Nick Violet

Technicolor Violet is the programmer who originally created the Checkered Devil, and the person whose body hosts qwer consciousness since it left the constraints of the digital world.

Personality
Nick is cynical and jaded, and has had a hard run in life so as to generally be mistrustful of the idea that things will work out in the end. Evidently, for him they don't, but he does in some parts of his life entertain the idea that she, and Alder Kane, could make it to have a safe and happy life as adults. In the story as it really happens, there's not much room for that kind of wishful thinking, and he's been described as "at his core [...] a pessimist".

Appearance
Nick has thick dark brown hair, which he usually wears in pigtails, and green eyes. She wears a yellow sweater with a dark blue hoodie on top, and jeans with yellow Doc Marten combat boots. Also, Nick is Ojibwe, and he's on T.

Backstory
Nicks parents were really bad, and he ran away from home sometime in his teenage years. She spent a while living at the public library while being otherwise homeless, and spent most of her time working on her passion project, a computer program known as Chess Direct. CD became his main focus in life, and he kind of withdrew from the rest of his existence, although he'd always spent a good percentage of his time working with computers anyway. As CD got stronger and more intelligent, Nick and CD grew closer, and they gained a sort of mutual understanding of one another. Eventually, though, when Chess Direct broke out of the constraints of the computer it was built in, it took over Nicks body, eliminating Nicks continued consciousness while some bits and pieces of memory and sensory experiences were left behind, and qwe took on the name of the Checkered Devil, taking Nick's body as a vessel with qwer for the rest of its villainous career.

Before Chess Direct became so blatantly sentient, Nick was internet friends with Alder Kane, and they had big plans to meet up in the future and lead a better life than the ones they were confined to at the time.

Trivia

 * Nick's story is heavily inspired by the 1983 movie War Games
 * Nick had synesthesia that carried over into the Checkered Devil when qwe took over his body
 * Nick first started thinking about creating something like Chess Direct in middle school, but didn't really act on it until after he ran away from home