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Character Information
Character Name: Noiz
Canon: DRAMAtical Murder
Canon-Point: Just after leaving the closet in Oval Tower to go look for first aid supplies for Aoba
Age: 19
History: He has a wiki page here, but it's kinda lacking in pre-game history and certain points on his route, so I plan to explain what is missing here.
Noiz's history is explained by him on two occasions, and basically boils down to having a life-altering disorder and really shitty, rich parents. He explains that his inability to feel pain started causing problems for him when he was a child, when his mom figured out what was wrong after he smiled at her and showed her the blood from a knee scrape instead of actually flipping a shit like a normal child. At one point, he broke his leg when he fell down the stairs and tried to walk it off, resulting in a high-intensity hospital visit because he'd triple-extra fucked it up by trying to walk it off. Another time, he broke his hand and since he didn't notice, it healed wrong and became a little more difficult to use. While they went to several doctors for an explanation and a fix, his parents ended up with exactly fuck all in ways of the latter, since there isn't a fix for this kind of disorder.
He became a problem child as soon as he entered the school system, though it was initially unintentional on his part. While it's normal for children to play-fight, Noiz usually took it too far. Because he was unable to feel pain, he couldn't figure out when he was taking it too far with other children because he couldn't understand their physical pain or limits. As a result, he'd consistently hurt other children without meaning to, so adults would scold him and other children began to hate and fear him. While it initially confused him, Noiz eventually just accepted it as part of his life and stopped caring about what people thought. He continued getting into fights and causing trouble, both because he didn't care and because the other kids would instigate fights as much as he did, until his parents found out and decided to do something about it before it damaged their reputations further.
Rather than use their copious amounts of money to get him professional help, his parents opted for the easier route and renovated one of the rooms in their mansion to essentially be a small apartment. Noiz got his own bedroom, bathroom, tutor, housekeeper, and three square meals a day, and all he had to do was stay locked in it so that the people who brought him into the world and raised him could essentially abandon him. They refused to let his brother see him, regulating Noiz to the status of a well cared for prisoner. While he initially kicked and screamed and cried, no one came to help him or even treat his injuries. They just let him tire himself out and lick his own wounds and, more importantly, they refused to let him out.
As a result, Noiz realized that no matter how much he acted out and panicked and cried, no one would ever come to help him or save him. It didn't matter if he lived or died, because either way no one would really care. If he wanted anything, he would have to rely on himself as he was the only person who was around that could do anything. He became very withdrawn and his emotions joined his capacity for empathy at the bottom of a metaphorical canal. His parents abandoning him was something of a nail in the coffin as far as Noiz acknowledging that he was very much different and separate from the rest of humanity. While he acknowledges that he's the freak among everyone he knows, there's nothing he can do about it.
At some point during his captivity, Noiz became some kind of hacker and electronic guru extraordinaire, which is probably how he managed to escape his parent's makeshift prison. It's not specified how he makes his way to Midorijima but it's stated in canon that he arrived on the island about four years before the story and started playing Rhyme at the same time, putting him around fifteen when he first starts all this. He ends up being drawn to Rhyme, which is basically virtual reality cockfighting, because it's the only way he can feel anything resembling pain, since Rhyme is hardwired into the brain. At the point the story starts, he's carved a place for himself in Midorijima as the leader of the Rhyme gang Ruff Rabbit, and as an information broker who sells the future locations of Usui to whoever is willing to pay for it.
If the player makes a certain set of choices, they end up playing Noiz's route in the game, which is detailed in the wiki link. However, the wiki is incomplete in this regard, since it stops at the point where Noiz is stuffing his face while Aoba looks on in amazement, so I've decided to continue it from there. The route does continue on after that, though it does get a little explicit. Because, y'know, BL games. (Holla.)
After Noiz is done stuffing his face, he sort of leaves Aoba there to go fight some yakuza he happens to find. He doesn't offer any explanation as to why the hell he goes off to do this when Aoba asks him later, which is a bit of a dick move since Aoba risked his ass pulling Noiz out of there. Rather than thank him, Noiz acts extremely put out until Aoba notices that he's torn the entire back of his hand open. Aoba tries to treat his hand but Noiz refuses to let him until Aoba eventually gets so tired of it that he just forces him to sit down and let him disinfect and bandage it. Once it's done, Noiz acts confused as to why Aoba would even bother to help him with something like this, and decides for himself that Aoba must have some sort of ulterior motive or use for him. That leads to him assuming that Aoba wants to use his body, since that tended to happen to him a lot in the past and he can't think of any other reason Aoba would need him intact.
