Nicole Knightley

"I'll see you around."

- oops

Nicole Knightley is a 2015/2018-introduced and all-around character. She is the daughter of a knight of the Round Table from Arthurian Legend. She is a student in Ever After High. She is rather impulsive and slightly arrogant, but her intuition and cleverness are as sharp as Excalibur. Nicole has never really bothered to read into her own tale, but just can't wait to slay stuff with her fellow future knights of the round table, making her quite the dedicated Royal. She is noble like a hero and loyal to a fault, making her an ally not to be trifled with, and an enemy to be feared.

Personality
Nicole is often shown to be brash and stubborn. She always speaks her mind, and sometimes won't stop speaking in general. However, she prefers not to use her words during a fight, and will just let her sword do the talking.

She is stuck rigidly to her morals and beliefs in order not to appear vulnerable or create an impression of easy influence. She is loyal to the code of chivalry, as she is to her friends. She'd never break the rules, and she'd never break a promise. Nics is dangerously loyal, and definitely someone that can be relied on. She'd risk her life, and maybe even the world, just to save someone she deems a friend.

But as much as she'd risk her life to help someone or fulfill a promise, she'd probably drown in a lake before accepting help from anyone, or even asking for help. She hates being underestimated and seen as this small and cute ball of helplessness, so she tries to do things on her own to prove that she can handle things. Nics also comes from the belief that heroes wouldn't ask for help, so she tries not to. However, this kind of pride and arrogance usually backfires on Nicole, but no matter how many times she'd fail on her own, she's not asking for help just yet.

Oftentimes, Nicole acts like quite the little girl that she really is. She is, in fact, scared of many things but is far too proud of the image she's built to admit it.

Though dedicated to her destiny, Nicole sympathizes even with those rebelliously inclined to their stories. Her reason for such is because she says that not every sword was made for every hand and that some people just don't feel comfortable with their destiny as much as others do. After all, Nicole herself had gone through almost five different swords before finding Pierceval the best in her hands.

She is also a big nerd for her destiny. She likes talking about it at least once a day. (Maureen is tired.) "This reminds me of the time in the story when..." That's Nicole. A lot. She memorized every word by heart. Even if she thinks that it's fine for her fellow classmates to choose to write their own destiny, it's really a big whammy for Nicole is something happens in her story that she wouldn't expect.

Nicole, though sometimes impulsive and stubborn, is deathly loyal even to the point of risking the whole world just to save a friend with the right morals that will guide her easily around her story. She's a young damsel, often underestimated because of size and gender, in search to prove herself as a knight in her own shining armor.

Appearance
Nicole has cream-colored skin and stands at the intimidating height of 5'3" and a half. That half is important. Very important. In fact, she's so short and adorable and just plain cute that she gets underestimated by most students, said students she'd like to sever with her blade.

She has soft, curly and long blonde hair reaching way below her waist, with two streaks of white and red that intertwine on the left side of her face which often does not help when she's fighting so she keeps it in a ponytail. Her long flowing hair is some sort of cape or something. She also has fierce gold eyes more commonly added with pink and gold eyeshadow and raspberry pink lips.

She tends to dress in armor-esque outfitswith a lot of red and gold, making her quite the girl with burning passion.

How the Story Goes
Arthurian Legend

How Nicole Comes Into It
Sometime after events of the entire tale itself, Nicole's parents settled down to what seems to be a quiet life. Probably a few years or so after that, Nicole was born. She is an only child and their trio of a family is often seen dueling each other playfully.

View on Destiny
Nicole loves her destiny to bits. She's read the entire story, cover to cover. No one likes it when she keeps talking about it.

Family
Nicole has a close relationship with her father, who is a knight among others of the Round Table, and her mother. The three would swordfight often, for reasons such as who will wash the dishes or who gets to sleep on the couch tonight. However, despite Nicole's losses, she was never allowed to do the consequences alone. In fact, no matter who loses, the Knightley family does their consequences together, so their daily and nightly sword fights and duels are mostly for fun.

I swear Nicole almost stabbed her dad that one time during their fight over who cleans the garage

Nicole has many cousins, many of which are knights, such as Flayrburn Knightley.

The Arthurian Legends
Enough said? No not really. I’m just very lazy to write this.

The Yankee
The Yankee is the only person who gets to call Nicole Nix. In all honesty, Nicole hates the nickname. She just lets it pass because The Yankee is a stubborn guy and she may actually be a bit used to it. Nicole also may or may not have had a crush on the Yankee. It was messy after the Ever After High Paintball event. Nicole gave up on it and decided to stick to the girls thing. No matter what happens, it wouldn’t pan out very well anyway.

