I know people like to compare Anaxa with Ratio or Alhaitham, and that's fine. Alhaitham specifically is an expy of Su from honkai impact 3rd who Anaxa is also an expy of. But I'm surprised I dont see more comparisons made between Anaxa and Ruan Mei. I feel they're more similar character wise than Ratio or Alhaitham.
Yeah Anaxa has a personality type similar to those two but its only a surface level. In terms of ideology and methodology, Anaxa is more like Ruan Mei.
They both value their research over other people even if they care about them. For Ruan Mei, she's apathetic to the world and is often called a recluse. She likes the trailblazer well enough, but she doses them before even getting to know them because her research was that important to her. And I don't think it's something she particularly regrets. She's generally pleasant and benevolent but nothing matters more than her research. For Anaxa, he genuinely cares about his students and pushes them to grow and loves when they challenge him but he's not passionate for teaching others like Ratio, his research matters more. He collected information on his fellow chrysos heirs, former students, and even his teacher's assistant because he valued his research more than their privacy.
They both are interested in the act of creation over care. In Ruan Mei's case, she will create autonomous beings and then abandon them for the next experiment. Not out of any cruelty, she just doesn't have the capability to become a caretaker for them because she's not able to become emotionally attached to them. For Anaxa, his methodology for creation is equivalent exchange. He wants to create something out of nothing only at the cost of sacrifice. He has no care for himself in the act of creation, he will give up parts of himself to create and do the impossible.
To expand on their research more, both of their interests are 'what is life?' Ruan Mei conducts her research because she wants to uncover the origin of life, where it ends, and what exactly it is. She even asks what are aeons are as well. Anaxa wants to answer the question 'what are we?' He's only answered what gods are, he wants to find the answer of what humans are i.e. the origin of life.
And I think the most important similarity is that they both wish to become divine. The crux of Ruan Mei's research is to become an aeon. She grew up in a family of researchers on a planet blessed by the abundance and has always observed the lives and deaths of different beings, including her parents. This sparked her obsession with creation, life, and death. The question of what aeons are is the reason she wants to become one. By experiencing aeonhood herself, she could discover even more about life and creation.
Anaxa is infamous for his disrespectful and blasphemous attitude towards the gods because it's his belief that what makes up humans and what makes up gods is the same thing. He wants to become a god because it would confirm for him his research. Similar to Ruan Mei, he's always been curious about life and creation and it became an obsession to him for the same reason as her: death of family. He doesn't want to become a god because he's a chrysos heir; that would imply that that achievement is because of a prophecy and not his own ability. He wants to ascend by his own merit and prove that becoming a god is attainable by humans through his methodology. I think this too would help answer his questions about life. Outside the realm of Amphoreus, I have no doubt he would attract the gaze of Nous; maybe even unwanted.
Thats what separates Anaxa from Ratio; he doesn't care if he has the blessing or gaze from a god or aeon, he just cares about his own research. Much in the same vein as Ruan Mei who attracted the gaze of Nous without even noticing until she looked up from her work.
I love both Anaxa and Ruan Mei, they are very similar characters with similar ambition but their dispositions are so different that it's difficult to even tell. They both are such complex characters and I hope more parallels are drawn between them in the future of the story.
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