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2010-02-15T04:37:46Z

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» AIM: shoot the tongues
» EMAIL: isthismymadness@gmail.com

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2010-02-15T04:36:52Z

STATS
» NAME: Nick
» FANDOM: Left 4 dead 2
» AGE: 35
» GENDER: Male
» ORIENTATION: Straight
» COLLAR: This is so gaudy.

KINKS
» YES: just ask! I'm open for most things.
» MAYBE: Same as above!
» NO: Just ask! Though typically, anything that involves stuff belonging in a toilet.
» PAIRING PREFERENCES: No particular preference here. I don't see Nick wanting to be with a dependant or clingy woman. He's a lone wolf who doesn't trust all that easy and it's clear he had a bad experience with his ex-wife.

EXTENDED PROFILE
» APPEARANCE: Nick is a gambler and a con-man and looks very much the
part. He wears a slick, designer suit that’s white with a blue shirt
underneath. He paid $3,000 for it and isn’t afraid to say it… often.
He dresses to impress, no doubt about it. Unfortunately, that designer
suit has quite a bit of dirt on it from running around the South
killing zombies and looking for the next safe house or helicopter out.
It has some swamp water on it, some zombie goo, brains, blood, and God
only knows what else. He also has a couple of gold rings he wears. One
bears a similar symbol to Francis’ tattoos from the previous game,
which might mean they are affiliated with similar gangs.

Nick is tall and fairly in shape. He has dark hair (that might be
receding just a little) that he keeps styled neatly and a nice set of
blue eyes. Other than that, he has some bumps and bruises from zombie
fighting, a hickey on his neck, lipstick on his collar, and some
pretty bad looking scratches visible from the few buttons he’s left
open on his shirt.
» PERSONALITY: Nick is an asshole, plain and simple. He’s a cynical
pessimist, sarcastic, and downright nasty when he wants to be. It
probably stems from his lifestyle, which isn’t all sunshine and roses.
He’s a con-man and gambler who drifts from city to city doing what he
does best, screwing people over. He’s learned it’s best to just rely
on yourself really and doesn’t trust or open up to others very easily.
Kind of hard to count people as your bestest friends when you’re used
to finding ways to screw them out of money after all.

He’s also no stranger to trouble going by some comments he’s made. For
instance, he’s not allowed to legally own a gun in the US meaning he’s
gotten into trouble with the law before, but who knows how many times.
He also knows how to get blood and brains out of a white suit, so it’s
very likely zombies weren’t the first things he’s ever shot. He never
really elaborates on it though.

He’s a materialistic guy, too. Definitely used to having money to
spend on $3,000 suits whenever he wants. His biggest concern during
the zombie apocalypse seems to be that white suit getting totally
trashed and he’ll often bring it up. If a guy’s willing to spend that
much on a suit, it’s clear he wants to look good. You don’t want to
look like a bum when you’re rolling with his kind of crowd and getting
yourself into high-stakes poker games I guess.

And though he’s quick to dish it out, he isn’t apt to accept blame.
For instance, he’ll complain about friendly fire if it’s targeted at
him but if he’s the one doing it? He’ll often argue right back, “If
you’d looked out, you wouldn’t get hit!”

Another example of this would be during the Hard Rain campaign when
they realize they left the boat without their guns and flares to
signal it back and Ellis asks why Nick didn’t grab it when he was the
one in charge of the gun bag. “Me? Who died and made me gun monitor?”

As far as his relationships with others go, he enjoys teasing and not
always in a nice way. He’s not an overly patient guy when it comes to
faults in other people. For instance, his favorite thing to do is make
fun of Ellis, the youngest survivor. It ranges from making fun of his
Southern accent, to complaining about his extreme love of stock car
driver, Jimmy Gibbs Jr., to his enthusiasm and optimism. Something
about the kid just rubs him the wrong way and maybe he just finds it
amusing to see him getting hot under the collar at his comments.

