Noah Morris Brown

Noah Morris Brown is a Hogwarts graduate.

Noah Morris Brown, holding a vial of scintillation solution, and generally going full mad scientist mode. (Art by Estelle Martin's player.)

## Personal Information

### House:

Ravenclaw, though they couldn't care less.

### Marital Status:

Ivan's former boyfriend. Thinks the institution of marriage is stupid.

## Physical Description

### Gender:

Male by default. They think the whole thing is a bit of a waste of time.

## Relationships

### Family Members:

Stewart Brown (Father), Emmy Morris (Mother), Casper Brown (Brother), William Brown (Brother), Erica Lourigan (Aunt), Albert Lourigan (Uncle), Andrew Lourigan (Cousin), Leana Lourigan (Cousin), Timothy Lourigan (Cousin), Ira Brown (Grandmother), Alexandra Zahn (Great Aunt), The Hummingbird Swarm (Pet?).

## Magical

### Wand:

Cherry and unicorn hair, 10", inflexible. Has a strange, intricate set of grooves and ridges running down it.

### Abilities:

Has the correct mental structure for becoming an Occlumens with relative ease, should they choose to. Which they may very well do, due to their interest in mind magic. Has a somniumpartum.

### Animagus:

If they ever have one (unlikely,) a Common Octopus.

### Amortentia:

A nothingness that overwhelms all other smells.

## Appearance

*"Martyn glances at Noah and does loop-de-loops with his mind as he tries to figure out their gender. He factors in the glasses, the short hair, the overall figure and comes up with...nothing really." -Martyn*

Noah is 5'9" tall and weighs 110 pounds, resulting in a build that's lanky bordering on underweight. They have straight, blond hair that goes to their waist, which despite their best efforts does slowly tend to become rather tangled and knotted with time, necessitating removal and regrowth with Capillatum potion on occasion. They almost always wear either glasses or sunglasses, and usually they wear earmuffs. When in muggle wear, they generally dress in relatively dark clothing that looks overly formal. When in wizard wear, they wear several layers, consisting of two outer robes (to maximize available pockets), and a layer of clothing below that that serves to provide a more comfortable texture. The outer robes are usually transfigured, solely to change the surface texture, based on a suggestion from Cecilia Evans. They usually carry their wand, notebook, book bag, pencils, paper, and various potions and ingredients. Origami hummingbirds are frequently found in association with them.

## Personality

*"If you hurt Ivan because you don't like me, there will be no magic on Earth that will prevent retribution." -Noah*

Noah is shy, asocial, and misanthropic, preferring to spend most of their time reading, studying, doing math, doing science, and other similar activities. For an autistic person, they're rather skilled at manipulation and lying. Prior to their introduction to magic, they were bullied rather severely, and being unable to fight back physically, and unable to stop the bullies with words, they became convinced that some people could only be brought into line through immediate application of force, which shows itself in their utter ruthlessness against those who get on their bad side, using poisons, transfigured items, and other such things when they deem it necessary. They used to think possessing emotions was illogical and made them less capable, and have tried to repress their emotions at various points in their life. They've since gotten over this, but the emotional repression still shows.

Despite all this, Noah is usually a nice person, at least to their friends. They generally treat their friends', and even casual acquaintances' problems as if they were their own, although they'll usually approach an emotional problem by trying to fix what caused the emotion rather than the emotion itself, which isn't always that helpful. They also have a notable protective streak. Noah is primarily interested in math and science, and generally skeptical of anything they can't observe (directly or indirectly) for themselves, deeming people who believe in things they can't provide evidence for irrational. They also generally assume that everyone else should think about things the way they do, and hence they're often confused when others act in ways they can't explain from a purely rational perspective. Noah is also quite sensitive and generally rather easy to send into tears, though this risks being attacked rather viciously by them in retaliation.

