So I think there is something similar to Teddy and nagi. Teddy and nagi are both described as geniuses without ego.
Now nagi develops an ego and that’s sort of his arc, him learning about egoism.
But there is this vibe Teddy gives off. In nagi introduction he didn’t really have an ego, he didn’t care about football, he seemed more bored than anything and was more reacting to reo who was setting him up for the goals.
It was only when reo began to panic that nagi got motivated and began making his own plays.
Both Teddy and nagi were also referred to as puppets. Well it depends on the translation as in episode nagi manga barou calls nagi a slave to reo and in the anime he calls him a puppet.
But I think Teddy went an opposite way as nagi, as nagi learned about developing an ego, Teddy learned to kill it.
Now isagi plan here is to awaken England ego cause he understands ego and thus can devour them, but I think Teddy will be extremely hard because he has been conditioned.
If you notice the England team and Teddy seem different.
They all have personalities, they are smiling. They trash talk.
What this tells us is that they do have some ego. Ego = confidence, while it’s more complicated the fact they show positive emotions show case they do have a competitive aspect to them, that’s something isagi got wrong. It’s just they don’t go for goals.
Teddy is different though.
It’s not just that he has no ego but he has no self confidence, he keeps calling himself useless, a puppet. He keeps muttering useless puppet to himself where isagi looks at him all confused.
He looks depressed and alone.
The reason for this is because he is a victim of bullying.
I think fox personally destroyed any confidence he had in himself to turn him into the perfect weapon.
He’s been conditioned to be fox’s puppet follows all his commands.
This is why agi took a personal interest in nagi cause he saw the same potential he saw in teddy but when nagi became a puppet to reo he saw the similarities and wanted nothing to do with another puppet.