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seyaryminamoto · 2 years ago

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What gladiator antagonists do Sokka and Azula hold the most hatred for? They've come up against some really despicable enemies during their time together and they both probably have different picks for most hated thorn in their sides as well as some good picks for second most hated. I think Ozai will take first place for both of them.

Gee... that's a tricky one.

Thing is they both hate Shaofeng a lot. I would assume most readers do too xD he's probably the one character with virtually zero redeeming qualities in this story. I can't be bothered to say a single good thing about him because he's just the worst. So, yeah, they hate this asshole big time and so do I!

At this moment... Iroh is also a big choice for them both. He's someone you expect better from, is the way I see it... and someone who wasn't acting all that blindly when he made the crucial, terrible choice he made. He was impulsive, very foolish, and he fucked up majorly with what he's done. While he certainly can have more redeeming qualities than Shaofeng (honestly it's actually hard to have as few as Shaofeng does, considering the number in his case is zero x'D), their resentment towards him isn't likely to go away anytime soon, as he's pretty much the artificer of their downfall, regardless of whatever remorse he may feel now over what he's done.

But of course... Ozai. Oh, Ozai. This bastard even betrayed me X'D I have been relatively okay with him for years simply because his potential as a character is interesting. I've never and will never justify anything he does... but he's someone you can certainly create complex and interesting stories around. You can explore him however thoroughly as you care to! But then... then 236 happened and I saw red just as much as everyone else did, and I keep seeing red with him constantly ever since. He's a little less unbearable in flashbacks (such as one we'll see in chapter 253)... but I'm constantly thinking to myself that I hate him lately and that had never happened before the final arc of Part 2 xD safe to say he has made me mad in ways I never imagined he could make me mad. Of course, he has a horrible advantage over Azula in the fact that he's her father and, as horrible as he is to her, our poor girl can't fully sever her attachment to him... but Sokka utterly despises him and would absolutely wreck him to kingdom come if he has the chance. He objectively, empirically hates Iroh for what he's done... but I'd say he hates Ozai all the more because yes, Iroh is a bastard, but Ozai had virtually NO REASON to do what he's done. No one was forcing him to become the nightmare he has shaped himself into. It's all on Ozai to have reacted as he did, to have hurt his daughter as much as he has, and Sokka won't ever forgive him for that.

Jeong Jeong comes to mind next... ironically, Sokka almost died because of him, but he simply resents Jeong Jeong while Azula utterly HATES the guy. I won't say she hates him more than anyone else on this list, but she definitely would prefer living in a world without him xD she's perpetually uncomfortable regarding anything connected to this guy and wants nothing to do with him.

I don't think I'd say either of them hates Seethus? They're weirded out by him, and Azula is a little more weirded out due to the firebending connection, I suppose, but they don't exactly hate him, I think. So... he's not part of the list! xD Big congrats to Ol' Spooky for that achievement!

As for Rhone, weeeeell... dead as he may be, Sokka certainly hates him very very much still, kind of like how Azula hates Jeong Jeong. Azula certainly hates Rhone a little more than Sokka hates Jeong Jeong XD but she keeps her distance with him, so to speak, as he was someone who once mattered to Sokka and she wants to respect the bond that existed there. Sokka doesn't think she needs to respect it at all x'D but she still does.

Zhao... yeeeeeah, well. Sokka doesn't really hate Zhao, I think we all know that, though his opinion on the man is going to get a liiittle more complicated in due time and he will definitely have one very dark moment of absolutely despising Zhao. Azula, however... boy, she's not even back to square one with Zhao nowadays, she went even further than that. She definitely resents him more than she ever did before... and I guarantee that's not going to get much better in the future. Fact is, I have a VERY complicated scene with Azula and Zhao coming up in the next chapter I have to write, and I'm here answering asks instead of writing it because denial and procrastination are NICE! XD basically, Zhao's one of the people Azula grows to resent and despise the most in Part 3 due to... reasons :'D While at first it's completely plausible to say that Ozai is the bigger problem, Zhao goes on to become a problem of his own in several ways, and that makes Azula's opinion of him spiral downhill faster than gravity.

Now, moving on to less world-shattering antagonists x'D I'd definitely say they hate Hahn and Hina. They're basically the nightmare couple! They're not really that big a deal all in all, but if neither of them has to EVER deal with those two again, they'll be much happier about life for sure.

Huang Li! Cannot forget Huang Li, the wretched Amateur Arena handler. Azula very much hates him for everything he put Sokka through... Sokka very much hates him for the same reason + on behalf of all the gladiators he had to fight and all the gladiators who had to die because of this piece of shit. He's not really a significant villain and we definitely saw the last of him by now, but their resentment towards him is everlasting anyway.

Another less intimidating villain for sure is Kuan... the very incompetent and embarrassing Kuan. He does have his... fan? Fans, plural? Are there two of them? x'D but he's generally someone Sokka and Azula just can't stand because he's a nobleman with delusions of grandeur and an ego probably bigger than Ozai's (and that's saying something). While he's not among the people they hate most because he really hasn't been able to do anything utterly unforgivable to them, he's someone they would very much love to never deal with again, too.

Their hatred for the Prison Rig's warden is certainly more serious than for Kuan, probably on a similar level as their hatred for Huang Li tbh. He's not exactly important, but the awful things he's responsible for do make them hate him anyway... And I suppose we can just lump in all slave abusers as a general group of people they hate tbh xD if they could put a stop to them permanently and make them pay for everything they've done, they definitely would.

So... okay. After that... let's try to make a proper list with the individual characters I mentioned here XD

Sokka:

Ozai

Shaofeng

Iroh

Rhone

Huang Li

Prison Rig Warden

Zhao (he's as low as #7 because it's only at one specific point in time in the future...!)

Kuan

Hahn & Hina

Jeong Jeong

Azula: