
As a result, on the one hand she's aware that her children are keeping things from her, and this devastates her because she thinks that's due to her inadequacy as a mother. As an adult, Nina cannot remember magic, which is now an integral part of her children's lives, as well as the reasons why her husband died. Locked Out of the Loop: Played for Drama.The Alcoholic: She used to be this prior to the series.
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In the show, she falls in love with Josh and ends the series well on the way to marrying him.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, she never remarries or even considers it apart from a Ship Tease with Detective Mutuku. Also, because she's on the wagon for most of the show, her actions can no longer be justified by alcoholism, so she comes across as slightly airheaded. In the show, she comes across more as a befuddled Stepford Smiler, trying to hide her depression behind a positive exterior and occasionally letting the mask slip. Adaptational Personality Change: Throughout the comics, Nina is withdrawn, chronically depressed, increasingly alcoholic, and sometimes even violent - at one point slapping Kinsey hard across the face over the course of an argument. Worse still, Nina is fully sober when she does this. but while her series counterpart is eventually made aware of magic through the power of the Memory Key, she also joins Kinsey and Bode in playing around with highly-dangerous magical artifacts - nearly getting Bode killed very early in season 3. Adaptational Dumbass: Zig-zagged in the comics, she remains oblivious to magic all the way through.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Inverted unlike her comic counterpart, Nina wasn't raped in the backstory.