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Nikki Julianne Maxwell is quite unpopular. However, she has said she doesn’t like the thought of popularity as she wouldn’t feel like herself if she were loved by her peers. She expresses herself with art. She said she finds it ‘freeing’. She loves to read and finds it fascinating as she feels books have a special connection with her. On a desert island, Nikki would bring either ‘The Great Gatsby’ or ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. In the meantime, she's usually writing in her diary about her life.


Description[]

Nikki is portrayed as an unpopular girl towards the CCP (cute, cool, popular) clique who, in the first installment, is new to and when did nikki attend Westchester Country Day Middle School. I need to know toodles. She is the most unpopular person at WCD, according to her self-written list. She writes in her diary almost every day the events in her life, hence the name of her series - Dork Diaries. She despises her locker neighbor -and enemy- MacKenzie Hollister, for being mean and quote "a shark in lip gloss." She also dislikes MacKenzie's friend, Jessica Hunter, who is as nasty to Nikki as Mackenzie is. Nikki and MacKenzie both have a crush on Brandon Roberts and compete for him.But it is obvious he likes Nikki. Nikki also has a younger sister named Brianna. Throughout the books, Nikki seems to grow more confident in herself and does refer to herself as a dork, not only in her diary but also in public. described in the book.

Relationships[]

Family[]

Nikki's family includes her dad and mom, her sister Brianna,  her Grandma, her great-grandmother Gertrude, her Aunt Mabel, her Uncle Augustus, and her third cousin Billy Bob. Recently, in a blog post, it is learned that she has an Aunt Janet, possibly the wife of Nikki's paternal uncle, and five misbehaving cousins. She loves her parents despite her belief that they are brain-dead. Nikki and Brianna get into fights sometimes (as siblings typically do), but Nikki is shown to have a natural hate for her sister. Her family sometimes act silly and embarrassing, but she still loves them.

Pets[]

In book 10, Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet Sitter, she took care of 8 Golden Retrievers, Holly and her puppies, for a day. At the end of the book, they kept the smallest one and named her Daisy. She also had a temporary fish, Rover. (Brianna's class pet).

Friends[]

Nikki's friends include Chloe Garcia, Zoey Franklin, Brandon Roberts, Max Crumbly, Marcy Simms, Theodore L. Swagmire III, Violet Baker, Marcus, André, Chase, and Jenny (Shown in Tales of a not-so-popular-party girl).

Love Interest[]

Brandon

Nikki and MacKenzie both have a crush on Brandon, but Brandon is not impressed by Mackenzie as everyone else is. He has strong romantic feelings towards Nikki. In the debut of the book series, Brandon makes his first interaction with Nikki when Mackenzie trips Nikki in the lunchroom and in the third book, Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star, Brandon joins Nikki's band for the talent show. At the end of the third book, Brandon and Nikki almost kiss, but Brianna interrupts them before any further action was taken. Nobody likes brianna.

In Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess, Nikki finds out Brandon works at an animal shelter (Fuzzy Friends.) Nikki also discovers that Brandon lost his parents several years ago and is in his grandparent's custody. It is insinuated that Brandon's grandparents are not related to him by blood, rather good friends of his parents when they were alive (this fact was confirmed in a personal interview with Rachel Renee Russell). She enters an ice-skating competition with Chloe and Zoey to help Brandon raise money for the shelter. He hugs her when she wins, hinting that his grandparents own the shelter and without her help, he would've moved to Florida, never seeing Nikki again. Nikki questions in her diary if it's a "friend hug", a "really good friend hug", a "more than a friend hug", or "you're my girlfriend hug".

In Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker, Nikki asks Brandon to the Sweetheart dance in which he immediately agrees hinting that he does like her more than just a friend.

André

In Tales From a Not-So-Secret Crush Carastrophe, another boy, André, comes to WCD from NHH and meets Nikki. They start hanging out together a lot, which makes Brandon jealous. He thinks that they are an item, that they have crushes on each other which is not true. Mackenzie makes things worse when she starts posting pictures of the two online, making them look like a couple. Mackenzie shows these pictures to Brandon, which then causes him to become extremely upset and avoid Nikki. Nikki then decides that this has gone on long enough, so she decides to write letters to both of them. However, things get worse when Nikki gave each of them the wrong letters. In the end, things get sorted out (in a very confusing way), and Brandon stops avoiding Nikki. Brandon and Nikki resume there crush relationship and André and Nikki remain just friends.

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