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Character's name (first name first, please): Noa Kaiba
Character's age: He's technically older than Seto, and if Seto's around 16 during the series, that'd make Noa about 17 or 18, ryt?
Character's gender: Male

Series the character is from: Yu-Gi-Oh, YuGiOh, Yuugiou, etc.

Background: Background? Psh, what nonsense. Noa doesn't have any background!

Except for maybe the whole Arc that was centered around him, but y'know.

SPOILERS!

Noa is the biological son of Gozaburo Kaiba, the man who once owned Kaiba Corporations, a company that made war weapons. It's not shown in the anime how Noa felt about this, but judging by what he did towards the end of his Arc, he was very much Not Happy With Daddy.

So! We know who Noa's daddy is - but who's his Mummy?

Don't feel bad about not knowing, because Noa doesn't know either. (Really, he's just hoping that he doesn't turn out looking like a walrus. Here's to secretly wishing you're adopted so that you don't grow up to look like your father!)

Noa had a mostly-normal childhood. He grew up in Kaiba mansion (I have a thing for rich characters, don't I?), played games with the maids and nannies, dressed up for formal dinners, and was learning very quickly. He studied all seven days of the week, soaking up information like a sponge, and excelled in his studies. Gozaburo was very proud of him, and when Gozaburo was proud, Noa studied harder to make him even more proud.

His future - and the future of Kaiba Corp. - looked bright. When he was old enough, Noa started to attend Japan's finest private schools which I shall not call Ouran. However, he found the lessons boring and could usually be found at the back of the classroom, brushing up on his language skills or reading a book on psychology for kicks.

(Obviously, by the time he was in his third year of primary school, none of the other kids wanted to be around him. Which was fine, he was quite happy reading his German literature and having debates with the upper years as to the pros and cons of wars that had occured more than ten years ago.)

So, yes. Noa was happy. Business was booming, his father was proud and as happy as Gozaburo could ever get, and his future had been carefully planned out. He would complete his education, take over the family business, get married, have kids, and continue the Kaiba line.

Getting involved in a fatal accident and having his body placed in suspended animation, while his consciousness was placed into a virtual world, was most certainly not on his list of "What To Do". But it happened anyway.

Y'see, when Noa was involved in the fatal accident that has managed to change depending on which canon you're going by, Gozaburo would not let him die. His body may have been useless, but his mind was in perfect shape. Besides, he was the first and only Kaiba heir, and Gozaburo would not let his son die. So, he had Noa's body placed into a container to be put into suspended animation, and hooked his mind up to a virtual world that he created for the sole purpose of giving his son a place to live. Noa would remain like that until Science found a way to fix his body.

But then, what was Gozaburo to do about an heir? He couldn't very well tell people that he had his son locked up in the basement of Kaiba Corp, and that the company would be run by a child in a computer when he died. He delegated some staff to sort out the problem for him, and went to pull some publicity stunts to gain sympathy for his "dead" child.

It just so happened that he went to an orphanage, and found a child who looked almost exactly like his son. The hair was the only real difference, but Gozaburo saw potential in this child and, after a game of chess, adopted him and his brother.

Gozaburo trained this child until the child wasn't a child anymore, and succeeded in one-upping him. The way in which he died differs (again) between each canon, but he died, and the child he adopted took over Kaiba Corp. and turned it into a game company.

During all of this, Noa - who had access to all of the computers and cameras - got understandably angry. The company was his, and that copy had no right to take away what belonged to him.

When the new Kaiba started designing holograms for the Duel Monsters game, Noa was able to hack the files and copy them into his own virtual world. He created fields and oceans and mountains and swamps and everything else imagineable - all the while wishing he could feel the breeze he created, the water he made slash up the side of the cliff, the rock he produced to sit on - and created copies of the cards. He made his own deck, loading the rules from the original game into his world and changing them as he saw fit. When the Duel Disk was created, Noa copied those files into his world as well.

He had everything he wanted, and could create everything that he did not. However, there was one thing that he could never make.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not create someone who was not himself in his world. He could not talk to anyone who would talk back, he could not play games with anyone, he could not discuss literature and wars and family with anyone other than himself, and so he became extremely jealous of the other Kaiba, who could do all of that but who was not. The person who had stolen his life was not living it the way it was supposed to be lived, and if only Noa had a body he would be able to go out into the world and live properly.

So Noa planned. He started leaving trails when he hacked into files, sent data to games that were being created, deleted a few crucial files, and was ignored. The Kaiba Corporation staff thought that he was a virus sent by Pegasus, the CEO of a rival company, Industrial Illusions.

