>>3856799He's legit such a unique character in every way. His design, both of them actually, there's just nothing similar out there for male characters at all. And yeah there's plenty of smug brats and mischevious cute guy characters with hidden depth, but he's so much more than that, there's a unique blend of characterization and backstory to thim that makes him have a really strong, characteristic personality. It's why he's always one of the most popular characters people talk to in AI chat sites.
Props to hoyo they just hit a home run on every aspect of him, while straying extremely away from the safe space of their normal innocuous character designs. He could have easily been a failure too (heck, half of the playerbase, waifufags mostly, still hates his guts) but somehow he's a niche character with an actually huge fandom. Either way, there'll probably never be a similar character to him that's gonna get this popular.