Odium

Odium Ansel Sui, or just Odium is the former central antagonist-turned-anti-hero of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic called The Day of Reckoning. He is a mythological, anthropomorphic grey wolf who was a helpful humanitarian with an intense hatred for injustice of any kind. He was later tricked and traumatized for years into being the antagonist by a seer named Calypso. After finding out the truth about the Mane Six and their friends not being evil, he got started on working hard to fix his crimes and errors.

Older
Odium is an slim, anthropomorphic, bipedal, grey wolf with a white underside and dark-gray tips on both his ears and long, spiky tail. He also has spiky hair on both the top and sides of his head and turquoise eyes with black, vertical slit pupils and white highlights, as well as pink skin on the inside of his ears. He has a medium-sized snout and black nose, as well as white, sharp, canine teeth and claws. He's also taller than the Mane Six, but shorter than Discord.

His clothing consists of a dark-brown, long-sleeved, vigilante jacket with a dark-gray, golden-buckled strap, and a dark-blue, white and black arrow cross symbol on each side and elbow. He also wears light-brown shorts held by a dark-gray, golden-buckled belt and has a turquoise feather on the front of each pant-leg. He also has a dark-blue stripe around the bottom end of his jacket, sleeves, and pant-legs. He also wears no socks or shoes.

He also carries a long, light-brown, magic-proof, wooden staff with three small, bent branches on the top end and white bandages wrapped around the middle of it, on his back.

Younger
When he was younger, his overall design is more rounded, brighter, and shorter compared to his older, taller, darker, more pointy design. He has light-blue eyes with rounder pupils and white highlights as well as no dark-gray tips on his ears and tail. He also has a shorter snout, smaller, dark-gray nose, and rounder teeth and claws, as well as light-pink skin on the inside of his ears. He's also about the same height as the Mane Six, if not shorter.

He wears a light-brown, long-sleeved, collared shirt with golden buttons on it and light-gray Borromean Rings on the front and on each elbow. He also wears beige, shorts held by a gray, light-golden-buckled belt and has a light-blue, smaller, rounder feather on the front of each pant-leg as opposed to the longer, sharper feathers on his older design's pants. He also has a light-blue stripe around the bottom of his shirt, sleeves, and pant-legs. He also wears still wears no socks or shoes. Odium's younger color palette is brighter than his older one which uses darker tones for the most part. Overall, his younger appearance is more naïve, innocent, and adorable compared to his older appearance's more serious, hostile and aggressive design.

He also has no staff on his back.

Personality
After his birth, Odium started out as a mostly curious, sensitive, and unassuming pup who was raised into thinking that his life’s purpose is to help others, stop injustice, and make the world a better place by any means, albeit in a more black-and-white mindset.

As he grew up, Odium gained a usually serious, gruff, and dogmatic exterior. He’s stubborn, intolerant, and fiercely determined when given a particular task and is very harsh, untrusting, or unforgiving to those who are in the wrong, including himself. He speaks in a more direct approach and doesn’t sweat the details. He’s also become quick to start a fight when dealing with his enemies or facing danger. Though, he can show a more merciful, regretful, and considerate side to him, but only towards those who are either innocent, afraid of him, or got hurt by him when he didn't mean to.

Deep down, Odium has a kind and compassionate heart with an idealistic worldview and playful side to him. While usually keeping a reserved demeanor and strong persistence when doing his objectives, he can, at the same time, be very introspective and a bit of a daydreamer, often spending a lot of time in his mind and admiring his surroundings when he’s alone. He’s deeply loyal to his beliefs to the point of self-destruction, but also cares about those close to him or those who need his help.

Due to his relatively isolated background and stubborn nature, Odium has been given a serious case of tunnel-vision and lack of experience in things outside of his hometown, making him somewhat gullible and prone to jumping to conclusions with a poor judge of character. He also has trouble with interpersonal relations and social gatherings, despite being aware of things like friendship and teamwork and not minding friendly company. This makes him very easily-flustered and nervous when it comes to romance.

In spite of his lack of knowledge toward the outside world and areas outside of his expertise, he’s not slow-witted or outright stupid. He normally uses his strong intuition and street-smarts to guide him. This makes him more in-tune with some of his more animal instincts like curling up when sleeping and sensing danger. He’s also a bit of a tactician when it comes to fighting due to his training from the seer.

