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IN-CHARACTER
Name: Itzal Noah
Age: 206. Actually ageless, appears late teens/early twenties.
Journal:demideific
Series: Gloriosus (Original Universe)
Notes: Noah comes from an original universe based on the idea of a jamjar game.
Species: Humanoid demigod. If you wanna be more specific: a Numinous Organic Antibody Hominiform.
World: Gloriosus is a world based off what is essentially a jamjar game 'verse. This 'verse is a generic setting that is in no way meant to resemble an actual LJ/DW game that happened, it just plays with the tropes and follows the skeletal frame of such games. Sci-fi/fantasy was its domain, as much of the goings-on were powered by both magic and technology in equal parts and there was a lot of hypothetical space travel and aliens in the backstory, as well as magic and potential deities or avatars of such.
Two hundred years ago, a plague was released on the planet Terminus. Its origins were unknown, but its effects were startlingly quick and terrifying to behold: people would go spontaneously insane, then shortly after dropped dead after intense and terrible pain. On a planet of nearly six billion people, only a very minor fraction of the population was found to be immune. The Human Empire saw this crazyfast plague and went hell no, we ain't touchin' that and quarantined the planet for an obscenely long sentence of a thousand years in the hopes that it would either go away or die out with the planet's population. As many immune as could be found were rounded up and placed into cryostatis to wait out the quarantine should the infected be unable to find a cure.
Fast forward to... oh, about now, and select cryostatis pods have begun to malfunction, awakening their occupants early. Said occupants see that the entire planet has been wiped out by the plague and set about repopulating both the old fashioned way and with some help of advanced magitechnology to draw people into their universe from other dimensions. There was no guarantee that these other people would be immune, but there was the guarantee of more bodies capable of awakening the immune natives in other cities while trying to rebuild the world. Enter Itzal Malik, an immune who believed that the rest of the natives were going about it wrong; he planted the ideas of rebellion and return home in the minds of the foreigners. Lines were drawn down the middle between the immune NPC Terminals and Itzal Malik. In the end, Itzal won out and revealed himself to be galactically-renowned leader of the Silva mob family, Diego Silva, and that his part in overthrowing the immune NPCs was a play for power — however, his time with the foreigners showed him the usefulness of loyalty and he found a way to open travel between the dimensions to allow the foreigners free passage back and forth while they worked together to rebuild the world beyond the plague.
What this means for the setting is that New Alolito was a hub of immune Terminals woken from other cities, as well as foreigners from other dimensions all working together to rebuild society and eventually catch the attention of the Galactic Human Empire to lift the quarantine and put them back on the list of safe planets (with the Silva family in control of Terminus, of course). Noah himself as relates to this setting was more of a plot point than a character, used as a red herring toward Diego's temperament squishy inside (he really isn't) and then as the key to the final showdown: whether the foreigners would side with the immune NPCs and sacrifice Noah to eradicate the plague, or if they would allow Noah to live as per Diego's wishes and simply build onward and upward rather than constantly looking back. Noah will be coming from the "best" ending.
History: Noah's first memory is of waking, and of being fed lies. He was told that the population of the world was dying and that Noah was the only hope the people had of stopping the plague: his type of immunity was unique in that it could be cultivated into an antibody to combat the plague. Unfortunately, much of the technology and knowledge of how to handle it had already been wiped out by the rapid onset of the plague — only three years since it had appeared and over two billion people were dead. Noah obviously jumped at the chance to save everyone, not stopping to ask pertinent questions of his own past when there was so much more at stake. Along with what protection could be afforded to him for what turned out to be a dangerous trek across the country, Noah and his band of misfits nearly made it to the research facility — actually a fissure practically spewing the plague, too late to try and contain — when Noah was made aware of what his actual purpose was supposed to be.
Noah was a being made to be the ultimate antibody against the plague. To set him at the ground zero would kill him, scattering him across the four winds to the rest of the planet where everyone would gain his immunity and the world would be saved. It was the hope of the people that gave him strength, their last Hail Mary in the form of the Antibody Project. Once the plague was gone, by Noah's death or neutralization by other means, his existence would be redundant and he would disappear either way.
