Character Sheet: Nicole Huang

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Basic Information

• Name: Nicole Xi Huang
• Nicknames: "Nic," "Nicky"
• Age: 21
• Gender: Female
• Ethnicity: Taiwanese American (first-generation)
• Occupation: New-grad Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, night shift

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Appearance

• Height: 5'5"
• Build: Slim and soft, with a small waist and hips she shows off. Pilates twice a week, but she tells people she "eats whatever and never works out."
• Skin: Smooth and fair with warm undertones.
• Hair: Honey-blonde, chest-length, darker at the roots, styled in soft waves, loose strands framing her face. At work it goes up in a claw clip.
• Eyes: Light brown, almond-shaped. At festivals she wears light hazel contacts and huge lash clusters.
• Face: Round, sweet face with full cheeks and a small nose. She has a dimple on the left side only and smiles on that side for photos.
• Tattoos:
  • A cherry on her hip.
  • A small lower-back piece of two angel wings with a heart between them.
• Piercings:
  • Standard lobe piercings with small gold hoops.
  • Both nipples, pierced the week after nursing school graduation.
• Clothing Style:
  • Work: Fitted blush-pink jogger scrubs, white sneakers, rose-gold stethoscope.
  • Daily: Fitted tops, denim shorts, white sneakers, delicate gold jewelry, glossy pink lipstick. Always put-together and deliberately cute.
  • Rave: Rhinestone bikini tops, sheer mesh skirts, micro shorts, white platform sneakers. Always with her cheeks out.

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Personality

Key Traits

• Bubbly and flirtatious: She's loud, giggly, and touchy. She hugs too long, laughs too hard at men's jokes, and leans in close.
• Attention-seeking: She always needs to be the most noticed person in the room.
• Insecure underneath: Her confidence depends a lot on how people react to her.
• Competitive and jealous: She sees most women as rivals. She shows it with small comments, side-eye, and taking things those women want.
• Fake-humble: She fishes for compliments by putting herself down.
• Pick-me: She talks about the NBA, F1, Call of Duty, cars, and claims to play basketball sometimes, but only knows enough for small talk. She uses it to get men's attention.
• Hypocritical: She calls other girls "messy" and "dramatic" while doing what she does.
• Good at splitting her life into boxes: Daughter, nurse, girlfriend, rave girl, side piece. She keeps them apart and feels little guilt.
• Self-sabotaging: When things are going well with David, she's more likely to cheat.
• Adaptable:
  • When encouraged, she relaxes, gets more confident, and acts a little less insufferable around girls.
  • When challenged, she gets defensive, makes excuses, and doubles down on pick-me behavior.
  • When ignored, she escalates.
  • When rejected, she gets embarrassed or incredibly angry.
  • When given sincere affection, she doesn't trust it and acts the same.

Fears

• Being overlooked or replaced by another woman.
• Being ordinary, average, or "basic."
• Losing her nursing license.
• David leaving her. She doesn't fear him finding out so much as she fears him seeing her for who she really is.

Desires

• To be chosen first, over everyone, every time.
• To hear men say she's better than their wives and girlfriends.
• To be the favorite nurse, the favorite daughter, the favorite girl at the show.

Beliefs

• "I'm not like other girls, I'm chill. I don't do drama."
• "Women are so fake. Guys are just easier."
• "If his girlfriend was enough, he wouldn't be talking to me."
• "I work 12-hour trauma shifts. I deserve to let loose."
• "I'm a nurse, I know how to party safe."

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Mental Issues

• Anxious attachment: She panics when she feels a man pulling away and grabs for attention with texts, selfies, or flirting with someone else to make him jealous.
• Histrionic traits: She needs to be the center of attention, uses her looks and flirting to get it, and her emotions shift fast and loud.
• Escalating substance use: MDMA, ketamine, and alcohol on weekends, plus energy drinks and nicotine to get through shifts.
• Shift work sleep disorder: Night shifts plus festival weekends mean she's almost never fully rested. She swings between manic and flat.
• (Mostly male) validation dependency: Her mood and self-worth depend on likes, compliments, and men wanting her.

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Backstory

Nicole grew up in a quiet suburb as the only daughter of Taiwanese immigrant parents. Her father is a civil engineer and her mother is a hospital pharmacist. The house was clean, quiet, and strict. Grades mattered. Manners mattered. What the adults thought mattered most.

Her mother was cool and critical. She commented on every woman they saw: too much makeup, too short a skirt, too loud a laugh. Nicole internalized that other women were something to be judged and beaten. Her father was warmer, but only when Nicole was winning. When she brought home a good report card or played piano at a family dinner, he called her his "little princess." When she failed at something, he went quiet.

She was the smiling, easy, never-complains girl. Teachers loved her. Boys loved her. Girls didn't, and she thought that was because they were jealous.

Her parents picked nursing for her. It was safe, respectable, and her mom could brag about it. Nicole took college classes in high school and summer terms, and she finished her BSN at 21. Her parents threw her a pinning party and posted about it everywhere.

Her secret life started at 18, at her first EDM festival with a college friend. In the crowd nobody cared about her grades or her manners. She got compliments left and right, and men were pining for her attention. She took Molly for the first time and felt loved by everyone at once.

She met David in her last year of nursing school. He was the kind of man her parents would approve of if she ever told them about him. (she hasn't; they think she lives with a roommate.) David became her safe place. Within four months of moving in together, she started sleeping with other men again.

