Intellectual dominance and narrative endurance operate on entirely different axes, making a direct YPS comparison between a YPS-1 authority type and a YPS-4 narrative type fundamentally meaningless. While Sora manipulates the existing laws of Disboard to secure victory, Subaru forces the world to bend through repeated failure. The real divergence lies in the moral and emotional cost of their respective "cheats." Sora’s journey is a celebration of the frictionless mind; he dismantles hierarchies through game theory and psychological warfare without ever risking his own identity. His reliance on Shiro is a symbiotic comfort, not a sacrifice. Conversely, Subaru weaponizes his own suffering. His influence is bought with trauma, transforming the isekai power fantasy into a grueling exercise in emotional labor. Where Sora finds liberation in the rules, Subaru finds a cage in his own immortality. This contrast reveals a schism in how the genre treats the "weak" protagonist: one is a hidden god of logic who views the world as a playground, while the other is a sacrificial lamb who views the world as a puzzle to be solved through blood. Sora represents the luxury of the strategist; Subaru represents the agony of the survivor. The gap in their Darkness and Growth scores proves that the critical power in isekai is not the ability to win, but the capacity to endure the cost of winning.
Archetype breakdowns and dispute court land in later phases.