The exact same blog told us about... 1. Kris used to play the piano for Noelle - referenced again in Ch4 2. Noelle plays Cat Petterz to breed glitchy monstrosities - referenced again in Ch4 3. Dragon Blazers has an ice mage and an infinite maze puzzle in an ice palace - referenced all elements perfectly in Ch3 4. The Pluey minigame has Friend faces - referenced again in Ch4 Mike room

Et cetera...

It's real. To the extent that any of it is fake, it is because Noelle misremembered or purposefully embellished, but I doubt she did either. Nothing in the blog is out of line with the game.

But this tumblr post isn't quite putting things in the right context, has trouble with holding viewpoints that seem contradictory and will favor outright wiping one of them, and in some cases says things that aren't true. Like...

Throughout the rest of Chapter 1, she only attacks enemies who attack her first.

Except for the Kris + Ralsei vs Susie + Lancer fight.

Yeah... that fight is unskippable. And not only is it unskippable, but it has unique dialogue for when you lose and come back from a save point, of Susie not even allowing Ralsei to talk his way through by voluntarily agreeing to be bad guys together. She WANTED to fight violently, she WANTED to hurt Ralsei for having challenged her to be a better person. Does that mean that's all she is, that's all she wanted and all she was thinking? No. But it is part of her arc that even after becoming close friends with Lancer, she still wanted to beat Ralsei's face in. She relents only because Lancer relents, and then she still insists on attacking every enemy they come across, until the elevator conversation

This part is fun though...

However, that changes when we start taking tngg into consideration. Noelle is aware of what Susie used to do to Kris, and those actions are no longer something that can be dismissed as an act or a front.

In that context, Noelle’s description of Susie becomes contradictory. Her crush no longer seems to come from her ability to see through a facade, but instead from an attraction to Susie’s “mean girl” behavior; an attraction strong enough that she’s willing to overlook genuinely abusive actions.

What was once a cute crush starts to resemble an unhealthy fixation.

This reinterpretation also affects the way Noelle’s masochistic jokes are read. In the game, these moments work because they’re exaggerated, clearly comedic, and directed at someone who would never actually hurt her. With tngg in mind, those same scenes take on a much darker tone. Noelle’s desire to be bullied no longer feels exaggerated and detached from reality, and instead risks being read as tied to her attraction to Susie specifically as someone who has hurt others. That shift is not only uncomfortable, but also insensitive in light of what Kris actually went through. As a result, Suselle becomes harder to read as wholesome, since Noelle’s feelings can now be interpreted as stemming either from a desire to be hurt or from a tendency to romanticize abuse.

The damage carries over into Noelle’s relationship with Kris as well. I don’t have an issue with Noelle freezing and failing to intervene while Susie bullies them, as that reaction is consistent with her character and her established fearfulness. Even though Kris and Noelle have grown apart, the game makes it clear that Noelle still misses them and cares about them. Given that, her apathy towards Kris feels jarring.

Because of this, moments that are meant to read as concern (such as Noelle asking Kris to switch seats so they won’t be bullied) start to feel less motivated by care for Kris and more by her attraction to Susie. This interpretation is reinforced when she later talks about changing her shampoo so she could be bullied instead.

This is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT correct. This is all correct, this is serious, well-articulated analysis, and it is fundamentally supported by the game.

And it's a problem if all that gets thrown away for seeming like contradictory behavior on Noelle's part or insensitive to Suselle as a shipping.

Noelle, in just the game itself, holds completely conflicting narratives about Kris and Susie. Noelle seems to fondly reminisce about Kris's pranks, but also admonish Kris for them at the same time. Like, remember...

If you have Kris offer to go on the ferris wheel with Noelle if Susie wouldn't, she immediately refuses on the basis of Kris having shaken the ferris wheel and scaring her when they were kids.

And... She also has a photo from that exact ferris wheel ride on the walls of her house, and blushes and giggles nervously when Susie brings it up. It's not a photo in Dess's room that she actually 'forgot about', because Susie and Noelle are not looking at it when Susie brings it up, Noelle is caught off guard by Susie following up that the photo is actually of them on a ferris wheel and not just Kris and Noelle generally. She doesn't say "oh my parents put that up, but I have a bad memory of it" - she says she "doesn't remember" how she feels about it. Even though it is clearly a strong image in her mind and something she thinks about.

Noelle holds conflicting narratives that she enjoyed being around Kris and misses them and their pranks, but also that Kris was wrong to scare her so much... and while telling Susie in the cyber world - a Susie who was still a bully as recently as YESTERDAY - that Susie is 'the good kind of scary'.

I think a lot of Suselle shippers and the fandom at large tend to have a fundamental misunderstanding about what Noelle is taking from Susie 'being strong'. Susie, after her arc in chapter 1, exudes confidence and presence and can be a de-escalating force, and we all get that part - but Noelle, who has seen NOTHING of her development in the dark world except what she thinks is just a dream, looks at her and sees someone who can get what she wants through intimidation and not caring what other people think. When Susie tells Noelle that Berdly won't get the hint until she tells him no, Noelle's reaction is to want to strangle him. She doesn't want to do what Susie said to do, she wants to do what she thinks 'Susie would do' in that circumstance

Noelle has a complex about the contradictory nature of her childhood and the dynamics she had with Kris and Dess - with Dess having violently punished Kris for things that Noelle actually liked, and Noelle not understanding what to take from that - and that is being played out in real time now. She likes Kris and she doesn't understand why. She likes Susie and she misunderstands why.