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Name/handle: Mint (minttea)
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Other characters played: Mint Nainyene (Warrior of Light)
Do you have a reserve for this character?: No!
IC Information
Canon: Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Character: Noah
Canon point: Immediately after the end of chapter 4.
Canon intensity: Roughly teen to adult rating? Xenoblade Chronicles 3 starts with a conflict level of child soldiers who are fighting an endless war, and ends at saving the world people manipulating it largely to their own amusement regardless of the lives lost. As implied by the 'child soldier' soldier, manipulation and trauma abound within the setting. Finally, there's sexual references in the canon, but you won't hear it from Noah.
World information: Scifi fantasy, mostly leaning on the sci-fi. Robots and augmented reality implants are an everyday concept for the characters of the setting.
Character biofacts: 9th term (~18 years old), male, human.
About the character:
Noah's world is one of endless war between two nations: Keves, and Agnus. The war has gone for hundreds, if not over a thousand years, orchestrated by Moebius, the consuls who run each colony behind the scenes.
Born as clone already aged to age 10, Noah was sent into training immediately. As part of his training group, Noah got to know with Lanz, Eunie, and Joran early on, with Riku being within the colony doing repair work. As a result, these five became friends, with the turning point being a little ways into training. Noah, even at this early age, was both kind and full of a certain pensive introspection. From a place he could not name, a feeling sank into his bones: this war could make monsters of them all.
Even born the way they are, Kevesi and Agnians are not blank slates. It might be easy to imagine that to be the case. With death, the old life ends, and the memories vanish with it... Or so it is thought. Great trauma lingers on the heart, inescapable, and however Noah was born, it is impossible to deny that the life he last lived was a terrible one.
Consul N lived a terrble life. A selfish one, some might say. He lost, and lost, and his vision narrowed with each life. Mio. If he could just save Mio... and then a lifetime came where she didn't die in battle, and still the system itself stole her from him. N could not beat the system, try as he might... so he joined it. And he got Mio back, but oh, the cost... The lives all he cared about, once. All for Mio.
Noah was born into this world with that crime already scarred upon his heart. And so, only in this world for a single term, he did the only thing he could think of; he refused to summon his blade. Even if he couldn't remember conciously, Noah knew what kind of monster war made of him, personally. It scared him, and he retreated.
Riku called it what it is, cowardise. To retreat from the war, even while his friends were still in it wouldn't solve anything at all, and in fact, would only mean his friends would have to without help. They could die, any of them. To live in this world, was to fight. To fight to keep living. So, Riku then offered Lucky Seven. To have more tools was better than none, and Noah could, after all, use a Blade as a sheath for this much deadlier weapon. And in the end, that is this Noah's core. A care for those close to him, and a fear and obsession with death. What does it mean? Is it worth it, from either side?
In many ways, the true difference between Noah and N isn't just this question death's meaning, but the presence of Noah's friends each step of the way. Noah is born from N's regrets, and to be perfectly honest, the regret was most important was his friends. It isn't the regret N would think of first as he became a moebius, but it is the one that determined his fate. As N died in front of his son, he told Ghondor to keep his friends close, always, while knowing all he had ever done was push them away. But here, it is the presence of Riku and his friends that gives a shape and face to Noah's fears, and confronts him when he hides from it. They are the reason why he actually moves forward.
But of course, this is only half the story.
His second inciting incident, was around his 2nd term birthday. There was a Homecoming, which was beautiful, but left a sense of unease, I think. The offseer, Crys, and the song he played would be something Noah would hold onto. Homecomings, while something most soldiers aimed for, was never something associated with positive memories for N. Soldiers are told, life after life, this is the pinacle! This is what you aiming for! Why would any of the others have any misgivings when it has never been something to hate, to worry about. But N... it is the source of his pain, and like all wounds... it is etched within Noah. Without any ability to know why he feels the way he does, this Homecoming, too, is etched. Its his first encounter with these landmines after all.
Finally, there was an Agnian assault on his colony, and Joran sacrificed himself to save their lives. Noah saw the way Joran smiled, in the moments before death, and it stuck like thorns to Noah. Why would you smile right then?
