#Nolan Zarek

[trickster-kat]

Love Tangle Masterlist (1)

Part 2

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[west-rangers]

Caden Chrysler and his friends Mollie Hough, Joy Zarek, and Audrey Moriarty moved in together in shared housing while they all went to University. Caden and Mollie, who later re-identified as Ryan, went to Foxbury while Audrey and Joy went to Britechester.

Only Audrey graduated from there, though, as you can see.

First, Joy became pregnant. I don't remember who the father was because she treated university as a big party. Unfortunately, Joy suffered a miscarriage. It was apparently a boy named Geoffrey Zarek?? Then, soon afterwards, Joy herself dropped dead after work, and I still have no idea why because it was so sudden.

After everyone graduated, I debated on what to do with Beryl. In the end I decided to give her to Joy's father. However, while playing the horse expansion recently, I found out that Beryl was re-homed by the game after her father Nolan's death.

So now there is poor Arvin Steele-Zarek, literally the only survivor in his family now after both his parents and sister passed. His only blood relation is his half-sister Keely (toddler daughter of his mother and John), whom he has never met.

[diva-1-online]

Ike x Reader (Nolan’s sister)

Ike x reader

It’s hard being the adopted sister of a world famous lawyer, especially when you don’t live up to those same standards. And more so when the adoptive father was so sure you’d succeed in the business too. Boy was he surprised.

She just didn’t have the same way with words her brother did. The favoritism was obvious. Instead of her being able to pursue her dreams she was stuck being dragged to parties and used as arm candy with men she didn’t enjoy being around. Tragic honestly.

So here she sat, staring out at the ocean in the night. She had to get away from her brother and his snarky words to her.

“(Y/n)?”

Oh. Him.

“You’re not calling me my nickname anymore?”

“Well, the last time I called you “Bunny” you yelled at me.” Ike shrugged while walking closer to her.

“I’ll do it again.” She groaned and lifted her head from your knees. “What are you out here for?”

“I could ask you the same thing. But if you’re curious, fishing. They’re more active now. What are you doing out here? Did Nolan kick you out?”

“No, I’m just” she let out a deep sigh and looked up at the stars, “just stargazing.”

“It’s a good thing I came, little bunny, someone could’ve hurt you out here if you aren’t careful.”

“I think you’re more dangerous.” She laughed and looked out to the ocean. He was right, the fish were more active. Ike smirked and rolled his eyes, ignoring the comment:

“If I had known you’d be here I would’ve brought another pole.”

“No need, I don’t like fishing.” As she said that, Ike gave her a strange look. “I mean, I haven’t done it but I just know.”

“How do you know if you’ve never done it?”

“Well-“

“Exactly. So here,” Ike baited the hook and grabbed (Y/n)’s hand, helping her up. He walked up behind her and placed it in her hands, helping her cast it out. She felt her face heat up from the closeness and had to internally calm herself.

“Ok (Y/n),” she thought, “just calm down. No need to get flustered over him being so close. He’s just helping you fish.” No one needed to know she had any sort of feelings for him.

Especially not Nolan.

She hadn’t liked him at first, always seeing Ike as an instigator, but seeing him without Nolan around changed her mind. He was kind. He helped her when she had spilt coffee on her outfit, when she needed directions. He always in the right spot at the right time.

Suspicious almost.

As long as Nolan isn’t nearby, her and Ike were close. They were friends in a way. He taught her more about the courtroom than Nolan and her father ever could. He was in it more than for money. He was in it for justice.

She admired that. She grew up seeing people so bent on how to make more than enough money that she grew tired of it. Seeing someone be helpful for more than a cash or charity award was refreshing.

“You got a bite.” Ike told her, helping her reel it in. Tugging it, a fish flipped onto the dock. Her eyes widened as it got closer to her.

“Ike. Ike do something.”

Ike laughed as he took it off the hook and tossed it gently in the water. “Scared of a fish, Miss Zarek?”

“As if,” she rolled her eyes, sitting on the dock again with her legs dangling off. He laughed and patted her head, to which she quickly ducked from. “Get your slimy fish hands off me!” She shrieked, pushing him away. He smirked and sat down next to her.

“I didn’t think you’d be so scared of a fish.”

“I’d take a fish over you.” She laughed and leaned back onto the dock, closing her eyes.

“Aw, you don’t really mean that.”

“Maybe not. Doesn’t matter.”

“I think it does,” Ike leaned back next to her and smiled. “And I think you care.”

“About what?”

“My opinion.”

“…”

“You always seemed to care so-“

“That doesn’t matter! Look- I… ugh. You’re impossible.” She groaned, turning away from him.

