Wildoru

Wildoru is the het ship between Alex Wilder and Nico Minoru from the Runaways fandom.

Volume One
Alex and Nico knew of each other before the start of the series due to their parents meeting up every year for a charity event for the evil organization known as the Pride. Alex did not think very highly of Nico in the years before the series' beginning, even going as far as calling her "dorky."Alex soon changes his attitude upon seeing Nico for the first time in her new goth wardrobe and contact lenses. When Nico and Alex witnessed their parents sacrifice a young girl named Destiny Gonzales, they ran away with Chase, Gert, and Karolina who all discovered they have special abilities, except for Alex. Once the Pride found out that their children know about their operation, they used all of all of their influences to try and get them back.When trying to rescue the youngest member of the Runaways Molly Hayes; Nico and Alex had an intimate talk, and they shared a kiss, not knowing if it'd be their last day alive. It was revealed later that Alex was Nico's first kiss. Once they rescue Molly, Nico and Alex move into the hostel with the rest of the Runaways. When Nico says to the Runaways that her staff is gone, Alex suggests that it maybe was absorbed into her body. Later, the Runaways recruited Topher to their group which caused a brief bit of friction between Alex and Nico. When Topher revealed himself to be a vampire to Nico, Alex quickly saved her. Nico jumped into Alex's arms and they both confessed that they love each other, thus beginning a relationship.

A few issues later the Runaways entangle with Cloak and Dagger, who easily trap the Runaways. While Nico is delirious, Alex nearly told her that he loves her once again. Leading up to the final issues of volume one, the Runaways decided it was time to end the Pride's organization once and for all. Before entering their underwater lair, Alex passionately makes out with Nico before their final fight, and Nico tells Alex he knew what he was going to say while they were trapped inside of Cloak. While facing off against their parents, Alex managed to systematically take out each one of the Runaways and obtain Chase's Fistagons and Nico's staff. Once having done that, he revealed that he was a mole for his parents all along, and explained his plans to Nico. Alex professed his love for Nico once again, and asked him to join him in paradise after the Gibborim reclaim the Earth. Nico angrily refused his offer, and soon after the Gibborim kill Alex for disrespecting them.

Volume Two
Since Alex's death and betrayal, Nico demonstrated willingness to forgive when she unsuccessfully tried to resurrect Alex, and states that even though Alex was a traitor, he did not deserve death.



Avengers Undercover
During the events of Avengers Undercover, Alex is resurrected by Hellstrom to become Nico's tutor in battle strategy. Nico is shocked to see Alex's return, and reminiscences her past affection for him; stating that she never really got over his death, and would have given anything to bring him back. While tutoring Nico, Alex hits on her several times, and calls her "freaking sexy," while seeing Nico test out her powers. Alex's incessant flirting irritated Nico, as she daydreamed about murdering him.

After Chase was injured in battle and left comatose, Nico was devastated and blamed herself. Nico decided to 'do the wrong thing' in order to feel good, so she rekindles her romance with Alex; passionately making out with him.



Nico and Alex continued their romance for a few months, and began living and sleeping together in Helltown. By the time Nico faced Helstrom, Alex was in awe and speechless over how powerful his girlfriend had become, thanks to his training.

Soon afterwards Nico and Alex split up and went their separate ways again once Alex departed with Young Masters, not before telling Nico that it was really nice to see her again.

Season One
Similarly to the comics, Alex and Nico knew of each other since childhood, but have had longtime feelings for each other. Their crushes on each other were obvious to Nico's older sister Amy, who actually encouraged Alex to ask her Nico out. When Amy died, Nico and Alex, along with Chase, Gert, Molly, and Karolina all drifted apart. Two years after Amy's death, Alex is desperate to reunite with his old friends, and tries to do so at the school that they all currently attend; Atlas Academy. Attempting to invite them for a party at his house, they all decline.

Alex then goes to talk to Nico, where he confesses to her that while he misses having his friends together, he truly misses Nico the most. Nico shrugs off Alex's attempt to get through to her, and runs off to a bathroom sobbing. Later that night Nico attempts to conjure Amy back to life with Wicca spells on a beach but fails.

"Meanwhile at the Wilder Residence, Alex is surprised to see all of his friend attend his party, and is even happier when Nico shows up. Nico asks Alex why he didn't attend Amy's funeral, but quickly dismisses the topic and thanks him for throwing this party for her. When the kids discover their parents kill Destiny, they all make a run for it."After they all escape from the lair, the Runaways pretend to play a game of twister to fool their parents. Nico, feeling distraught from what she just witnessed her parents do, goes to the restroom to cry. Alex joins her, and Nico says she doesn't want to go home because she's afraid of her parents, and because she doesn't want to be alone. Alex grabs and caresses her hand, promising her that she isn't alone. When the two emerge from the bathroom, Geoffrey comments on how he sensed some sparks between Alex and Nico.

The next day, Nico and Alex meet up at the beach with the four other kids to discuss what happened when they witnessed their parents ritual.

Later that night Nico convinced her parents to go out so she could take her mother's staff. While looking at a snowflake found in Amy's diary, snow begins to fall within the Minoru home.

