do you want the sappy answer or the dumb answer

both : D

the dumb answer is she wants to know what he "looks" like aka she would facemap him if she could

awww... he'd let her if she asked, honestly

the sappy one is she wishes she knew what hurt him so badly so that she could understand how to avoid setting him off again

MAYBE ONE DAY SHE WILL ASK just idly like

sou what do you look like

and he'll have a split second of being puzzled before being 'oh'
and awwwww helena...

honestly shin himself doesn't know what'll set him off half the time and kicks himself for it every time (shin no) because like. this is the most interaction he's been having with people since it happened so it's some first time discoveries happening.

he's.... sort of at the point of talking about it, like he's commiserating with harley for example, but it needs the right circumstances

and half of it is he doesn't have a good mental model for what happened to him himself, like when helena said she wouldn't belittle what happened to him to hurt him it... wasn't a way he'd thought of it before and wasn't really prepared to in the moment

he knows what midori was like but he hasn't realised that has a name, that that's abuse specifically as opposed to just how the powerful treat the weak

the tl;dr is that he doesn't want helena to feel she has to tiptoe around him, so he'll do things like try to keep it under wraps and... probably will try to flag up warning signs if she's getting to something, only he's having to figure out how to make new signals on the fly

"keep it under wraps" shin no

this boy needs so much therapy

avalanche song voice that boy needs therapy

sdfdf can't hurt a friend if you keep a lid on it right?
shin no

shin she was trying to say you can express it

:' ) she was saying that with her words but what stuck in his mind was her reaction to him telling her that detail about kanna and the dejected way she left in general

shin

this is why we're having poetry jam

painful truths

yesssssss
aw helena

sidney: Who Hurt Him and also why a false name

nene: his favorite foods... so they can make them together. also who the FUCK is shin tsukimi sadkjlf

i'm crying i still laugh at 'who the fuck is shin tsukimi'
why is he texting her

she just gets there and there's a locked door and a note, hello????

beautiful moment

his favourite foods.... well soup is the obvious answer, but he also likes salty and umami and warm things in general.... except he can't handle much fish, meat or spice, although the first two might be better with some easing in to actually eating well again

there's not a lot he'll dislike enough to not eat, because any pickiness got eroded by anything being better than constant ramen, but those are his faves

i love them making food together it's just heartwarming

as for sidney i love how both those questions kind of have the same answer

sou hiyori hurt him and that's why he has that name... i'm crying we've got two people Very Concerned about shin in this respect

god i know komaeda doesnt know but shins projection reasons would be so ugly and delicious

shin's projection reasons.... ironically their past lives probably contributed to it, I feel if they just met on a blank slate he'd be wary but it wouldn't have tipped as far as fast as it did
a high school friend who starts out nice but the relationship goes uncomfortable and sour... he has one mental model for that

and then that means that anything that komaeda does gets interpreted through this lens, and because it's through this lens, a lot matches up

especially since Komaeda is manipulative, and does like getting reactions out of people

but Komaeda also isn't midori, so there's going to be pitfalls shin can't see where they don't match up, like the whole wanting to die thing

shin's prone to projection in general, he's got a very pattern-matching style of thinking and there's a high chance he will kin assign you someone he knows sorry about that

THE MENTAL MODEL

MADE ME LAUGH NGL

sdfgfdsdfg he has his house of three bricks right here

kin is the ultimate kin assigner it makes so much sense, and now that i think about it i guess if komaeda wanted to know itd be more "why are you afraid of me" bc he always tells ppl shins afraid of him

SKJDJKLS

sighs shin ur brain and your jumping spider thoughts how i love it

sdfgdfgfdf that one's mostly answered by the projectance honestly. also that he was specifically warned against komaeda early on and nothing he's seen of komaeda has dispelled this

ITS SO FUNNY BC

i think shin was warned like a lil after komaeda was outted as a killer i think

so it makes sense

how the bad timing got him how.........unlucky

sdfgfdsdfgf god i'm crying it really was, he just can't catch a break

AND THEN SHIN MET HIM WHEN HE WAS LIKE DEPRESSED bc ...... someone he knew almost died (his hypocrisy was showing) so he just didnt care abt nothin at that moment IM LAUGHING he really could not catch a break around then, its fine shin gets his better (crazier) moments now

shin like GO BACK TO BEING DEPRESSED

god the komaeda hypocrisy i love him

STPPPPPPP DEPRESS HIM AND HE WILL

but ori said we're not allowed to have depressed komaeda anymore

depressed komaeda got dropped

HE DID HE WAS FREED its fine kill shin and maybe i can pull past memories and make him depressed

SOMEONE knock shin out for his laptop lets have a reenactment of the one scene

sdfghgfd fun fact we dropped it for nasa punch but for a hot sec after the august mission nene and sara were going to come across him unconscious and covered in blood

ah, traumatize the nene more route

exactly yeah :' ) glad we didn't go with that in the end, but that means i can save it for something else later

sure can!

Ami is also in the why the fake name club tbh but I'm laughing at shins kin assignments he's so cute

if he can just figure out your Person Type surely he can know how to deal with you unfortunately his Person Type selection is a bit limited

I think "what the fuck happened" covers pretty much all of Muffet's questions.

kagehira sdfgfg exactly yeah.... maybe it'll slowly expand with time... excited for him to start adding yogen characters to the rolodex honestly but it'll be a while
sdfdfgfggffg 'where in the world is amami rantaro' handshaking with 'who the fuck is shin tsukimi'

EchoDoctor royal family drama muffet, royal family drama. also time travel

Cool, that answers her question and also raises several more.

god now i'm thinking about if there's spiderwebs in the true labs

Well there's a possibility I hadn't considered...

imagine : D

I feel like if any of Muffet's family had ended up among the Amalgamates, she'd be a lot less nice about demanding answers from Alphys than the dogs and Snowy's dad are.

Oh, you're ignoring her letters and calls? That's fine. She'll just have to show up in person.

oh heck i didn't consider that i was just thinking about how spiders get everywhere
dfgf oh i bet
run, alphys

She'd forgive her if she found out what actually happened, but she will have answers or else.

or else
god i love muffet. underground mafia don

Her family may or may not also be The Family, but we don't ask.

It's probably fine.

don't ask and you won't get answers as they say