Nicolae Bartholy

**Nicolae Bartholy** formerly known as **Nicolae Roman** is the older brother of Drogo, Peter and Lorie and the eldest son of Viktor Bartholy. He is the main love interest in his own story route and the supporting character throughout other story routes. Formerly, he is the highborn son of the wealthy Roman family who previously lived in Transylvania, Romania and resided in London.

## Appearance

Nicolae has medium-length long dark brown hair and grayish green eyes. When he turns into a vampire, his eyes become red and he has vampire fangs on each side of his mouth.

He has four outfits within his portrait as a contrast to both Drogo and Peter's outfits, all of his outfits are in a gothic theme while two of his outfits were seen in his flashbacks while he was a human and his formal outfit was seen in the New Years extra event.

His first outfit is his casual outfit; a black formal vest with an extended collar, a white long sleeved v-neck shirt that shows his clavicles, dark gray pants, and brown shoes. He also wears a silver necklace with a cross pendant. His casual outfit is usually worn by the Romanian nobles in between his former human self and as a vampire.

His second outfit was his formal party attire as his formal coat resembles the trench coat worn by his adopted father Viktor. Nicolae wears a black formal coat with a dark purple trim in an extended collar. Underneath, he wears a spring green formal vest with a white long sleeved button and a large jet black tie on the collar, black formal pants with a silver chain and black shoes, he also wears a jet black French beret on his head with an emerald ring on his right middle finger and two different designed silver rings between each finger.

His third outfit resembles Drogo's third outfit where he serves as a street magician. He wears a black vest with a white long sleeved loose button shirt, black jeans and brown shoes. He also wears a black fedora hat on his head and carries a deck of cards.

His formal outfit was seen in the New Years extra event where he takes the player to have a salsa dance with him, he wears a grayish beige formal suit jacket with a matching formal vest and slacks, a black long sleeved button-up shirt and loafers. He also has a salmon pink rose adorned at the left side of his jacket.

* In one of the secret scenes, Nicolae was in shirtless and appears a bit muscular than Drogo and wears two silver necklaces with several dark blue shark tooth pendants on his neck and two silver rings in each finger. He only wore a pair of purplish black trousers.
* In an earlier versions of Drogo and Peter's route, an in game glitch cause his sprite to wear the University of Mystery Spell uniform. This has been corrected. In Chapter 8 at the second season of Drogo's route, Nicolae wears this as part of his disguise. He also wears this during his extra love scene with the player.

## Personality

Nicolae is the eldest of the Bartholy brothers and, with father Viktor away for months and years on end, he has assumed the responsibilities as the head of household.

Nicolae is initially the friendliest of the three brothers when he welcomes the player into the household and trying to excuse Drogo's bad manners when he rudely ignores, then sneers at her.

He takes his role as leader and protector very seriously, and is cautious and controlling of his brothers' behaviours, particularly Drogo. Drogo rebels against him at every opportunity but when faced off by an angry Nicolae, he reluctantly backs down. In Chapter 10 within Drogo's story, his confrontation with Drogo was demonstrated upon realizing his forbidden relationship towards the player.

Nicolae believes in integrating with humanity, rather than living in isolation. He has imposed a no human hunting (something Viktor is against.) ban on his family which they have learnt to live with. The brothers go night hunting for animal blood when necessary.

Nicolae is the voice of calm and reason. He soothes the player when Drogo frightens her and seems to know what to say to reassure her. Whilst he does posses natural empathy, little does the player know that this is also in part because of his ability to read and influence minds of others.

Nicolae firmly disciplines towards their little sister Lorie for her very nasty acts towards the player, forcing her to apologize for what she had done and sometimes forbidding her from going shopping.

In the third and final season, Nicolae didn't change much throughout the seasons but during the events of chapter 4, both him and Peter reprimands the player for releasing Isaac Bartholy from his deep slumber at the basement due to Lorie's trickery, believing that Isaac was a huge threat to their lives and mistaken him as an evil creature and not knowing he was Viktor's son from the Egyptian necromancy priestess, Cleo Bartholomeus where Viktor had kept him in the basement from 2000 years. Although Isaac had shown to be harmless in the events of chapter 5. Nicolae remains cold to Isaac as seen in chapter 7 after he was currently taken in, stating that Isaac was never be trusted due to his powerful prowess as a vampire who can utilize necromancy magic only for him to become reluctant to let him stay at Lorie's behest.