Noah believes the wizarding government is a total ethical nightmare, and, since there appear to be very few people in positions of power who want to implement a better system (including items such as removal of the Statue of Secrecy, safer schools, etc.), they have decided that they will have to help with this. As they believe that all ethics are consequentialist, they are generally willing to do rather drastic things in pursuit of an optimal society, such as planning to remove their emotions, trying to cut themselves off from a mutual crush, studying the potential for using transfiguration to create extremely powerful explosives, trying to figure out how to topple the wizarding government, creating an artificial general intelligence, and so on.

## Background

Noah was born in the United States, but they spent their childhood being shuttled back and forth between the US and the UK. Because of this, they had only a few friends and their friendships never really lasted long. Their family decided to settle in the UK a few years ago, but by then they'd mostly given up on having friends. Noah's early magical incidents were mostly constrained to things so subtle as to be almost unnoticeable, such as causing bullies to trip, lightening loads slightly, causing faster hair growth, and making certain tastes and textures more tolerable. They, along with their parents, did not believe their letter at first, considering it to be an elaborate prank. These doubts were mostly dispelled when magic was demonstrated to them, causing Noah to rant for a few minutes about the violation of conservation of energy.

In their first year, Noah actually managed to make a surprising number of friends and acquaintances. They also went about applying science to magic in every way they could think of, primarily through potions experimentation. During this time, they were convinced not to remove their emotions by Ivan Skelton, their boyfriend at the time.

During their second year, Noah resumed their emotional repression, after a summer with limited contact with Ivan allowed them to reconsider. Ivan's social withdrawal around this time and eventual departure from Hogwarts only solidified Noah's decision, though it also made them more emotionally unstable and confused. By the beginning of their third year, they began to exhibit some symptoms of depression.

During their third year, they began to cut themselves off from others even more than they had, and after Mike Wang's death, decided to leave the school. They also began to understand the value of emotions as heuristics during this time, and so shifted plans from total removal to total regulation.

Their fourth year was spent at Durmstrang, and they became even less social, but not by choice. Durmstrang was a quiet, tense environment seemingly only prevented from disintegrating by fear of retribution, and after learning about the events that had occurred at the end of the previous year, Noah decided to return to Hogwarts for their fifth year.

During their fifth year, they were made a prefect, perhaps due to the lack of other options. They didn't integrate back into the Hogwarts social situation as well as they'd expected, and withdrew even more into academia and various projects, including an artificial intelligence in the form of a paper hummingbird.

Their sixth and seventh years were similarly reclusive, though they did at times try to uphold the responsibilities of a prefect. They also became increasingly willing to openly challenge the status quo, and began attempting to seed instability and revolution in Hogwarts. Naturally, this had no impact on the situation.

As an adult, Noah has managed to somewhat get over the streak of emotional repression that pervaded their childhood, following advice from a trusted source.

## Interactions

As a general rule, Noah's opinions of most people lean towards apathy and a small amount of irritation at their presence.

### Ivan Skelton

Noah's former boyfriend, perhaps the only person Noah was willing to spend arbitrary amounts of non-intellectual time with. Their relationship had a variety of problems, mostly to do with Noah's plans to remove their emotions and propensity for overreaction. After Ivan's departure, Noah became increasingly unstable for a while, but they've since gotten over it. Mostly.

### Vanessa Morse

Noah's first friend since coming to Hogwarts and their second friend of all time, Noah's interactions with Vanessa have a tendency to fluctuate between agreeable friendly plotting and full-blown screaming arguments about trivial matters. Despite those, they still consider Vanessa one of their closest friends.

### Cora Ray

Noah really did not like Cora. The only reason they thought she didn't deserve to be hurt is because Ivan told them that's bad, and their interactions tend to consist of verbal jabs and insults, even when they're discussing a topic of mutual interest. Nonetheless, Noah was actually okay with spending some time around Cora, as it provides them with an easy way to take out their frustrations. They also think she should be expelled. They think this about a *lot* of people, actually.

