noh-varr, the boy who fell to earth. (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
garbagemarvel) wrote2018-10-04 08:26 am
garbagemarvel) wrote2018-10-04 08:26 am
app for hadriel.
PLAYER
Player name: (the other) Rae
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fibroplastic and/or scathefires#3738 @ the Disco(rd)
Characters currently in-game: None!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Noh-Varr
Character Age: 21
Canon: Marvel (616) Comics
Canon Point: A few days post-Young Avengers (2013) #15
World Description: N/A.
History: Noh @ Wikipedia and Marvel Wiki.
Personality: Noh-Varr is, in many ways, still a work in progress – which is appropriate, since he’s young and displaced, both of which are factors in the process of self-discovery. Throughout his appearances in various comics runs, he’s shown to struggle with pinning down his sense of self and reconciling that idea with who he thinks he should be and who he wants to be.
The first thing of note is that Noh is an alien – Kree, but from an entirely different dimension than the main Marvel comics universe (616). He was an ensign aboard the Marvel, part of the peacekeeping mission known as the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt, along with his parents and girlfriend; the ship was subsequently shot down over Earth by Dr. Midas, a deranged lunatic searching for sources of cosmic energy, with Noh emerging as the sole survivor. He was captured for the purpose of dissection but escaped, vowing his revenge for his murdered comrades by declaring war on Earth, as one does. As he later recounts: “Earth made a bad first impression.” Noh didn’t make the best first impression, either.
But this rocky introduction serves to highlight the fact that Noh-Varr is a warrior and a born survivor, and survival is literally embedded in his DNA – his has been enhanced with that of a cockroach. (Thanks, Kree empire!) Against seemingly insurmountable odds – isolation, imprisonment, brainwashing, torture – he continues to bravely soldier on, with the belief that he is more than adequately equipped to handle whatever challenges the multiverse sends his way. He’s confident in his abilities, but not necessarily in an arrogant way – he was born ready for conflict (again, literally), and born to succeed, and he is self-aware enough to recognize these aspects of himself. They’re fact, not up for debate, so he doesn’t need to argue or prove himself on these fronts – he simply is.
Noh-Varr is an outsider, and he’s keenly aware of this, too; he struggles quite frequently with grasping Earth culture and human behavior, and that effort isn’t helped by the fact that humans seem to go out of their way to otherize him, pointing out how alien he is and addressing him by epithets like “space boy” and “alien boy” instead of his actual name. On more than one occasion, he’s shown asking for an explanation of sarcasm, because he just doesn’t understand it, and it frustrates him to not understand something so pervasive in human culture. Even though he is a stranger in a strange dimension, he has accepted that this is his home now, and he does try to figure out what is appropriate and fit in to the best of his abilities, because he does seem to value acceptance and he believes that he can co-exist with humans – even if he was, technically, banished from Earth.
Despite his earlier tantrums, widescale destruction of property, and classification as an alien terrorist, Noh displays a fairly strong moral compass and a deep sense of responsibility. He’s recruited for Norman Osborn’s Avengers, but abandons the team when he learns they are all criminals rather than superheroes, as he’s been led to believe. When he later joins the real Avengers, he refuses Tony Stark’s offers to buy out his knowledge of highly advanced Kree technology, stating that humans aren’t ready for it and would use it to destroy themselves. Once it’s brought to his attention that under the Kree-Vann Directive Big Red, he is responsible for the protection of Earth, he takes that responsibility seriously, working with tireless dedication toward that end. He even explains that although he possesses mind-control saliva, he won’t use it on anyone, stating that it would be immoral to do so.
