As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
Fridge Horror:
- Nicole has been aware of the concept of sexual assault since she was 12 years old. Combine that with her mother's long list of failed marriages, some of which ended with restraining orders and were implied to have been quite violent, and it really sounds like Nicole had to deal with things much more traumatizing than just having to move around a lot as a kid.
- Jeffery mentions the existence of a manga club in the school. It seems like the perfect place for someone like him to meet like-minded individuals and actually have a group that shares his interests, but he's conspicuously never shown hanging around anyone else and constantly laments being completely alone. Regardless of why that is, it really doesn't cast him in the best light. Either his utter ineptitude in talking about his interests repulsed anyone else from even considering openly showing their interest in anime and manga, or the club does have other members, but they also happen to consider him too annoying to hang around with. Or worse, he's actively been blowing off his own club members because they're not "popular", which only makes his constant moaning about his loneliness look a whole lot shallower.
- Presented as one of the game's better endings, the LA ending sees Nicole winning $500,000 from her lawsuit against the school, dropping out and moving all the way to Los Angeles to leave her life behind where she meets another Nicole who's "kinda famous". From clues within the ending narration, that other Nicole is Nicole Richie, the adopted daughter of Lionel Richie who was far more known in 2007/2008 for club hopping around LA alongside notorious party girl Paris Hilton. The two were in and out of rehab together throughout the 2000s and combined with both Nicoles having an expensive drug habit, it's more than likely that partaking in Richie's party girl lifestyle sees Nicole overdosing sooner rather than later trying to keep up with her new friend.
- And even then, $500,000 sounds like a ton of money to a girl who grew up below the poverty line, but the money isn't going to last forever. Los Angeles is one of the most expensive cities to live in in the entire United States. The cost of living in the city would already be a massive hit to her payout but combine that with openly admitting that her drug habit is expensive means Nicole will be left financially wiped out sooner than she thinks, especially since she has no desire to better her own life or work (at least work honestly) to make more money. Richie has her family's fortune and a career to fall back on when the party's over while Nicole has neither. She cuts ties with her Mother in every ending where she can and there's no mention of her keeping in touch with Jecka, meaning Nicole could very well be on her own once her settlement money runs dry.