And Noah refused.
He refused to be led along by the chain of a people who could create a life to simply send him to his death on an altar while under the guise of living happily ever after. He was furious, blinded by rage and colossally impudent. He killed his entire traveling party and ran away with a new mission in life: keep the plague alive. If they were going to give him life, Noah was damn well going to protect it. It didn't take long for his efforts to pay off; two years later, the infected were all dead and the immune had been placed into cryostasis to wait out the planetary quarantine. Although something of a social creature, Noah subsided perfectly fine on his own by cannibalizing all forms of knowledge around the world in his travels, learning and entertaining himself just fine for two hundred years on his own. It was the hopes of the sleeping immune, and the rest of the galaxy, that kept him alive.
However, on return to the area near the plague's ground zero, Noah realized that some of the immune had woken early. He was equal parts terrified and enraged, and quickly inserted himself into the populace with a bullshit story of being sent from another city as a census in order to see how many people had woken in other cities. (It had not been public knowledge that the Antibody Project had been a person, after all.) He learned that some of cryostasis pods had malfunctioned and now the surviving immune were trying to rebuild the world and eradicate the plague in order to end the quarantine. They had pulled in bystanders from other dimensions to help with their dirty work. When his own identity was compromised by a small number of immune natives, Noah was forced to ground while the various factions in the city warred over the natives' obsession of apprehending an "innocent citizen". He was found and subsequently taken to Itzal Malik, an immune native who also led the sleeper rebellion faction, and placed under his care for as long as Noah was wanted for unknown crimes against the natives. Noah recognized him as someone else: Diego Silva, leader of the Silva crime family, who had been the topic of much debate when the immune were being put into cryostasis due to his criminal background. In deference to the protection he was being given without question, Noah simply called him Argent as a play on Silva and said nothing more to the fact.
As time passed, the natives uncovered more and more research material about the Antibody Project and were eventually able to concretely discern its status as a human being with godlike powers, a demigod brought down to earth. This information was disseminated amongst the trusted foreigners among them in order to keep an eye out for similar materials or anyone who might fit the description. A handful of foreigners attempted to subdue Noah and force him to ground zero in order to stop the plague based off that information. They failed horribly when Noah regained himself and murdered them all without mercy. He confronted Silva about the incident, ready to tear the man apart as well, and was instead pacified by an unexpected show of kindness and protection despite Silva being all too aware of Noah's identity. While it did little to assuage his ragged hatred of the other natives, Noah became rather loyal to Diego while he continued to treat Noah as a human being allowed to make his own decisions.
Disasters and distractions came and went, but eventually all good things would come to an end. Silva made his move on overthrowing the other natives and taking over the city; the native force countered by capturing Noah. In the chaos of both sides' true intentions revealed, there was only time to react. The foreigners, with their own relationships and powers stretched thin across the battle, were the ones to decide how things would end: Noah was saved despite his actions in the past becoming common knowledge; and Diego Silva gained complete control of New Alolito in order to rebuild his base of power with Noah as his strongman. His first action was to send people out in order to wake the rest of the immune so that they could rally and build from the ashes. As he had promised to a small group of foreigners who had gained his trust, Diego put much of his resources into making the dimensional transfer two-way and a few months later, the pathway was opened. While the threat of the plague and possible mutation breaking through their shared immunity lurked in the corner of everyone's minds, Diego officially adopted Noah under his assumed name and worked to keep the population busy and focused on legitimately more important matters. Noah's tie to those fears kept him existing throughout, though in a weakened state compared to previously.
He could live with that.
