Ballister & Nimona

Ballister & Nimona is the friend ship between Ballister Blackheart and Nimona from the Nimona fandom.

Comic
After Ballister runs from the Institution and plans his revenge, Nimona arrvies to his laboratory and tells him she will offer herself as his sidekick, he accepts after watching her shapeshifting skills. Then they go back to the Institution to destoy it but they are captured by Ambrosisu. Both Ballister and Nimona tart insulting each other, blaming each other for beng spotted, having more or less a father-daughter discussion. When Ambrosius stops them, Nimona begins murdering guards to escape, disappearing deeper into the facility and leaving Ballister behind. Ambrosius held Blackheart back during a playful swordfight, until the self-destruct sequence was activated and both knights had to escape.

Ballister got worried that Nimona died as he never saw her escaped, and when he received a call from the Director, he worriedly asked to know about survivors hoping that Nimona survived. He was shocked when the Director transformed into a shark, revealing it was Nimona in disguise, and asked her to return to his fortress. Ballister got relieved, but once thy arrived, he lectured her on how she'd acted and all the killing, explaining, "Killing solves nothing… I don't kill people just because they're in my way." They talked some more about their respective roles and plans, and then Nimona told him her backtory. They then went to Ballister's lab, where Ballister decoded the Institution documents Nimona stole, revealing Institution plans. Ballister and Nimona leaked the documents to the news, and after it they started having fun, watching the iconic zombie film together.

Time passes and they keep going with their plans to destroy the Institution, but at the same time, Ballister was getting more and more worried as he was bonding with Nimona, but also missing Ambrosius. He knows that both of them want to kill each other, and when the time comes for both of them to fight, he wouldn't know which one he would stand for.

Ballister went to rescue the bit of Nimona trapped in the tank at the Institution, and when he learned this part of Nimona was going to dissolve, he resolved to recombine the parts, and took Nimona with him to the fight between Ambrosius and the black dragon. Ballister yelled for the dragon to let Ambrosius go, and begged Nimona to do something. Nimona grew hurt and enraged when she learned that Ballister had told others about the device's effects, and the dragon attacked Ballister. Ballister used a spare gun to knock the dragon out, apologized to the dragon, rescued Ambrosius, called out for Nimona one last time, and fled the building as the self-destruct went off.

In the en, both knights went to the hospital to care for their injures. Ballister insisted on staying by Ambrosius' side, for when he woke up, but when a "doctor" visited and called Nimona a monster, Ballister told her not to call Nimona that, as she wasn't a monster, thinking of her as he misses her and feels guilty for not being able to save Nimona. When the same doctor who talked to Ballister arrives, Ballister realizes that the first "doctor" was Nimona, so raced out of the room, and saw Nimona at a distance. She smiled and waved at him, and as he shouts for her, a doctor tlls Ballister that Ambrosius had woke up and was asking for him. A saddened Ballister decides to check on Ambrosius, as he waves goodbye to her in a soft and hopeful way.

As time passes by, it is shown that Ballister and Ambrosius got together again. As Ballister lives his life, he admits that sometimes, instead of feeling endangered when he feels someone or something is staring at him, he hopes that it is Nimona, who is still protecting him from the shadows.

Movie
After years of being alone and hated by others, Nimona hears the broadcast of Ballister Blackheart's crime and the hate that the kingdom have for the "villain," she decides to seek him out and become his sidekick.

Fanon
The bond between these two is highly loved by fans, since Ballister is like a father figure to Nimona, and she acts like a joyful daughter who is always there to protect him back. Although their relationship in the comic differs from the movie (as in the comic Ballister betrays Nimona and tries to kill her, while in the movie, Ballister did think of killing her, but instead stopped her from commiting suicide), the way both of them understand and support each other is praised by fans. As the story from the comic is more heartbreaking, many fans like to draw fanarts of them being able to meet again and be a family together alongside Ambrosius, where these last to are able to talk things over and be happy the three of them.

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