While he’s usually courageous, self-sacrificing, and has little regard for his own well-being to the point of self-destruction, the few things that truly scare him are fire, losing loved ones, and being a bad person. He can get motion-sickness when being teleported and has also gained PTSD from both his experiences in his hometown and after the seer's death of old-age right in front of him.

His other, deep-seated motive for his actions is to make his family proud of him, as well as live up to and preserve their reputation for noble behavior. Due to how his family raised him despite their living conditions and extremely flawed parenting, he still admires them for their good intentions and loving nature towards others. This is the true cause behind his first motive.

Aside from those two motives, his greatest passion is traveling. Due to being somewhat sheltered for his entire life, he’s always wanted to see the world outside of his hometown and even dreamed of surviving in the woods due to usually enjoying solitude and silence.

He’s also deeply invested in writing. Whenever he’s traveling, he would jot down his thoughts and experiences on his small notepad that he keeps in his patch pocket. This is to help him keep track of them and keep his mind calm when he's stressed. He also secretly wishes to become a famous writer besides just helping others and traveling by himself to see the world.

After gradually realizing that he’s been tricked the whole time and how horrible he's become. He rejected the gang's friendship and wanted to be punished for his own crimes due to not deserving forgiveness or redemption, but still didn’t trust them because of how long he’s been indoctrinated.

Even after serving his punishment, he's still wary and anxious towards others and himself. He decides to head out on his own in order to fix the rest of his misdeeds during his journey against them and find his family to see if they really are dead or not. Despite his travels, he prefers to live in the woods like he wanted. Though he does realize that it’s not as great as he thought, he decides to live and survive in it due to having nowhere else to go. Even then, he still enjoyed the solitude and silence.

Overall, while seemingly rough-around-the edges on the outside, Odium is a very gallant wolf with a strong sense of justice and deep inner world.

Past
Many years before the series started, Odium was a young, well-meaning, and helpful pup who was born into an honorable family. They've taught him many different lessons to learn in life in order to be good towards others, but the biggest lesson he learned was that whenever he sees injustice of any kind happening, he should tackle it head on in order to make sure that others don't suffer.

This made sense as his family moved to and lived in a very disreputable town on the other side of the planet named Rogue Town, where injustice and hardships usually happens on a daily basis due to overpopulation, poverty, and competition for years before he was born. This made Odium's family, who are some of the only ones trying to do something about it, create and uphold to a moral code against injustice in order to make sure that life becomes better for others, whether inside or outside their new and current damaged society.

Overtime, in Odium's life, he would follow this code for his family and others in order to make life better out of honor and integrity. He's done things like giving an orphan back some bread after it was stolen from him by hooligans before giving them some bread of his own, told off a cruel and abusive family for yelling and kicking out their child, etc. all in the name of honor and integrity. However, this caused him to be so obsessed, single-minded, and blinded by his family's philosophy to the point of downright hatred, confrontation, judgement, self-righteousness and bitterness towards injustice of any kind, as well as towards those who violate said moral code.

After Odium became old enough to survive on his own, he left his disreputable town and waved goodbye to his honorable and loving family before heading through a cold and barren forest that leads outside of the town named the Black Tree Forest. Freezing from the chilling air without any warm clothes to put on, Odium needed someplace to warm up for a while. Suddenly, his ears twitched as he heard a strange sound from nearby. Out of curiosity, he decided to quickly follow it up to a large, rocky cave that housed an old and mysterious seer.

The seer took him in and gave him some warmer clothes to put on. The seer then insisted that he'd stay with her for more warmth and better shelter from the cold, which Odium hesitantly agrees since he's got nowhere else to go. After a few days have passed, Odium was about to leave, until the seer stops him and tells him that she and others need help. This intrigues Odium with both curiosity and a bit of skepticism, but she assured him that it's truly for the greater good. Seeing this as a necessity to help others out and live up to his family's high moral legacy, Odium listens to what she has to say.

The seer then shows Odium, through her crystal ball, all of the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord's future wrongdoings and faults; the disasters they're responsible for, the crimes they questionably committed, and even how they've treated each other and others like Spike at times throughout the series while also subverting the good that they've done. She also says that they're manipulative and vindictive beings who use their so-called "good-nature" to escape their faults and even excuse them. They will also destroy anyone who goes up against them.

