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What makes it even better is that Noelle wasn't even that popular before Chapter 2, she stood out the most among the dipshit classmates and people figured she'd take a bigger role in the story later but everyone was much more focused on The Fun Gang
Toby just knew that when she took center stage, people were going to get attached to her and even want to take her from Susie for themselves, so he took that impulse to the extreme and made it part of the story. He knows what his game is doing to people just as well as he did when he wrote Flowey.