Gunner (Dead End)

Nico was a main character in the first part of Dead End and is portrayed by cast member, Richard Harmon. His debut issue in the story was Issue One.

Background
Before the initial spread of infection, Nico was an orphan who had been abandoned by his parents on the doorstep of a orphanage in Coracre Town for completely unknown reasons, however many assume that Nico was just not wanted but his parents weren't able to pay the bill to have a abortion. Unlike the majority of the orphans inside the "care" of the orphanage, Nico was treated both harshly and unfairly by both the owners of the orphanage and the other orphans due to him having been the unlucky one to have been picked by the orphanage owners to be bullied by everyone so none of the children would cause any problems for their "caretakers".

By the time the disease had come to infect a quarter of the world's population, Nico had been raised into a self reliant teenager who was forced to take both emotional and physical beatings from the orphanage children and "caretakers" in order to simply get the basic needs to survive, all the treatment he received leaving Nico, not only distrusting of everyone he ever meets in his life but also, on the dangerous edge of snapping and causing serious damage to not only himself but everyone around him.

Throughout The Story

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Personality
Nico was typically a self-dependent, untrustworthy, cold and depressed individual who prefered the company of himself and himself alone rather than anyone else, which was heavily due to his harsh upbringing as a child which carved into him the terrible realities of life before his young mind was even ready to accept these harsh lessons that he was being "taught". This had caused Nico to be extremely silent, and sometimes snappy when he is not left alone, towards other people as, despite Nico being smart enough to know they had not yet done anything to him personally, he didn't want to risk trusting them out of fear that they might turn out to be just as bad as the people who raised him. Nico also had a large anger boiling inside of him to both those who treated him unfairly and towards anyone who he feels deserves it which, over time if he kept being pushed, could prove destructive if he was to ever lose his cool and break. Despite these drawbacks to his personality, Nico could also be generally kind and friendly, while he would never be looking for any friends, as he didn't want to turn out to be an asshole, no matter what he went through.

Quotes

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