OOC;

FOURTH-WALLING: I'd like a heads up but I'll probably be cool with it.
THREADJACKING: If it's public I will 99% never care, though if it becomes a 300-comment off-topic thread in something I posted please take it to your inbox so I don't get mine spammed?
BACKTHREADING: FOREVER... I try to keep better track of my tags now so I don't lose them as often but it still happens time to time. I will never be annoyed about being poked.
PHYSICAL CONTACT: Alive!Noah is all about lack of personal space, feel free. Dead!Noah is more cautious about it as he feels noticeably cold as a corpse and like he's not quite there.
ROMANCE/SEXUAL RELATIONS: Noah's pretty awkward around people he first meets but becomes pretty flirtatious himself once he gets to know them better and trust them more. It's just a friendly thing, any actual attempt would have to be made explicit.
INJURE/KILL: I'd like to plot it out first, especially since there's a decent chance Noah is already dead. I'll probably be up for him getting injured though.


IC;
ALIVE: In Hadriel, Hope conveniently makes bodies for people again and revives them when they die, so even though he's a ghost back home he sometimes has a living body. When he does he's a normal person in more or less every way except he has a habit of going cold when he gets scared or upset, and has a very low-key mind reading. It's just skimming surface thoughts, he can't control what he picks up beyond the standard manipulation of telling someone 'Don't think of pink elephants'. I pretty much play this as him just getting what is written in the brackets/narration. He generally only uses this info to try and help other people and steer the conversation better, but let me know if you want him to not get anything.
DEAD: When dead Noah is at a glance indistinguishable from a normal living person. A bit more rumpled and faded than a normal person but nothing screams Wrong about him - if you can see him, anyway. Noah takes a lot of energy to maintain so sometimes he's not visible at all, just a voice or a shadow on the wall. Along with the mind-reading, he has standard poltergeist abilities of emotional based telekinesis (yay for slamming doors and throwing things at walls) and makes cold spots. He's also always cold if he's touched, and feels like he's not quite there or not as solid as a person should be. If someone knows he's dead he also starts looking creepier - mirrors/photos/etc show him more for what he is.

Noah is currently ALIVE.

PLAYER
Player name: Kels
Contact: exitmouse(at)gmail(dot)com/oncemorewithfeeling/YOU HAVE MY PHONE NUMBER.
Characters currently in-game: That would be pretty impressive if I could list something here since it hasn't opened yet.

CHARACTER
Character Name: Noah Czerny
Character Age: 17 (+7 1/2 years dead)
Canon: The Raven Cycle
Canon Point: After the end of Blue Lily, Lily Blue
History: Right after the end of Book 3: Blue Lily, Lily Blue
History: Seven years before the start of the book series, Noah is murdered on the ley line in Henrietta, Virginia, by his best friend in an attempt to perform a proper sacrifice and wake the line. While the sacrifice ritual failed, Noah still died, and what was left of him was tied to the still sleeping ley line. He was stuck in this world instead of moving on to wherever it is that ghosts go, if anywhere (Noah certainly doesn’t know and is perfectly content to go on not knowing). The ley line gave him enough power to by physically manifest most of the time, making him indistinguishable from a living person except for being easily forgettable, easy to not notice, and incredibly cold to the touch. People would reconcile his existence with what they ‘knew’ to be true. Instead of seeing the boy with his skull crushed in at the side from his skateboard, they saw a boy with a faint smudge on his cheek that never seemed to go away. When he tried to tell them that he was dead, they didn’t seem to hear.

When Richard Campbell Gansey III came to Henrietta six years after Noah’s death looking into the ley line that ran through Henrietta to try and find an ancient Welsh king he believed to be buried on it, Noah kind of ended up drifting into his friends circle, quietly inserting himself into their lives and letting them forget how or why he was there. Gansey liked to keep his friends close, and soon Noah moved into the abandoned factory he had retrofitted into something like an apartment with his other friend, Ronan Lynch. Attempts were made to get Adam Parrish to move in as well although they were unsuccessful.

With the help of the psychic’s daughter, Blue, Gansey found Noah’s body in the woods along the ley line. What was left of it anyway. A skeleton with no flesh left on it, his Aglionby sweater’s crest, his wallet containing a driver’s license with a picture and name identical to their shy friend were it not for the crooked grin. The subsequent ‘we’re being haunted’ intervention went about as well as could be expected, considering Noah was never trying to hide that he was dead. If anything it was a bit of a relief that now they knew and were listening. Unfortunately since they called the cops his body was taken into custody and was removed from direct contact with the sleeping ley line. Noah’s soul was still tied to it, but his remains no longer being part of it made manifestation difficult. For much of the rest of the novel he’s only able to manifest when Blue’s amplification powers are actively in use, otherwise only able to function as a poltergeist. Once Adam fully wakes the ley line and the Czerny family have a funeral for their son, the group basically steal his remains and bury him on the now woken ley line. This allows Noah to manifest again like he did before.

