NagiReo

"I want him to be mine!"

- Reo, upon meeting Nagi, Chapter 23

ReoNagi is the slash ship between Reo Mikage and Seishiro Nagi from the Blue Lock fandom.

Canon
Reo is the son of a billionaire who lived a life of tedium, having gotten everything he wanted. At his high school, he was seen as popular, charismatic, attractive, and helpful. He was also one of the top students at his high school and played other sports. Despite all of this, he was bored with his life because of how easy it was and because he had everything he wanted. That is, until he was introduced to football (soccer) and decided to make it his life goal to win the World Cup. Reo informs his dad about his passion for football, but his dad flatly refuses. His dad tells him that he has a business to inherit; plus, only those who are gifted can excel and make a profit in football. His dad implied that Reo is not skilled enough to play football for a living. As a result, Reo finds a way to prove his parents wrong.

Attempting to join the football club of an elite school, Reo believes that the school's team is likely bad. Reo walks along the corridors of the classroom while thinking of a solution. Distracted by his thoughts, he accidentally bumps Nagi's shoulder, making Nagi drop his phone. Nagi kicks the phone up with blinding accuracy, astonishing Reo. Reo immediately asks if he's on the football team, to which Nagi says he isn't, and asks Reo to give him money because he's rich. The heir tries to convince Nagi to join him in a football team, but he refuses and tells Reo that if he needs to work hard at football, then he would rather not do it at all. Reo thinks back at what his father had said about naturally talented football players and realizes that Nagi is one of them. This sparks his interest, so he pulls in Nagi anyway and promises that he won't need to work hard, so they should go play soccer. Nagi agrees, and it's later revealed in his spin-off series, Episode Nagi, that the reason he decided to join Reo was because he was the first person to genuinely care about him.

"Maybe, it's because it's the first time someone has ever been interested in a slacker like me."

- Chapter 6 of Episode Nagi

In first selection, Reo, Nagi, and Zantetsu listen to Kuon's attempt to influence them with backhanded tactics, but they immediately shut him down. Nagi complains to Reo that Kuon's talk is annoying him, and asks him for a piggyback ride. Reo protests but lifts him onto his back nonetheless. As they're leaving, Nagi asks Reo why Kuon was still so desperate, and Reo guesses it's probably because he wants to win. Nagi replies with, "Those who can't win even after putting in all the effort are just weak guys who are not worth the hassle."

Back in their own training room, Zantetsu admonishes Nagi for playing video games instead of doing exercises. Reo quickly jumps to the boy's defense, reminding Zantetsu that, as the top scorer of their team, Nagi was allowed to do anything he wanted. Zantetsu complains that Reo spoils Nagi too much, to which Reo just smiles and affirms it, calling Nagi his treasure.

At the end of Team V's match against Team Z, Reo's movements become limited by Team Z's defensive formation, and with Raichi marking Reo, Reo finds it difficult to do something with the ball. Reo believes that the field is currently controlled by Team Z. Knowing that, Reo can't believe that he and Nagi will lose. Nagi sees Reo's troubled face, and he immediately starts running, shocking everyone. Nagi calls for Reo's attention and tells him to pass to him. With a fire in his eyes, he tells Reo that he'll give it his all.

"The reason why he started running at this moment, even Nagi Seishiro himself didn't understand why. Just that it was his first time seeing Reo's impatient face and the first loss lurking behind him."

- Chapter 32

After Nagi makes his own independent goal, he picks himself up off the ground and faces Reo, acknowledging how interesting soccer really is.

When Kuon leaps out in a desperate grab to barricade Nagi's path, he grabs his face and pulls the striker down so he can't shoot. This sends Reo into a fit of anger, and he nearly attacks Kuon before Zantestu holds him back. Nagi reassures him that he's all right, and as they're preparing to go into Extra Time, Reo once again asks if Nagi was hurt. Nagi repeats that he's fine. The three of them, Reo, Nagi, and Zantetsu all agree that they must play to cripple the other team, and they won't take a tie for an answer.

Nagi is unwilling to take in the fact that they lost to Isagi Yoichi's last shot and tells Reo with disbelief that they could still make it, with just two more shots. The game is announced as finished. Nagi expresses about how frustrating it was to lose, even after having given it his all. At the end of the first stage of the 2nd Selection, Nagi and Reo had already paired up and were waiting for a third teammate when Isagi and Meguru Bachira finished. To both parties' amazement, Nagi walks over to the other two and invites Isagi to join his team. Reo is caught off guard, asking if Nagi is sure that he is the one they want on their team. Nagi reasserts his confidence in the choice, saying that Isagi was the best in their match, so he would like to play alongside him. When Isagi rejects the offer, Reo seemingly sighs in relief, but that relief is short lived. Nagi then makes the choice to join their team instead, with a confused and hurt Reo in the background. Nagi faces him, telling him that although he and Reo would be the best in the world, they had lost, so he needed to understand that frustration, surpass it, and figure out how to win. Reo watches him turn away with an anguished expression, and he opens his mouth to say something but thinks better of it. He says nothing, surrendering Nagi to the two. Nagi leaves with a word of parting to Reo, who continues to look crestfallen.