Personality: Noah is a spitfire. Quick, witty and incredibly defensive, he acts like a typical teenager as though it's him against the world. Then again, it actually is and this teen-minded demigod had the power to take it out on them. Even after everything was said and done, Noah felt very little regret for leaving a world to die: they were on that road anyway, and fuck them if they thought they could make a savior from thin air to solve all their woes. Noah is anything but a savior and does whatever he can to act against that label. As he was not raised in regular society and was instead strung along on a thin veneer as a young, cheerful optimist hopeful in saving the world, his personality became very warped once the truth was revealed and his positive exterior was buried deep under layers of bitterness to remind him why trust has no place in his life. Although horribly naive to the real ways of the world, Noah is jaded by his experience with humanity and no longer trusts nor truly cares easily. Falling back onto his id is the easiest solution over trying to develop social graces on a nearly-dead world, which makes him capable of acts of cruelty up to and including murder. It isn't wrong to him, just a matter of the strong winning where the weak shouldn't have tried.
On the other hand, Noah is not heartless and does indeed have a soft, squishy center like most human beings that was most evident before he was clued in on his true purpose. He hides it well and even he is no longer sure how to reach the goodness inside of him under the blood on his hands. There is still the yearning to be human without the complications of his existence, a miraculous return to how bright and full of possibility the world used to be. He doesn't want to be part of me vs. them (but will gladly fight to that end as long as it ensures his own survival) and his interests in the writings and art of the people long-dead have left him with a confusing yearning to see more of it, to see worlds unaffected by death and disease like the one he was born into. He wants to see what a flourishing world where he can remain anonymous is like whether he believes it possible or not. Noah is attracted to the human condition despite a learned loathing and intense distrust of living people off the bat; he's curious about what makes people tick in an unconscious effort to understand himself and learn how he could fit as anything but a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is more than willing to let society rebuild itself so that he can watch and learn, as long as his own survival does not come under threat again. However, it should be noted that just because someone may start to do good things does not mean he wants to stop doing bad things, either. Even if Noah should come to the development of melding into society, he will never be redeemable for his actions nor will he stop his immoral behavior.
His intense attachment to Diego Silva speaks strongly for his desire to be accepted and vindicated for his human thoughts and decisions, evil or good they may be, instead of being treated as nothing more than a malfunctioning tool. He yearns for the ability to make his choices as he feels fit, not because he feels constantly backed into a corner and teased into reacting violently. As soon as Silva made it clear that Noah's history didn't matter to him so much as Noah did, it was enough to stop him cold and, later, earn his loyalty for that simple act. He finds enjoyment in doing some terrible things, but he does it because he's a completely messed up human being, not because he's some deity that got broken. When it comes to people who are unaware or uninvolved with the Antibody Project, Noah can be considered tame and without actual bite; he falls back onto the happy-go-lucky Noah back from his very first days without realizing that there might be more to that persona than a whole bucketful of lies. It feels like a skin on too tight, something that doesn't quite fit, but there is a part of him that will always have been made for the people and, no matter how much he covers it in anger, betrayal and fear, Noah does indeed have the capacity to act sensibly and without malicious forethought. As with all human beings, Noah is capable of kindness and cruelty in equal measures and needs the chance to come into his own without constantly reacting to the perceived hostility of the world around him. Those muscles simply haven't been given much chance to stretch outside of Silva and an eventual group of foreigners who came to his aid in the final climax.
Noah is a very blunt and crude individual with a strong focus on a single thing: survival. This survival is worthy of the deaths of billions of people, his powers used shamelessly over the ones who would see him fulfill his purpose rather than give him the chance to live on his own. His isolation for those two hundred years have left him with an invincibility complex common in young adults given freedom without proper boundaries, allowing him to skirt danger and run straight into the arms of the very people who tried to sacrifice him centuries past. Noah considers it to be proactive protection as they would have eventually come after him anyway and he would much rather have the upper hand of surprise. That isn't to say he doesn't get scared, but that his fear twists around into anger and self-righteousness enough to blind him to the true dangers of his own actions and can leave him in very difficult positions where he did not see the immediate threat to his own survival when he was focused on going after the ones who might eventually destroy him. In a social context, this translates to him being quite a little turd with a rough vocabulary and an overly powerful intellect to contrast it; he has little sense of consequence borne of his own power and his time roughing it alone. His interactions with the foreigners and Diego have mellowed him out, but mostly in the sense that he will no longer always go actively seeking the trouble before any has a chance to come to him.