“Me? You’re the one who keeps switching up. One moment you’re sweet and the next you’re sour. C’mon, pick a side.” (Y/n) stayed silent at that. He was right, she tended to switch up around him. It’s only because he kept teasing her though! What else is she supposed to do?

A couple more minutes of silence passed before Ike spoke up again. “(Y/n)?”

“…”

“(Y/n)? Are you,” Ike leaned up and saw her body breathing softly, eyes closed. Her chest rose and fell slowly as the night passed by. “Oh. You’re asleep. Well… I can’t leave you here.” He shrugged and got up, picking her up before walking off to his car to drive her to his house.

He set her down on his bed and tucked her in, careful to not wake her up. He left the room and began to get ready for bed, deciding to sleep on the couch.

As morning came, (Y/n) woke up in a comfortable bed, confused as she looked around. This definitely wasn’t her room. It didn’t even smell like her. It smelled like coffee and cologne and… and Ike.

That’s right, she fell asleep at the dock. He must’ve taken her back to his house. She got up and walked out of the room, glancing around for him. She saw a counter with him standing a couple feet from it, stirring his coffee.

“Well, good morning sleeping beauty.” He glanced towards her with a smile.

“You brought me to your room?”

Ike nodded and leaned against the kitchen counter with a coffee in his hand. “You fell asleep. Should I have left you out at the dock? Or better yet, bring you to Nolan’s room?”

(Y/n) tried to hold on a laugh, already imagining the scenario.

“What should I have said? Hey Nolan, here’s your sister, she fell asleep while we were fishing at midnight. Do you really think that would’ve gone over well?”

“Mm, maybe not.”

“I don’t think your brother likes me too much.”

“Hates your guts.”

“Good to know,” Ike smiled and took a sip of his coffee. As she went to pick up her phone, almost dead, she saw over fifty messages. Nolan.

“Oh dear.” She muttered, immediately typing as fast as she could. Ike raised an eyebrow to her as she focused completely on the phone. “It’s Nolan, he wants to know where I am. I have to go, thank you so much! Oh uh,” before she went out the door she thanked him once more. “I can make it up to you… if you want! There’s this club nearby that’s not super high end and I could pay for drinks-“

“Of course. And no need to thank me. I’m just doing what’s right. Now don’t let Nolan know you were with me,” he laughed as she nodded and ran off, hurrying to call her brother.

“Wait- do you want me to drive you there?”

“And risk Nolan seeing your car? No way!” She laughed and kept running further from his house. He smiled and leaned on the door frame wistfully.

“She’s certainly something.”

—

“I was afraid you wouldn’t show up,” (Y/n) laughed awkwardly as Ike stepped out of his car. He laughed and took her arm as they walked in together and began drinking. The club was definitely more casual than what they usually went to but she enjoyed this. It wasn’t too often she could be more than a decorative doll.

So they started drinking together. And she kept the drinks coming. Maybe she should have thought more about how much she was drinking versus how much she could tolerate. She was REALLY letting her emotions spill.

“Y’know, you’re the only one who treats me like a person. To the rest I’m arm candy or stupid and can’t handle the real world. They never let me talk about me, only them.”

Ike nodded as she ranted, clearly having an effect from the drinks now.

“I mean, I’ve had them try and “teach” me how being a lawyer works and how court happens. I’m not dumb! Just because I’m not one doesn’t mean I don’t know how it works! I’ve seen it since I was ten for heavens sake!”

And then she couldn’t stop talking.

“And I guess that’s why I like you.”

Oh.

OH.

“You like me because I treat you like a person?” Ike took away her empty drink, keeping away any others.

“More than that. You teased me but I could handle it, it wasn’t like the others. And when I fell asleep you brought me to your house instead of leaving me outside. And you,” as she kept going on and on about what she liked about him, Ike drew her closer and whispered into her ear.

“Is that why you would always blush when I’d get near you?”

She nodded, leaning in closer to him. “It’s why I won’t regret this.” She pushed her lips into him, pulling away just as quickly as she came. Once she kissed him it seemed that she realized what she admitted. She had kissed him. The person her brother hated the most.

“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have.”

“I’m glad you did. I had been wanting that for a while,” Ike told her, pulling her close. He leaned in once more to her, tightly holding onto her waist.

“Ike, I- somewhere else. Not. Not here,” she groaned, pulling away to look at the bodies on the dance floor. No one seemed to be watching them but at any moment they could.

“Aw, getting shy now? Here,” he took her arm and led her away towards another room. Before they entered he leaned back in, kissing her cheek and stroking her back.

“(Y/n)?”

