Name: Noel Kreiss
Nickname: None
Organization XIII or Dark XII Nickname: N/A
Age: 18 (Age in the game)
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Position: Good
Powers/Abilities/Techniques/Skills: Speciallizes in Commando paradigm.
Commando~~
Attack (The basic physical assault move of the Commando. The Strength stat determines the level of damage inflicted. Defaulted, Costs 1 ATB)~
Ruin (Inflicts non-elemental magic damage on a single target. Defaulted, Costs 1 ATB)~
Blitz (Inflicts physical damage on all adversaries in range. Best used against targets at or near the center of tightly packed groups of enemies. Level 4, Costs 2 ATB)~
Blindside (Almost doubles the damage dealt by normal attacks when a non-Staggered adversary is not targeting a party member who has this skill. Working alongside a Sentinel increases the likelihood of obtaining a regular Blindside bonus. Level 8, Costs 2 ATB)~
Scourge (Modifier of normal Attack increases to 5.0 when an enemy is poised to recover from a Stagger. Level 12, Auto/Costs no ATB)~
Ravage (Bolster Blitz or Ruinga at head of attack queue when Ravager is present. Level 15, Auto)~
Launch (Used automatically when the Attack command is selected against a Staggered enemy. By chaining moves on an opponent while they are airborne, it is possible to "juggle" them with further hits. Level 18, Auto)~
Smite (Modifier of normal Attack increases to 5.0 when a Launched enemy is poised to recover from a Stagger. Level 22, Auto)~
Lifesiphon (Recharges one ATB gauge segment after slaying a target. Level 28, Auto)~
Ruinga (Same effects as Ruin, but acts as a more powerful area-effect upgrade. Level 33, Costs 3 ATB)~
Powerchain (If the enemy's Chain Gauge is empty when the Commando's attack lands, Powerchain strengthens the blow, granting almost double damage. Level 38, Auto)~
Deathblow (Instantly slays a target with low HP. Level 50, Auto)~
Adrenaline (Boosts Strength and Magic by 20% when HP is above 70%. You can enhance this effect with equipment that provides the High HP: Power Surge synthesized ability. Level 60, Auto)Weapon/Items:Flame Fossil
The sword Noel wields with his right hand has two blades stylized like red flames, while the sword he wields with his left hand is a simple yellow-brown blade similar to a gladius. His two-bladed sword is capable of holding his smaller sword within the hollow metal part of the hilt. Both swords are capable of combining and forming a spear that also functions as a javelin. Aside from the angel wings on his shirt, the silver blade in the center of Noel's red sword also has angel wings.
Noel fights with two swords, which he can combine into a spear to jab enemies, and throw it like a javelin. In Noel's memories, it is revealed that he chose to fight with two swords because he wasn't able to best Caius with a single blade. Some of Noel's swords, Exploda, Rune Tooth, Sargatanas and The Tower, are references to Zidane Tribal's Thief Swords from Final Fantasy IX.
Picture:Appearance: Noel is a late teen with shoulder-length brown hair and bright blue eyes. He wears a dark blue V-neck t-shirt with tribal designs and a pair of angel wings on the back, along with a simple pendant. On his left arm he wears a metal bracer, a ring on his right hand, and wraps his right arm with cord. He wears large blue sirwal-style pants with decorated hems, and low-cut sandal-like leather shoes. A green pouch and hunter's knife are attached to his belt in the back, which itself is adorned with small lavender ties made of cloth. Under the angel wings on the back of Noel's shirt and on his dagger, there are lines of Etro script. The script on his shirt translate to:
'Seeker of Miracles at History's End -- Walker of the Realm Unseen', and the text on the dagger reads:
Travel the desolate wasteland in search of hope's past.Personality: Noel presents himself as a cocky, cheerful, confident but soft-spoken person. He is a self-sufficient hunter and a fighter. Due to the effects of a paradox, Noel suffers from memory loss to the point of hardly being able to remember his past. Coming from a future where humanity is almost non-existent, he has some trouble with his speech, so he tends to speak in a straightforward yet fragmented manner, but he is always excited to go to new places and meet new people. Noel is defined by his strong determination to protect others, evident by how he is protective towards Serah despite hardly knowing her. He is also able of asserting himself to others, and remaining calm and collected when facing people who have been provoked.
Original World: The Dying World
Current World: N/A
Movie/Video Game(s):Final Fantasy XIII-2
History:Spoiler alert!Noel was the last to be born in the Farseer tribe that lived a nomadic existence on the ruined Gran Pulse 200 years after Cocoon came crashing down after its crystal pillar shattered. The event left the world in ruins and killed the majority of mankind. Eventually, only three people remain in the Dying World, Noel himself, the seeress Paddra Nsu-Yeul, and Caius Ballad, Yeul's Guardian. Noel becomes Caius's student and after single-handedly killing a Behemoth, Noel is acknowledged by Caius to be strong enough to become the new Guardian for Yeul.