Up until recently, Noah served a very one-track existence. Now that he has come into contact with people again and formed different sorts of bonds of varying strength, he has to deal with the downsides of such attachments as well. Although not usually an active danger unless threatened, if anything were to happen to those considers friends enough, Silva especially, Noah would jump to their cause and do what he could to defend them whether it was a matter of physical prowess or verbal assault or anything in between. His approach is much like a bull in a china shop when he's in any sort of situation where his control has come into question, even worse when those he has unintentionally taken under his wing are considered. No one is allowed to be in danger on his watch; he might not be able to save humanity or sacrifice himself for the greater good but that doesn't mean he can't direct his destructive tendencies in the direction of those against him or his reluctant own. They are a key to recklessness that he hadn't considered, a balancing act that could put him in more danger than he intends to place himself, but he so often acts before thinking that it can become too late to do anything but come out swinging. However, the kinship provided by the people who don't judge him (either through ignorance, like the foreigners, or true acceptance, like Silva) makes them worthy enough for protection... though he may eventually learn to stop reacting so hotheadedly if bashed into his skull enough. Maybe.
Abilities: Noah is a demigod whose existence relies on the hope of the Terminals (people of Terminus, you see) that the plague they suffered may one day be eradicated. He was created using a forbidden and heavily modified rite in the hopes that a savior might be summoned to use its mortal body as as vessel for their salvation. His existence is tied to that of the plague: to find a cure or otherwise put it in the annals of history would be to destroy him.
The more desperation and belief in the impossible that the populous feels, the stronger Noah becomes. Despair directly correlates to the hope that people would have to overcome it. As such, Noah using his more positive powers indirectly inspires concrete faith and belief rather than hope and it is that very thing which causes him to slowly lose form. By creating more havoc and chaos, the need for his purpose (to save the people) becomes stronger, thus empowering him through an unfortunate loophole.
At the height of his power, he was capable of leveling entire city blocks with ease. In more recent times of his canon point, his power has diminished significantly but he still exists and that's pretty okay. Upon entrance to Drift Fleet, Noah will be tethered to the general hope an uncertainty of the other contestants for a solution to their dilemma — not his original purpose, but a similar enough sentiment to subconsciously tie himself to. Should something inspire the characters' hope to change into solid faith of going home or getting close to Atroma's identity or the like, Noah would become sick and more frail than usual; conversely, if a large setback is presented everyone's hope for an unknown solution rises, his powers might temporarily go up in scale. Thankfully, he is not personally aware of the yin-yang and attributes any destabilization to his own unstable existence.
Talents: AKA he had way too much time on his hands after all the Terminals died out and plenty of old resources to work from.
- Carpentry
- Engineering
- Computer sciences
- Metallurgy
- Tinkering
- Glassblowing
- Pottery
- Sewing/patchwork
- Fishing
- Gardening
- Cooking
- Free running
- Rock climbing
- Astronomy
- Breaking shit
No, seriously, he's got this one almost down to an art form
Passive:
- Agelessness
- Perfect health
- Enhanced reflexes
- Inhuman strength
Capable of lifting about a ton of weight.
- Thick-skinned
High resistance to injury.
Active: In-game, he will be limited to use upon a single target, and be unable to use multiple active abilities at the same time. Conjuration has been scaled down to small objects only.
- Healing
Wounds only up to gashes, bruises and minor bone injuries; can remove illness or boost the immune system. Using this destabilizes his physical makeup and he is reluctant to do so. He's promised Diego to only heal someone in an emergency.
- Conjuration
Must be inanimate; can be food or chemical as long as he understands the object on an atomic level. Using this destabilizes his physical makeup and he is reluctant to do so.
- Pure force
Telekinetic manipulation of forces around him in order to make 'solid' air. Cannot be used directly on objects, such as lifting them. Destructive use may strengthen him.
- Haemokinesis
Ability to affect the blood of other living beings. Manipulation of the various cells in order to cultivate disease, pain, control their movement or otherwise damage and cripple. Constructive use of this power is healing; using it more destructively may strengthen him.
Augment: Engineer.
