Nicholas

"What does it mean to live? You might think that living means being alive but that's not entirely true. What I believe is that in order to truly be alive you have to have freedom, the ability to make choices and do something different everyday. So even though my body is still alive, I've never felt more dead."~nicholas talking to thomas about what it means to live

'Nicholas was a major character in season 2 of the new agents, he willingly let himself be expirimented on after having nothing left to lose in order to keep all the other test subjects at bay and prevent them from escaping the facilities, allthough he initially appeared to be an antagonist it's later revealed that he was testing the main characters to see who would make a worthy successor, he trained thomas into becoming his successor 

Appearance
In his flashback nicholas is an average sized white male with a green right eye and purple left eye, he has medium length white hair wich goes behind his ears, he wears a black suit with a white undershirt and green tie as well as a long black coat

In his current appearance his skin has turned brown and he is so skinny that you can see bones sticking out, he has large holes where his eyes used to be, he has no lips or teeth and also appears to be lacking a nose and ears allthough his ears are still functional, he has a couple hairs still remaining on his head, he lacks several fingers on bolth his left and right hand as well as several toes on his left foot, he has long dirty nails, his tongue also appears to be missing its tip, he wears dark grey pants wich reach up to his knees and are held up by a rope tied around his hips, he at first also wears bandages around his head and is often seen in a green raincoat

Personality
Nicholas appeared to be a strange individual as he was often seen doing weird things such as carving a smiley into a mountain with his psychic powers, he often went on philosophical rants, despite his strange behavior he was a genuinely nice person who sacrificed 2000 years of his life to keeping the other psychics at bay, he was a very patient individual since he waited for such a long time before he decided who could be his successor, he didn't appear to be enjoying life anymore as once he finished training thomas he willingly let his body die considering his duty done and feeling like he can finally rest and his rants about what it means to live, despite this he did appear to be genuinely happy around thomas

Story
Characters role in the story

Seasons character appeared in

 * the new agents season 1(minor appearences)
 * the new agents season 2

Abilities and equipment
For unknown reasons nicholas was the first and only successful test subject as his body didn't reject the artificial powers, because of this the scientists were able to give him more powers than any other test subject Allthough his full power is never truly shown he has displayed several abilities
 * telekinesis: nicholas can move objects without having to touch them allthough unlike sasha and stein he can also use his telekinesis on organic beings, aside from just moving the objects he can also make them implode or explode as shown with the smiley mountain and allister mirror clones respectively, similar to sasha he was also able to use his telekinesis to keep his body alive
 * he can increase the strength of his attacks with his psychic abilities to point that it creates shockwaves and huge cracks in the area he hit
 * superspeed: nicholas can travel ad speeds faster than the eye can see
 * duplication: nicholas can create several clones of himself wich he can either manually control them or put on auto pilot
 * super strength: despite his weak body he is extremely strong easily blocking attacks with one hand and being able to lift rocks, despite his looks he is also very durable being able to take both sasha's and thomas's attacks with barely any damage done to him
 * agility: nicholas is shown to be incredibly agile and have great body control being able to perform advanced acrobatics without much effort, this allows for mixups and mind games during fights
 * barrier: nicholas can create a barrier around him wich blocks attacks, the barrier is extremely durable and nearly unbreakable
 * laser: he was once shown shooting a gigant laser with both hands wich easily destroyed all of allister's clones and a mountain
 * psychic slash: he makes a slash motion with his hand wich then fires a psychic slash wich can cut through almost anything
 * psychic weapons: he is able to create weapons and control them from a distance
 * orb blast: he can fire orbs wich can change angle and direction after being fired
 * loud screech: he is able to create a soundwave wich is loud enough to break thomas's ice in an instant
 * mind reading: he is able to read people's thoughts and even go through their memories
 * good hearing: he has very good hearing allowing him to still fight opponents despite his lack of vision
 * energy detection: he is able to detect when someone uses an ability meaning he can technically see the abilities of that person as they are used


 * the funny move: this is nicholas's strongest attack, he summons several thousand orbs in a cilinder formation around his opponent and all the orbs fire gigant lasers
 * gigantification: he can increase his size wich also seems to increase his overall abilities
 * psyplosion: he shoots a thin laser from his face wich creates a massive explosion when making contact with any surface
 * psychic chains: he is capable of creating psychic chains wich paralyze someone's body and prevent them from using their ability, he uses this to lock other powerful superhumans with bad intentions deep underground, this ability is partially conscious meaning the chains won't disappear if he stops focusing on them but they might become weak enough for the other superhumans to break free, this means throughout the entirety of season 2 including his fight scenes he was keeping several other powerful super humans at bay

Placement on the Tier List
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Tier
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Trivia

 * Nicholas was the oldest character in the agents franchise
 * while old characters are nothing new in the agents he is the first to not have extended his life through the agent procedure or cybernetic enhancements rather he forcefully kept his body alive using his psychic powers
 * while he was already shown to be extremely strong as he easily shrugged of sasha's attack and was shown to surpass thomas he does imply that he used to be stronger and not just because he had his sight
 * he is confirmed to be the strongest character in the agents universe even with his missing senses and old body
 * he only has one remaining sense wich is hearing as he can't see, smell, taste or feel with his skin anymore
 * he implies that most of his wounds came from his fights with other genetically altered humans, according to him if you make even one little mistake it could cost you a body part, his skin became brown after being hit by a giant explosion, he lost his fingers, lips, nose and ears due to sharp weapons and he got his eye holes from a gravity power being applied there at full force, all three of the villains from these flashbacks make a small cameo at the end of season 2 implying that nicholas was unable to kill them for unknown reasons
 * it is implied that the books agent C saw as a proficy were actually written by nicholas as a warning for the strongest test subject he was keeping at bay, this is most obvious when his design is revealed and he is shown to have robotic legs and purple hair wich agent C taught referred to him and agent T