OMG JWOEWJ THANK YOU FOR READING MY ESSAY ON THIS GAME???!!!!
YES I LOVE RYAN SM DJW (ALSO THERES A FIC ON AO3 CALLED "Shattered by the tides" THAT I WANNA RECCOMEND RYAN IS SO SILLY IN IT RFGEG
THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS MY COMMENT IOEWJJ- just to be clear nothing is confirmed and this is what i think the game is trying to convey but personally i do think ryan is a true friend to june! i think him not being able to swim simbolizes how hard it is for him to not get dragged down with the rest of his friends, even if hes smart enough to know that they arent the best people to be around. he might have even stayed just for june, im not sure and i never will be!!! thats one of the fun things about SIG games!!! so many of the details like that are left up to fan enterpretation and its great!!!
June asked Ryan if he wanted to learn to swim. He kinda brushed it off. It is very hard to learn swimming in the ocean, but it also shows us that he had time to learn in the past (I assume he really is a bit older than others in the group?) and decided not to in the end.
I think it was his choice to stay with them, you know... Like you can put these thoughts aside (about them being, well, not good sometimes) and choose to keep things the same even though you know them.
Anyway, that's my liiittle theory after playing the game eheh. I loooved your big commentary above!! <3