This angers Odium while the seer tells him that he's the only one who can stop them. Odium asks why him and not anyone else, but the seer says that he's the most selfless and bravest person that she's seen who has the most potential and that he has to do it in if he truly wants to do the right thing and live up to his family's moral legacy. Odium hesitantly accepts and the seer decides to help train and prepare him until he's truly ready to face the Mane Six, but also tells him to watch the visions over and over again in order to have a great focus needed for his mission.

After years of training, planning, and studying the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord while being told to watch the visions over and over again, causing his hatred and determination against the Mane Six and their friends to slowly grow overtime, the seer finally said that Odium is ready and gave him one of her ancient weapons before painfully dying of old age and turning to dust right in front of him. This traumatized Odium greatly before he headed out on his journey against the Mane Six and the others.

During his journey, however, he began to see injustices everywhere he went and decided to stop it with no reward or recognition. Like helping an old lady against a pack of criminals, defeating a giant rock monster for a lost child, etc. Despite his good deeds, however, that still didn't stop his journey to go after the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord for their misdeeds. In fact, it only strengthened his belief that what he's about to do to them is the right thing to do.

The Day of Reckoning
After a few days of riding a large boat all the way from the other side of the planet, Odium finally reaches his destination to Equestria. Despite admiring the beauty and happiness of the area, something that he rarely got to experience in his home country outside of his loving, yet flawed family, he still needed to follow Gabriella's mission if he wanted to help those in need.

Once he found the Mane Six and their friends, he began to fight against them and accusing them of being evil. After being brutally defeated and called out for his violent, hateful behavior and false accusations about them, he began to question whether or not he was doing the right thing, only to be encouraged to continue by a hallucination of the seer if he wanted to both help others and live up to his family's high moral standards.

Odium made his way over to Canterlot, feeling doubtful, but also more determined at the same time. After questioning why the other ponies there seemed suspicious and slightly afraid of him, he meets up with the group again. He was ready to fight them again and was still distrustful of them until they explained that they know about Gabriella and brought him into the Royal Castle to show him the truth.

After realizing some of Gabriella's backstory, he became so shocked and distraught by this that he ran off in tears of disbelief. He then takes the group to his old hometown, only to see that it was abandoned and destroyed and his family was nowhere to be found while he was gone.

He then explains his backstory and motivation for thinking that the Mane Six and their friends were evil. After being told that he was tricked the whole time by the seer all the way to her death (which she used as an escape from her consequences of her actions), the good deeds that the group did, and seeing that he literally lost everything he had through his previous good deeds turning out for the worse after he left, he became so upset and wracked with guilt, grief, and self-hatred that he blamed himself for everything that’s happened to him under the assumption that he should’ve ignored the seer when he had the chance.

Feeling bad for him, they try to reassure him that he can still start over and make things right again, starting with them, which he accepts. Unfortunately, upon apologizing to the group for his accusations, he then relapses once he finds out that they were going to turn him into stone if they had to, thinking that they were trying to manipulate and possibly even kill him for his self-proclaimed heartless actions.

After a short, second fight, he goads them to do what he thinks they were going to do to him now. After being reprimanded with an even more brutal verbal beatdown about his current behavior, petty motivation, and how they were just trying to be nice to him, Odium gradually realizes how hypocritical, ungrateful, hateful, stupid, and heartlessly monstrous he's become and decides to want to be severely punished or even killed out of extreme remorse for trying to attack them, when he’s supposed to make life better for others, out of extreme remorse and due to genuinely thinking that he deserves it.

The group then stops him and gives him a much better punishment: helping the worker ponies fix up the rest of the entire castle under very close scrutiny, much to his surprise due to genuinely thinking that he was going to go to Tartarus for eternity like he thought he deserved.

Odium thinks about his punishment for a bit before accepting it, since he needed to work hard to fix what he started. He still had self-hatred for his actions as he declined joining the group for the coronation once he was done due to both acknowledging that he still had more work to do afterwards and that he doesn’t want to be let off too easily, which the group understands.

Abilities
Unlike other villains in the series, who use either magic or technology to achieve their goal(s), Odium has no special abilities or equipment, except for the anti-magic staff that was given to him by the mysterious seer before she died of old age right in front of him. Instead, he relies on his physical prowess and intellect to help him. Due to his years of intensive and vigorous training, planning, and studying with the old seer for about as long as the Mane Six's history together, he's able to fight at least on par with them and knows their strengths, weaknesses, and especially pet peeves.


