"Everything I know is in Chicago. It's my home. And now, we just start again ? I thought things would be different. I hoped..."―Nicky
Nicole "Nicky" Pearce is a major character in Watch Dogs. She is Aiden Pearce's younger sister and mother to her two kids Jackson and Lena Pearce.
History
Nicky was born 5 years after her brother Aiden. She, her brother and mother went to the United States in an unknown year, to escape from their father.
At some point Nicky got married and became the mother of two children : Jackson and Lena, both of whom were very close to their uncle Aiden. She divorced from her husband sometime between 2006 and 2012. In October 2012, as a result of the Merlaut Job, a hit on Aiden caused the death of Lena, only aged 6. After her daughter was killed, her son Jackson became her only remaining child. Aiden vowed to guard her to prevent any future family tragedies.
Events of Watch Dogs
On Jackson's birthday, Aiden showed up to wish his nephew well. The family went inside the house, where Nicole updates Aiden on recent events since Lena's death, including that Jackson was seeing Dr. Yolanda Mendez to deal with his post-traumatic stress disorder. Then suddenly, she gets a crank call, the man on the other hand implying that he will break into her house. With haste, she goes to double-check the locks, at which Aiden expressed concern, having hacked her phone. Suspecting that her brother intends to go after the caller, she lashed out at him, telling him that he can never fix anything. After her brother left the house, Nicole realized her mistake and called him to apologize and asked him to come back. But upon hearing the apprehension in his voice, she correctly guessed that he was in pursuit of the crank caller and insisted that he let this one go, but he hung up on her, implying "the call is breaking up". Making her angry about it.
Nicole is soon kidnapped by Aiden's mentor, Damien Brenks, who set up that prank call to blackmail Aiden into doing his dirty work for him. Damien only allowed limited conversation between the siblings via phone only when Aiden had something to show. Eventually, Aiden was able to discern her location from background noise. Remotely hacked into the cameras, Aiden kills her guard with a power box before calling her on a nearby cellphone, instructing her to pick up the gun. No sooner than she does, a fixer walks into the room and she incidentally shoots and kills him. Though shaken by the killing, she managed to keep a level head as Aiden directs her to safety.
Later picking up Jackson from Mendez, who was planning on calling the police on Aiden, she notice the police and tell Aiden that they can help them but Aiden respond they will not help them because the police were after Aiden. Nicole then finds out that he's the vigilante. After evading the police, Aiden drove to Pawnee and Nicole suggests that she should tell everything to the police about Damien but Aiden respond she should not and tell her that she and Jackson should disappear from the public eye later the siblings share an emotional farewell said she can not follow him and reply that he knows.
Bad Blood
While not mentioned by Aiden nor T-Bone, if he goes to her house, there will be an audio log from Aiden, stating that she now resides in a city named St. Louis (most likely the large city located near the Missouri-Illinois border) and that Aiden rented there a motel to see them. He also states that she has a much bigger house, and that Jackson became the kid he was before, and they totally forgot about Lena's death.
Personality
Unlike her brother, Nicole is not possessed by the death of Lena and avenging it. She is seen to be concerned on Aiden's violent measures to avenge the ones who were involved in Lena's death, and also tells him numerous times to stop this. She also seems to care about people all around her, such as when she accidentally shot a worker, Nicole wanted to call 911 and help him, despite there being Fixers all around her.
Appearance
Nicole is a blonde woman with her hair tied to a ponytail. She wears the same clothes during all her appearances : striped shirt with a jean jacket and yellow pants.
Trivia
According to the ctOS Profiler, Nicole is an event planner and makes $49,700 a year.
The profiler lists her name as "Nicky" rather than her real name "Nicole".
She is the narrator in the Digital Trip, Alone.
It should be noted, her dialogue and narration in the Digital Trip somehow relates to an angry and pessimist Nicole. She comments the death of Lena, altough never referencing her directly, and sometimes wishes Aiden was the one to be gone. She also comments the actions of Aiden through the game.
She looks extremely similar to Elena Fisher from Uncharted series.
When Aiden calls her or vice versa, the picture that comes up with her name shows a much different Nicole, hinting that she may had a different appearance in the BETA.