For various problems that are new to both books, Noah gets regulated to the background supporting cast for the second and third novels, participating little in either of them. In the second novel there is a different power source sapping from the ley line leaving the power surging and then blacking out, so Noah is often sputtering in and out of existence. When he is present he spends time keeping Blue company while Adam and Gansey are away from Henrietta, letting her into Monmouth Manufacturing and spending the evening there with her, eventually giving Blue her first kiss since she is doomed to kill her true love when she kisses him and Noah is already dead. When they are alone together, Noah also confesses that sometimes he likes to pretend he is like the other boys and still alive.

When Ronan goes street racing in Gansey’s car, Noah attempts to talk Ronan out of it. He fails rather spectacularly, but the attempt is none the less made, and when the night terrors attack Ronan, Noah does not simply vanish but stays with Ronan so he doesn’t face them alone before he expends all the energy he has to fight one off for his friend.

Once THAT problem is taken care of, Noah uses his newfound freedom to spend a lot of time with Blue in book 3 instead of just quietly haunting Monmouth Manufacturing, or assisting Adam in maintaining the ley line when he can. When Blue intends to otherwise strike out on her own Noah tags along to keep her company. Her presence makes him even more stable and also he genuinely adores her. This unfortunately leads to Noah’s problem of the book - there is something else in Cabeswater now, something magical and sentient and possibly dangerous, and when they get close enough to it Noah becomes prime real estate for possession/manipulation by it. After one very creepy run-in while tagging along with Blue, Noah otherwise sticks to the sidelines to avoid being manipulated into hurting his friends. For good or for ill, he is not around to help.

Personality: Noah lost much of himself when he died, personality faded and stripped away like the flesh from the bones of his corpse. There’s a constant vagueness about him noticed by everyone who notices him, like he’s not quite all there. He is at least somewhat ashamed of this, longing to be more than a photocopy of a photocopy compared to how he used to be. Sometimes he pretends he’s alive, though usually only when he’s alone. He will also freely admit that the person he used to be probably wouldn’t be someone his friends now would like to be around.

Never having been particularly over-confidant in life (he was described as “the most mild ambitionless creature”), in death he is awkward around most strangers and sometimes even friends. Social anxiety is probably understandable when you aren’t always sure if anyone can see you in the first place. Knowing he’s often the extra wheel, Noah prefers to stand back when possible to make it easy to go ahead without him, to leave him behind. He was content to have no purpose in life, but it’s yet another thing that makes him fearful in death. Not that this list is particularly short, for being already dead Noah is surprisingly fearful. Then again, considering that he died consumed by it, by betrayal, maybe it isn’t so surprising that he is often slow to trust new people and is always afraid.

Noah is not always an anxious mess, of course. He has a certain childlike happiness when it comes to things that fascinate him, having lost any of the pride that once held that back. Among those he trusts he is free and easy with happiness and warmth… emotional warmth anyway, since he’s still a walking cold spot. His friends are also the kind that enjoy making others happy, so when Noah is happy he makes no compunctions about showing them they have succeeded in this. The truly privileged even get to see the bit of a flirt he used to be back when he was alive. He cares about the wellbeing of his friends, and if being happy helps that then he will do it. If keeping his mouth shut about their problems will help, he’ll do that too. He is perceptive to the moods and feelings of others and knows when to push and when to let things go.

It would be more comforting to be able to say that being dead for seven years left Noah’s sense of humor a little warped, but all signs point to this being his natural way of being even when alive. As an old friend described him, “[Noah] Czerny didn’t really have a sense of humor, he just sometimes said things that happened to be funny.” Noah happily laughs at Ronan’s dumb destructive humor, becomes obsessed with an altogether horrible meme song, and allows Ronan to throw him out windows for shits and giggles. He’s more perceptive now as to which jokes are cruel and should be kept to only himself, but as long as no one gets hurt everything else is fair game. If a distraction is needed he’ll be that, if comfort is needed he’ll do that. On rare occasions, if bravery is needed he might even be able to muster that. His friends take priority over everything to Noah - he quite literally has nothing outside of them, they are the entirety of his world and making their lives a little easier makes his afterlife a little brighter. Hard edges of an annoying teenage boy with something to prove if only by apathy have been worn away. Along with being shameless in his happiness, Noah is shameless in his kindness as well.

