psycho!noah au, what do the aftermath cast think? conversely if they dont know/dont see the show (isnt it implied to be canon in wt that they watch the show or atleast can?), how do they react to newly eliminated cast members telling them?
and then, at whatever point he gets eliminated or just whenever the cast sees him again, how do they react with that new info?
The justification I have for Noah remaining stealthed under his "stoic cynic" persona pre-reveal in this AU is a little convoluted, but I do have one. Vaguely. Which I'll try to outline here for continuities' sake.
So, to clarify; Noah only competes in Island and World Tour, just like in canon. Most things happen just like canon, with the exception of Noah lasting a little longer in Island so he and Izzy have more time to be menaces (I have no idea how I'll shift the elimination order to justify keeping him around, though). Noah's still eliminated fairly early and ends up on the Playa, where the other elimination fodder welcome him with open arms, because in Island they're only given access to the raw camera footage instead of the final cut!
I imagine it'd be pretty hard for a Brand New Show to have the manpower of a full professional editing team that can plan and prosecute the final cut of a whole ~20 minute episode in only three days (in-universe), so to keep the losers as in the know as possible in real time, they're given access to the same live camera footage Chris and Chef have, just without the confessionals.
Since the confessionals are, uh. Toilets. And no one wants to have 24/7 access to toilet stall footage.
Noah only ever really drops his ruse in the confessional, or around Izzy, so none of the losers have gotten the opportunity to see the real him in action; even when he is visible on camera, it's only during the stolen moments he shares with Izzy outside of challenges, wherein the two plot and scheme together like Pinky and the Brain. Given that the majority of them don't even bother to watch the live footage unless there's a challenge actively happening (or something else otherwise noteworthy), his true nature goes undetected amongst them as well.
And then, in Action, the show's budget and workforce increases. Suddenly, the editing team is thrice the size of Island's, and they are capable of providing a final cut of each episode within the span of 24~72 hours, allowing the show to air quicker. Which has the added bonus of allowing everyone in the peanut gallery access to the yet-to-be-aired episodes (instead of the live footage), keeping them up to date with the competition whilst also giving them the same perspective as the audience itself. Including people's confessions.
It's a good thing Noah didn't compete in Action, then. His mask of indifference lives on.
Then there's a year-long break between seasons, wherein Noah works under Chris as his personal assistant. Yada yada yada, World Tour happens. He knows that the losers are going to see his confessions. So now Noah has to choose between maintaining his persona at the sake of losing out on toying with the greater audience, or carrying on as he did in Island at the cost of revealing his 'true colours' (which, in this case, still isn't the real Noah so much as an exaggeration of his more deranged tendencies, since Noah's still essentially performing for the cameras; just with a different role).
Of course he goes with option two. He's primarily motivated by his own amusement- that was the reason for his whole charade in the first place.
(Alright, clarification over, time to actually answer the question.)
So the peanut gallery and steadily increasing number of World Tour Rejects are horrified when, in Noah's scattering of confessions- as he doesn't confess very often, so when he does it's a treat to himself and the audience- he mostly waxes poetic about how exciting each near-death experience the cast go through is, and all of the different ways he so wanted to cause the others harm (either in general, or themed around the challenges), being so much more expressive than anyone's ever seen him (concerningly so, to the point of it breaching the uncanny valley) and giddy over the prospect of performing Acts Of Incredible Violence against his castmates.
They're living in that same fearful anticipation the wider audience experienced through his tenure in Island; waiting for Noah to Drop The Act and fulfil his promises of brutal sabotage, if only to finally put an end to the constant looming threat of his self control snapping. They're horrified bystanders of a car crash waiting to happen (at least, they think they are. Noah's not actually gonna do any of the things he's suggesting, probably, but keeping the audience on their toes is one of his favourite games!) and each episode he features in is a test of both their patience and their own sanity.
Because, could you imagine watching your friends interact and be friendly with someone who (you think) is out for their blood, entirely unaware of the danger? that's literally what they're experiencing.
And Noah, because he's a little shit who thinks he's funny (he is), sometimes goes so far as to fake-out the audience by rearing up attacks against his castmates during challenges, only to shoot the nearest camera a wry wink and a sly smile as he carries on with the actual task at hand, the others none-the-wiser.
It becomes so concerning, in fact, that every new arrival is immediately checked over for any signs of injuries or Noah's Influence and hastily given the rundown on The Situation. Which is, more often than not, met with the same incredulity as Sierra's claims- until they're shown various clips of Noah's confessions, or the fake-outs and otherwise unhinged looks he teases the cameras with.
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For the second question; I have no idea. I'm still workshopping how people will react to Noah, and how Noah in turn will react to them. Post-reveal p!Noah will, eventually, disclose the fact that he's not as bloodthirsty as he portrays himself as, but until then it's anyone's guess as to how far he'll take the bit- and who could/will get hurt in the process.