In Peter's story, Nicolae maintains his behavior in both routes and he is also against the Descendants of the Templars which he along with Drogo and Peter manage to save the player from being held captive. At the second season, he seems to study the movements of Charles Huxley who is the new dean of University of Mystery Spell until in Chapter 7 where they became in neutral terms with Cassandre Osborne, leading him to form an alliance with her as a Vampire-Witch alliance against Charles who is now confirmed as the leader of Descendants of the Templars in the upcoming Chapter 10.

In Chapter 5 unlike Jake Stewart, Zac Hudson and William Sheffield who were a natural good cook, Nicolae is revealed to be a horrible cook as stated by the player that his food he had cooked is revolting.

In his main story, Nicolae was once a werewolf tracker in his prime while he was a human and the elder son of the wealthy family of the noble Roman family before being bitten as a vampire and became a well mannered and compassionate towards the player. He was the only person that the player looked upon his photo at her locket. Aside from reading the minds of others, Nicolae also excels in magic and he became popular among people including the college students in University of London where he portrays as a street magician which the player was confused about his job especially his advice towards her. Nicolae is also cheerful and a gentle person whenever he gives her some advice and courting her during parties. He was shown to love poker which he keeps a deck of cards that he used in street magic. In Chapter 2, it was revealed that Nicolae continued searching for his late fiancee's killer for centuries which turns out to be his father Viktor in a shadow and his main reasons for transforming him into a vampire after he mourns the death of his fiancee. Nicolae is also admirable towards the player because of her resemblance of his late fiancee.

Despite his awareness of the forbidden relationship between them or immediately apologizes for his own actions, Nicolae strangely became very close towards her especially when he was constantly needed her to find out the whole truth of his fiancee's death and the murderer behind her death. In some of the secret scenes, Nicolae is shown his romantic sense of passion whenever he made love towards the player much like he previously did to his late fiancee or frequently guards her when she spends time with him. Nicolae also shows his protectiveness towards her when she was in danger. Therefore, his protectiveness to her also caused her have more doubts to both him and their current relationship. In Chapter 9, Nicolae can be very tricky and naughty sometimes as seen when he uses his power to control her mind to go intimate together and enjoying to have fun with her by tickling her ribs. He calls the player her affectionate nickname as *my love* which signifies being the player as his lover. However in the final chapter of his story shows a darker side of his personality after the player reveals that it was his adopted father Viktor who murdered his fiancee. Nicolae finally displays his uncontrollable rage and his cold demeanor as a vampire when he finally learns why the player decided to ran away because of the truth she had found on her dream and her main reason why she didn't tell him as well as Viktor's lies. However during the player's altered dream, Nicolae is able to hold his own against Viktor not before the player warns him. After being treated his serious injuries, Nicolae can be domineering and passionate similar to Ryan Carter when he made love to the player in a wildest way and also had a high threshold for pain while he do this before the two were getting married at Prague.

In Sebastian's story, Nicolae's strictness and his overprotective nature towards the player will led him into trouble which it was shown that he initially wouldn't allow her to go with Sebastian at Peru due to his expeditions were being risky and dangerous as Sebastian coldly reveals it to her after she told him that she can't go with him because of her contract with the Bartholys as an au pair. His strict behavior also causes the player to hate him the most, not wanting to fulfill her dreams of being an archaeologist. But soon changes when he allows her to go and fulfilling her dreams, knowing that he doesn't like to make any conflicts with her just to ease their tension between them. In Chapter 10, he seems to know about Esteban Dias when he mentions him to the player after he called her for being blind on her surroundings. Although at the final chapter of the story reveals that it was Nicolae who kept the Mirror of Truth after Drogo admitted his actions for destroying Sebastian's office to get the mirror under Viktor's orders and he also reveals it to the player that Viktor was travelling abroad, allowing him to return the mirror back to her to make Sebastian completed the ritual to revert his sister Isabella back to normal, and the ritual was a success in the second season.