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Name: DJ
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IN-CHARACTER
Name: Itzal Noah
Age: 206. Actually ageless, appears late teens/early twenties.
Journal:
demideificSeries: Gloriosus (Original Universe)
Notes: Noah comes from an original universe based on the idea of a jamjar game.
Species: Humanoid demigod. If you wanna be more specific: a Numinous Organic Antibody Hominiform.
World: Gloriosus is a world based off what is essentially a jamjar game 'verse. This 'verse is a generic setting that is in no way meant to resemble an actual LJ/DW game that happened, it just plays with the tropes and follows the skeletal frame of such games. Sci-fi/fantasy was its domain, as much of the goings-on were powered by both magic and technology in equal parts and there was a lot of hypothetical space travel and aliens in the backstory, as well as magic and potential deities or avatars of such.
Two hundred years ago, a plague was released on the planet Terminus. Its origins were unknown, but its effects were startlingly quick and terrifying to behold: people would go spontaneously insane, then shortly after dropped dead after intense and terrible pain. On a planet of nearly six billion people, only a very minor fraction of the population was found to be immune. The Human Empire saw this crazyfast plague and went hell no, we ain't touchin' that and quarantined the planet for an obscenely long sentence of a thousand years in the hopes that it would either go away or die out with the planet's population. As many immune as could be found were rounded up and placed into cryostatis to wait out the quarantine should the infected be unable to find a cure.
Fast forward to... oh, about now, and select cryostatis pods have begun to malfunction, awakening their occupants early. Said occupants see that the entire planet has been wiped out by the plague and set about repopulating both the old fashioned way and with some help of advanced magitechnology to draw people into their universe from other dimensions. There was no guarantee that these other people would be immune, but there was the guarantee of more bodies capable of awakening the immune natives in other cities while trying to rebuild the world. Enter Itzal Malik, an immune who believed that the rest of the natives were going about it wrong; he planted the ideas of rebellion and return home in the minds of the foreigners. Lines were drawn down the middle between the immune NPC Terminals and Itzal Malik. In the end, Itzal won out and revealed himself to be galactically-renowned leader of the Silva mob family, Diego Silva, and that his part in overthrowing the immune NPCs was a play for power — however, his time with the foreigners showed him the usefulness of loyalty and he found a way to open travel between the dimensions to allow the foreigners free passage back and forth while they worked together to rebuild the world beyond the plague.
What this means for the setting is that New Alolito was a hub of immune Terminals woken from other cities, as well as foreigners from other dimensions all working together to rebuild society and eventually catch the attention of the Galactic Human Empire to lift the quarantine and put them back on the list of safe planets (with the Silva family in control of Terminus, of course). Noah himself as relates to this setting was more of a plot point than a character, used as a red herring toward Diego's temperament squishy inside (he really isn't) and then as the key to the final showdown: whether the foreigners would side with the immune NPCs and sacrifice Noah to eradicate the plague, or if they would allow Noah to live as per Diego's wishes and simply build onward and upward rather than constantly looking back. Noah will be coming from the "best" ending.
History: Noah's first memory is of waking, and of being fed lies. He was told that the population of the world was dying and that Noah was the only hope the people had of stopping the plague: his type of immunity was unique in that it could be cultivated into an antibody to combat the plague. Unfortunately, much of the technology and knowledge of how to handle it had already been wiped out by the rapid onset of the plague — only three years since it had appeared and over two billion people were dead. Noah obviously jumped at the chance to save everyone, not stopping to ask pertinent questions of his own past when there was so much more at stake. Along with what protection could be afforded to him for what turned out to be a dangerous trek across the country, Noah and his band of misfits nearly made it to the research facility — actually a fissure practically spewing the plague, too late to try and contain — when Noah was made aware of what his actual purpose was supposed to be.
Noah was a being made to be the ultimate antibody against the plague. To set him at the ground zero would kill him, scattering him across the four winds to the rest of the planet where everyone would gain his immunity and the world would be saved. It was the hope of the people that gave him strength, their last Hail Mary in the form of the Antibody Project. Once the plague was gone, by Noah's death or neutralization by other means, his existence would be redundant and he would disappear either way.
