History

Misfits

Noah was born on May 12, 1999, to James and Isobel Foster, in Lakewood. His mother doted on him, but his father was emotionally withdrawn and prone to wild mood swings, frequently leaving home for long stretches of time.

A scrawny kid with a big mouth, Noah quickly earned a penchant as a soft target for bullies and spent his school days being pushed around and picked on. It wasn’t until fourth grade when somebody stepped in on his behalf. Audrey Jensen, no stranger to bullies herself, intervened to defend Noah in a fight. Noah was grateful and, though Audrey had no intention of sticking around, continued to insinuate himself in her life until she finally caved in and became his first friend.

Noah got to know some of Audrey’s friends: older girls Amanda Steele and Jamie Teague. Noah was aware of Audrey’s friendship with Emma Duval, whom she’d known since they were very little, but soon realized Emma wasn’t as up to hanging out with him as Audrey’s other friends were. Noah chalked this up to Emma being wary of associating with a nerd, and never made a fuss about it, though Audrey was quietly troubled.

Absent Father

Jim Foster left home for good when Noah was 13 years old. A rumor spread like wildfire that he’d eloped with a waitress. Isobel bore the scandal as well as she could, but the emotional strain was plain for Noah to see. Never particularly close to his father, he nonetheless felt the loss of a paternal figure, and resented what the rumors were doing to his mother.

The rumors had their way with him as well. At Garfield Middle School’s seventh grade dance, Noah was singled out and taunted about his deadbeat dad by the likes of Nina Patterson and Brooke Maddox.

AV

During his freshman year at George Washington High, Noah joined the AV Club to indulge his fascination with film and technical ephemera. He encouraged the ever-introverted Audrey to join as well, given her long-abiding interest in film and photography.

While in the club, Noah and Audrey developed an acquaintance with Kitty Wright, a senior who’d transferred to GW High a few months prior. Kitty and Noah shared the habit of hanging around the school’s archival film library after hours. In this way, Noah learned of Kitty’s interest in the 1994 Brandon James murders. Noah was already familiar with the massacre, owing to his interest in horror and the tragedy’s status as a local ghost story, but he’d never taken it apart from an analytical perspective before.

Noah knew Audrey was struggling with the loss of Emma to the school’s “in-crowd”, a clique composed of the very people who’d made life so difficult for Audrey and Noah when they were kids. Noah encouraged Audrey to find a creative outlet to soften the blow of Emma’s perceived betrayal. Audrey saw the sense in this and began working on a documentary about Brandon James.

Meet Cute

On the evening of October 18, 2015, a video was posted to YouTube depicting Audrey making out with a girl. The video promptly went viral and incited a slew of hateful and mocking commentary over the two girls depicted, who were summarily forced out of the closet.

Noah, worried Audrey would do something reckless, got in touch with Amanda and pulled her out of work. She gave him a lift to the Maddox mansion, where Brooke was hosting a house party that, as Noah had deduced, Audrey was crashing, having already concluded who was responsible: the in-crowd…and Emma chief among them.

Noah and Amanda arrived just before Audrey and Brooke, who’d been defending Emma, could come to blows. The exasperated Brooke left Audrey with them, bringing Emma into the house.¹

Appearance

Noah is a reedy young man with a pale complexion and a lanky frame. He has sandy brown hair typically trimmed in an unfashionable sloping shape that prematurely ages him. His eyes are a dark slate blue.

Personality

Noah compensates for his unprepossessing appearance by being a motormouth, channeling seemingly boundless nervous energy into words. He doesn’t have a filter and frequently talks himself into trouble, though he can occasionally use his words to get out of messes as well.

While not confrontational himself, Noah is devoted to the few friends he has, and will always intercede for the people he loves.

Noah’s analytical tendency means he can overthink things, getting lost in details at the expense of the bigger picture.

Crimes Committed

Trespassed on the Maddox property to keep Audrey from doing anything reckless in the wake of the kissing video.²

Development

Noah was a main character throughout Scream the TV Series and consequently has been part of the Scream Roleplay Universe since its inception. Since 2015, he has been portrayed by three people, and only two discounting The Story so Far.

In the 2015 Season 1 AU, Noah was portrayed by BeartoothGuy. Though BeartoothGuy eventually joined the May 2016 Season 2 AU, Noah had already been claimed by forum co-moderator AbedFan, who has portrayed the character ever since.

For years, Noah never had a documented birthday. This finally changed in 2023, when AbedFan created Noah’s Year One yearbook page, providing the date of May 12, 1999.

Trivia

AbedFan has been portraying Noah since May 2016, reprising the role for the October 2016 Season 3 AU and returning in 2019 for The Final Retreat. Brooke Maddox is the only other canonical character to claim such a consistent tenure. Fittingly, the romance plot between Noah and Brooke is one of the oldest continuing narrative threads in the SRU.

Noah’s faceclaim, John Karna, is shared by the wily Irish youth Cillian O’Halloran in Big Trouble in Little Lakewood: 1846.

Quotes

Now, there’s no need for violence! We can all be reasonable adults. Undeveloped pre-frontal cortexes notwithstanding.

Noah breaking up a fight between Brooke and Audrey

Gallery

1. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 1 ↩︎
2. The Story so Far, Vol. I: Chapter 1, Scene 1 ↩︎