Neo Collins

**Neo Collins** is the deuteragonist of *Rebirth,* and the thirteen-year-old (illegitimate, but legal) son of Noah Collins.

## Appearance

Neo is a young boy with black hair, covering his right eye. His eyes are navy blue and he has pale skin, with redness around the corner of his eyes. He has a mole below the tail of his left eye, and usually wears a mask to cover his face. After Noah gifted him a red earring for his birthday while he slept, he began wearing it around. His outfit changes frequently but he typically stuck to darker colored clothing.

Since Season 3, he has been frequently seen wearing a white, hooded, long-sleeved windbreaker with red accents on the collar and for the pockets. The pants are black and he is also shown wearing white boots.

## Personality

Neo is shown to be quite cold, standoffish and reserved, especially towards Noah in the first season. He has also been shown to be kind in his own way, towards Iva. He cares deeply about Noah, and has been noted by Li to have been less subtle and more open about what he feels and thinks. He is known to be intelligent, and incredibly mature for his age (due to both trauma and regression).

He is a regressor, beyond World's will and Law's rules, but how is presumably due to his own will to survive. He remembers past timelines, and has been seen asking which timeline Noah and Abel inherited, as well as questioning Noah's memory.

## Background

Neo was originally a happy child. The first time Noah shunned him, was when he was arguing with a pregnant Parish over her actions with Ian. This happened around when Neo was still in elementary. Being quite young, Neo didn't understand well as to why his father who was so affectionate with him was suddenly giving him a cold shoulder. As he grew, he came to understand why 'Father' behaved that way. Finally accepting his own fate, Neo grew cold and shut himself off from his family and the world.

## Abilities

### Red Earring (Artifact)

Neo possesses a red earring, which he received from Noah as a birthday gift. Using this earring, he can store any amount of goods into it magically without it occupying any extra space or weighing anything, making it an extremely useful and valuable object.

### Healing Ability

In the original :Rebirth version, Noah thinks it was Neo who healed him. However, Li says Neo didn't enter the room and Noah later finds out the real reason behind his healing (Law).

### Core Absorption

By eating the core of an abnormal undead or gifted, Neo can harness multiple gifts. He can determine the power of a core by judging the strength of the light that emit from the core.

## Relationships

### Noah Collins

Noah Collins was thought to be Neo's father. Neo has been cold to him due to the past of Noah ignoring him all his life and he never really bonded with him as Noah once yelled in the past that Neo wasn't his son. In the previous timelines, Noah has assumably betrayed Neo more than once but Noah has only one memory of betraying Neo and regrets it deeply. When Noah suddenly started paying attention to Neo, Neo thought he was pretending and lashed out at Noah several times. He only started opening up to Noah a bit in the third season, openly showing concern when Noah was consumed by the plant, even injuring himself trying to get to Noah. Neo is almost always shown to be with Noah and comes with him on most missions.

### Parish Collins

Parish is Neo's birth mother. Neo refers to her usually as 'Old Hag'. From what has been shown so far, neither of them has a respectful relationship which each other. Parish has shown abusive behaviours towards Neo, threatening to kill him when he was younger and even raising her hand to hit him.

### Abel Collins

Abel is Neo's half-brother, at first was thought to be his birth brother. In reality, Abel is his cousin/half-brother.

Neo always disliked Abel, pretending to be the caring older brother for the first few years of Abel’s life. All of this changed when they went to the amusement park. After being threatened by Parish, Neo purposely let Abel get lost in a room full of mirrors to see if Noah or Parish would actually care enough to look for Neo and not just Abel. They did not. Their relationship was never the same after that.

At first in the series, Neo was not at all fond of Abel, referring to him as a ‘brat’ and purposely causing problems between him and Noah. In season 3, their dynamic seems to have changed a bit and they seem to get along better. When asked why Neo was helping him, Neo responded with; “Because you are my brother.” When Neo said he was leaving Noah’s group, Abel was hurt and lashed out in anger.

### Hail

Mr. Floofy McFlufferton the Third, aka Hail, is Neo's pet dog. It is said that it was originally Abel's, but has been neglected and so Neo took Hail for himself. So far, Hail is one of the only ones to receive some amount of fondness from Neo. He is seen taking care of Hail very well, including in asking for proper dog food. He has also repeatedly given the dog silly nicknames to purposely fool with Noah.

It is Neo who gave Hail the ability to mutate into an undead wolf. He often sends Hail with Noah on missions to look after Noah since he is terrible at taking care of himself.

## Trivia

* His favorite flavor is matcha.
* Although it is still unclear how or why, Neo is aware of the world timeline being reset. He once mentioned to himself during an encounter with an intelligent undead that "this timeline is moving fast". He appears to know far more than what Noah thinks.
* In a poll on 69Michi's WEBTOON Creator Profile, Neo was the highest voted favorite character by 1050 votes.
* He was originally going to be named Cain to follow the religious references of The Bible, but it was changed because of the lore of Cain never being God's favorite, and thus received the name Neo ("gift").
* Neo likes dogs.
* Neo’s birthday is October 28th.