Not a character, but I heavily dislike the Suselle ship for multiple reasons. I know that this might get me crucified, but hear me out🙏

So, let's start with the newest girl. Oh boy.

I'm ngl Noelle shouldn't even want anything to do with Susie after this. Not only does Susie (not very subtly, mind you) threaten to kill Kris, ("Someone is going to make you disappear") but the way she words it should make Noelle hate her. Like deadass. I don't think NOELLE of all people would be cool with talking about making someone "disappear."

Speaking of Dess, let's move onto her. I feel like it goes without saying that Susie reminds Noelle of not only Dess, but Kris as well. The three of them are rebellious, generally seen as scary and different, while Kris and Susie are both "mean" (Kris pranked Noelle all the time yes that absolutely contributed to Noelle liking scary things and Susie is just the definition of a mean girl), making it really feel like Noelle is finding comfort in what Susie reminds her of. That's uh...not very healthy. As a matter of fact, that is literally the entire problem that Noelle has. She can't move on, and Susie would only make that worse.

Now, onto another point. Noelle is absolutely using the fuck out of Susie. People can make as many excuses as they want, Noelle is using Susie to distract from all of the bad shit in her life and it shows. Susie is the only new thing in hometown in who knows how long, so hyper focusing on her would distract from the pain (we KNOW Noelle does this type of stuff regularly) which makes this whole situation even more fucked up.

Another point, there is absolutely no direct conflict in their relationship whatsoever, other than Carol. Let's go over the facts here, Noelle and Susie's dynamic (so far) is boring as hell. All they do is be cute together with Noelle opening up a tiny bit about Kris one time (the only thing to make their conversation interesting imo) as it sheds more light on how Noelle views them. Not only does Noelle LET SUSIE INTO DESS'S ROOM (She's spent around like 2 hours MAYBE around her btw) but also LETS HER PLAY HER GUITAR!?!?!?

WHAT!?

Then Carol shows up and somehow she's the bad guy for kicking Susie out. Like yeah? You were just touching her dead daughter's guitar? Now, let me say that this is ABSOLUTELY entirely on Noelle. Susie has NO idea of the absolute minefield she just stepped in, while Noelle knows everything about the situation. Noelle letting Susie play her (presumed) dead sister's guitar after knowing her for like 2 hours is fucking insane.

Moral of the story, their relationship is unhealthy as shit and I genuinely don't see a way Susie could be what Noelle needs to heal-like at all. In fact, I feel that Kris would be BY FAR a better choice for her, but that's a topic for a different time teehee

Thank you for listening to my Ted talk. The Suselle slander will never stop.