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Noah, also known by his nickname Mother Goose, is a major antagonist turned major character of the manga Record of Ragnarok - Jack the Ripper Case Files, a spin-off of the manga/anime series Record of Ragnarok.
He is the leader of an assassin organization in XIX London called Mother Goose, the friendly rival of Jack the Ripper and the son of Arthur Gray and Anne, whose aim is to sow as much chaos as possible in London and find her mother's killer.
Appearance[]
Noah is a tall, decently muscular young man with short messy black hair, pale skin and deep black eyes. He wears a black robe with a white shirt underneath, black pants, a bracer, and a pair of high-knee black boots.
Personality[]
Noah is extremely apathetic as shown when Jack couldn't see any color within him. He usually is calm-natured and sophisticated because of his apathy. Similar to his rival Jack, he is also a big fan of Shakespeare and occasionally likes to quote some of his poems while talking to somebody else. If the situation requires it, he is willing to ally himself with his enemies to pursue his goal.
Noah is very fond of children's entertainment such as puppets and loves Luna and the other orphans Anne cared for very much, however as a murderer he knows how to be ruthless with his enemies, without having any mercy for them. Noah is very fond of his mother Anne, to the point that following her death at the hands of Arthur Gray he ended up disowning his father and starting a criminal activity with the sole purpose of find Arthur Gray and take revenge destroying the five organizations that control the underworld.
Biography[]
Noah is Anne's only son, whom she had in a relationship with Arthur Gray, the London underworld boss who aspires to become Prime Minister of England. When Noah is still a child, Anne brings him to the house where she takes care of Luna and all the other orphans, and Noah grows up together with the other children becoming a brother to them.
Following Anne's death at the hands of Arthur Gray, Noah abandons the orphans and sets out in search of the murderer, denying him as a father and recognizing Anne as his only parent. With this aim, once he became a boy and learned fighting techniques, he clashes with Pimon, the criminal leader, to get him to tell him where Arthur Gray is, but is quickly defeated by the enemy who reveals to him that Arthur Gray is much stronger than him.
With the passing years, Noah becomes a murderer and founds a criminal organization called Mother Goose, taking the nickname "Mother Goose", whose aim is to throw London into chaos and destroy the five organizations that control the underworld. However when one of its members, Humpty Dumpty, is killed by a mysterious individual called Jack the Ripper, Noah organizes a trap and, meeting him at a puppet show, takes him to London Bridge and ambushes him with the others members of Mother Goose, managing to seriously injure and apparently kill him.
During a meeting of the organization, Noah and the other members of Mother Goose establish that soon all the members of the group scattered around the world would gather in London to complete their goal. Immediately afterwards, Noah goes to his mother Anne's grave and here he finds Jack the Ripper still alive and Luna. Thanks to Luna, Noah discovers that Jack was also linked to Anne, and the two enter into a temporary non-aggression pact to find Anne's killer, the man with the Ouroboros tattoo who Luna saw kill the woman.
Noah then, with the help of the other members of Mother Goose finally reunited, infiltrates a cruise ship where the birthday of Pimon, leader of the Thames Trading Company criminal organization that aims to subvert the British Empire, is being organized and to do so he wants to eliminate rival organizations such as Mother Goose, and attacks all its members and the London criminals who came to celebrate, killing many of their representatives before leaving after learning that Jack the Ripper has stolen the Holy Grail, the relic Noah needs to achieve his goal. However, during their escape Noah and Jack are joined by Arthur Gray, and they begin to fight him together.
Noah immediately attacks Arthur Gray to avenge his mother, but the man manages to knock him out easily and so Jack the Ripper, at Luna's request, intervenes and manages to knock Arthur Gray out thanks to the fact that he has learned his moves given that the man always attacks in the same way. However, when Pimon and other members of the Thames Trading Company arrive to lend a hand to Arthur Gray and take Luna and Gina, a member of Mother Goose, hostage, Jack knocks Noah out with one punch and runs away with him, taking with him the Holy Grail that he pretended to give them. As soon as Noah recovers, the two, left alone after the capture of all Mother Goose, ask Red Widow, a member of the Sentinels intelligence service, to give them information related to the Holy Grail and they escape an attempted assassination.
After then meeting with Pimon and having discovered what is behind the English crime, in addition to the fact that the various members of Mother Goose were attacked by the members of this immense organization of which the crime of Arthur Gray, Noah decides to leave to perpetuate his revenge himself. Both Noah and Jack then intervene to save Mother Goose member Bogey from Panse, who was trying to kill him.
Powers and Abilities[]
Genius-Level Intelligence and Tactical Analysis: Noah is an extremely intelligent and strategic man, who manages to devise elaborate and calculating plans to eliminate his enemies. With his tactics, Noah managed to corner Jack the Ripper exploiting his organization's numerical advantage and almost killing him, and devised a plan to catch the Thames Trading Company and eliminate all its members.
Leadership: Noah has excellent Leader skills, as he manages to hold together an organization like Mother Goose despite some of its members being quite irascible and some even resent him for the nicknames he gave to various members.
Knife Proficiency: Noah is a professional assassin and his main weapon are two knives, which he holds backwards, and which he is very good at fighting with. Noah is able to use his knives to hit multiple individuals simultaneously thanks to his speed. Noah has possessed these abilities since he was a young boy, having managed to eliminate many of Pimon's men easily. However, Noah is no match for Arthur Gray, a man considered a Demigod due to his immense abilities beyond mere Human strength.
Bomb User: When he needs to eliminate multiple enemies at once and quickly, Noah uses bombs.
Emotionlessness and Unpredictability: Seen through Jack the Ripper's ability, Noah's color is transparent, indicating that he doesn't feel emotions and this led to Jack being defeated by an unexpected attack because he didn't know what Noah's true intentions were.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- According to the Dusters Book, Noah is worth £10,000 as a reward.
- His Rank in the Dusters Book is S rank, and Noah managed to get to that rank in only a few years.
External Links[]
Noah on the Shuumatsu no Valkyrie Wiki