Long story short, they make-out for a bit, mutual handjobs and a blowjob are had, then they shower and go to sleep in their respective rooms. Then the yakuza break into Glitter because Noiz kicked the shit out of them earlier and they want revenge. Of course they do. After kicking some ass, Noiz and Aoba run away into Platinum Jail, losing their pursuers in a maze of back-alleys until they run into Akushima, who promptly calls them terrorists and decides he's going to kill them with his modified megaphone laser gun. They spend a little while playing dodgeball with whatever the hell that thing uses for ammo, until Noiz decided to bum-rush the gunman. He gets in enough solid hits for the guy to go down before Aoba tries to get him to stop. His attempts get Noiz to stop succeed, but then Akushima gets up and grabs Noiz by the throat, trying to shoot him directly in the stomach. Aoba ends up rushing in and using Scrap to keep Noiz from getting killed.
While his attempt is a success, Noiz immediately gets pissed over the fact that Aoba can in fact use Scrap when he'd previously told Noiz it wasn't really something he could do. Noiz calls him a liar and challenges him to another Rhyme match right there in the alley, shoving him down to the ground when he refuses to comply. Aoba rips into him about how he's not sure why the hell Noiz is even still around, and Noiz completely dodges the question by turning Aoba's logic back on him, telling him that he shouldn't try saving him and claiming that if Akushima had killed him then he would have deserved it for his actions. Then he goes on a long spiel which essentially amounts to him expressing genuine confusion as to why Aoba keeps helping him, and that he doesn't actually help people for any real reason other than to feel good about what he's doing. It ends up falling to Aoba to drill into his head that, surprise, some people are just kind for no reason and Aoba is sometimes one of those people. Noiz literally does not comprehend what Aoba is talking about, to the point where anger is overrode by confusion and he lets Aoba up from the floor.
They have a full conversation about the actual plot of the game afterward, then resolve to go to the Oval Tower (finally) to see where this all leads. Noiz beats the shit out of the two guards watching the back door and gets them into the tower via the now open doors. They sneak around, get to the top floor, and Noiz hacks the network so that everything will look like it's not going straight to hell once they start fucking shit up. Then they wind up running into Toue's security AllMates, which seem rather normal at first, up until they go all Resident Evil on the protagonists and try to murder them. While they manage to dodge a laser beam, Aoba's side ends up grazed and burned when he half takes a bullet for Noiz. Noiz, showing his typical survival skills, runs up and shoves one of his AllMate's cubes into the gun barrel on the security AllMate, causing it to jam and malfunction.
After several more of the evil robo-dogs arrive, Noiz and Aoba end up hiding in a glorified closet that is not in any way supposed to serve as a metaphor for Aoba's life. Noiz repeats how he doesn't understand why Aoba would put himself in harms way for someone like him, and says that he wouldn't care if he'd died in that situation, which is the point where Aoba gets fucking sick of his shit and punches him in the face. Then they get into a fistfight in the middle of a high-risk situation like the good-decision making adults they are. It's all fun and games until Noiz jams his knee into Aoba's wound like a tactless fuckwit, and Aoba rightfully kicks him in the stomach. Noiz doesn't react to this at all, though he does at least move his knee.
After piecing it all together, Aoba confronts Noiz about his inability to feel pain, which he confirms and offers sort of an elaboration for. When prompted, he goes into detail on most of his past, with absolutely no indication that he feels anything about what happened to him. Aoba starts feeling a little bad for him because he had such a pathetic life, and they have a little cuddle on the floor so that Noiz will calm the hell down. Aoba essentially says that he'll help Noiz learn about the world because he's like a big brother here, which Noiz sort of consents to since Aoba phrases it in a way that makes it appealing. After they get up and dust themselves off, Noiz is hilariously embarrassed about what just happened.
After discussing what to do about navigating the tower again, Aoba's wound starts to hurt and Noiz actually seems to understand that Aoba is feeling pain and suggests they find a way to treat his wound. After realizing they have nothing on hand except the handkerchief in Noiz' pockets, Noiz leaves the closet to go look for something they can use for first aid.
This is the point I'm bringing him in from. The only thing that happens after this point is that Aoba finds Noiz brainwashed and crazy in the tower and has to use Scrap to magically fix Noiz. Everything after that is detailed in the wiki under his Good and Bad Ending sections.
Personality:
Noiz's inability to feel pain is the source of a lot of his personality issues, primarily being responsible for his lack of comprehension when it comes to how he should conduct himself. He tends to put up a very effective front of apathy when it comes to just about everything in his life. While he finds some things interesting, it's difficult to hold his attention or get him to emote over anything that isn't food, Rhyme or technological bullshit that involves information brokering or hacking. Primarily, he only expresses the desire to fight, a shocking disregard towards the potential good in humanity, and an almost hilarious lack of understanding as to why people act the way they do. And that's when he isn't being a smug and abrasive out of a lack of social graces, or just being completely reckless.
