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Is she aromantic?
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[No official art]
Reasoning: specifically aroallo. she is so aroallo coded. kayleigh day the aroallo queen and i stand by that
[I'm not sure if she has any official art or not but the wiki didn't show any, correct me if I'm wrong]
Okay, so, about that last sentence, I have a theory: even if he never had any romantic feelings for Kayleigh, Tetsuji still views their relationship as one of a kind. And why wouldn't he? They created together a sport from almost nothing, just the two of them at first, obsessing over their brainchild, their own little creation. In fact, he might even see exy as their child, theirs from start to finish.
So what do you think happens when she dies and he has to raise her other child? What was once an exciting sport, one he was passionate about, starts tasting like lies because maybe it wasn't all that special after all and he feels betrayed. So he tries to make Kevin (and Riko, by extension) into the living, breathing representation of exy, the only child he ever truly loved at some point (though I have to admit that even to me this theory seems a bit convoluted).
I think that in the end, that's all exy has become to him: a weapon
Tetsuji beating his own players with their exy racquets is so fucked by itself but when you consider that he is the one who literally designed and created those racquets 30 years ago, it feels chilling. To invent an entire sport and then have the ability to twist and distort it into something sinister while hiding behind being the best and brightest? I wonder if Tetsuji ever felt passion and excitement for exy. I wonder what changed.