Coach, on the other hand, is teased a little less. Mostly Nick just
likes making fun of his weight and the fact that he likes ‘old
people’s music’ like The Midnight Riders. He does show respect for the
man though (much more than Ellis) and will back off when he sees he’s
crossed a line.

The only one he’s consistently nice to seems to be Rochelle and that’s
probably to do with that ladies’ man side peeking out. Like I
mentioned earlier, he doesn’t scream at her as much as the others,
only when she shoots him by accident. He’s also a little bit
flirtatious with her (When he heals her, he’ll say things like, “Don’t
tell the others… I’m only doing this for you.” Or when he has to help
her up after being incapacitated will even say, “We… I need you a
little longer.”).

Despite it all though, he does show appreciation, even worry on
occasion for all of them. When Ellis apologizes for his plan to drive
a stock car all the way to New Orleans because there were too many
miles of abandoned cars and zombies to pass over, Nick actually says,
“Don’t sweat it, Ellis, at least you got us out of that mall.”

He’ll even tell Coach he’s a “Hell of a guy.” (when he dies, but
still). He’ll even share his first-aid kits and pills if the other
survivors need it instead of hording them back for his own use,
showing that he has a little bit of concern for his injured teammates.
» BACKGROUND: The life of a drifter, that was Nick's life before the apocalypse. You can't stay in one place too long when you're in his line of work after all. He's a gambler and a con-man with a few run-ins with the law and because of this, Nick has learned to rely on himself and doesn't trust others very easily at all. He went down to Savannah with the intention of conning some backwater hicks out of their money, but found it overrun with an infection that turns people into zombies. Fighting his way through the infected, he met up with three other survivors on top of a burning hotel only to watch the last evacuation helicopter leave without them and with no intention of turning around and coming back.

Without any other choice but to find salvation elsewhere, Nick was in a tough spot. He was stuck with three other people he didn't know if he could trust. He wanted to leave and go it alone like always but that wasn't possible with so many Infected on his ass. It was difficult enough to take down a Tank with four people, he didn't want to imagine taking it on alone. So with his choice pretty much made for him, Nick ended up sticking around with the other three, slowly learning to appreciate them.

They made their way to a mall but found it abandoned by anyone still healthy. Luckily, there was a stock car on display there for a car show and plenty of gas to fill her up. They decided to risk it and drive to New Orleans. That was the original plan anyway. They hadn't counted on miles of abandoned cars to pass over and zombies that made it impossible to maneuver a car through. They made it through the cars and a motel on foot and found their way to a carnival, Whispering Oaks. There had been a band scheduled to play before everything was overrun and, after spotting a helicopter, they decided to fight their way to the building it was originally scheduled to take place in. They figured if they started up the lights, the pyrotechnics, and the music, it would catch the chopper's attention. It ended up working! They were rescued, but...

Lady Luck just was not on their side at all. The pilot had been infected somehow and without much of a choice again, Nick had to shoot him and just let them crash. Fortunately, they all survived somehow, but unfortunately, they had to make their way through a swamp. They did locate a radio eventually and contacted a man named Virgil to come and pick them up. Virgil had been helping save survivors by picking them up in his fishing boat.

If Nick had learned one thing though, nothing is ever so easy. The boat ran out of fuel so Virgil dropped them off in Mississippi to collect more gas so they could finish their journey. There was a heavy storm passing over though, so they had to deal with that and zombies. They did manage to get the gas though and used a fast food sign to signal Virgil back--since they'd forgotten to grab the flares when they got off the boat.

After that, they were taken to New Orleans and dropped off so Virgil could go back and help out any other remaining survivors. They just had to make it through the city while being bombed and over a bridge full of infected to catch the last chopper out and into the safety of the military. At that point? That probably seemed like a walk in the park.
Point in Canon: During the finale of the last campaign, right after the fight over the bridge to get to the last helicopter.
» OTHER: N/a

Hm, this'd be really awkward...

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