Nicolas Brown

Nicolas Brown is one of the main protagonists of the series "Gangsta." He is a former mercenary who now works with Worick as hired guns in their group called Benriya.

Background
Nicolas is the son of West Gate Mercenary commander Gaston Brown and an unnamed Tagged prostitute. Gaston killed Nic's mother after she gave birth and took the child to add to his mercenary group to avoid the expense of simply hiring a Tagged mercenary. Nicolas was born deaf, and between his disability and Gaston's control of his Celebre supply, Gaston kept him obedient and dependent. He endures constant abuse from his father and the rest of the mercenary group without resistance.

Gaston assigns Nicolas as Worick's bodyguard and the two eventually become friends, bonding over their abusive fathers. Worick teaches Nicolas how to write and the two learn sign language together. Nicolas is injured during the Anti-Twilight riots and his self-stitched wounds become infected, leaving him seriously ill. Worick intervenes and pays off Gaston, thinking to help Nic, but this ultimately results in Nic's total abandonment by his father. Despite the fact that his father was abusive this seems to leave him in a state of shock.

After his recovery, Nic remains as Worick's bodyguard. When Worick's father's abuse escalates to putting out a cigarette on his son's eye, Nic snaps and murders Worick's family indiscriminately. Worick stops Nic from killing himself afterwards, saying that he won't forgive Nic and that Nic has to live on to die full of painful memories as Worick's family did. The two run away from the carnage together and start a new life on the streets with Nic taking odd jobs as a mercenary. It is strongly implied that Nic was involved in the attack on the Monroe family at age fourteen.

Later on, the two start Benriya together and eventually take in Alex, an ex-prostitute who becomes their secretary.

Personality
Though most of the time quiet, Nicolas occasionally speaks out of irritation or when someone isn't able to understand sign language. He can be quite selfless at times (as shown when he goes to retrieve the sign langauge book before a grenade went off in that area), but most of the time, he keeps to himself.

He likes to pick on new people, and joke around with Worick.

Trivia

 * He is biracial with a white father and an unidentified Asian mother.
 * If Nic was the Twilight hired to attack the Monroe family years ago, his rank at that time was C/3.
 * He is lefthanded.