Ah shit.

That’s an awfully familiar voice.

“Barnes, what are you doing with my sister!”

“Tch.” Ike glanced to the side and pulled (Y/n) closer in his arms.

“That’s not a good enough response. (Y/n), I thought you knew better than this. What are you even doing at a club like this?”

“Well what are you doing here?” She shot back, sick of his double standards.

“I was looking for you. You leave in the middle of the night and don’t come back until noon one day and the next you just disappear! I had to track you down through your friends. I refuse to babysit you anymore-“

“Then leave me alone!”

“Not until he does.” The attention was turned back on Ike, still holding (Y/n) close in his arms protectively. She could feel the anger from Nolan, not needing to look at his face to see his disappointment.

“(Y/n) is an adult. She can make her own decisions. And it looks like she decided to be with me.”

Nolan stared down at the two of them before sighing and taking a step back. “(Y/n), if this is truly what you want then I won’t stop you. Just know what you’re doing. I won’t defend you after this.”

(Y/n) hesitated. She wanted to move away from Ike, to go to her brother but… she wanted to do what she wanted. She wanted to be more than Nolan’s sister and that’s what Ike gave her. He let her be her own individual. But with one glance at Ike, she felt the surge of emotions she always did. She tightened her grip onto him as Nolan nodded and walked away.

“I’ll have your bags packed tomorrow.”

Wait what

“What? Did you think I’d still be living with you? When you date my court room enemy?”

“She can just move in with me,” Ike said, hands on her shoulder and kissed the top of her head. Nolan rolled his eyes and walked away.

“He really kicked me out…”

“Do you. Should we go back to my place?” Ike hesitated, unsure of what to do with her. On one hand, she could live with him. On the other, she did just get kicked out by her brother.

“Yea. Yea we should.”

So they left to his house. Night fell on them as they walked in, silence filling the house. He took her to the bedroom and let her get into bed, planning to sleep on the couch once more.

“Ike-“

“Yes?”

“Could you… sleep with me? You don’t have to, I just-“

“Of course bunny.” Ike smiled and laid down next to her, pulling her closer to his chest.

“Thank you.”

[miguelhernandez19]

September 8th was one of Nolan's birthdays - yeah because he has 2 apparently - so happy birthday to him 🎂😊

[lovelovetangle]

What do you think of Nolan? I’ve noticed it seems to be kinda split when people say their opinion

Nolan can be wonderful, but mostly he is terrible. Terribly wonderful...or wonderfully terrible?? Something like that. I love to make fun of him but I also really love his spin-off and event stories because he's just so petulant and SHAMELESS.

He was also the first route I ever played, and I was doing so poorly with him that it made me so mad and so determined to win him over that I pretty much became the MC herself haha.

Thanks for the ask! Sorry the response is hella late.

[peacefulrestvalley]

Poor Dean 😂

[playingwithmaia]

Imágenes del evento "Angels and Devils"

[northernscruffycat]

I made it through the Nolan route at long last, so time for my usual commentary. All in all it was... not as bad as I expected? I still didn’t enjoy it, but given how Nolan is in a lot of the spinoff stories, it could’ve been a lot worse. It’s hard for me to write a review on this one, because Nolan himself is such a polarising character. On one hand, he’s the most popular character in the game, appealing perfectly to Solmare’s target audience in every respect. But on the other hand, there’s also a lot of people who don’t like him at all. I fall into the latter category. But that’s why it makes this a difficult one to write, because whatever your opinion of Nolan is, you’re still going to feel that way by the end of his route. If you love him, you’ll still love him and if you hate him, you’ll still hate him. I put this route off for a long time. The game force-feeds you Nolan content at every opportunity, with him often being the top prize in events (though actually that works out well, since it usually means I don’t need to bother saving up for the top prizes lol). I didn’t feel like I needed any more Nolan in my life and I still don’t. But it came down to being between him and Valentin for the last routes I needed to play and it turns out I dislike Nolan less than Valentin, Anyway, his story can be summed up easily enough: Daddy issues and disrespecting women. The daddy issues take up most of it. Almost all of Nolan’s story is about his insecurity about his ebul dad, his insecurity about his name and pushing those insecurities onto Julia half the time, while telling her not to get involved the other half. Which brings us to the “disrespecting women” part. Most of the interactions Nolan and Julia have involve Nolan making her feel like dirt. Whenever they come close to having a genuine moment, Nolan will snap back to treating her awfully. This is intentional and Julia acknowledges it during the story. But since this is Love Tangle, Julia falls in love with him by the end anyway and Nolan defeats Nolan Sr. McBadDad. One thing that surprised me was the lack of smut. Not that I’m complaining. Given how keen the spin-offs are to get us to look at Nolan’s gross mantis body, I kind of forgot that early Love Tangle stories were a lot less horny than the game eventually became. I kind of prefer it that way. In these early stories, there’s actually differences between the supreme and happy endings, whereas in the newer ones it’s almost always the same, just that Julia gets laid in the supreme endings lol. So the ending of this story was relatively muted, though I’ve yet to play Nolan’s sequel, so I can’t say what happens there. One thing I couldn’t help but think was how much Nolan’s story would’ve benefited if Ike had been around back then for him to bounce off with their Ace Attorney style rivalry. It can’t be helped that Ike wasn’t created until later, but he does bring out the competitive side to Nolan that I prefer over the dull dynamic that Nolan and Julia have. But that’s just my takeaway. Like I said, if you love Nolan I’m sure you’ll strongly disagree with me here and that’s fine, too. With him done, I’m moving onto Valentin at last and then I might do Nolan’s sequel after that. I just need a break from Nolan before reading any more of his content.

