Nick Angelopoulos

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**Nick** **"Scratch"** **Angelopoulos** is a main character in the You Could Make a Life universe, from the Middling level NHLer/elderly hockey fan's grandson story, which becomes It's a setup.

## Personal life

He was born in Toronto (The Danforth) in 1995 and grew up in Riverdale until he moved to Windsor to play in juniors. He's the baby of his whole extended family, both sides, and he has a brother eight years older and sister five years older.

He's Joey Munroe's best friend and teammate and knew Joey was gay before he was outed.  They became close when they were assigned to be roommates mid-season.

He has dated a few people, with one significant other that lasted but didn't treat him well.

He started dating Joey Munroe in June 2020

## Playing career

He plays for the Kansas City Scouts. He's bottom six, grind away, use the body, punish the opponents’ bodies, throw yourself in front of the net if it gives your goalie a better chance.

He played out his full juniors, got scratched in during his first NHL preseason and played it out in the AHL, went up a few times the following season, but his first real stretch of games was when he was 22.

He's a bottom six centre, 3rd/4th line but never in risk of being sent down because they need his role and he does it consistently well. Good faceoff stats too. Gritty player on the checking line who’ll punish you if you have possession. Checks with his entire body, hard but clean (most of the time).

He wins the Stanley Cup three times with the Kansas City Scouts with the first being in the 2020-21 season

## Physical appearance and personality

He keeps his hair relatively short most of the time because his hair is super duper curly and he has very pretty big brown eyes (that he is very good at using to get his way). His skin marks up easily. In the thicc scale, he is **Big!!!!**.

He's very meticulous at grooming, to the point he got more than a few ‘how dare you’ looks in the room during playoff runs because even mid playoffs, shaping is important. In non-playoff situations he shaves on a daily basis (this still means he has a five o'clock shadow by like… 2).

He's an ISFJ.

## Trivia

* He grew up in the same neighbourhood as Dan Riley and attended the same high school five years later, before moving to Windsor for Juniors.
* He’s involved the fire department in playground equipment-related rescues twice.
* He’s lost as many teeth as Joey but has implants instead of a bridge.
* He hates living alone but Joey refuses to live with him, so he just squats at Joey’s 95% of the time. He thinks Joey should just give up and let him move in.
* He’s an angel.
* He doesn’t mind being called Scratch as long as no one mentions the origins of that nickname.
* He lives two floors below Joey in the same building, and has a spare key to his apartment.
* He got his nickname after an incident with poison ivy during rookie camp.
* He eats oreos by "taking the top off and biting the frosting off a bit at a time with his big squirrel teeth before chomping on the naked cookies that remain."
* He has a good relationship with Joey's mother.
* He is very food motivated.
* He's a Hufflepuff.
* In the Wine Wars he vocally headed up Team Red.
* He plays videogames on the plane.
* He joined the Joey's family on a trip to Florida during the 2020 All-Star Break.
* He likes beer and thinks White Claw is disgusting.
* He can do crazy amounts of mental math but thinks that makes him a nerd.
* He broke wrist playing ball hockey in high school and Dan Riley signed his cast at an offseason thing because he went to high school with Nick’s sister and he was kind of sad when the cast came off.
* He can bench press one and a half Joeys.
* He watches way too much true crime stuff and sometimes Joey watches it with him and hates it because he has trouble sleeping after like a wimp.
* He doesn’t cry at movies unless an animal dies so Joey makes sure to double check that whatever they're going to watch doesn’t include that just in case.
* His favorite chocolate chip cookie is President’s Choice The Decadent.
* He onces almost burnt down a hotel when he decided he’d have a post-midnight snack and was too sleepy and dumb to remember to take off the aluminium foil before he stuck leftovers in the hotel room’s microwave.
* Doesn’t cry at weddings and wouldn’t cry at his own.
* He loves Coffee Crisp.
* He loves Halloween.
* He has tattoos.
* He's a baby about being sick, and likes his back rubbed when it happens.

## References

1. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/613351786915463168/okay-but-now-im-really-curious-how-scratch-came
2. ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/sotw-joey-32618095
3. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/623722395931426816/joey-scouts-gabe-chin-up
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/613336459686166528/i-need-to-know-everything-about-my-sweet-baby
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616399780506189824/what-does-scratch-look-like-i-feel-like-so-far
6. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616416367496871936/ooh-how-many-siblings-does-scratch-have
7. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616419204476895232/question-did-joey-tell-scratch-he-was-gay-before
8. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616420766290952192/were-joey-and-scratch-instant-bffs-i-dont
9. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/623312868240162816/sorry-if-youve-answered-this-already-but-has
10. ↑ https://www.patreon.com/posts/sotm-joey-owen-29965496
11. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616422370313371648/in-terms-of-hockey-how-good-are-joey-and
12. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/620574672268951552/i-was-wondering-did-joey-and-scratch-play-in-the
13. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/637347602500812800/i-have-such-a-hard-time-remembering-the-actual
14. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/32041591
15. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/616409069481328640/what-does-scratch-look-like-i-feel-like-so-far
16. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/626098742684205056/thicc-list
17. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/617329667221979136/very-important-question-does-scratch-have-a
18. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/119174589901/mbti-types
19. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/23220793
20. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/613351786915463168/okay-but-now-im-really-curious-how-scratch-came
21. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/23419450
22. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/617508625866424320/is-joeys-mom-single
23. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/23517982
24. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/144790154331/hogwarts-houses-main-chars
25. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/623024346656538624/omg-can-you-please-tell-us-which-scouts-were-on
26. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/24544561
27. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/622415513009651712/do-we-know-whenhow-nick-has-met-joeys-mom-and
28. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/24992407
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 https://archiveofourown.org/works/26181730
30. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/629443887068512256/what-is-scratchs-favorite-chocolate-chip-cookie-i
31. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/629623467005902848/how-did-scratch-nearly-burn-down-an-entire-hotel
32. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/629814449397710848/im-afraid-after-finding-out-joey-cries-at
33. ↑ https://archiveofourown.org/works/27152534
34. ↑ BTT KSOTW 25/OCT/2020
35. ↑ https://youcouldmakealife.tumblr.com/post/644056735152242688/hi-taylor-first-of-all-we-have-a-group-chat-to
36. ↑ AI KSOTW, 16 mar 2021