Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs les Députés, Mesdames et Messieurs les Députés,
L'astuce de prolonger la période de déjeuner bien au-delà de l'heure prévue était en fait assez simple. Ne mangez jamais où les gens savent où vous chercher. Nicolas n'a jamais mangé de déjeuner dans son bureau ou dans la salle du personnel parce que ce serait le premier endroit où les gens le cherchaient une fois la période de slotted terminée et les étudiants avaient besoin d'une oreille sympathique pour leurs supposés problèmes et préoccupations. Il a même réussi à servir d'aventure pour Nicolas, un jeu de toutes sortes. Où allait-il manger ensuite? Peut-être qu'un jour il serait entré dans une classe vide - s'il pouvait en trouver un - peut-être qu'il serait entré dans une salle de club. L'école avait plusieurs endroits où un éducateur potentiellement non professionnel pouvait s'éloigner pendant une heure environ. Et en plus de tout le reste, de telles choses ont donné à Nicolas une grande idée de la façon dont les choses se passaient vraiment à l'école. Oh comment les murs ont parlé quand les gens ont supposé que les couloirs étaient dépourvus de vie... et combien ces murs étaient minces vraiment.
Et aujourd'hui, les murs parlaient absolument et pour une fois, ce n'était pas seulement des étudiants qui discutaient de leurs écrasements ou qui réclamaient l'émission de télévision qu'ils regardaient la nuit précédente - et Nicolas se demandait toujours si le genre trop strict de personnel, les noms mieux dits, flipperait s'ils savaient que les étudiants perdaient du temps avec la télévision plutôt qu'avec l'étude mathématique - mais aujourd'hui fournissait une autre sorte de conversation. Et d'après ce que Nicolas pouvait entendre... il ne s'agissait pas d'étudiants mais d'adultes qui étaient sur le point d'agir comme eux.
Le point de vue de Nicolas était derrière eux, dans la salle de classe en face où Peter avait été avant Eric a décidé de faire un jeu de puissance. « Fils de pute, c'est mon geste », s'écria Nicolas quand il regarda Eric en arrière Peter contre le mur ; sauf quand Nicolas l'a fait, le regard sur le visage de la chanceuse n'était pas panique ou peur, mais plutôt exaltation et désir. Malgré cela, selon l'angle, la position d'Eric avait Peter comme une réunion secrète de passion que Nicolas était certain pourrait causer beaucoup d'hypothèses si quelqu'un arrivait à passer.
Avec un soupir alors qu'il glissa le dernier de son œuf roulé dans sa bouche, Nicolas ouvrit lentement la porte à la classe dans laquelle il squattait. Autant qu'il aurait aimé voir comment cette petite rencontre s'est déroulée, il avait techniquement un emploi... et son poste de conseiller d'orientation s'est étendu au personnel aussi bien - mais le personnel était généralement beaucoup plus de niveau dirigé et plein de bon sens.
"Alors, qu'est-ce qui se passe ici? Réunion des esprits? Je pensais que les mathématiques et la science étaient comme les meilleurs amis pour toujours, à la fois être incroyablement ennuyeux et plein de nombres et de formules que tout le monde oublie." Nicolas annonça sa présence alors qu'il s'approchait des deux côtés, plaçant sa paume sur l'épaule d'Eric alors que Nicolas s'approcha pour affronter les deux. Nico souriait alors qu'il parlait, au moins quelqu'un s'amusait.
"De toute façon, peut-être que l'un de vous pourrait m'aider. Je cherche une école, mais j'ai l'air de me perdre. J'attends ce genre de chose des enfants... et je sais que Petey ici les aime, mais il ne l'est pas." Nicolas a serré sa poignée plus serrée sur l'épaule d'Eric, souriant encore tout le temps. "Soyez l'homme le plus grand ici, Eric, laissez le gamin partir." Le regard de Nicolas s'est tourné vers Pete maintenant. "Tu continues à dire des choses comme ça, en mettant quelqu'un dessus, et ton visage va devenir un peu plus rouge. Crois-moi, Petey, j'y suis allé. Pas besoin de donner un coup de pied à un homme quand il est à terre."
Nicolas a peut-être souri, mais ses paroles n'étaient que humoristiques. Il a peut-être été ludique, mais la situation a exigé une réponse sérieuse. "Vous deux devriez prendre des itinéraires différents pendant les pauses. L'huile et l'eau ne se mélangent pas."
Nicolas Ishiguro
'Glass walls and waterfalls can't stop your light from reaching my eyes...'