Speaking of reckless, Noiz is kind of terrible when it comes to actually looking after his own well-being. He has little problem rushing into something that has the potential to get him hurt, mostly because he knows he can't feel it and if could, he'd enjoy it. He doesn't even consider the fact that he could potentially die to be something that would stop him from doing anything he really wants. At one point, he even lectures Aoba for worrying about his safety, saying that if he got hurt or died due to something he did, it would only be what he deserved. While he's getting used to the concept of his life having value, he still very much cruising for anything that can make him feel something, and might even be more desperate for it as a way to somehow connect like he's supposed to be trying to do.
Normal social interaction tends to be a thing that Noiz isn't very good at. Since he couldn't understand the physical side of human connections, he ended up having trouble connecting emotionally to people as well, which lead him to assume that the negative reactions other people had to him when he was a child were normal. Because of that, no matter what situation he was in, Noiz was always consciously aware of the fact that he was different from normal people, and that made trying to connect even harder. When it comes to others, he tends to automatically assume that they're out to get something from him, not really understanding the idea that someone could do something just because they care for another person or simply are a good person.
As far as he's concerned, everyone is after something. Plenty of experience being used for other people's satisfaction has given him the mentality that there's no reason for anyone to do anything for him out of the goodness of their heart. As a result, he tends to lead a very cost-benefit based life, only dealing with others when he thinks they can mutually benefit from the situation, or when he can come out better for it. Though he at least understands the possibility of someone just being nice for the sake of it thanks to Aoba, he finds it hard to believe. Aside from his view of people as generally self-interested, Noiz is also fundamentally bad at dealing with people on a conversational level. He's blunt to the point of near-complete tactlessness, confused by anyone attempting to be nice to him, and tends to greet just about everyone with apathy.
For the most part though, he considers people not worth bothering with, though Aoba at least seems to have changed that for him slightly. He's still not all that good with people, but he at least wants to try to be. It's not entirely for altruistic reasons, since Aoba primarily coaxes him over to this school of thought with the idea that it would be more beneficial to know more about the world and people in it than not. In essence, that he would have everything to gain and nothing to lose by actually trying to be part of the human race. He's still pretty garbage at it, not having any real practice, but he does imply that he's willing to try even though he stops short of an actual promise.
It can be assumed that Noiz has no concept of actually discussing his problems with people like they're things that actually need to be remedied, especially considering how much effort connecting with other people seems to be for him. When discussing his rather shit childhood with Aoba, he states everything like it's something that he's distanced himself from. He doesn't consider discussing it to be something that should be emotional, or even something he should be sad about and want closure for. Since no one comforted him during his breakdowns as a child, he doesn't see any point in projecting his emotions or talking about them, and tends to suppress any feelings he has that could be attributed as weak. While he is inwardly a very lonely person due to his past, he refuses to acknowledge it or even explain that fact about himself to others, due to the idea that it could be easily taken advantage of.
Noiz has an interesting relationship with the concept of personal space. While he absolutely loathes being touched by just about anyone, he doesn't see any problem infringing upon the personal space of others. Several times when Aoba grabs him to either pull him away from a fight or to force him to treat an injury, Noiz expresses discomfort with physical contact, going so far as to slap the other's hands away. However, one of the first times he interacted with Aoba properly, he had no problems kissing him straight on the mouth or kissing a little girl on the cheek, despite being a stranger to both of them. However, it's only when people attempt to touch him out of a sense of care for his wellbeing that he seems to get upset. He doesn't mind fighting people, or being the one to breach the personal space of others, but tends to get offended when someone tries to turn the tables on him in a softer way. He doesn't mind fighting because it's a way to feel some kind of real pressure among other things, which is as close as he can really get to pain. Most other contact tends to make him upset, and especially tender contact usually embarrasses him.
It's especially funny because Noiz is usually shameless to the point of hilarity. He has the tendency to say and do the most bizarre shit with a completely straight face, and he doesn't really have a gauge for what is weird. Furthermore, he doesn't actually care what other people consider weird so long as it makes him feel something. When the weirdness of his action is pointed out to him, he typically shrugs it off, and that's when he doesn't turn it around on the other person and act like the fact that their making a big deal out of it what's strange.