Bachira makes note of how Reo looked really miserable back there and asks if Nagi was really a cold-hearted person. Nagi replies that although he's gonna be a bit lonely and he'll miss Reo, he did it because he wanted to improve his "ego", and leaving Reo back was the correct way to do it.

In the public bath for 3rd Stagers in the Second Selection, Nagi meets Reo and his team. The white-haired boy walks over to him amicably and prepares to high-five while telling Reo about how much he improved, but Reo slaps his hand away, surprising him. He claims that they are now rivals and should act as such since he will defeat Nagi because he left him behind. When discussing whom to mark with his teammates Kunigami and Chigiri, Reo decides on Isagi because he wants to prove to Nagi that Isagi wasn't anything much. Both Kunigami and Chigiri agree to pick Nagi if they win, but Reo suggests that he would've also liked to leave Nagi in the dust to "feel the same way [Reo] did back then". At the end of the match. Nagi, Isagi, and Barou emerged victorious 5-4. Nagi walks over to Reo and acknowledges the last play of the game where he was able to strain himself in order to catch the ball, which was indirectly thanks to Reo. Nagi tells him it's due to Reo's "amazing" pass that he was able to advance. Darkly, Reo interrupts him and accuses him of changing into a player who forgot all about their promise to win the World Cup together. Nagi immediately turns tack and asks if Reo would prefer it if they chose him right then and now, even if they would end up having unexciting matches afterward. He ends up leaving and calling Reo a pain in the ass and saying he didn't care anymore, leaving Reo behind with a heartbroken and distraught look on his face.

Nagi realizes in the match against the top three and Bachira that it was due to Reo inviting him that fateful day that he could feel such an intense fire to crush them.

"I'm sorry, Reo. For not being with you. For leaving you behind and changing. For fighting alongside Isagi. For now, I hope you will forgive me."

- Nagi's thoughts, Chapter 76

He apologizes to Reo because, after having a taste of the thrill, he couldn't go back to being the same person he was with the purple-haired boy.

When Reo meets Isagi in the Third Selection, they chat for a while about which team to choose. Isagi said he assumed Reo would immediately follow Nagi, but Reo responded that although that was his initial choice, he wasn't sure if he was someone whg deserved to play alongside the genius. He was conflicted because if he missed out on this chance, he may never be able to catch up to Nagi. In the end, Reo chooses to be with Nagi's team.

Reo and Nagi are paired up together in the second game of the Third Selection. Reo calls on Nagi to pay attention to him in the match so he can prove that he is deserving of being by his side. They trade passes at a lightning-fast speed; Reo passing it perfectly to where Nagi would like it. However, his pass was intercepted by someone from the other team. Even when Nagi makes the first shot for their team, Reo is stunned by the amazing accuracy and pinpoint precision that Nagi was able to utilize to win.

The fact that Nagi is so impressive at soccer makes Reo want to strip all his values away and become an idiot just so he can catch up with the geniuses. He traps the ball between Itoshi Rin and Yukimiya Kenyu and charges straight toward the goal. Nagi keeps up with him and calls out right at the perfect passing point, but Reo pays him no mind. He instead makes the goal himself by copying Yukimiya's gyro shot, unlocking his Chameleon ability. Nagi tells him it's a nice goal, and that "copying the weapons of great players...is such a you thing to do, with your dexterity and all. It's cool." Reo stares at him and asks him if it's enough for the football Nagi wants to play, to which Nagi replies, "No." Reo grins and tells him to keep waiting for him above, to which Nagi says he will. Reo ultimately wants to be someone Nagi wants to chase after. At halftime for the Blue Lock 11 and the U-20 team, Nagi sips his water in the locker rooms, looking around for a towel. Reo instinctively knows what he needs and throws one onto the boy's head while congratulating him on the goal. While they converse, Nagi confirms that he can certainly do more than just the one goal he scored, and Reo nods, as he knows Nagi better than anyone.

Reo gets subbed onto the field. The first thing he does is tell Nagi to make a shot for them because their careers aren't over and they could do much more. Nagi even compliments him when Reo successfully blocks a shot from Shidou Ryusei with his copied defense from Aiku, saying he was so cool.

When Gagamaru Gin saves Shidou's ball from going into the goal, he falls and calls on Reo to send it further from the goal. But Reo has a different idea. After having watched Nagi for so long, he is able to accurately duplicate Nagi's tap lift and jumping turn in order to steal possession, even saying to Nagi that "I know you better than anyone." The rebounded ball flies straight to the real Nagi, who traps it and says "Nice one, chameleon," and begins their counter.

Reo interrupts the team to begin their next play, and passes it to Nagi first. They banter a bit as they make their way forward to the other side.

After this, Barou and Isagi starts fighting over the ball, trying to see who can get it first and score a goal. This angers Nagi and yells at them to "Quit it, idiots! After all Reo did to get us that ball...!" showing his irritation at them for wasting all the work Reo did to get the ball back into their possession.