[ohsomacho]

I finally started this new route but I already have a headache...

I mean STOP caring about Nolan, Julia, he's not your bae on this route 🙄

[idolcandy]

I know Nolan is the most popular character and all, but god I really hate the trend of surnames as first names. Nolan is a really common surname where I am and I know so many of them that I hate it as a first name. 

And I always read Oliver Cowell as Oliver Cromwell 😬

[xlysaaa]

Yes, me & nolan are the foodie couple 😂

Food is life👌

[trickster-kat]

Nolan 'Arvin' Zarek, Jr. Preview

[solns]

NOLAN STOP THEY’RE ALREADY DEAD

holy fuck tho that was badass

[diva-1-online]

Nolan X (Angry!) reader

Nolan X (Angry!) reader

–

Ah love; allowing people who normally are loud to go quiet in a blushing mess, allowing those strong willed to back down for their love, and allowing those with a sharp tongue to hold it. But how could just a simple feeling make the most prestigious lawyer turn soft? Well to put it simply, (Y/n) was the opposite of anyone Nolan had ever met. But his thoughts were interrupting while coming down the stairs to get some evening tea.

“Stupid whore,” he heard her exclaim to Cody in a - hopefully - playful manner. He saw her roll her eyes and get on her phone to distract herself.

“What did Cody do that was so bad?” He muttered to Ryan, who watched the whole show.

“Well-”

“It doesn’t really matter,” (Y/n) rolled her eyes again and walked off with anger radiating from her skin.

“Who got her worked up,” Josh peered over from the bar in confusion. Even though (Y/n) would normally do something along the lines of getting mad she would never cuss in front of Josh. He’s too nice.

Everyone seemed to look at Ryan, the usual instigator, and demanded an answer. He quickly put up his hands in defense and shook his head.

“Don’t look at me! Cody’s the one who-”

“It’s not important right now,” Cody smiled while cutting off his brother.

“He slapped-”

“Unimportant-”

“Her ass,” Ryan finished while Josh looked shocked. For one he knew not to mess with her and for another… Ew.

“It was an accident!” He quickly defended himself.

“Tell me, how would you possibly accidentally do it?” Nolan questioned him with a glare.

Cody simply shrugged with a nervous smile and Ryan rolled his eyes. He made a comment about how long (Y/n) will be mad at him for that. Josh continued on his glass and Nolan decided to visit her. While on his way his mind wanders to their first meeting. She was so… Open but giggly… Not mean like she was now… But maybe that was just an act.

Flashback:

“Don’t think you’re too important, (Y/n).” He sneered at the newcomer. She looked so innocent and easy to talk back to. Plus, Nolan was in a bad enough mood and the boys thirsting over her sent him over the edge.

“Whatever major loser,” she did some weird hand signals to him and turned her back. Baffled, Nolan pressed her hard.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Whadd'ya think? God, daddy issues over here can’t decipher a simple sentence,” she mocked him and held an ‘L’ up to her forehead. She started to laugh while clutching her stomach.

“Why you-” he began to take a threatening step to her when she waved him off lazily.

“It’s not my fault you’re so easy to pick on. Maybe change your attitude and it’ll stop,” the girl shrugged and swayed off to the thirst trio (Carlos + Cody + Ryan) and smiled cutely to them.

Normally, he would be mad as an understatement, but this… Her boldness and no hesitation. Is this how he treated people? And why is he… Hooked?

End flashback:

He rapped at her door and waited a minute. Two. Five. He got impatient and walked in. Upon entrance he saw her in a messy bun with sweats and a sports bra on. Her makeup was smeared in the sense of her trying to wipe it off… Poorly.