One of his more eccentric behaviors is the tendency towards what might look like oral fixation. Noiz tends to kiss people without a thought, usually on the face and with no shame at all, and put things in his mouth that he probably shouldn't. Though usually they're edible in some capacity, it's not completely odd that he would put non-edibles in his mouth. Since he only has sensation in his mouth, Noiz tends to use it as a gauge for whether or not things are good or bad half the time, or just to get a feel for something.
Of course, for all his posturing Noiz does tend towards childish behavior on occasion. There are several times in the game where Aoba remarks that his forays into violent outbursts are less serious than they seem to be because, while he does try to intimidate, it's really obvious that what he's doing is essentially throwing a temper tantrum. There just tends to be a little more collateral damage since he's not a child and when he gets violent other people sometimes suffer. A lot of his more obviously emotional actions can be linked to how a kid acts out when they don't get what they want, and considering Noiz didn't really have anyone to stop him from doing that when he was a child, it isn't surprising he would do it now and actually be a little surprised when people call him on it.
Abilities/Powers:
Noiz's primary ability (if it can even be called that), is that he has no capacity to feel pain or even most basic sensations. He's not capable of feeling differences in temperature or even most basic touches unless a fair amount of pressure is put behind them. This can be equated to a case of CIP, since Noiz does have all the symptoms and difficulties associated with it, even dating back to childhood. However, he is capable of feeling pain in his mouth and temperature to a limited degree, which is what makes this kind of a bullshit diagnosis and not a proper case of what's going on with him. Simply put, his issue is a half made up and sort of fictiony version of a real disorder. His inability to feel pain is what allows him to play Rhyme and fight with other people so easily and with so little fear, as he doesn't ever flinch away from the idea of getting hurt because he doesn't know what that feels like. As a result, he's really good at close-combat kinds fighting, enough so that he can easily take on multiple opponents and simply outlast them half the time because he doesn't know when to stop.
However, this proves obviously enough to be a weakness on it's own, and not just because it's fostered a lot of bad habits and unhealthy personality traits in him. Pain is the way the body tells it's owner that it needs to pull away from damaging stimuli and completely avoid it in the future. It's also there to make sure you don't stretch yourself past your limits and end up tearing yourself apart, because while you might mentally be able to take the pain, there's only so far your body can physically go. Since Noiz can't feel pain, he doesn't understand his limits, and he doesn't actually know when he gets hurt unless he sees it. He could bleed to death internally, break a bone, or have an infected wound, and he wouldn't really know unless he saw it or someone pointed it out. And even then, he may not even treat it because it'll just heal anyway. He has no warning system for when his body is about to collapse on him and could easily get hurt and pass out somewhere dangerous just because he doesn't know something's wrong.
As far as general talents go, Noiz is essentially a technological genius. His AllMate is a custom model, he's been shown to be able to hack high-level security systems in his canon, and he uses his tech know-how and hacking skills to become an information broker among the Rhyme community. He's shown to be a very good strategist, dominating easily in Rhyme to the point of being undefeated not only because his lack of fear when it comes to pain, but because he's good at thinking on his feet and usually has a plan when he isn't being a reckless asshole. He even manages to set something up to get them through Oval Tower undetected, and is pretty much the go-to tech guy out of all the characters in the game. As far as book smarts go, he's rather top-notch, which isn't surprising considering he grew up with his own personal tutor and in a rich family. His only problem is a lack of common sense, his recklessness in regards to his own life, and the fact that book smarts don't equate to experience.
Notes: I'd actually like a set answer on whether or not he'd be allowed to keep his insensitivity, primarily because pain and sensation and wanting to feel them are his main motivators. Without his CIP, it's a little more difficult to gauge his personality and renders some of his section a little off. It also makes it difficult to consider a deal with Fox, since losing that characteristic basically gives him everything he wants right off the bat.
Items:
- Usagimodoki: Noiz's AllMate, in the form of the cubes hanging off his belt. It's never explained how it works, so I usually assume it's one program split into multiple containers and connected wirelessly. Despite Noiz's taciturn persona, it has an extremely childish personality, usually acting very energetic while tending to be quick to mimic and mock people for no real reason. While Noiz uses it to primarily play Rhyme, the cubes are also small and easy to hide, so he uses them to bug people's houses as well. It's essentially a 5-year-old at Noiz's beck and call.
- Coil: Holographic wristwatch-esque computer a la James bond. It can make phone calls, send texts, and even be used as a proper computer with wireless connection capabilities and everything. Here's a picture.
- Two (2) pairs of brass knuckles.
- One (1) white handkerchief
Samples
1. Awkward Situations Meme @![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
bakerstreet - Two fucking idiots ruin breakfast for everyone.
2. Test Drive Meme @spindlepricked - Noiz tries to put things in his mouth that don't belong there.
This was so much bullshit for a character from a BL game. I'm so sorry.
