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Nova Artino

FULL NAME Nova Jean Artino

ALIAS(ES) Nightmare
Insomnia
Nova Jean McLain

PRODIGY POWER(S) Tranquilize & Insomnia

AGE 6 (Prologue of Renegades)

16

GENDER Female

HEIGHT 5’5”

HAIR COLOR Black

EYE COLOR Blue

OCCUPATION Anarchist (formerly)

RESIDENCE Wallowridge (formerly)

STATUS Alive

FAMILY Tala Artino (mother) †

David Artino (father) †
Evie Artino (sister)
Ace Anarchy (uncle) †

RELATIONSHIPS Adrian Everhart (boyfriend)

ALLIANCE(S) Anarchists (former)

Renegades (current)

APPEARANCE(S) Renegades
Archenemies
Supernova

LESS

“
You know what they say . . . one cannot be
brave who has no fear.

Nova Jean Artino, known as Nova McLain,

Nightmare or Insomnia, is an Anarchist who
has the power to put others to sleep though she
never sleeps herself.

She as well as Adrian Everhart, is the main

protagonist in the Renegades trilogy by Marissa
Meyer.

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Pre-Series

Nova is collecting syringes from the alleyway

behind her apartment, which she uses to invent
a functioning hydraulic elevator. She had almost
finished testing it when she hears her sister,
Evie Artino, cry from the next room though she
returns to her hydraulic system. However, Evie
continues to cry, which prompts Nova to put her
to sleep to quiet her.

Nova then watches her father, David Artino,

create metalwork with his ability to pull threads
of energy from the air. She asks what he is
making, to which he cryptically answers that he
hopes the object will right some of the wrongs
he has caused the world. This prompts Nova to
think about how unsafe she had heard the city
was at such times like this and she asks her
father if their family will be okay. He
responds, "Of course, we'll be fine." He tells her
about the Renegades, which comforts her and
she soon falls asleep.

Nova wakes up to the sound of a door slamming.

She hears low voices in the hallway, which she
identifies as her father and mother, Tala Artino.
She peers into the hall and sees a man holding a
gun while her parents plead with him. Nova
watches fearfully as her father tells her mother
to escape with Nova & Evie, only for the stranger
to fire the gun, killing her. Her father sees her
and tells her to run before the stranger shoots
her as well.

Nova flees to hide in her closet, only to realize

that she left Evie behind. She considers running
back, only to stop when she hears the door of
the closet creak. She hides and pleads for the
Renegades to come, but to no avail. Evie starts
to cry and the stranger shoots her as well
though she survives as Magpie, with Nova
unaware.

The man finds Nova in the closet and presses

the gun to her forehead, but before he can fire,
she grabs his wrist, which puts him to sleep.
She stands over him and tells herself to pull the
trigger, but she is unable to.

Uncle Alec finds her standing over the stranger

and comforts her over the death of her parents,
promising to protect her. He then aims the gun
at the sleeping man and fires, killing him. She
goes back into her father's room and her uncle
takes the bracelet that her father was working
on.

A decade later, Nova is planning to assassinate

Captain Chromium.

Renegades

Nova goes to the annual Renegade Parade in an

attempt to assassinate Captain Chromium as
she works alongside Ingrid Thompson & Phobia.
While waiting, a young girl steals Nova's bracelet,
but Adrian stops her, (in actuality, Magpie) and
gives Nova back the bracelet. Adrian also draws
on a new clasp for Nova. Nova then leaves to
begin her assassination, suiting up as
Nightmare. She aims at Captain Chromium's eye,
but is unable to pull the trigger in time.
Meanwhile, Monarch, Smokescreen & Red
Assassin arrive to confront her. The Sentinel
interrupts and burns Monarch while attempting
to hurt Nightmare. Nova then escapes on the
Puppeteer's hot air balloon after telling the
Sentinel "One cannot be brave who has no fear,"
which gives Adrian, really the Sentinel, an
interest in Nightmare - as she may have
answers to his mother's death years before (the
body was found with a note: One cannot be
brave who has no fear).

Nova asks Ingrid for assistance, but she decline

to help. Captain Chromium throws the pike at
the hot air balloon, which hits the heater. The
hot air balloon's descent skyward slows and
Nova realizes that the hot air balloon will soon
crash. She then throws the Puppeteer out to
lose weight and the hot air balloon continues to
drift skyward. The Puppeteer is captured and
imprisoned by the Renegades, much to the guilt
of Nova.

Nova then goes back to the tunnels and the

Anarchists: Honey Harper (Queen Bee), Leroy
Flinn (Cyanide), Ingrid Thompson(the Detonator)
& Phobia. Leroy tells Nova she should consider
trying out to be a Renegade, since they don't
know what she looks like or who she is. He tells
her she would be a promising spy as Nova says
she'll think about it.

Leroy then drives Nova to the marina where they

meet Millie. She gives her a fake identity and
wishes her luck at the trials.

