Noah Karimi-Fallah

[Yonagoda]

Name: Noah Karimi-Fallah
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Grade: 12
School: John Endecott Memorial Academy.
Hobbies and Interests: Robotics, entomology, SOTF and the history of terrorism, crossdressing, pole dancing, communism, weirdcore, online trolling

Appearance: At almost 5’5 and 115 pounds, Noah is a small male for his age and wears his weight in mostly lean muscle on a rectangular figure. He is of Iranian heritage, and has clear light brown skin with a warm undertone. To his chagrin, he has dark moles scattered around his face and body. His body and facial hair normally grows quickly, but he shaves regularly because he hates the feel and look of facial hair. He has large hands and feet, attached to thin limbs with prominent veins and boniness.

Noah’s face is rectangular with a sharp, angular jaw but softer cheeks. His eyes are dark brown, round, and upturned, and he has a long, pointed nose. Noah has thick eyebrows that he carefully plucks to avoid having hairs grow near his eyelid or into a unibrow, and a wide mouth with average sized, naturally dark lips. His features are symmetrical, which is helped by the small amount of makeup he wears—eyeliner, eyebrow penciling, and occasionally eyeshadow. He has pierced, naturally pointy ears from mild Stahl's ear. His hair is dark brown, wavy, and reaches down to the lower neck. He is able to tie most of his hair into a small ponytail, but some strands at the front and side are too far away to be tied, and are thus left down to frame his face. Noah has decent posture and speaks quickly with a raspy, medium-pitched voice. Whenever he sits or lays down, he tends to sprawl his limbs out.

The fashion tastes Noah has are rather unconventional, but he often has to balance his own taste and his mother’s disapproval. As a result, his outfits lean towards being more feminine and counterculture, but not as extreme as he would like. His wardrobe is filled with black and white monochrome clothes, with his tops being loose and oversized, but bottoms being either skin tight, short, or both.

On the day of the abduction, Noah was wearing a dark greyish olive green parka lined with lighter brown fur, a deep-necked black shirt with a white graphic of the tower tarot card, black ripped skinny jeans, and black lace-up steel-toed combat boots. He had put on his usual makeup of light eyeliner and eyebrow penciling and his black nails are chipped. He had on dangling iron feather-shaped earrings, and wore an iron chain necklace with metallic feathers and a ring on it. He tied his hair in a half-ponytail with a black hair tie. On his fingers, he had a few cheap iron rings, including one with a small head of a goat engraved on it, and on his wrists were a few leather bracelets. A small iron ladybug charm was pinned over his jacket’s right chest pocket, and he had a wristwatch design doodled onto his right wrist with a marker.

Biography: Born to Iranian-American immigrants in New York City, Noah is the youngest child and only son of his middle-class family. His mother, Maria Fallah, was a dentist with a side job writing novels who changed her first name to integrate better, while his father, Adel, was a news reporter. As a child, he was generally happy, but his older sister by 8 years, Dina, showed concerning behavior as a child that often went past his parents due to her good grades, and they dismissed her troublemaking under the assumption that she would grow out of it. Noah grew up feeling overshadowed by Dina, as she is a gifted student, while she succumbed to worse and worse influences as a result of interacting with peers that are involved in gang activity. Noah also had another sister, Mila, who was three years older.

If asked to talk about his childhood, Noah would say that he doesn’t remember much of his early elementary years. As a child both his school and home life weren’t exactly the best—his elementary school was sub-par, with an infamous ‘revolving door’ in terms of staffing. Noah wouldn’t consider himself to be a bullying victim until middle school, but his parents do agree that he was frequently teased.

When Noah was seven, Dina was arrested for selling the opioids that his mother takes for her chronic back pain, under the advice and instruction of her friends to steal a few pills and split the profit once they were sold. This incident was the end to a long and bitter one-sided dispute, where Maria enacted increasingly strict rules and punishments on her daughter that ended with Maria taking away her entire allowance and her electronics when she found that she'd been communicating with apparently shady people online, and Dina being fed up.

