More thoughts about the potential electric synergy between Toudou and Aoyagi:
- Toudou canonically loves orange, which seems to be Aoyagi's official color (much like Teshima's is green).
- Toudou is also a silent character like Aoyagi but instead of being situationally mute as a talker, he's silent when he climbs the hills...hence the nicknames "Forest ninja" and "Sleeping Beauty." In this sense, he might understand on a deep level why Aoyagi is afraid to make noise.
- Both were vice-captains in their third year.
- Aoyagi actually listens, which Toudou is socially starved for.
- Both were obsessed with a wavy-haired guy in highschool.
- Both have resting bitch face.
- Both were arguably the best senpais to the first-years of their respective teams.
- Toudou is beautiful, loud, and extremely self-conscious. Aoyagi is beautiful, quiet, and extremely self-conscious. This could play out interestingly.
- Watanabe wrote that Aoyagi hates having his hair in his eyes so he pins it up, but just lets it back down again a few minutes later. Toudou knows how to fix this problem: headband!
- Both Toudou and Aoyagi love the "Number One" finger point pose, but for different reasons.
- Both characters are canonically great at calligraphy
- Toudou is a good cook, and Aoyagi is a good eater.
According to Watanabe, Makishima wasn't really that good of a senpai to Teshima. He'd reply to him with one-word answers and didn't teach him how to grow as a climber at all. Teshima was the only kouhai that had to learn himself instead of from his upperclassmen. Imaizumi had Kinjou as a mentor, Naruko and Aoyagi had Todokoro as a mentor, and Makishima basically skipped over Teshima for Onoda, so Teshima had nobody. He even mentions to Aoyagi that Todokoro favored him.
...So when Makichan starts ignoring Toudou and treating him like shit, it probably wouldn't be the first time Aoyagi's seen and heard about it. I'd imagine that he could try to convince him to find someone different to be obsessed with, if he decided to jump to Toudou's defense. Gossip might ensue.
T2 is golden, but Toudou and Aoyagi are also a diabolical match! ✨
