But Nick is not innocent because he downplayed what vinny did during his tenure in the frat. This whole list of traditions? Everything was set up by Vinny including the walk of shame.
Not innocent of what, exactly?
He downplayed Vinny?
Ep3: Nick said Vinny dropped out because he was only into partying, and was a very troublesome guy. And that he and Vinny were the first pledges after Rusty and Tommy founded the DIKs.
Ep4: MC finds Nick in the "very messy room" while looking for the laptop. That this room used to be Vinny's, that he meets Vinny outside of campus sometimes, and Nick called him a "pig". That the room was even messier while Vinny was living in it, and trashed it the first day he moved in.
Ep5: Flashback where the DIKs are recruiting for the "right kind of people". Vinny says that if he read between the lines correctly, they hinted that they have ways to get around the system. Further in the flashback, Rusty says they are looking for "new dudes to join the cool club." Vinny's unimpressed, asks if that's what they'll gonna call it. Tommy tells him that they are still in the planning phase, and to drop the attitude.
Suffice to say, Vinny likes the DIK name.
Rusty says they are trying to create a brotherhood; the DIKs should be people they can trust, because this mansion "will be a house of sin." Vinny gets enthusiastic and stands on the stairs, saying "yes! Now we're talking! A brotherhood! We're brothers then!"
Tommy calls them a maggot, and Vinny likes that, and considers them all maggots.
At this point Vinny already knows some guys that have drugs, while discussing the pledge board for hazing.
When Vinny starts destroying the Library, Rusty isn't impressed. Vinny: "
A maggot should live like a maggot and a DIK should live like a DIK, and that this room happens to work for both." (This is 3rd person omniscient, and not Nick telling the story.)
After the mansion gets trashed by the Tri-Alphas, Tommy sees Vinny in the MC, as he had a violent fight with Vinny years ago.
Ep6: Nick tells MC that the relationship between Vinny and Tommy deteriorated. The MC asked if that caused Vinny to leave, but Nick said it didn't.
Vinny leaving actually made the DIKs frat a lot better. Nick describes Vinny as someone who brought a lot of fun, but that he was polarizing; you either loved or hated the guy. He hoped that MC doesn't turn out to have the same outcome as Vinny.
There's more, but what exactly was Nick holding out on? Comapred to Vinny, his room is perhaps the most clean (and empty, perhaps in contrast to not liking Vinny so much. Nick's Hallowe'en costume was amazing, and scary, which implies either introverted creativity, or suppressed, symbollic feelings of some kind.) Sure, he didn't say everything he could have in Episode 11, and that's fine for narrative reasons. But he was very clear throughout the story that Vinny caused a lot of problems, and it got better when he left.
The ending showed that the DIKS under the leadership of the MC is "healing" in a way that is not considered toxic. The whole thing with Avery and her gang is the result of vinny shaming all the girls and worse (kylie's sister).
Ok. The DIK choice with Kylie and Penny at Ep11 is nearly identical, apparently, as Vinny's way of kicking Kylie's sister out naked in the cold (which caused the whole naked DIK poster fiasco around campus.)
Not exactly "healing", and more "
exactly the same."
The difference being the DIK MC isn't a party animal, drug-dealing, stereotypical, dropout bad guy.
What I saw during the blowup was Tommy being an actual asshole to everyone and the rest of the diks asking questions BUT the real kicker is Nick revealing everyone's secret especially MC's relationship with Bella if on her path AND shitting on the MC and neil's contribution in the renovation downplaying it as we fixed some windows and got "cheap" furniture.
Nick is not a traitor, but his tenure with the DIKS is done. No one will ever trust him again with anything that he might as well just leave for good.
If the MC is so "healing", and he has the MC powers, he could very well get Nick to come back. Depends on how much drama DPC wants for this "being a DIK" experience.
MC has been known to be rather guilty over stupid things, so it's within his psyche to go all heroic-crusade drama on ex-maggot brother Nick.
Though, we're still waiting years for heroic MC to go save Riona, and that time has come and gone.