And Noah refused.
He refused to be led along by the chain of a people who could create a life to simply send him to his death on an altar while under the guise of living happily ever after. He was furious, blinded by rage and colossally impudent. He killed his entire traveling party and ran away with a new mission in life: keep the plague alive. If they were going to give him life, Noah was damn well going to protect it. It didn't take long for his efforts to pay off; two years later, the infected were all dead and the immune had been placed into cryostasis to wait out the planetary quarantine. Although something of a social creature, Noah subsided perfectly fine on his own by cannibalizing all forms of knowledge around the world in his travels, learning and entertaining himself just fine for two hundred years on his own. It was the hopes of the sleeping immune, and the rest of the galaxy, that kept him alive.
However, on return to the area near the plague's ground zero, Noah realized that some of the immune had woken early. He was equal parts terrified and enraged, and quickly inserted himself into the populace with a bullshit story of being sent from another city as a census in order to see how many people had woken in other cities. (It had not been public knowledge that the Antibody Project had been a person, after all.) He learned that some of cryostasis pods had malfunctioned and now the surviving immune were trying to rebuild the world and eradicate the plague in order to end the quarantine. They had pulled in bystanders from other dimensions to help with their dirty work. When his own identity was compromised by a small number of immune natives, Noah was forced to ground while the various factions in the city warred over the natives' obsession of apprehending an "innocent citizen". He was found and subsequently taken to Itzal Malik, an immune native who also led the sleeper rebellion faction, and placed under his care for as long as Noah was wanted for unknown crimes against the natives. Noah recognized him as someone else: Diego Silva, leader of the Silva crime family, who had been the topic of much debate when the immune were being put into cryostasis due to his criminal background. In deference to the protection he was being given without question, Noah simply called him Argent as a play on Silva and said nothing more to the fact.
As time passed, the natives uncovered more and more research material about the Antibody Project and were eventually able to concretely discern its status as a human being with godlike powers, a demigod brought down to earth. This information was disseminated amongst the trusted foreigners among them in order to keep an eye out for similar materials or anyone who might fit the description. A handful of foreigners attempted to subdue Noah and force him to ground zero in order to stop the plague based off that information. They failed horribly when Noah regained himself and murdered them all without mercy. He confronted Silva about the incident, ready to tear the man apart as well, and was instead pacified by an unexpected show of kindness and protection despite Silva being all too aware of Noah's identity. While it did little to assuage his ragged hatred of the other natives, Noah became rather loyal to Diego while he continued to treat Noah as a human being allowed to make his own decisions.
Disasters and distractions came and went, but eventually all good things would come to an end. Silva made his move on overthrowing the other natives and taking over the city; the native force countered by capturing Noah. In the chaos of both sides' true intentions revealed, there was only time to react. The foreigners, with their own relationships and powers stretched thin across the battle, were the ones to decide how things would end: Noah was saved despite his actions in the past becoming common knowledge; and Diego Silva gained complete control of New Alolito in order to rebuild his base of power with Noah as his strongman. His first action was to send people out in order to wake the rest of the immune so that they could rally and build from the ashes. As he had promised to a small group of foreigners who had gained his trust, Diego put much of his resources into making the dimensional transfer two-way and a few months later, the pathway was opened. While the threat of the plague and possible mutation breaking through their shared immunity lurked in the corner of everyone's minds, Diego officially adopted Noah under his assumed name and worked to keep the population busy and focused on legitimately more important matters. Noah's tie to those fears kept him existing throughout, though in a weakened state compared to previously.
He could live with that.
