Araya looks at that goal and laughs. Not cruelly, but with the pity of someone who sees a child trying to rebuild a sandcastle after a tsunami. What is Araya’s direction? Abandonment.
In the sprawling, godless megastructure of Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame! , there are no heroes. There are only survivors, ghosts, and gods who forgot they were once human. Among these broken deities stands Araya —a character so quiet, so passive, yet so terrifyingly absolute that his words echo long after the page is turned.
If you could choose between a endless, bloody struggle to reclaim a flawed past, or a quiet, artificial perfection that requires abandoning everything you were... which direction would you take?
Consider his domain: a massive, silent complex where he has created artificial humans——designed not to carry the Net Terminal Gene, but to exist entirely outside the Safeguard’s jurisdiction. They are imperfect by original human standards. They cannot access the network. They cannot "log in."