
Just realized that Nanook healing himself doesn't NECESSARILY break his Primum Mobile
So this moment has been kinda... controversial in the HSR community. Nanook healing from a scratch left by Phainon after he incinerated himself seems like it goes against the idea of Aeons being unable to diverge from their Primum Mobile. I mean, he's Destruction. He should destroy and only destroy, right?
Well, uh... not exactly.
A point some people tend to not exactly ignore, but certainly gloss over, is the nature of Paths as described to us. Yes, they are concepts given form as sources of power... but they're very specifically philosophical concepts. They were never these hyper-literal ideas that only work one specific way, there's a wide variety of means that one could use to follow a given Path. Voracity eats for many different reasons with many different endgoals, Preservation protects for many different reasons with many different endgoals, so on and so forth.
Destruction is, more than likely, the greatest example of this. It is directly shown through Amphoreus that the ultimate extreme of every Path is it turning into a form of Destruction, even ones that directly conflict with it on paper like Preservation or Abundance. And it makes sense; ideas about destroying the world to "remake it in your own image" or "have something better rise from the ashes"... are still ideas that revolve around destruction as their core.
If protection and healing can ultimately become destruction, then why would Nanook healing himself be breaking his Primum Mobile? Perhaps we've simply been misunderstanding what his Primum Mobile actually is.