Nick

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Nicholas "Nick" Wellington

From the Official Cast Page

First Appearance: The Beginning (November 2, 1998)

Nick is the primary character of the strip. He's a relatively short, quiet, and, well... nerdy kind of guy with quite an imagination. He enters the strip on his job interview with GPF Software, and it is through his eyes that we meet and view the rest of the crew.

Nick is a former "shy nerd" who has become one with his geekiness and has embraced it openly. He loves science fiction and craves computers, and has little (i.e., no) experience with women. He is far more comfortable traversing a circular, doubly-linked list in a queue of B-trees than talking with the female species. But he is open and friendly and quite sociable... if you can keep the topic on his software.

Nick has a insatiable imagination, and is prone to daydreams and zany ideas. Expect him to occasionally slip into a fantasy sequence, turning a file search into a quest for hidden treasure. (He often places himself into other personae during such sequences, such as the infamous Oklahoma Nick, cyber-treasure hunter.) He has a dry, witty sense of humor, and occasionally pretends to plan to take over the world.

Nick has a stable (albeit occasionally rocky) dating relationship with his friend and coworker, Ki. Their relationship has been on solid ground and continues to grow. However, we do know that Trudy has taken great pains to prevent this relationship from forming, to the point of sabotage. Her manipulations somehow continue to keep Nick on her side, while the rest of the cast views her as the resident evil. Nick's stubborn refusal to accept Trudy as the "resident evil" of the company had placed a strain on their relationship, until Trudy's twisted plots were finally revealed to him. Now that Trudy is out of the picture, they have overcome the last of their rough edges and settled in for a nice, healthy relationship. In fact, the pair has finally become engaged and are actively planning their wedding, which is rapidly approaching.

During Surreptitious Machinations, Nick became the key to Trudy's ultimate plan for world domination. Playing off his surfacing Inventor's Gene, Trudy planned to use his abilities build a weapon by which she could conquer the world. However, through the determination and perseverance of his friends, Nick finally saw through Trudy's lies and deceptions and denounced her. With the rebuilding of GPF Software, Nick hopes to settle down and get back to his old programming stomping grounds... but we all know things are never quite normal around here, are they?

Nick's relationship with Trudy graphically demonstrates one of his more annoying personality traits: he always tries to see the best in people, sometimes to the point of naivety. Shaken by Trudy's betrayal, however, he seems to have swung in to the opposite extreme, especially when it comes to a certain other shady female character, Trish....

Some of Nick's GPF milestones: