Noah

Noah is a character from Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa. She is the Earth counterpart to Rosé.

Appearance
Like Rosé, Noah has dark brown skin and long brown hair, although she wears part of it in braids. Because her looks instantly identify her as a Roma, she has been the object of some racism when out in the streets of Munich, even when in the company of Edward Elric.

Personality
Noah is a quiet young Roma woman who on the surface appears to be proud of her heritage and lifestyle, but is unable to bear being discriminated for it, particularly in the Germany of 1923. This makes her amenable to aiding the Thule Society in reaching "Shamballa" despite their racist attitudes and support of the Nazis, who are becoming a potent force in Munich.

History
Ed and Alfons Heiderich meet Noah when they hitched ride on a truck traveling to a fair near Munich. Noah is one of their fellow passengers and was travelling with a group of fellow Roma women. She is introduced by them, but seems somewhat distant from them, and does not join them in song when they neared the fair. Here her companions betray Noah and sell her to representatives of the Thule Society. She flees when she realizes what has happened, and tries to hide underneath a cloth covering Ed and Alfons' rocket. Ed notices this as he was resting in the truck's bed, and ends up saving her from her pursuers. He eventually takes Noah back to the house he was boarding at in Munich with Alfons. Despite the circumstances under which she started staying with them, Noah is accepted by both Alfons as well as their landlady, the parallel world counterpart of Gracia Hughes.

It is revealed that Noah has the unexplained ability to read the minds of others, becoming fascinated with Ed's world after witnessing his memories of it while he is asleep. Believing that she wouldn't be discriminated in Ed's world, Noah assists Dietlinde Eckhart and the Thule Society in opening The Gate of Truth to Shamballa based on information from Ed's memories. She cries out to him to take her with him when he flew into the gate. Shortly after this, Noah relents once Ed points out the errors of her ways, and leaves Munich together with the Elric brothers.

Trivia

 * Noah appears in the OVA Chibi Party, but does not have a speaking role. However a drunk Winry Rockbell angrily confronts Ed over the implied relationship between him and Noah, using a spread from a magazine and a photo of the bedroom scene showing them in a compromising position when Noah read his mind as evidence.
 * In the 2007 OVA "Kids", one of Ed's great-grandchildren look like Winry, showing that Ed married this world's Winry or his world's Winry, making it impossible for Ed to have a romantic relationship with Noah. However, Seiji Mizushima, director of the 2003 anime, Conqueror of Shamballa, and the OVA, confirmed that the OVA was not canon to any universe.
 * Apart from being each other's counterparts in looks, Noah and Rosé have several other things in common:
 * Both were orphaned with no families.
 * Both have worn long cloaks at some point. Rosé had worn a long white cloak when she was dressed as the Holy Mother. Noah wore a long red Roma cloak when traveling to the festival in Munich, Germany.
 * Both have turned their backs on Ed to fulfill their own goals: Rosé turned her back on Ed and Al to go with Cornello to help revive her dead boyfriend and Noah turned her back on Ed to go with Dietlinde Eckhart to open the Gate of Truth to go to Shamballa.
 * Both of them like dancing: Noah is a belly dancer and Rosé is a ballroom dancer