"echo"
nicknames | blue, Finn
age | twenty
sexuality | pansexual
Noah can manipulate, modify and control the thoughts, mindsets, and upper brain functions, although he hasn't found the true capacity to his powers. He can easily make someone feel disoriented, confused, and sick just by looking at them a certain way. He can also speak telepathically with others and to some extent control the actions of others (depends on a person's mental will). He can also place fabricated images in memories in one's mind of something that never happened, and also erase the memories of some. He has been known to be useful when it comes to confessions as he has a unique way of getting into someone's head, either to confess or see their memories themselves. He got the name, 'echo' from the effect he left on people he messed with. They would often have a ringing or echo in their head for hours when he tampered with their minds.
His more complicated powers, such as complete control, and memory tampering require actual psychical contact, and it's extremely difficult for him to focus on multiple targets at one time. His powers take a lot out of Noah, both physically and mentally, it's almost as if the more he exerts from his powers the more his loses pieces of himself. He can often get what he has called, 'scrambled', where he cannot control the flow of mental traffic and it's so overwhelming for him that he just shuts down entirely.
Noah has never been one to be overly social with others or a true conversationalist considering he's always been almost literally 'lost in thought'. Most would say that he is a little apathetic but that is a stretch, he doesn't mind talking to others or feeling he just avoids it altogether. Sometimes he prefers talking through thoughts rather than voice, it's something that he's used to and has always felt comfortable to him. He's gotten used to being a smudge on the edge of a canvas more than anything his entire life. However, through this he has become a very observant individual. Combined with someone's stray thoughts and body language he notices things that others might not.
Something that most don't see or overlook about Noah, is truly how vulnerable he is as a person. Underneath the steely and cold demeanor, he is one of the most kind, caring and passionate individuals. However, he keeps this side of him locked up deep in his mind, but it occasionally resurfaces with the right people. From a young age, he was shown that this was a point of weakness, nothing more. It doesn't mean that he doesn't enjoy feeling that type of way, he's just never truly learned how. It's why everything he's ever done has been easy for him, he blocks out the cries in his mind that was he's doing is wrong. He hates accepting his wrong-doings, and simply chooses to ignore.
From this Noah became a very guarded individual. From having powers that invaded the mind, he knew how easily it was to be manipulated by those around him so he is very selective when it comes to picking out friends or those he lets close to him. For others however, he has no sense of self-control when it comes to reading others minds. He likes to think that he just simply control it, but deep down he feels safer knowing things about the people around him.
With having so many different thoughts flying around in his head Noah has become a very skittish and nervous individual. If you didn't know anything about his abilities you might say that he is schizophrenic or bipolar because he seems to shift moods often and is meticulous about the strangest things. He is also ridden with anxiety most days and when he gets too overworked he can easily slip into an anxiety attack.
More than anything Noah feels truly lost. After having a mind melded from so many others around him, singling himself out of the ocean of his mind has always been quite difficult. It's partially the reason he turned to the life of the underground crime. It gave him a drive and a purpose which is something he has craved his entire life.
LIKES | cold green tea - sad-sappy films - when strangers smile at him - old rock music - sunset - thunder - breakfast - solitude - puppies - children - lemonade - the dark - cold sheets & pillows - morning showers - feeling loved - busy-work - the travel channel - maine - pizza - the woods - stephen king novels - airplanes - vietnamese food - small towns - bomber jackets - neutral colors
DISLIKES | loud people - lies - chocolate - cats - feeling anxious - sudden noises - arrogant heroes - stereotypical attitudes and assumptions - romance novels - sitcoms - the beach - spicy food - people who are scared of him - his father - the past - being lazy & unproductive - the heat - swimming
QUIRKS | scrunches his nose constantly - taps his fingers on any surface when he's anxious - hates the color mauve - always avoids talking about his past or his actions - spaces out constantly - avid daydreamer - has to sit in bed an hour before he can fall asleep - always runs his hands through his hair - mac & cheese sundays
FEARS | seeing his father again - his powers making him go insane - loss of identity - never feeling wanted again - having other's fear him - being a seen as a villain for the rest of his life - drowning; he is a horrible swimmer - never being able to face his problems and powers and live up to his actions - being alone
Noah Finch was born to Luther and Mae Finch in the small town of Portland, Maine. As a child Noah was different. He would never talk, ever. His mother, his main caretaker considering his father was constantly in and out of jail was constantly worried about him being behind in school. However, Noah was an excellent student in elementary. Unbeknownst to his mother, Noah was talking, in his thoughts. He was born with his powers, and from a young age was instinctually pulled into just invading others minds other than talking to them. He eventually spoke for the first time after constantly reading his mothers thoughts and getting worried that she wouldn't love him anymore because he wouldn't speak. His mother was overjoyed when he finally began to talk in third grade, and for a while even though he was a quiet boy Mae was rather content with her life.
Noah began to see how his mother longed for a different life from reading her thoughts, and when he was eight he finally applied his powers to something other than reading minds. He made his mother her first memory, it was a happy one, she was sitting on the beach building sand castles with Noah, his father was there too. Laughing along with them, it was recreation of an image he had seen on a picture frame when his mother had taken him shopping. He just wanted to make her happy. For a while it worked, until a year later when his father got out of jail.
Luther was a miserable man that had got caught up with the wrong crowd out of high school, he was a convicted felon on many accounts of larceny, stolen identity, and many more petty crimes. When Noah was nine his father finally got out of jail and returned home. Noah hadn't seen the man since he was three. Noah knew instantly the second his father walked through the door that he was a terrible man, his thoughts were dark and murky, completely opposite of his mothers.
The week his father returned, the mood of the household had shifted. His mother looked more strained than usual and his father was loud and rude constantly. One night his parents got into a particularly heated argument downstairs and out of fear of his mother's safety he ran downstairs to help her. He could feel his father's angry jumbled thoughts from all the way upstairs. Just as Noah reached the doorway a loud pop went off and he watched as the life left his mother's eyes. He screamed, louder than he ever had in his life, except it didn't come out of his mouth but through his head. His father clutched his head a stream of blood coming out of his nose as Noah emitted a rather powerful mental frequency. Then he ran. Out the door and down the street.
He spent the next ten years of his life going back and forth from town to town, staying with families when he was younger to getting caught up in things he should'nt have when he was older. After seeing his mother die, every hopeful bone in his body left him. He became cold and apathetic as a person and reckless with his actions. He made quite the name for himself in the underground due to his successful run with mental torture to get people to talk. He's not proud of it, and more than anything it makes him feel like his father but he'd never tell anyone. It was the purpose and wanting he needed that left after his mom died, and deep down while his soul knew it was wrong, it felt good. His work brought him to Youngblood where he began to work for an underground crime ring.