... Why would Nidai have trouble keeping up with cheer-mongering? He loves cheering/screaming, and keeping people's spirits high. I appreciate the desire to give him more screentime, as he's one of my favorite SDR2 character, but isn't that a fairly fundamental misunderstanding of his character?
Nidai is a lot more sensitive to other people’s feelings than one might think, and while I could see him being on board with Yukizome’s strategy at the start, after he notices what’s going on with his classmates, I think he’d find he can’t support it anymore. His talent is bringing out the best in others, and doing that isn’t always achieved by aggressive positivity. Since he’s a skilled coach, I imagine he recognizes that everyone has a different response to various approaches; the reason he’s probably so unyieldingly chipper in the game is because everyone else tends to trend pretty pessimistic.
And Yukizome’s cheermongering isn’t just trying to keep everyone looking at the bright side, or staying cheerful herself as a model. It’s meant to be oppressively positive, to the point where the students get in trouble if they show any kind of negative emotion at all. For someone like Nidai, that’d be like gorging yourself on your favorite food and fearing punishment if you tried to eat anything else.
That’s more what I was imagining. Nanami herself has reservations about what she’s doing as well, but she trusts Yukizome completely because she’s the teacher and she knows best, unlike Nanami who isn’t confident in her abilities at all and feels like she owes everything to Sensei.
