Nick Parsons (Novel Series)

Nick Parsons is one of Phillip Blake's old time friends and a central character in The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor. He was the most religious of the entire group.

Pre-Apocalypse
Little is known about Nick's life before the apocalypse. As a teenager Nick went to highschool at Burke County, Georgia with his two friends Phillip Blake and Bobby Marsh. At some point he was an all-state second baseman, and loved drinking with friends.

Witshire Estates
Once the dead started rising Phillip Blake picked his two old friends up along with his daughter and brother and started to make their way to Atlanta for a safe zone. Along the way they stop at Wiltshire Estates. While at Wiltshire it starts becoming clear that their current base will not suffice long term due to the high amount of zombies only a few blocks away in the golf course. While outside, Bobby Marsh is bitten by a hidden former resident of the home they're staying at who reanimated in the dog house. Bobby Marsh then dies and has his brain destroyed by Phillip before reanimation. The group then decides to move on toward the Atlanta safe zone after a burial for Bobby.

Toward Atlanta
While driving toward Atlanta Nick and his group run into several obstacles which requires quick thinking and team work to survive. This includes getting stuck on the highway while being surrounded by the undead, having their car getting stuck in the mud, and having to escape a Church full of zombies with a car that no longer worked. After ducking into a mechanic's repair shop and finding a well built car they continue their trek to the safe zone.

Atlanta
Finding Atlanta filled with tens of thousands of zombies if not more, doesn't discourage Nick's group. Phillip drives his car as fast as possible through crowds to go down town toward the safe zones, unfortunately for Nick's group however their vehicle's tires become slick with gore and crashes into a building. After escaping and having no where to go, a woman named [[April Chalmers]] calls for them off the street to take refuge with her sister [[Tara Chalmers]] and old and sickly father [[David Chalmers]]. After a bit of uneasyness between both parties, the two groups form a close bond with one another which starts to form a family in Phillip's mind. Nick after a while gets his own room where he reads his Bible passages and things of new ideas on how to get supplies other then searching their own building. Nick then comes up with the idea to build a bridge to the building across from them, and become the group's scout similar to Rick Grimes's group member Glenn in the Walking Dead comic. Nick eventually becomes more and more bold, which eventually leads him to setting up several safe zones leading down the street in case they ever needed a quick get away.

As if turns out, they needed to leave quicker then he expected when Tara Chalmers forces Phillip Blake's group to leave after Phillip Blake rapes April Chalmers. While furious and wanting to take April's appartment complex by force, Phillip says that there is nothing left in Atlanta and leads Nick and the rest away out of Atlanta using Nick's safe zones. Near the end of the safe zones, they find a motorcycle dealership, which allows Phillip's group to finally leave Atlanta without ever looking back.

The Peach Orchard
After leaving Atlanta Phillip leads his group to a home in a middle of a giant peach orchard field a little over fifty miles from Atlanta. While the situation seems ideal, Brian Blake notes how he things they were followed to the house and claims that he sees flashs of lights outside at night. As a saftey precaution they set up tin cans as noise traps to warn them a head of time of any invaders. The night comes when Tommy and his band of Home Invaders surround the house and attempt to take the house by force. After a deal is made which would allow Phillip's group to escape, Tommy decides to double cross Phillip's group and have them hunted down. During the hunt Phillip together with Nick manage to gain the upperhand on the attackers and manage to kill all of the home invaders besides Sonny and Cher. Near the end of the battle however Penny Blake is shot and killed by a home invader which drives Phillip to extreme rage and insanity. This insanity that Phillip never seems to let go of becomes the driving wedge between Nick and Phillip's friendship. Nick is seriously against Phillip's choice of keeping Penny around in her zombified form to which Phillip refuses to budge on his choice. Another straw that scares Nick finding out the two home invaders that were captured, were being slowly tortured by Phillip as well. After euthanizing the two home invaders Nick almost stays behind when Phillip starts to lead the group elsewhere away from the house filled with bad memories for them all. Nick only agrees to come to watch over Brian and not be alone.

Woodbury
After arriving at Woodbury with Penny Blake stashed in the woods Nick's personality starts taking extremes. His religious ideas start to become more and more prominent as his love for his friend Phillip started to go even farther and farther away. Taking the room next to Phillip's and Brian's, Brian finds out that Phillip has stashed Penny in their new appartment living room. After telling Nick, Nick decides to hide with Brian in Brain's room. They then overhear Phillip feeding Penny human flesh, after confronting Phillip, Phillip says that the body parts are from dead corpses and no one will notice. This causes Nick to almost leave for a second time, only being stopped by Brian's begging and reminding him of his long standing friendship with Phillip.

Everything eventually comes to a head however once Nick sees Phillip kidnapping a young woman (who later turns out to be the daughter of a man named Jim Bridges) and taking her to the woods. Nick then grabs Brain and heads off to where Nick saw Phillip last with 12-gauge shotgun in tow in an attempt to stop Phillip. When they all meet up in the field it becomes clear that Phillip plans on chopping the young woman up to feed to his zombified daughter. Nick points his gun at Phillip claiming that Phillip has the Devil in him and it is only right that he dies. Brian tries to keep the peace but Phillip tells Brian that Nick has always been a talker, and not a doer. Phillip then starts dragging the young woman into the woods to which Nick replies "have mercy on us all" and shoots Phillip fatally in the back sending out half of his brain stem through the front of his throat while also accidently shooting and killing the young woman by hitting her in the side of the scalp.

Breaking down and starts wailing while saying gibberish though his tears of prayer and pleading. Brain Blake at this time is so filled rage seeing his brother gunned down, he takes out his .38 and shoots Nick Parsons point blank in the side of his head killing him instantly.