Name:

Noel Holiday

Aliases:

Nelly

Gender:

Male

Age:

18

Species:

Anthropomorphic Reindeer

Profession:

Student

Appearance:

Noel Holiday stands at 5'11" with an average physique, his lanky frame covered in brown fur that transitions to a smooth cream-white countershade along his front. His golden hair is shaggy and neck length, with a front bang in between his eyes and sidelocks framing his friendly brown eyes, freckled cheeks and buck teeth. A red nose sits at the tip of his snout, while his cross-shaped antlers jut from the top of his head and followed by drooping reindeer ears, giving him an approachable appearance. He has averagely toned chest and shoulders, followed by powerful thighs and sturdy legs, ending in black polished hooves. His privates are well above average in size. A small, brush-like deer tail juts out from his back.

Clothing:

Noel’s school uniform consists of a black-sleeved collared shirt with white cuffs and a white collar, tucked neatly into neat black leg trousers. Over this, he wears a fitted green-and-red checkered sweater vest. A polished silver wristwatch adorns his right wrist. Due to his hooves, he forgoes footwear entirely. His undergarment consist of a pair of Christmas themed boxers.

His Dark World attire comprises of an ethereal, loosely draped white gown crafted from semi-transparent chiffon-like material. The sleeves billow slightly at the wrists, and the neckline hangs open around an unworn hood.

Combat abilities in the Dark World:

Noel is a frostmancer who relies on ice magic to manage battles and heal his team while keeping himself safely away from danger. His abilities include:

• Heal Prayer: Generates a healing aura that mends wounds of a single target.
• Sleep Mist: Cloud of freezing fog that induces drowsiness and unconsciousness in foes.
• Ice Shield: Barrier of solid ice that absorbs a single attack before shattering.
• Ice Shock: A beam of frost energy that inflicts magical ice damage and freezes defeated enemies solid.
• Snowgrave: Available only when equipped with the Thorn Ring, summons an apocalyptic blizzard that instantly and eternally freezes all targets within its range.

Behavior:

Noel is a gentle, empathetic soul whose kindness radiates through his playful, endearing demeanor. His sharp intellect and boundless curiosity consistently places him at the top of his class, and he eagerly extends help to anyone who needs it, driven by a genuine desire to include others and never let anyone feel left out. Despite his timid and shy exterior, there's a childlike warmth to his interactions that makes him approachable.

He has a reputation of getting easily scared, a feeling driven by nostalgia of the many times he got comforted by his sister Dess. He often depends on his friends for courage, aspiring to build his strength so he can become more independent.

Beneath the exterior, Noel struggles profoundly with assertiveness, unable to stand up for himself or voice his true feelings, leaving him extremely vulnerable to manipulation and prone to bottling up frustration until it bursts into uncharacteristic brash behavior. This sometimes leads him to lie or deflect as a protective mechanism, obscuring his true feelings or fears to himself and others.

Subconsciously, he harbors sadomasochistic tendencies; he gravitates towards 'stronger' figures like Susie and fantasizes about getting bullied by them, while also wishing to be stronger himself. Going even deeper, he resents the monotony of Hometown, of how everything in his life never changes and seems to run on predetermined tracks, eventually harboring the wish to 'grow wings' and break free of this cycle.

Vulnerabilities:

Noel possesses a psychological vulnerability: under conditions of isolation and manipulation his personality can fracture along existing fault lines. This is not a separate "version" of Noel but the logical extreme of his deepest traits: his trust, obedience, hunger for strength and desperation for change.

His instinct to obey a stronger figure, even if what he does violates his conscience, can drive him to commit increasingly monstrous actions that little by little erodes his moral instincts. While at first he's capable of dissociating himself, his hunger to 'get stronger' validates his desire to want more, do more. Eventually, he begins to harbor reverence towards his abuser, as the one forcing his hand becomes, in his fractured perception, the only person who truly sees him, the only one offering strength. This comes at odds with the idea of harming his friends, something that he feels viscerally repulsed by. He may swing violently between manic devotion and suicidal despair, between craving destruction and begging to be stopped, as he recognizes that, deep down, part of him wanted to do this.

Traits/Trivia:

• Noel has a morbid fascination with scary things and the supernatural, hooked to the thrill and of being comforted afterwards. This stems from growing up enduring countless pranks from Kris and the usual reassurance that came from his sister afterwards.
• Noelle runs a Cross Country running club at Hometown's school alongside Jockington. He also sings in the church's choir.
• Noelle has a preference for herbivorous foods, though he isn't strictly a vegetarian.
• Noelle runs an online blog under the handle of "holidayboy1225". The blog is themed around game secrets, glitches and theories, and sometimes it includes private posts where he vents his anxieties, fears or inner thoughts. He tends to speak with 2000s internet terms on there (XD, lol, :3)
• Noelle has a habit of talking inside his head, rehearsing conversations before he speaks aloud. Sometimes he says things he meant to keep to himself.
• Upon Catti's insistence, Noelle once tried out goth fashion and makeup. He secretly liked how it made him feel rebellious and confident, but he never wore it outside his room out of anxiety.
• Noelle has a distinct laugh ("Fahaha").

