A Rakes Progress - Nicola Shadow

Nicola Shadow - The Corrupter

One of the characters in my adaptation of A Rakes Progress is loosely based on the Nick Shadow character from the play variation of A Rakes progress.
In my adaptation, Nicola Shadow is a mysterious and deadly computer virus who manipulates Tom into leaving his game and being a Rake amongst the video game town of Hubville, but unbeknown to Tom, Nicola Shadow always follows him and aids his downfall, taking form of his tophat for most of the story and later disguising herself as Babaturk, the old Hag that Tom marries.
In the end, Nicola Shadow infects Tom and reduces him to a stuttering glitching lunatic, and with that, Nicola fades out of the game world and leaves Tom a broken mess.

The idea behind making her a female instead of a male stemmed from the running theme of most of Tom's downfalls involving a female of some sorts, spanning from Sarah Young, the Old Hag and the Prostitutes Tom hires.
I instead decided to interpret this as a single entity who was both seductive and manipulative.

The three main characters of my adaptation of A Rakes Progress.
All three characters are involved in each others lives in some way.