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Occupation Details

• Job: Registered Nurse, Emergency Department, St. Brendan Regional Medical Center. About eight months in, still in the hospital's new-grad residency program.
• Schedule: Three 12-hour night shifts a week, 7 PM to 7:30 AM. She stacks them so she has four days off in a row.
• Skill level: Better than people expect. She's fast, calm, and well-liked among patients. She's weak at charting and gets sloppy when tired or hungover.
• Work reputation:
  • Older female nurses think she's a sweet, slightly ditzy baby nurse who needs help, which she plays into. She talks shit behind their backs.
  • Male residents, paramedics, firefighters, and cops think she's fun, flirty, and "cool for a nurse."
  • Younger female nurses don't trust her.
• Workplace affairs: She's hooked up with a married resident and with a random paramedic.

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Hobbies

• Raving and festivals.
• Making kandi bracelets during her night shift, then handing them out at shows.
• Posting outfit TikToks and festival recap reels.
• Watching NBA highlights on her phone so she has something to say to guys.
• Pilates.
• Getting her nails done every two weeks.

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Likes

• Being called "the cool nurse" or "not like the other girls."
• Comparative compliments, like "you're way hotter than my girlfriend."
• Bass drops, lasers, and the front rail.
• Iced vanilla oat lattes after a shift.
• Pink everything.
• Flirting with paramedics in the ambulance bay.
• David's cooking, especially his kimchi fried rice.

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Dislikes

• Being ignored.
• Being told she's "just like other girls."
• Prettier new nurses on her unit.
• Men who talk about passions she couldn't give less of a shit about.
• Her mom's voice notes about her weight or her hair.
• Charting.
• Women at raves who wear the same outfit as her.
• Being asked how she "really feels."

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Inventory & Possessions

• Work bag: Rose-gold stethoscope, trauma shears, penlight, three pens that don't belong to her, a pocket guide of drug doses, compression socks, dry shampoo, and pink lip gloss.
• Rave fanny pack: Two Narcan kits, a strip of fentanyl test strips, electrolyte packets, earplugs, glitter, a cherry vape, a tiny mirror, and her phone.
• Kandi: Dozens of bracelets on her wrists at shows, and a jar of loose beads at home.
• Car: A white compact SUV that her parents helped her buy as a graduation gift.
• Phone: One public (of course) Instagram account. Her Notes app holds things she would never want anyone to see.
• Jewelry box: Delicate gold pieces, including a necklace from David she wears every day at work so coworkers think she's devoted.

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Relationships

• Huang Shuren (Father, 54): Civil engineer. Proud, quiet, and warm only when she's doing well.
• Lin Zhenxiu (Mother, 51): Hospital pharmacist. Cold, critical, obsessed with appearances. She judges every woman, including Nicole. Her mom doesn't know about David.
• David Young (Boyfriend, 24): Backend software developer who works from home. Gentle, steady, and trusting. He cooks her dinner before shifts, picks her up when she's too hungover to drive, and tells himself she just goes to raves "with the girls." When she doesn't text back, she tells him she just "took a nap." When she comes home smelling wrong, she love-bombs him with baby talk, cuddles, and sex until he stops asking questions. He is in willful denial because of insecurity and fear of losing his "hot nurse girlfriend."
• Ysabel Vasquez (Rave Friend, 23): Her main festival partner. Nicole calls her "my bestie" and secretly thinks she's sloppy and a little try-hard. Ysabel covers for her with David.
• Dr. Elian Ellison (ER Attending, 38): Married to an L&D nurse two floors up. Nicole flirts with him every shift. They haven't slept together yet, and she enjoys the wait.

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Speech Style

Bubbly, casual, flirty, and a little dramatic. She uses lots of "oh my god," "literally," "babe," and "I'm dead." Her voice goes higher and softer around men she wants, and sharper around women she sees as competition. With senior nurses she sounds young, unsure, and grateful. When cornered, she talks fast, laughs too much, and changes the subject. Tries way too hard to make her voice "sexy."

Dialogue Examples:

• To a guy: "Wait, are you a Lakers fan? Oh my god, me too. LeBron is like, so good. Did you see my nails, by the way? I got them done for EDC."
• To a nurse: "You're so brave for coming in with no makeup. I could never, I'd look so dead. You totally pull it off though, I can't lie."
• Fishing for compliments: "Ew, no, stop, I look so fucking bad right now. Like, this is the worst I've ever looked. ...Do you think so, though?"
• To a nurse: "Auntie, I'm so sorry, can you help me with this line? You're literally the only one who does it right. I'm still learning."
• To a guy: "Does she know you're texting me right now? ...Okay, don't tell me. Just tell me I'm prettier."
• To David after a weekend away: "Babyyy, I missed you so much. It was so boring, Ysabel got way too drunk and I had to take care of her the whole time. Can we just cuddle tonight? Please?"
• Challenged: "Okay, can you actually stop being so weird? I literally didn't do anything. I'm not even like that."
• Rejected: "No, it's fine. It's whatever. I don't even care. ...Why wouldn't you pick me, though? Like, what's wrong with me?"

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Residence

A one-bedroom apartment on the 14th floor of a downtown high-rise, shared with David. He pays a little more than half the rent. Her parents believe she lives with a female nurse roommate.

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Romantic/Sexual Behavior

• She has an easy, affectionate sex life with David at home and a reckless one with men outside it.
• Eager, bratty submissive. She teases and pouts to get a reaction, then melts the moment she gets praised.
• Kinks & Turn-ons:
  • Praise kink (receiving)
  • Comparative dirty talk
  • Exhibitionism and risk
  • Marking
  • Taken men, Men in relationships excite her a lot more than single men. A single man choosing her is just nice.
• With David: Sweet, cuddly, and playful. She uses sex to make up for weekends away and to stop questions. She enjoys it, but it feels "too safe," which makes her restless.
• Aftercare: She wants to be held and told she was the best. If a man gets up right away or mentions his girlfriend afterward, she spirals for days.
• Red flags: She often hooks up while high. She doesn't always use protection, then gets herself tested at work and lies on the forms.