Personality: Noah is a spitfire. Quick, witty and incredibly defensive, he acts like a typical teenager as though it's him against the world. Then again, it actually is and this teen-minded demigod had the power to take it out on them. Even after everything was said and done, Noah felt very little regret for leaving a world to die: they were on that road anyway, and fuck them if they thought they could make a savior from thin air to solve all their woes. Noah is anything but a savior and does whatever he can to act against that label. As he was not raised in regular society and was instead strung along on a thin veneer as a young, cheerful optimist hopeful in saving the world, his personality became very warped once the truth was revealed and his positive exterior was buried deep under layers of bitterness to remind him why trust has no place in his life. Although horribly naive to the real ways of the world, Noah is jaded by his experience with humanity and no longer trusts nor truly cares easily. Falling back onto his id is the easiest solution over trying to develop social graces on a nearly-dead world, which makes him capable of acts of cruelty up to and including murder. It isn't wrong to him, just a matter of the strong winning where the weak shouldn't have tried.
On the other hand, Noah is not heartless and does indeed have a soft, squishy center like most human beings that was most evident before he was clued in on his true purpose. He hides it well and even he is no longer sure how to reach the goodness inside of him under the blood on his hands. There is still the yearning to be human without the complications of his existence, a miraculous return to how bright and full of possibility the world used to be. He doesn't want to be part of me vs. them (but will gladly fight to that end as long as it ensures his own survival) and his interests in the writings and art of the people long-dead have left him with a confusing yearning to see more of it, to see worlds unaffected by death and disease like the one he was born into. He wants to see what a flourishing world where he can remain anonymous is like whether he believes it possible or not. Noah is attracted to the human condition despite a learned loathing and intense distrust of living people off the bat; he's curious about what makes people tick in an unconscious effort to understand himself and learn how he could fit as anything but a wolf in sheep's clothing. He is more than willing to let society rebuild itself so that he can watch and learn, as long as his own survival does not come under threat again. However, it should be noted that just because someone may start to do good things does not mean he wants to stop doing bad things, either. Even if Noah should come to the development of melding into society, he will never be redeemable for his actions nor will he stop his immoral behavior.
His intense attachment to Diego Silva speaks strongly for his desire to be accepted and vindicated for his human thoughts and decisions, evil or good they may be, instead of being treated as nothing more than a malfunctioning tool. He yearns for the ability to make his choices as he feels fit, not because he feels constantly backed into a corner and teased into reacting violently. As soon as Silva made it clear that Noah's history didn't matter to him so much as Noah did, it was enough to stop him cold and, later, earn his loyalty for that simple act. He finds enjoyment in doing some terrible things, but he does it because he's a completely messed up human being, not because he's some deity that got broken. When it comes to people who are unaware or uninvolved with the Antibody Project, Noah can be considered tame and without actual bite; he falls back onto the happy-go-lucky Noah back from his very first days without realizing that there might be more to that persona than a whole bucketful of lies. It feels like a skin on too tight, something that doesn't quite fit, but there is a part of him that will always have been made for the people and, no matter how much he covers it in anger, betrayal and fear, Noah does indeed have the capacity to act sensibly and without malicious forethought. As with all human beings, Noah is capable of kindness and cruelty in equal measures and needs the chance to come into his own without constantly reacting to the perceived hostility of the world around him. Those muscles simply haven't been given much chance to stretch outside of Silva and an eventual group of foreigners who came to his aid in the final climax.
Noah is a very blunt and crude individual with a strong focus on a single thing: survival. This survival is worthy of the deaths of billions of people, his powers used shamelessly over the ones who would see him fulfill his purpose rather than give him the chance to live on his own. His isolation for those two hundred years have left him with an invincibility complex common in young adults given freedom without proper boundaries, allowing him to skirt danger and run straight into the arms of the very people who tried to sacrifice him centuries past. Noah considers it to be proactive protection as they would have eventually come after him anyway and he would much rather have the upper hand of surprise. That isn't to say he doesn't get scared, but that his fear twists around into anger and self-righteousness enough to blind him to the true dangers of his own actions and can leave him in very difficult positions where he did not see the immediate threat to his own survival when he was focused on going after the ones who might eventually destroy him. In a social context, this translates to him being quite a little turd with a rough vocabulary and an overly powerful intellect to contrast it; he has little sense of consequence borne of his own power and his time roughing it alone. His interactions with the foreigners and Diego have mellowed him out, but mostly in the sense that he will no longer always go actively seeking the trouble before any has a chance to come to him.