After the U-20 arc ends with Blue Lock winning, everyone gets a 2 week break, curtesy of Ego. Despite Nagi and Reo being on friendly terms in the U-20 game, they seemingly don't directly contact each other during the break. This can be inferred as Reo asks Bachira and Isagi "...Where's Nagi? He's not with you guys?" when Reo's group coincidentally meets up with Isagi's group at a coffee shop. While they haven't made up during this time and are likely not as close as they were prior, they aren't unfriendly either as Reo joins in on poking fun of Nagi for ditching his friends in favor of going to an arcade.

Nagi ends up picking the same country as Reo-- England. When Reo mentions this, Nagi says "What of it, Reo? Doesn't matter, does it?" to which Reo has no further response.

During the Manshine City vs Bastard Munchen arc, Isagi compliments Reo, commenting that his usual playstyle was to focus on passing to Nagi, but he's now using Nagi as a dummy to head for the goal himself. Right after this, we see Reo think to himself how he won't rely on Nagi any longer, and how he'll surpass him and become the best striker in the world. He directly shoots the ball towards the goal right after, and Nagi says "Wow, greedy."

Right after this, we get a flashback scene with Chris Prince, the leader of the Manshine City team, and the Blue Lockers. Chris Prince emphasizes on the fact that he believes everyone should have their own indivisual training, and he asks Reo what kind of player he wants to be. Reo pauses and says he needs time to think, but Prince says he's not asking for his opinion, and is instead asking how would the best striker in the world that you can imagine respond to that question. Nagi looks at him, but Reo doesn't return his gaze. He thinks about the question for a second and tells Prince that he wants to be able to control the field himself and become a striker who can steal goals, and not a player that needs someone's help to do something. He says he wants the power to be the best striker in the world. Chris Prince seems excited by this answer and asks him what kind of play he sees as ideal. Reo scoffs and grins, saying that Prince was right, and that "I must've forgotten how to live like that."

During the Manshine City vs Bastard Munchen arc, Isagi feels himself getting left behind, especially since all the Mashine Blue Lockers have improved so much. Reo notices this and tells Isagi how with the right guidance, Nagi has the potential to be the greatest genius in the world.

"They're having fun with Nagi's talent. We might gets crushed because of it, but if that's what he wants, then I won't object. Besides, weren't we both entranced by his talent before? First me, then you. [...] If Chris and Agi's guidance proves successful, he may reach unprecedented levels. And it'll be the birth of the actual "Greatest Genius in the World.""

- Reo to Isagi, Chapter

Reo finishes this by telling Isagi to not get left behind, because Nagi's the type of guy who can discard anything to chase what he wants.

After Kunigami scores and Isagi starts rapidly evolving with his metavision, Reo muses to himself how he wants to score goals, and he doesn't ever want to be the guy that doesn't chosen, and how he never, ever wants to experience that feeling again. This cuts to a flashback of the times Nagi left Reo, and Reo reprimends himself saying "Ah shit...why am I remembering this now....I thought I got over these frustrating memories...." He snaps out of it and tells himself to not dwell on the past, and that since that loss he's only gotten stronger, and he's no longer the guy who can't win if he doesn't have Nagi. He also thinks to himself how he was wrong for pushing Nagi to tag along for his dream, and how it's not Nagi's fault and how he's the one who needs to change so they can someday play side by side as equals.

Right after this, Nagi

Moments

 * Reo ruffles Nagi's hair while the sleepy boy leans on the cafeteria table, annoyed by Kuon's words.
 * Isagi retorts back to Nagi when accused of needing Bachira, by saying that he needed Reo as well to accentuate his skills.
 * Kunigami and Chigiri notice how Reo is sitting on his own sulkily because Nagi left him for Isagi.
 * While Reo practices his coordination with Kunigami and Chigiri, he says that he doesn't care what the other two decide, as long as he can win against Nagi in the end.
 * Nagi seems extremely relieved that Reo was in one of the last teams to advance to the Third Selection.

Quotes
"Hey Reo, soccer is interesting huh?"

- Nagi to Reo, Chapter 23

"Reo. You taught me about soccer. You and I together can become the best in the world. That's for sure."

- Nagi to Reo, Chapter 43

"Nagi is a treasure I found. With this match, I'll steal him back from you!"

- Reo to Isagi, Chapter 59

"Finally... I can fight by your side, Nagi!"

- Reo about Nagi, Chapter 104

"And that's exactly why they are so radiant."

- Reo about Nagi and the geniuses, Chapter 106

Fanon
On AO3, Reonagi is the most written ship inside Blue Lock fandom (anime and manga), as well the first for both characters. It's main rival ship is Nagisagi, but this the ship is easily overshadowed by Reonagi and more popular Isagi ships by a landslide. It's often shipped alongside Kunigiri, but is most commonly shipped individually.

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Trivia

 * Their birthdays are just nearly 100 days (99 days) apart, with Nagi's falling on the 6th of May, and Reo's on August 12th.
 * They have a height difference of 5 cm, with Nagi being 190 cm and Reo 185.
 * Reo is a Leo and Nagi is a Taurus.
 * When leaving for Blue Lock, Nagi left his pet Cactus, Choki, with Ba-ya, Reo's personal butler.