Nick

**Nick** is a bartender, who meets Elsa Gardner at the bar he works at, in Season 1 of *Atypical*. Nick is portrayed by actor Raúl Castillo.

## Description

Nick is young, handsome, well-built, and has a beard. He has dark hair and dark brown eyes.

## Personality

Nick is your typical mountain-man hipster guy. He is very spontaneous and kind, something which draws Elsa to him. He's also quite laid-back, unlike the high-strung Elsa. However, he's also quite, in Elsa's mind, at least immature, since he still has birthday parties. Not to mention he is very clingy and submissive to Elsa, as long she doesn't leave him to go back to Doug.

## Biography

In the episode "Antarctica" of Season 1, Nick is first met by Elsa at the bar, where he works at. Elsa and Nick both spark up a fling with each other after she hurts gets herself injured by a flying dart that hit her shoulder. Before she could leave the bar, he comes to her rescue to give her first aid treatment and they both begin to make love with each other.

In the episode "A Human Female", feeling like Elsa is unwanted inside of her family, Elsa begins to cheat on her family, especially her own husband, Doug Gardner, with Nick by smoking pot with him, having sex with him, and sleeping with him constantly at his house throughout almost this entire Season. She later regrets it, but as this Season carries on, she keeps going back to him.

In the episode "I Lost My Poor Meatball", as Elsa's guilty conscious continues to build up, Elsa decides to break up with him, but he reveals to her that he is sad that his friend, Meatball, who works in the same bar as Nick does, had died. Nick doesn't want Elsa to abandon him, even if he knows that she has a family of her own to take care of. Unfortunately for him, Elsa breaks up with him, but not before giving a long goodbye kiss to him, sparking attention from Casey Gardner, who witnesses everything between them and she runs away in emotional anguish.

In the episode "The Silencing Properties of Snow", later on, Nick is visited by Casey at the bar, and he says what kind of drink she needs. Nick gives her a glass cup of drink, but she angrily tells him to stop breaking her family apart and to leave her family alone. As an attempt to scare off Nick, Casey grabs her glass cup to pour all of her drink in front of him on the bar counter and she throws the glass cup right through him, breaking it. She flips him off with her two middle fingers, before leaving the bar.

In the episode "Ernest Shackleton's Rules for Survival", at the end of Season 2, there is more bad karma arriving to Nick's doorstep. After Doug finds out that his wife had been cheating on him for Nick through his daughter's house message wall and his wife admitting that she was unfaithful to him, Doug attempts to eliminate his hallucinations of Nick by confronting Nick outside of the bar. Nick is asking how Doug is doing. Doug replies back by saying that if Nick remembers him or not. Nick then replies back by saying what Doug wants from him, but Doug says that he doesn't know. To relieve of all stress, Doug punches him in the face, breaking his tooth. Although, Nick politely admits that he deserves it. However, he tells Doug to never come back to the bar ever again. Doug gladly leaves the scene in his car to return to his home.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* Antarctica (S1:E1)
* A Human Female (S1:E2)
* Julia Says (S1:E3)
* A Nice Neutral Smell (S1:E4)
* That's My Sweatshirt (S1:E5)
* The D-Train to Bone Town (S1:E6)
* I Lost My Poor Meatball (S1:E7)
* The Silencing Properties of Snow (S1:E8)

### Season 2

* Ritual-licious (S2:E9)
* Ernest Shackleton's Rules for Survival (S2:E10)

## Trivia

* Nick is possibly Latino-American, since he is portrayed by a Latino actor.
* He might be younger than Elsa.