User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Fina Bicchieri/@comment-4867780-20161227043634/@comment-4867780-20170101234954

Oh ! Makes sense now, he did seem far past the "victim card" expiration date ^ ^

Tragic villains can definitely be interesting (even the legendary Darth Vader was one of them as revealed in the second trilogy), they just need a dark past that convincingly and proportionally explains their evil deeds later, while evil Huozai's were mostly the pursuit of self-satisfaction.

I remember Staline himself, possibly the most famous sociopath of the 20th century had an exceedingly unfavorable childhood with endless beatings and abuses, most likely the driving force behind his unfettered quest for absolute power later on and his "anyone who troubles me must die" hardcore misanthropy.