Learning that it means he would have to kill Caius as per ancient Farseer tradition, Noel refuses to go through with it. Noel later tells Caius about his plan to take Yeul on a journey to find other people so that she will not be lonely anymore, but Caius says it is a futile dream. Once learning from Caius that if the Heart of Chaos inside him stops beating, the goddess Etro will die along with him, unleashing the chaos of Valhalla and therefore destroy the past, Noel is forced into a fight and is defeated. Caius leaves for Valhalla to go through with his resolve to free Yeul from her fate.
After Caius's departure, Noel finds Yeul praying at the shrine at the end of her life. Though she wished for a bit more time, the dying Yeul promises a tearful Noel that they will meet again before she disintegrates into light. Noel discovers the curse of the seeress is to see the future, but every vision gradually eats away at her life, until it finally kills her. Noel realizes that Caius kept the truth about Yeul a secret from him and embarks on a journey to find Valhalla and become a warrior worthy to be recognized by Etro, like Caius, and gain the power of chaos needed to change his fate.
Etro eventually answers Noel's prayers and makes a Time Gate appear to him. After entering the Historia Crux, Noel regains consciousness just as he falls out of Etro's Gate over Valhalla. He is saved by Lightning flying on Bahamut just before her aerial battle with Caius as Chaos Bahamut. Recognizing Noel from her vision, Lightning tells him to guide Serah to Valhalla and work together with her to change the future and gives him a moogle named Mog to keep Serah safe. Lightning covers Noel's escape as Caius summons a large meteor over Etro's shrine, crushing it as Noel barely reaches the Time Gate below. In the process, he loses most of his memories.
Arriving on the Time Gate's meteorite form in New Bodhum 3 AF, Noel comes to Serah's aid when she is attacked by monsters, handing her the bowsword for her to defend herself. After taking care of the monsters together, they tend to an injured Lebreau before Noel introduces himself to Serah, and tells her that Mog is her new 'lucky charm' and gift from Lightning. After Serah asks Noel if he met Lightning in Valhalla, he asks her how she knows about that. Serah tells him she saw them and Mog in a dream.
After travelling the timeline and solving the paradoxes Serah asks Noel if Caius will try to interfere again. He says that Caius will if it's what it takes to protect Yeul, but wonders why the real Caius didn't intervene with the events in Academia. Noel remembers that he and Caius used to argue about how to protect Yeul, but the memory suddenly slips from his grasp, and he cannot remember whether or not he and Caius argued at all. Before they leave through a new Time Gate, Hope and Alyssa come to see them off. Hope tells them how his friends saved him from being consumed by hate, and how Serah's wish for him and the others to save Cocoon motivated them to work together, and that to this day, Fang and Vanille continue to fulfill that wish. Noel says that it is human nature to repeat the mistakes of the past but learning from them to create a better world is what truly matters most. Promising to meet again in the future, Noel, Serah and Mog part with Hope and Alyssa.
After entering the Historia Crux, Noel becomes separated from Serah and Mog as a result of Alyssa betraying them and having given them a booby-trapped artefact. He emerges in the Void Beyond and engages Caius, but is defeated and impaled from behind. Noel falls as chaos emerges from his body and disappears into a Dream World based on his homeworld, reliving the highlights of his past without acknowledging Serah watching and following him.
When Noel is being pulled off the ground toward a light in the sky, Serah grabs hold of his arm and calls out to him, causing him to remember her. As they levitate, she tells him that he was living in a dream and would have been happy forever and apologizes for having to take him away from it, but he thanks her, saying that all people have to wake up from their dreams sooner or later. Falling out of the sky together, they battle Gogmagog.
Light is restored to the Dying World and Noel tells Serah he has regained some of his memories. He tells her that a seeress's power to have visions of the future shortens their lifespan, and they die young, just like how the Yeul he knew died at only fifteen years old. Despite now having full knowledge of her impending death from her cursed power, Serah decides to continue in their quest to change the future since it's what Lightning wants them to do. Activating the Oracle Drive at the Farseers' Relic, Noel finally gets closure with Yeul and vows to settle things with Caius once learning that he is the one causing the paradoxes.
They emerge from a paradox and find themselves in what appears to be New Bodhum in 700 AF. The village is now a wasteland and Noel calls it similar to his era. On the beach, Lightning emerges from a portal before them, and says they are in a future that she could not save. After Lightning explains everything to them, she says that Caius plans to destroy Etro while she sleeps in Valhalla and unleash an immense amount of chaos out into the world through an unseen doorway that opens for the souls of the departed. Hearing Lightning say the door would open wide enough if a large amount of people died all at once, Noel says that would be possible if Cocoon fell. Lightning says if that were to happen a world of chaos would appear and time would revert intro entropy.
After Serah points out that the world would essentially become like Valhalla itself, Lightning believes that it is Caius's plan to create a timeless world. Noel says that Caius wants to sacrifice countless lives and remake the world in order to save Yeul from her cursed fate. Lightning tells them that in 500 AF, Caius will attempt to bring down the old Cocoon and Hope's new one in one fell swoop. Serah asks Lightning if they will be together again when the fight is over, but Lightning responds "One thing at a time, Serah", and leaves.