## Season 1

Nicolae Roman was born into the wealthy Roman family in Transylvania, Romania within the 19th Century (within the 1800's) as his family later moved to London to start living while Nicolae's father, Mr. Roman decided to have a new bank business here. In 1895, Nicolae became an extremely talented in street magic which is very popular to the students in University of London and as a werewolf tracker. He encounters a female student who gives some good advices until his rival Ludwig Eberwald drags her out of the way. It is revealed that Ludwig was also the one who invites her at the University party. They soon meet again at the University Party at the University of London and to the confrontation between him and Ludwig as Nicolae waltzes with her during the ball. As soon as his relationship with her continued to grow, Nicolae takes her to his home until Nicolae's father disapproved of their relationship and wants to make another engagement from another woman which causes a fall out between him and his father. Nicolae reassures her that he loved her more than anything. However, Nicolae breaks up his engagement to her after telling her that he needs to follow his father due to his family engagement with another woman in his rank which resulted for her to leave in tears. His reasons of breaking her up due to his father's orders and also explains that his father's bank business became bankrupt and he wants him to marry a rich woman in order to fix the bankruptcy. Despite the break up, she eventually meets up with Ludwig at his lab and comforts her while he explains to her about his research of finding the cure for his werewolfism. By the time she spent with Ludwig on his lab despite worrying on his current condition, Nicolae was revealed to wrote the letters about her and against his father's wishes. He also had a fight with Ludwig on his lab which the player witnessed their confrontation as Ludwig angrily leaves the lab in jealousy. Nicolae also started his romantic relationship with the player who is now against his father's wishes. During the fight, Ludwig was defeated when Nicolae defends himself in a fight as he tells the player that he's alright after the latter left to avoid conflict. Nicolae wanted to renewed their love between them which she loves it. By the time of his investigation as a werewolf tracker, his fiancee was killed at the hands of an unknown assailant who turned out to be Viktor Bartholy and he mourns over her corpse lying on a coffin and wants to have revenge against Ludwig by framing him as a murderer, thinking that he was the one who killed his fiancee. Nicolae was also present during the wake of his late fiancee and was mourn by every college students at the University of London and her parents which they cry remorsefully over the loss of their daughter. He was later spotted by Viktor who soon manipulates him with his temptations. Blinded by vengeance, Nicolae accepts Viktor's offer and transforms him into a vampire and became one of Viktor's loyal vampires. In 1900 which is five years after the death of his fiancee, Nicolae changes his surname from Roman to Bartholy and continues to hunt werewolves with Viktor's help. As soon as he slaughtered most of the werewolves, Nicolae decided to retire at the Bartholy Manor to meet his new siblings consisting of Peter Rakoczy, Lorie Edwards and Drogo Weidmann who now changed their surnames to a Bartholy. In Viktor's absence, he serves as the current head of the Bartholy Household to look after them and keeping the secrets. Nicolae sometimes he went to his study room to study about legends and story about werewolves whom he had currently killed. His loyalty to Viktor comes into question knowing how cruel he is, Nicolae does not sharing his views about human conditioning.

Many years later, Nicolae became the head of the Bartholy household while Viktor was away and also accepts the player as the au pair for Lorie. The player is actually the reincarnation of his late fiancee which she is able to see the dreams of their past lives. Nicolae also reveals her gift for being a medium-type and also helps her to find the hidden truth behind on his pasts with the use of hypnosis and to read her mind. Nicolae also tells her about his past life as a human as well as his transformation as a vampire after mourning his fiancee's corpse. He also can't forgive Ludwig for taking her away and for murdering her unaware that it was Viktor who killed her. Nicolae also explains about their adopted father Viktor Bartholy and warns her to avoid him if its necessary. He also gives advice about his adopted siblings who were different and about Lorie's current condition due to her vampiric influence. Nicolae also does his best to find out the real culprit behind the death of his fiancee but to no avail when the player skips from another dream. He begins to strangely get close to the player when they are about to kiss but soon apologizes for his actions before leaving immediately, being aware of the forbidden relationship between them. Despite this, he begins to have a romantic relationship with the player in secret which both Drogo and Peter would never know it and as the player became embarrassed to see Nicolae in shirtless even after Drogo berates her for their relationship between them.

Nicolae continued his romantic relationship with the player and some of his past memories brought back to him and seeing that Ludwig is not a culprit who murder his late fiancee. After hanging out with Sarah due to getting annoyed on Drogo's actions. Peter learns of Nicolae's past when she was made it back home and recognizes his rival Ludwig. But on the next day, Nicolae calmly takes her to the Mystery Spell University for a walk until a black car attempts to ram at both of them. Nicolae rescues her quickly before it left in a speedy pace. The player realizes about the letters that his late fiancee had read must be life threatening and Nicolae sensed that someone is trying to kill both of them.

Despite Nicolae's protectiveness towards her, he even kills the person due to his superhuman strength as a vampire while trying to stop the car from ramming them and the player begins to have doubts about Nicolae's change and his violent nature as a vampire after she recognizes one of the students who provoked Ludwig in the past. When the player encounters a black wolf (unaware that this wolf was their professor Sebastian) who observes her through the night until Nicolae defends her. Seeing his vampiric state, she stops him on his tracks allowing the black wolf to leave after being provoked. The player finally had enough of Nicolae's protectiveness to her causing her to leave, angrily. Nicolae later apologizes for his actions while trying to restore his relationship to her since the player discovers about Nicolae's decision to change himself as a vampire for revenge and the player accepts his apology, finally reconciled their relationship. Despite being compassionate to her, Nicolae was unaware that the player remains doubtful because of his late fiancee's past and her relationship with Ludwig after he broke his engagement to her.

