Nguyen

A render of Nguyen's skin

**Nguyen**, also known by his username **thenamedbond\_123**, is the protagonist of Act 2 of *The Bottom of the Void* and the cousin of JamiePlayzMC.

## Role

As the protagonist, most of the videos in Act 2 are from his perspective, and the whole act revolves around him, as we are watching what he's doing, while Jamie is posting the videos and trying to locate where Nguyen is. A little later on, it is revealed he is one of the only characters in the series that actually has free will.

Nguyen is one of the people that stood up against the Author, and he is planning to defeat the Director with the help of ⤫.

## Personality

Nguyen is very talkative sometimes, but only when it’s just him on the server, as he types to the viewer and rambles a lot. Around other people, though, Nguyen seems a lot more quiet and reserved, tending to listen rather than reply, although he states that it’s because he’s a slow reader. A lot of the time, he’ll type several times, but never end up settling on a good message to send, and staying quiet instead.

The way he types makes him seem flat and uncaring sometimes, but when he cares about something, he will care about it a lot. This is especially shown with how distraught he was over Laketown when it got griefed, he was extremely frantic and upset the whole time, and even tried to rebuild the small houses Submarino made. This was also shown when Nguyen met ⤫. Despite only meeting him once prior, ⤫ was the first person Nguyen went to after "waking up" in footage 18, and even up to the latest episode seems to be sticking close to ⤫’s side.

Nguyen is also very curious, a trait which has backfired on him multiple times. For example, he tries to spawn the void entities after Jstar tells him about them. Or, when he gets stuck in the beyond, he stays despite ⤫ telling him to leave, and continuously asks questions. The most prominent example of this, though, is in #15. As Author is speaking, Nguyen constantly wanders around him, and on multiple occasions gets dangerously close, which obviously doesn’t end well as Author ends up catching notice of him.

The fact that he is one of the only characters with free will probably has a big influence on his personality, as unlike the other characters, his acts aren’t as scripted, and as such the actions he takes are very different, to the fact that Author didn’t expect he’d do what he did, ending up in Nguyen messing up the experiment on several occasions. Nguyen is also described by Author as a coward, running away several times in several different episodes instead of doing the actions Author wanted him to take.

After he was given unlimited knowledge by the Author in Nguyen's Footage - #16 Lense, his personality changes drastically. He goes from all lowercase to good grammar and capitalization, and a lot of his wording is more eloquent as well. He acts a lot more serious and focused on his goals now, but seems to still be the same person, just suffering with the trauma and effects of what the Author did to him.

## Appearances

* investigation 5 moon shedding (mentioned in credits)
* Day 4 (mentioned by JamiePlayzMC)
* Finality (mentioned in description)
* Nguyen's Footage - #1 First Step (character debut)
* Nguyen's Footage - #2
* Nguyen's Footage - #3
* Nguyen's Footage - #4
* Nguyen's Footage - #5 The House By The Lake
* Nguyen's Footage - #6 SafeMode
* Nguyen's Footage - #7 LakeTown
* Nguyen's Footage - #8; Culprit -1 - That is not a Player
* Nguyen's Footage - #9 Someone
* Nguyen's Footage - #10 Admins
* Nguyen's Footage - #11
* Nguyen's Footage - #12 The Bottom Of The Void
* Investigating Footage #1 & #2
* Nguyen's Footage - #13 Burn
* Nguyen's Footage - #14 Beyond
* #15
* Nguyen's Footage - #16 Lense
* Nguyen's Footage - #17 Cycle
* footage 18
* Nguyen's Footage - #19 Found
* Nguyen's Footage - #0
* Nguyen's Footage - #20
* Nguyen's
* Nguyen's Footage - #21 Derelict Servers
* Nguyen's Footage - #22 I almost forgot about you
* Nguyen's Footage - #23 Depository Halls
* aud02
* Nguyen's Footage - #24 Blank
* Nguyen's Footage - #25 The End of Nowhere
* Nguyen's Footage - #26
* aud03
* Nguyen's Footage - #27 Back Again
* Nguyen's Footage - #28 Paradox
* Nguyen's Footage - #29 Laketown Complex
* 00071in-si-de-r

1. ↑ "ACT II; NGUYEN"