 * Enhanced Condition: Despite his lack of raw power and average physical strength, especially in his arms, Odium’s physical prowess and fighting skills make him a dangerous and highly skilled opponent. The prowess and skill of his normal species either range from average to above-average. Thanks to years of Gabriella's intense, regular, rigorous training, his abilities are beyond that of his normal species in terms of skill and prowess. In spite of getting bruises, scratches, and a bit of actual blood, as well as almost passing out for a bit, he’s able to survive a lot of punishment like being blasted and falling into a tree, or tanking the hard hits of a giant rock monster. In terms of speed and reflexes, he’s able to block a number of magic blasts at quick succession and dodge a blast from Pinkie Pie's Party Cannon in close-quarters combat. Despite his average physical strength, his kicks are more effective than his punches as he’s able to send a flying kick on Starlight Glimmer to the face, launching her to a decent distance. He's able to do backhand springs, flips, etc.


 * Enhanced Senses: Thanks to his species' lupine physiology, he's able to sense things and people using his nose and ears, though his ears seem to be more effective than his nose.


 * Martial Arts: Odium is basically one of the, if not the, most skilled combatants that the Mane Six and their friends have faced in terms of physical combat. His skills are honed to such a degree that he’s able to fight on par with and even slightly overpower powerful magic users like Twilight, Starlight, and (when he’s holding back) even Discord, despite him still being stronger than Odium when he’s not.


 * Bo-Staff Proficiency: A magic-proof bo-staff given to him by Gabriella. This is Odium’s main weapon. The composition of the staff itself is able to block and negate most, if not all, magical techniques and attacks. It can also land a very considerable hit on most opponents if used well. Despite this, it isn’t fireproof or indestructible. Odium is very skilled at wielding it, able to spin it at great speed, pull-vault himself in the air, and do a number of techniques and attacks with it. This indicates that Gabriella taught him the art of bojutsu, along with his normal combat techniques for years.


 * Adaptation, Strategy, and Perception: Despite his usually average intellect in terms of normal activities, Odium is able to use his wits, study of his opponents' strengths, weaknesses, and pet peeves, and use of the environment to his advantage. Despite that, he can’t predict everything and can still get caught off-guard when distracted or fatigue.


 * Sharp Claws and Teeth: While they were much duller, rounder, and softer during his youth, as he grew older, his claws and teeth became sharper and more harder. Despite loving to eat vegetarian food, he’s still able to give a powerful bite and cut from them in combat or other situations that require them.

Weaknesses

 * He can sometimes let his burning hatred and rage for any injustices get in the way of his focus and composure, causing him to act without thinking at times.


 * Even though he can hold his own in a fight, he can be easily trumped by magic users, especially without the magic-proof staff.


 * Due to his high sense of honor, and high moral standards, Odium can be very stubborn when it comes to his moral code and unwillingness to hurt or kill others and things who aren't his targets, even when he's in blind hatred and rage. This leaves him vulnerable to their attacks. He also has a strong sense of mercy, even towards said targets.


 * He has a few fears, such as fire, losing a loved one, and being a bad person.


 * In spite of his many years of training, Odium can still be affected by the Plateau Effect. This can either cause his effectiveness to decrease overtime and/or cause him to reach the peak of his physical limits and never improve beyond that.


 * Despite Odium being able to hold his own in a fight and his usually arrogant attitude, he does know when he's outmatched or outnumbered and knows when to retreat in order to fight another day.


 * The staff he wields may be magic-proof, but not fire-proof, at least against normal fires, though.


 * Odium is vulnerable to mind-control and having his mind broken if given enough stress to cause the latter. Due to watching others have their minds broken or quake in fear at the hooves of the Mane Six, he eventually thinks that they're going to do the same thing to him, causing him to have a panic attack and relapse back into hating them, though instead of trying to hurt them again, he tries to kill them before his realization.


 * Despite his intelligence, he can be very gullible and naive towards those who need his help, yet distrustful towards those he views as in the wrong.


 * Due to Odium having average strength and lacking in raw power, along with not having any magical or technological abilities, he's able to be taken down very easily by those with more power by comparison.


