Noah Marshall

Noah is a character from the It Lives In The Woods book. He is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
He has long brown hair and brown eyes. He wears a navy blue and black beanie and a denim jacket.

Personality
He is very withdrawn due to the grief of losing his sister Jane. He also seems to be vengeful because he wants to make Mr. Red pay for killing his sister.

Jane
Jane is Noah's late sister whose death caused a lot of grief in him. It also strained his relationship with his friends, whom he accused of not caring about Jane's death as much as he does.

Your Character
Your Character and Noah are arguably the two childhood friends most affected by Jane's death (Noah for obvious reasons but you also feel guilt for not protecting Jane). Your character is heavily implied to be on awkward, strained terms with Noah prior to the events of the book, as you awkwardly tried not to sit next to him during the assembly. Despite the awkwardness, it appears that Noah is least resentful towards your character (as well as Lily and Ava) about attempting to move on from Jane.

Having experienced the most grief from Jane's death, Noah is also the first character to believe in your character and support her in reuniting the friends against Mr. Red. He also confides in your character that he feels like Jane's death lead to him losing all of his family and friends. You can choose to empathise with him or tell him that he didn't lose you. If you did the latter, Noah regains nerve.

While he is currently not a love interest, he could possibly be one in the future, based on how he is most open to your character (and is mostly a loner in the group) and the common grief for Jane that is stronger than the rest of the group's.

It can also be possibly interpreted that as a kid, Noah greatly admired your character; he is upset with Jane for going to the woods without him and without telling their parents as she could get hurt, but when Jane says that your character was there with her to protect her, he backs down.

Events of It Lives In The Woods
Your character first meets Noah during a pep rally, when there was an empty seat next to him. You hesitated at first, but Cody and Jocelyn demanded that you sit down, leaving you no choice but to ask Noah whether you could sit next to him. After he allowed you to, you exchanged silent glances to each other until the pep rally finally began. After Noah commented on Lucas being student body president and Andy joining the basketball team, a blackout occurred in the school, and Noah was one of the students who could hear whispers saying, "Everyone... plays... together..."

Later at night, you and your old friends gathered around the school to discuss Dan's disappearance and the text messages he sent to them. Andy suggested that they call the police to handle the matter with Redfield, but Noah and Ava believed it would be futile, and Andy took back his words. Noah teased him by getting Redfield to testify, causing an angry Andy that he already understood what Noah meant. When the group realised they had to go to the woods to investigate Dan, some members refused to go, causing Noah to accuse them of cowardice and not grieving for Jane's death as much as he did. This leaves the group with your character, Noah, Ava, and Andy; the latter two wanted to go despite their schedule conflicts, and you could choose to bring one or both with you and Noah.

After dealing with Britney, Stacy, and Lily, you and Noah (and possibly Ava and Andy) went to Gunther's Hardware. Noah told you that after Jane's death, his parents divorced, and his mother blamed him for what happened. Afterwards, you found a baseball bat covered in barbed wire and a flashlight for sale. If you bought the latter, Noah will use it to look around the woods for Dan.

In the woods, you and some of your old friends encountered monsters resembling skeletal wolves covered in moss chasing you. After running from them, you found an unconscious Dan surrounded by more of the monsters, and a fight ensued. If Noah had the flashlight, he would use it as a makeshift weapon against the monsters.

Trivia

 * It is possible that Noah and Jane could be twins.