Tell me about your most well developed oc
Oh fuck. My friend. Allow me to introduce you to the actual love of my life, my son and stars (pun intended), my unabashed self insert (kinda) -
- 15 y.o., gay af, short af, half white half Venezuelan, curly hair and thick glasses, a true bean
Noah’s mom committed suicide when he was five years old, which completely wrecked his already fragile father. The two moved in with Noah’s dad’s older sister and her husband and their daughter, who was only two at the time.
This incredibly traumatic incident early on has left Noah with some unusual quirks… most notably an obsession with death. He’s wickedly smart, especially with math and statistics. Noah memorizes facts and probabilities as a coping mechanism. (Ofc he wouldn’t call it that) He especially likes to memorize names and the amounts of people that have said names, and facts about suicide and death in general.
Noah spends probably 80% of his time thinking about death.
He has burgeoning signs of borderline personality disorder/type two bipolar disorder (not saying they’re the same thing - more as in I haven’t cemented his actual diagnoses) which is only made more difficult by his PTSD.
Despite this, Noah seems rather well adjusted. He a high school senior (graduating two years ahead), is very involved in his school’s GSA, and has a healthy relationship with his best friend, Daffodil Elizabeth Summers, or Liz for short. (Her parents are major hippies and I love her so much.) He gets along well with his aunt and uncle and has a sibling-like relationship with his cousin Stella. Noah internalizes most of his issues, so although he comes across a little quiet and kind of intense/standoffish, you wouldn’t peg him as troubled.
Noah’s dad is incredibly flighty and unstable. For Noah’s entire life he’s been leaving for months at a time, letting his sister and brother-in-law take care of his son. They day after Noah’s 14th birthday his dad took a “business trip” and hasn’t been seen since - no cards, no letters, no sign of life except for a monthly check being deposited in Noah’s aunt’s checking account labeled “Child Support.” Noah asks if there is any mail from his father every day, and there never is. He tries to pretend that this is not killing him.
Entire Alastair Everrett. Alastair transfers into their school midyear. He’s rich, he’s outgoing, he’s funny, he’s charismatic, he’s weird but he seems proud of it. They meet at a GSA meeting, and while sparks don’t fly, they are amiable towards each other.
Liz, ever the mom friend, both wants to help Alastair as the new kid and wants Noah to increase his social circle, so she adopts him into their small friend group (which is Noah, Liz, and Liz’s SO - Cade). Noah and Alastair start to develop feelings for each other (because duh)
But Alastair is weird. He’s never really allowed to go out any where. He has a car but has to ride the bus. His mom is really nice, but he’s always complaining about her. And he’s really *really* reckless.
I kind of got off track in to plot things oops lol.
Long story short Noah is so stressed and constantly on the edge of his rope someone help him.
