#nick (everlost)

[thenamessparkplug]

a couple of my own designs for everlost characters!!

uh very good series highly recommend giving it a read :3

[nealshustermanreal]

Have you recently found yourself lost in Everlost? How did Nick and Allie's journey strike you? Do you want them to return home, or do you want them to stay in this eerie world forever? Please share your ideas and opinions with me!

[unholyhelbig]

Books Read in 2023: Everlost by Neal Shusterman

2/5⭐️

Allie and Nick get lost on the way to where they’re going after a tragic accident. They end up in Everlost, a place between life and death that has unspoken rules that you learn the hard way.

[denpring]

neal shusterman's series male protags aka wears a lot of dark colors gang

also nothing will ever convince me that these three franchises dont take place in the same world, with skinjacker trilogy in early 21st century, unwind dystology in late 21st century, and arc of a scythe whenever in the far future

[incorrect-everlost-quotes]

Mikey: I prevented a murder today.

Nick: Really? How?

Mikey: Self-control.

[drawingdullahan]

"Beware the Chocolate Ogre! He lures unsuspecting children in with the sweet scent of chocolate then tosses them down a dark well, never to return." -Mary Hightower in her book Caution! This Means You

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Neal Shusterman just announced the new covers for the Skinjacker Trilogy and I felt I had to redraw a piece of fanart from last year for the occasion!! So here's Nick, my favorite character so far!!

You can find the original art piece here

[here-come-headcanons]

Allie: I want to see my little boy.

Nick, holding Travis: Here he comes.

Allie: I want to see my little boy.

[zo-artsy]

Nick the Chocolate Ogre 🍫

I got back into this series recently after a long time and it just renewed my love for this character! 

[artbycaitlin]

Character designs for the book Everlost by Neal Shusterman.

[semper-legens]

58. Everwild, by Neal Shusterman

Owned: Yes Page count: 424 My summary: Mary wants children to stay in Everlost forever. Nick wants them to find the light. Allie wants to find her parents. But there are battles to be fought and secrets to uncover for each of them, as their paths take them further away from everything they know. With Everlost in the balance, will they be able to retain themselves for long, or fall into chaos? My rating: 4/5

Next up on Everlost, things go Absolutely To Shit! In, like, a narratively satisfying way, I mean. Things go to shit in the story, not the narrative is bad. Anyway. I thought I remembered a lot more about this series than I do, but as it turns out I mostly have memories of the first book with random details from the later ones. Which is fine, it just makes reading these books a different experience from how I assumed it would be.

All the kids split off into their own storylines in this one - Allie is still my favourite, I think. She’s with Mikey/the McGill, trying to get home. I like how headstrong she is, how focused on her goal above all other concerns, and also how petty her persistent feud with Mary is. I don’t really like how there’s a lot of romance subplot for her, but eh, it’s handled ok, and Nick also has one to balance things out. This book is really about skinjacking, a power some afterlights have to possess mortals - Allie is a skinjacker, and learns the trade from another afterlight, Milo. That Milo is a giant piece of shit is obvious to anyone even vaguely familiar with his sort of character archetype, but I did appreciate how the story was still written in an engaging enough way that I wasn’t bored by this.

Nick’s story really deals with issues of humanity, and what it means to hold onto who you are. He came to Everlost with a small patch of chocolate smeared on his cheek, but now he’s picked up the nickname ‘the Chocolate Ogre’, and is slowly turning to chocolate. The more ogrelike he becomes, the easier it is to complete his quest and defeat Mary - but at the cost of Nick, what makes him the person he once was. It’s an interesting idea for the book to be exploring, and seeing Nick make choices between his humanity and his mission is heartbreaking. One thing I didn’t like with Nick is this constant insistence that he’s in love with Mary - my aversion to romance plots aside, he’s fifteen. ‘In love’ feels way strong for a teenager. Maybe that’s just me.

Mary is a great villain. I’ve been thinking about this since I finished reading, I really love her. She’s the perfect blend of self-interest and delusions of grandeur, given enough humanity that the reader can in some way engage and sympathise with her, but at the same time utterly monstrous. In the first book, she was an antagonist but not necessarily a villain - she did seem to genuinely want what’s best for the kids in her care. Here, however, she takes a big jump off that slippery slope. I won’t spoil here what the Bad Thing is (I will in the next post) but when she realises the Bad Thing is happening and doesn’t just condone it but encourage it? It’s genuinely chilling.

Skinjacking is a huge theme of this book, and the other Big Thing that happens in this book revolves around the secret of skinjacking. (Again, not gonna spoil here, will in the next one.) This is one where, unlike the Bad Thing which is obvious to anyone who thinks about it, it’s harder to see coming, although it’s certainly well-foreshadowed and built up to in the book. And the story doesn’t shy away from how messed up it can be! Allie is possessing mortals, seeing inside their brains, taking over their bodies, and that’s kind of fucked up! We know Allie has good intentions, but with Milo and his gang we see how that can be used for less moral acts - and then there’s Jackin’ Jill. (Sidenote - I love all the pun names.) I like that the series isn’t afraid to both ask and answer these moral questions, and give the kids a more complex morality.

Not that it always lands. There’s a real cringey bit of the book where Zinnia, in life a teenage Confederate soldier, and a black kid implied to have been a slave in life, meet and decide ultimately to get along because their ghost glow is the same colour. It’s...simplistic. And bludgeon-you-over-the-head type of unsubtle. I mean, I get it, but hoo boy is it just a weird turn for the book to take into overt after-school special level Hey Kids Racism Is Bad.

That’s all here, folks - next up, the end of the series!

[pinejay]

the way everlost itself pushes its residents toward their fates is so Web-like, it literally gives them fortune cookies that are always true except in cases it's literally a suggestion for how to act like "embrace the bittersweet" telling isaiah to trust nick

[syscardinal]

Skinjacker Series SKETCH

Nick

[shejustcalledmeafish]

I don't think anyone is a chocolate person. They would melt quite easily and animals would constantly be attacking/eating them. Also I slightly doubt they exist.

I instantly thought of Nick from the series Everlost and if you haven’t read it, you should read it, it’s great

[denpring]

first art in a month and it's this

aka neal shusterman's characters as dank reaction images

[incorrect-everlost-quotes]

Mikey: The glass is half empty.

Nick: I think the glass is half full.

Mikey: I think you’re full of shit.

[drawingdullahan]

"Beware the Chocolate Ogre! He lures unsuspecting children in with the sweet scent of chocolate then tosses them down a dark well, never to return." -Mary Hightower in her book Caution! This Means You

I'm trying to combat art block, so heres Nick from Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy!

I'm not too happy with how the textures came out, but for now it's a finished product