The relationship between N and J is truly interesting to me.
Because, in episode 1, she seemed to hate his guts, to the point of actually poisoning him and putting him a virus. (With the new context of the short, one could say she did it for him to be reebooted into a lobotomized version of himself to protect him. Still bad actions, and also not the point lol)
But the thing is that, she also made sure to keep including him in the team activities to “maintain a peaceful workplace environment”. And to keep him away from the possibility of him turning against her rules, which clearly didn’t work in the end.
And this duality between good and bad makes N doubt him own judgement, because: “she’s insulting me, berating me, telling me I’m dumb. But she also included me in yoga, and work meetings, and also her volleyball team, so it can’t be that bad right?”.
Until someone else (Uzi) makes him see the situation from an outside perspective he never dared to get into.
That’s how abuse works. It gives you sweet things to manipulate you into staying, while also being cruel to you.