### Lorenzo Stronghart

Noah's former mentor and friend. They don't interact a ton, but Lorenzo will typically be there for Noah in the event that he's needed, which he rarely is, and vice versa. Noah, for their part, does look up to Lorenzo a bit, because he's smart and also mostly a nice person. They think he may be a bit naive in some ways, though these are minor.

### Lily Bartlett

Noah considers Lily a friend, almost an honorary sibling. They usually enjoy her presence, generally interact positively, and have a tendency to become angry on her behalf. They have gotten into a few arguments, mostly to do with Lily's former relationship with Ben.

### Sunny Nocturne

Noah's opinion of Sunny is highly negative, thanks to her being a complete and utter psycho. They think of her as better than Cora and Balthazar, but worse than most of the other students, especially due to the fact that others don't know.

### Pam Resfeber

Noah's opinion of Pam is conflicted. On the one hand, she seems nice, was friends with Ivan, and generally doesn't appear to be a bad person. On the other hand, she thinks Ivan should have broken up with them. However, as that belief was a while ago, it's somewhat faded from Noah's memory, and their interactions with Pam are usually cordial, if rare.

### Ivy Su

Noah looks up to Ivy perhaps the most out of all the older students, save Lorenzo, because she is knowledgeable and absolutely uninterested in social interaction, both qualities Noah admires. They also have a healthy fear of her. Noah has noticed the library to be rather louder in her absence.

### Layla Silverwood

Noah disliked Layla, both because of her expression of desire for Ivan to break up with them, and because they think that Layla tended to be judgmental before trying to understand the situation.

### Ariana Havelock

A friend who Noah is close to in some ways but not in others. They've bonded somewhat over the shadow monster investigation, mutual nerd interests, somniumpartum study, and Vanessa's general drama. They're still not aware that she and Vanessa are dating, somehow.

### Cecelia Evans

Friend, who Noah generally views quite positively, due to a shared curiosity about magic and science. Their interactions consisted primarily of transfiguration discussion, designing an internet, and venting to each other about emotional confusion, though it's primarily Noah that did the latter.

### Leetha Demetrioux

Noah has been told jokingly that Leetha is probably a clone of them, and they can see why this is. Because of this, they rather liked Leetha as a potential future collaborator, particularly with regards to her already-evident interest in potions.

### Rachel Ackerman

A rather unlikely acquaintance for Noah to acquire, being loud, boisterous, and not terribly intellectual, Noah nonetheless liked Rachel because their interactions have, for some reason, generally been positive. They also had a mutual defense agreement, which was never enforced.

### Mazarine Denshaw

Noah cannot stand Maz, due to her high levels of noise, chaos, confusion, and irrationality, as well as the book-eating alligators and general chaos that seems to follow her. Even more annoying, perhaps, is Maz's desire to be liked by everyone, including them. They used to have a degree of grudging respect for her, as she thinks of magic as a science, but that vanished when the alligators arrived.

### Ben Green

Noah generally views Ben slightly negatively, as one would generally view their friend's ex.

### Edward Sark

Seeing as he was Sunny's boyfriend, Noah thinks he had to be either evil or an idiot. They're not sure which.

### Mirage Burke

Noah was rather protective of Mirage, though they were often slightly irritated by her general demeanor. Mirage approved of their emotion-removal plan, and this is part of why Noah viewed her favorably; it's rare to find people who understand.

## Gallery

Noah avatar thingy.Noah Morris Brown, drawn by their player.A hypothetical older Noah, who has let Ivan manage their hair. (Art by Ivan Skelton's player.)Some sort of fusion of Noah and Ivy Su. Probably after they both tried to read the same book. (Art by Mazarine Denshaw's player.)Noah, with one of their lenses Colovariated darker for convenience. (Art by Amir Williams' player.)Noah, holding scintillation solution. (Art by Estelle Martin's player.)