I'm super down to throw Frieren at your guys and see what happens!! Hmm let's see…
I could see Frieren helping Shinsha with their self-esteem, maybe! She would have an easier time physically avoiding them in the Dream Sphere since she has tons of experience with Dream Sphere navigation/movement and has something of a sixth sense there, so Shinsha may feel more confident fighting around her? She would be interested in studying their powers (as with anyone else really) and would find them fascinating.
Shinsha liking plants is also interesting because of Flamme! Frieren thinks she can relearn Flamme's flower-growing magic by just… practicing really hard in the Dream Sphere, but in actuality, that particular power is unlocked by actually planting and caring for flowers in the Waking World, which isn't even on her radar right now. Maybe Shinsha could give Frieren the idea to try that, directly or indirectly?
As for Ango… In Frieren's canon, one of the members of the hero party that Frieren travels with, Heiter, is a hedonistic priest who loves to drink, and she's always calling him Corrupt Priest (affectionate). Even though she's much, much older than him, he kind of acts dad-like toward her. There's a little more than just that going on, and obviously Heiter and Ango aren't 1:1 identical (far from it) but the similarities make me really curious to see how they'd get along! I feel like they could become weirdly close friends. Also, Frieren's got a pretty self-interested attitude toward Dreamer things, very different from Ango's impression that DU exploits young people. …I would have more to say but I am so so sleepy and I just want to post this before I pass out haha.
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I could see Frieren helping Shinsha with their self-esteem, maybe! She would have an easier time physically avoiding them in the Dream Sphere since she has tons of experience with Dream Sphere navigation/movement and has something of a sixth sense there, so Shinsha may feel more confident fighting around her? She would be interested in studying their powers (as with anyone else really) and would find them fascinating.
Shinsha liking plants is also interesting because of Flamme! Frieren thinks she can relearn Flamme's flower-growing magic by just… practicing really hard in the Dream Sphere, but in actuality, that particular power is unlocked by actually planting and caring for flowers in the Waking World, which isn't even on her radar right now. Maybe Shinsha could give Frieren the idea to try that, directly or indirectly?
As for Ango… In Frieren's canon, one of the members of the hero party that Frieren travels with, Heiter, is a hedonistic priest who loves to drink, and she's always calling him Corrupt Priest (affectionate). Even though she's much, much older than him, he kind of acts dad-like toward her. There's a little more than just that going on, and obviously Heiter and Ango aren't 1:1 identical (far from it) but the similarities make me really curious to see how they'd get along! I feel like they could become weirdly close friends. Also, Frieren's got a pretty self-interested attitude toward Dreamer things, very different from Ango's impression that DU exploits young people. …I would have more to say but I am so so sleepy and I just want to post this before I pass out haha.