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Noelle Holiday is a monster Reindeer Lightner from Hometown. She is one of Kris's classmates, as well as their neighbor and childhood friend.
Noelle is friendly and cheerful, but also very timid, and sometimes has trouble saying what she's thinking. She apologizes often, and stays quiet about her feelings, such as her possible crushes, or her distaste for Berdly, out of fear. Her father says that "everything scares her," and describes her as "defenseless." According to him, she has a fear of humans hiding under her bed. This was made worse (or started) by Kris's repeated attempts to scare her when they were younger, including at least one time they hid under her bed. She shows to be more honest to Kris when it comes to her feelings and often yells at them when they pull pranks on her. She becomes more brave and less fearful, during the time she spends with Kris in the city. Noelle apparently has tendencies of masochism, particularly fantasizing about Susie bullying her for various things (e.g. Susie pushing her over and laughing at Noelle for asking Susie to ride with her on the Ferris Wheel), and stating that the Ragger "feels nice" when attempting to equip it on her.
However, Noelle does have brash moments that push aside her shy behavior. An example of this was when Berdly admits that he may have feelings for Susie, which causes Noelle to angrily shake him since she has a crush on Susie as well.
Noelle grew up in Hometown with a loving father and a strict mother, and was very close with her older sister, Dess. As a child, Noelle and her sister became friends with her neighbors Kris and Asriel Dreemurr, and the four of them would often explore the forest around the graveyard together. One day, however, an unspecified tragedy occurred, and it is implied that Dess either died or went missing.
At some point, likely when she was quite young, Noelle nearly won a spelling bee, but froze up and couldn't speak when spelling the word "December", which handed the victory to Berdly. While unclear, it is implied that the word "December" is related to Noelle's sister Dess, likely being her full name.