JASON... god, Jason was really frustrating for Shinnosuke from the beginning, on the basis of the fact that Shinnosuke liked him and couldn't figure out why. Even the part of Shinnosuke that acknowledges that he's a huge tsun was confused, because it wasn't like Jason was the usual friendship-y time that gets under his skin???? WHY DOES HE LIKE THIS LOSER.
Ultimately, it has a lot to do with what they have in common, which is being a dumb teen. In a way, Jason brought out a sense of normalcy from Shinnosuke. He didn't make Shinnosuke feel overly awkward (except for those moments where he worried about him, ewww), but he also wasn't quite trollbait/someone who disliked Shinnosuke from the start. Shinnosuke could just snark with him as a teenage boy, and there was a weird sense of camaraderie there that Shinnosuke didn't get, because the entire concept of being a normal teenager is so foreign to him at this point.
For a given definition of "normal", anyway, given that normal teens don't go around breaking into post offices??? Shinnosuke approached Jason with the idea mainly because of Jason's adventures with the clinic, tbh. He figured he had a good enough read on Jason's personality to assume that, like him, Jason was frustrated and would be willing to use that frustration for something potentially stupid. And hey, he was right!
Though he also had a general sense of respect for Jason, to a degree—Jason held himself well enough during trials and the like and didn't appear to be fragile, so Shinnosuke also figured that he was reliable in general. (He also thought that Jason was competent enough to potentially have a role and be hiding it, even if he turned out to be wrong...)
... He did feel pretty bad, though, since Jason ended up losing his tongue and shooting someone that was probably important to him (even if Shinnosuke avoided the latter topic because he too did not want to talk about... that...). He blames himself for that, though again, he chose never to talk about it because he defined his and Jason's relationship as one where they just sassed at each other and whatnot, so he wasn't going to make things awkward with feelings.
Except, you know, Jason then expressed actual feelings like concern. Stop!?!?!
It's also for the best that Shinnosuke has no idea that Jason threw a bit of a hissy fit at Noct over the idea of replacing him with Barnham, because oh god what you weren't supposed to care, Jason—
Anyway yes it's easier to pretend that Jason lacks any sort of emotion towards him because then he, too, can pretend that he has none.
Even if doing dumb things with Jason at bounty meetings like their breakup was some of the most fun Shinnosuke's had in Whole Ass and a good chunk of his entire life tbh, and the notion of "fun" is also one that's very bizarre to him, so.
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Ultimately, it has a lot to do with what they have in common, which is being a dumb teen. In a way, Jason brought out a sense of normalcy from Shinnosuke. He didn't make Shinnosuke feel overly awkward (except for those moments where he worried about him, ewww), but he also wasn't quite trollbait/someone who disliked Shinnosuke from the start. Shinnosuke could just snark with him as a teenage boy, and there was a weird sense of camaraderie there that Shinnosuke didn't get, because the entire concept of being a normal teenager is so foreign to him at this point.
For a given definition of "normal", anyway, given that normal teens don't go around breaking into post offices??? Shinnosuke approached Jason with the idea mainly because of Jason's adventures with the clinic, tbh. He figured he had a good enough read on Jason's personality to assume that, like him, Jason was frustrated and would be willing to use that frustration for something potentially stupid. And hey, he was right!
Though he also had a general sense of respect for Jason, to a degree—Jason held himself well enough during trials and the like and didn't appear to be fragile, so Shinnosuke also figured that he was reliable in general. (He also thought that Jason was competent enough to potentially have a role and be hiding it, even if he turned out to be wrong...)
... He did feel pretty bad, though, since Jason ended up losing his tongue and shooting someone that was probably important to him (even if Shinnosuke avoided the latter topic because he too did not want to talk about... that...). He blames himself for that, though again, he chose never to talk about it because he defined his and Jason's relationship as one where they just sassed at each other and whatnot, so he wasn't going to make things awkward with feelings.
Except, you know, Jason then expressed actual feelings like concern. Stop!?!?!
It's also for the best that Shinnosuke has no idea that Jason threw a bit of a hissy fit at Noct over the idea of replacing him with Barnham, because oh god what you weren't supposed to care, Jason—
Anyway yes it's easier to pretend that Jason lacks any sort of emotion towards him because then he, too, can pretend that he has none.
Even if doing dumb things with Jason at bounty meetings like their breakup was some of the most fun Shinnosuke's had in Whole Ass and a good chunk of his entire life tbh, and the notion of "fun" is also one that's very bizarre to him, so.