And this made Noa very, very angry.

When he finally - finally managed to get the new Kaiba trapped in his virtual world, he thought nothing of the tag-alongs. The younger extra Kaiba would be good for negotiations, though, and so he paid extra attention to him. Mokuba, he later found out was his name, was definitely a valuble asset.

He didn't know when the Big Five had made it into his virtual world, but he used them as his pawns anyway. They were supposed to take out the tag-alongs.

He had always thought that they were rather useless, and his theory was proved when they failed at such a simple task.

He decided to take matters into his own digital hands, and engaged in a duel with the fake Kaiba. He used his new rules to gain the upper hand, and used Mokuba - whose company he discovered he rather liked - to torment the fake Kaiba. It took a bit of work to brain-wash (Noa was willing to admit that he had played dirty, but how else was he supposed to convince Mokuba to betray his older brother?) him into saying hurtful things to the fake Kaiba, but it was worth it.

Until the fake Kaiba started talking to Mokuba, and convinced him to leave Noa.

Noa was pissed. The fake Kaiba stole his life, his company, his family's name, and now he was stealing his friend. (Mind you, Noa knew nothing about friends, other than the definition.)

So he turned the fake Kaiba and Mokuba into stone, and won the duel by default, which meant that he could take the fake Kaiba's body and return to the real world where he could live.

...Or he would've, if Yami hadn't stepped up and taken Kaiba's place. Needless to say, Noa was beaten, and beaten bad.

My memory is just a tad sketchy about what happened between that and the meeting with Gozaburo, because my mind says that the Gozaburo-cloud appeared right after Noa lost the duel, but my instinct is saying "No, Noa took Mokuba's body and then bombed the place". I'm pretty sure that Gozaburo appeared first, though. So.

After Noa lost, a big purple cloud appeared that turned out to be Gozaburo. He said that he was disappointed in Noa and a lot of stuff that doesn't make sense unless you're addicted to the show and willing to over-look plot holes the size of Russia, and of course made Noa want to try harder to please him. So he did.

To cut this a bit shorter; Noa took Mokuba's body, programmed the area to blow up so that everyone would die and he'd be able to take over Kaiba Corp. with no hassles, was convinced by Mokuba that this was The Wrong Thing To Do, went back to the virtual world, stopped Gozaburo from trapping everyone's souls inside the virtual world (which was a suicide mission, as it involved using his data to wipe Gozaburo's data out of the VW), and was then never mentioned again in the series. =D

Except for the end of the episode that was the last one in the Arc, where Mokuba comments that he feels bad for Noa and misses him, and Seto says that knowing the Kaiba line, there's a backup disk with his data on it somewhere.

This is where we cross over into fanon.

-Seto and Mokuba found the back-up disks for Noa, and re-uploaded him into a virtual world.
-Noa and Seto set about trying to build a robotic body for him, so that he would at least be able to move about the real world.
-Noa and Seto have a relationship based on mutual respect and guilt. (Mainly, Noa feeling guilty for trying to steal Seto's brother and body. But he's never going to tell Seto that.)
-Noa and Mokuba have a relationship like two normal siblings.

O'course, I'm gonna yank 'im out after his Arc. Because it gives me an excuse to type "Noah's Ark - I mean, Noa's Arc" in the OOC comm. =D So he's just been wiped from the database, and still has no body.

Except for when he arrives at the Empyrean, he mysteriously has one. >_>;; Would you rather have him be in a computer that someone has to wheel around?

Personality: I already regret putting this in the app form.

"Obnoxious, arrogant, stubborn and too smart for his own damn good" are all traits found in the Kaiba men. No exceptions.

When he was "growing up" in the VW, it was very easy for Noa to become jealous of Seto. Then again, who wouldn't? I wouldn't really consider it to be part of his personality, because everyone would be jealous of the person who was living their life.

As a child, Noa was a kind boy. That's not to say he was nice - not to people who didn't live in his house, that is - but he was considerate of other people's feelings. Then again, he was trained to be, as a good businessman always knows how to manipulate other's feelings.

When you see flashbacks of Noa's childhood, he is often shown with a brown teddy bear in his arms. I estimate that he was about five at the time he had the bear, so at that age, he likely would've had the same personality as any other five year old, but would have been more disciplined.

He would have been a spoilt brat - his bedroom certainly says so - but he would have known better than to ask for things without working for them. He would have been expected to always do better than everyone else, and definitely would've lived up to those expectations.

From that, it's safe to assume that Noa is also a determined individual. (What? His Arc didn't give that away? --;)

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