The Kree are a much more evolved race, so Noh is highly intelligent, but he doesn’t eschew all emotion in favor of logic – he acknowledges his emotions and speaks freely about feeling love, pain, and anger. While he was initially shown as hot-tempered, Noh’s found a fraction of chill in the time since his arrival on Earth – he isn’t prone to flying off in a rage at slight provocations, only when it’s really justified. He’s passionate about his interests, such as Earth music, and enthusiastic without reservation on such topics. He can be a little selfish at times – for example, Noh initially agrees to help the Young Avengers because Kate Bishop promised to make out with him – but it’s usually not to the detriment of the greater good. He’s curious about how Earth and humans work, and he isn’t content to not know the answers to the questions that arise.
His sense of emotional honesty is something of a double-edged sword, however. Noh-Varr’s biggest flaw is that when faced with an important decision, he almost always makes the wrong choice, and often, those choices are based in emotion. Declaring war on Earth and blasting block-wide expletives into Manhattan as an expression of anger over being stranded, alone, on a brutal alien planet was not his best move ever, nor was betraying the Avengers by stealing the Phoenix Force to turn over to the Kree Empire of this reality, a mistake he realized and attempted to correct. During the Young Avengers’ final battle against Mother, he broke up with Kate in order to reunite with former flame Exterminatrix, who turned out to be nothing more than an illusion, and on later reflection, he admits that it was because being around Exterminatrix was the last time his life made sense, and he wanted to recapture that feeling. He isn’t perfect - Noh is self-aware to realize when he’s made mistakes, admit to them, feel guilt over them, and attempt to fix what’s wrong, and he learns from those mistakes and tries to avoid making them again in the future. He has a good heart, even if it’s imperfect, and in that respect, he is not so dissimilar from humans after all.
Inventory: He’ll just be wearing his standard space suit, which – somehow, despite being skintight – has some capacity for pocket/storage space; if permitted, I’d like him to bring along his Pocket Battlefield (a controlled pocket dimension with specialized controllable physics, looks like a tiny pink cube when not in use) and phone with earbuds, which won’t work but has a library of Earth music stored on it. He’ll also (again, if permitted) be wearing his gauntlets, which shapeshift into various weapons, usually plasma pistols, which apparently don’t need to ever be reloaded. (Thanks, Kree empire!!)
Abilities: Noh is stupidly overpowered because the Kree empire doesn’t do anything halfway, apparently, so if any of this needs to be toned down at all, just say the word!
His DNA is enhanced with that of a cockroach (no, really), and he’s also been injected with nanobots for good measure; Noh has claimed that he was created to withstand contact with Astro-gods, and you would imagine, being gods, that they are extremely powerful. As a result, he possesses strength, speed, agility, durability, stamina, reflexes, and hearing all far beyond human limits and even the limits of most Kree. He is extremely difficult to kill – in the Royals series, he survives some pretty serious full-body immolation and bounces back from it with only the mild trauma of remembering the smell of being cooked alive. Being part cockroach also means he can stick to and walk on walls, ceilings, the sides of buildings, etc.
Noh is able to exert some conscious measures of control over his own body, such as rerouting pain sensations and going into what’s called “White Run,” a sort of meditative state that allows him to tune out any and all distractions and perform great physical tasks at peak speed and efficiency. He can turn his fingernails into poison and/or explosives, and contact with his saliva can cause hallucinations or allow him to control the subject’s will, though in later comics he’s stated he won’t use that ability any more because it’s immoral to do so.
In addition to all of his physical enhancements, Noh-Varr is intelligent, skilled in both armed and unarmed combat, an excellent marksman, and a seasoned pilot of Kree spacecrafts.
For the record, I am extremely sorry about him and promise to only use his abilities in a responsible fashion.
Flaws: Though toned down a bit since his initial run of comics, Marvel Boy, Noh has a pretty mean temper; however, unless you’re gleefully hurting people he cares about, that temper is usually somewhat slow to ignite – in other words, he gets angry, and when he’s angry he is capable of causing widescale blockbuster destruction, but it takes a lot to set him off these days. Noh-Varr’s biggest flaw is that when faced with an important decision, he has an uncanny ability to almost always make the wrong choice, and often, those choices are based in emotion rather than pure logic.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Fourth walled here and here; TDMed here. If those aren’t sufficient, I can certainly write something else!
