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I wouldn't call them 100% close or even true friends but she's fond of him enough to miss his help and go easy on him when he does something she'd tear someone apart for otherwise, still enough to make me bet that he's going to be the one capable of having something like a heart-to-heart chat or moment with her in the same way Yi Sang and Hong Lu or Ishamel and Heathcliff had, the moments that show they know just about what they're going through to lend support
I say this in the most pattern-observational way possible and not in the Ryoclair-shipping way, though it's certain that it'd be fuel for the shipping wars if Sinclair has any significant involvement in her Canto