#* nic .

biography :

the van sant family was always called trash. they were a family of seven, living in a cramped, falling to pieces house on the outskirts of ashville. nic is the middle child of the family. they were one of the poorer families in their part of town. 

nic’s father worked two jobs to keep the family afloat and their mother did what she could to contribute with her own job and any odd jobs she could find, which mostly left nic alone with their siblings or adultless most of the time. however they were a normal family, even if some people spread rumors about them. 

divorce mention / for the most part, life was alright for nic until they turned six and their parents got a divorce. it didn’t surprise anyone. with the problems their parents were having, and little money saved up, tensions were high. nic was old enough to know what was happening. their father left and nic never saw him again. 

nic’s mom started dating someone shortly after the divorce and when nic was eight, she remarried. their new mom was more like nic than anyone else in the family, as she was an architect and her job was more math than anything else. 

life was beginning to look up, since now they only had to share a room with one sibling, not three. having two moms wasn’t an adjustment, in a town like asheville, it was almost normal, but they felt comfortable living in a house that got them. 

but when high school came around for them, nic started noticing that kids had a thing about material possessions. they could never afford the things their peers had and it annoyed them. their family still didn’t have the money for fancy things, but nic knew they deserved those things.

drugs tw / nic got mixed in with the wrong crowd and ended up selling drugs. they weren’t able to keep themself from being involved in that whole scene. partying and drinking and drug use. their senior year they overdosed. they went to rehab and finished their senior year over the summer.

nic followed their brother to berkley where they studied areospace engineering. college was a breeze for them and they managed to graduate in three and a half years. nic got a job in roswell. they plan on getting a master’s degree in phyics. 

their two pet fish are named after homer hickman and dorothy vaughan, two people that they really believe helped in space exploration.