Age:
Twenty Six
Occupation:
Guidance Counselor
Personality
If ever there was a competition for the most popular member of the staff as voted on by the student body, chances are Nicolas, Nico to the students, would rank quite high, if not take the title himself. Such is the effect he has on the students that a petition once went around demanding he be considered for Teacher of the Year. Nicolas takes the compliments in stride, seeing it is signs of him doing his job well. Students often come to him for advice, and more often than not the advice is not at all related to the academic side of school but rather...the social. Because of his charming, cool exterior and his flowery way of words, he's a prime source for students that need more useful advice...such as the right way to ask someone on a date or the perfect outfit to wear to prom.
Nicolas has a certain way about him that makes him easy to talk to and to his credit he either is a fantastic listener or has mastered the art of only hearing the important parts of someone's concerns. He's quite charismatic, helpful given his position among the staff, and he maintains a friendly rapport with his fellow staff...well...most of them. Some of the wiser ones have picked up on a few of his bad habits, such as how he's always taking personal calls unrelated to work...how he never dresses like a professional ought to, and how on more than one occasions he's arrived to school being dropped off in different cars in the staff lot...and those are just the easily spotted ones.
Of course, the person Nicolas is during school hours doesn't necessarily carry over to after hours and the private life. Those that know him outside of school might not be so quick to use 'charming' to define him...they might well use 'manipulative' or 'heartless'...but then...no one so popular with people can be squeaky clean, surely.
'Golden medals on my chest don't mean I deserve it...'
Sexuality:
Nicolas is...a very loving sort.
Appearance:
Nicolas is a slender man but he carries it well due to his height. He's 5'10" and with unkempt black hair and piercing green eyes, he really makes his youthful look work for him. Some say that he's so popular with the students because he looks like he never really left his late teens and other than his deeper voice he'd probably be able to blend in with a certain crowd. He never dresses like a stuffy staff member, only busting out proper formal attire when he's attending functions such as dances or events he's roped into being a staff adviser for. His normal work attire is casual to the letter, with jeans - a little on the tight side on most days - and long sleeved shirts being the typical look he strives for.
His sense of fashion is more...laid back formal. It's not uncommon to find him at home on a weekend wearing no shirt and pants that might've been worn during the week already. It's not as if he's lazy or slovenly, it's just that he keeps things casual when it comes to dress as people that wear formal attire all the time tend to just be far too stuffy.

Bio:
Looking at Nicolas now one would always assume he was the person he is today...but that would be grossly incorrect. In his youth, which is to say from middle school to high school, Nicolas was a lonely, quiet kid that was mocked by his grade school peers due to both his hobbies (which included building and collecting model kits and figurines from various media) and from not having a dad. Grade school bullies were so needlessly cruel and he was glad they didn't know what it was his mother did to pay the bills. Nicolas was raised by his mother who worked unsavory jobs for even more unsavory clients just to make sure that Nicolas didn't go hungry...even if that meant she was never around at night to tuck him in. Nicolas was so grateful to his mother that it became his way of thanking her by leaving a meal out for her for when she came home.
In high school Nicolas was still not the most popular sort, but managed to get through by hovering around people that he wouldn't exactly call friends but those who at least had similar interests. It was after a disastrous attempt to ask someone to prom - which was seen by an entire classroom - that Nicolas realized that simply being the weird quiet kid would lead to more rejection and dejection in his life. He traveled away from his hometown for higher education and, as so many do, when he returned an adult he had shed his past skin.
After graduation he lived with his mother for a handful of months. While he was away she worked more jobs within the same field she had tried so hard to get out of and the risks finally caught up with her. She contracted a disease and Nicolas wanted to make sure she was taken care of. Though she's sick, she seems to be hanging in there and improving, though she's retired and now has a nurse on retainer just in case.
Nicolas' upbringing could be a reason for why he's turned into such a charming, or is it manipulative, sort, but the only thing he chooses to focus on with regards to his past is that he's still, at heart, a mother's boy. He's since moved into his own place - by nature of it being easier than explaining to people he takes an interest in why he lived with his mother - and is enjoying the life he never did back when he was younger.
Fears:
He's come to terms with the fact that his mother might not have that much long left, but he's still afraid of losing her seeing as how she was the most support he ever had in his life and it's difficult to lose that connection. Nicolas fears rejection, the incident in high school lingering still on his heart, which is perhaps why the tables have been turned in his adulthood. Less on the emotional side of the spectrum...but Nicolas also has a fear of heights. He keeps that one, as he does with much of his personality, close to the chest.
Extra:
-He still collects figurines and his apartment has entire shelf space dedicated to them. He makes sure to keep the ones on display in the living area more family friendly for obvious reasons.
-Nicolas was actually fired from his last teaching job, but the reason why is known only to himself and the school district he left behind.