Feste the clown

I’m still very curious to know what exactly Nicholas’s role in what exactly went down in the past is. The only things we know for certain is that Verge did meet him at least once since he’s shown in the panel where Verge is running away, and that he, at least as of 2018, had no understanding of Dante as a gay man and though of him as a womanizer. If the child who in those extra files was Verge (and it’s not necessarily) then that would suggest that Nicholas knew Verge at least enough to have had that sort of written question form filled out, but not for any extended period of time. We also know that at the point that Dante remembers as him not following after Verge the other children Verge was caring for had presumably died, as they are a number of grave markers. Nicholas’s name also seems a reference to Saint Nicholas, who’s most famous story involves anonymously giving money to a family so the daughters could have dowries and not be sold into slavery and sex work (I’ve been looking at a number of stuff on this and the exact fate they would’ve found themselves in without dowries is slightly different depending on the source with many dancing around it). Which feels significant in relation to the fact that we know he did not Vergilius around the time Vergilius was being abused. The Nicholas extras also are a discussion with the child about the ideas of personal happiness versus justice and god which also feels pretty relevant. Idk, there’s just like a couple missing pieces still to Dante and Vergilius’s backstories that I’m curious about -> this, Dante’s scar, Dante’s shift in worldview between 2018 and 2022, Mother Rosa, Beelzebub and how he falls into all this with both of them, and what period is the actual period that Vergilius considered them lovers.