High Five

****High Five****
**Gallery**
**Quotes**

* GT Armor
* Casual
* Casual (Jacket)
* Young

**Hector "High Five" Nieves** (sometimes referred to as just **Five**) is one of the two protagonists from *Glitch Techs*.

## Biography

Hector Nieves was born and raised in Bailley. He is the son of Emilio Nieves and the grandson of Papi and Abuela Nieves. He was raised by Emilio for most of his childhood.

When he was 5 years old, to afford to make a reservation to have his birthday party at Joystick Jr., he worked hard to help his dad raise money by doing many jobs, including working at his Papi's food truck, Taco Dragon. Unfortunately, his party was ruined by the absence of his favorite animatronic, Ralphie Bear. Five would also accompany his dad to work regularly.

He grew up loving video games, and this love of video games was supported and encouraged by his father who would often wait with him outside the Hinobi store for new releases. His dad would also take Five to Geri Lawson's vintage video game store every day after school.

It's not specified when, but before the events of the series, Five's dad was arrested for hacking a firewall. After that, Five began living with his grandparents and helping them with the food truck more. Fortunately, his grandparents also support his love for video games.

After helping to stop a Glitch with Miko Kubota, they were both hired as employees of their local Hinobi store and as Glitch Techs.

## Personality

High Five is a nice and caring boy who loves playing video games and will do anything to achieve his goal, never giving up. Generally, Five respects most people but isn't afraid to stand up to others when he feels it's necessary to do so. While Five is usually logical and responsible, when under stress and pressure (or a strong emotion in general), he becomes impulsive and doesn’t think things fully out or clearly. When scared or nervous, he’ll even begin to over-think things and get stuck in his head.

Five does have a tendency to fear the unknown, and when assigned a job, he is often afraid to fail it, leading people like Mitch to steer him wrong. Five often gets stuck in his own head, unable to act in the moment, his mind too full to go the distance.

When Five does get out of his own head, he's capable of putting the puzzle of any game together, such as in "Castle Crawl" when he kept all the loot gathered just in case he would need something later. His plans rarely fail, and when his instincts catch up, he's one of the most dangerous Glitch Techs around.

While Five is someone who prefers to think before he acts, when provoked with strong emotions such as anger or panic, he can become impulsive and will jump on people or even sometimes, though rarely, reset their memory on purpose or on accident.

Five also shows a preference to stick to and follow the rules but isn't afraid, albeit hesitant, to break them. Five is also shown to lie sometimes keep himself and friends from getting in trouble or to impress others. And often those lies get him into trouble and will make a situation worse as shown in "The Real Glitch Techs".

## Appearance

He is tall, very slim, and has fairly dark tan skin. blushed cheeks He has a puffy hairstyle with a galaxy blueish purple/indigo hue, along with slim arms and legs.

In his casual wear, he can usually be seen wearing a green graphic t-shirt with a black elbow length shirt underneath. He also sports grey skinny jeans and a pair of Hinobi sneakers. Sometimes he wears a green hoodie with the number "5" on it. On other occasions, he can be seen wearing a different shirt from the graphic green shirt such as a yellow one in "BUDS" and in a flashback in "Collection Quest". In "Ralphie Bear", Five can be seen wearing a white Ralphie Bear themed tee. Five is also seen wearing a yellow hoodie with "05" on it very briefly when Miko was looking for him with Lexi's phone in "Age of Hinobi"

While working in the Hinobi store, his outfit is still the same except he wears a blue Hinobi polo shirt over his black elbow length shirt instead of one of his graphic tees.

Five can also be seen wearing a standard Hinobi tech support jumpsuit, and he also is seen wearing glitch tech armor when his tech gauntlet is activated.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Emilio Nieves

Emilio is Five's dad, and they're still on good terms even though Five is clearly upset by the fact his dad is in prison.

#### Abuela & Papi Nieves

Abuela & Papi Nieves are Five's grandparents. Before becoming a Glitch Tech for Hinobi, Five used to work at their food truck. They support his love for video games.

### Friends

#### Miko Kubota

Miko is Five's partner and one of his best friends. He enjoys passing time with her on the job and out of it, and they frequently play games together. He has much trust in her: even when Mitch pointed out she could be a glitch with a very solid argument in the episode "Find the Glitch", Five argued that it didn't matter because he would continue trusting her.

Before meeting face-to-face for the first time, Five had often played against Me\_K.O. in online matches but had lost to her every time, making him a little irked when they finally met.

#### Casino

Casino is a childhood friend of Five that he hadn't seen in two years before the events of "Smashozaurs". They both have a shared love for the titular video game featured in the episode, Smashozaurs. Due to regularly accompanying his dad to work and then not seeing him for a full two years, Casino felt abandoned by Five for a while.

#### Geri Lawson

Geri is a family friend who is close with Five and his dad. Before the series, Five hadn't seen her since his dad was arrested.

### Co-Workers

#### Phil Altiere

As manager of the Bailey branch of Hinobi's Glitch Techs, Phil is Five's boss. Five respects him as a superior but is willing to hold his ground against him in cases like bringing Ridley aboard Glitch Techs.

