Lmaoooo considering I've been working on a fic focused on him for almost ten months now it's safe to say I also don't have a firm grasp on how to write him, but I'm game :D I do love talking about my faves, and I have some bullshit up on Tumblr where I'm just holding my brain upside down and shaking it to get the feelings out. Who doesn't love a chance to Provide Propaganda, y'know?
Also, yeah man, the parallels between Noah and N, the way you can see all of Noah's traits in N once you start looking at his actual decision-making, was one of my favourite parts of how both of them were written. N has clearly gone through one of the worst cases of empathy burnout, it's so interesting to see the compassion and sensitivity to other people's feelings that make Noah such a good leader and strong ally turned on their head in the form of N who just... doesn't have the strength to care anymore, who's letting himself get eated up from the inside because he just wants things to stop happening so much. I definitely felt FR went overboard with his arrogant posturing, it felt really strange suddenly not being able to see the echo of Noah in him, and see him act all callous and self-assured was genuinely pretty strange. Like, say what you want about N/Noah but he's not a tsundere "it's not like I care or anything" type. In fact, he's the opposite. He is horribly capable of killing himself and everyone around him by caring.
Noah was just, like, a really really strong character that I felt was let down by the fact that he got elevated into Special Boy status, which diminished the necessity of him having a strong support network of people in the form of the rest of the ensemble to keep him on-rails and on-task, y'know?
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Date: 2023-07-16 03:37 pm (UTC)From:Lmaoooo considering I've been working on a fic focused on him for almost ten months now it's safe to say I also don't have a firm grasp on how to write him, but I'm game :D I do love talking about my faves, and I have some bullshit up on Tumblr where I'm just holding my brain upside down and shaking it to get the feelings out. Who doesn't love a chance to Provide Propaganda, y'know?
Also, yeah man, the parallels between Noah and N, the way you can see all of Noah's traits in N once you start looking at his actual decision-making, was one of my favourite parts of how both of them were written. N has clearly gone through one of the worst cases of empathy burnout, it's so interesting to see the compassion and sensitivity to other people's feelings that make Noah such a good leader and strong ally turned on their head in the form of N who just... doesn't have the strength to care anymore, who's letting himself get eated up from the inside because he just wants things to stop happening so much. I definitely felt FR went overboard with his arrogant posturing, it felt really strange suddenly not being able to see the echo of Noah in him, and see him act all callous and self-assured was genuinely pretty strange. Like, say what you want about N/Noah but he's not a tsundere "it's not like I care or anything" type. In fact, he's the opposite. He is horribly capable of killing himself and everyone around him by caring.
Noah was just, like, a really really strong character that I felt was let down by the fact that he got elevated into Special Boy status, which diminished the necessity of him having a strong support network of people in the form of the rest of the ensemble to keep him on-rails and on-task, y'know?