Nick Althorne

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***If you don't know this already, then you probably shouldn't be here.***

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Look out, reader! This article will contain serious spoilers for the entire *Spyretverse* series.

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## Nicodemus Althorne

### Aliases

Nick (commonly)Dr. Althorne (formally)

Nicky (by Wilson Cross)

Boss (by Jackie)

### Relatives

John Althorne VI (father)Ella Althorne I (mother)

Jack Middleton (best friend)

Ella Althorne II (adoptive daughter)

### Affiliation

Althorne Asylum (formerly)Unnamed research facility

## Appearances

### Appears in

Matilda and NickConvergence

Convergence II: Ella's Mystery

Convergence III: Fulfillment in Becoming

### Pre-Story

Nicodemus John Althorne was born September 25th, 2033, to John Althorne VI and his wife, Ella. They were born with the powers of telekinesis inherited from their mother, and was instated into the asylum soon after their mother was locked away under the building. Nick never met their mother, and was never made aware of being Althorne's child until the end of *Matilda and Nick.* They are Hispanic, and have gone by they/them pronouns for quite a while (though it is unclear when exactly they decided this).

### Matilda and Nick

Nick is a main character in *Matilda and Nick*, the story beginning when they are around eight years old. They very rarely spoke to anyone until Matilda Matkins arrived at the asylum, and brought them out of their shell (of sorts). Later, when Nick and Matilda join forces with Alistair Badgley and newcomer Wylie Khurana to escape at fourteen years old, events unfold and they endure casualties of several staff and patients, including all three of their friends.

They learn through Wylie's hints and Althorne himself that they are Althorne's biological child. On the rocket ship to Mars, Nick ends up killing Althorne after he causes the implosion of the Earth. At the end of the book, they are the only survivor of the Earth's implosion and supposedly the last telekinetic in the universe until the events of *Convergence*. In this book, they wear a simple beige gown and their long brown hair is down.

### Between Stories

At fourteen years old, Nick landed on Mars outside the city of Wellfleet, where they buried their father haphazardly. Going into the city, they were immediately recognized after explanation. Nick was instated in a Wellfleet orphanage and enrolled in a high school near there as a freshman in the middle of the year, and overnight, they became one of the most famous people on the planet.

During their short time as a child, nobody wanted to adopt them. Adults feared them for their powers, which was quite irrational, but at the same time, understandable. Nick quickly learned not to feed into the paparazzi's questions, and became more nihilistic as a late teenager. They did not have many friends at all in high school, and was made fun of often for their name.

Nick was often perceived to be much smarter than they were. As a seventeen-year-old, they skipped their senior year and went straight to online college classes after many schools were asking them to join in a full ride scholarship. However, despite their strong love for chemistry, they had very little literary knowledge, and their handwriting was illegible into adulthood. High school did nothing for them in terms of education, and it contributed to their nihilistic nature, thinking they got this far because of their father, and they did.

At eighteen, Nick moved away from online classes and joined a highly-rated college full time, where Nick met Jack Middleton, who was assigned to be their roommate. Jackie immediately connected with them, and they remained best friends to the present day. Although Nick was forced by the public to go into a scientific profession, they quite enjoy chemistry and the like.

Once they entered adulthood, Nick's identity started to come into its own. They left the orphanage, saved enough money to have top surgery and go on prescribed testosterone, and was diagnosed with autism. They have severe PTSD, and although it was diagnosed, it went untreated.

After graduating, Nick and Jackie were assigned the case of Morgan Hensley and Riley Jameson, a case that had gone unsolved since their deaths. They were given a sample of the semifluid matter found at the house, and spent three years on the case.

### Convergence

In *Convergence*, the final book of the Spyretverse series, an adult Nick returns as a main character working as a world-renowned chemist at a research facility on the coast of Norton City, with their best friend Jackie, an acquaintance made at college. Nick is still struggling to work through their traumatic childhood, and their profession is clearly no help. They do not commonly use their telekinesis, and they have a strong disdain for paparazzi. It is stated that they were forced, in a way, to become a scientist because of the world's big expectancies for them. In the first chapter, Ella Oakley-Cross approaches them to teach her about her powers and how to use them, and Nick obliges reluctantly.

It is revealed later that Nick and Jackie are working together on the case of Morgan Hensley and Riley Jameson, their primary focus being a speck of semifluid matter that fluctuates in cell count. Nick and Ella are transported to the afterlife stasis where all the lost souls controlled by the warlock had been dormant until they arrived. In this afterlife stasis, Nick appears as a child again, and reunites with Alistair, Wylie, and Matilda. They also meet Morgan, Riley, Pyro, Xudio, River, and Zoey.

