Post by Noah St Cloud on May 3, 2022 8:50:06 GMT -5
WELCOME TO LOS EUROSIA,
NOAH ST. CLOUD
"My family called me an abomination. That hurt my feelings."
BASICS
NAME: Noah St. Cloud
AGE: 30
BIRTHDATE: July 29th
PRONOUNS: He/Him
SEXUALITY: Pansexual
RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single
OCCUPATION: Blackstorm Recruiter
Sometimes other Blackstorm members will catch wind of a Gifted individual and send Noah to investigate. Sometimes Noah will find one himself and take matters into his own hands. Either way, Noah can recruit someone to Blackstorm's cause. Additionally, if a Blackstorm member has an accident involving their gift and decides to ask Blackstorm for help, sometimes Noah will be sent to clean it up.NEIGHBORHOOD: West Hook
MEMBER GROUP: Blackstorm
REPUTATION: While not every member may know him by name, Noah is decently well-liked as he usually doesn't spend enough time with his recruits for them to detect his weirder vibes. Around the hideout, he's reported to be a pretty chill and friendly guy. Very inquisitive at times, but ultimately easy to get along with. The members who tend to find themselves in trouble more often than not may know that Noah can be relied upon to help.POWERS: Power Borrowing (power negation & mimicry)
Once a power has been used on him, the gifted individual who did it becomes unable to use that ability for 2-60 minutes, depending on how much Noah can concentrate on retaining it for himself. He can retain most unfamiliar gifts with ease for about thirty minutes (unless the nature of the gift makes it too unwieldy – check here for more info), whereas he can retain gifts he’s borrowed on multiple occasions for an hour.
The power is only as strong in his hands as it was in the original holder’s, and lack of experience with the gift usually means he cannot control it as well. The quickest way for a gifted to retrieve their power would be by knocking him out or creating a big enough distraction that his focus slips.
Noah cannot negate a gifted’s powers if the gifted does not use them on him first. If he is hit with another ability while he is already using one, he will involuntarily switch to the power he was hit with last. He can voluntarily block out/hand back a power that's been given to him at any time.
THE LOOKS
HEIGHT: 6'1"
WEIGHT: 180 lbs
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Brown
FACE CLAIM: Joshua Honeycutt
OVERALL APPEARANCE: Noah has a conventionally attractive face; clean-shaven with a straight nose, strong jawline, and dark eyes. He’s tall and lithe and his thick, medium-length black hair is always styled neatly. Faint circles under his eyes ensure he’s not too perfect and allude to his messy sleep schedule, which makes him approachable. His warm-toned skin is on the paler side of the spectrum but he tans rather than burns during summer, and there's something graceful about the way he moves – casual yet elegant, like a big cat.
His wardrobe is full of black, dark grey, and navy shades, with one – maybe two – white shirts for formal occasions and one maroon jumper for when he’s feeling unpleasant. His day-to-day outfits tend to consist of dark trousers and a mock-neck sweater.
Favours colognes/bodywash with woodsy scents and tends to smell faintly of wood shavings in general due to his hobby. He has a very gentle way of speaking when he's not joking around which is initially very soothing, but over time the invariability of it tends to raise the hairs on the nape of a person’s neck.
Growing up in a family who all had weather-related gifts, it’s no wonder Noah’s been hit by lightning a few times. As such, he has a couple of Lichtenberg figure scars on his back. The larger of the two has a purple-ish hue to it and starts at the base of his neck, branching out down his spine. The smaller, more localised strike is a little pinker and can be found on his right shoulder blade. The scars are old – faint – and aren’t so obvious in low light unless someone knows to look for them.
He also has a scar on the left side of his waist; a neat horizontal line roughly the length of his middle finger.
INSIDE
LIKES:
- Borrowing powers and discussing them
- Teasing and flirting
- Investigating people
- Reading
- Wood carving (it's a hobby of his – he's getting better!)
- Watching and partaking in fights
- Watching videos of surgeries and learning about medicine/first aid
DISLIKES:
- Being touched (unless he initiates – he loves physical affection once he's brought the touch barrier down)
- Families
- Young people/Children – anyone below drinking age
- Soccer & other team sports
- Being ignored
- Having people in his home (though there are very rare exceptions to this rule)
- People assuming things about him without proof/acting like they know him in ways they do not
(More info about his likes, dislikes, and other opinions can be found here)
STRENGTHS:
- Tends to make a good first impression: Fairly amicable, a disarming vibe and a pretty face, generally seems harmless; the kind of guy you could trust to hold your drink at a party.
- A good liar: Usually pretty good at making stuff up on the fly and selling it convincingly, though if he's injured or extremely down bad for someone this ability tends to fizzle into non-existence.
- Physically fit & a capable fighter: High stamina, knows how to throw a punch as well as how to use guns and knives.
- Criminal-minded: Good at covering his tracks/cleaning up crime scenes, desensitised to violence/gore, knows how to use lockpicks and dispose of bodies, can tread very lightly if he has need to, an expert in breaking in and out of houses without a trace.