It is no wonder that after this, he switched tracked to become an offseer. While in the capital, Noah would meet his new offseeing teacher, Crys, the same person who had performed in the Homecoming back then. Naturally, this too ended in sorrow, when Crys, close to his Homecoming, decided to choose his own ending with a smile. Again and again, the same question would come back to haunt Noah... leaving him a bit of a downer as we come to the beginning of the game, his 9th term.
Noah, as repeatedly shown, is someone who worries about every death, not just the ones close to him. So he played and played, getting his team late every time. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, Noah's team gets recruited for a shady mission to retrieve an even more ambiguous objective, which is revealed to be a mysterious stone, protected by forces Noah has never seen before. Most of the Kevesi and Agnian forces are killed in the approach, with Noah's group being one of the few remaining.
And as Noah and his friends confront the remaining Agnian unit... he hears a sound. Its hard to say what it is, even to him. But it unsettles and focuses him, in the same moment. He looks at Mio.... and something remembers. They will die here, today, if nothing changes. Just like the two of them have died over and over before. And that remnant of lives lost says "we should run."
Even if that instinct doesn't make sense though, Noah agrees with one sentiment. They will die here, if he doesn't do something. He has to try to make the other understand.... but it was, unfortunately, too little, too late. First Guernica forces a ceasefire, and then a monster Noah has never seen before follows him up by stabbing the man. Moebius.
They can't stop him. None of them can stop the Moebius.
As his final desperation move, Guernica uses the Ouroboros Stone to turn the remains soldiers, Kevesi and Agnian alike, into Ouroboros. And naturally, the Moebius is happy to both toy with them and seal their fate.
Things start to accelerate from there as he and his friends and drawn into a plot beyond anything they can imagine. Exiled from their colonies, and forced to work together with said Agnians, they all must find out what lies at Swordmarch. Of course, things aren't smooth sailing. First they need to figure out how to work as a team with former enemies, then fight with colonies as they forge a path towards Swordmarch. Along the way, Noah discovers that Lucky Seven can break a Flame Clock, and free colonies from the Moebius.
All going pretty well! And then one of their colony friends, Ethel, gets taken, experimented on, and forced into death by the Moebius. But not before she could reveal one important thing: a cannon in Keves Castle that can produce Annihilation Events on command.
Noah breaks into the castle, has a terrible time, fights some Moebius, breaks the cannon, and even meets a weird Moebius in golden armor that gives him horrible debilitating headaches. But they escape- no he's on the boat. This always happens.
Abilities:
His basic set of abilities consist of his power frame, his Iris, his collection of Blades, and Ouroboros.
His power frame is the source of his physical power and strength. A mechanical device, worn on his body, it enhances and strengthens his abilities so Kevesi humans can equal up to their Agnian counterparts. While powerful, it does require maintenence. As Noah is inexperienced with this maintenence, this is a weakness that will need to shore up, sooner or later.
His Iris is an Augmented Reality (AR) implant within his eye that has a large collection of abilities. These range from connecting with a network for information (unavailable on the boat), communication with other Iris users, combat HUD, mapping capabilities, and Blade storage. People can put things other than Blades in there for a kind of inventory, but its got a limited size, capacity, and storage time limit. Noah can personally keep things in there a little longer than average, but can only store 2 to 3 handheld objects, and one of those slots is permanently taken up by Lucky Seven.
(Lucky Seven, on a side note, is hidden within his main Blade, and has the ability to cut through any physical object. The boat hates him!)
On the topic of Blades, as an Ouroboros, Noah can use people's Blades if he forges a strong enough bond with them. Each Blade is imbued with the memory and skills of its originator, and can therefore grant Noah a variety of classes. I have too many thoughts on what this means for him, so
Beyond all else, Noah's final, and most powerful, ability is the ability to transform into an Ouroboros by combining his power ('interlinking') with Mio, his partner. This skill is inaccessible unless Mio is within arms length. This fused form is a half-step from immortal, very large, and powerful. The main limiting factor is that this power comes on a time limit, which gets shorter each time the user is damaged. You can regenerate limbs, as many times as you want, but it will make the time limit shorter. Pushing past the limit is possible but extremely dangerous, and by dangerous I mean instantly lethal to a 500m radius if gone too long.
