#its very common for people to talk about Kaito's self-sacrificial tendencies which reflect the quality of a leader

[luneinary]

cannot overstate it enough that kaede and kaito are foils of one another and therefore are the most stubborn , one-track-minded people you will ever meet in your life . Kaede is definitely more self aware about this than kaito is and maybe knows how to reign in her emotions better if only by a small margin . The two of them will agree on pretty much everything but when they butt heads , they butt heads , and will argue and argue until they're blue in the face about something that probably isn't a very big deal anyway .

Anyway I just find it funny how the two people Shuichi cared about the most were the most headstrong people he's ever known . Yeah Kaede didn't punch him and drag him out for nightly training sessions , but their dual stubbornness is what drove him to action every single time . Shuichi didn't exactly have that kind of tenacity (not in the beginning anyway) so he obviously works best with that kind of dynamic