I've been thinking a lot about Noelle's magic in the dark world, especially her snowgrave spell... I've seen a lot of people say her reaction to it seems suspiciously like she maybe has heard of it in some way, and that she's really trying her hardest to convince you she can't do it.
I feel like it could be interpreted either way - she genuinely has never heard of it but can tell it can't be anything good, or she knows and really, really doesn't want us to have her unleash that kind of power.
Let's run with the second one for a sec.
I've seen people suggest maybe cast it herself in the past on Dess during the bunker incident (causing her death/disappearance) and maybe blanked it from her memory or held it as her deepest secret, but I wanna propose another idea here.
Monsters supposedly can't use magic in the light world but Noelle is a nerd, and a gamer.
She's not as loud about it as Berdly, but she's a huge fan of the Dragon Blazers series - bringing it up in chapter 1 asking to carry on playing it with Rudy, then following through with that in chapter 2. If you act against the first virovirokun with her and they and Kris explain how fights work, she says this:
Then we have her main attack: Iceshock. In the second hospital visit, Rudy suggests she uses Fireshock in the normal route (only to be dismissed by Noelle because 'the mage already left the party'), while Noelle herself suggests Iceshock in the weird route:
The 'shock' spells seem to be from Dragon Blazers specifically... Her spells are an in-game video game reference, she's just as nerdy in her dark world form as Berdly.
So... Snowgrave. With all this in mind, I don't think it's something she's ever cast, but she recognises the name. And I think it's probably from a Dragon Blazers creepypasta.
(this is one possible thing she can click when acting on popups)
Noelle LOVES scary things, and from this we know she likes unusual and creepy things in video games, so it's not a stretch to assume she's the kinda person who likes to read creepypasta. If Iceshock is already from the series, Snowgrave being from a horror story/video based on the same series wouldn't surprise me at all.
The weird route already has big creepypasta vibes, but for Noelle, it may be a creepypasta come to life... And the reason she likes scary things is knowing she can just turn them off whenever she wants :(
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