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Name: Noah Hawthorne
Age: 28
D.O.B.: September 27, 1981
Hometown: Milwaukee, WI

Physical Description: Noah is roughly 5’9” with brown hair and striking blue eyes. People say that his eyes are his best feature. He is a laid back kind of guy, wearing basically jeans and t-shirts. He does know how to dress up for an occasion as his mother was a former runway model and instilled in him a sense of fashion.

Personality: Before he enlisted, Noah was very outgoing, always surrounded by friends. He is somewhat of an easy target, his friends often using him as comedic relief. Noah never really minded, he always knew it was in good fun. He could hold his own and give as good as he got. Noah usually attracted the ladies, due to his blue eyes and winning smile. He could always be found with his friends or a group of girls around him. He could have been a player, but his family instilled in him the values of how to treat girls and he took that seriously. He would rarely date, preferring to hang out as friends, but when he did, he was focused on that girl and it didn’t matter how many more were hanging around.

Noah returning home from his third tour of duty in the Middle East is a very different man. In the Army as a boy, out of the Army as a man. He is struggling with the sights and sounds that he lived with daily while fighting for his country. He is withdrawn, often sullen. He is slowly finding his way back to the Noah he used to be, but it is a slow process. Now, his smiles are rare and should always be cherished as they are few and far between. Noah tries to hide behind a wall and pretend to be the boy he used to be, but too often you can tell that his jokes fall flat and his eyes no longer dance with the merriment they used to.

Sexuality: Had always considered himself straight until more than a few nights alone in dark barracks…

Passenger or Staff: Passenger
Traveling With: alone
Contest Entry: Involuntary – his former Commanding Officer (a great man who took Noah under his wing) entered him in the contest as a way to deal with being home without his hovering family getting in the way.
Career/Job: Was in the Army, but now is just adjusting to being home and not constantly being shot at. So, unemployed at the moment.

History: Noah had a pretty good childhood. His parents were loving and doting as he was the only son. Noah’s dad was in the Army and it was always understood that Noah would take his turn serving his country as well. Unlike most people who are pressured into roles by their family, Noah didn’t mind – he actually felt the need to enlist in the Army.

After high school, Noah took a year to just bum around with his friends and different part time jobs. He enlisted in the Army along with 3 of his other buddies in July of 2001. Then September 11, 2001 happens and Noah’s world changed. He and his buddies were sent to Iraq Jan 2002 for a year and a half. Noah was the only one of the three that came back alive. After a year back at home, he was ordered to go back. He spent another nightmarish year there and came back. He had plans to get out of the Army in six months, however he was stop-lossed and had to go for yet another tour. This third one was not the charm. He came back to the States five months ago on a medical plane. He had been shot in the thigh. A piece of bone actually traveled down to his knee and got lodged in his knee cap. He had four surgeries in the first two months he was home. He endured months of intensive physical therapy. He still walks with a little bit of a limp and has some pain, primarily from his knee and not his thigh.

Noah is looking at this cruise as a way to heal and find his way back to the person he used to be before he enlisted.

Special Skills/Abilities:
Personal Weaknesses: Physical weakness: Noah is not physically at 100% and probably never will be. The shooting did too much damage and he will never walk normally again. He has pain in his knee and thigh area, though he tries to tough it out. Noah doesn’t like the way the pain medicine makes him feel, so he tries not to take it. If he does, it knocks him out for a few hours and makes him extremely groggy when he’s not sleeping.

Noah is experiencing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from the various events that happened in Iraq. He spent more time there with almost hand-to-hand combat and some of the things that he did, some of the things that he saw and heard will never be forgotten. More often than not, Noah wakes up screaming during the middle of the night. He was receiving therapy for the PTSD while in the Army hospital, however when his leg healed, he left the hospital and didn’t bother looking up the shrink they referred him to.

Loud noises and a fear of the dark are also attributed to the PTSD. Noah is extremely jumpy – anything from an unexpected door slam will cause him to hit the deck, expecting the worse. Ever since being in underground tunnels looking for insurgents days at the time, Noah can no longer handle the complete dark. He has to have a light on low, a nightlight, etc in order to be okay by himself in the dark.

Also a part of the PTSD, Noah is somewhat claustrophobic. Again to do with being down in underground tunnels, feeling the walls literally cave in around him. He can handle closed spaces for a while – but God help him if they are small closed spaces AND dark at the same time.

Personal Strengths: Although he plans on never handling another gun in his life, Noah is quite handy with him. Despite his puny appearance, Noah is quite strong and could prove helpful if ketchup bottles need opening.

Family: Noah has a wonderful family. His mother, Claire, was a runway model back in the 60’s. She is still very beautiful and Ian definitely inherited her clear blue eyes. Noah’s father, Frank, is a warm, loving father, always wanting the best for his family. After he retired from the Army, Frank went on to be a self-defense coach at the local police academy. Their family was upper middle class, still living off the money that Claire made as a model. Later, during high school, Claire opened a clothing store that she and Noah’s two older sisters (Lauren and Karen) ran. He is not particularly close to his sisters, as there is an 11 year age gap between the younger of the two and him. He was definitely his parents little “oops.”

Preferred PB: Ian Somerhalder

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