"C'mon, pick up," the man muttered, handcuffs clinking as he readjusted his grip on the phone. He really thought cuffing him had been unnecessary. It had only been a small scuffle at the bar, considering it had only taken Noah about three hits to have the man snoring on the floor, and he hadn't given the cops any trouble when they'd picked him up, also mostly because the daughter of one of the cops was one of his favorite riding students. Okay, fuck it, maybe he deserved to be cuffed, but they were talking about keeping him over the weekend at least and he was due at his sister's tomorrow afternoon for a late gathering. It was Thanksgiving, for fuck sake. He hears the click of the line, relief suffusing his frame. "I need you to come get me out of a bit of a spot."
A proud, short tempered cowboy who likes animals most than more people. Mostly grew up on his grandfather's farm to avoid his father until his mother finally worked up the courage to leave him. He finished his senior year in Providence Peak and then immediately began working at the Walker Ranch, where he's still employed.
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Goes through long phases where he stops drinking entirely before falling off the wagon, so to speak. Currently, he would consider himself a functioning alcoholic.
Has a grumpy tomcat named Lou that was living in the barn at the ranch and one day decided he was jumping in Noah's truck and not getting out til Noah took him home. He still won't let most people near him, besides Noah's nephew.
He knows that some of the rich mothers that pay for their spoiled children to get riding lessons from him look down on him. He also knows that half of them would sleep with him behind their husbands' backs if given the opportunity, which gives Noah a smug sense of satisfactions because as he says, "I may be dirt, but you're the one who wants to roll around in it." He has never crossed that line with anyone paying for his services though.
Actually speaks half decent Spanish
Has three tattoos, including one he won't admit to having as he got it on a drunken bet.
Name: Noah Monroe
Faceclaim: Luke Grimes
Gender & Pronouns: cismale, he/him
Age: 36
Birthday: May 10th
Occupation: Horse trainer and riding instructor at Walker Ranch. Glorified ranch hand.
Neighborhood: Bighorn Hills
tw: child abuse, domestic abuse, near death experience, death of a family member, alcoholism
Graham Monroe and Eleanor Dunn met as teenagers on the farm owned by her father, William Dunn, while Graham was working as a ranch hand and eventually fell in love. Against her father’s wishes and his flat out refusal when Graham asked William for Eleanor’s hand, the two snuck off and got eloped, leading to a long standing riff between father and daughter, until the day that Noah Monroe arrived into the world screaming and kicking. Bill couldn’t abide by punishing a child for the seeming mistakes of his parents and set about mending the relationship with his daughter enough that he could at least be welcome in his grandson’s life and in getting his way, Noah spent nearly every waking moment on the Dunn Farm, where his father resumed employment.
By the time Noah started crawling, it was joked that the boy was more wild animal than he had ever been little boy, fascinated by the animals that his grandfather housed on his property and seeming to find kindred spirits in the horses that roamed the grounds, no fear in the little boy despite the size of the beasts. After two years on his own, his sister Amelia joined the family and the young boy had a new task, to teach and protect his younger sister, a job he would come to take very seriously as they grew older. Their family was complete and for a while things seemed perfect, until an accident on the farm left his father with a debilitating back injury, leaving him out of work and suffering in a way that he turned to alcohol to numb.
It didn’t take long for the drinking to lead to other avenues, including gambling, which often led to Graham staying out all night, losing the money they had scraped together for the bills, and Eleanor waiting up for him in both worry and anger, whispered arguments outside Noah’s door that eventually turned into screaming matches if not worse, Amelia sneaking into her big brother’s room for him to hold his hands over her ears and reassure her that everything would be alright, if the boy wasn’t outright putting himself between his father and mother to prevent harm coming to the older woman.
Graham’s anger grew and no member of the family was safe, which led to Noah making sure he and his sister spent most of their time with their grandparents, as there had been no legal intervention in their home life due to his mother continuing to deny there was a problem. While Noah still loved his mother deeply, he no longer trusted her to keep them safe, instilling himself into the role of protector instead, drawing his father’s ire when need be and making sure to never leave Amelia alone with him. It was here, at his grandfather’s side, that he learned how to break and train horses, a skill that would later carry him through life, but at the time, a welcome distraction from his reality.
As years passed, the relationship between father and son had soured beyond repair, often exacerbated by the older man’s drinking and the fact that his now teenaged son was helping pay the bills in his own home, having taken up his father’s place at the Dunn Ranch, leaving Graham feeling emasculated, but things finally came to a head after the passing of William. The estate was divided up, most of the land being sold off and what there was left being split up to give a little to each grandchild, but Noah was left something extra; the last horse that he and his grandfather had trained together. Stricken with grief at the loss of his only real father figure, Noah found solace in throwing himself into the often back breaking work of caring and continuing to train the horse, hearing his grandfather’s advice in his head as he worked and allowing him to continue to feel close to the man he had lost. It was nearly three months after that that Noah came home from school to find the stallion gone. His father had bet the horse in a poker game and lost.
It’s both the first and last time Noah ever picks a fight with his father and while Noah had grown stronger from the farm work, there was a part of him that was still reluctant to hurt his own father, even in his rage, while Graham seemed to have no such qualms about hurting his own son. Once he got the upper hand, he was brutal in the blows he delivered to his son, prompting Amelia to call the cops for fear that her father may actually kill her brother, a near reality. Noah was rushed to the hospital and kept under observation for fear of swelling in his brain while Graham was dragged away to the local jail, the repercussions of the night ringing out in a way that would change the family forever.
While Graham was still locked up and Noah was recovering, Eleanor filed for a restraining order against her soon to be ex-husband and began packing up the house. Never again would he lay a finger on her or one of her children. She finds a nice town in Colorado named Providence Peak near where her older sister and her husband live and uses some of the money that her father left her to put a down payment on a house. She thinks that, at least, William would have approved of. It’s a better life for them all, but much of the damage is done and it takes a while before Noah is able to open up again, finishing out his senior year before seeking out employment on the Walker Ranch, falling into the only job that brought him any peace.
It’s here that he and his sister still reside almost two decades later with Amelia raising her son, William, as a single mother and Noah stepping in to try and be a positive role model in the boy’s life when need be, though he’s not so sure how positive he is. While Noah always strived to be nothing like his father, there is one bad habit he picked up from the man, often using alcohol to numb the pain when things got too hectic in his head. He lives alone in Bighorn Hills and would currently classify himself as an eternal bachelor, happily.
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