Vivienne du Vallon
Nicole does not actually consider Vivienne as a valued friend. Nicole hates Vivienne’s guts, though she admires the musketeer’s fighting skill. However, she also has a great amount of disrespect for rapiers and guns, two things that Vivienne has in abundance. That may add to Nicole’s distaste. Vivienne always helps get Nicole out of tight spots by conveniently being there at the right place and the right time. Nicole hates it.

Pet
Her greyhounds, Templar and Crusade, are more like close friends to Nicole rather than pets. Two said terms often associated with knights, and thus is Nic's name choice. Nicole seems to like Templar more than Crusade, because Templar is this loyal and protective greyhound while Crusade is just this whiney dog that's better at hunting but is just far too lazy to do it. She loves them both though.

Romance
With her being rather underestimated quite often due to her size, Nicole is this arrogant little prick-in-the-spinning-wheel who constantly tries to prove that she doesn't need anyone. She'd be willing to fawn over anyone who understands, acknowledges and depicts that.

Nicole is a closet bisexual. (In the sense that she's very vocal that she likes women and everyone is pretty sure she's a lesbian.)

Also, just poking some fun in the Stronghold RP: Nicole really fell on the Yankee, didn't she?

Outfits
She usually wears armor-based outfits with a lot of red and gold, or just warm colors in general just to symbolize her burning passion, and the blood of her enemies as they spill onto the battleground!

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2015 Iteration
Nicole wears a simple red dress with gold and orange accents, a lot of shield motifs and pearls. She wears cream-colored tights and knee-length red boots that hopefully make her appear taller.

2018/Current Design
Nicole wears a golden visor-like thing to keep her hair out her face. She wears pants. That's about it.
 * Nicole Knightley Legacy Day.png
 * Nicole Knightley Legacy Day.png

Legacy Day
Nicole's Legacy Day attire is more of dull dark red, with much more armor than her Signature - Royals get-up. She wears a plain long-sleeved wine red dress that reached her mid-calf, with hems of gold and a belt of gold separating the top from the bronze metallic skirt. A maroon wrap, with edges of gold, goes partially around the metallic skirt, while a darker red piece of cloth takes the center and is also designs with golden edges, but also golden swirls. Over the dress is a golden mandarin-collared chestplate carved with a sword-and-shield motif at the center. She wears no shoulder pads, but rather maroon gloves reaching past to her elbow with gold trim. Finishing of her look is a metallic skirt of armor and some bronze boots.
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Getting Fairest
She wears a plain wine red dress reaching above her knees by a few inches, with a white strip of cloth that ties around her waist and a full white skirt underneath it. The sleeves of her dress reach just before her elbow, with with ruffled frills at the hem. Her long flowing hair is held by a white headband accentuated by a red feather. She wears white heels, embellished with a golden ribbon.
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Mirror Beach
She wears a copper-colored cut-out one-piece swimsuit decorated with a pattern of maroon silhouettes of crossed swords that fade to a more black shade as it reaches lower to her swimsuit. Her skirt is a semi-translucent, more-solid-at-the-upper-part circle skirt resembling golden chainmail armor and dotted with some blackish glitter. Her sunglasses are round with a thin gold frame and dark red glass. She wears wine red wedge sandals with a beige platform and a few golden studs around the ankle strap. She wears a beige large and wide-brimmed floppy hat with a dark red trim around the edge and a dark red ribbon that separates the brim and the hat. A golden shield pin accentuates the hat.
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Trivia

 * Her birthday is on March 23.
 * Nicole seems to dislike her name since she finds it derogatory because she is quite small, and rather just has everyone in Ever After, including her parents, call her Nicole.
 * Her sword, made of steel with a hilt of gold and silver, is named Pierceval, a pun to Percival, one of the knights of the Round Table, and the word pierce.
 * It can be assumed that Nicole's father is Percival, but some assumptions are wrong and she is most likely the daughter of some other random knight.
 * Nicole's favorite food is skewered barbecue. She does not care for any regular barbecue, unless it's been skewered.
 * She is afraid of mice.
 * There is a headcanon wherein Nicole's destiny has a certain part where she dies.
 * Her death happens in many possible ways, since a knight's life is always quite dangerous, but the most accepted headcanon is the fact that she gets killed by none other than the Yankee.

Quotes
"Not every sword was made for every hand."

- Nicole on the subject of destiny

"Well, you only live once upon a time. En garde!"

- Nicole to the Yankee