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Down a pathless wood, where the wind meets the water, you will find her. But only when you stop looking...
— An anonymous phone caller.

"Nikki Pink", sometimes called just "Nikki", is a character and a fantasy version of Natasha Khan created for her fifth album Lost Girls, also being the protagonist of the mentioned album.

Background[]

Natasha Khan reveals the video for "Kids In The Dark" and her Lost Girls gang as she directs and stars in this first visual for her fifth album. The video is shot against the hills of Los Angeles, with the mysterious light of the evening shading the proceedings, and features Nikki Pink alongside the Lost Girls. In June 2019, Natasha featured tantalizing clues on social media in the form of video and photography, and the mysterious Lost Girls phone line was flooded with strange and intriguing #batphoners messages about Nikki's whereabouts.[1]

Life[]

Like most of the characters created by Natasha Khan, Nikki's entire past is unknown, so the album focuses more on her relationship with her boyfriend Michael and the Lost Girls.

Nikki is obsessed with phenomena and alien sightings and goes on these forums online where people go and find out if these phenomenal things really exist.[2]

Nikki missing poster

Nikki's missing poster

Nikki kept in touch with Michael via online, so they never met personally until Nikki moves to Los Angeles and Michael is waiting for her at the airport.[3] He picks her up from the airport and the two decide to go on a X-Files-esque trip trying to find out about the lost girls gang.[2] Nikki suddenly disappears and then Michael decides to distribute flyers throughout the city to help him find out the whereabouts of his beloved.[4]

Nikki, obviously disoriented in the city, meets the gang "Lost Girls" who join her to their group and finally end up turning her into a vampire. During the Kids In The Dark video, all the aforementioned happens, including that she finally manages to find Michael and both are now in love, only Michael does not seem to know that Nikki is now a vampire.

In The Hunger music video, Nikki is accepted as a member of a sisterhood of vampires who rejoice her between hugs and dances in the desert, on the outskirts of the city of Los Angeles. Nikki experiments a conflict between wanting to be with Michael (who she loves) on the topside while the Lost Girls are singing about flying up into the sun and jumping off bridges. They are all around her so it’s like a haunting feeling. In one of the testimonies made to the telephone line that Michael left in the help flyers about Nikki's disappearance, two girls named Adrian and Lee claimed to see Nikki leaving the LA Tropicana Market with a coffee heading to the intersection of Marmion Way; It is very likely that this happened shortly after she became a vampire since both claimed to see her in a very noticeable state of hunger. According to another testimony that claims to have seen Nikki in the dark, she mentions the exact night of her disappearance, June 20, 2019.

Another testimony claimed to have seen Nikki at a girl named Caroline's party, mentioning that "she was wasted as usual" as if he had already known her for a long time. It is not known exactly how long Nikki was missing, however, it seems quite a while because he mentions having told her that he would call the flyer's phone number if she continued with that behavior. The night of Caroline's party is likely to coincide with the testimony of a girl who warns Michael to look for Nikki in "the mirror". This would also coincide with the short visual that Natasha shared on her social media[5], where Nikki is seen experiencing vampire metamorphosis for the first time in front of a mirror; The red lights emphasize the transformation but could also be an allusion to a party.

It is unknown exactly when Michael manages to find Nikki. According to another testimony, a boy Kevin saw her at Del Mar Fair, it is likely that Michael went there and found her in the place due to the series of short visuals for Feel For You that coincide with this fact where is seen both of them enjoying the local entertainment. However, he seems to know nothing about what really happened to her.[6]

In another visual, which uses the Vampire track, Nikki and Michael are seen holding hands walking through the streets of Los Angeles when they are approached by a series of small ghosts descending from some stairs. Nikki stops to see them but she doesn't seem to fear any of them.[7]

In Safe Tonight, Peach Sky and Mountains is can think, following this fictional narrative, that Michael and Nikki are still continuing their relationship despite her inner demons and his insecurities. Nikki still frequents the Lost Girls and they are presented in a kind of representation that alludes to the most internal aspects of Nikki that are difficult to penetrate and dare.[2]

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