WEAKNESSES:
- Creepy: Tends to stare, sometimes forgets to show the right emotion at the right time, can get weirdly obsessive and lustful, knows a little too much about surgeries/human anatomy/body disposal. Power hungry - super interested in people's gifts and using them for himself.
- Sadistic/Sociopathic: Gets excited when others are scared or in pain. Struggles to think of other people as having the same 'depth' as him and fails to imagine them with complex, unique lives of their own or as being deserving of his empathy.
- Cocky: While it wouldn't be entirely accurate to say he thinks he's untouchable, Noah generally thinks he's better than other people and rarely feels intimidated by threats of violence.
- Does not have complete control over the gifts he borrows: Without sufficient guidance from the original gift holder (and sometimes even with guidance), mistakes happen.
- Somewhat of an attention seeker: Does not like to feel ignored by people he's actually interested in. In rare circumstances he may become restless if someone merely looks away from him for a few seconds.
OVERALL PERSONALITY: Initially disarming / Unnerving / Dishonest / Violent / Lovesick
There’s something dazed about Noah, as if he’s just rolled out of bed after a pleasant dream. The softness of his voice, the guilelessness of his smile, his propensity for jokes and teasing… It’s disarming, and for many who encounter him, Noah’s main appeal is that he is so non-threatening. It helps that generally people love to talk about themselves and Noah tends to enable them, asking questions and maintaining an expression of polite curiosity no matter what they’re saying. He's a bit of a chatterbox himself, though it could be noticed that he doesn't often reveal anything meaningful. Regardless, he seems like a very friendly, stand-up guy.
After prolonged exposure, the cogs start turning and observant folk start to wonder: isn’t he a little too nice? A bit too agreeable? His face seems kind but he doesn’t smile half as much as they imagined he did. And he stares, with eyes more wolfish than puppy-dog.
Noah will flat-out lie about anything, sometimes for no reason at all. Though he would deny being vain he does feel a general sense of superiority over almost everyone he meets, and he finds amusement in pretending to care about them and getting them to trust him. His gift makes him cocky (there’s nothing another gifted can do to him that he can’t throw right back at them) and he gets a kick out of seeing others in a state they had intended for him.
He undoubtedly enjoys violence – watching it, betting on it, and partaking in it. If someone attacks him he'll fight back and he won't fight fair, and he doesn't rely on borrowing gifts either. If not a gun he'll almost always have a switchblade on hand, and he'll aim for the throat and kick someone when they're down, all while retaining a pleasant smile.
And yet, although he struggles to see most people as people, Noah loves being loved. He likes to be looked at with eyes brimming with adoration. He likes the feeling of hands on his body and in his hair, whether they be gentle or insistent. Noah – young God that he sees himself as – loves to feel worshipped. Wanted. And if he finds someone who (somehow) manages to convince him that they are as worthy of that worship as he is, that they are an equal, he's bound to become obsessive in his desire to give that to them.
BACKGROUND
HOMETOWN: Portland, Oregon
FAMILY: Rachel St Cloud – Mother – Gifted – Deceased
Jacob St Cloud – Father – Gifted – Deceased
Hannah St Cloud – Sister – Gifted – Deceased
Joseph St Cloud – Brother – Gifted – Deceased
(Additional information about his family (and history) can be found here)
PETS: None
HISTORY: From the outside looking in, Noah had an objectively normal childhood. He was born into a nuclear family, raised in a big white house in a spacious picket-fenced neighbourhood, and his family was led by a stereotypical soccer mom who would usher them along to church every Sunday (and in Noah's case, sometimes additionally during the week). However, this apparent human normalcy was a front: his family were gifted.
They stressed the importance of hiding their gifts, fearing the reaction of humans. They all had volatile weather powers except for Noah, who was able to copy their abilities if they had been used on him, even if they had conjured something as minor as a breeze which happened to tousle his hair. The problem was that Noah had less care for keeping their abilities hidden and the family feared he would get them caught. So they shunned him, both for his differing ability and his growing fixation on using their gifts as his own.
When he was a teenager Noah’s ability evolved from copying abilities to stealing them – making the original user temporarily unable to use them. That freaked his family out even more. It was unnatural.
Officially, Noah’s family was killed in a hurricane not long after he finished his bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Criminology. The house collapsed, crushing his family within it. Luckily Noah was out of town when it happened – or at least, that’s what the report says.
After an interaction with a Sector agent revealed there were other gifted people in the world, Noah went searching for them and in doing so he eventually learned of the mysterious posters that were cropping up in Los Eurosia. He used his inheritance to buy a house there and after some investigation he found Blackstorm – the perfect way for him to meet other gifted and focus on making his abilities stronger. He wants to be able to absorb powers completely and perhaps, eventually, to be able to distribute them to others as he pleases.
THE PLAYER
NAME: Mirror
AGE: 25
TIMEZONE: BST/GMT