Noah Czerny holds a permanent place in my list of characters of all time because like, there was a Noah Czerny, but our Noah is a boy who never existed. The Noah who loves Blue’s spiky hair and watches over Gansey to remind him not to waste his chance and hangs onto existence even as he’s constantly dying and likes snowglobes was never real, he was a shadow of a very different boy who once lived, and at the end of the story it is that Noah—the flesh-and-blood Noah—who is remembered, memorialized through the continuation of Raven Day, while our Noah slips from existence, and is forgotten.