact between their bakeries made their interactions not-purposefully-performed-to-keep-cover more on the teasing side, bordering friendship. Outside of bakery-related interactions, Logic found reasons to invite Nic from his usual non-social attitude through 'lessons,' similar to how their first major interaction began.
 Noxx | Positive
 borderline strong

## Quotes

* "BAK"
* "I miss mpreg."
* "Heat death: The heat death of the universe (also known as the Big Chill or Big Freeze) is a theory on the ultimate fate of the universe, which suggests that the universe would evolve- that one?" *-Upon Logic asking if Nic understood the concept of 'Death'*
* "I am holding sticks, Logic, how more serious can I get?"
* "WHY NOT, IT'S FUN AND TICKLE-Y AND DARK?!" *-Nic trying to get Logic to kill him again before remembering the limited number of lives sentient beings get*
* "Take a stick, hold the stick, but do not face death. Or weapons, or dark. A single stick for life, you see." *-Nic being generally incomprehensible after promising he wouldn't purposefully and uselessly die to Logic*
* "We will destroy your business reputation!!!!! <3 Remember to live and drink air!!!!" *-Nic's wellwishes to Logic after their interactions on July 18th*
* "I died! :D" *-Nic, in response to a greeting directly after dying earlier that day*
* "I think I've kinda figured out that lessons are just. Being, a little. I don't mind lessons. Because they're just a lot of being, packed in a bit of time, under a fancy name. But friendship is a nice name to put it under too." *-Nic to Logic, after she wanted to stop holding 'lessons' and just be friends.*
* "fearfearfearfearfearfear" *-Nic, in a boat on top of a minecart*

## Trivia

* C!Nic likes water and bodies of water a lot like if i had to associate an element to it \*asides\* from void/darkness whatever it would be water but not in the 'wow this guy gets wet' way like. beach. sand and water. I DONT KNOW i have used the trivia areas for evil
* c!nic's favourite video game would be chicory btw. swimming in paint....
* items i would associate w/ c!nic if this were like idk a fandom or smth: ink, feather, magma block,
* c!nic if it were a pokemon: dark/water type with an ability similar to Steelworker that gives a power boost to dragon type moves. would not be an incredibly viable pokemon tho dont get it twisted only like 3 dragon type moves in level up no evolutions bad stats.
* if ur ever about to go 'whats wrong with ur fucking screenshots what fucking texture pack do you fuckihngg use' the answer is LOL!!!! LOL!!!! i threw together like 3 texture packs which are 100% very outdated and then had to make multiple textures on my own everything is a mess. but also its earthbound themed so shuttup
* PLAAYSlisty so i can remember it exists later

## Gallery

Nic with Mcsay no to nic'<niccels △> oo alone on server' '<niccels △> time to scream' '[server ?8the time is: 16:10' '<niccels △> WHAJT'nic if it was a pony lol (i entirely forgot about this btw)Nic along with Lowkey, Light, and Mill. A mere sliver of the Wilbur-faced on the servernic, no longer held back by cardboard. unrestrained summer fun and fins!!!! also illustrated; his manner of storing items which is just plunging things into the nebulous void of his back.A depiction of Nic casually poking around in a bookcase.Nic's skin with the cardboard cutout and bandanna.Nic's Halloween costume.
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death