#the notion that Kaeya feels only good things about Mondstandt is such a non canon thing

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I feel like a lot of people who think Kaeya should choose Mondstadt forget that Kaeya still feels a duty imposed on his shoulder when it comes to the place he was welcomed in.

Like, they will read this:

If Khaenri'ah and Mondstadt went to war, which side should he support? To whom should he offer his assistance: his birth father, who had ruthlessly abandoned him? Or his adoptive father, who had loved him and raised him?

And immediately forget all of this:

As an adopted son, he should have saved Crepus, but he had arrived moments too late. As a brother, he should have shared in Diluc's grief [...]

For the longest time, Kaeya had agonized over these impossible questions, caught between the opposing demands of loyalty and duty [...]

Like, the demands of loyalty and duty that so plague him are opposing, meaning they come from different places.

Kaeya feels an insane amount of guilt at betraying his adoptive family, partly because they were good people and he loved them, but it's also, in no small part, because it's his adoptive family.

It's the people who saved him, who took him in when no one could, in a time of turmoil. He's fucking ride and die for them, because he feels like he has to repay Mondstadt for taking him in.

(Keep in mind that this is all after spending his moat formative years around people still grieving a homeland destroyed by the ideas that protect and keep monstadt going.)

This ain't a choice between duty and a family of choice, this is a choice between two different duties.

Also, let's not even get into the moral aspect of this debacle.

Kaeya's very analytical, he pushes boundaries quite hard and deliberately puts his colleagues in danger to see what they would do when push comes to shove. He's, as he describes himself in the manga, an antihero with an attitude problem.

But he still considers himself a hero. Meaning he care about being on the right side of history.

If Khaenri'ah and Mondstadt went to war, which side should he support? To whom should he offer his assistance: his birth father, who had ruthlessly abandoned him? Or his adoptive father, who had loved him and raised him?

When Kaeya says this, something remains unsaid.

Both of those are options, options that he considers in full. One of them has an emotional link to him, so the other must be REALLY FUCKING IMPORTANT AND MORALLY RIGHT for Kaeya to even consider it.