Each member of an interlink has their own personal Ouroboros form, and Noah's is focused on offence. It ranges from 'hit them with a sword the size of telephone pole', to boosting everyone's power by splitting the sword into wings. (I love you Glorious Wings!!! You look so cool!!)
Noteworthy items: Lucky Seven, his flute, his power frame, and maybe a half day or so of water and food. All of the camp supplies were on Sena at the time of departure.
Mixed gender room ok?: Absolutely.
Player content notes/squicks: I'm bad with mushrooms, intensely detailed (or grounded in a very 'real life' way) medical stuff. Nausea/throwing up is also a squick.
Anything else:
Voice samples:
https://pluviooc.dreamwidth.org/1666.html?thread=478082#cmt478082
https://pluviooc.dreamwidth.org/1666.html?thread=499074#cmt499074
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40992312
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40920612
Name/handle: Mint (minttea)
Discord contact: minttttea
Other contact:
Pronouns: she/they
Permissions link: https://oftseen.dreamwidth.org/682.html
Other characters played: Mint Nainyene (Warrior of Light)
Do you have a reserve for this character?: No!
IC Information
Canon: Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Character: Noah
Canon point: Immediately after the end of chapter 4.
Canon intensity: Roughly teen to adult rating? Xenoblade Chronicles 3 starts with a conflict level of child soldiers who are fighting an endless war, and ends at saving the world people manipulating it largely to their own amusement regardless of the lives lost. As implied by the 'child soldier' soldier, manipulation and trauma abound within the setting. Finally, there's sexual references in the canon, but you won't hear it from Noah.
World information: Scifi fantasy, mostly leaning on the sci-fi. Robots and augmented reality implants are an everyday concept for the characters of the setting.
Character biofacts: 9th term (~18 years old), male, human.
About the character:
Noah's world is one of endless war between two nations: Keves, and Agnus. The war has gone for hundreds, if not over a thousand years, orchestrated by Moebius, the consuls who run each colony behind the scenes.
Born as clone already aged to age 10, Noah was sent into training immediately. As part of his training group, Noah got to know with Lanz, Eunie, and Joran early on, with Riku being within the colony doing repair work. As a result, these five became friends, with the turning point being a little ways into training. Noah, even at this early age, was both kind and full of a certain pensive introspection. From a place he could not name, a feeling sank into his bones: this war could make monsters of them all.
Even born the way they are, Kevesi and Agnians are not blank slates. It might be easy to imagine that to be the case. With death, the old life ends, and the memories vanish with it... Or so it is thought. Great trauma lingers on the heart, inescapable, and however Noah was born, it is impossible to deny that the life he last lived was a terrible one.
Consul N lived a terrble life. A selfish one, some might say. He lost, and lost, and his vision narrowed with each life. Mio. If he could just save Mio... and then a lifetime came where she didn't die in battle, and still the system itself stole her from him. N could not beat the system, try as he might... so he joined it. And he got Mio back, but oh, the cost... The lives all he cared about, once. All for Mio.
Noah was born into this world with that crime already scarred upon his heart. And so, only in this world for a single term, he did the only thing he could think of; he refused to summon his blade. Even if he couldn't remember conciously, Noah knew what kind of monster war made of him, personally. It scared him, and he retreated.
Riku called it what it is, cowardise. To retreat from the war, even while his friends were still in it wouldn't solve anything at all, and in fact, would only mean his friends would have to without help. They could die, any of them. To live in this world, was to fight. To fight to keep living. So, Riku then offered Lucky Seven. To have more tools was better than none, and Noah could, after all, use a Blade as a sheath for this much deadlier weapon. And in the end, that is this Noah's core. A care for those close to him, and a fear and obsession with death. What does it mean? Is it worth it, from either side?