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Character Information
Character Name: Noiz
Canon: DRAMAtical Murder
Canon-Point: Just after leaving the closet in Oval Tower to go look for first aid supplies for Aoba
Age: 19
History: He has a wiki page here, but it's kinda lacking in pre-game history and certain points on his route, so I plan to explain what is missing here.
Noiz's history is explained by him on two occasions, and basically boils down to having a life-altering disorder and really shitty, rich parents. He explains that his inability to feel pain started causing problems for him when he was a child, when his mom figured out what was wrong after he smiled at her and showed her the blood from a knee scrape instead of actually flipping a shit like a normal child. At one point, he broke his leg when he fell down the stairs and tried to walk it off, resulting in a high-intensity hospital visit because he'd triple-extra fucked it up by trying to walk it off. Another time, he broke his hand and since he didn't notice, it healed wrong and became a little more difficult to use. While they went to several doctors for an explanation and a fix, his parents ended up with exactly fuck all in ways of the latter, since there isn't a fix for this kind of disorder.
He became a problem child as soon as he entered the school system, though it was initially unintentional on his part. While it's normal for children to play-fight, Noiz usually took it too far. Because he was unable to feel pain, he couldn't figure out when he was taking it too far with other children because he couldn't understand their physical pain or limits. As a result, he'd consistently hurt other children without meaning to, so adults would scold him and other children began to hate and fear him. While it initially confused him, Noiz eventually just accepted it as part of his life and stopped caring about what people thought. He continued getting into fights and causing trouble, both because he didn't care and because the other kids would instigate fights as much as he did, until his parents found out and decided to do something about it before it damaged their reputations further.
Rather than use their copious amounts of money to get him professional help, his parents opted for the easier route and renovated one of the rooms in their mansion to essentially be a small apartment. Noiz got his own bedroom, bathroom, tutor, housekeeper, and three square meals a day, and all he had to do was stay locked in it so that the people who brought him into the world and raised him could essentially abandon him. They refused to let his brother see him, regulating Noiz to the status of a well cared for prisoner. While he initially kicked and screamed and cried, no one came to help him or even treat his injuries. They just let him tire himself out and lick his own wounds and, more importantly, they refused to let him out.
As a result, Noiz realized that no matter how much he acted out and panicked and cried, no one would ever come to help him or save him. It didn't matter if he lived or died, because either way no one would really care. If he wanted anything, he would have to rely on himself as he was the only person who was around that could do anything. He became very withdrawn and his emotions joined his capacity for empathy at the bottom of a metaphorical canal. His parents abandoning him was something of a nail in the coffin as far as Noiz acknowledging that he was very much different and separate from the rest of humanity. While he acknowledges that he's the freak among everyone he knows, there's nothing he can do about it.
At some point during his captivity, Noiz became some kind of hacker and electronic guru extraordinaire, which is probably how he managed to escape his parent's makeshift prison. It's not specified how he makes his way to Midorijima but it's stated in canon that he arrived on the island about four years before the story and started playing Rhyme at the same time, putting him around fifteen when he first starts all this. He ends up being drawn to Rhyme, which is basically virtual reality cockfighting, because it's the only way he can feel anything resembling pain, since Rhyme is hardwired into the brain. At the point the story starts, he's carved a place for himself in Midorijima as the leader of the Rhyme gang Ruff Rabbit, and as an information broker who sells the future locations of Usui to whoever is willing to pay for it.
If the player makes a certain set of choices, they end up playing Noiz's route in the game, which is detailed in the wiki link. However, the wiki is incomplete in this regard, since it stops at the point where Noiz is stuffing his face while Aoba looks on in amazement, so I've decided to continue it from there. The route does continue on after that, though it does get a little explicit. Because, y'know, BL games. (Holla.)
After Noiz is done stuffing his face, he sort of leaves Aoba there to go fight some yakuza he happens to find. He doesn't offer any explanation as to why the hell he goes off to do this when Aoba asks him later, which is a bit of a dick move since Aoba risked his ass pulling Noiz out of there. Rather than thank him, Noiz acts extremely put out until Aoba notices that he's torn the entire back of his hand open. Aoba tries to treat his hand but Noiz refuses to let him until Aoba eventually gets so tired of it that he just forces him to sit down and let him disinfect and bandage it. Once it's done, Noiz acts confused as to why Aoba would even bother to help him with something like this, and decides for himself that Aoba must have some sort of ulterior motive or use for him. That leads to him assuming that Aoba wants to use his body, since that tended to happen to him a lot in the past and he can't think of any other reason Aoba would need him intact.
