okay so between Noct's outfit and name Shinnosuke found him hilariously edgy, never mind that between the two of them, Shinnosuke is the true edgelord BUT WHATEVER
In any case, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that Noct thought he was an annoying shit, which meant that Shinnosuke liked him (I use the word "like" veeeeeery liberally there). Everyone should think he's an annoying shit! Noct was being normal by viewing him in a way that was within his expectations, making his company tolerable. Shinnosuke sassed him, Noct sassed him back, and all was good.
Noct also was useful during trials and kept Ash in line, so, you know. Good job.
And then Noct turned out to be a Bounty. Whatever, he kept complaining about what a pain Shinnosuke was the entire time, so it was all still cool.
......... And then he came to check up on him before the meeting and gave him cup noodles and that was where things got really weird, as far as Shinnosuke was concerned??? Like, why. Why is he doing this. At most, Noct was just supposed to fetch him when it was time, if that at all (NO ONE WOULD MISS SHINNOSUKE IF HE WEREN'T THERE, PROBABLY...).
That was when Shinnosuke started to suspect that Noct was actually... mildly invested in his existence/well-being/what have you... AND THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, that was now outside of his expectations, etc. Noct thus got thrown into the awkward pool of People Who Care About Shinnosuke (Why???), even if he was the sassiest of them and the least pushy in explicit TEAMWORK AND FRIENDSHIP!!
In a way, that was nice, because then Shinnosuke could sort of pretend that Noct purely saw him as a pain in the ass, as before. On the other hand, in other ways, that made it even more awkward because whenever Shinnosuke stopped living in denial and remembered that oh damn, Noct gives a shit... Shinnosuke was kind of getting used to the openly friendship-y types, which Noct wasn't, so?? How to deal with Noct???? Maybe if he snarks at Noct enough, Noct will revert back to his initial impressions. That's how it works, right!? (No.)
And then Shinnosuke died and thus he was free.
Except then Noct sent him a letter, which was just "mmmm can't compute," and then Noct died and wouldn't let Shinnosuke avoid him, which was also just "mmmm can't compute," and then Noct wouldn't let him avoid him in their endgame thread either, and now it's just "mmmm can probably compute but don't want to."
SORRY NOCT, FEELINGS ARE AWKWARD
but you know Shinnosuke still has that letter on him so
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In any case, it was pretty obvious at the beginning that Noct thought he was an annoying shit, which meant that Shinnosuke liked him (I use the word "like" veeeeeery liberally there). Everyone should think he's an annoying shit! Noct was being normal by viewing him in a way that was within his expectations, making his company tolerable. Shinnosuke sassed him, Noct sassed him back, and all was good.
Noct also was useful during trials and kept Ash in line, so, you know. Good job.
And then Noct turned out to be a Bounty. Whatever, he kept complaining about what a pain Shinnosuke was the entire time, so it was all still cool.
......... And then he came to check up on him before the meeting and gave him cup noodles and that was where things got really weird, as far as Shinnosuke was concerned??? Like, why. Why is he doing this. At most, Noct was just supposed to fetch him when it was time, if that at all (NO ONE WOULD MISS SHINNOSUKE IF HE WEREN'T THERE, PROBABLY...).
That was when Shinnosuke started to suspect that Noct was actually... mildly invested in his existence/well-being/what have you... AND THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN, that was now outside of his expectations, etc. Noct thus got thrown into the awkward pool of People Who Care About Shinnosuke (Why???), even if he was the sassiest of them and the least pushy in explicit TEAMWORK AND FRIENDSHIP!!
In a way, that was nice, because then Shinnosuke could sort of pretend that Noct purely saw him as a pain in the ass, as before. On the other hand, in other ways, that made it even more awkward because whenever Shinnosuke stopped living in denial and remembered that oh damn, Noct gives a shit... Shinnosuke was kind of getting used to the openly friendship-y types, which Noct wasn't, so?? How to deal with Noct???? Maybe if he snarks at Noct enough, Noct will revert back to his initial impressions. That's how it works, right!? (No.)
And then Shinnosuke died and thus he was free.
Except then Noct sent him a letter, which was just "mmmm can't compute," and then Noct died and wouldn't let Shinnosuke avoid him, which was also just "mmmm can't compute," and then Noct wouldn't let him avoid him in their endgame thread either, and now it's just "mmmm can probably compute but don't want to."
SORRY NOCT, FEELINGS ARE AWKWARD
but you know Shinnosuke still has that letter on him so