The resulting legal affairs tore the family apart, as they struggled, and failed to raise funds to hire a good lawyer. The crime caught local media attention, and the Fallah family was shunned by their community and friends due to Adel refusing to condemn Dina’s crimes, saying that she was manipulated by her friends to do the deed and still has a chance to reform. Most of the drama was kept a secret from Noah and his sister Mila, with them not wanting to tell the two about what their sister did. However, because of gossip shared by his classmates and friends, he eventually managed to get a vague idea of what happened—Dina had stolen something important from her mother and sold it, and that she was in big legal trouble.

Eventually, when Noah was eleven, Maria made the decision to move to Salem after relatives offered to support her financially. Hoping to escape their tainted reputation, Maria agreed, but Adel didn’t want to leave Dina behind and to find a new job. By this time, their marriage was already strained after multiple large arguments about Dina, along with how much they wanted to maintain their Iranian heritage and the way they should raise their children, and Maria filed for divorce. Maria, Mila, and Noah left for Salem after selling most of Maria’s furniture and jewelry, and for the next few years they lived in a small rented apartment. Maria, before she found a job as a dentist’s assistant, wrote stories and worked odd jobs. Noah struggled to adjust to his new environment, and was friendless throughout middle school as he was afraid to reach out at first. News of why the family moved and what Dina did reached some of the family’s new friends and Noah found himself being picked on at first.

A couple of years into their new life, Maria started dating a man named James online. James, a recent widow after his wife was killed in a car crash, related deeply with Maria due to them both losing their family, albeit in very different ways. When the two started to go on dates, Maria left Noah and Mila in the care of his uncle Ardashir, an electrical engineer. Ardashir, who had an interest in technology, made small robots for Noah as toys. He often asked his mother to let him stay with Ardashir longer so that he could teach him how he built the robots. Noah mostly was interested in robotics simply because he found building machines to be cool, though right now he hasn't had the skills to create anything more complicated than his current favorite thing to make—simple 'useless machines' that serve no purpose except for him to find amusing. In truth, Noah felt like Ardashir was a lot less strict than Maria, and sought to stay with him not only because of his newfound interests in robotics, but also because he aw him as an escape from his mother’s control, though the opportunity for him to build machines was another big reason why.

Maria quickly pushed for marriage with James due to wanting to move in with him. Noah disapproved of this change—he didn’t want to feel as if his father was being replaced, and he didn’t like how his family was split apart. Despite more than half a decade of dating, the two never married, mostly because of Noah and Mila’s disagreements. James, despite loving Maria, has no idea how to deal with her children, and was a bit of a pushover when it comes to the siblings. Maria, on the other hand, was determined to raise Noah the best she could—but unfortunately her parenting style was overbearing and controlling, to the point of excessiveness, setting rules about who her children can interact with and monitoring their social lives.

Noah first opened his eyes to the concept of SOTF when he was eleven, when a bully was making a jab at him involving his race and terrorism, while mentioning infamous terrorist attacks such as 9/11 and SOTF. The Fallahs, especially Maria, were uncomfortable teaching the attacks to their children because they thought that they were too young for it, and as a result deliberately tried to hide information about it to Noah. As a result, however, once Noah came across the Wikipedia page for the attacks, any information he could find about the perpetrators, victims, and any other facts became tantalizing and exciting to read because of the seemingly forbidden nature of it. Noah had a fixation on the terrorists—particularly, the mystery behind the perpetrators. Noah is prone to making jokes in bad taste online about the incidents and the correlation to his middle eastern heritage. Similarly, other terrorist attacks that happen in the United States and the Anglosphere that his parents didn't teach him about also interest him, because of their motivations and what resulted from their actions. Noah acknowledges the fact that this hobby of his makes him come off as being odd at best and dangerous at worst, and does try to tone it down, but ultimately isn't particularly ashamed of his interest in these events from the political/historical perspective.