Long story short, they make-out for a bit, mutual handjobs and a blowjob are had, then they shower and go to sleep in their respective rooms. Then the yakuza break into Glitter because Noiz kicked the shit out of them earlier and they want revenge. Of course they do. After kicking some ass, Noiz and Aoba run away into Platinum Jail, losing their pursuers in a maze of back-alleys until they run into Akushima, who promptly calls them terrorists and decides he's going to kill them with his modified megaphone laser gun. They spend a little while playing dodgeball with whatever the hell that thing uses for ammo, until Noiz decided to bum-rush the gunman. He gets in enough solid hits for the guy to go down before Aoba tries to get him to stop. His attempts get Noiz to stop succeed, but then Akushima gets up and grabs Noiz by the throat, trying to shoot him directly in the stomach. Aoba ends up rushing in and using Scrap to keep Noiz from getting killed.
While his attempt is a success, Noiz immediately gets pissed over the fact that Aoba can in fact use Scrap when he'd previously told Noiz it wasn't really something he could do. Noiz calls him a liar and challenges him to another Rhyme match right there in the alley, shoving him down to the ground when he refuses to comply. Aoba rips into him about how he's not sure why the hell Noiz is even still around, and Noiz completely dodges the question by turning Aoba's logic back on him, telling him that he shouldn't try saving him and claiming that if Akushima had killed him then he would have deserved it for his actions. Then he goes on a long spiel which essentially amounts to him expressing genuine confusion as to why Aoba keeps helping him, and that he doesn't actually help people for any real reason other than to feel good about what he's doing. It ends up falling to Aoba to drill into his head that, surprise, some people are just kind for no reason and Aoba is sometimes one of those people. Noiz literally does not comprehend what Aoba is talking about, to the point where anger is overrode by confusion and he lets Aoba up from the floor.
They have a full conversation about the actual plot of the game afterward, then resolve to go to the Oval Tower (finally) to see where this all leads. Noiz beats the shit out of the two guards watching the back door and gets them into the tower via the now open doors. They sneak around, get to the top floor, and Noiz hacks the network so that everything will look like it's not going straight to hell once they start fucking shit up. Then they wind up running into Toue's security AllMates, which seem rather normal at first, up until they go all Resident Evil on the protagonists and try to murder them. While they manage to dodge a laser beam, Aoba's side ends up grazed and burned when he half takes a bullet for Noiz. Noiz, showing his typical survival skills, runs up and shoves one of his AllMate's cubes into the gun barrel on the security AllMate, causing it to jam and malfunction.
After several more of the evil robo-dogs arrive, Noiz and Aoba end up hiding in a glorified closet that is not in any way supposed to serve as a metaphor for Aoba's life. Noiz repeats how he doesn't understand why Aoba would put himself in harms way for someone like him, and says that he wouldn't care if he'd died in that situation, which is the point where Aoba gets fucking sick of his shit and punches him in the face. Then they get into a fistfight in the middle of a high-risk situation like the good-decision making adults they are. It's all fun and games until Noiz jams his knee into Aoba's wound like a tactless fuckwit, and Aoba rightfully kicks him in the stomach. Noiz doesn't react to this at all, though he does at least move his knee.
After piecing it all together, Aoba confronts Noiz about his inability to feel pain, which he confirms and offers sort of an elaboration for. When prompted, he goes into detail on most of his past, with absolutely no indication that he feels anything about what happened to him. Aoba starts feeling a little bad for him because he had such a pathetic life, and they have a little cuddle on the floor so that Noiz will calm the hell down. Aoba essentially says that he'll help Noiz learn about the world because he's like a big brother here, which Noiz sort of consents to since Aoba phrases it in a way that makes it appealing. After they get up and dust themselves off, Noiz is hilariously embarrassed about what just happened.
After discussing what to do about navigating the tower again, Aoba's wound starts to hurt and Noiz actually seems to understand that Aoba is feeling pain and suggests they find a way to treat his wound. After realizing they have nothing on hand except the handkerchief in Noiz' pockets, Noiz leaves the closet to go look for something they can use for first aid.
This is the point I'm bringing him in from. The only thing that happens after this point is that Aoba finds Noiz brainwashed and crazy in the tower and has to use Scrap to magically fix Noiz. Everything after that is detailed in the wiki under his Good and Bad Ending sections.
Personality:
Noiz's inability to feel pain is the source of a lot of his personality issues, primarily being responsible for his lack of comprehension when it comes to how he should conduct himself. He tends to put up a very effective front of apathy when it comes to just about everything in his life. While he finds some things interesting, it's difficult to hold his attention or get him to emote over anything that isn't food, Rhyme or technological bullshit that involves information brokering or hacking. Primarily, he only expresses the desire to fight, a shocking disregard towards the potential good in humanity, and an almost hilarious lack of understanding as to why people act the way they do. And that's when he isn't being a smug and abrasive out of a lack of social graces, or just being completely reckless.
