>>41514940He's the universal bishonen that gets used by Cygames to market the game since his breakout success almost 5 years ago. He was a turning point for the game because of how popular he got while only appearing as an antagonist initially.
So you want your basic yume pandering character, who is never explicitly into the main character, but women can project and fantasize about him? You got it.
Want a fujoshi pandering character that is also extremely angsty and has a semi incest love/hate relationship with his creator/father figure, that he never gets over after their death? He fills that in as well.
Want a NTR angle, where the other lookalike of his creator, his former comrade and the main character are trying to get him forget about him all together? Yeah, slap that on as well.
You don't want him to pander to any of the romance demographics? Well he has a generic shounen protagonist arc complete with power ups and bullshit angst to friendship plot to top it all off
I fucking hate this character and why he's so popular so much.