Noelle Remington

Name: Noelle Remington
Occupation: Chief Scientist
Rank: Civilian
Gender: Female

Social Class: Upper Class
Place of birth: Edinburough, Scotland
Age: 24 years old
Height: 5' 6"
Skin: tan, smooth skin
Eyes: Blue-Green
Hair: waist-length curly light blonde hair

Build: Average build and you appear to be well toned
Marital Status: Single

Appearance: Noelle is a woman of average height and normal build. Her blonde hair is thick and curly and she usually wears it down, tucked behind an ear. For formal occasions she’ll put it up. Her eyes are a deep grey-blue and her face is soft and rounded. At work she always wears comfortable, yet presentable clothing and her white labcoat. She wears glasses.
Occupation: scientific research, astrophysics

Personality: Noelle is bubbly, but very naive when it comes to "street sense". She's somewhat bitter to people she doesn't know well that rub her the wrong way. She's ambitious, but not power-hungry, open to her friends and family, but she always seems to be at a bit of a distance for others. She's very intelligent, and frequently catches things that other people miss, including important details, bits of conversations that may be important, and other various things. She's witty, intelligent, and fun natured around friends. She's a loyal friend and has a small, close knit circle of friends.

Character history: Noelle grew up in the town of Edinburough, Scotland--out in the countryside, she loved walking through the green meadows, and she loved going to the coast with her family when she was younger. She moved to the United States when she was 18 to attend University in Washington State.

After college, having a degree in Astrophysics, she joined the US Air Force. While in the Air Force, she studied Deep Space Telemetry and more advanced Astrophysics. When she was 25, two years after she joined the Air Force, she was approached by two USAF officers and was offered to come work for a secret operations on a small Carribbean island of Morada. She took the offer and immediately moved. She is now the Chief Scientist at the Aerospace center on the Moradian Military Base.

Ceejay Martin

At the age of 18 months, Ceejay Martin was watching television with her family when suddenly the sound went off. Confused as to what was happening, her parents put her to bed. The next morning, when she did not respond to voices, they realized something was horribly wrong. They rushed her to their family doctor in Fairfield, CT. The news was jarring: their only baby girl had suffered a loss of hearing. Ceejay was profoundly deaf.

Despite various operations and experimental treatments, nothing could restore the hearing loss. Ceejay’s parents made a life-time vow: “We will do whatever we can, absolutely everything in our power, to enable you to become as much a part of the ‘hearing world’ as possible.”

They enrolled her in the Fairfield Hearing and Speech Center. Ceejay began to learn the process of speaking “by imitating the vibrations I felt when I put my hands on the therapist’s throat, and by looking in the mirror to shape my mouth the way she formed hers”.

Later came endless hours with voice and drama coaches, as well as trumpet and piano lessons. “I’ve never heard a mistake I’ve made yet,” quips Ceejay, who is trained as a classical pianist.
When Ceejay mastered the art of lip reading and speaking, she entered public elementary school and was assigned a seat on the front row from where she could see the teacher’s lips. Her struggle to learn was difficult (when the teacher turned to face the blackboard, all communication ended).

Learning was made difficult, as well, due to constant ridicule from fellow students making fun of her speech patterns. To escape their teasing and taunting, Ceejay spent more and more time at a nearby skating rink. With the help of a determined coach, Ceejay began to skate by keeping an eve on her coach who, like a conductor, marked the beat of the music. At age seven, Ceejay became the youngest Ohio State Champion free-style skater in skating history. “It really saved my life. Why? I might have talked awful funny. And I might have been that class dummy.

But there wasn’t one kid in my school, not one of them, who had a bigger trophy than I did!” Ceejay’s parents continued to encourage her.

“Mother had a painting of Jesus hanging in my bedroom. She explained that with God’s help, there was absolutely nothing in my life I couldn’t do.”

That inspiration, instilled at an early age, eventually led Ceejay to enroll in Springfield College in Springfield, MA. In 1976, she completed her Bachelor of Science degree in political science and international relations. Graduate work followed at the University of Connecticut. “I’ve worked all my life to function in the hearing world,” she says, noting that her hard work finally paid off when she was hired by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, DC. At first, she helped start a program to train deaf people to classify fingerprints. However, due to her superb
ability to read lips, she was approached by agents who had videotaped an investigation, only to find the camera's sound mechanism had failed.

"They asked if I could read the people's lips and tell what was being said." Her successful completion of that high profile case led to work in undercover surveillance. "It was no problem for me to stand across a room in, say, an airport where a deal was going down, and take verbatim notes on what the suspects were saying!"

Despite her success with the FBI, invitations to gala parties and widespread esteem in the nation's capitol, Ceejay was not satisfied. She'd met and exceeded her family's highest dreams for her and had, indeed, become a successfully functioning member of the ‘hearing world’. "But I began to think there must be something more for me than this," she says.

Ceejay travelled to the tropical island of Morada on a case and is currently searching for that "something more" while using her skills to solve crime.