In many ways, the true difference between Noah and N isn't just this question death's meaning, but the presence of Noah's friends each step of the way. Noah is born from N's regrets, and to be perfectly honest, the regret was most important was his friends. It isn't the regret N would think of first as he became a moebius, but it is the one that determined his fate. As N died in front of his son, he told Ghondor to keep his friends close, always, while knowing all he had ever done was push them away. But here, it is the presence of Riku and his friends that gives a shape and face to Noah's fears, and confronts him when he hides from it. They are the reason why he actually moves forward.
But of course, this is only half the story.
His second inciting incident, was around his 2nd term birthday. There was a Homecoming, which was beautiful, but left a sense of unease, I think. The offseer, Crys, and the song he played would be something Noah would hold onto. Homecomings, while something most soldiers aimed for, was never something associated with positive memories for N. Soldiers are told, life after life, this is the pinacle! This is what you aiming for! Why would any of the others have any misgivings when it has never been something to hate, to worry about. But N... it is the source of his pain, and like all wounds... it is etched within Noah. Without any ability to know why he feels the way he does, this Homecoming, too, is etched. Its his first encounter with these landmines after all.
Finally, there was an Agnian assault on his colony, and Joran sacrificed himself to save their lives. Noah saw the way Joran smiled, in the moments before death, and it stuck like thorns to Noah. Why would you smile right then?
It is no wonder that after this, he switched tracked to become an offseer. While in the capital, Noah would meet his new offseeing teacher, Crys, the same person who had performed in the Homecoming back then. Naturally, this too ended in sorrow, when Crys, close to his Homecoming, decided to choose his own ending with a smile. Again and again, the same question would come back to haunt Noah... leaving him a bit of a downer as we come to the beginning of the game, his 9th term.
Noah, as repeatedly shown, is someone who worries about every death, not just the ones close to him. So he played and played, getting his team late every time. Despite this, or perhaps because of this, Noah's team gets recruited for a shady mission to retrieve an even more ambiguous objective, which is revealed to be a mysterious stone, protected by forces Noah has never seen before. Most of the Kevesi and Agnian forces are killed in the approach, with Noah's group being one of the few remaining.
And as Noah and his friends confront the remaining Agnian unit... he hears a sound. Its hard to say what it is, even to him. But it unsettles and focuses him, in the same moment. He looks at Mio.... and something remembers. They will die here, today, if nothing changes. Just like the two of them have died over and over before. And that remnant of lives lost says "we should run."
Even if that instinct doesn't make sense though, Noah agrees with one sentiment. They will die here, if he doesn't do something. He has to try to make the other understand.... but it was, unfortunately, too little, too late. First Guernica forces a ceasefire, and then a monster Noah has never seen before follows him up by stabbing the man. Moebius.
They can't stop him. None of them can stop the Moebius.
As his final desperation move, Guernica uses the Ouroboros Stone to turn the remains soldiers, Kevesi and Agnian alike, into Ouroboros. And naturally, the Moebius is happy to both toy with them and seal their fate.
Things start to accelerate from there as he and his friends and drawn into a plot beyond anything they can imagine. Exiled from their colonies, and forced to work together with said Agnians, they all must find out what lies at Swordmarch. Of course, things aren't smooth sailing. First they need to figure out how to work as a team with former enemies, then fight with colonies as they forge a path towards Swordmarch. Along the way, Noah discovers that Lucky Seven can break a Flame Clock, and free colonies from the Moebius.
All going pretty well! And then one of their colony friends, Ethel, gets taken, experimented on, and forced into death by the Moebius. But not before she could reveal one important thing: a cannon in Keves Castle that can produce Annihilation Events on command.
Noah breaks into the castle, has a terrible time, fights some Moebius, breaks the cannon, and even meets a weird Moebius in golden armor that gives him horrible debilitating headaches. But they escape- no he's on the boat. This always happens.
Abilities:
His basic set of abilities consist of his power frame, his Iris, his collection of Blades, and Ouroboros.
