Alejandro/Noah

Alejandro/Noah, mostly known as Alenoah, is a popular pairing within the Total Drama fandom. The ship is between Alejandro and Noah, both prominent characters. Although the pairing has existed since 2010, when Alejandro was introduced as a contestant, it only became popular around 2021 (referring to the amount of fanworks for the pairing on Archive of Our Own as of 23 October 2021).
Alejandro/Noah is Total Drama's most fanwork'd ship on Archive of Our Own as of July 2024, narrowly beating out Courtney/Duncan. On FanFiction.Net and Wattpad, Cody/Noah and Alejandro/Heather are more popular. There is light ship war between Alejandro/Noah, Cody/Noah and Alejandro/Heather fans, though shippers of other pairings involving both characters are not to be ignored from the equation.
Slippery Slopes by courtney-deserved-better is Alejandro/Noah's most well-known fanfiction. It convinced many of the pairing's potential, particularly existing Cody/Noah shippers. The fanfiction is the most kudos'd fanwork in Total Drama's Archive of Our Own tag as of July 2024. by G4Y began in 2019 and is a fanfiction also credited with popularizing Alejandro/Noah.
On AO3, almost all Alejandro & Noah works are pre-slash.
==Common Tropes==
*Total Drama Dirtbags!Alejandro and Assistant!Noah AU - Because Alejandro and Noah were once both employed by Chris McLean between the events of Total Drama: Action and Total Drama: World Tour, as a contestant on Total Drama Dirtbags and as Chris's assistant respectively, fanworks may explore interactions they could've had. In-universe, they do not meet until World Tour.
*Noah and "the Robot" - After Alejandro is trapped within the Drama Machine by the end of World Tour, fanworks may depict Noah interacting with the robot, something that does not happen in canon.
*Fix-it - Noah is not eliminated in I See London...
*Height Difference - Alejandro is taller, Noah is shorter.
*Vampire AU/Demon AU: Popularized by influential Alejandro/Noah fanworks such as Stakes. Alejandro most often becomes the vampire, demon, or other supernatural creature.
*Eels: Noah is unique in comparing Alejandro to an eel on the show. Because of this, many fanworks for Alejandro/Noah involve eels in some way, particularly fanart.
==Alejandro/Noah Fandom==
The first fanfiction ever written for the pairing may have been by aipomtrainer430. Published on July 6th, 2010 to DeviantArt, it was created around a month after World Tour premiered in Canada and around a week after it did in the USA. aipomtrainer430 would also write one of its first longfics, A Musical Like No Other, in August.
In 2013, May 2nd became Alenoah Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar.
From 2014 to 2016, sheerturmoilhttps://www.tumblr.com/sheerturmoil was a major contributor of Alejandro/Noah fanart on Tumblr to the point that he was heavily associated with the pairing for many fans. In 2016, it was somewhat common fandom knowledge that he had a dramatic falling out with his circle of friends. In 2020, lu, one of these former friends, explained what happened (21 Jul 2020). Overall BNFs in the Total Drama fandom on Tumblr from 2013 to ~2015 also made Alejandro/Noah fanworks.
Some BNFs for the pairing as of 2023 included alenoahhttps://www.tumblr.com/alenoah, courtney-deserved-better, ayawilliamshttps://archiveofourown.org/users/AyaWilliams, astrokylehttps://linktr.ee/astrokyle, scepterno, braindoshttps://www.tumblr.com/braindos, alejandros.hubbyhttps://www.tiktok.com/@alejandros.hubby and tincannedcrowhttps://www.tumblr.com/tincannedcrow. courtney-deserved-better is a BNF in Total Drama fandom as a whole. 
In 2023, Alejandro/Noah won "best ship of 2023" during Total Drama FanFic Awards 2023 with 34.4% of the vote, narrowly beating Julia/MK. 
=== Pairing Names for Alejandro/Noah ===
The portmaneau "AleNoah" was coined as a pairing name for them in 2010. For a couple months early on, "Aleoah" was more common, and it may have been coined first. (07 Jul 2010)
In later years, and as of 2024, spelling the name without the N capitalized is more common than not, similar to other ship names involving Alejandro.
==Fan Opinions==
Alejandro/Noah and Alejandro/Heather have the similar character dynamics, as they are both Enemies to Lovers pairings. Some Alejandro/Noah fanarts are screenshots from the show featuring both Alejandro and Heather redrawn to be Alejandro and Noah instead posted August 30th, 2023 on TikTok. Slippery Slopes also takes place in a Canon Divergence AU where Heather was eliminated in World Tour instead of Noah, further supporting this theory to some fans.
On TikTok, this has led to some ship war between the two pairings.
Also on TikTok, some posted September 20th 2023 on TikTok may claim Alejandro and Noah look like brothers, thus should not be shipped. Although this is an uncommon opinion, a Tumblr post by milksteakkk, which aimed to debunk this theory, has over 1,000 notes as of July 2024. 
There's also been some discourse regarding Noah's height and overall size in relation to Alejandro, more so than with any other pairing involving him. Total Drama's artstyle exaggerates Noah's forehead, and in other art styles, its up to fan discretion whether the top of his model's forehead should be judged as his true height or not. Claims some Alejandro/Noah fanartists draw Noah overly short posted September 25th, 2023 on Tumblr are common. 
== Miscellaneous ==
=== "Noah's intellect and witty charm"? ===
Alejandro's voice actor Marco Grazzini said this in his Reddit AMA on the main Total Drama subreddit, r/Totaldrama. The phrasing may be memed in Alejandro/Noah fancircles or otherwise alluded to, such as in the Tumblr post which inspired the creation of Slippery Slopes.