Speaking of reckless, Noiz is kind of terrible when it comes to actually looking after his own well-being. He has little problem rushing into something that has the potential to get him hurt, mostly because he knows he can't feel it and if could, he'd enjoy it. He doesn't even consider the fact that he could potentially die to be something that would stop him from doing anything he really wants. At one point, he even lectures Aoba for worrying about his safety, saying that if he got hurt or died due to something he did, it would only be what he deserved. While he's getting used to the concept of his life having value, he still very much cruising for anything that can make him feel something, and might even be more desperate for it as a way to somehow connect like he's supposed to be trying to do.
Normal social interaction tends to be a thing that Noiz isn't very good at. Since he couldn't understand the physical side of human connections, he ended up having trouble connecting emotionally to people as well, which lead him to assume that the negative reactions other people had to him when he was a child were normal. Because of that, no matter what situation he was in, Noiz was always consciously aware of the fact that he was different from normal people, and that made trying to connect even harder. When it comes to others, he tends to automatically assume that they're out to get something from him, not really understanding the idea that someone could do something just because they care for another person or simply are a good person.
As far as he's concerned, everyone is after something. Plenty of experience being used for other people's satisfaction has given him the mentality that there's no reason for anyone to do anything for him out of the goodness of their heart. As a result, he tends to lead a very cost-benefit based life, only dealing with others when he thinks they can mutually benefit from the situation, or when he can come out better for it. Though he at least understands the possibility of someone just being nice for the sake of it thanks to Aoba, he finds it hard to believe. Aside from his view of people as generally self-interested, Noiz is also fundamentally bad at dealing with people on a conversational level. He's blunt to the point of near-complete tactlessness, confused by anyone attempting to be nice to him, and tends to greet just about everyone with apathy.
For the most part though, he considers people not worth bothering with, though Aoba at least seems to have changed that for him slightly. He's still not all that good with people, but he at least wants to try to be. It's not entirely for altruistic reasons, since Aoba primarily coaxes him over to this school of thought with the idea that it would be more beneficial to know more about the world and people in it than not. In essence, that he would have everything to gain and nothing to lose by actually trying to be part of the human race. He's still pretty garbage at it, not having any real practice, but he does imply that he's willing to try even though he stops short of an actual promise.
It can be assumed that Noiz has no concept of actually discussing his problems with people like they're things that actually need to be remedied, especially considering how much effort connecting with other people seems to be for him. When discussing his rather shit childhood with Aoba, he states everything like it's something that he's distanced himself from. He doesn't consider discussing it to be something that should be emotional, or even something he should be sad about and want closure for. Since no one comforted him during his breakdowns as a child, he doesn't see any point in projecting his emotions or talking about them, and tends to suppress any feelings he has that could be attributed as weak. While he is inwardly a very lonely person due to his past, he refuses to acknowledge it or even explain that fact about himself to others, due to the idea that it could be easily taken advantage of.
Noiz has an interesting relationship with the concept of personal space. While he absolutely loathes being touched by just about anyone, he doesn't see any problem infringing upon the personal space of others. Several times when Aoba grabs him to either pull him away from a fight or to force him to treat an injury, Noiz expresses discomfort with physical contact, going so far as to slap the other's hands away. However, one of the first times he interacted with Aoba properly, he had no problems kissing him straight on the mouth or kissing a little girl on the cheek, despite being a stranger to both of them. However, it's only when people attempt to touch him out of a sense of care for his wellbeing that he seems to get upset. He doesn't mind fighting people, or being the one to breach the personal space of others, but tends to get offended when someone tries to turn the tables on him in a softer way. He doesn't mind fighting because it's a way to feel some kind of real pressure among other things, which is as close as he can really get to pain. Most other contact tends to make him upset, and especially tender contact usually embarrasses him.
It's especially funny because Noiz is usually shameless to the point of hilarity. He has the tendency to say and do the most bizarre shit with a completely straight face, and he doesn't really have a gauge for what is weird. Furthermore, he doesn't actually care what other people consider weird so long as it makes him feel something. When the weirdness of his action is pointed out to him, he typically shrugs it off, and that's when he doesn't turn it around on the other person and act like the fact that their making a big deal out of it what's strange.
