shinji is a CHILD, anna can't be friends with a CHILD, she'll fill his head with curse words and bad ideas about buying swords and not going to school, this is AWFUL. no but for real she's like. she's torn up that retrospec would decide to wreck the life of somebody who hasn't even had the chance to wreck his life on his own yet, just because that seems, like, really messed up, right? he's like nanashi but smaller and without a gun. and she doesn't exactly have a maternal or sororal instinct towards him, but she also just, like, definitely doesn't want a kid to get hurt in all of this. so she's probably going to fight a little harder to keep him safe, even if she's pretty sure he can defend himself.

lina just wants to be a better friend to shuji. he means so much to her, he's one of her closest remaining friends, and she feels like he (almost more than her own sisters, which she'll have to unpack later) is owed her strength and resolve and self-improvement in the face of such overwhelming odds and the feeling that the world is stacked against everyone on the app. (or maybe just against her.) he's a very good person to her and he tries so hard that he makes her want to try even harder just to prove that she's, like, worthy of being friends with him. she wants him to be happy and she wants however this all ends up going, whatever vanderweele ends up Doing to everyone (or vice versa), to end with him being happy.