if im allowed to be so fucking real i dont think kayleigh is particularly fully innocent regarding tetsuji and the moriyamas and i don’t think she’s particularly fully on board and evil about it either. if we’re to judge her by her offspring kayleigh most likely knew a little bit about how bad tetsuji was but knew she had to make a choice between her ambitions and fulfilling her role as a mother, and she chose kevin when she could and exy when she couldn’t. it’s the same morality applied to whether she was evil or not to hide from wymack that he is kevin’s father—she had to make a choice between her responsibilities as a mother and her career, and she chose her career. consistently and all across kayleigh has put exy first and foremost, and that’s exactly in line with what we would expect from kevin’s mother, especially when you take in consideration that exy was her life’s work and everyone around her was constantly trying to find a way to demote her out of it so that exy could belong solely to her male counterpart

some days i still can’t believe nora named kevin that way. like yes, he’s a traumatized alcoholic with daddy issues who is addicted to his college sport with zero visible empathy and a dead mom and his name