CANON + RYSLIG HISTORY

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Noa's Canon history is here; due to differences between the English Dub version and Original version of the series however, two corrections from the wiki must be stated for the record.

First is his age; Noa dies when he is 10 in the original rather than 12, and this is the age that was used for Ryslig and thus AU Noa's background as a result.

Second is the reason Noa is abandoned by Gozaburo; in the original series, Noa attempts to prove his worth and devotion to Gozaburo by recounting the results of a simulation he made of the full capacity of all satelite missiles under KaibaCorp's control- namely all out war leaving 3% of humanity alive. Gozaburo fearfully determines in this moment that Noa is no longer his son, and leaves after claiming he'll return at a later date. After this, the wiki sufficiently covers Noa's canon history.

Noa's history is followed from this point by 9 years of Ryslig, a DWRP Horror Game which took place in a country equivalent to a pseudo sci-fi Sweden in the 1950s. The premise of this game was that characters would arrive via the random pull of the 'Fog God', transformed into human eating monsters for the purposes of punishing/tormenting local humans in the setting.

A brief summary of Noa's time in Ryslig is as follows:

🐈 Noa arrived post-canon, and while undergoing monster transformations into a naga settled into an apartment with a roommate before convincing Liewen Labs to hire him in tech.
🐈 Around this early time, he was introduced to the Fog god via the existing recruitment method of 'wander into their domain and Oops you're a member'. He opted to just not think about it, maintaining his place in the fold.
🐈 Not thinking about it didn't work, as the Fog demanded some action from her 'followers' against human rebellion. By this point, the monthly pattern of horror in the game shook Noa enough to want safety, particularly as his first roommate had vanished (dropped)- monsters wouldn't stay dead, but risked losing memories of home each time they died- so he allowed himself to take part in her attack at Vandare.
🐈 He regretted this. A lot. Numerous people died, including some monsters (via a unique drop mechanic), and resulting tension made things even worse for 'his' kind.
🐈 The aftermath of this resulted in a power vacuum at Liewen Labs, filled by his second roommate. Noa himself received a promotion alongside this, invested in a safer place of residence for them, and focused his energy into what he realized mattered; a new life with people he cared about.
🐈 Not long after and this roommate also disappeared, leaving another power vacuum- this time Noa stepped up to take leadership by force, convincing his rival for the position ('AM' from 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream') to settle for co-management of the company. He would spend all his years afterward working to keep AM from having any human staff.
🐈 Amid this time the power balance between the Fog and the rival god 'Elias' ('the Fourth God') came to a head, causing a reshuffle of monster species- Noa became a quadrupedal manticore, and remained as such until the end of the game. He embraced the cat aspects especially, gathering power all the while.
🐈 Years from here pass in a blur as the 'God War' settles into a constant tug of war; Noa spends these years growing close to various characters only for them to 'vanish'. He thus dedicates much of his energy to maintaining a necessary balance between monsters and humans, with traumatic incidents allowing him to grow past his views of his father in order to manage the company with far more kindness.
🐈 Eventually with time he gained the rank of Priest of the Fog- taking this role seriously and doing his best to inform newcomers to Ryslig of the region's natural rules, and offering resources. This all persisted even as the setting crumbled for the end, up until the final hour-
🐈 At which point the Fog essentially 'died', merging with Elias in order for both entities to defeat a greater, world devouring deity. With the 'death' of the land (at least from his perspective), he, those remaining that he cared about, as well as various humans and animals, took the offered 'escape vehicles' prepared by Kulen's deceased parasite insect population.
🐈 These vehicles were massive cruise-submarine ships. Arks, you could say. The jokes write themselves.
🐈 The ships escaped from that reality into the game's 'Sea of Stars', an established inbetween for the various realities, and beyond minor anecdotes about surviving in the liminal and eldritch space between, that's as far as the CRAU canon goes.