ALICE... It's funny to me because Ranger's relationship with all of the participants can be summarized as "it's complicated." Ranger has been here long enough and undergone enough change (including the ability to feel positive emotions) that a fraction of his resentment toward others has tapered off. There's still some underlying resentment toward the participants of the Death Game, because he was treated as beneath them and unloved unlike them when he was supposed to be a masterwork and exceeds them in every way,) but then over time he's steadily started to realize that their positions aren't all that different at all. Aside from that, he tends to favor them to others because it's something familiar and that's comforting when compared to complete strangers for a person who's never really interacted with the outside world.
His thoughts on Alice are complicated by default for a couple reasons, starting with the fact that they're coming from different periods in time. Ranger knows that he led to Reko's death, but since he didn't actually experience that (or at least, doesn't have the memory of it,) he doesn't have any thoughts on the matter. I'm not sure how he'll be once he does regain that, but he can't discuss it with Alice or Sara because from his point of view, it's not something he did and therefore not something he's obligated to comment on... Buuut he does understand the effect that it would have and it's one of those things where he's approaching it tentatively without expecting anything.
So, he's kind of tentatively willing to try and approach him and see him as an actual person, and I think that's where he's standing for now. Alice is a little bit dumb (by Ranger standards) and he's so fussy, and I think Ranger finds the Fairy Godmother of Hope thing really funny ngl to you. It's not as funny as when komaeda was pretending to be a Death God, but this seems to be uniquely tailored to Alice and I think he appreciates watching that. That all said, the fact that Alice is willing to tolerate him at all and that they can work together is surprising to him. I think as with Sara and Shin though, he's realized that Alice is actually a good person when you take that away, and he is reliable enough that Ranger thinks he can be pulled into things. He wouldn't let anything happen to him, anyway. I thought him being like "eh he'll be fine" at Komaeda was cute.
So in short... I think they've got some mutual confusion going on here, and it's complicated, but I see him as defrosting some around Alice and trying to actually approach him as a person rather than a participant. He'll probably think he's funny, and long term he's eventually going to get a canon update where he'll be able to actually acknowledge things as a whole. I'm not really sure how that'll go, but I think it'll be interesting to see. Alice is a good egg though, he doesn't mind him.
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His thoughts on Alice are complicated by default for a couple reasons, starting with the fact that they're coming from different periods in time. Ranger knows that he led to Reko's death, but since he didn't actually experience that (or at least, doesn't have the memory of it,) he doesn't have any thoughts on the matter. I'm not sure how he'll be once he does regain that, but he can't discuss it with Alice or Sara because from his point of view, it's not something he did and therefore not something he's obligated to comment on... Buuut he does understand the effect that it would have and it's one of those things where he's approaching it tentatively without expecting anything.
So, he's kind of tentatively willing to try and approach him and see him as an actual person, and I think that's where he's standing for now. Alice is a little bit dumb (by Ranger standards) and he's so fussy, and I think Ranger finds the Fairy Godmother of Hope thing really funny ngl to you. It's not as funny as when komaeda was pretending to be a Death God, but this seems to be uniquely tailored to Alice and I think he appreciates watching that. That all said, the fact that Alice is willing to tolerate him at all and that they can work together is surprising to him. I think as with Sara and Shin though, he's realized that Alice is actually a good person when you take that away, and he is reliable enough that Ranger thinks he can be pulled into things. He wouldn't let anything happen to him, anyway. I thought him being like "eh he'll be fine" at Komaeda was cute.
So in short... I think they've got some mutual confusion going on here, and it's complicated, but I see him as defrosting some around Alice and trying to actually approach him as a person rather than a participant. He'll probably think he's funny, and long term he's eventually going to get a canon update where he'll be able to actually acknowledge things as a whole. I'm not really sure how that'll go, but I think it'll be interesting to see. Alice is a good egg though, he doesn't mind him.