 * Odium's weakest point on his body is his neck. If his opponents grab tightly onto his knock with enough strength, it will stop his blood from going to his brain, causing him to be put to sleep or eventual die if held long enough.


 * His senses are vulnerable to Sensory Overload, which can overload the senses to extremely painful results. They may be filled by pain if Odium is injured.


 * Despite his incredible years of martial arts and bojutsu, he doesn't know how to use any other weapon besides using a bo-staff and takes years to learn how to do that properly.

Kudos Sui
Kudos is Odium's father who, along with Probitas, used to raise, discipline, and care for both him and his little twin siblings before Odium grew up and moved out. He usually leaves for work at his underpaid job as a Steward.

Despite his father's stern and strict behavior towards him, Odium does look up to him just like he looks up to his mother due to how protective and hard-working he is and how dedicated he is to the family, their values, and others.

Like his wife, he is completely unconscious towards Odium's hateful and unforgiving nature towards injustice of any kind.

Palma Sui
Palma is Odium's mother who, along with Kudos, used to raise, discipline, and care for both him and his little twin siblings before Odium grew up and moved out. She is a stay-at-home parent who looks after the kids while her husband is at work.

Odium looks up to his mother, just like he looks up to his father, but for different reasons. Despite her irresolute and over-emotional behavior at times, Odium admires her soft-hearted and nuturing attitude and her need to care more for other's well-being rather than her own, which he sees as very selfless and honorable. He also helps her a lot with nothing in return, even if she doesn't want him to.

He does care about her just as much as he cares about the rest of the family and others. Like her husband, she is completely unconscious towards Odium's hateful and unforgiving nature towards injustice of any kind.

Adaleigh and Allsun Sui
Adaleigh and Allsun are Odium's younger twin siblings who are the only ones who know that while it's always great to help others, the first person to help is yourself due to secretly watching how it's affecting the family.

Odium is very protective and caring towards his siblings despite their arguing at times and wants to see them safe and happy, as well as try to withhold the family's values. He does find them a bit selfish and egotistical at times since they mostly focus more on helping themselves instead of just helping others, but he does still want what's best for them in spite of his view of their actions.

Gabriella
Gabriella was Odium's supposed mentor before she gave him her magic-proof bo-staff and died of old age. After Odium moved out of his family's house and disreputable town, she called out to him and took him in from the cold for a few days in order to trick him about the future of the Mane Six and friends' wrongdoings and faults throughout the series, but Odium was none the wiser to this. She also agreed to train, plan, and study with him in order to put them in their place, much to Odium gullibility of her true intentions before her inevitable death.

After years of training, planning, studying, and focusing with Odium on only the Mane Six's faults, strengths, weaknesses, and berserk buttons, Gabriella finally said that he was ready to go after them on his own and gave him her magic-proof bo-staff before painfully dying of old-age and turning into dust right in front of him in order to avoid getting any consequences for her actions, thus traumatizing him to a very high degree before he went out and after them.

After Odium found out that he was tricked by her the whole time, it greatly took even more of a toll on him, both mentally and morally, and caused his guilt, self-loathing, and grief for the loss of everything, possibly including his family to feed on him, to overtake him, all of which being some of the causes for his eventual relapse and realization towards the Mane Six.

Before Odium found out that he was tricked and emotionally manipulated for years by Gabriella, he saw her as a kind and wise, yet strict mentor who needed him to help both her and others and would follow her every order if it meant fulfilling that help, even if he had to put himself in danger in the process. Because of this, he felt greatly traumatized when she painfully died and turned into dust right in front of him. But after learning her true intentions and nature, he not only showed extreme guilt and self-hatred for being so blinded by her manipulation and from his actions, but also even more hatred and distrust than before.

The Mane Six
Due to his moral code, his bitter hatred for all injustice, and being unknowingly tricked by a mysterious, old, female seer that showed him all of the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord's "corrupted" misdeeds, Odium gained a huge hatred for them, wanting them to pay for said misdeeds by trying to physically and verbally hurt them. When they first met, Odium tried to attack them and nearly beaten them before fleeing away from Fluttershy and Spike and vowing justice against them.

