HAHAHA, I'm glad! I thought I was rea⁓lly clever for that joke. I care about Knights even though I don't produce them! My lack of attention felt shameful enough to me that I ridded myself of my NewDiP title despite it being my most favourite agency of all. I think I can share some thoughts in regards to this.

(I'm biased because I'm a tremendous fan of narratives where there's a role reversal (for example, I find it based to imagine MKSH starting off appearing to be SHMK, whether it really was or not), like KitaKawa. I know it's baby's first "toxic yuri", but that aspect of it is just — it's so good...! Not that they're similar to the girls in that manga whatsoever, it's just an example. Also, feel free to take this however you like in the R/S status department.)

Long ago, I learnt from the best that Tsukasa's importance to Leo is often undermined. That love wasn't enough to save him, no matter how much Sena did. That Tsukasa grew to understand him in a way others could not (and wished to understand himself through him) just as Leo had asked him to make an effort to, who could tell that his outbursts were cries for help. He was the key to Leo's salvation. This earnest, clumsy, "sweet child" who loved him and hated him all at once, who envied his wild and free nature, held the fragile Leo that Sena was afraid to touch, despite everything. Tsukasa etched his name into Leo's mind (is that not an attack inflicted onto him?), even though Leo's refusal was likely deliberate, to shield himself from the possibility of having to someday forget it. As one of my friends once said, who definitely understands them more than I ever could and who's words and mind I tend to revere, "Tsukasa literally guided Leo from hell to purgatory to heaven - to a chapter called Lux Aeterna." It got stuck in my mind.

At the start, he had to live up to his image in his absence even though all the other members were more experienced than he was, and prior to that, he'd relied on his songs for strength, only for them to immediately not get along as soon as they got the chance to meet! The reason I say Leo was on the right then is because of the way things were... I mean, to be a "king" is inherently a position of power. He gave orders high-handedly without showing his face, referring to him as "newbie" to the point of frustrating poor Tsukasa, who had childish dreams when it came to their unit. Leo was such a dickhead (typical of a seme, ugh. Just kidding.) with how he treated him when he first came back, even if it came from a place of love and wanting the best for the unit he cared about, attending their lives to give unpleasant smiles and yawns to this first year! He was "broken", Izumi said, going so far as to compare Leo's past self to Tsukasa... we all know he's an unreliable narrator, especially when it comes to things in relation to Leo, but that definitely had merit and continued to be a recurring theme throughout Knights' narrative.

Tsukasa felt provoked by him, but Leo would just brush it off, making comments about his "pretty face" like it was nothing! How aggravating. Hehe. I like that kind of thing. The prodding at him. The "judgment" was an attack on Leo's behalf, or a dare for Tsukasa to do so himself. But, but⁓... Tsukasa worked so hard to prove himself. He was also very proactive in how he was always searching for him when he'd get lost, or something, always so considerate. He even insisted on Leo staying as their king. But then, in Requiem, the switch was cemented, as the crown was passed onto Tsukasa.

In a more reductive way, I like senpais that are overtaken by their kouhai... who force them to see them as their equal. Especially when Leo says things like "Grow big, Suo~... Big enough to surpass me!" only to end up calling him out for being "cheeky" and "treating his leader like a child" in later stories. It's really good.

Forgive me if I missed any nuances, I just don't go here a lot. ♪