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Maybe I'm being terribly dense, but this seems like a RAW/RAI problem that one of my players put forth before me.
As written, Paired Opportunists' ability to receive an otherwise unavailable AoO via your Teamwork Feat buddy would seem to clash against Total Defense denying you any AoOs. One could argue that you either can't get an AoO (Total Defense really is total), or that the parenthetical clause of Paired Opportunists lets you get an AoO in spite of yourself.
As intended, it seems to take most of the sting out of the Total Defense action. Likewise, when compared with Fighting Defensively and taking those same AoOs at a penalty.. things just seem to get murkier.
What do the board citizens think?