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A Motor mouth, Nudge is an African American 11 years old, and very talkative. Her wings are brown with russet streaks and streaked with white on the underside. She has curly brown hair (highlighted blonde during a makeover in Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment). She is a skilled computer hacker, and develops tenuous psychometric powers within the course of the first book. This has its disadvantages, as she appears to start crying whenever she touches something that has generated great sadness or if many people have touched it, as when she went to the Vietnam Memorial on a field trip in School's Out Forever. In the fourth book in chapter 5, Nudge develops the ability to attract metal when she wants to. When Jeb sees this he explains that he never gave her that power so he says that they could possibly be " mutating" on their own.[1][2][3][4] Of all the Flock's members, Nudge is the one most determined to find her biological parents, forcing Fang to go down to Tipisco, Arizona, to try and locate her parents, in book one, with mixed results. She did find a woman who looked like her mother, but, before she could talk to her, Ari attacked them. Nudge sometimes acts slightly girly and events in the series suggest that she cares for her appearance and other things a girl would care about, although in the second book it is revealed that she is an expert with cars.She is revealed to be frightened of rats. Her real name is Monique.

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