It was also revealed that both Drogo and Lorie had a strong hatred towards the player when the player compares between her dream and reality and also had enough of their behaviors such as her constant tantrums and his insults. Nicolae later arrives back at the manor to spend time with the player after she has had enough of Lorie's vampiric tantrums while he himself taking an emergency leave during the hunt. As soon as the two of them are about to begin their romantic ways in private at the living room, they were found by Drogo who shows his hostility to the player and also became angered to see Nicolae of his reasons of leaving. By the time both Drogo and Nicolae were having a fight while Peter tried to break them two of them up, the player soon collapses to the ground and she was now on Nicolae's late fiancee's dream where she was hunted and murdered by Viktor.

In the final chapter of the story, Viktor cruelly confronts the player much to her horror and seeing how merciless he was. This causes both Nicolae and Drogo to stop fighting and using his mind reading ability to wake the player from her dream which the Bartholy brothers were afraid of having her in a coma because of her condition as Viktor continues to threaten her life until she finally wakes up from her nightmare. After stomping away due to Drogo's threats and her remembrance about Viktor's threats of her life, she discovers the appearance Ludwig and Nicolae's past self from her dream when Nicolae informs her about his street magic skills while Ludwig seriously warns her about the Bartholys. After encountering both, the player realizes that she was hallucinating causing her to run away from the manor and hiding within the deep forest as it rains. She was soon found by Nicolae who is now worried for her condition and became so concerned of why she ran away from the manor. Nicolae then takes her back to the manor to get herself warm at the living room. The player finally tells Nicolae that it was his adopted father Viktor who murdered his fiancee much to his surprise and shock, realizing the fact that he hadn't met Viktor before when he already killed his fiancee while he was still human. The player also tells Nicolae that it was not him that Viktor had been targeted but his rival Ludwig. After learning that Viktor was responsible for murdering his fiancee many decades ago, he angrily transforms into his vampire and became enraged. He realizes that Viktor was lying the whole time and his transformation as a vampire given to him many decades ago. He coldly scolds the player while in his vampiric state about her reasons of running away at the manor and for not informing him about the truth. But his uncontrollable rage as a vampire causing the player to be afraid of him. Despite his rage, the player decided to rest, finally had enough of his actions. This is the last time to see Nicolae before she went back to the last and final dream and won't be able to return back to the reality since her relationship with Nicolae in the present was worsen.

In the player's alternative dream when she was about to be killed by Viktor in the same forest as he murdered Nicolae's fiancee, Nicolae arrives to protect her. Despite holding his own against Viktor and being warned by the player of his species as an original vampire, Nicolae was completely outmatched and was incapacitated when Viktor slashed him with his claws and injuring his arm to disarm him as she witnessed the horrific scene between the two men. Not before Nicolae shoots him with his gun which Viktor gloats for being immune to silver much to his shock. Nicolae manages to outsmart him when he impales Viktor into a dead tree branch to his chest, finally defeats the vampire in a process as Viktor disappears in a black dust. The player then comes to Nicolae's aid because of his serious injuries sustained by Viktor. It was also revealed that Nicolae does not believe about any kinds of species such as vampires or werewolves and they're just fairy tales which the player believes this as well. Nicolae then takes her back to his home as she was allowed to treat Nicolae's serious injuries on his room. Nicolae also reveals that he loves her very much and since he breaks his father's wishes to be with her much to her happiness. Both then had a wild sex together in their romantic night after the incident. Few days later, Nicolae takes the player out of the country at Prague in Czech Republic and the two finally get married after they exchange their romantic vows on their wedding and watching the sunset view at the roof of the church.

In the bad ending which takes place in the same dream as Nicolae rescues her from Viktor, he was replaced by Ludwig on the scene and after their marriage, he was overjoyed with the player after the cure for his werewolfism was a success. Since in the present day both Nicolae and the player's relationship got worsen after she reveals the truth to him about his fiancee's murder at Viktor's hands.