At the trials, she announces that she doesn't

ever sleep. Genissa Clark sco!s and after Adrian
accepts her into his team, Frostbite challenges
her. She chooses to fight Gargoyle, much to the
shock of the crowd, and in the end wins by
blindfolding him and forcing his hand out of the
ring, then starting a rivalry between Genissa &
Nova. Nova's team has begun doing surveillance
on Gene Cronin's Library. Nova then finds about
the origin stories of her fellow renegades, who
seem thrilled at a new teammate. They later spot
the Detonator entering the library despite the
fact that they were ordered specifically not to
enter, though they did. They feared that she
would leave before backup was called, or that
she would hurt civilians.

Archenemies

Nova joins the Weapons & Artifacts Department.

Adrian creates a jungle mural room for Nova,
complete with live plants, a statue of a man
holding his hands upwards, and noise-canceling
headphones, with which Nova sleeps for a full
day. While at Adrian's house, Nova successfully
snatches the Vitality Charm and escapes with
Adrian and his fathers unsuspecting. Under the
persona of Nightmare, she infiltrates Renegade
Headquarters and manages to steal Ace
Anarchy's helmet. However, the helmet is
encased in an unbreakable chromium cube,
further frustrating Nova and causing her to
search for a weapon that can free the helmet,
and ultimately Ace. However, the star on her
bracelet, taken from Adrian's house, reacted to
the helmet and the chromium cube shattered.
Nova grabs the helmet and runs, though
Frostbite and her team tries to stop her. The
entire team was later neutralized, except for
Stingray, who was put to sleep by Nova. She
barely escapes, leaving behind a wounded Max
and a murderous sentinel, who had just arrived.

Supernova

Nova is in Renegades Headquarters, mulling

over past events as she looks at Max's broken
quarantine, where Captain Chromium is
surveying the damage. Sketch's patrol unit is
called for a meeting as Adrian discusses the
possibility of a mole in the group. Danna's
butterflies all come to circle and land on Nova.
Nova successfully played it o! as her job in the
Department of Weapons & Artifacts and all the
clues she could gain from looking through
records. Nova knows that her time is running out
before the Renegades inevitably figure out that
she is the mole.

While Nova is at the safe house with other

Anarchists, she receives a threat from Narcissa
demanding the helmet in return for not telling
the Renegades who Nova really is and where
they're hiding. During the ensuing fight between
Nova and Narcissa, Narcissa breaks the glass jar
holding Danna's butterfly. Danna's imprisoned
butterfly quickly escapes to tell the other
Renegades the truth, but is killed by Honey's
bees. Danna reforms as a human, shaky and
pale, at Ruby's house and confesses that Nova
was indeed Nightmare. The Anarchists know
that Danna will bring reinforcements and quickly
flee, destroying the hideout with one of
Cyanide's special explosive concoctions.

Nova tries to go back to the hideout where she

frantically searches for the Vitality Charm, which
she believes she left behind. As she searches,
Nova runs into Adrian and the Renegades,
screaming at them to leave before the entire
building detonates. However, everyone on the
team is aware of Nova being Nightmare as they
apprehend her. Nova is then imprisoned at
Gatlon City's Island Prison with Ace. Genissa
Clark demands that not only should Agent N be
revealed, but that there should be a public
execution of Ace & Nova. Genissa wanted to be
the one who killed Nova, as Nightmare used Max
to take away her powers as a prodigy. Adrian,
heartbroken and betrayed, is devastated when
the Council, including his two fathers, agree.
Adrian visits Nova in prison and asks her to
confess to avoid execution. Nova doesn't
confess and Adrian is unable to convince his
dads to free her. Narcissa later appears,
masquerading as Nightmare. Adrian and the
team, except for Danna, are fooled as they
believed Nova was innocent. Reluctantly, the
Council agrees to free Nova and apologizes for
imprisoning her. Now free, Nova works with the
Anarchists and prodigy rebels to return Ace to
power and end the Renegades once and for all.

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Characteristics

Physical Attributes

Nova has blue eyes and wavy black hair that

cuts just above her shoulders. She has a sharp
nose, chin, and cheekbones. Nova is half-Italian
and half-Filipino. Her fingerprints were mutilated
to conceal her identity so that she could join the
Renegades.

Nova wears a dark hood and a metal face mask

over the lower half of her face to conceal her
identity. She also wears a bracelet that was
created by her father, which holds a star in the
empty prongs, drawn by Adrian Everhart. After
the star lost it's power in Supernova, it was
completed changed, and became a piece of
onyx.

Personality

Nova is cunning, sly, and sneaky. She's not the

best liar as she finds trouble coming up with
excuses for her long absences from the
Renegades. She's incredibly smart and quick-
witted as she frequently invents low-tech
gadgets for combat and everyday uses. She is
loyal to her beliefs, though that wavers in
Supernova. She's excellent at combat &
weaponry and has an advanced vocabulary.
She's quick on her feet and movements. She's a
"Strong opponent," as Nova took out her own
team twice, beat Gargoyle at the trials, and
neutralized Frostbite's team by herself. She has
also shown to be sarcastic in the midst of battle.

