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Nicklow is the het ship between Nickel and Pillow from the Battle for Dream Island fandom.
Canon[]
The two are teammates of Just Not in the fifth season, The Power of Two.
Nickel warns Pillow that Remote's behind her, thinking that she's been followed.
When Pillow suggests shredding Book as an attraction for Two's amusement park, Nickel adds on that he loves creating annagrams. Later in the hotel when Nickel tells Naily to see the value in the garbage they found, Pillow asks whether he really means it or if he says it because he's a nickel. He responds that it's a bit of both. As Robot Flower is about to return to her team from the hotel, Nickel tells Just Not to grab the garbage and Robot Flower. Pillow comments that he said to grab the same thing twice.
Nickel approaches Pillow on top of a roller coaster and asks what's going on, learning that she's playing Yoyle Chess with Cake and Book. Nickel questions why they're doing it on top of a roller coaster shortly before a cart hits and flings him away. Pillow, having leapt up in time with Cake and Book, tells Book when she asks where Nickel went that he questioned the rules of Yoyle Chess which no one should do. During the challenge, Nickel calls Pillow and Cake out for playing chess instead of watching over their Funny Plant. Pillow responds that she finds the game fun which babysitting a plant isn't.
Bomby, Nickel, and Cake are all thrown off the roof by Pillow simultaneously when they're announced safe at Cake at Stake. When Pillow suggests that they throw items and fly into the sky after rewriting Book's defition of gravity, Nickel tries to bring some sense into her until he sees her floating with various items below her. He then gets the rest of the team to follow her. As Puffball later grasps onto Nickel while sabotaging the team, Pillow throws Bomby at Puffball to try to deter her away.
After Pillow causes their multi-week long campaign of Goiky's Dragons to end, Nickel scolds her for overruling everyone else by exploding Bomby against his will. He tells Pillow to let Bomby play and is shushed by her. As Pillow is about to explode Bomby again in the challenge, Nickel stops her and pushes her into the match she's using. This causes her to be charred, although she finds this cool.
When Yellow face brags to Nickel that he has arms and Nickel doesn’t, Pillow wishes death on him.
Nickel and the rest of Just Not follow Pillow's advice to remain below the beam throughout the balance beam challenge.
When Pillow misinterprets Two's communication of the challenge as to kill off their team members, she shatters Two's screen and turns towards Book and Nickel which prompts the two to back away. He and the rest of the team go into hiding in Gelatin's Steakhouse from Pillow as soon as they split up. Planning on sleeping through the stress, Nickel finds a bed and unknowingly grabs Pillow while looking for a pillow. As soon as they realize this, Pillow grabs Nickel and slams him repeatedly on the bed frame, denting and killing him. She later shows his and Price Tag's dead bodies when confronting Bomby.
Fanon[]
Nicklow is a rare pairing in the Battle for Dream Island fandom overall. Throughout the fifth season, their time as teammates on Just Not slowly built up a following within the two. Following TPOT 9, fans felt very divided about the pairing. Shippers of the two interpreted Pillow "crushing" Nickel as fuel for the ship while others, particularly Nickel fans, felt infuriated by her antics from her potentially putting him in further danger in the season. Regardless, fan videos and fan art of the ship increased as a result on platforms such as YouTube, DeviantArt, and TikTok. The pairing is mainly overshadowed by other ships within the Just Not teammates, such as Booklow (Book x Pillow), Bookel (Book x Nickel), and Bombickel (Bomby x Nickel).
Fandom[]
- FAN ART
- Nickel and Pillow search results on DeviantArt
- TIKTOK
- Nickel x Pillow posts on TikTok
- Nickel x Pillow posts on Twitter