Nico quickly calls Alex, saying she needed a “nerd,” and they try to examine the Staff of One together. Wizey then informs them that Nico's parents are on their way home, and thus Nico and Alex frantically clean up all of the snow together.

They quickly rush into Nico's room, where Nico begins to undress in front of Alex. Nico shoves Alex onto her bed and straddles him, pretending to have sex for Tina to see. Tina deduces that the reason Nico wanted them to go out is so she could have Alex over, and she sends Alex away. Alex and Nico walk out the house together, with Alex feeling happy that out of everyone Nico could've called, she called him. Nico tries to deflect this, resorting to saying again that she needed a “nerd.”

Alex kisses Nico, which she enjoys greatly. Nico acts surprised by this, saying that what happened in the house wasn't real and just an act. Alex smiles at her, and departs with a 'later Hermione'. Once Alex leaves, Nico begins grinning goofily that her longtime crush just kissed her.

The day afterwards, Nico reads Amy's diary and concludes that there was no way she committed suicide and that her parents sacrificed her. Nico tells Alex that she is going to the police station to confess the crimes she witnessed her parents do, and asks him to come with her. Alex denies this, and Nico decides to go by herself. When Nico arrives at the police station, to her surprise Alex joins her, saying that he's not going to let her do this alone. Nico smiles at this, and they hold hands.

When Nico and Alex realize that their confession is useless due to their parents having cops in their pocket, they flee the station. Nico and Alex discuss how big the Pride situation has gotten, and Alex shows Nico the gun he stole from his dad's desk; saying that they have to protect themselves.

Nico and Alex head to Timely Coffee, where Alex tries to decrypt the file that Gert had sent him, and find out that Karolina's mother was hand-picking the victims for their sacrifices. Alex then gets told by a barista that his car alarm is going off, and leaves to investigate while Nico calls Karolina.

When Nico goes to see where Alex went, she witnesses him getting kidnapped by Darius Davis. Nico panicking, says to Karolina that someone kidnapped Alex. Karolina meets up with Nico devastated about the fact that their parents are murderers, but Nico tells her their priority is saving Alex right now. Nico uses the staff to figure out the way to Alex, and it shows them a path to follow. Nico and the rest of the group frantically drive to reach Alex, who is being held captive by Darius as a means of revenge due to his history with Alex's father Geoffrey. When the Runaways have a signal on Alex, they follow it and it leads to them fighting Darius and saving Alex. Once they defeat Darius, they all return back to Timely and gush about their powers.

This would be cut short however as they all rush to Alex's house to prevent a new sacrifice but realize they are too late. Alex storms off upset that they couldn't save the kid, and goes to his bedroom. Alex sits on his bed, and sees Nico enter his room. Nico sits beside him, and Alex confesses that he felt responsible because he shot Compton, the boy who he bonded with while he was kidnapped and who now was sacrificed. Alex ponders off, feeling even more guilty that he essentially helped his father go through with another murder. Nico grabs his hand, and forces him to sit back on his bed. Nico comforts Alex, saying that although their parents are committing these horrible acts, that at the end of the day they're still their parents. Nico holds Alex's hand tightly, nervously chuckling saying how she was so worried about him.



Nico and Alex gaze at each other for a moment, and Nico leans in to kiss Alex. Alex returns Nico's kiss, caressing Nico's face. The kiss gets steamier, as it then turns into a full make out session. Alex positions Nico on his lap, and they deepen their passionate make out. Nico straddes Alex while kissing him, Alex then moves his hands from Nico's hips and slides up her shirt, as they continue making out. Karolina arrives and interrupts them, making the situation awkward.

Nico quickly gets off of Alex's lap as Karolina explains that Chase found a hidden camera in the library, which all three head to quickly.

Alex discovers that the video files are stored in Nico's parents company Wizard, which Nico is adamant on trying to get so they could expose their parents. Nico and Alex officially begin dating from this point on.

A few days later, Alex calls Nico early, explaining that she had been right about everything, and asked for her help hacking into the Wizard servers at the gala later tonight. Nico smiles, and said she couldn't wait. Nico and Alex met up with the other Runaways at Timely to touch base, and know what the plan is. Alex offers to pick Nico up and go to the gala, but it's decided that they all just ride one limo there. While the kids go back to their homes to get ready, Nico plans on getting ready at Karolina's house. Tina asks if Nico is going to meet up with Alex, which makes Nico gleefully surprised that her mother was more approving of them being together.

