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franeridan · 8 months ago

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Thinking about the paths in hsr and how some inform so much about the characters once you figure out the logic behind them, and specifically about ratio longing for nous's recognition but following lan's path - he's obviously a scholar, so him being an erudition character would have made a lot of sense when you don't think too deeply about it, but despite characters with less ties to knowledge walking that path ratio does not. He follows the path of the hunt. And that's a very cool fact about him imho

During his quest screwllum says that more than a scholar he feels like ratio's a doctor with the way he tries to cure people of their ignorance, which isn't strictly wrong and I love that about him (and I love about screwllum that he thinks so poetically too), but the way I see it ratio really is a hunter. He does follow lan's path, when you think about it. His travels are all about his fight against ignorance, after all. Thinking about him and his relationship to the aeons really put a lot of things about the paths into perspective for me - I thought the paths were somewhat more literal, but after all it's about the driving force behind a character's actions, is it not?

Nous is the unrelenting pursuit of the truth, of knowledge and information, and that's why someone like argenti follows that path despite being the furthest thing from a scholar you could think of - his travels are first and foremost about finding the truth about idrila, after all. On the other hand ratio isn't actively devoting his life to finding a truth or amassing more knowledge, and that's why nous won't look at him. He is extremely intelligent and competent, and he does value learning above all else, but his main pursuit is to use that knowledge to rid the universe of ignorance, and that's why he follows lan's path - the hunt is the path of those devoting their life to fighting against something, in the end, be it a literal enemy or a figurative one.

It's really really interesting to me? There's a ton of characters that are given depth by understanding their path, I love to think about it

#this is the reason why sundays bait didn't work on him i think #sunday was acting under the impression that ratio followed nous above all else #that he craved knowledge more than anything #but the simple truth is that he doesn't #he studies because he likes it and because it makes his ambition easier but it's not his life purpose #veeeery interesting truly #I've been going down this type of rabbit holes since i first played through the xianzhou tbh #how dh goes from the hunt to destruction and what that says about dan feng #how i believe it's probable df himself changed path the moment he did what he did?#he was probably abundance before which is why bailu is now following that path #he WAS a healer after all and he DID forsake that and risk destroying his whole home for his goal #it's fun with him bc i think he did change element too #he created a life after all that's probs why he's imaginary too #on that note blade changed path when he was reborn too i think #him following the path of destruction now makes perfect sense but I wonder what he could have been before #same for jl actually they're all so tragic #i wonder if the events of their past might have had jy change path too....#he's a strategist so erudition intuitively works for him but i wonder what knowledge he's truly seeking to follow that path #i would have thought preservation more logical for him ngl #ahhhhh I'm digressing but either way !!!!!! fun topic to think about #makes me even more excited to find out which path we'll be unlocking for march next !!

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