Player name: (the other) Rae
Contact:
Characters currently in-game: None!
CHARACTER
Character Name: Noh-Varr
Character Age: 21
Canon: Marvel (616) Comics
Canon Point: A few days post-Young Avengers (2013) #15
World Description: N/A.
History: Noh @ Wikipedia and Marvel Wiki.
Personality: Noh-Varr is, in many ways, still a work in progress – which is appropriate, since he’s young and displaced, both of which are factors in the process of self-discovery. Throughout his appearances in various comics runs, he’s shown to struggle with pinning down his sense of self and reconciling that idea with who he thinks he should be and who he wants to be.
The first thing of note is that Noh is an alien – Kree, but from an entirely different dimension than the main Marvel comics universe (616). He was an ensign aboard the Marvel, part of the peacekeeping mission known as the 18th Kree Diplomatic Gestalt, along with his parents and girlfriend; the ship was subsequently shot down over Earth by Dr. Midas, a deranged lunatic searching for sources of cosmic energy, with Noh emerging as the sole survivor. He was captured for the purpose of dissection but escaped, vowing his revenge for his murdered comrades by declaring war on Earth, as one does. As he later recounts: “Earth made a bad first impression.” Noh didn’t make the best first impression, either.
But this rocky introduction serves to highlight the fact that Noh-Varr is a warrior and a born survivor, and survival is literally embedded in his DNA – his has been enhanced with that of a cockroach. (Thanks, Kree empire!) Against seemingly insurmountable odds – isolation, imprisonment, brainwashing, torture – he continues to bravely soldier on, with the belief that he is more than adequately equipped to handle whatever challenges the multiverse sends his way. He’s confident in his abilities, but not necessarily in an arrogant way – he was born ready for conflict (again, literally), and born to succeed, and he is self-aware enough to recognize these aspects of himself. They’re fact, not up for debate, so he doesn’t need to argue or prove himself on these fronts – he simply is.
Noh-Varr is an outsider, and he’s keenly aware of this, too; he struggles quite frequently with grasping Earth culture and human behavior, and that effort isn’t helped by the fact that humans seem to go out of their way to otherize him, pointing out how alien he is and addressing him by epithets like “space boy” and “alien boy” instead of his actual name. On more than one occasion, he’s shown asking for an explanation of sarcasm, because he just doesn’t understand it, and it frustrates him to not understand something so pervasive in human culture. Even though he is a stranger in a strange dimension, he has accepted that this is his home now, and he does try to figure out what is appropriate and fit in to the best of his abilities, because he does seem to value acceptance and he believes that he can co-exist with humans – even if he was, technically, banished from Earth.
Despite his earlier tantrums, widescale destruction of property, and classification as an alien terrorist, Noh displays a fairly strong moral compass and a deep sense of responsibility. He’s recruited for Norman Osborn’s Avengers, but abandons the team when he learns they are all criminals rather than superheroes, as he’s been led to believe. When he later joins the real Avengers, he refuses Tony Stark’s offers to buy out his knowledge of highly advanced Kree technology, stating that humans aren’t ready for it and would use it to destroy themselves. Once it’s brought to his attention that under the Kree-Vann Directive Big Red, he is responsible for the protection of Earth, he takes that responsibility seriously, working with tireless dedication toward that end. He even explains that although he possesses mind-control saliva, he won’t use it on anyone, stating that it would be immoral to do so.
The Kree are a much more evolved race, so Noh is highly intelligent, but he doesn’t eschew all emotion in favor of logic – he acknowledges his emotions and speaks freely about feeling love, pain, and anger. While he was initially shown as hot-tempered, Noh’s found a fraction of chill in the time since his arrival on Earth – he isn’t prone to flying off in a rage at slight provocations, only when it’s really justified. He’s passionate about his interests, such as Earth music, and enthusiastic without reservation on such topics. He can be a little selfish at times – for example, Noh initially agrees to help the Young Avengers because Kate Bishop promised to make out with him – but it’s usually not to the detriment of the greater good. He’s curious about how Earth and humans work, and he isn’t content to not know the answers to the questions that arise.
