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Your character's name (last, first): Minoru, Nico
Series your character's from: Runaways
Background info on your character: Every teenage kid thinks that their parents are evil, right? Right. Parents are lame, parents are controlling, parents don't understand the complicated workings of their child's burgeoning ego, parents are kind of evil. Kind of. Usually. Nico thought that her parents were at least bearable, until the point in her tender young life where she found out that the “fund raiser” her parents attended every year was actually a blood sacrifice and her nice-and-normal Japanese-American parents were dark sorcerers. Evil dark sorcerers, who were working hand-in-hand with her friends' parents (also supervillains, going under the cabal name of The Pride) and a bunch of Biblical super monsters to bring about the annihilation on the human race. Talk about having skeletons in the closet.

Nico ran away from home with her friends after witnessing the ritual, hiding out in a dilapidated mansion that Chase had fondly dubbed “the Hostel”. She was rocked by the notion that her God-fearing parents might be dabbling in the Dark Arts, and even more so by the fact that this power was woven into her almost to the point of being genetic. During a fight with her parents, her body sucks up a weapon: the Staff of One, which becomes a literal part of her soul. From then on, the Staff is hers to control, summoned by an offering of her blood and able to cast almost any spell she can imagine---once. And only once.

Nico is a very emotional person, but has trouble expressing what she's feeling---or even recognizing what she's feeling. She clings to the first rock of stability that presents itself after a climactic event---Alex, first, though her feelings for him crumble once he betrays his friends in favor of his parents and their bid at immortality---and seeks out tactile comfort and warmth when she is at her lowest. This has complicated many of the relationships that she has formed with her friends, but it has also shaped who she is: a compassionate girl, an outcast, a confused teenager, and the leader of her rough-handed band of minor miscreants after Alex's betrayal and subsequent death. She's heavy on the sorcery and light on the leadership, but she does try her best to keep her new family together---even after Alex's betrayal, after they crushed the Pride, after Captain America split them all up into foster homes (didn't last long, of course, because Nico could handle Father Flanagan's Home for Unwanted Goth Kids for only so long) after a version of Gert came from the future to project the doom that the cyborg Victorious would eventually present, after Karolina jetted off to her interstellar honeymoon with another alien, and after the current-version of Gert died at the hands of Alex's father, after Chase tried to sacrifice himself in order to bring Gert back, Nico has kept the Runaways under the radar and still on the side of good.

...even after the adults started a Civil War and Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. Superhero Registration came knocking at the Hostel's door.

Also, what they were doing when they got pulled to the island, any relations with anyone else? Etc): Nico was running away cross-country from Iron Man and the War that wanted them numbered and tagged and allotted to one side or another. Her relationships with the Island runaways already present are complicated at best, but they are what shape her: Chase, Old Lace, Karolina, Xavin, and Victor are her friends, her pseudo-family, and she's their leader. Sort of. Also, she's kind of in a relationship with Victor, but she really can't bring herself to set anything in stone---she's too emotionally worked over by the mess her life has become, but they have something physical that she does rely on as a grounding force. Victor was the one who reached out to her when she was mourning Gert's death and the ruin of her views of normality, but she told him she wasn't ready for a relationship due to being so emotionally unstable and unable to turn off her warmth-seeking coping devices. We'll see how that goes.


A list of things your character might have on them after they got snatched up and put on this island:
The Staff of One. It's kind of, uh, attached to her soul and stuff.
Her sewing kit. She did make most of her clothes herself---you don't buy EGL stuff in stores.
The clothes on her back.

[Nico Minoru is played by quipquipquip for i_s_l_a_n_d_rp, and though quipquipquip is awesome and brings the coming of spring with her every delicate smile, she does not own Nico or Runaways. Disclaimer get!]

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