Because of this, Noah developed a poor reputation. Instead of bothering to fix it, however, he realized that he genuinely enjoyed other peoples’ responses to him when he said something unpleasant, intentionally getting a kick out of his irritating behavior because it gave him a sense of control. In addition, as he pushed more people away with his behavior, he had also begun to attract the attention of bullies and trolls, who he tried to drive away by making offensive comments, occasionally attacking them personally with verbal barbs outside of school when his moods got bad. Noah himself wasn’t quite sure why he lashed out so frequently and enjoyed the concept of being controversial; though his parents and teachers attributed it to rebellion and attention-seeking, he himself feels as if the explanations people provided weren’t sufficient. He has gotten into trouble multiple times despite his best efforts, but not to the degree where any serious action such as expulsion was warranted.

Noah circumvented his mother’s control by making most of his trouble online instead of in person, thus making it much harder for her to learn about anything he’s done, and because of his general lack of friends in real life has built his social circle online, where he lives an almost double life as someone with a completely different personality than from home, with his school life being an in-between. His other older sister, Mila, however, was much more actively rebellious in real life, frequently staying past curfew, dressing provocatively, and talking back. As a result, Maria put much more effort on Mila, leaving Noah, both the youngest and seemingly most behaved, with a lot more freedom.

Despite the frequent punishments that Mila endured, Noah felt like her sense of rebelliousness was fun, and was attracted to the carefree attitudes that most people in her friend circle displayed. As a result, he began to emulate them, buying counterculture clothes, using foul language, and intentionally listening to crude music—just not doing so in the vicinity of his mother. Instead of blatantly rebelling like his sister, Noah liked to push the limits of what his mother allowed, such as what clothes he could wear or how disrespectful he could be to her. Then, when he finds out her limits, he would act just a bit tamer than that, while still being as respectful as he could. Maria tried to rule the household with an iron fist, and Noah found that it was easier to try to comply with her demands than it was to break the rules like Mila did, though there were times that he did specifically try to annoy her, he always made sure he technically never broke any rules. Although Maria does think that both of her kids are problem children, she has more of a focus on reforming Mila and hasn’t found an effective way of punishing Noah. Grounding him wouldn’t work due to him not having many friends in real life and taking electronics away wasn’t effective either due to him doing schoolwork online.

In school, however, Noah’s online habits of trolling and dark humor started to slip in his daily interaction, with his dropping frequent references to concerning topics—he managed to avoid getting in trouble by avoiding being too loud or extreme, but he found it oddly entertaining to talk about and speculate on topics such as Survival of the Fittest and other national tragedies, much to the horror and concern of some of his peers and teachers. This habit eventually led him to Gail, a classmate who also had an interest in the topic, and him being introduced to her friend group of other classmates, mostly outcasts including several united over a certain fear of or fascination with the attacks. In truth, being involved with this social group has only deepened his obsession with the events, and her paranoid tendencies had spread to him. Despite that, however, Noah has a notable lack of respect for the victims of tragedy and did not stop with his jokes, only lessening it when the others in his friend group made it clear that while they share the same interest in the events, they did not appreciate his disrespect. Noah has opened up to them about the fact that he feels almost compelled to talk about controversial topics and shock others while he’s at it, and has, guided by the others, speculated on the state of his mental health and the effects his childhood had on it, as a half-hearted way to pin the blame of his behavior on something. Whether or not any particular friend agrees that he was less at fault due to his issues was still a bit of a fifty-fifty, however.

