I feel like Noelle is forcing himself to act more feminine by acting fragile and the need of someone to reassure him everything is fine. You know, like every woman would do, what every woman is shown on tv and movies. The fragile sex, the sex where cannot defend without the help of other etc. Are we not in 2020 where women don't need to be like these? I'm not saying that there not women that are fragile etc but I think there are also men who are fragile and they need someone to defend them.
Anyway, i went off track...Noelle is just a bad actor.