Nick Donahue
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30 April 2168 CE |
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24 September 2186 CE |
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Male |
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6.0ft |
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Auburn |
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Blue |
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Private |
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Asari Cycle |
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- "We can't stay! They're coming from all angles, our entire position is going to be-"
- — Nick Donahue shortly before his death during the Battle of London in 2186 CE.
Private Nick Donahue was a former Ascension program student at the Jon Grissom Academy, a brief member of the Biotic Underground, and a volunteer with the Systems Alliance Marine Corps during the Reaper War. Born on Eden Prime to parents who hated biotics, Nick was quickly sent away when he manifested biotic abilities at the age of 13, his parents fearing him and his abilities: he was quickly taken in and enrolled with the Ascension program on Jon Grissom Academy in 2181 CE, becoming friends with a few of the students. While considered one of the more talented students of the program, he was also a bully and impudent, with his best friend, Seshaun Cresence, only encouraging his behavior, leading to him running afoul of security chief Hendel Mitra and his teachers when he was punished repeatedly for his actions: this attitude finally landed him injury when he bullied one of the newer students, Gillian Grayson, who finally grew fed up with his antics and biotically tossed him across the room, bruising his spine and suffering a concussion. In 2184 CE, he was inadvertently caught in the middle of an attempt by Hendel, Kahlee Sanders and Gillian to escape the station and shake off Cerberus abductors when they used the shuttle he was stowed away on (dared to by Seshaun) to leave the Academy. After being captured by Pel Ladges on Omega with the intent of selling them to the Collectors, Nick, paralyzed with fear, tried to beg the commando to let him out, but was punched in the stomach. Nick was later present on the Idenna when Cerberus attacked the ship to get Gillian, but he hid for most of the raid, appearing only briefly to fight off a retreating commando who wanted to take him hostage: after the incident, Nick was taken by Kahlee back to Grissom Academy, where he received a severe reprimand for stowing away on the shuttle and was placed on lockdown for three weeks: this was lowered to just two days by Kahlee immediately after, citing the traumatic events of the Idenna incident.
In late October 2185 CE at the conclusion of the Grayson conflict, Paul Grayson, now heavily modified by Cerberus with experimental reverse-engineered Reaper implants and under Reaper control, arrived at Grissom Academy and attacked the station, causing chaos. Nick briefly joins forces with Kai Leng, a Cerberus assassin sent to rein in Grayson, to kill the rogue entity, and with additional help from Admiral Anderson, they eventually bring Grayson down, but not before Nick is shot in the stomach. Forced to choose between letting Leng escape or saving Nick, Anderson instead lets Kahlee get Nick to a medical facility while Anderson battles Leng. During this time, Nick develops a crush on Kahlee, one which drives him to intensely dislike Anderson due to his relationship with her. A week after the attack, Nick, still recovering from his injury, attends a school trip to the Citadel while Anderson and Kahlee present their findings on Grayson's body to the Council in an attempt to finally prove the existence of the Reapers. During this time, Nick, having read up on the Biotic Underground, a biotic supremacist movement and self-appointed resistance group, becomes radicalized and decides to join the organization, sneaking away with Biotic Underground members Ocosta Lem and Arrius Sallus when nobody was noticing and booking transport to Elysium: Anderson and Kahlee try and fail to find him, and Anderson is forced to leave the search to C-Sec to return to Earth in order to continue assisting Commander Shepard with his predicament and to prepare for the Reaper invasion. Nick was still with the Biotic Underground at their primary compound on Proteus when the Reaper War began, where he became immensely concerned by the reports coming in, especially when he heard of Grissom Academy's abandonment and destruction. With word that Therum was attacked by the Reapers and Proteus would soon be next, the Biotic Underground closed up the compound and evacuated, leaving many of its members to fend for themselves. With nowhere else to go, Nick sought out Kahlee, but when he couldn't find her, he signed up with the Alliance marines as a volunteer to fight. He would later be assigned to an Alliance unit to protect Firebase Whiskey during the Second Battle of Dekuuna, aiding in the evacuation of elcor civilians in the middle of a heavy Reaper assault. During the Battle of Firebase Whiskey, Reaper forces finally overwhelmed the firebase defenses, breaching the perimeter and spilling out into the firebase, resulting in the collapse of the UGC's order of battle and causing panic and confusion: when Nick's unit was overrun, he was saved by Jack, who used her biotics to halt an entire Reaper column while they escaped: Nick was inspired by Jack's actions and petitioned to join her unit when he learned they were made of Ascension program students, and was accepted.
Nick would join his unit to take part in active deployment during the final battle in London where he was killed during heavy fighting towards the climax of the conflict, reporting to Jack that his position was being overrun shortly before he was killed by a Banshee.