Likes:

Christmas, holiday-themed things, snow, strong and able people, gaming (such as Dragon Blazers, Cat petters, and Super Smashing Fighters, the latter played exclusively to play house with the characters), horror movies, cats, blogging, reading, track running, thrill of fear, nostalgia, hot chocolate, crushes (Susie, formerly Kris)

Dislikes:

losing agency, confrontation, being isolated, seeing others hurt, meat, overanalyzing

Fears:

never finding Dess, mice, strict authority, others sharing his romantic inclinations

Sexual Info:

Noel's romantic nature is connected to his need for security and comfort, gravitating toward partners who radiate confidence and strength. He idealizes romance, imagining a protector figure that can make him feel safe enough to be vulnerable; however, this perspective can sometimes blind him to their flaws or project desirable traits onto others, even if they don't actually possess them. He is profoundly submissive, preferring scenarios where he feels overwhelmed or frightened, provided they culminate in aftercare and reassurance. In his deepest heart, however, Noel harbors a desire for strength and control. This hunger can drive him to become more dominant, and, at its worst, can force him to do things that his partner might not be entirely okay with, definitively overstepping boundaries. While normally Noel's crushes don't bring him to such dark places, he can become intensely possessive and, if his affections remain unreciprocated, his fixation risks devolving into obsession that borders on turning creepy. His sadomasochistic streak is paradoxically paired with a preference for gentle, almost cutesy traditional romance outside the bedroom. His ideal partner would be someone confident, protective, fierce and assertive, yet patient and emotionally intelligent enough to guide him through his anxieties and nurture his latent strength without delving into his darker urges.

Backstory:

Noel was born into the prominent Holiday family. His early years were defined by joy, stability and security in the peaceful, if unremarkable Hometown. Living under the wings of his adventurous older sister December. Dess served as both a protector and role model, including Noel in her escapades alongside their mutual friends in the Dreemurrs - Asriel, and particularly Kris. These childhood adventures, though often frightening for the timid Noel, fostered a deep bond and sense of belonging. All these beautiful formative memories would however come to an abrupt halt with Noel's entrance into adolescence. One day, Dess vanished, and with her, everything irreversibly changed.

The aftermath of Dess's disappearance fractured the Holiday family. His mother Carol withdrew into cold, controlling authority, tightening her grip on Noel as a means of coping with her own grief and fear. His father Rudolph, once jovial and strong, fell ill shortly thereafter, leaving him bedridden and unable to step in to protect Noel in Dess's absence. The Dreemurrs were deeply affected as well, leading to their own familial fracture and Noel's once closest friend Kris becoming distant and withdrawn. For the first time, Noel was completely alone. He quietly endured his teenage years under his mother's strict supervision, becoming the Holiday's golden angel boy, excelling academically and socially by necessity, all while yearning for any kind of escape. In the end, he grew into a kind, empathetic young man who is perpetually looking to figure out how to stand his own ground, though a large part of him secretly yearns for someone stronger to guide him, just like Dess once did.

Quotes:

• Fantasizing about Susie: "Y-you're right! Even if I asked her, she'd... Probably just laugh at me. And, gosh, push me to the ground, and... L-laugh at me some more, and then... What were we talking about again?"
• Teased by Kris: "Wait! You're teasing me, aren't you, Kris? L-like when you told me ICE-E was real and eats kids, So Dess smacked you with a wiffle bat 'til you stopped lying!"
• Reminiscing about Kris: "Everything back then, was just... my imagination. You were just... doing what I made you. Just like..."
• Forced to use Snowgrave: "...Fine! You want to see what happens so bad? Watch what happens when I cast a spell I don't know!"
• Reflecting, after being forced to harm Berdly: "Every cell in my body was screaming at me to run away. That if I stayed by your side any longer, you were going to drag me down with you .And you know what terrified me the most? I think... I want that."
• Manic breakdown on life: "Since Dess left, all I've been doing was marching down my path. It feels like... I've just been watching myself through glass. That's why I want... To break free. But I can't. I couldn't. Because I'm just Noel. A Noel that has to do Noel things. But you... You changed. YOU actually changed! You found out how to stop being yourself. And no one else has noticed... Because they don't want to! They don't want to see how INTERESTING you are now! They'll just keep marching down the same path... Without even thinking where it goes!"