Yes. I am a certified Silas hater. He’s not even the antagonist, he’s literally the driving force of my entire series. But. I hate him LOL. If I ever met him in real life i’d probably side eye him the entire time because he’s so full of himself.
I have a weird relationship with his character. I hate him, but I love the way i’ve written him. He’s cocky, a bit self centered, full of himself, and sometimes just straight up rude, but he technically has every right to be. He’s a genius. Like literally. He’s created machines that alter time and works for the government, he got an internship at nasa as an 18 year old. He’s very well spoken but not in a pretentious way. Everyone around him admires him, except for those closest to him. He’s been right about basically everything in his life, so right that when he finally does start messing up he just can’t admit to it because he’s “never been wrong about anything”. His personality and inability to admit he’s done something stupid tends to drive a wedge between them, even forcing his work partner to try and KILL HIM because he’s so convinced he’s right all the time that when he makes the biggest mistake that could destroy humanity, he doesn’t even believe he’s doing anything wrong and his partner believes that was the only way to stop him.
But despite me disliking him, i’m also a sucker for his character because there on aspect about him I deeply admire, and that’s the care he has for his younger brother, the 2nd mc in my story. In a way I think that’s why I can’t fully hate him because as an older sibling myself, I understand and empathize with this part of him. He will go to ANY lengths to protect his brother and care for him, to the point he offers basically his entire life just so that his brother can be happy for a little bit. But even with him, Silas’s inability to admit to his wrongdoing still sticks, which pushes him and his brother so far apart that at some point they aren’t even on speaking terms, which kills Silas.
I love his character arc, but I hate him as a character. I like the antagonist more than him LOL