Nicholas Hastings

**Nicholas Marcello Hastings**, also known as Nick, is a character on HBO's Idle Town. He débuts in the first episode of the first season.

Nick is a sarcastic, introverted boy with some serious social anxiety issues. A queer angsty teen with a gift for writing, who is struggling with trust issues. This former "social outcast" having to be observant his whole life becomes a big gossip hot-spot which to him is very ironic.

## Personality and Appearance

* Physical Appearance
* Personality

Nick is a handsome, attractive, lean young man of medium stature who has pale skin, dark brown hair, and hazel eyes.

Nick's personality is sarcastic, angsty and introspective. Nick is the most stereotypical angsty teenager, just full of anxiety, dread and drama. He is an introvert with social anxiety and depression issues which leads him to isolate. His loneliness makes him a skilled observer of reality. Nick hasn't had the best luck with friends or any social interaction. Throughout his life he wasn't bullied but he wasn't popular he was severely ignored (sometimes by his own volition). He has only had really two major friends namely Matthew Nichols (from 2nd grade to 8th grade) & TBD (from 9th grade to present). He uses the moniker "Lost Boy" to describe himself after the group of Lost Boy's from the Disney movie Peter Pan. He uses that moniker to describe himself and his life (he also uses the term as the title for his anonymous journal entries on the school social media site Classified, he calls it "The Lost Boy Chronicles"). Nick isn't that smart or cares to be that smart, he hates school. He really struggles in it he gets by he is a star in his honors english class. Nick is a chronic underachiever and a lazy person. He doesn't like to work at things he doesn't like or understand. He doesn't see his lack of effort or care to be a bad thing, he's lazy but that doesn't make him a bad person. Though is is introverted and quiet, he is just bursting to talk and when he is comfortable you can't shut him up. He is a natural gossiping, shit talking, little queer mean girl who is also a loser. Since he is a skilled observer, he gets all of the drama, and the gossip from just watching people and loves to talk shit about people because he really doesn't like people.

Nick's journey of self-discovery starts off by getting diagnosed with autism during his first semester of junior year. Through his journey to discover he is actually autistic he actually self-diagnosed a year before which a lot of autistic people do because they know there self's and also they don't have the privilege to get diagnosed. Also, it's not always a good thing to get diagnosed because it's hard to be different. He has already been diagnosed with anxiety and depression but he felt like something else was at play because he has always felt like something is wrong or broken with him. When he is diagnosed he is sent to a therapist (who specializes in autism and general adolescence) he deeply connects with her and sees her once a week from now on. She helps him to fully understand himself, his life and how his undiagnosed autism has affected him. Nick's journey is self-discovery and to learn about himself to have a good life full of everything he wants. His life drastically changed when he joins a new friend group, it opens many doors for him to discover who he is and how to live his life.

## Name

* **Nicholas** is of Greek origin, and the meaning is "victory of the people".

* **Marcello** is of Italian and Spanish origin, and the meaning is "young warrior".

* **Hastings** is of English and Irish origin, and the meaning is "the people of the Hastings tribe".

## Notes and Trivia

* Nick was coded to be autistic until it was confirmed in *TBD*.
	+ He was the first confirmed neurodivergent character followed by TBD.