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Description via Marissa

Meyer
"Ever since the day her family was murdered,
Nova has been unable to sleep. But she doesn’t
miss it. In fact, her insomnia is part of her
superpower: She never sleeps, and can put
others to sleep just by touching them. After her
family was taken from her, Nova was raised by
the Anarchists, a group of villains who live
hidden beneath the city, lying in wait to take
down the Renegades and reclaim Gatlon for
themselves. But now Nova is old enough to
participate in the Renegade trials and
potentially infiltrate their ranks. If she makes it
through the trials, the Anarchists may come out
of hiding . . ." [1]

Abilities & Skills

Abilities

Tranquilize: Nova possesses the ability to

put others to sleep. This power can function
only through skin-to-skin contact.
Insomnia: Nova never sleeps, yet still
remains mentally fit and does not su!er
from lack of sleep.
Skills

Master Engineer: Nova is a very skilled

engineer who can design and create her
own weapons, as well as other equipment,
such as a miniature, functioning hydraulic
elevator.
Master Accuracy: She has dead-eye
accuracy as she was almost able to hit
Captain Chromium in the eye with a dart
during the Renegade Parade, where she
was on top of a nearby building.
Juggling: Nova became skilled at juggling
in order to improve her hand-eye
coordination.

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Equipment

Weapons

Nova carries weapons and other useful objects

which she invents herself. Nova clips many of
them to her weaponry belt or keeps them in her
du!el bag.

Heat-Seeking Throwing Stars: Nova

used two heat-seeking throwing stars
against Red Assassin, Smokescreen &
Monarch in the skirmish during the
Renegade Parade as she had worked all
summer to perfect them. During her and
Adrian's search of the Anarchists
abandoned subway system, Adrian finds the
throwing stars in Nightmare's train car.
Bazooka Netting Gun: Nova used a
netting gun that she engineered from a toy
bazooka when she was eleven against the
Sentinel and Thunderbird in their skirmish
during the Renegade Parade. The gun
shoots out a net of nylon ropes whose eight
points spread out like an octopus around
the victim.
Pen: Nova took a pen with a secret
compartment behind the ink refills, loaded
with poisonous darts, to Renegade
Headquarters when she was masquerading
as a Renegade. She considers using the pen
against Captain Chromium and Tsunami on
her first day as a Renegade.
Shock-Wave Gun: Nova took a gun that
could stun an opponent up to thirty feet
away to Renegade Headquarters when she
was masquerading as a Renegade.
Exothermic Micro-Flares: Nova took a set
of exothermic micro-flares to Renegade
Headquarters when she was masquerading
as a Renegade. When snapped, they glow a
luminescent yellow.
Gaseous Form of Agent N: Nova used a
gaseous form of Agent N stored in a prodigy
object to help with her infiltration of the
Renegade Headquarters to steal Ace
Anarchy's helmet.
Suction Gloves: Nova used gloves that
help her stick to any surface and allowed
her to climb.
Other Equipment

Du!el Bag: Nova stores most of her

inventions and some of her weapons in her
du!el bag.
Nightmare's Uniform: Nova's uniform that
she wore as Nightmare consisted of a
weaponry belt with special pockets and
hooks for her inventions as well as a
lightweight, waterproof black hooded jacket
with a flame-retardant coating and a hard
metal shell that hides the lower half of her
face.
Renegade Uniform: Nova's uniform that
she wore as Insomnia, masquerading as a
Renegade, consisted of the standard
charcoal-gray bodysuit with red detailing
and a red R, and boots with ankle braces
and slip-resistant soles.
Bracelet: Nova's bracelet is her dad's last
creation; therefore she never takes it o!.
It's coppery-gold with delicate filigree
surrounding an empty set of prongs, and a
clasp fixed by Adrian in Renegades (after
Magpie broke it). The star from Nova's
dream, revealed to be stored in her
amygdala, secures itself to the bracelet. In
the epilogue of Supernova, the star is
replaced with a black stone.
Renegade Communicator: Nova received
a Renegade communicator on her first day
masquerading as a Renegade. The
communicator is a thin strip of plastic that
will light up on one end, sound an alarm
during an emergency, and display the city
map. Pressing the other end of the
communicator and speaking another
person's name will allow the wearer to
communicate while holding it in front of the
face will record a video message.
Binoculars: Nova created a pair of
binoculars which had face recognition,
combining the face of a prodigy as seen
through the lenses to the face of a prodigy
in the database. It can record real-time
action.
Window Breaker: When Nova breaks into
Renegade Headquarters as Nightmare, she
uses her window breaker to break into the
security room to undo the cameras. The
breaker is a cylindrical tool with a spring
loaded spike used to shatter the glass of a
window. The spike can also be used to