Noel Accambray

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

## Character Info

### **Also Known As**

The Sky Emperor (manga), Divine Ruler of the Skies (anime) (by Inarizaki High)
Accambray-kun (by Atsumu Miya and Osamu Miya)
The Male Noel Accambray (by Kochō High)
The Little Dipsh\*t, The Little A\*shole, The Little Sh\*t (by Atsumu Miya, Osamu Miya)
Kita-kun`s French cousin (by Inarizaki High)
The Phoenix (by Inarizaki High, Karasuno High, Nekoma High, Itachiyama Institute, Shiratorizawa Academy, Aoba Johsai/Seijoh High, Kamomedai High, Date Tech High, Fukurōdani Academy, Nohebi Academy and Johzenji High)

## Status

### **Age**

16 (Jan 2013)
22 (Nov 2018)
25 (Jan 2021)

### **Teams**

Kochō High
Azuma Pharmacy Green Rockets (2017-2018 season)
Black Shadows (2019-2021 season)

## Background Information

### **Dislikes**

Cheaters
The Miya Brothers
His fraternal twin sister
Having the exact same first name as his fraternal twin sister
Cereal
Onigiri
Kelp Sandwiches

## Image gallery

**Noel Accambray** (Japanese: **アカンブレー・ノエル**, *Akanburē Noeru*) was a second-year student at Kochō High and one of the starting opposite hitters for the school`s boys` volleyball team. He was known as Japan`s best high school opposite hitter, as well as its best defense specialist, and was invited to the All-Japan Youth Intensive Training Camp, though he reportably declined the invitation due to having fallen sick the very day he was supposed to attend the first day of camp. As of the 2017-2018 Professional Volleyball season, he is a member of the Azuma Pharmacy Green Rockets; a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League. As of the 2019-2021 Professional Volleyball season, he has been traded to the Black Shadows; also a professional volleyball team in Division 1 of Japan's V.League. He is also a member of the Japan National Volleyball Team, and having participated in the 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 Olympics. He is the fraternal twin brother of Noel Accambray, with whom he shares his first name with.

## Appearance

Noel is a hafu, meaning that he has a quite obvious half-foreign appearance, reportably as the French Republic is a European country, he carries many distinct features of the Europeans; having bright sky-blue eyes that "shimmer like jewels" as described by his parents and raven-black hair. His eyes are large and quite stern and firm in appearance; giving him the impression of being angry all of the time. He is usually shown wearing a frown on his face and his eyebrows are always narrowed, leading people to assume that he is always angry or just generally a bad person.

Noel wears a dark cyan-tinted version of the school`s uniform consisting of a straight-lined black jacket and a pair of knee-length shorts with knee-high lace-up white boots with peach soles, heels and toes. Over his uniform, he wears a white haori that belonged to his late maternal grandfather, with a white-sky-blue gradient pattern and dark cyan-blue spherical-like ridges at the end of the haori. Inside of the school, he wears white uwabaki and replaces his haori with a simple white haori that goes down to his knees. He is described to look "extremely feminine" and has been mistaken as a girl on several occasions.

## Personality

"*Just because he said not to do it, doesn`t mean that you should do it just to spite him; you know how he gets about these things? The last time you did something like that, he really **really** flipped out. That was really scary; he even yelled at them, even though he should have been blaming **somebody** else.*" — Noel to Régine
on the subject of Aiyuki`s short fuse

Outwardly, Noel appears to be a carefree, quiet and rather gentle person most of the time; though he is noted to have a bit of a temper when it comes to getting blamed for anything that was not his fault. In fact, he even flipped out at Régine Shibayama (the libero of his volleyball team) for purposely directing Aiyuki Riseki`s anger at him; something that he held a grudge at her for doing. Even though he seems rather quiet and gentle most of the time, he is rather competitive and proud on the volleyball court. Conversely, his reputation is something that he pointily ignores, as he finds it useless and pointless to ponder on things such as that. Though quite passionate when it comes to volleyball; Noel is prone to overanalyzing and overly stressing himself out, sometimes even messing up a spike or block due to this personality trait. Due to this, he is rather quite cautious and analyzes everything from the angle of the spike, the height of the block, and even his distance from the volleyball net in order to get an accurate shot in. As a hardcore realist; he sets obtainable goals for himself and used to be rather pessimistic when it comes to pushing the limits of his volleyball prowess until Motoya Komori encouraged him by cheering him up despite the two being on opposite teams.

Komori has stated Noel is extremely focused as well as a hard worker, though he tends to work too hard sometimes leading to him becoming ill quite often. This personality trait is assumed to be directly connected to the death of Katana, as he was shown becoming despondent upon learning about her death and later on experiencing several panic attacks and mental breakdowns.

## Background

A young Noel, his fraternal twin sister and their parents moved from the French Republic to the island nation of Japan to stay with their maternal grandparents, as well as escape the horrorific events of their past. After settling into Osako, the city that they had chosen as their new place of residence; Noel and his twin sister would be enrolled in the local Elementary School known as Tatsumi Elementary School, where they would meet one of their future teammates Demetria Agathangelou and become her best friends. During their fourth grade year, the two would take part in a volleyball workshop hosted at another High School where they met the Miya twins; Osamu and Atsumu who were also fourth graders at the time as well. While his fraternal twin sister attempted to talk to them simply because they were "cute", Noel didn`t share the same sentiment and called them "little sh\*ts" on more than one occasion during the entirety of the workshop and within their hearing range as well. Due to this, Noel would constantly maintain an extremely toxic and spite-filled relationship with the Miya twins even after the two entered High School; in one story he recounts, the Miya twins are depicted as pyromaniacs who somehow managed to set the kitchen of Kochō High`s sister school; Isabella Academy on fire and that the Miya twins reportably blamed him for the incident they caused. During his first year of High School, Kochō faced off against Itachiyama Institute and lost to them in straight sets, which stunned even members of the other opposing team who had expected Kochō to be more of a challenge for them. During the course of the game, Noel was gradually worn down by Kiyoomi Sakusa`s serves to the point where even his own performance was rapidly dipping, forcing his coaches to sub him out for Daiki in order to let Noel recover from the beating he had taken during the game. After the game, while