Noel, Mog, Serah travel to Academia 500 AF, the time of the prophecy of Cocoon's fall, and Noel wonders if the world is already falling apart since the city is transformed with chaos. As they traverse the city's floating block platforms to reach the Academy headquarters, they hear Yeul's voice telling them not to fight Caius and risk killing Etro, but Noel says they have made the choice to go onward. While approaching the Academy headquarters, Caius as Chaos Bahamut swoops down at them before flying off toward the new Cocoon. A horde of monsters appears to challenge them, but Hope and a squadron of soldiers arrive to give them backup support. Atop a PSICOM warmech piloted by Sazh Katzroy, they pursue and fight Chaos Bahamut. He damages the airship but Serah saves Noel from falling over the edge before Caius challenges them in human form.
When Caius is about to strike Serah, Noel intercepts and protects her with Caius telling Noel he would have made a worthy Guardian, before he says how he intends to release Yeul from her cycle of reincarnation if it means destroying reality itself. When Sazh flips the airship vertically, Noel and Serah strike Caius in midair sending him flying. A wormhole opens in the sky and Chaos Bahamut flies into it. Another warship pulls up beside them with Hope telling them that they can catch Caius. Serah implores Hope to go back and make sure Fang and Vanille are safe, which he does.
Noel, Mog, and Serah jump into the wormhole and come out in Valhalla. Odin saves them from their fall before they face off against Caius on the beach. Noel asks Caius if he believes causing destruction will make Yeul happy. He says that in her last moments, she always smiled because she believed that she would be reborn, and that she kept coming back in order to meet Caius again. Caius does not listen and Noel clashes blades with him before slashing him down, but Caius comes back to life in the form of Jet Bahamut. As he attacks them, Noel tries to cover Serah from the blast. As they fall into a bottomless abyss, they are saved by Lightning, who pulls them back towards the surface, then disappears.
After him and Serah destroy Jet Bahamut, Noel tells Caius he still does not intend to kill him, even for Yeul's sake. Caius tries to force Noel to kill him by saying that he killed Lightning and sentenced her to an eternal sleep. As Noel still refuses to kill him, Caius lunges at Serah, provoking Noel to take action. He stops himself from stabbing Caius at the last second, but Caius takes Noel's blade and forces it through his chest while telling him to bear the burden of the eternal paradox.
As chaos slowly leaves Caius's body, Noel laments how Caius had been consumed by sorrow and despair due to watching so many Yeuls die, and how he sought to die in Valhalla so all the Yeuls wouldn't have to endure their cycle of rebirth. Noel, however, only wants to be reunited the Yeul he knew, knowing that they will meet again someday in the future. Taking Caius's sword, Ragnarok, Noel places it in front of his former friend as a grave marker, hoping that Caius finds peace.
When a series of gates appear throughout Valhalla, Noel asks Serah if she feels any pain but she tells him no. Serah asks him if Caius really could have killed Lightning, but Noel says that he couldn't have since death does not exist in Valhalla. Mog jokes they might see Snow again, and Noel says it may be up to Lightning. Noel, Serah and Mog leave Valhalla and return to Gran Pulse in 500 AF to find Hope's new Cocoon, named Bhunivelze, afloat.
After the gate to Valhalla closes, Serah thanks Noel but suddenly has another vision and dies in his arms. When Hope arrives from Academia to greet them, Noel tells him that Serah didn't make it. As Noel mourns for Serah and how he failed to protect her, the world turns dark and Mog begins to weaken as he reveals that Etro is no more. Noel remembers Caius's words about the Heart of Chaos, realizing that he unknowingly played into Caius's scheme and killed the goddess as Gran Pulse and Bhunivelze are infected by chaos, making the world resemble Valhalla.
Role Playing Sample: Noel stood, his back erect as his arms raised above his head stretching the muscles that were going unused. It’d been awhile since he’s even swung one of the blades that were still positioned neatly on his back. Ever since Serah had left him in Academia while she went gallivanting through time with Snow. Noel shook his head at the thought of how much trouble they were getting into with Snow’s hot headed personality he could imagine a lot more than was necessary. To say he was a bit bitter would be an understatement, he wasn’t mad about her leaving with Snow, he was angry that he was stuck here with, no offense to, Hope, who wasn’t the most entertaining of friends he’s made, while Serah was off fighting whatever monsters they ran into.
The guardian walked through the streets of the bustling town. His thoughts lingering on the task he had yet to complete. Caius was waiting for him and so was Lightning, he promised her that he’d bring her sister to her and now he didn’t even know where Serah was.
“So much for that plan, huh? Sorry, Lightning… Snow got to her.” The male said, his arms resting themselves behind his head as he continued to stroll through the city oblivious to whether or not Lightning had heard his apology or not.
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