Me looking at my notes to elaborate on now that I'm more alive just... "riffraff weaklings doubting kindness, sara many friends, reko beanie sack of shit vs alice siding with sou"..... KOMAEDA GACHA WAS BETTER. BUT!!
The Shin and Alice CR situation is definitely interesting, both because of their canon interactions and because of Yogen so far. It's killing me that from Shin's perspective in Yogen, Alice is basically a friend, while Alice has been assuming that Shin most likely views it more as a continuation of working together for that brief amount of time during the death game, since the two of them and Kanna presumably had a good mix of skills that could get them through the attractions with the right combination. Helena has told him that surviving is a goal in Yogen, so once the school trip turned out horrible, he figured that the hotel room sharing must have been an instance of Shin planning ahead for a similar arrangement. The part of him that doesn't cope well with bad memories thinks that it would make sense if Shin were to dislike being reminded of the death game (and Kanna's death) at all, so it surprises him that Shin doesn't seem to prefer avoiding anyone associated with that (and him specifically because he remembers saying some harsh things to question "Sou Hiyori" even after Kanna spoke well of him).
There's also the whole decision to vote for Shin not being straightforward, even if the alternative in that particular context was out of the question altogether. Seeing Shin genuinely try to protect Kanna + the fear and desperation driving his actions + encountering the Shin AI all make it emotionally more complicated. And then there's the awkwardness of Alice's initial trying to solve the Sou Hiyori mystery by approaching Keiji...
On top of that now, Alice feels sort of responsible for Shin getting left behind in The Wilderness, since he was the one to share those coordinates, and if they go back at the right time at some point and the Shin bones are there, that will magnify it. For the time being, he gets to be secretly relieved that Shin did make it back from there somehow, and maybe it was better than Disney horrors.
Despite all of that, Alice is receptive enough to the more friendly interactions (Shin gets additional points for not being opposed to singing in the middle of the night), and being relied on. He's likely to want to intervene if Midori's presence gets to Shin, particularly as Shin seems more obviously affected by it this time, and the entire messy situation keeps reminding Alice of everything that Midori managed to pull off by targeting Reko, though it seems even more disturbing on other levels in Shin's case.
I think he's come to understand Shin's circumstances better, at least, and experiencing non-death game interaction has in fact been pleasant. He already started out kind of viewing Shin as a kindred spirit during the first main game, and they do seem to share a few similarities wrt putting up a front to conceal vulnerabilities, and being reluctant to trust people, even though they're both much softer than that on the inside, whether it manifests as protecting others or not really objecting to making friends after all. In Yogen, Alice might end up mentioning to Shin that Sara seems on edge around him for some reason.
Shin's tiny crush is safely buried, though; Alice has no idea that this basement exists?! He's still unaware of the extent of the timeline stuff, too, apart from the strangeness of everyone apparently remembering different things.
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The Shin and Alice CR situation is definitely interesting, both because of their canon interactions and because of Yogen so far. It's killing me that from Shin's perspective in Yogen, Alice is basically a friend, while Alice has been assuming that Shin most likely views it more as a continuation of working together for that brief amount of time during the death game, since the two of them and Kanna presumably had a good mix of skills that could get them through the attractions with the right combination. Helena has told him that surviving is a goal in Yogen, so once the school trip turned out horrible, he figured that the hotel room sharing must have been an instance of Shin planning ahead for a similar arrangement. The part of him that doesn't cope well with bad memories thinks that it would make sense if Shin were to dislike being reminded of the death game (and Kanna's death) at all, so it surprises him that Shin doesn't seem to prefer avoiding anyone associated with that (and him specifically because he remembers saying some harsh things to question "Sou Hiyori" even after Kanna spoke well of him).
There's also the whole decision to vote for Shin not being straightforward, even if the alternative in that particular context was out of the question altogether. Seeing Shin genuinely try to protect Kanna + the fear and desperation driving his actions + encountering the Shin AI all make it emotionally more complicated. And then there's the awkwardness of Alice's initial trying to solve the Sou Hiyori mystery by approaching Keiji...
On top of that now, Alice feels sort of responsible for Shin getting left behind in The Wilderness, since he was the one to share those coordinates, and if they go back at the right time at some point and the Shin bones are there, that will magnify it. For the time being, he gets to be secretly relieved that Shin did make it back from there somehow, and maybe it was better than Disney horrors.
Despite all of that, Alice is receptive enough to the more friendly interactions (Shin gets additional points for not being opposed to singing in the middle of the night), and being relied on. He's likely to want to intervene if Midori's presence gets to Shin, particularly as Shin seems more obviously affected by it this time, and the entire messy situation keeps reminding Alice of everything that Midori managed to pull off by targeting Reko, though it seems even more disturbing on other levels in Shin's case.
I think he's come to understand Shin's circumstances better, at least, and experiencing non-death game interaction has in fact been pleasant. He already started out kind of viewing Shin as a kindred spirit during the first main game, and they do seem to share a few similarities wrt putting up a front to conceal vulnerabilities, and being reluctant to trust people, even though they're both much softer than that on the inside, whether it manifests as protecting others or not really objecting to making friends after all. In Yogen, Alice might end up mentioning to Shin that Sara seems on edge around him for some reason.
Shin's tiny crush is safely buried, though; Alice has no idea that this basement exists?! He's still unaware of the extent of the timeline stuff, too, apart from the strangeness of everyone apparently remembering different things.