One of his more eccentric behaviors is the tendency towards what might look like oral fixation. Noiz tends to kiss people without a thought, usually on the face and with no shame at all, and put things in his mouth that he probably shouldn't. Though usually they're edible in some capacity, it's not completely odd that he would put non-edibles in his mouth. Since he only has sensation in his mouth, Noiz tends to use it as a gauge for whether or not things are good or bad half the time, or just to get a feel for something.
Of course, for all his posturing Noiz does tend towards childish behavior on occasion. There are several times in the game where Aoba remarks that his forays into violent outbursts are less serious than they seem to be because, while he does try to intimidate, it's really obvious that what he's doing is essentially throwing a temper tantrum. There just tends to be a little more collateral damage since he's not a child and when he gets violent other people sometimes suffer. A lot of his more obviously emotional actions can be linked to how a kid acts out when they don't get what they want, and considering Noiz didn't really have anyone to stop him from doing that when he was a child, it isn't surprising he would do it now and actually be a little surprised when people call him on it.
Abilities/Powers:
Noiz's primary ability (if it can even be called that), is that he has no capacity to feel pain or even most basic sensations. He's not capable of feeling differences in temperature or even most basic touches unless a fair amount of pressure is put behind them. This can be equated to a case of CIP, since Noiz does have all the symptoms and difficulties associated with it, even dating back to childhood. However, he is capable of feeling pain in his mouth and temperature to a limited degree, which is what makes this kind of a bullshit diagnosis and not a proper case of what's going on with him. Simply put, his issue is a half made up and sort of fictiony version of a real disorder. His inability to feel pain is what allows him to play Rhyme and fight with other people so easily and with so little fear, as he doesn't ever flinch away from the idea of getting hurt because he doesn't know what that feels like. As a result, he's really good at close-combat kinds fighting, enough so that he can easily take on multiple opponents and simply outlast them half the time because he doesn't know when to stop.
However, this proves obviously enough to be a weakness on it's own, and not just because it's fostered a lot of bad habits and unhealthy personality traits in him. Pain is the way the body tells it's owner that it needs to pull away from damaging stimuli and completely avoid it in the future. It's also there to make sure you don't stretch yourself past your limits and end up tearing yourself apart, because while you might mentally be able to take the pain, there's only so far your body can physically go. Since Noiz can't feel pain, he doesn't understand his limits, and he doesn't actually know when he gets hurt unless he sees it. He could bleed to death internally, break a bone, or have an infected wound, and he wouldn't really know unless he saw it or someone pointed it out. And even then, he may not even treat it because it'll just heal anyway. He has no warning system for when his body is about to collapse on him and could easily get hurt and pass out somewhere dangerous just because he doesn't know something's wrong.
As far as general talents go, Noiz is essentially a technological genius. His AllMate is a custom model, he's been shown to be able to hack high-level security systems in his canon, and he uses his tech know-how and hacking skills to become an information broker among the Rhyme community. He's shown to be a very good strategist, dominating easily in Rhyme to the point of being undefeated not only because his lack of fear when it comes to pain, but because he's good at thinking on his feet and usually has a plan when he isn't being a reckless asshole. He even manages to set something up to get them through Oval Tower undetected, and is pretty much the go-to tech guy out of all the characters in the game. As far as book smarts go, he's rather top-notch, which isn't surprising considering he grew up with his own personal tutor and in a rich family. His only problem is a lack of common sense, his recklessness in regards to his own life, and the fact that book smarts don't equate to experience.
Notes: I'd actually like a set answer on whether or not he'd be allowed to keep his insensitivity, primarily because pain and sensation and wanting to feel them are his main motivators. Without his CIP, it's a little more difficult to gauge his personality and renders some of his section a little off. It also makes it difficult to consider a deal with Fox, since losing that characteristic basically gives him everything he wants right off the bat.
Items:
- Usagimodoki: Noiz's AllMate, in the form of the cubes hanging off his belt. It's never explained how it works, so I usually assume it's one program split into multiple containers and connected wirelessly. Despite Noiz's taciturn persona, it has an extremely childish personality, usually acting very energetic while tending to be quick to mimic and mock people for no real reason. While Noiz uses it to primarily play Rhyme, the cubes are also small and easy to hide, so he uses them to bug people's houses as well. It's essentially a 5-year-old at Noiz's beck and call.
- Coil: Holographic wristwatch-esque computer a la James bond. It can make phone calls, send texts, and even be used as a proper computer with wireless connection capabilities and everything. Here's a picture.
- Two (2) pairs of brass knuckles.
- One (1) white handkerchief
Samples
1. Awkward Situations Meme @
bakerstreet - Two fucking idiots ruin breakfast for everyone.2. Test Drive Meme @
spindlepricked - Noiz tries to put things in his mouth that don't belong there.