Nicolas Williams

Nicolas Williams is the son of Leah Williams. He is mainly the office junior, but since 2019 is the accountant's assistant & archivist. He joined the office in June 2013. He is played by NJE, who is a non-binary actor four years younger than the character.

Storylines
Nicolas was born in 1996, being the reason why Leah was on maternity leave. Nicolas was indirectly the reason Lesley Barclay got her job. Nicolas was occasionally seen with his father, picking Leah up from work throughout the early 2000s. Nicolas was autistic, and left school aged 7 due to bullying from the teachers as well as the children. Nicolas was mostly an unseen character after 2007, who stayed behind with Rosemary. However in 2013, Nicolas started suffering from panic attacks, and started coming down to the office with Leah. In 2015, Leah began manipulating Nicolas. Due to Nicolas' panic attacks, on a few occasions he began looking for Leah. This was seen by Rik & Ruth, who both made up allegations that Clare was unsettled by it, which she later said wasn't true. This made Nicolas have a mental breakdown. In 2019, Nicolas was made archivist and accountant's assistant, in helping with the inspectors situation. Nicolas has also had lots to deal with in his home life, such as abuse from his father, the loss of his grandma, Rosemary, three times (when she got alzheimers, went into a care home, and passed away), battles with panic attacks, depression, and severe ocd, which resulted in him visiting a hypnotherapist, problems in school, in which the teachers handled him badly, health problems, most recently a cancer scare, which turned out to be anxiety.

Personality
Nicolas is mostly happy, cheerful and eccentric, who frequently laughs and comes out with obscure comments. This is largely due to his autism. However, on several occasions since 2013, has suffered from mental health problems. Nicolas has had panic attacks, which knocked his confidence greatly. Nicolas also has had depression and suicidal thoughts, and then severe OCD, which stopped him from doing everything, until he saw a hypnotherapist, which started him back on track. Nicolas felt better throughout 2016-18, however began on a downward spiral that got worse throughout 2018 and 2019. In 2020, Nicolas was terrified he has cancer, which caused him to suffer from anxiety. This turned out not to be the case, but Nicolas became more unsettled than he had been since 2015. Nicolas is due to leave, alongside Leah, in 2020/21.

Nicolas has also had small crushes on Clare Jennings & Kellie Pickard.

Family
Mother: Leah Williams

Father:Simon Carpenter

Grandparents: Rosemary Williams & Peter Williams