Quote Originally Posted by vormela View Post
Can't put a finger on it. They are both nihilists on the surface, but Zenos is something more.
Some friends and I were just debating what the "proper" term for Zenos is, and whether there's a meaningful difference between existentialism / active nihilism / optimistic nihilism. I personally landed on existentialist for Zenos, as "life has no worth but what you give it" but also "it's worth finding meaning in it"; that's what, for me, separated him from actual nihilists Xande / Amon ("life has no meaning but what you give it and it's not worth giving it any").

As we joked about it more, Venat was tongue-in-cheek pinned as "absurdist" (life has no meaning but what you give it, and it's a paradox to try to look for meaning that doesn't exist, and you should accept this, but also rebel against it by embracing what life has to offer). Though the lyrics to Answers are a cloud you can see any shape in so it comes as no surprise to me you can use it to defend the absurdist worldview, lmao.