Flame Reaver is so down bad for Anaxa it’s not even funny like ? That little tug-of-war scene? Mind you this man has 400 million coreflames and bodied Cipher by slamming her against a wall (condolences). Suddenly he’s having problems tugging his weapon out of the grip of a walking corpse whose life is barely held together by a single coreflame of Reason. It’s not like Anaxa is particularly strong; bro was losing his breath just climbing up the stairs in Dawncloud. It’s even funnier when you notice he couldn’t even look at Anaxa while he was attempting to stab him. Flame Reaver kills every other Chrysos Heirs brutally without batting an eye, numbed by the repetitions through millions of cycles. But Anaxa? The one time we know Khaslana had to kill Anaxa (ER 134) he was dissociating and didn’t register what happened in his memory. Up until that ER Khaslana still tried to talk to the Chrysos Heirs and gather the coreflames through somewhat-peaceful means, but after killing Anaxa for possibly the first time, his decision making to save the Chrysos Heirs dropped to almost zero. We were shown Flame Reaver killing nearly every other Chrysos Heirs but never Anaxa, and it was a deliberate storytelling choice. Even his death by Khaslana’s hand was kept vague, as if the narrator himself was unable to process his grief.