His sense of emotional honesty is something of a double-edged sword, however. Noh-Varr’s biggest flaw is that when faced with an important decision, he almost always makes the wrong choice, and often, those choices are based in emotion. Declaring war on Earth and blasting block-wide expletives into Manhattan as an expression of anger over being stranded, alone, on a brutal alien planet was not his best move ever, nor was betraying the Avengers by stealing the Phoenix Force to turn over to the Kree Empire of this reality, a mistake he realized and attempted to correct. During the Young Avengers’ final battle against Mother, he broke up with Kate in order to reunite with former flame Exterminatrix, who turned out to be nothing more than an illusion, and on later reflection, he admits that it was because being around Exterminatrix was the last time his life made sense, and he wanted to recapture that feeling. He isn’t perfect - Noh is self-aware to realize when he’s made mistakes, admit to them, feel guilt over them, and attempt to fix what’s wrong, and he learns from those mistakes and tries to avoid making them again in the future. He has a good heart, even if it’s imperfect, and in that respect, he is not so dissimilar from humans after all.
Inventory: He’ll just be wearing his standard space suit, which – somehow, despite being skintight – has some capacity for pocket/storage space; if permitted, I’d like him to bring along his Pocket Battlefield (a controlled pocket dimension with specialized controllable physics, looks like a tiny pink cube when not in use) and phone with earbuds, which won’t work but has a library of Earth music stored on it. He’ll also (again, if permitted) be wearing his gauntlets, which shapeshift into various weapons, usually plasma pistols, which apparently don’t need to ever be reloaded. (Thanks, Kree empire!!)
Abilities: Noh is stupidly overpowered because the Kree empire doesn’t do anything halfway, apparently, so if any of this needs to be toned down at all, just say the word!
His DNA is enhanced with that of a cockroach (no, really), and he’s also been injected with nanobots for good measure; Noh has claimed that he was created to withstand contact with Astro-gods, and you would imagine, being gods, that they are extremely powerful. As a result, he possesses strength, speed, agility, durability, stamina, reflexes, and hearing all far beyond human limits and even the limits of most Kree. He is extremely difficult to kill – in the Royals series, he survives some pretty serious full-body immolation and bounces back from it with only the mild trauma of remembering the smell of being cooked alive. Being part cockroach also means he can stick to and walk on walls, ceilings, the sides of buildings, etc.
Noh is able to exert some conscious measures of control over his own body, such as rerouting pain sensations and going into what’s called “White Run,” a sort of meditative state that allows him to tune out any and all distractions and perform great physical tasks at peak speed and efficiency. He can turn his fingernails into poison and/or explosives, and contact with his saliva can cause hallucinations or allow him to control the subject’s will, though in later comics he’s stated he won’t use that ability any more because it’s immoral to do so.
In addition to all of his physical enhancements, Noh-Varr is intelligent, skilled in both armed and unarmed combat, an excellent marksman, and a seasoned pilot of Kree spacecrafts.
For the record, I am extremely sorry about him and promise to only use his abilities in a responsible fashion.
Flaws: Though toned down a bit since his initial run of comics, Marvel Boy, Noh has a pretty mean temper; however, unless you’re gleefully hurting people he cares about, that temper is usually somewhat slow to ignite – in other words, he gets angry, and when he’s angry he is capable of causing widescale blockbuster destruction, but it takes a lot to set him off these days. Noh-Varr’s biggest flaw is that when faced with an important decision, he has an uncanny ability to almost always make the wrong choice, and often, those choices are based in emotion rather than pure logic.
SAMPLES
Action Log Sample: Fourth walled here and here; TDMed here. If those aren’t sufficient, I can certainly write something else!