One of the most overt forms of rebellion against his mother came from an argument where, after his mother told him that he needed to engage in a sport in order to look better on his resume, Noah made an offhand joke about whether or not pole dancing counted. Maria, trying to use reverse psychology, yelled at him, telling him to actually go try it out. Noah then proceeded to find a pole dancing studio online and pressured her to sign him up for a lesson right back, unaware of the fact that she was having a mentally stressful day after contemplating about one of Mila’s comments on her parenting style and losing confidence in herself as a mother. Although Maria backed out quickly, Noah couldn’t stop thinking about the incident, and after a week he gave in and got a membership to the studio with his own allowance, teaching himself how to pole dance. While he was embarrassed at first, he genuinely enjoyed the activity as a form of self-expression, and was able to talk his mother into letting him continue after weeks of continuous debating about how he didn’t think that pole dancing was inherently sexual.

Another time when he escalated a confrontation with his mother was when he was 14 and she complained about ants being in his room when he accidentally left a bag of potato chips open. A week later, Noah bought a small gel ant habitat online, and then tried to hide it from his mother. After a month, his mother saw the habitat, and proceeded to yell at him until he lied to her and told her that he had a budding interest in biology, especially entomology. Although it started as a lie, his mother bought him a book on insect keeping, and he became genuinely interested in the subject as he developed a fondness for insects and both their complicated biology and the joy of taking care of pets. Noah eventually was able to convince his mother to keep the ant habitat in the living room, and over the years he has owned many more small insect habitats, which his mother has approved of. Eventually, his mom even started to feed the ants, and, one day, told him that she enjoyed the presence of the insects and that she was glad he was able to find a calm hobby. Noah, who was now emotionally attached to the ants that he once bought in order to annoy his mother, begrudgingly agreed.

In a way, this helped Noah start repairing his relationship with his mother, toning down his rebelliousness at home and stopping his efforts to annoy her, because he felt as if she thought of him as the only stable, well-behaved child of her’s, and he didn’t want to exert extra stress on her, especially since Mila has recently graduated but was still living in their apartment and was still arguing against Maria’s suggestion for her to move away and go to college.

Noah did not change as much at school, however. He still had a reputation as someone who is intentionally edgy, creepy, and trying too hard to seem tough, but his circle of friends within Gales’ group have helped him expand his social life with mutual friends and calmed his worst tendencies, although he still wasn’t anything near popular. If anything, the fact that he had his mother’s trust just meant that he felt even more free to indulge in his worst habits.

Online, he was still unpleasant—with the shield of anonymity, Noah relished in trolling and annoying people. He enjoyed the attention that he gets when he posts something shocking or gets people to argue with him or the ironic praise of the people who supported his trolling efforts, when they are directed at groups with widely unpopular beliefs. Although Noah was unpolitical for most of his life and has identified as atheist for most of his teenage years, he frequently pretended to be a communist online for trolling, which then led to him reading communist texts in order to make his communist online persona more accurate—right up until he genuinely gained an active interest in communism and agreed with many of its ideals. Currently, Noah posts on a relatively new reddit account, after the old one was banned. He genuinely believes in some of the communist memes that he posted especially pertaining to the redistribution of wealth and universal healthcare, although online he uses an exaggerated persona of a fervent soviet for fun, making memes with intentionally odd aesthetics and sayings. Being introduced to Tumblr’s aesthetic community last year, Noah has been incorporating some of them—notably weirdcore—in his online posts because he enjoys the random nature of it and its capacity for use in humorous posts, although the real reason why he feelt so attached to the aesthetic, as well as many other niche internet aesthetics, was because he feels as if it’s easier explaining his feelings with pictures instead of words and more colorful, visual memes got him more attention than text posts.

Recently, he has taken up TikTok as another social media site that he uses. When a certain meme pertaining to communists and feminine men began to get popular, Noah decided to join the trend, posting a video of him dressed up in one of his mother’s dresses, dancing while presenting information about communism. When the video received more attention than he did on his other social media platforms, Noah decided to start actually putting effort in his TikToks, borrowing some of Mila’s clothing and buying feminine clothes, such as a maid dress and cat ears online in order to fully buy into the meme. Eventually, he realized that crossdressing, even as a joke, actually made him feel happy and that his TikToks greatly boosted his confidence. As a boy who was small in stature and grew up with mostly women in his household, Noah felt like crossdressing and embracing his femininity was something that made him feel relieved from the societal pressure to be masculine. However, there was also a rebellious aspect to his posting—like many of his other activities on social media, Noah seeks to gain controversy, and provoke right-wing accounts or anybody who disagrees with his ideology in general into be scandalized and question him, which would in turn lead to him provoking arguments for fun.