She was on top of her bed with her laptop up and headphones in. No wonder she didn’t reply to the knocks, she always blares her music in her headphones. Nolan tried to judge her face to see what she was even watching or listening to but… She was always a little harder to read.

He walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge, glancing at her laptop. She didn’t seem to notice him so he got closer. Again, she didn’t notice, too focused on a music video. He leaned in towards her and brushed some strands of hair away from her face. She turned to face him and took out a an earbud and offered it to him. He took it without a word and heard pop music blaring.

“Put your hands on me in my skin tight jeans, be a teenage dream tonight.” It blared with a young women singing into the camera.

“(Y/n), what is this?”

“Teenage dream by Katy Perry.” She muttered, obviously annoyed.

“What about your outfit? You’d never let me see you in sweats.”

“Obviously I didn’t intend on seeing you,” (Y/n) aggressively shut her laptop and put it away, ripping the earbud from his ear. Though she did stay and and sat up next to Nolan. In their quietness, she began to mess with her hair.

“Stop picking at your hair,” he slapped her hand away from her split ends and in retaliation she elbowed him in the gut.

“Don’t tell me what to do,” she was about to stomp off in anger when he pulled her back. She raised an eyebrow but relaxed into his touch.

“You’ve changed since coming here,” he muttered into her ear while she pulled her knees up to her chest.

“How?” Her usual tough voice was replaced by a more meek and quiet one.

“You were… Laughing more…”

“They’ve started to get on my nerves now,” she said in reference to the thirst trio.

“Well that doesn’t surprise me too much. They can be…”

“Touchy,” she finished his sentence and sighed. Of course Nolan knew what had happened but… But does she want him to know? She seemed so angry when he asked so… So maybe he should just stay quiet this once.

“You’re pathetic,” she cried or laughed out, burying her face into her hands.

“And how is that?”

“I don’t need your sympathy! I don’t want it! Just let me be alone,” she shoved him off the bed and threw herself to her side with her head into the pillow. Nolan stared up at (Y/n) and realized that her eyes were red and puffy. She had to have been crying.

“Was it that bad,” he whispered to her about the incident.

“No… It just hurt… It hurt like a bitch! And I’m not weak but obviously I can’t handle pain and-” she cut herself off by sobbing into her pillow and taking up the rest of the bed space so Nolan couldn’t try and sit by her. He tried to talk to her but she kicked him and told him to leave her alone. Slowly he left the room with the sobbing mess that is (Y/n) in it.

Truthfully, Nolan has never seen (Y/n) cry. Maybe she’s teared up but this? This was something major to him. He paused before he got to his room. Should he really leave her? She seemed so… Sad. There had to have been than what Cody did. But… But what? She won’t tell him and she’ll just kick him out again.

He opened his door with little hesitation. He grabbed his newspaper just to reread it for the day. Sitting on his bed, he got comfortable and laid his head, remembering his day. Thankfully he has tomorrow off so he can relax more. He heard the door creak and saw (Y/n) trudge in. Her hair was down and she had an old shirt he let her borrow on. She stared at him on the bed before collapsing on it with him.

Knowing not to make her angry again he let her lay down next to him in silence. She clenched her (well technically his) shirt while slightly crying again. She turned to him and buried her head into his chest.

“What happened?” He sighed and brought her closer. Her being touchy wasn’t unusual but maybe a little less than her coming into his bed.

“It’s stupid…”

“But it made you cry.” He added while stroking her hair.

“He called me flat…”

“What? That’s… It?”

“Yeah… He slapped my ass hard and called it flat,” she stifled a cry by bringing her face back down to his chest again.

“Anything else?” Nolan sighed in a sense of relief. At least it wasn’t anything bad.

“…”

“Well?”

“And Carlo asked for nudes and called me a whore when I didn’t send them.”

“What!” Nolan jerked up and clenched his fists together.

“Don’t… Do anything. I don’t want a big deal… Or Josh to find out,” she sighed and tried to lean him down to the bed again.

“(Y/n), you understand that I love-” he cut himself off before she could comprehend it but he was too late.

“Well… I like you too.”

“Really?”

“Nolan, I’m laying in bed with you while crying,” she laughed a bit and gave him a small kiss.

“You know I don’t want to stop at just that,” he pulled her hair over her shoulder a bit.

“Mhm.”

- hey guys feel free to drop some requests for love tangle!

[miguelhernandez19]

Stop inventing unnecessary situation 😤🙄 (specially involving the green haired guy)

[lovelovetangle]

😂