His power frame is the source of his physical power and strength. A mechanical device, worn on his body, it enhances and strengthens his abilities so Kevesi humans can equal up to their Agnian counterparts. While powerful, it does require maintenence. As Noah is inexperienced with this maintenence, this is a weakness that will need to shore up, sooner or later.
His Iris is an Augmented Reality (AR) implant within his eye that has a large collection of abilities. These range from connecting with a network for information (unavailable on the boat), communication with other Iris users, combat HUD, mapping capabilities, and Blade storage. People can put things other than Blades in there for a kind of inventory, but its got a limited size, capacity, and storage time limit. Noah can personally keep things in there a little longer than average, but can only store 2 to 3 handheld objects, and one of those slots is permanently taken up by Lucky Seven.
(Lucky Seven, on a side note, is hidden within his main Blade, and has the ability to cut through any physical object. The boat hates him!)
On the topic of Blades, as an Ouroboros, Noah can use people's Blades if he forges a strong enough bond with them. Each Blade is imbued with the memory and skills of its originator, and can therefore grant Noah a variety of classes. I have too many thoughts on what this means for him, so
Abridged List of Blades/their Abilities
- Swordfighter: Noah's primary Blade. A balanced loadout, swordfighter tends to draw on Noah's ability to find weakpoints in the midst of battle. A certain level of precision is the name of the game with his sword, and, while not as fast as Mio or her class, Noah exhibets a certain level of skill dosging attacks.
- Defense Blades: Zephyr, Heavy Guard, Guardian Commander. These generally allow for a higher ability to tank damage, or dodge it, in the case of Zephyr. Of the three, Noah hasn't put too much work into training any of the three to mastery, but can use the skills in a pinch.
- Healing Blades: Medic Gunner, Tactician, War Medic. While having healing is a good idea, of the three he can only be said to have passingly good healing on Medic Gunner, Eunie's class. Maybe its the long familiarity with her, but its the only one of the three Noah would take out in an emergency.
- Offensive Blades: Ogre, Flash Fencer, Yumsmith, Full Metal Jaguar, Stalker. Focused on damage, Noah has dipped his toes into these classes more significantly, and can use more of their skills even without taking out the Blade. In particular, he's been working on Full Metal Jaguar and Stalker recently, since he wants to have access to some more long range options. That said, his best Blades in this field are still Flash Fencer and his standard Blade.
- Lone Exile, Thaumaturge, and Strategos were technically acquired by the party, but Noah hadn't unlocked them personally by the point of the reaching the ship. If he hangs out with a castmate who has and uses these classes a lot, this could change, but isn't likely. Of the three, Strategos is the most likely, and Thaumaturge is near impossible.
Beyond all else, Noah's final, and most powerful, ability is the ability to transform into an Ouroboros by combining his power ('interlinking') with Mio, his partner. This skill is inaccessible unless Mio is within arms length. This fused form is a half-step from immortal, very large, and powerful. The main limiting factor is that this power comes on a time limit, which gets shorter each time the user is damaged. You can regenerate limbs, as many times as you want, but it will make the time limit shorter. Pushing past the limit is possible but extremely dangerous, and by dangerous I mean instantly lethal to a 500m radius if gone too long.
Each member of an interlink has their own personal Ouroboros form, and Noah's is focused on offence. It ranges from 'hit them with a sword the size of telephone pole', to boosting everyone's power by splitting the sword into wings. (I love you Glorious Wings!!! You look so cool!!)
Noteworthy items: Lucky Seven, his flute, his power frame, and maybe a half day or so of water and food. All of the camp supplies were on Sena at the time of departure.
Mixed gender room ok?: Absolutely.
Player content notes/squicks: I'm bad with mushrooms, intensely detailed (or grounded in a very 'real life' way) medical stuff. Nausea/throwing up is also a squick.
Anything else:
Voice samples:
https://pluviooc.dreamwidth.org/1666.html?thread=478082#cmt478082
https://pluviooc.dreamwidth.org/1666.html?thread=499074#cmt499074
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40992312
https://archiveofourown.org/works/40920612
