Noah (Total Drama)

Character
Name:	Noah
Occupation:
Relationships:	Cody (Total Drama) (acquaintance) Alejandro (Total Drama) (enemy) Owen (Total Drama) (best friend) Emma (Ridonculous Race) (lover)
Fandom:	Total Drama
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Noah is a contestant on Total Drama. He is a prominent character within the series and popular with fans. As of September 2023, he is the most fanwork'd character from Total Drama as a whole on Archive of Our Own. Although other places where fandom lives consider him a popular contestant, it is only in Slash fan circles that he's this prevalent. He's the fandom's resident BSO.

Canon Overview

[characterization, story role, further important appearances]

TBA

Popular Tropes & Fanon

In order of how common they are:

• Gay!Noah
• Autistic!Noah
• Trans!Noah
• Bisexual!Noah
• Dead!Noah

All of the above are wrangled tags on Archive of Our Own. Other places where fandom lives may portray Noah with one or all of these attributes. Assistant!Noah and Barista!Noah are also common, though unwrangled.

Assistant! comes from fanworks taking place during Total Drama: Action, where Noah was employed as Chris McLean's assistant. Dead! is likely a catch-all tag for any fanworks taking place during or after Island of the Slaughtered, a popular Darkfic AU which has spawned a notable amount of recursive fanworks. The specific phrase, "Noah of the Waters," is more commonly used than the general Dead! tag for the same reason.

In Total Roblox Drama, he is called Nolan. Fans may call him this outside of the Roblox fangame. His appreciation days are October 5th (in Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar) and October 1st (in Ace-TD's Mega Character Appreciation List). Noah also won TD Tumblr, a character popularity contest, in 2013.

Subjects of Fannish Interest & Meta

Queercoding

Many argue Noah is queercoded. This is expanded upon in meta, and has been noticed by even younger fans without any prior context. This queercoding has also led some fans to believe he is canonically Bisexual, though this is not the case.

Anonymous asked:

I like Nemma but like… did they HAVE to put Noah with a woman? It’s disappointing. They took the world’s most gay coded character and made it focus on him falling in love with a girl. It feels unnecessary.

Noah "Sterecra"?

Noah reacting to his fans in-character to the question, what book do you find yourself rereading the most? "Sterecra" is mentioned with the tape reading "Noah S".

Noah's widely accepted Fanon Personal Name, Sterecra, also is controversial. Word of God has stated Noah to be Canadian-Indian, and Sterecra is not an Indian surname. It comes from Total Drama Comeback by The Kobold Necromancer, a very popular fic in the fandom. Total Drama Comeback was written before this information about Noah was revealed publicly. Kobold believed Noah was Indonesian, though Sterecra is Indonesian last name either. On search engines, the name just brings up results for the Total Drama character. Mudaliar may be used by some fans instead, as that was his last name in Slippery Slopes. Island of the Slaughtered uses Mudaliar while using last names created by Kobold for many of the other contestants.

Sterecra is not a name. It is not an indian surname. It is not an anything surname. It is a name someone made up back in 2008 along with such brilliant and real last names as “batoful” “top” and fucking “waterflower.” Most total drama characters do not have last names. The only ones that do are Harold, Nichelle, Brick, Cameron, Cody, Blaineley, Chris, Chef, Alejandro, Lightning, Dakota, DJ and some characters from RR i’m probably forgetting. Please make your own last name headcanons, there is no such thing as a “noah sterecra.”

"We Don’t Consider Noah to be Gay"?

thefreshchannel, a now deactivated Tumblr account ran by the creators of Total Drama, Fresh TV, is noted as responding with this phrase to a fan's question regarding Noah.

[kinkjames asked]
What do you mean you haven't done a gay character for the show yet? Have you seen Noah? x3

~circa 2015

[thefreshchannel-deactivated2018 answered]
We don’t consider Noah to be gay.

~circa 2015

This ask was answered after thefreshchannel responded to another fan's question on Twitter. Because Total Drama was aimed towards a 8-12 age bracket, Fresh answered that it couldn't feature queer characters.

Fresh TV @thefreshchannel

@shounenhero It's aimed at kids 8-12. LGBT is still a heavily debated issue for a lot of parents and has become a political topic.

~circa 2015

source n/a, @thefreshchannel has deactivated their Twitter

Both that response and this one caused a kerfuffle in Tumblr's Total Drama fandom. Fans expected better from Fresh TV. This phrase may be referenced in some fan circles regarding Noah.

Despite this 2015 interaction, there would be a same-sex couple in the reboot Total Drama: Island (2023), Bowie/Raj.

"Noah Really Gets Around"?

Terry McGurrin, an executive producer for the Total Drama series who frequently interacts with fans, is noted as saying this on Twitter in response to a question regarding Alejandro/Noah. The phrase, "Noah [really] gets around," is sometimes parroted in Total Drama fan circles.

[Twitter User #1]
@standupmonkey thoughts on them if you can?