He is above all things loyal to those he calls friends. With his current friends, who are good people if sometimes dumb teenagers who are dumb, this is a shining mark of his character and the thing that is best about him. Last time it rather got him killed. He doesn’t know how to not be loyal, though. It’s simply as natural to him as breathing, it is who he is, when everything else was lost to the miasma of death and only the blueprint of the person that used to be Noah Czerny was attached to the Henrietta ley line, his loyalty stayed.

Inventory:
- A very sharp hunting knife + sheath just the right size for Noah hands.
- A red plastic (but BPA free!) water bottle that is 3/4ths full
- A mason jar 4/5ths full of Vodka+Berry mix
- A skateboard with 'FUCK' written on the bottom in pink glitter glue
- like 20 fucking glitter glue markers
- Phone+charger with a bunch of pictures of his friends on it and a copy of Angels and Airwaves' 'We Don't Need To Whisper' album.


Abilities: Noah has a couple supernatural powers that come from being a ghost in canon. He can read minds to some extent that canon has not yet felt the need to define the limitations of exactly. I'm going with he has to be nearby the person in question (say, if he's in the same area as a medium-large size house) and he can only pick up surface thoughts. He can't root around for specific information, though there's always the good old fall-back of "Don't think of pink elephants." If he's actually dead and without a body he has a slightly larger range of what he can pick up. (In canon he also seems to have some kind of precognition but I'm going to go ahead and say that's tied directly to Cabeswater and inaccessible when he's not directly connected to it. )

He also has the poltergeist 'habits' of making cold spots and telekinesis when he gets upset that he can't really control. When he's got a body these wear him out fast and only happen when he's deeply upset or afraid. When he's actively ghosty it pretty much happens all the goddamn time because he isn't a helper.

In non-ghosty powers: Noah was a steady A- student at a school for boys with too much money to consider what to do with their lives and a decent hold of Latin thanks to his best friend being exceptional at it. He was good at freestyle skateboarding, good at kissing, has excellent handwriting, and was a little too fond of driving fast cars. He is uncommonly awful at pool but he has fun anyway. More recently he has been taught how to fight with a knife but he's still very much a novice at it.

Flaws: Noah's kind of a manipulative asshole. He always does it with the best interest of his friends at heart, but in the most black and white terms manipulation is used rather frequently. Also he totally made out with Adam's girlfriend while he was away that one time. This is just the stuff he's done after death, too. If pre-death counts he was a complete asshole prone to all sorts of petty crimes of the "No one got hurt! Well, no one we know!" variety.

CR AU
Previous Game and Time: The Box, June 2015 - September 2015
Previous Development: Noah's gotten a bit more used to having a body again since he's had one consistently for four months now. He's a little less awkward around his friends and has begun to cope with taking up space in the very real sense as well as important things like learning how to deal with Ronan's anger when he can't just vanish. Along with relying on Gansey for support since Gansey didn't mind that Noah was pretty touchy-feely since he could be again, they sort of segued into a sort-of-maybe-relationship-sorta-makeout-buddies, especially since Gansey needed to be supportive of someone and be needed. Noah's still not really ready to call it a Thing, though he finds it hard to sleep alone so the two often share a bed. A lot of Noah's initial anxiety about needing to be worthy of taking up space have faded thanks to Adam giving him a reading telling him he just has to be himself, too. Thanks to Rook from the Havemercy series, Noah has also learned a bit about knife fighting although he's still a beginner.

SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Noah's toplevel for TDM.

Richard "Dick" Campell Gansey III

Don't be afraid. ♬ ♬

Ronan Lynch

Best friend, magnificent dreamer, vibrantly alive with every moment, would punch a cop for him without regrets or hesitation ♬ ♬

Adam Parrish

From Hanged Man to Magician, a willing sacrifice, able to look out for everyone except himself love yourself Adam Parrish ♬ ♬

Blue Sargent

Even when I'm dead you make me feel alive. ♬ ♬

Henry Cheng

Please take care of them for me, okay?

Rook

Kind in his own way, heart surrounded by scar tissue, gone but not forgotten ♬ ♬

The Alcohol Demon

Frightening at first but a little funny. A bit like Rook, enough like him. I think I just miss my friend. ♬

Clear

Sweet, well-meaning. Can punch through a steel door but still kind of helpless. Take care of this one. ♬

Bruce Banner

Apparently turns into a giant green rage-monster when angry? He's so nice and chill though. Definitely Seen Some Shit. Try to help. ♬

Arya Stark

Little sister. I don't remember their names. I am remembering you. ♬

Ashley

Relaxing to talk to, even about philosophical things. Makes me feel ... normal ♬

Krieg

Doing your best to be good is what counts most of all, I think. ♬

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