The relationship between power and agency defines the divide between these two characters more than any combat metric. Comparing a YPS-3 authority user to a YPS-7 physical cultivator is a category error because their abilities operate on fundamentally different planes of existence. The meaningful metric here is not destructive capacity, but the cost of autonomy. Beatrice represents power as a gilded cage; her centuries of arcane knowledge served only to anchor her to a library in a state of frozen grief. Her arc is defined by the surrender of her ego to form a bond with Subaru, proving that for her, the only way to escape a static existence was to accept dependency. Conversely, Han Li treats power as the only reliable currency in a predatory universe. His trajectory from a farmer with False Spiritual Roots to a law-rewriting entity is a calculated war against vulnerability. While Beatrice finds liberation through connection, Han Li finds it through the systematic elimination of need. His high Ego and Growth scores reflect a philosophy where the only one who can be trusted is the self, whereas Beatrice's growth is measured by her willingness to finally be fragile. One seeks the safety of a hand to hold; the other seeks a universe where no one can reach him.
Archetype breakdowns and dispute court land in later phases.