Post by NOAH LEDFORD on Apr 3, 2012 1:15:38 GMT
| [atrb=style, background-color: #b2b4a0; border-top: 6px solid #5499E3; border-bottom: 6px solid #5499E3; border-right: 6px solid #5499E3; border-left: 6px solid #5499E3; opacity: 0.85; -moz-opacity: 0.85;][atrb=border,3,true][atrb=bordercolor,ffffff,true][bg=5499E3][atrb=width,490,true][atrb=height,330,true][atrb=background,http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs16/f/2007/185/5/7/Wood_Wallpaper_by_stenosis.jpg][atrb=cellpadding,10,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true] Noah Ledford    NICKNAME: AGE: 21 FACE CLAIM: Zac Efron GROUP: Loner. It's not that Noah's anti-social. He's more the type to have one or two friends here or there. Plus, he's only been in Vegas for a month or so, and he's not really one to make fast friends. People see him around every now and again, but he never really puts him self in the center of things. ETHNICITY: American. RELIGION: Christian. Methodist. SEXUALITY: Straight. OCCUPATION: He's still technically in the army reserves, so he could be called back at any time. SUBJECTS: Agriculture & Music. He's versatile okey. PERSONALITY: There's no such thing as a perfect son, but Noah definitely tries his best to earn that title. He's the type to disobey his parents once and feel so guilty he comes clean on his own. A lot of people would say he's missed out on a lot of fun, being the ever-obedient son and man he is. Most of his friends learned that inviting him to parties was pretty much not worth it. Aside from Noah's worry that something illegal would go down in a house full of unsupervised teens, he usually was off being trained to become an army man, like the rest of his family. Noah's not exactly the ladies' man people expect him to be. He's actually better with animals than women. It's not that he's pig-headed or chauvinistic. He's just never been very good at flirting or figuring women out. He's pretty much been the one dumped every time. He's a really easy-going guy, unlike most of his family. Noah doesn't take the leader role as eagerly as they do. He's more the type to follow along, which is probably why he fit so well into the army. He's got a loyal streak a mile wide, and lives very strongly by the saying "no man gets left behind". Noah's also rather quiet-natured. He only really speaks if he has something worth saying. More often than not he does more listening than talking, which is why a lot of his friends go to him to vent. LIKES: animals. playing guitar. having a routine. working with his hands. travelling. radio. DISLIKES: political elitists. media. drugs. driving (unless it's his motorcycle). houses that have more bedrooms than people. GOALS: to get a job outside of the military. to start a family. FEARS: disappointing his father. being deployed again. family dying overseas. SECRETS: Noah's contract with the military is up in the air because he didn't come to the meeting to make the final decisions on it. So, technically they could imprison him, y'know. He's technically married also. Oops. FAMILY: Mother: Joan Ledford -- Father: Andrew Ledford {deceased} -- Brother: Thomas Ledford; 28 HISTORY: Noah was born into the small city of Chadron, Nebraska, where the Ledford family had been for decades now. What the boy would learn as he grew up, was that he'd also been born into a routine, and a legacy. All the sons of the Ledford family had one career path set for them. The Military. His father, uncles and grandfather all decorated veterans and commanders. Naturally Noah wanted to follow in his father's foot-steps, along with his older brother Thomas. When Noah was seven, and just beginning to learn the way of the military world, his father was deployed. At the time, Noah didn't really know what that meant. All he really knew was that it meant his dad was going far away for a long, long while. Not just days. Not just weeks. But whole months. And then one day his father wasn't coming home at all. It didn't really sink in for the almost-eight year old until the huge service for the "fallen soldiers" was held and they were lowering the casket where his mother had told him his dad was. A few of his father's fellow officers had to stop Noah from going in after the casket. After that, Noah wasn't so sure about the army. The going away for months and not knowing whether you were coming back. But his uncle told him it was dying with honor, dying for your country. And it would make his father proud. Noah liked the sound of that. So, from then on, he devoted his time, his child-hood, his high school years to becoming the man his father would've wanted to see him grow up to be. After graduation, it didn't take long for Noah to be deployed. The first thing Noah learned was that you didn't actually see as much action as they prepared you for. You could say he was rather disappointed, but they did finally get a few front line assignments, where Noah also learned that war wasn't exactly all glory and honor. It was real people dying right next to you. And in some cases, a hand grenade thrown right at you. They said it could've blown his arm clear off the way it was aimed. Luckily, it only tore his shoulder. It wasn't exactly a quick fix, twenty stitches and a lot of therapy to get feeling back. By that time, Noah's contract was nearing it's end and the office of course was waiting for him to renew, as all of the Ledford's did. But Noah decided he wanted something different. He wanted a family, and an education, and the assurance that he wouldn't be dead in a couple of days. Something the army couldn't give him. So after he was released from his contract, and after a lot of lengthy discussions with his uncle and brother, he was off to look for an education. And that's where Winchester comes into the story. Vegas isn't exactly Noah's first choice, or his second really, but it offers something different. It's fun. elle. |
