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Experience:		11620
Archetype:		Tough and Smart
Age:		3 days
Gender:		male
Sleuth Theme:		Shady Character
Last Login:		Jul-15-2025
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Detective Biography

From the gutter shadows of Hell’s Kitchen, where the neon never glows warm and the rain always smells like regret, came a man who made a promise to himself long before anyone else ever did: Nico Black doesn’t let murder walk free.

They say some men are born under lucky stars. Nico was born under a busted streetlamp, wrapped in silence and a whiskey-stained blanket. His old man disappeared before he ever saw his face, and his mother worked herself into the grave scrubbing bloodstains from hotel carpets. By sixteen, Nico had fists like cinder blocks and a jaw that didn’t bend. The neighborhood taught him quick: don’t beg, don’t cry, and never turn your back.

He served in the war—came back different. Colder. Smarter. While others came back broken, Nico came back focused. He'd seen what death looked like up close, and he figured if he could stomach that, he could stomach anything. So he took that steel spine and his knack for seeing through lies, and put them to use behind a badge… for a while. But the city doesn’t like honest cops, and Nico was too stubborn to fold.

Now, he’s got his own name on the glass door: Nico Black — Private Investigations. No secretary, no smile, just a half-empty bottle of rye and a drawer full of unsolved pictures. He’s not in it for the money. Never was. Nico’s in it for the truth, even when it cuts deeper than a switchblade.

Ask around and they’ll tell you — Black doesn’t sleep. He waits. He’s the guy you call when your sister ends up in the Hudson with a smile carved where it doesn’t belong. When the cops shrug and say it’s just another body in a city full of corpses, Nico tightens his coat, lights a cigarette, and starts digging.

He knows how to talk to people — real people. Bartenders, bookies, dames who’ve seen too much and priests who’ve said too little. He can read a room like most men read the funnies. And he never buys the first answer. Or the second. Nico Black keeps peeling until he hits the nerve.

But it’s not just skill that drives him. It's ghosts. Too many cases where the killer got away, or justice showed up late and drunk. His moral compass may be cracked, but it still points true. The badge may be long gone, but the code? That’s carved into his bones.

So if you're looking for someone to wipe your tears, look elsewhere. But if you want the kind of man who’ll crawl through filth, stare down devils, and dig the truth out with blood under his fingernails…

You call Nico Black.

And he’ll come. From the shadows. Quiet as guilt. Cold as the truth.

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