#### Mitch Williams

Five was fanatic of Mitch as a gamer, for this is one of the most tolerant with his arrogant self-centered behavior for his trust in his skill and knowledge but doesn't have a problem to directly confront him when he crosses the line. Aside all Five openly considers him as friend or at least a frenemy.

#### Zahra Rashid

As a more experienced Glitch Tech, Five is impressed by and finds Zahra cool. As the series progresses, they become friends and Zahra even develops a crush on Five. So far, Five is unaware of her feelings about him.

#### Haneesh Jyoshi

Haneesh is a more experienced Glitch Tech that Five respects and looks up to. After "Alpha Leader", the feeling of respect became mutual.

#### Cecil Bergoch

They became good friends in "Collection Quest" and often went on missions together after that, indicating they are on good terms.

### Other

#### Ridley

A kid Five and Miko found that is a a skilled modder. She made a new Chomp Kitty that was purple and named it Horn.
She uses Glitches that were caught and tweaks there AI and appearance to make them nice pets

## Powers, Abilities, and Equipment

* **Cooking**: Before he joined the Glitch Techs, he shown to be a competent cook in his family food truck.
* **Leadership**: He can quickly make plans, using anything to his disposition and considering his companions' abilities, he demonstrates to have adaptive in these plans when these don't work exactly he adapt to it and create a new one.
* **Programming and electronics knowledge**: He is sometimes seen reading books on programming in his down time. In "Ping", he demonstrated that he is capable of making modifications to arcade game cabinets.
* **Glitch Tech Gauntlet**: Basic equipment of any Glitch Tech member.
	+ **Jet Boots**: First acquired in "Going, Going, Gauntlet!", this upgrade allowed Five to jump higher and fly, but he initially had inept control. They were eventually traded in to combine Five and Miko's EXP into legally keeping Ally, though Five earned them back before their reappearance in "Collection Quest".
	+ **Skins**
		- **StegaZaur Exo Suit**: A large, heavy-duty armor skin first featured in "Smashozaurs", directly inspired by Five's favorite character from the series. The suit was primarily used to match against the strength of Casino's TriTops form, though it was eventually wrecked.
		- **Modded Wizard (temporary)**: A custom mod skin of a wizard from the game "Fire Age 4", created by Ridley and compatible with the data of her modified Glitches, allowing Five to battle and capture them.
	+ **Hoverboard**: First seen in "Smashozaurs", it's another travel tool primarily used for quick escapes. It can carry about two people.
	+ **Speed boost**: Augments his speed for a short period of time.
	+ **Duplication Mod**: Created by Ridley, it is a energy blast that makes a glitch split into two exact duplicates.
	+ **Stationary cannon**: a big cannon similar to a tank's with a powerful blast but needs the help of another glitch tech to deploy and use. He and Nameless used it together in its only appearance, so it is not clear whether it belongs to Five or Nameless.

## Foreign voice actors

 Portuguese (European)
 Polish
 Spanish (Castilian/Spain)
 South Korea

## Trivia

* Five is Latino. His grandfather, Papi, is Mexican, and his grandmother, Abuela, is Korean.
	+ Five is bilingual, being fluent in both English and Spanish.
		- He speaks mostly English but is shown to use Spanish at times, usually when around his family or to express excitement and other strong emotions.
* His family is implied to be poor or otherwise struggling financially, given that they live in an apartment, he works at Taco Dragon to help his family "make ends meet", and he had to save up money to have a birthday party at Joystick Jr. Pizza Arcade.
* He was born the same year Joystick Jr. was founded.
* His family's apartment is designed to resemble the building used as the exterior for the Ghostbusters' fire station headquarters. This was more apparent in its original concept design, but Scott Kikuta altered the final design, making the resemblance less apparent.
* His favorite game genres are Real-Time Strategy, platformers, and turn-based RPGs, and he greatly enjoys tactical puzzles that challenge his mind, though tries to stay well-rounded in all genres. He plays games to 100% completion, unlocking all achievements and downloadable content.
* In the show's development, Five started as more of a typical protagonist but as details were added, the GT crew drew from Eric Robles' real life. Other inspirations were elements of Peter Parker, Marty McFly and Will Smith. Many on the team brought their own inspiration to him as well including the artists and voice actor Ricardo Hurtado, who greatly inspired the overall dialogue for Five.
* Five's hair is based on Ray Santiago's.
* At his full height, Five is visibly taller than Miko and the other Bailley Glitch Techs.
* His nickname "High Five" is more than just his gamer tag; even his grandparents refer to him as Five.
* So far, Five is the only character shown to fully recover his memories after a reset.
* Five's favorite video game was Chomp Kitty.
* Five plays Sorcery Cards.

## Videos

How to Draw High Five & Miko from Glitch Techs Netflix Futures
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The GlitchTechs Manual (pages 13-14)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 In "Ralphie Bear Is Back", Joystick Jr. was said to have been founded 15 years ago and Ralphie Bear had been absent for 10 years (because Miko Kubota damaged him around Five's birthday). Thus, High Five was 5 years old when this happened.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ralphie Bear Is Back
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ping
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Age of Hinobi
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/danmilano/status/1269306188841103361
7. ↑ https://twitter.com/DanMilano/status/1241445817912717312
8. ↑ Settling the Score