3:42 AM · Apr 27, 2023

[Fanlore Editor's Note: included in this Tweet is a still frame of Total Drama: World Tour where Alejandro and Noah are looking at each other.]

[Terry McGurrin @standupmonkey]
One thing I’ve recently learned is that, according to Total Drama Island fans, Noah really gets around. 😳 Well as long as he’s being honest, respectful and cautious, there’ll be no judgment coming from me. 😂

3:55 AM · Apr 27, 2023

[Twitter User #2]
what do you mean "noah really gets around"?

7:35 AM · Apr 27, 2023

[Terry McGurrin @standupmonkey]
I just mean that Noah has been shipped with almost every single other Total Drama character by the fans.

3:29 PM · Apr 27, 2023

Relationships

This is purposefully an incomplete list, as Noah is shipped with much of Total Drama's cast.

With...	Full Label	Type	Portmanteau	Information
Cody	Cody/Noah	Slash	NoCo; Nody	(Seen on its page.)
Cody	Cody & Noah	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Alejandro; Cody	Alejandro/Cody/Noah	Poly	Alenoco	Brings Alejandro into Cody/Noah; Brings Cody into Alejandro/Noah.
Izzy	Izzy/Noah	Het	Nizzy	(Seen on its page.)
Owen	Noah & Owen	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Owen	Noah/Owen	Slash	Nowen	(Seen on its page.)
Alejandro	Alejandro/Noah	Slash	Alenoah	(Seen on its page.)
Alejandro	Alejandro & Noah	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Emma	Emma/Noah	Het	Nemma	(Seen on its page.)
Emma	Emma & Noah	Gen	n/a	Works may focus on their potential friendship over their canonical romance.
Eva; Izzy	Team E-Scope	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Bridgette	Bridgette/Noah	Het	Nodgette	Had a scene of ship-tease during World Tour.
Dawn	Dawn/Noah	Het	Nawn	The two have similar personalities. Dawn is from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
Heather	Heather/Noah	Het	Noather	This ship has fallen out of popularity, but it was once Noah's most popular pairing on YouTube.
Heather	Heather & Noah	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Gwen	Gwen/Noah	Het	Gwoah	Somewhat common for canon divergent AUs of World Tour.
Gwen	Gwen & Noah	Gen	n/a	(Seen on its page.)
Duncan	Duncan/Noah	Slash	Dunno; Dunnoah	(Seen on its page.)
Duncan	Duncan & Noah	Gen	n/a	They were both on Team Chris in World Tour, though essentially not at the same time.
Justin	Justin/Noah	Slash	Justoah	Noah is one of two Male characters seen finding Justin attractive, the other being Owen.
Courtney	Courtney/Noah	Het	Nourtney	A rarepair despite both characters being popular.
Katie	Katie/Noah	Het	Notie	(Seen on its page.)
Lindsay	Lindsay/Noah	Het	Noasay	Opposites Attract. Noah is considered smart while Lindsay is not.
Sierra	Noah/Sierra	Het	Noerra; Sioah	Noah and Cody, Sierra's canonical crush, are similarly sized.
Eva	Eva/Noah	Het	Neva; Nova	Opposites Attract. Noah hates sports while Eva loves working out.
Trent	Noah/Trent	Slash	Troah; Trenoah	Total Drama BNF AyaWilliams likes this pairing.
Dave	Dave/Noah	Slash	Nove; Doah	Dave is from Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.
Tyler	Noah/Tyler	Slash	Tynoah; Nyler	(Seen on its page.)
Alejandro; Duncan	Alejandro/Duncan/Noah	Poly	Aledunno	Brings Alejandro into Duncan/Noah. May 14th is Aledunno Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar.
Alejandro; Heather	Alejandro/Heather/Noah	Poly	Alenoaheather	(Seen on its page.)

Anonymous asked:

A lot of you may not believe me. Hell, this might just be my memory blowing things out of proportion. But I swear to god, before Alejandro, the default ship on YouTube was Heather x Noah.

Now, to be fair, these were all parts of videos that contained art of edits of canonical couples (Duncney, Gwent, etc). So 1) this could have just been part of a small shipping corner on TD YouTube way back when and 2) this was most likely just a bunch of tweens/teens on YouTube going "Well, we gotta ship Heather with SOMEONE!".

But it was prevalent. I was there! I was there...

real-total-drama-takes replied:

#total drama#td heather#td noah#no i remember that#noather

tylerthirst asked:

ikr 🙄 alenoah stans are so toxic.. once upon a time i said that i preferred noerra over alenoah and then they litchrelly doxxed me and broke into my house to fill it with feral honey badgers. when i went back to my ransacked home i realized they spray painted their sinful alenoah art all over the walls 😩 they think that they’re better then other td fans because they ship “smart sophisticated” characters together but in reality they’re just as cringe as the rest of us 😐💯

Example/Notable Fanac

In 2011, Carter Hayden, Noah's English voice actor, was interviewed by fans on Dramatic Static, a Tapatalk forum for the show, in an Interview with Carter Hayden - The Voice of Noah.

