Behind the Heroine: Noelle

Noelle loved sex. She loved it fast and dirty and slow and sensual and a thousand ways in between.

She especially loved sex that was nothing but pure sensual indulgence. Plenty of her trysts took place outside the walls of the Garden, with only her own whims and pleasures guiding her choices. But sometimes she needed more, needed the release that could only be found with a warrior.

That’s right, I said it. I said it in the story, and I’m saying it here: this heroine loves sex. She’s not having it because she has to (though maybe in a way she does) or because it’s her job (though maybe in a way it is)… Noelle loves sex, and she’s okay with that.

Sometimes I want to read (or write) about a heroine who has no deep emotional conflict about her desires, who is comfortable with all the things she might want the hero to do to her in the dark (or the light, or the bathtub…) I think there’s a very powerful message in that, the message that we don’t need a man with a magic penis to show us the meaning of pleasure. And maybe the message that rockin’ orgasms and love are not necessarily connected. One can, in fact, exist without the other. And maybe finding the latter should be a lot harder than finding the former.

Noelle is a receptive psychic, one strong enough that she was raised in the Healer’s training facility on the space station Elysium. She can take other people’s pain and fear into herself and release it to the world, and doing so satisfies the power inside her. It’s a pampered, sheltered life living in the finest luxury while the galaxy around her goes to hell in a war that won’t end, but Noelle does her part by healing the psychic warriors who are forced to use their gifts to kill.

Part healer, part therapist, part courtesan… Noelle is a complicated woman with complicated needs. She lives a life of beautiful illusion, and in the end what she needs from her hero is not hot hot sex–not that she’d dissing it, of course, but he’s not the first to give her that. What she needs is reality, a chance to live in a world that isn’t the fabricated paradise of Elysium. And that’s what our dangerous and tired fighter pilot hero wants to give her: something real.

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