Emperor Nicholas the Puissant
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Emperor Nicholas the Puissant
First Appearance: Schizophrenia (November 28, 2003)
Nicholas the Puissant is the alternate universe counterpart of Nick Wellington. He is physically identical to Nick in every way, with the exception of a goatee and a scar on his right cheek. At the beginning of the events of To Thine Own Self..., Nicholas is the ruthless, totalitarian dictator who rules the Earth of the "negaverse" with an iron fist.
"Nega-Nick", as many Faulties have dubbed him, is in many ways the mirror image of our lovable software engineer: he is cold, heartless, abusive, and flippant with the lives of others. In his rise to power, he thought nothing of orchestrating the deaths of countless enemies and innocents, although there is no evidence he personally murdered anyone. Even those he may have shared an intimate relationship with, such as Duchess Ki Oshiro, were nothing more than pawns in his constant bid for more power, and every pawn was considered expendable.
Like "Posi-Nick", the Emperor possessed many technological talents. He too is gifted with the Inventor's Gene and created his own version of the MUTEX as a torture device. However, it appears that he was not as gifted as Nick is, as he was never able to reproduce the Velociraptor power source and thus could never transport organic matter between universes. It was this limitation combined with his discovery of the GPF universe and Nick's inventions that lead the Emperor to kidnap his counterpart and force him to replicate the interdimensional transport, although with little success.
The exact fate of the Emperor is currently unknown. While his palace crumbled around him in the midst of a brutal alien assault, he attempted to escape his universe via the MUTEX. Nick, however, removed the guidance circuit right before it was activated, causing the Emperor to dematerialize with no set destination. His current whereabouts are unknown; he may have materialized into some random other universe, or he may have simply dematerialized into nothingness.
Many fans took great delight in counting off how many rules on the Evil Overlord List the Emperor consistently broke. How many can you name?
