âI want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you canât see from the center.â
Full Name: Noah Roderick Ackerman
Alias:Â â
Age: 20
Alliance: Pirate
Position:Â Gunner of The Harpy
This character is portrayed by LOGAN LERMAN and is currently TAKEN.
Noah Ackerman lead a humble life. Because he was born during the waning years of the English Civil Wars, his mother and father believed that they were all the more blessed. They werenât wealthy aristocrats; they lived average lives struggling to get by like everybody else was. Yet, they spoiled Noah and treated him as if he were the son of a bureaucrat. They didnât want him to feel as if he was any less privileged than any other child in that age, and he was happy. Of course, he didnât know how much his parents offered him at the time. It wasnât until he was older that he realized how thankful he had to be for parents as caring and kindhearted as his. In 1654, another Anglo-Saxon war began and to evade the rising tension, Noah and his family began their long trek to safer parts of Europe. They were naĂŻve. Everywhere there was suffering; everywhere, a war.
His mother passed away on the long journeys between destination, and his father grew tired and weak of mind not long after that. He settled in a town in Spain, working as a farmer to feed himself and Noah, but was never the same once his wife died. He raised Noah with a strong hand and became less concerned with giving him everything he wanted, and more adamant about teaching him what he needed. Growing up in such an environment, Noah never forgot his motherâs optimism and hope for the three of them. He sought to relief his fatherâs troubles and worries through laughter. It was a struggle trying to get the stubborn man to smile let alone laugh, but Noah was relentless and persistent. Soon, he and his father restored a semblance of their happy family and for years they were content with living their lives on the farm. Noah spent his days in the field, helping his father with the chores, and nights whittling away at a pan flute he had started to craft when he first arrived in Spain. Heâd look up at the stars and choose the brightest one to claim for his mother. He had high hopes for himself and he knew that he wasnât meant to be a farmerâs boy for the rest of his life. There was so much more out there than the little strip of land his father owned.
Noah was a dreamer; he knew it and wasnât afraid to admit it. He occasionally suggested that he and his father make their way back to their home in Britain, but each attempt was met with firm disagreement. Eventually, he and his father grew apart. They had different interestsâdifferent aspirations. Noah wanted to do moreâto be more⊠so he left. He snuck onto a fishermanâs boat and somehow ended up the farthest south heâd ever been: in Saudi Arabia bordering the Arabian Sea. According to the fisherman who he befriended en route, they had traveled through the Red Sea to make it there. Noah was ecstatic to be in uncharted territory, but if he were asked to retrace his steps up to the point where he managed to get aboard The Harpy, he wouldnât know what to say. All he had was his pan flute, his most prized possession, and stories from his travels there. Heâs cheerful and mischievous, and though heâs younger than most on the ship, he has no problems fitting in. If anything, The Harpy is exactly where he needed to be; he was a boy forced to grow up too quickly, but now has the leisure of reliving his childhood with mirth. The world was too great for one person to waste time not traveling it.
Aboard The Harpy, Noah serves as the mood maker. He often livens up the ship with his jokes and stories, keeping everyone entertained as best as he could. In his free time, he crafts figurines out of wood or other creations out of sheer boredom⊠or so he says to avoid feeling embarrassed. He has talented hands and he works hard; itâs the one thing heâs entirely confident in given that he has years of experience with hard labour. He picks up the work that other crewmembers canât do despite being the gunner aboard the ship, and helps out wherever he can. That doesnât mean that he doesnât get his share of laughs by playing pranks on others though. Noahâs quite the devilâs advocate. However, underneath it all, heâs just a boy searching for his place in the world. He sends letters to his father back in Spain; he serenades his mother in the heavens at night with his flute; now, he looks towards Tortuga for perhaps the answers to the questions heâs been waiting for.
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