Post by Nai-ru on Feb 24, 2008 19:54:02 GMT -5
Name: Noa
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Appearance: Standing at 5'1", Noa is just a tad on the short side. She has a neat figure, though her narrow ribcage makes her look better-endowed than she actually is, with good proportions and slightly too-long legs. She has very nice hands- pianist fingers, with delicate wrists. She's a little pale, but nothing extravagant. She used to have masses of wavy copper-colored hair, but she recently cut it boyishly short. Her features are all a bit overstated, her eyes large and bright blue, her nose slightly wide-set, and her lips pastel pink. Her jaw is a little too strong for traditional delicate beauty, her chin slightly clefted.
Personality Then: Noa didn't really have enough time to develop a full personality before she died. She was an inquisitive, bright child, but repressed by the quality of her life to the point that she hardly ever spoke.
Personality Now: Fiery and stubborn, Noa is an independent individual and is sharding well going to tell you about it, whether or not you want to hear. She is very affectionate, and shows this by literally tackling people she cares for and, if she thinks they've been stupid or put themselves in danger, punching them in the face. Among friends, this latter habit has come to be referred to as "Noa's loving iron fists." She has what she considers to be a horrifying habit of crying at even slight provocation, and every strong emotion seems to be attached to her tear ducts. This severely pisses her off.
She loves to run and swim, though if she has to run and isn't just doing it because she feels like it she will say that she hates running. She has a slightly vain streak, and doesn't like to show herself if she doesn't feel properly attired. She is exactly the type of person who will get someone out of a tough situation and then scream at them for getting their stupid selves into it in the first place, you moron. Oh, and don't startle her, because she has what she calls a "punch reflex," which means that if some poor sod jumps out at her from behind a wall to play a trick will be punched in the face, kicked in the shin, and screamed at before Noa even really registers what's happened. She'll apologize profusely afterward unless she hates you, but that doesn't much help your broken nose/black eye/bruised shin. She seems to have issues with her memory, and remembers in facts, like text on a page, rather than with reality (ie, she can tell you that when she was thirteen she tried to hang up a boy by his feet, but she won't actually have a memory of the event).
Earth History: Noa died at the age of six. She was born in Boston in 1921 to a factory worker and his wife. Despite the fact that she lived during the Prohibition, her father was an extreme alchoholic and went nightly to underground bars, and came home in the early hours of the morning in a drunken rage. Noa's mother would always be first in line for various kinds of abuse, and would slink off afterwards while her daughter got her own share. One night it was particularly bad, and Noa died. Though it was her father who killed her, the one Noa never forgave in life was her mother.
Middle World History: Noa has, again, been somewhat unlucky in family. She was born in Kerrilo, where her parents worked. Her mother died shortly after her birth, killed by a Soulless she didn't spot in time. Noa's father was devastated, left to raise a child by himself, an obligation he barely fulfilled. Instead of taking care of Noa, he took a job in Bethanos and proceeded to ignore her, except to send the neighbors he had watch her money to pay for her food. Last year, he, too, died in conflict with a Soulless- but his death made little difference to Noa, whom he almost never saw or interacted with.
Ability: Noa has the power of suggestion. She is capable of "suggesting" courses of action and trains of thought to others. The strength of the ability depends on two things: the mental weakness of the subject and Noa's closeness to the subject. The more familiar she is with the subject, the more easily they are controlled. However, this can be tempered by the fact that particularly strong minds are difficult to control. The ability is different when used on Soulless- since the mind is destroyed, Noa can affect only minimally the actions of the body. Often this means that she cannot stop an elder Soulless from attacking, only influence the speed of the attack or the particular target. An experienced Soulless she can occasionally make miss a target, but a very young one she can often restrain all together for a limited period of time. Her ability is somewhat ironic; she has never had anyone to love her, and with her ability all the love she wants is within her grasp.... but it would never be real. As a result, she almost never uses her ability on other human beings.
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