Noah Nicholson
From Sinanju
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| Actor Name as Noah Nicholson | |
| Noah Nicholson | |
|---|---|
| Played by | Papersoflight |
| Statistics | |
| Goes By | none |
| Status | Alive |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | {{{Age}}} |
| Primary Occupation | {{{Occupation}}} |
| Special Abilities | Whatever makes this character stand out frm the crowd. |
Noah Nicholson (Series: Noah's Arc)
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Pre-Deluge history and biography
Noah is a young (25 years), gay, black, aspiring screenwriter from Los Angeles. He is kind and sweet, a hopeless romantic. He is very perceptive, but not as confident in his abilities as he could be. He is soft spoken, with a slight but muscular build, almost shoulder length curly hair, and a keen fashion sense. He's far more driven than he seems at first glance- he won't cheat or backstab to get what he wants, but he won't be pushed around either. He follows his passions wherever they lead. He expects others to be good people and is frequently surprised when they disappoint him. He forgives easily. He had a close knit group of friends, all of them other gay men. They served as a family for each other, helping make life decisions together, but none of them was romantically or sexually involved with each other.
Noah recently broke up with his boyfriend Wade, who helped him get his first writing job for a studio and was his writing partner for the script they just sold to the same studio. He carries a good deal of guilt over the break-up because he is the one who cheated (following his passion and hurting Wade). Despite that, he stayed with the studio deal for the script, even though the studio executive had cut Wade out of the deal, because most of what has stayed in the script is Noah's writing anyway.
Post-Deluge events
Noah was on a plane with one of the studio executives flying to New York City to meet with a certain hot actor and try to convince him to take the lead role in Noah's movie, when the Deluge hit. He watched the other people on the private plane burn and disappear into nothingness. The plane lost power and went into a dive immediately and Noah tumbled forward to the door of the cockpit. He pulled it open to find that neither of the pilots was still there. There was a large hole ripped in the nose of the plane and most of the controls were just gone as well. The plane went down in the area that used to be north-central New Jersey, but suddenly had become part of the Atlantic Ocean. As the plane filled up with seawater, Noah ripped off one of the seat cushion/flotation devices, opened the safety latch on the plane's door and jumped into the water. He watched the plane sink below the waves in just a few minutes and then looked around for shore. He swam for a day and a half to get to the faint bit of land he'd only just been able to see from the crash. He found himself on the Pennsylvania shore when he got to land. Funny, Pennsylvania didn't used to have a shore. Signs in the town told Noah that he had made shore rather ironically in the town of Lansdale, Pa.
Shocky, wet, cold and hungry, Noah found his way to the Central Montgomery County Medical Center and was treated there. Telephone service was out and the TV news said that just like the east coast, the west coast, including all of California, was under water. Noah mourned everyone he'd ever known. Without his support system of friends, Noah would have shut down but for the fact that there were so many people around him who were hurting, and the hospital was short staffed. He didn't have any medical training, but he did what he could to help the medical staff and comfort the growing numbers of plague victims.
By the end, Noah was the only one in the hospital, but not the only one left in town. Jack Breslin, a straight, white, ultra-conservative had spent much of the time since Noah's arrival saying that Noah was the one who brought the plague there- that he was a carrier and that Noah should be killed and burned to try and save the town. No matter what the doctors said, Breslin wouldn't believe that Noah wasn't carrying anything.
Breslin was the only other person left in Lansdale on May 18th. When all the others had died, he snapped and came after Noah with an ax. Breslin gave Noah a large slice on the back of his shoulder blade as he ran for a car belonging to one of the doctors (Noah had been using it to find supplies of food for the last of the plague victims) and managed to get in the car and out of town. He headed for Chicago in the hope that the very large city would have had some survivors. He found gas, food and water somewhere in small town Ohio and the car died just over the Illinois border. He started walking.
South of Chicago, Noah was chased by something strange and scary. He couldn't outrun it. It was a really large and weirdly blurry beetle. Maybe a beetle. It's edges seemed to blur, even when it was not moving. It caught Noah and latched onto his shoulder wound and sank something- claws, teeth, something, into him. Noah could feel everything, his energy, his thoughts, his spirit being sucked out through the wound. Then he felt lightning pain, not unlike the flash of the Deluge and passed out. He woke in an elementary school nurse's office with Henry Spencer sitting across the room reciting something out of a medical book. Thing is Henry wasn't moving his lips and Noah had no idea how he knew Henry's name, but he did.
Noah sat up and vomited because- Oh God, Shawn was dead! His son was gone. He was just beginning to do something almost useful with his life and they had just been starting to reconcile and Henry was so desperate with the pain of it. And Henry was shouting at Noah and really worried about him and pushing his head down between his legs and counting. Noah passed out again anyway.
The next time, when he came to, Henry wasn't there, but Noah could still hear him talking to himself very loudly from another room. Shawn was still dead, which made Noah shiver, but it didn't hurt so absolutely as it had before. Henry was talking about him- Noah, about how he is just Shawn's same age, but so very different. Henry was actually wondering aloud if Noah is gay and if he might be too weak to survive whatever the damn bug did to him and Henry was so damn tired of watching people die- goddamnit!
Noah realized that what he was hearing wasn't Henry's voice carrying from another room, but Henry's thoughts. Another moment's consideration and Noah realized that he didn't just know Henry's name, he knew Henry's everything. Everything about Henry- his feelings, his thoughts, his memories. It was as if the entire consciousness of a white, fifty-two year old, straight cop had been injected into Noah's brain. It was unsettling, to say the least. Somehow, someway, the blurry beetle thing that attacked Noah had changed him. It had to be the beetle, nothing else had changed since he'd been in Lansdale, but he'd never heard anyone else's thoughts before.
