#like compare mc+lil sal. who are perpetually cheerful and happy. or at least try to be. vs depressed loners furufumi and kirito

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No see, it makes perfect sense.

Kirito is the delinquent child that needs extra attention (sort of like if you grow up with a sibling that was prone to getting sick, your parents spend more time caring for your sick sibling). Unlike Furufumi and MC, he's a homeless orphan who had been thrown into the trash at birth, and while I don't know what the foster system in Japan is like (irl and in-game), it's implied he basically grew up in the streets by himself. What's worse is that he's supposedly attempted suicide many times before (maybe even during?) during the current loop, and may still be actively suicidal.

So faced with a child whose worst traits are being fatalistic and avoidant (and who is slowly but surely taking steps to make connections and reach for a future), a child whose affairs he's explicitly not allowed to interfere in (and who has so many guardians and companions clamouring to pick up the slack for him), vs a homeless and lonely delinquent orphan, one for whom he feels great affinity (due to circumstance? due to loneliness?), it makes perfect sense he'd gravitate towards that last one. Kirito needs someone to keep on eye on him, and Mononobe can at least feel like he's doing something to help.

I have no defense for the prodigies though. He really is a deadbeat dad ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

He's a Game Master.

Kirito, is his favorite child and not the town bike or the introverted bookworm.

Truly a dead beat father.