#noah deville

8 for Seth

25 for Noah

29 for Nate

33 for Ralph

43 for Ash

Also: you are the best writer ever.

Awww, anon! 🖤 Stop making me blush!

Anh

E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you?

There is a lot of me in Anh, starting with her weird obsession with birds, her geekiness and her insecurities. I’d love to have a friend like her. I suspect we would get along really well!

2. How easy is it for your character to laugh?

Anh takes everything very literally and seriously. Except with people she knows well and feels comfortable around, like her father or her sister, she doesn’t crack jokes or allow herself to be silly. She stifles a whole part of herself, because she does have a sense of humor and she can be funny. But outwardly, she wants to be perceived as strong and sensible. So she doesn’t laugh or smile much in public.

Seth

8. What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child?

Seth was raised by his uncle and aunt in a quiet countryside, and needless to say, he was a handful. Skipping school and bullying other kids were his most repeated offences. His uncle advised him not to follow his father’s path as a criminal and to start giving serious thoughts about what he wanted to do with his life. As a teen, Seth worked part-time as a mechanic at a gas station. He’d always been handy, so that could’ve been a nice, decent job for him but... he left for Lucky Palms instead. And he did follow his father’s path.

Noah

25.  What are their thoughts on marriage?

If you asked him point-blank, he’d say that it’s a useless concept and that he’s never given it much thought. That would evidently be a lie. Despite all proofs to the contrary, Noah is a romantic. He sleeps around, but there’s always been one woman in his heart and he’s always been faithful to his ice queen as long as they were together.

He did propose to her once. But he was wasted and she dismissed it as alcohol-induced nonsense. Emily and Noah consequently never tied the knot, and their relationship is a rocky one but it wouldn’t be true to say that Noah has now completely given up on marrying his one true love.

Nathaniel

29.  Do they usually live up to their own ideals?

Hah. No.

Nathaniel’s life is a long shot from being close to his ideals. And he is (or was) a man with a lot of ideals. He spent a big part of his life trying to reconcile himself to his fate and identity. But even for the things he did have control over, like the education of his children, he feels that he has failed. More particularly that he failed Sam.

Ralph

33.  Could they be considered lazy?

Ralph is a slob, so in a sense, he could be seen as lazy. He did spend a large part of his life living as an alcoholic recluse in a poorly maintained cabin. But not out of laziness. He is fundamentally a hard-working man but he has a tendency to let himself drift along if he doesn’t have a purpose.

Ashley

43. If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so?

First of all, that question would make Ash terribly uncomfortable. It is a very personal question, and he is ashamed of the way he feels. He sees himself as a weirdo.

His relationship with Sam, and the way it ended, has created a mental block with regards to sex but Ash has never felt good in his own skin. He does experience sensual attraction, but only towards a very limited number of people: regardless of their gender, it must be someone that he knows really well, with whom he shares a strong intellectual bond. Ash tried to open up to Jamie but he never managed to go beyond second base with him.

LOL! Noah does not inspire respect, I'll grant you that! I have tried to write him so that he is also a little bit relatable but I can understand that he regularly comes across as a jerk because that’s who he is.

10. What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?

Lying comes as easily as breathing to Noah. He does it every day. Does he care? Of course not. On the other hand, he can also be unabashedly frank when he doesn’t want to bother.

The biggest lie he ever told was when he was separated from Emily and repeated to anyone who would listen that he was fine.

17. Are they easily embarrassed?

You would have to really REALLY lay it on thick for Noah to find it awkward. Even so, he’s more likely to be annoyed than actually embarrassed. He doesn’t get second-hand embarrassment either.

18. What embarrasses them?

Thank you for the interesting comment! I’m just leaving this here for those who wondered as well. :)

Noah and Joshua are twin brothers but totally different in personality. :) When Noah has all the brains and serves his own purposes, Josh is kind-hearted but definitely not the sharpest tool in the box. While Noah plays the stock market, Josh makes a living as a lifeguard in Isla Paradiso.

They were both raised by their big sister Stella. She’s much more similar to Noah in personality (ie, ambitious, standoffish and abrupt) and he still has a lot of admiration for her. She’s a geneticist (actually, the geneticist who led the whole research on vampirism). (she’s also mother to Jessie, who is the partner of Uli from Sunrise on Pluto but that’s another story) (yeah, I know, it’s all a mess)

Neither Stella nor Noah are very much into family reunions, to poor Josh’ dismay. In fact, if Josh hadn’t married Emily’s friend Belinda, the twins would probably meet even less than they do now.

So yeah... although they are twins, they’re not exactly close. :D Noah looks down on Josh, sometimes to the point of being mean. He just enjoys seeing him squirm.

If Noah needed anything, he’d rather go to Stella. (like he did when he left Emily and had no place to stay)