What do you think a dynamic between Noelle, Kris, and Us after we get our Vessel would be?
Imagine it after Noelle learns the truth about why Kris has changed, why they've become so distant and weirder than usual, after she learns what Kris has been doing behind her back.
Imagine all those feelings, the relief that they didn't hate her, the anger that they've been keeping her in the dark, and the fear that they've been controlled by a higher entity.
And then there's Kris ashamed of it all. And then right next to them is the entity, finally in their own body.
Umm Honest to god. I think it would be the kind of situation where she logically should be mad that she’s been kept in the dark, she should be mad at Kris about literally everything and potentially being the reason why her sister is missing… but in my head i think the relief of knowing all of those answers and the knowledge that Kris has still genuinely been wanting to still connect with her all this time and hasn’t Hated her… Plus the fact that they’ve been bonding more than usual while Noelle already knows that something is up with Kris… I think Noelle won’t be as mad as Susie when the inevitable ball drops, if at all. Like this is just a very personal gut feeling thing rather than my actual prediction, but I won’t be surprised if this was the case.
Another reason i think that she won’t be all that mad in the Normal route is that i think. Susie’s massive crashout will lowkey have to be at the centre of everything, and the fact that everything is building up to be emphasised on Her, while Noelle already kinda knows something is up, so Susie is the one that’s completely in the dark… i don’t think Noelle’s emotions will be taking centre stage her, but i think that’s a good thing, in a way. I personally like to think that Noelle, at her very core, loves Kris deeply and cares for them unconditionally… no matter how else she feels about them, that kind of love always wins out for them in the end.
As for the relationship between Noelle and us… I think she’d be scared, but also curious, and then eventually relate to us, in our curiosity and in the way that we are kinda literally playing a game. Out of all the characters in deltarune I think she’d have the deepest understanding of our perspective, because of how closely related to video games she is. I think she’d be one of the first to be willing to be friends with us, or make amends with us.
As for the weird route, though…
Noelle already knows, throughout this whole time, that Kris isn’t themselves. Obviously. I think there’s not gonna be a massive dramatic reveal there because it’s already happened. And I think at that point, at least on the surface, all of the things that happened before don’t really matter as much, because she feels happy that she’s just together with Kris.
But inversely to the normal route, where Noelle’s love for Kris wins out in the end, in my head at least, her resentment against them for leaving her seeps through everything… a resentment for being yet another part of her life that she couldn’t control, a constant reminder of the past. In the Weird Route, Noelle fully believes she’s in love with Kris, but with this uninhibited love would come uninhibited despair too, and those two emotions fight within her until one eventually wins out. Her “smile” in the weird route is both completely genuinely and totally fake, her true emotions buried under so many layers until they eventually crack and they let her true emotions show underneath, but she still suffocates under them… in the same way, the despair of all of these realisations about the past are buried in that smile, while at the same time expressed through it.
(I’m realising this is an insane thing to say but I’m not saying this because i think i’m correct im saying this because i enjoy oocnukegem and i think maybe Noelle Holiday might just be that deep)
The player and Noelle’s relationship in the weird route, though… recently I’ve been going through a bunch of epiphanies about the Weird Route and Noelle as a character, so I might make a full separate post sometime later on what I think about her and our relationship, since I think it deviates strongly from what this ask is about and this post is already getting long lol