#Nagi is Reo’s toxic ex and I won’t take constructive criticism on this take

[hiorintruther]

What do you reckon would happen if Nagi ever actually asked Reo “hey Reo, why did you take so much interest in someone like me? Why do you do so much for me? Why do you care so much about me?”

Would Reo’s brain just short-circuit because why does he go so far for Nagi? Like, sure, he sees Nagi’s potential. He wants Nagi to be the best in the world. He threw out all of his own personal character development just for Nagi. But, like, WHY? This has to go beyond a mere ‘investment’ or a ‘sunken cost fallacy’ by this point. Sure, that’s what it was in the beginning. Nagi was an easy way for Reo to excuse getting into football. Now though? No one in their right mind would ever do this much for someone who treated them so badly when they weren’t even friends for that long before Blue Lock (as in, they weren’t childhood friends or anything). Reo had gone through his whole arc and developed into an individual capable of pushing to the very top of Blue Lock. Then Nagi comes along, says one thing and suddenly Reo has reverted back to square one?!

If Reo ever tried to actually lay out his logic path after the MC match or smth, would he just come up utterly confused because even he isn’t fully aware of why exactly he’s so drawn to Nagi? He just is.

It’s because he’s in love and stupid but some people aren’t ready for that conversation.