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every time tsukishima scolds koito
koito is tsukishima's superior officer, but sometimes tsukishima can't resist telling him what to do or yelling at him, and i like that.
volume 11, chapter 105 - 気をつけろ散弾銃を持ってる // 鯉登少尉先走るなッ "Watch out, he has a shotgun! // Don't rush in, Second Lieutenant Koito!" (when koito is about to go up the stairs in pursuit of the lightning bandit. koito ignores him and slides down the oily stairs backwards on the next page. you can't see tsukishima saying these lines, but noda-sensei confirmed in an interview that it was him.) (not polite speech)
volume 11, chapter 106 - 待て鯉登少尉一人で行くなッ "Wait, Second Lieutenant Koito! Don't go alone!" (when koito jumps up in pursuit of the lightning bandit. koito ignores him and runs across a ceiling beam and out the window.) (not polite speech)
volume 14, chapter 140 - ひとりでうろちょろしないでください "Please don't wander off by yourself." (accompanied by a big sigh. from when koito ended up in the hurep wine shop. koito ignores the scold and instead comments on the wine and recommends it to tsukishima.) (polite speech)
volume 15, chapter 141 - 鯉登少尉殿離れてください "Second Lieutenant Koito, please get away." (away from the wolverine. koito ignores him and goes on and on about how it's cute and then gets attacked by it.) (polite speech)
volume 17, chapter 167 - 鯉登少尉殿 前をうろちょろしないで下さい // 光を遮りますから "Second Lieutenant Koito, please don't wander around in front. // You'll block the light." (when they're in the lighthouse and koito is making the light flicker.) (second use of "urochoro" = wandering around) (polite speech)
volume 18, chapter 176 - 鯉登少尉殿戻ってきてください天幕で休ませてもらいますよッ "Please come back, Second Lieutenant Koito! They're going to let us rest in their tent!" (and he claps his hands twice. koito then comes back from looking at a small reindeer.) (polite speech)
volume 19, chapter 189 - あ...ッひとりで行くな!! "Ah... Don't go by yourself!!" (after the two of them get blown up by kiroranke's grenade trap and tsukishima is wounded. koito ignores him and goes off in search of kiroranke.) (not polite speech)
volume 21, chapter 201 - 伏せろ!! "Get down!!" (pushing koito down by the shoulders after shiraishi got sniped by vasily.) (not polite speech)
volume 21, chapter 201, a couple pages later - 頭を出さないでください! "Please don't stick your head out!" (or vasily will snipe it. koito does not stick his head out and instead asks to borrow tsukishima's hand mirror.) (polite speech)
volume 22, chapter 212 - 何をやっている // 近づくな鯉登少尉!! // 離れろ!! / そいつは... "What are you doing? // Don't go near him, Second Lieutenant Koito!! // Get away!! / He's…" (when sugimoto has been shot and koito goes right up next to him to confront asirpa. koito does not get away; instead, he gets stabbed right through the chest.) (not polite speech)
volume 22, chapter 212, a few pages later - 抜かないでください // いつも感情的になって突っ走るなと注意していたでしょう... "Please don't pull [the knife] out. // Aren't I always warning you not to get emotional and rush in…?" (when tsukishima is sitting with stabbed koito and has a rare tender look on his face. koito obediently doesn't pull it out.) (polite speech)
volume 26, chapter 251 - 鯉登少尉避けろ "Second Lieutenant Koito! Dodge!" (when ushiyama is about to throw an entire usami at koito and nikaidou. koito dodges usami well, and tsukishima and kikuta jump over usami, and then usami crashes into nikaidou.) (not polite speech)
volume 26, chapter 259 - 離れてくださいッ "Please get away from him!" (when koito is fighting boutarou, tsukishima shoots boutarou's hand and yells this. if it wasn't directed at koito, he wouldn't have said it politely. then boutarou runs away.) (polite speech)
volume 26, chapter 260 - 急いで上がってください "Please get up quickly." (as in, get up and out of the flooded beer, after tsukishima stomps on boutarou's face and boutarou swims away. koito does not immediately get up and out and instead yells at tsukishima for saving him.) (polite speech)
volume 31, chapter 306 - 来るなッ // ...なんで // いつもきかないんだ!! "Stay back! // ...Why do you // never listen?!!" (when koito sees that tsukishima is trying to hand-deliver a grenade to ushiyama and goes to stop him. koito does not stay back.) (not polite speech)
volume 31, chapter 307 - 放してください "Please let go." (of his clothing so he can go join tsurumi on the roof. koito ignores him and does not let him go up on the roof.) (polite speech)
conclusion
when tsukishima scolds him, koito often ignores it unless it was something he was already going to do. tsukishima almost always addresses koito with polite speech, but when scolding him, he forgoes polite speech about half the time. if koito wasn't so very prone to rushing in, he wouldn't have to get scolded all the time. isn't it obvious that tsukishima only wants what's best for him? usually?
bonus: the one time koito really scolds tsukishima, yelling at him for letting asirpa escape in order to save him (chapter 260), tsukishima makes this face and apologizes:
he can dish it out, but he can't take it...
(see also: every time koito says "tsukishimaa!")
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