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Nick "Sticks"

Nick “Sticks” is a humanoid stick-bug who lives in the Bug Block in The Great Forest. She’s the town’s troop scouter, taking care of everyone’s little larvae while they’re off working.
In the series, Nick is the brains of the group; one more for logical thinking and prepping, also with the most emotional intelligence amongst his friend group.

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Appearence

Nick is a humanoid stick-bug creature. His body is a cartoonish humanoid from the waist up and stick-bug looking from the waist down. His body is separated in two textures; his face, front of body, belly, underside of arms, legs and paws are covered in orange fluffy fur, while the back of their arms, legs, neck and body are covered in a lime-green hard shell similar to a bug’s exoskeleton.

His face is white, square-ish and long, yellow and green eyes squinting with 3 blocky eyelashes. Their nose is a thin, lime-green rectangular shape, their smile a small V-shape. On each side of their face, next to their cheeks, On each side of his face, over his cheeks, are four small, lime-green bug pincers, two on each side of his face. Two thin antennae sprout from his hairline, over his forehead. Their orange hair is brushed back and partially tied at the top.

Nick doesn’t wear clothes. His arms are thin and long, covered in lime-green chitin on the outer side and orange fur on the inner side. In each hand and paw, his digits and palms have yellow pawpads. From their neck down to their chest and naval, all the way to the underside of their body segments, he’s covered in orange fur, the inner side of their legs also covered in it. His chest is is an oval shape, his thorax long and thin, which unites with their hips. From their hips down, their body is long and curves upward at the end in some sort of tail. Each side of their lower half had two legs, four in total.

Personality

Nick “Sticks” is a bubbly bug; extroverted but still self-conscious. They’re the most emotionally mature bug in his friend group, being the best at making sense of people’s emotions even if said person is not the best at expressing them. This skill came from being a troop scouter, since they had to be around kids and make sense of their emotional immaturity. While trying to listen to others’ feelings and put them first, Sticks can sometimes end up neglecting their own emotions, needs or opinions to keep some kind of peace.

Story

Nick “Sticks” is the town’s good boy; he helps his elders, is the town’s troop scouter, and had a hand at raising most kids on the block at one point or another. They love working with kiddo larvae all day and exploring the woods with them.

Nick is obsessed with humans and how they live their lives, though they barely see any since their town is so deep into the forrest. Even so, vestiges of their existence (leftover trash from picnics and general pollution) still make it deep enough for Nick to find and collect them.

They live in an empty owl’s nest inside a tree, rearranged to look less like a nest and a home for himself. Sticks decorated the place with the human things he collects, such as bottle caps, beads, etc.

Relationships

Purp

Nick’s friendship with Purp is mostly second-handed; their relationship is mostly a “we have common friends” one. Despite their amicable bond, Purp seems to be the only one who can somewhat match Nick’s emotional intelligence, though she clearly uses her own vocabulary and way of going about things, while Sticks is more precise and “by the book” with it. They also manage to chat about their shared enjoyment for collecting trinkets and shiny things, but Purp does not accompany Nick and their weird fascination with humans.

Bitela

Nick loves Bitela as a friend, but it’s complicated. Despite taking up the mantle as the therapist of the group, sometimes Bitela’s bundles of worries and anxieties end up being too much for Nick to know how to make sense of. Being a fellow bug who gets his own bouts of anxiety and spiral thinking, Nick can become stuck in all the “what ifs” before getting to a proper solution to a small problem. Thankfully, Purp’s go with the flow vibes and Butter’s stubbornness to get things down tend to offset that enough so that none of them get stuck in their own minds to the point of it being debilitating.

Butters

Butters has him on a weird pedestal and Nick doesn’t know why. She says they’re “the only other driven bug in the group”, but Nick doesn’t know what that means exactly, seeing as Purp has her emotions in order, and Bitela is the only one in the group with a proper job that she handles all by herself fairly well. Butters is the one Sticks worries about the most, seeing as she can be very self destructive, walking into clearly shady situations over and over again. As long as she doesn’t come asking Nick for medical advice, like how to fix a broken leg, the stick-bug doesn’t mind listening to her rambles if it helps her even a little.

Trivia

• Nick's transition came as a surprise for his friends, seeing as all of them had labelled their group as a "girl's group". They just renamed it to a "general friend group" without much thinking or judging.
  
• Nick "Sticks" is based on the "get stickbugged" meme.
  

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