The player was pursued by Viktor until he caught her, wanted to kill her on purpose. She was soon rescued by a large werewolf revealing to be Ludwig and he has a score to settle against Viktor. Unlike the beginning where Ludwig was taken down, both men had fought equally only for Viktor to give him an upper hand. After looking at the moon, Ludwig jumps and decapitates Viktor's head with a single bite from his jaws, killing him while turning into dust. The player wanted to treat his wound while showing no fear, Ludwig leaves. The player then take refuge at Ludwig's cabin until she wakes up to see claw marks all over the room, knowing this is Ludwig's cabin as Ludwig himself showed up in his human form and his clothes were all torn and the player became cautious because of his animal instincts as a werewolf. Ludwig finally confesses his love to the player and he will protect her in case of danger. The two finally begin their relationship as her relationship with Nicolae is finally forgotten. The player's parents takes a liking to Ludwig which also accepts him as the player's new boyfriend and eventually got married soon after. The player finally graduates college at the University of London after Ludwig's advice not to get herself drop out and helping him on his research to find the cure for his werewolfism and his laboratory became their second home. The researchers from the university also offers Ludwig to help him on his lab research which he refused knowing his research became secret as the player informs him that he needs them. As Ludwig injects the serum they created, he allows the player to leave the room. After spending the night at their house, Ludwig returns and to surprise her that his cure for his werewolfism was a success, much to her happiness. Ludwig was happy that he is no longer cursed and finally spends with the player for his new freedom.

## Allies

* The Main Character (Drogo)
* The Main Character (Peter)
* The Main Character (Nicolae)
* The Main Character (Sebastian)
* The Main Character (Viktor)
* Peter Bartholy
* Drogo Bartholy (sometimes)
* Lorie Bartholy
* Conrad Bartholy (sometimes)
* Sarah Osborne (sometimes)
* Cassandre Osborne
* Elena Gabe
* Nicolae's Fiancée (formerly)

## Enemies

* Viktor Bartholy
* Ludwig Eberwald
* Descendants of the Templars
* Charles Huxley
* Sebastian Jones
* Conrad Bartholy (sometimes)
* Sarah Osborne (sometimes)
* Esteban Dias
* Isabella Jones
* Samantha Gautier
* Loan Huxley

## Relationships

*Nicolae and Drogo*

*Nicolae and Peter*

## Trivia

* Marks the first time both Nicolae's good and bad endings were from the player's altered dream instead of reality where he marries the player in Prague or getting married with Ludwig to help him make the cure for his werewolfism which it succeeds. In the present day however, his current relationship to the player had gotten worse after she reveals the truth about his fiancee's murder at the hands of Viktor Bartholy and her reasons of running away from him at their manor.
* He is based on the real-life actor, Brad Pitt from his role as Louis from the film  *'Interview with the Vampire'* .
	+ He also bears a physical resemblance to French pornographic entertainer Emmanuel Delcour better known as Jean val Jean.
* He is the only love interest that is not scheduled to have a second season.
* Despite he is the eldest of the family, there was an age gap within their transformations between Nicolae and Peter. Peter's transformation as a vampire was in 1846 or 1847 while Nicolae's transformation as a vampire is in December 31, 1900 which is the end of the 19th Century making him younger than Peter.
* He is the second character to make love with the player in another route besides the player from his route. The first being Drogo Bartholy.
	+ However, it was not real since it took place in a dream, which could be a callback to his route.
* He's one of the 9 original Mystery Spell characters and 3 original love interests.
* His first season has more secret images than any other first season, with a total of 26 secret images.
	+ Which also means that he's in the most secret images in an original season, by being in a total of 23 of them.
* He does not like the band Nightmareden since he believes that it is too loud.
* He, Danael, Kean, Nayati Yellowtail and Colin Spencer are the only male characters to have hair that goes past their shoulders.
* In some routes, it's revealed that he has some type of business job since he often goes on business trips and deals with finances, but it is never revealed what his occupation is.
* Nicolae's route is the only Mystery Spell route that doesn't have any secret images take place at University of Mystery Spell.
* In his limited extra scene with the player as well as his old book from his youth, references both the novel and the 1996 Indian film *Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love* before Nicolae made a brutal sex with her in his vampiric state.
* Nicolae's astrology sign is Taurus.
	+ Which means his birthday is between April 21 & May 20.
* Nicolae's special vampire ability is that he can read minds.
* There is often a glitch in the series that when Drogo stands next to Nicolae on the right side of the screen, Nicolae's rings will go through and appear on Drogo's left arm and look like it's apart of his hoodie design.
* Nicolae is possibly left handed due to him holding his gun with his left hand.
	+ This makes him one of the four characters that are possibly left handed along with Peter Bartholy, Mark Leviels and Lisa Parker.
* Nicolae is 23 years old in appearance since that was the age he was turned into a vampire.
* He is the seventh male character to suffer a naked glitch after Mark Leviels, Jake Stewart, Haku Kobayashi, Chuck Stanford, William Sheffield and Gabriel Simons.
	+ Some of the fans were deeply upset and disappointed while others became appreciated when Nicolae is shown bald from his bald/naked glitch.