Nico and Alex meet up with the rest of the kids in the limo on the way to the gala. Nico cuddles into Alex's arma for the whole ride, feeling content. Nico, Alex and Gert team up under the codename Operation Tina Server Room. Nico and Alex ask Gert to go flirt with the security guard as a distraction, and are left bewildered when Gert's opening line is "cockroaches." Nico and Alex successfully get into the server room, and Alex quotes something from Tron. Nico wasn't surprised to see her boyfriend geek out over being in the server room, and asks him which computer out of the many should they start with. Alex asks Nico if she really wanted to know how a hypervisor delineates between a physical server and a virtual one, which leaves Nico confused, and Alex thinks the thought of that is kind of hot. Alex unsuccessfully tries to port into the servers, and Nico proposes they go into her mother's office. Nico tries to use her Wizard keycard to enter the office but it doesn't work, which makes Alex type in the right password with ease. Nico asks Alex how he guessed her mom's passcode, and Alex replies that "he's just that good," which Nico doesn't buy into at all. Alex gets access to the video, but it still needs time to decrypt. Things get a little awry when Tina shows up to her office and Alex and Nico are forced to hide. Tina sobs, and Nico attempts to get up and comfort her, but is stopped by Alex, he gestures her to stay down. Nico drops a tear, since she had never seen her seemingly cold mother cry. Nico later asks Alex what her mom's passcode was; in which Alex lies and tells her it was "password."

The next day at Atlas, Nico takes a stroll with her boyfriend and tells him that her dad is moving out of the house, Alex offers his condolences and says she can ask him for anything. Nico then asks again about her mother's password, and asks Alex to stop lying to her about it, but they are interrupted by Chase and Karolina. Later that night, Alex is met by his girlfriend at Timely, and she once again demands him to tell her the truth. Alex affirms once again that he just guessed, but Nico interjects saying that she knows that he knew her password beforehand. Alex, then comes clean, and promises to tell Nico everything he knew regarding Amy and her mother. Nico, heartbroken that Alex would lie to her, storms off once hearing the truth. Alex stops her and admits he was the one who should've done better regarding Amy's passing, Nico tells Alex to tell her the rest of the story. Alex tells Nico that Amy had hacked into Wizard, and that he made a promise to keep Amy's secret. Alex admits to Nico that he was wrong to keep these things from Nico, and that he wants to do better. Alex says that he just couldn't tell Nico the truth, and that the few times he tried reaching out to her he was scared to since Nico had a massive personality shift when Amy had died. Alex confesses to Nico that he was scared that she'd never forgive him, because losing her forever would be would be another death. Nico decides to investigate more into the mystery behind her sister's death, only this time, doing it without Alex. Alex calls Nico, and stresses he can't apologize enough and that he just wants to talk, while the video file finished decrypting. Nico meets up with Alex at Timely again, and tells Alex that she found Amy's phone. The rest of the Runaways meet up with Alex, with Chase and Karolina agreeing that they shouldn't release the video of Pride. Alex, Nico, and Gert disagree, and Chase and Alex get into a scuffle. Nico desperately tries to stop Chase and Alex from fighting, but is restrained by Karolina. Chase manages to destroy Alex's laptop and the evidence, which greatly upsets the rest of the group.

As the next day of school comes, the Runaways all decide to go to the school dance, but only as a coverup to trick their parents as to what they're really doing. Nico calls Alex from Amy's phone, and they both find out that Amy never committed suicide but was murdered. Nico's father Robert interrupts them and tells them that they have to take pictures of Alex and Nico before they head off to the dance. Alex compliments Nico, saying she looks great; but Nico still hasn't forgiven Alex and tells him she doesn't care what he thinks. At the dance, Nico, Alex, Karolina, and Molly are wondering where Gert and Chase are, and Nico decides to go look for them. Alex asks if she wants some company, but she invites Karolina to accompany her instead.

When the Runaways are at the Pride's dig site, they soon face off against them and Jonah but are overpowered by the alien. Karolina decides to sacrifice herself to let her friends get away. The Runaways barely escape, and they recover on top of a mountain to debrief. Alex and Chase agree that it's best to get out of town since their parents know that they know everything, but Nico disagrees and wants to save Karolina. Nico convinces Alex and Chase to go along with her plan to save Karolina, who had just had a romantic encounter with Nico the night of the dance. When Karolina is rescued and the Runaways are all situated on the mountain, Nico and Alex have a moment together. Alex asks her how long it'd be for him to walk back home, to which Nico replies that they're never going back home. Alex asks her if she'd ever call her parents, and Nico says she wouldn't have anything to say. Alex decides to call Darius, who still has a grudge against his father, and Alex proposes that they'd work together so that Alex could get a gun and money to skip town, and Darius agrees just so long as Alex tells him everything about his superpowered friends. Alex later returns to the mountain, and Nico meets him in the early hours of the morning. Nico asks where Alex went, and Alex simply replied he just had to make a call. At the bus stop, the Runaways see warrants from the police to bring them in for the murder of Destiny Gonzales, and realize that their parents had framed them. Since they couldn't board the bus, they all decided to run away.

Fanon
Wildoru is considered a rare pairing in the Runaways fandom, mostly due to the fact that Alex betrayed the team in the comics. The pairing did pick up more traction once the TV series came out, since Alex got a complete overhaul in his motivations, and Alex and Nico's relationship was portrayed in a healthier way compared to their comic counterparts. Despite the ship having more of an audience than it used to, it still remains unpopular due to Nico's most popular ship being with Karolina.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In Mystic Arcana, Nico states that Alex is the love of her life.
 * Lyrica Okano confirmed that Nico and Alex still love each other even though they are broken up.
 * Lyrica Okano also stated that Alex understands Nico better than anyone else.