Nic

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

## Basics

### Gender

Genderqueer, uses He/Him, They/Them and Ae/Aer pronouns

### Aliases

Nic is an alias, real name is as of yet unknown

## Other information

### Pets

Lareneg [Cat]Spork [Cat]Zephyr [Dog]Bicker [Brown and White Horse}3 Skeleton Horses collectively named BonerScience Cat/Well Cat [Cat]

### Residence(s)

Nic's Crack in the Wall in the Screaming FieldsNic's Room in the lab under Princey's cottage

### Builds

Nic's Crack in the WallNICE COCK Dog Psychoanalytic Therapy Office

### Conflicts

n/a

Nic is an outlier of the Hoardlands, living in their base in the Screaming Fields. They are a self-appointed botanist and 'independent scientist', particularly interested in plants and Magik's influence and aspects of nature, despite being notoriously bad at it.

## Appearance

Nic is a demonic-derived anthropomorphic creature with yellow hair and peach-tinted, lightly furred skin and blue eyes with black sclera. They have long pointed ears, claws, and horns and a plumed tail that can vanish on demand. They also may resort to traveling on all fours. He has a large, furless and shiny-pink burn scar across his back.

Nic is found casually wearing a blue pinstriped waistcoat over a white long-sleeved shirt and brown trousers, with a tucked-in yellow tie. Alternatively, when conducting scientific research and experiments, ae will don a yellow-trimmed lab coat, with a pair of goggles.

## Personality

### Main Personality

Nic has a reserved demeanor, often against starting an interaction but open to them, typically. He is paranoid, especially about dying, but has no qualms about killing others he does not have a positive relationship with. He is socially anxious, and avoids most public social situations.

With those ae have befriended, Nic is clingy and slightly dependent.

Nic often appears ditzy and uncollected, and is not well-acquainted with living by aerself and being independent, often half-starving and seen with sub-par tools and materials. They also have a skittish relationship with territories and stick to their own grounds while being tentative of accidentally ruining others'; thus their move from the Hoard settlement to the isolated Screaming Fields.

Nic is slightly self-centered in the aspects of being somewhat oblivious to what doesn't concern him or his interests, much more content to stay out of political movements unless provoked or brought to cause by another.

He also is paranoid when it comes to death, sicknesses, or most severely ender chests and placing a soul piece in one.

## Ideology

Nic's motives at the current time revolve around both their interest in the magic of the Hoard itself and in the fragile bonds of Soul Pieces, though research for years past has not found much and it is not likely they will find information either. He is entirely terrified of the possibility of others and himself placing a soul piece into an ender chest and would rather let others get control of his soul pieces.

Despite the immense fear of this aspect of soul pieces, Nic is careless and oblivious to dangers when conducting science experiments and observations, much too curious and strangely intrigued with Magik's effects on biology and botany to care about negative effects.

Nic also tries to hold the belief that one should protect their affections and be wary of who they trust, as their mother Skye had tried to teach them shortly before dying, but their innate tendency to be dependent, especially after Skye's death, leaves them vying against their emotions and their head quite often. Of course, this battle of emotions and logic does not affect those Nic knew before, such as Princey.

> "Honeyed lips and gifts you might withstand, but your paper heart melts in honeyed hands.” -Skye’s Lullaby and Nic's Mantra
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Nic does not care for political intrigues by themselves in the slightest, and is more wary of such than approving.

## History

### Pre-Hoard

Prior to aer's life in the Hoard, Nic lived with aer mother in a small village-like town, along with Princey. Both science enthusiasts enrolled in classes together and consistently received failing grades in their work, until a fateful experiment with spare netherian materials they found without knowing what they were, and with likely a stray amount of Magik, causing a minor explosion that spread a strange fire which burned the building they were in and caused Nic's burn scar across his back. They became outcasts to the town after this and planned to run away to a new home to truly conduct scientific findings.

Upon planning this, Skye, Nic's mother, revealed a terminal illness that had progressed, in the form of veins of end-corruption from her own Soul Piece being placed in an Ender Chest, also revealing she had lived previously in the Hoardlands and under its magic. Skye then told Nic to leave for the Hoardlands, and shortly after her death, Nic and Princey set off to the Hoardlands before getting split up and lost. Presuming Princey's death and having watched aer mother die of end corruption, Nic has now grown a severe fear of death, sickness, and soul pieces in ender chests to the point of being afraid to put regular items in ender chests or contact with them in general.

Nic eventually found themself in the Hoardlands, where Bigmad helped them set up a first house.

### Into The Hoard

In the Hoard, Nic made their way to the main settlement area and built a house on a hill before leaving via Nether to the Screaming Fields and carving a Crack In The Wall, their base of operations, on NICE COCK Hill. He begun gathering the strange flora and materials of the nether to analyze while gearing up initially.

### A Reunion

One day while Nic was traveling through the main Hoardlands town, one of few ventures, he came across a figure attempting to get a cat out of a well. After the cat was rescued, the figure turned out to be Princey, fellow hometown runaway, independent scientist, and friend. Princey then invited Nic to take a room and help conduct experiments and research in the found-abandoned laboratory under his house, to which Nic agreed happily.

## Personal Items

Axes: Not a specific item yet, but Nic typically favours axes over other weapons.

## Pets

Lareneg is Nic's grey cat, found in the woods. Spork is another cat of Nic's.

Zephyr the dog resides at the second base of Nic's, and was tamed and subsequently put on 'time out' in the Dog Psychoanalysis Office for attempting to walk in fire/on magma blocks multiple times.

Bicker the brown and white dappled horse was found in the Screaming Fields and tamed.

Nic obtained the three skeleton horses later collectively named 'Boner' during the aftermath of a thunderstorm when a skeleton trap triggered and cornered Nic. The horses share a single saddle passed around the three of them.

Science Cat, or Well Cat, named for her being found trapped in a well on two occasions, is a calico she-cat first encountered by Nic as well as Princey and instigated their reunion upon being set free. Later, she was found floundering in the well again and was tamed by Nic and brought to the laboratory.

## Relationships

Princey - Friend from hometown and scientific partner from school, Princey originally left for the Hoardlands with Nic before they got separated, and upon reuniting in the Hoardlands' town, quickly took Nic into the found abandoned laboratory under his cottage and inviting Nic to room and experiment there.

Bigmad - Was the first person to integrate Nic into the Hoard and offered her expertise and materials with house building before ae moved, considered a tentative positive acquaintance.

## Trivia

- Nic has blue blood and a constant flush on their face, also blue.

- As a demon-descendant with the ability to parasite life-force harmlessly from another, Nic likely has ties in some form to Badboyhalo, a past member of the Dream SMP.

Nic in lab gearNic in casual clothing