Later, Nick and Ella are caught directly in a battle with the warlock, in which the other Spyretverse characters appear to help, Ella is indisposed by a rock, and Nick fights until they're killed by the warlock. The warlock reveals itself to be Mike Ansley, or what was left of the memory, and offers Nick life for themselves and for Ella if they allow him to take their place in the afterlife. Nick takes the deal, and awakens from death. They only have a chest wound where a spike was driven directly through. A year after the events of *Convergence*, Nick has successfully adopted Ella.

In this book, Nick wears their long hair in a bun tied by an orange ribbon, with a lab coat and a blue T-shirt underneath. They wear either brown khakis or jeans, and is seen in the cover wearing bunny slippers.

### Convergence II: Ella's Mystery

As this book is set two months after *Convergence*, Nick's appearance does not change much--only their clothes. Their status as a main character is momentarily shifted to a deuteragonist; however, we can still see their progression in the storyline. They are still recovering from being stabbed.

In this book, Nick assists Ella in finding her father, who turns out to be a complete jerk. Later meeting him, Nick doesn't like him at all. This may have something to do with the annoyance of choosing to adopt Ella and then Wilson returning to meet her.

During this book, Nick does an experiment in which they test perfluorocarbon for breathing in liquid. It does not end well, and as the glass breaks, the water runs black. This hints to the events in *Convergence III*.

### Convergence III: Fulfillment in Becoming

This book is set two years after the events of *Convergence.* Nick chooses to stop putting their hair up in a bun, which signifies their healing and growth after *Matilda and Nick*, but continues to carry ribbons. Their clothes change continually, the only constant being a purple button-up shirt. At the beginning of every chapter in the book, the reader is reminded of Nick's life "ending" in the next two weeks. Of course, they do not actually die at the end of the book, as it is never explicitly said that they would. I'm an evil genius that way.

Nick begins to notice oddities in their day, such as hearing voices and experiencing hallucinations. They end up starting a transformation begun by semifluid matter, revealing that the deal made with Mike Ansley left the spot for protector of the universe unfilled, and that Nick now needed to fill that spot. This transformation takes exactly two weeks, finished on July 19th, 2061.

During this, Nick discovers that they can travel to other universes, by an infinite hallway of doors leading to them. Outside of their universe, Nick wears a golden beige gown with a bunch of orange ribbons at the waist, and a crown of black flowers decorating their long hair. Here, they find a yellow and purple door, which is all but directly said in canon to be the *Element* universe. Going into the Keynote house, they accidentally lose a ribbon on the stairs, and meet a girl outside. She sends them back to Spyretverse, saying "Ella just got home". These two continue to interact throughout the story.

Nick being around things cause semifluid matter to appear there, such as the printer at the office and their apartment, and they slowly start to turn a charcoal black over the two weeks. Nick also accidentally gives Jackie telekinesis.

On the day of Ella's hangout with Serena, Nick finishes their transformation. They appear just like the warlock had in *Convergence*, with the exception of their purple shirt and their long hair floating above their head. Their intentions are seemingly to end the world and create a better one, showing that they are self-aware of their role as a main character in a book series due to the influence of the semifluid matter, and that Ella and Jackie are continually getting in the way. Their voice changes from their normal one to something of a distorted version at times. One could argue that this is not Nick doing these things, but rather the semifluid matter taking control. However, the semifluid matter is simply hypnotizing them, using their grievances about their life to rebel against the confines of that universe. When they're finally able to break from this control, they're nearly dying, until Jackie is able to inject them with the vaccine. They, Nick and Ella now fake Nick's death and start a new life in the multiverse void, where Nick is able to come into their own as a protector.

### Trivia

* In *Convergence II: Ella's Mystery*, Nick makes a joke about their bandages being similar to binding, and is shown to have top surgery scars in a later chapter. This confirms Nick's assigned gender at birth to be female. This gives no reader the right to misgender them.
* The cover for *Convergence* was drawn wonderfully by friskybitz99 on Wattpad (they/them), as a commission from the author. Nick is barely shown in the background, so as to not spoil any new readers of their prominence in the story.
* Nick's orange ribbon appears briefly in *Element* as a callback some eagle-eyed viewers may spot. Later, this is shown to be because they were actually there after multiverse travel.
* According to Zoey Ansley, Nick was "always the center of this story". This is said because they were the only person Mike Ansley was unable to control, and because they bear extreme importance in both stories they're featured in, unlike any other returning character in *Convergence*.
* July 19th, a date that makes many appearances in many forms during Spyretworks, is the author bellepeper91's birthday.