Up until recently, Noah served a very one-track existence. Now that he has come into contact with people again and formed different sorts of bonds of varying strength, he has to deal with the downsides of such attachments as well. Although not usually an active danger unless threatened, if anything were to happen to those considers friends enough, Silva especially, Noah would jump to their cause and do what he could to defend them whether it was a matter of physical prowess or verbal assault or anything in between. His approach is much like a bull in a china shop when he's in any sort of situation where his control has come into question, even worse when those he has unintentionally taken under his wing are considered. No one is allowed to be in danger on his watch; he might not be able to save humanity or sacrifice himself for the greater good but that doesn't mean he can't direct his destructive tendencies in the direction of those against him or his reluctant own. They are a key to recklessness that he hadn't considered, a balancing act that could put him in more danger than he intends to place himself, but he so often acts before thinking that it can become too late to do anything but come out swinging. However, the kinship provided by the people who don't judge him (either through ignorance, like the foreigners, or true acceptance, like Silva) makes them worthy enough for protection... though he may eventually learn to stop reacting so hotheadedly if bashed into his skull enough. Maybe.
Abilities: Noah is a demigod whose existence relies on the hope of the Terminals (people of Terminus, you see) that the plague they suffered may one day be eradicated. He was created using a forbidden and heavily modified rite in the hopes that a savior might be summoned to use its mortal body as as vessel for their salvation. His existence is tied to that of the plague: to find a cure or otherwise put it in the annals of history would be to destroy him.
The more desperation and belief in the impossible that the populous feels, the stronger Noah becomes. Despair directly correlates to the hope that people would have to overcome it. As such, Noah using his more positive powers indirectly inspires concrete faith and belief rather than hope and it is that very thing which causes him to slowly lose form. By creating more havoc and chaos, the need for his purpose (to save the people) becomes stronger, thus empowering him through an unfortunate loophole.
At the height of his power, he was capable of leveling entire city blocks with ease. In more recent times of his canon point, his power has diminished significantly but he still exists and that's pretty okay. Upon entrance to Drift Fleet, Noah will be tethered to the general hope an uncertainty of the other contestants for a solution to their dilemma — not his original purpose, but a similar enough sentiment to subconsciously tie himself to. Should something inspire the characters' hope to change into solid faith of going home or getting close to Atroma's identity or the like, Noah would become sick and more frail than usual; conversely, if a large setback is presented everyone's hope for an unknown solution rises, his powers might temporarily go up in scale. Thankfully, he is not personally aware of the yin-yang and attributes any destabilization to his own unstable existence.
Talents: AKA he had way too much time on his hands after all the Terminals died out and plenty of old resources to work from.
- Carpentry
- Engineering
- Computer sciences
- Metallurgy
- Tinkering
- Glassblowing
- Pottery
- Sewing/patchwork
- Fishing
- Gardening
- Cooking
- Free running
- Rock climbing
- Astronomy
- Breaking shit
No, seriously, he's got this one almost down to an art form
Passive:
- Agelessness
- Perfect health
- Enhanced reflexes
- Inhuman strength
Capable of lifting about a ton of weight.
- Thick-skinned
High resistance to injury.
Active: In-game, he will be limited to use upon a single target, and be unable to use multiple active abilities at the same time. Conjuration has been scaled down to small objects only.
- Healing
Wounds only up to gashes, bruises and minor bone injuries; can remove illness or boost the immune system. Using this destabilizes his physical makeup and he is reluctant to do so. He's promised Diego to only heal someone in an emergency.
- Conjuration
Must be inanimate; can be food or chemical as long as he understands the object on an atomic level. Using this destabilizes his physical makeup and he is reluctant to do so.
- Pure force
Telekinetic manipulation of forces around him in order to make 'solid' air. Cannot be used directly on objects, such as lifting them. Destructive use may strengthen him.
- Haemokinesis
Ability to affect the blood of other living beings. Manipulation of the various cells in order to cultivate disease, pain, control their movement or otherwise damage and cripple. Constructive use of this power is healing; using it more destructively may strengthen him.
Augment: Engineer.
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