Nina Cortex

Nina

**Nina Cortex** is the teenaged niece of Doctor Neo Cortex. She has metallic hands that give her super strength.

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## Appearance

Nina is a skinny adolescent who has pale blue skin with darker blue freckles, spiky black hair, and dark blue eyes. She has a prominent forehead that bears a lowercase metallic red "N" on it. She has a cat shaped mouth and somewhat large buck teeth. Her eyebrows are thin and she has a fairly round face. Nina is short for her age, but her weight is healthy. Other than her teeth and the "N" on her forehead, by far her most notable features are her metal prosthetic hands.

### Attire

Nina wears a black dress with a plaid skirt over a white short-sleeved dress shirt. She also wears a red tie. Nina wears a belt with a silver buckle over the dress. Nina wears long white socks with two blue stripes on each one and black and white shoes. Finally, Nina wears black earrings, black eyeshadow/eyeliner and black lipstick.

## Personality

Nina is typically a quiet, brooding teenager. She is ambitious, intelligent, and somewhat egotistical. She is also quite spiteful of others. Nina is also introverted and antisocial, preferring to spend her time alone. Nina can be described as a tomboy and a goth. She has a sharp tongue and has no problem being snarky or sarcastic. Deep down inside, Nina is a sympathetic and caring individual. Doctor Cortex had practically altered her personality when she was a young girl, and made into what she is today. Despite this, she cares for Cortex and a few other select individuals. And despite her quiet, seemingly stoic demeanor, she is just as capable as showing emotions as any other normal person. Nina has a dry, dark sense of humor, and she occasionally likes to prank Cortex for laughs. She is an animal lover and supports animal rights, and despises animal abuse.

## Backstory

### Early life

Nina was once a cheerful little girl who loved animals. She was constantly hugging them whenever she had the chance. Her uncle, Doctor Neo Cortex, however, did not like Nina's behavior. He replaced Nina's hands with prosthetic ones and, at an early age, sent her to his former school, Madame Amberly's Academy of Evil, to "correct" her behavior. Nina's personality changed drastically because of this, though her love of animals still retained.

### Crash Twinsanity

In *Crash Twinsanity*, Crash and Cortex arrived at the Academy of Evil to look for Nina, as they needed her to repair the Psychetron. After searching various classrooms and hallways, Cortex found Nina in her dormitory. She pranked her uncle by using a fake head and jumping out at Cortex. She then showed her uncle what she'd learned, battled the Ants, and was briefly pursued by a school bus which Crash tied to Cortex's airship. Crash, Cortex, and Nina went back to the Iceberg Lab, where she fixed the Psychetron by giving it a good smack, to Cortex's surprise. The team then headed into the Tenth Dimension. Nina was then kidnapped by the wild Evil Crash, the alternate counterpart of Crash, and he took her to his house, where Cortex soon rescued her by foolishly offering himself to Evil Crash. She later helped in defeating the Evil Twins by destroying the power sources of their Deathbot.

### Gothic Fanfics

A few weeks after her 14th birthday, Nina learned the true reason why her uncle had cut off and replaced her hands. Enraged, she betrayed her uncle, leaving him in order to join Uka Uka, N. Tropy and N. Brio; they, too, had betrayed Cortex for their own reasons. Dr. Cortex was obviously angered by this, but also a bit surprised; he hadn't expected a relative to stab him in the back, even with all the suffering he put her through.

## Powers

Nina's metal hands have given her super strength. This allows her to punch through many strong materials.

## Abilities

Nina is able to use her robotic hands as "grappling hooks", so to speak.

## Weaknesses

Nina's metal prosthetic hands will spark and malfunction if exposed to/submerged in water. As such, Nina takes them off when she showers or takes a bath. (TBC)

## Relationships

### Family

#### Neo Cortex

Nina dislikes her uncle, though less so than her father.

#### Nicole Cortex

Little is known about Nina's relationship with her mother, as she disappeared from Nina's life very early on. However, it can be assumed that the two had a very close bond with each other.

#### Nigel Cortex

Nina harbors an immense dislike for her father.

### Friends

#### Nitrus Brio

N. Brio helped to raise Nina alongside Cortex during her early childhood; Brio acted kinder towards Nina than Dr. Cortex did, so Nina and N. Brio developed a close relationship with each other.

#### Nefarious Tropy

Nina mostly sees N. Tropy as a "nerd", though they otherwise have good chemistry. They started to bond somewhat unsually; both of them could relate to having unnatural skin tones and being mocked for their freckles and cybernetics.

### Neutral

#### N. Gin

Nina has mixed feelings towards N. Gin. She sees him as an even bigger nerd than her uncle, N. Brio or N. Tropy, and thus she enjoys teasing him. She also dislikes N. Gin staying loyal to Dr. Cortex.

#### Nitro Squad

Besides her friendship with Ami, Nina isn't well acquainted with the Nitro Squad.

## Quotes

* *"My name's Nina Cortex. Don't wear it out!"*
* *"Well, if it isn't Trash Bandicoot and his smart aleck sister."*

## Trivia

* At one point in *Crash Twinsanity*, Cortex refers to Nina as his daughter, but soon corrects himself. This implies that Cortex is actually Nina's father, and not uncle. However, Nina is proven to be Cortex's niece. Why Dr. Cortex almost called Nina his daughter is unknown.
* Nina is hinted to be smarter than Cortex.
* It is unknown who Nina's mother was (besides her name), much less what happened to her.
* Nina has a blue skin tone like her father.

## Gallery

Nina as she typically appears in Gothic's fanfics.Nina's first meeting with main timeline Coco.u get tha gunLeft to right: Traveler's Universe Nina, Radical Universe Nina and Gothic Universe Nina.