yk what while i'm on the discourse path. might as well note on my personal read of noelle and kris's relationship
some ppl portray noelle as very bitter/bothered by kris's presence so she could be alone with susie but. like. she wants them there for the festival too. she literally says that it feels easier with them there. and at the tiniest signal she gets about kris wanting to initiate any sort of interaction with her or remembering The Good Old Times, she immediately goes "oh gosh..... 🥺 kris remembers how we used to run.... ☹️"
noelle longs to get closer with susie, yes, duh, obviously, and cherishes the moments of alone time her and susie get. but she lowkey yearns to be close with kris again too. as time goes on, it feels more and more like noelle's words about things being "forced" between them are about her feeling as if kris was forced to hang out with her (one evidence i see of this is it being her idea to vote themselves as festival king and queen)
and kris clearly has a lot of reserved fondness and care for noelle, they just seem to be repressing them in the normal route and only showing anything outwards when we put her in danger in the weird route, with them going to her house to comfort her and take off the thorn, or running off with her when you abort the route, or how angry and scared they get as we progress (ex. bathroom scene in ch4, church candles in ch4, beginning of ch5)
this might've gotten lost in-between the jokes about tar and feathers somewhere, i think, that kris and noelle used to essentially be best friends, and that them freaking her out or acting chaotic might be due to the fact that. you know. noelle notably likes scary and freaky stuff, and that it would help her to not feel sad (kris and noelle's ferris wheel ride in ch5 after casting a vote for them)
so idk. i'm not gonna dictate how people should interpret stuff but it just feels like some are conflating the kriselle leg of this weird krusielle love triangle we've got going on to "they're jealous of each other because of susie", and it sort of downplays the canon complexity and faded closeness these two share imo, or reserves it to only the weird route, not allowing normal route kriselle to be abnormal about each other like they deserve to. that's just how i see it tho.
tl;dr prime krusielle activity is when all of them are kinda jealous of the other two at all times and want to be closer to them both at the same time, and none of them know how to communicate due to noelle's low assertiveness, susie's lack of experience in relationships and kris's Doomed Fucking Fate Because They Have Torture Nexus Scheduled At 10PM In The Shelter or smth, and excluding kriselle from this whole weirdness is like being mean to a puppy