Currently, Noah has a small following on his main account, where he posts himself uploading ironic communist propaganda or true crime information while he does popular dances in his maid outfit. Noah actually does quite a lot of research for his videos, and has, at many times, either bought, pirated, or asked his mother to buy him books on communism and leftist politics. Maria has no interest in politics herself, but encourages Noah to study politics under the belief that he has an active interest in the subject out of his own goodwill.

Noah feels odd about his spot as his mother’s favorite—on one hand, it gives him expectations to behave, and he feels as if his mother expects much more out of him than his sisters. On the other hand, she has a lot more trust in him, and as a result often loosens her rules for him. Maria’s somewhat apparent favoritism has caused friction between him and Mila. Noah also infrequently visits Dina with his family—in a way, Noah resents her for practically overhauling his family and his social life when he was younger. The two write to each other, and Noah updates her regularly with letters and photographs, but even after she was released the two did not talk much in person, mostly due to the fact that she lives with her father.

Noah’s grades are not particularly good—they are a mix of Bs and Cs, with the occasional A grade. He takes coding and classes focused on building things, and doesn’t actively participate in any clubs other than the robotics club. He isn’t sure what to do when he graduates, but knows that he is willing to enter a career he doesn’t find fun if it pays well.

Advantages: Noah’s greatest advantage is his knowledge of SOTF, which has been an interest of his for most of his teenage years, and as a result he understands the mechanisms and tactics of SOTF and those who have participated in it at a level that might be genuinely helpful. Noah’s small but fit frame could aid his survival by letting him hide or fit in small spaces. To a certain extent, without the need for civility Noah can be surprisingly unempathetic and willing to hurt others for selfish reasons. Years of hiding and lying to his strict mother have given him the ability to lie straight-faced quite well.
Disadvantages: Because of his knowledge of SOTF’s history and his anti-authority tendencies, however, there is a chance that Noah would put more effort into escape, or even trying to learn more about his situation, than survival. Noah has a reputation as someone who is odd, unstable, creepy, and obsessed with SOTF, something that was not helped by his active efforts to appear unnerving. Noah has a notable lack of respect for others and a tendency to provoke reactions from others, and he may succumb to his worst traits and bring otherwise avoidable negative attention onto himself. He often responds to hostility by escalating in an attempt to drive people away, and to any attempts to leash his behavior by similarly escalating what he was doing out of rebellion.

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[Yonagoda]

here we go :3

[Deamon]

Okay, let's take another look at Noah! He is still Denied, but I think we're close to him being accepted.

Noah grew up feeling overshadowed by Dina, as she is a gifted student, while she succumbed to worse and worse influences as a result of interacting with peers that are involved in gang activity.

This is still in the present tense.

The crime caught local media attention, and the Fallah family was shunned by their community and friends due to Adel refusing to condemn Dina’s crimes, saying that she was manipulated by her friends to do the deed and still has a chance to reform

The has here should be had.

because he saw him as an escape

You missed an S off saw.

Noah circumvented his mother’s control by making most of his trouble online instead of in person, thus making it much harder for her to learn about anything he’s done, and because of his general lack of friends in real life has built his social circle online, where he lives an almost double life as someone with a completely different personality than from home, with his school life being an in-between.

This is one big run-on sentence and could do with splitting up.

real reason why he feelt so attached to the aesthetic

You have an extra e in Felt.

Noah decided to start actually putting effort into his TikToks,

This should be Into rather than In.

Once these edits are done, post back here and I'll take another look!

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