=== 2014 Alenoah Day Raid ===
On May 2nd, 2014, known harasser and sockpuppeter in the fandom Tashalovesduncney attempted to flood the "Alenoah" tag on Tumblr with Courtney/Duncan screenshots and fanart. May 2nd was Alenoah Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar at the time, a fan-made event schedule which encouraged fans to produce fanworks for characters and ships on particular days and put them "in the tag." 
The ship wasn't targeted specifically: May 2nd happened to be the day she tried to come back to the fandom as "tashasbackbitches" after several months of being away, and this was done to harass the fandom as a whole by harassing fans who followed the calendar, with its shippers simply being in the crossfire. As one fan put it in 2017: compared to all she's done this is the most tame thing she had done but ppl were still mad abt that anyways lol.See Hey I'm newish to the td fandom so do mind me asking who Tasha is? for context. 
=== Alejandro/Noah on Archive of Our Own Timeline ===
In 2021, Alejandro/Noah was tagged in around 90 works on AO3. (27 Dec 2021) This put it 5th in terms of overall relationships in the Total Drama category, behind Bridgette/Geoff. courtney-deserved-better joked that 2021 was the year of Alenoah at the time, since around 70 of the fanworks were created in just that year alone.As can be seen with Wayback Machine count of 19 fanworks for Alejandro/Noah as of 26 Jan 2021. By 2022, this number had increased to 123, putting it 4th, behind Mike/Zoey. (28 Mar 2022)
Alejandro/Noah really took off in 2023. By December, there were 623 works for them on AO3, surpassing third place Cody/Noah by around 80 works. (13 Dec 2023) On May 2nd, 2024, one fan noted that it had surpassed Courtney/Duncan in terms of fanworks, with 876 total, 3 more than Courtney/Duncan, making it the most commonly tagged relationship in AO3's Total Drama category. (02 May 2024) Another noted that this was the case as early as the 25th of April. (25 Apr 2024)
As of September 30th, 2024, there were 934 public Courtney/Duncan works and 918 public Alejandro/Noah works. 
==Example/Notable Fanac==
===Fan Communities/Fan Events===
*Alenoah Week 2023-2024.
*Alenoah Week 2020.
*, a community on DeviantART.
*alenoah land, a Discord server
===Blogs===
*, somewhat of a time capsule to pre-2021 Alejandro/Noah fanworks on Tumblr, as the blog is no longer updated.
===Fan Art===
* (2010), early fanart.
* (2016), personality swap drawn for Total Drama Unpopular Ship Week.
=== Fan Comic ===
* (2021), where Alejandro is a chair. The phrase, "my little porpoise," was said by Alejandro in the show and may be referenced in fanac, such as this one.
===Fan Fiction===
Most Alejandro/Noah longfics are slow burn.
*, an English work-in-progress AU of The Ridonculous Race where Alejandro competes alongside his brother José.
*Slippery Slopes.
*Stakes.
*, an English work-in-progress illustrated AU of World Tour where there is a challenge making contestants be handcuffed to one another.
* by Scepterno, an English illustrated Reunion fic which is somewhat controversial because of its author.
*, an English completed Holidayfic for Halloween. It is also illustrated.
*, years after Total Drama ends, Alejandro meets Noah again, who's working at a smoothie shop and is a college student. In English and completed. It has a sister fic named Inevitable, which focuses on Eva/Izzy
*, where Noah is not a contestant during World Tour, instead continuing to be Chris' assistant. In English and completed. WeirdNCrazy cites Stunfiskz's as inspiration for making the fic.
*, a popular longfic originally written for Alenoah Week 2023's day 2 prompt.
*, where Alejandro and Noah meet on the set of Total Drama Dirtbags. An English one-shot.
* (2023), a well-put-together rec list for Alejandro/Noah fanfiction, ranging from longfic to one-shots.
* (2024)
===Fan Vids===
*. Of note is the caption including, "IF I SEE A SINGLE COMMENT STARTING SHIP WARS OR BEING LIKE “They hate each other!” ILL SCREAM."
*, which recommends An Insulting Indifference in its caption.
*, a video where Alejandro and Noah bicker. Inspired by Stakes.
*, vid also inspired by Stakes.
*, Alejandro/Noah to Bottom by McCafferty. Done for Mayrarey 2024.
===Fan Animation===
*, where Noah "likes them rugged," and Alejandro isn't rugged enough.
*, a 30 second animated short featuring deadmxnparty's vampire AU, TDI band AU by itsalixxxx and 6jesters and Slime Rancher fusion AU by braindos.
=== Fanmixes ===
* Love, become a serpent I'll lead you into a saccharine trap by cinnamonangel (2018)
* Glory and Gore by pinksushi28-832 (2016)
===Meta===
*, a discussion on DeviantArt dating to 2010.
*, a meme collection for the fics:
**Slippery Slopes by courtney-deserved-better
** Dig a mace into his chest and a shotgun into mine by WriterQuil
** A bit of time by seas1de
** An insulting indifference by drowzeee
** curl up like a pill bug by honeyhoneypot
** High off vertigo (where you’re close) by lonleybrachiobrute
*, commenters recommend fics mentioned above as well as Bittersweet Love by SplatTunes, I See London in You Eyes by BrickBronze_165, Red Handed by MaxxandCheese, Inescapable by fluidfox and Burial by terribleflu.
==Notes==
==References/Further Reading==
* on Shipping Wiki
* on Total Drama Wiki
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