Despite wanting to badly hurt them, he is very honorable towards the things that they care about and refuses to go after them, as well as saying or doing anything else that would set them off out of moral limits as he knows that doing them anyway would set off their berserk buttons, which is not a part of his and the seer's plan. He also is very merciful, as shown when he spared Fluttershy when he saw her flinching in fear from one of his attacks before fleeing and vowing to return for justice.

After hearing about his backstory and motivation for his actions, The Mane Six, especially Twilight, are seemingly able to reason with him about how flawed his moral code is and that he's been tricked by the seer, as well as apologizing for their misdeeds. However, after something else came to ruin all of their progress with him, Odium becomes shocked and angry at them, thinking that they're just going to something else horrible to him, like break him mentally, and that they're just trying to manipulate him into being one of their victims and don't truly forgive him for his terrible actions or are actually sorry.

Reverting back to his old behavior, Odium attacks and tries to kill the Mane Six and their friends, though he still tries to avoid setting off their berserk buttons, before fighting alone with Twilight. After talking down to himself when push comes to shove, Odium finally realizes for himself how horrible he's been acting and how he's ironically doing the exact injustice he tried to stop, effectively hating himself and regretting his actions.

After the fight is over, Odium decides to willingly be sent to Tartarus since he thinks he's caused too much trouble to truly deserve redemption and forgiveness, at least not that easily from them.

Spike the Dragon
Because he isn't the one of the targets for Odium's hatred and thirst for justice, Spike is one of the many ones who were exempted, spared, and left unaccounted for entirely by Odium out of morals. Even when Spike is trying to stop him and protect the Mane Six from his wrath, Odium still won't even try to attack him and instead either angrily questions why he's protecting them after all of their past screw-up, especially towards him and/or try to find a way around him.

Starlight Glimmer
Similar to the Mane Six, except worse, Odium harbors a huge hatred for Starlight due to not being punished enough for her actions. Since Starlight is the one with the second most and second biggest screw-ups out of the group, Odium decides to take her out after Discord.

Discord
After seeing Discord's recent misdeeds in the series and not being punished for it, Odium harbors a hatred that's just as, if not even more, huge than Starlight's. Since Discord is the most powerful and the one with the most and biggest screw-ups out of the group, Odium decided to take him out first.

Trivia

 * Odium is the first antagonist to think that the Mane Six are evil and have an ulterior motive to their so-called compassionate, "Magic of Friendship" instincts.
 * Unfortunately, that realization (along with both his flawed moral code, hatred and distrust of injustice of any kind, and being tricked by a mysterious seer for years) keeps him from realizing that those instincts are 100% genuine and sincere and that they aren't evil at all.


 * His name means "General or widespread hatred or disgust directed toward someone as a result of their actions." This fits his personality, goal, and motivation.
 * The name, "Odium Sui", is Latin for "Self-Hatred" or "His Hatred". This is foreshadowing both his eventual realization and need for punishment towards himself, as well as his own inner and outer hatred.


 * What the creator of The Day of Reckoning wanted people to take away from the fanfiction and the character arcs, especially Odium's, was that you need to acknowledge and learn from your sins and mistakes as well as help others do the same when needed.


 * Unlike other villains who think that they deserve better than what happened to them, Odium, deep down, thinks that he deserves the opposite due to his actions towards the Mane Six and others. He thinks that he is unworthy of forgiveness, redemption, and/or having anything good happening to him, not because of what happened to him in his past, but from what he did and how he did it.


 * His favorite flowers are Purple Hyacinths and Camellias.


 * Some of the themes that Odium is used to tackle are Moral Injury, the effects of Emotional/Psychological Manipulation, Guilt, and Self-Loathing.


 * Originally, the creator of Odium wanted him to either actually be thrown in Tartarus for eternity or be killed by the Mane Six and their friends for his crimes. However, due to the complaints of the former punishment, it had to be changed to a much lesser, yet fitting punishment.
 * He also wanted to have Odium realize for himself how wrong he was for his actions in a similar way to how Spinel did in the Steven Universe Movie, but due to some optimization issues and not being able to find an original and fitting way to make that happen, it didn’t come to fruition.
 * Also, the reason why he made Odium lose everything he had wasn’t for sympathy or shock value, but as a proper punishment for him for his crimes if the audience didn’t like him or if he got off too easy.
 * It was also to give him more reason to work hard enough to fix his mistakes in order to support one of the fanfiction's main themes of having to work hard in order to make things right.