Fan Communities/Fan Events

• Noahvember, a fanweek for Noah which ran during 2023.
• Tynoah Week, a fanweek which ran during July 2024.

• Noerra Week 2021, ^{Archived version}, a week for Noah/Sierra. This may have been made out of a gag, as this week got little traction.
• TDI's Noah, ^{Archived version}, a community for Noah on Fanpop.
• TheNoahShrine, ^{Archived version}, a community for Noah on DeviantArt.
• tdi heatherxnoah, ^{Archived version}, a community for Heather/Noah on Fanpop.
• HeathOah, ^{Archived version}, a community for Heather/Noah on DeviantArt.
• TDI/TDA/TDWT's Noah and Bridgette, ^{Archived version}, a community for Bridgette/Noah on Fanpop.
• Noah-x-Sierra, ^{Archived version}, a community for Noah/Sierra on DeviantArt.

Collections

• The Bookworm and the Ditz, ^{[Unable to archive]} a fanfiction collection for Lindsay/Noah on FanFiction.Net.
• Best of Noah, ^{[Unable to archive]} a fanfiction collection for Noah on FanFiction.Net.
• Nawn Appreciation, ^{[Unable to archive]} a fanfiction collection for Dawn/Noah on FanFiction.Net.

Fan Art

• Total Drama Pride Month Collab.
• The artist behind Leshawna Ball OC also made similar art for Noah.
• NoahXDawn- Stop and Stare by Galactic-Red-Beauty, ^{Archived version}, Dawn/Noah fanart. High School AU, a common AU for Total Drama fandom as a whole.
• Accidental- Heather x Noah by MirrorCover, ^{Archived version}, Heather/Noah fanart. This is fanart for a scene in the fanfiction Syntax Error by Skeeet.
  • "I don't understand why you're so upset about him specifically." Noah knew not to use Alejandro's name. He didn't want her head to explode from thoughts of him. "... I think I might like him, Noah." Heather said quietly. English, likely abandoned work-in-progress, Fiction K+, Hurt/Comfort/Romance.
• TDI shipping: Noah x who???? by Noahfanclub, ^{Archived version}, fanart which pokes fun at how many ships feature Noah. Mentions Cody/Noah, Heather/Noah and Noah/Katie in its description. Dates to February 2009.
• happy international noah day by chickenmcnuggie, ^{Archived version}, fanart with a big "GAY" banner in front of Noah. October 5th, when this art was drawn, is considered to be Noah Appreciation Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar.
• Noah and Twilight Sparkle by noah-nyan, ^{Archived version}, Noah and Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony in crossover fanart.
• binder noah by pixel-lightart-moved, ^{Archived version}, Noah in a binder.
• scribbly noah w/ retriever puppy by dogkey, ^{Archived version}, Noah with his golden retriever. He has one canonically, and it is sometimes featured in fanworks.
• fav interns on a coffee run by realitytvpros, ^{Archived version}, art of Noah and Dakota. Both were employed by Chris McLean at some point in the series, but never met canonically.
• I kinda hate how this turned out but here some Nove hugs. by s-paceheart, ^{Archived version}, Dave/Noah where Dave hugs Noah.

Fan Fic

• The bigger they are, the harder they fall by noahsolosyou (2024), infamous Islamophobic shockfic.

Fan Comics

• Noah’s hair flaps by skeeterdayz, ^{Archived version}, a comic poking fun at Noah's haircut. Featuring Harold.

General Fanworks

• Island of the Slaughtered.

Fan Vids

• Total Drama Island?, ^{Archived version} by tdicamper241, a well-remembered YTP prominently featuring him.
• Fasten your Noah, ^{Archived version} by tansoloyo007, a YTPMV featuring him.
• Noah Caramelldancen- Custom Animation! by TClansGoldenheart, ^{Archived version}, him dancing to Caramelldansen. Considered well-remembered.
• noah sterizzra by juliasflwers, ^{Archived version}, Noah fanvid to Genius by LSD featuring his four biggest ships all in one vid. "Sterizzra" is a play on his fanon last name Sterecra.

Meta

• serenacypher's input, ^{Archived version} surrounding the fact that Noah wore glasses in the original script for Total Drama: Island (2007).
• An Essay on Noah's Sexuality by Rosepink29, ^{Archived version}
  • "fun fact in haute camp-ture's spanish dub during the whole "noah denies kissing cody" scene trent actually says what translates to "of course he did" rather than "he totally did". basically as if trents not surprised at all that noah's kissed a guy and that's really funny to me. trent's gaydar is immaculate"
• Noah isn't gay and here's why by Noah100, ^{Archived version}, a discussion on Fanpop.
• Maybe we SHOULD reclaim Sterecra as a ship. by Anonymous, ^{Archived version}.
• doglover502's thread, ^{Archived version} on Tumblr regarding Noah's strange choice of shoes.
• best noah ship? by tdsierra, ^{Archived version}, a poll on Tumblr. First place was Noah/Owen, who received 42% percent.

References/Further Reading

• Noah on Total Drama Wiki
• Noah on the Shipping Wiki