Full name:Lord Noah Faroaks of the Northaven Elves Age: Appears 18 Race: Elven Occupation: Ranger, courier to the Northaven court Lineage: Only son of Lord Faroaks of the Northaven Elves. Which makes him a prince, a fact that embarrasses him horribly. Weapon: Two curved, keen-edged sabers (design coming soon)
Appearance: Hair: Brown, cropped short like a fighter's Eyes: Deep green Skin:Tanned Height:6' Build: Slender but muscled, basically a swimmer's body
Personality:
Noah usually comes off as distant or even haughty, but it is merely his elven aloofness and reservation that makes him put on a mask of arrogance to hide his true feelings. Once someone gains his trust, however, he has a warm heart and a generally positive outlook on life. He *is* an elf, after all. While he is proficient with most weapons due to his natural agility and extensive training, his primary weapons are two slightly curved, wickedly edged elven-forged sabers, with which he is lethally efficient. He is distinctly un-elven in his love of practical jokes; especially those pranks played on those who he feels really deserve it.
History:
Noah is the youngest and only son of the Lord and Lady of the Northaven Elves. While it is tradition to keep the ruling within the ruling family, it does not have to be a traditional pass-down to the oldest son. Often a daughter or a cousin will take the scepter, and this is considered acceptable. (In many ways, the elves are far more civilized than humans are.) Noah's older sister Aubrey will take the scepter when her father passes on, since she is far more dignified, older, more sensible, and overall much more qualified to rule. (XD) This suits Noah just fine, since he never wanted to rule anyway. He never even wanted to be a prince, if it comes to that, and refuses to wear his princely circlet for all but the most important of occasions. Even then, he tries to get out of it when he can. He is uncomfortable with nobility and ruling, and would prefer to just be himself, swordsman and ranger.
Noah's mother died soon after giving birth to him, and his father, grief-stricken by his wife's death, never really knew what to do with him. His sister Aubrey took on the role of being a "second mother" to him, but nonetheless he is very independent and often goes wandering in the woods alone for weeks at a time. He doesn't shirk his duties per se; he just tries to avoid responsibilities that tie him down. His favorite "duty" is acting as a courier for messages that are either too sensitive or too important to trust to other methods of communication.
Fallon and Noah's first meeting is...adversarial...to put it nicely, and at first they can't stand each other. Time and fate conspire to throw them together, however, and they somehow end up working together. They come to tolerate each other beyond their careful professionalism, and even come to really like and trust each other, considering each other to be their best friend.
An observer would be really hard-pressed to figure this out, though, because they bicker. A lot. They spend most of their time together bickering. If one really, really wanted to piss them off, they could say that they sound like an old married couple. Of course, the offender would probably crawl away missing several teeth, but I digress. Either of them would gladly give their life for the other, but neither of them would ever come anywhere close to admitting it, just as they would never admit that the other one's actually kinda cute. The nearly constant sniping at each other just conceals the fact that they really do respect and care for each other, despite all of their protests to the contrary.
Family:
Father, Lord Faroaks of Northaven
Mother, Lady Faroaks (deceaced)
Elder sister, Aubrey Faroaks of Northaven
Notes on design:
Because I'm a disgusting fangirl, Noah has an actual celebrity counterpart. Actually, he'd been around for a while, but then I just so happened to see a little movie called "Bend it like Beckham" and saw a certain coach named Joe. I went "!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S NOAH!!!!!" and my brain exploded. I told you I was a disgusting fangirl. XD;;;; Anyway, the actor's name is Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and that's what Noah's facial structure is supposed to look like. XD;;;;;;
