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A is for Animosity = what’s something or someone that makes them furious?

Riddle Roseheart / Thorny Rose —

• Most likely individuals that don’t follow any rule or moral code.
• Riddle can be uptight when it comes to following codes and morals, making sure his subordinates follow the same length of thought as he
• He isn’t narrow minded, of course. He knows that people have different beliefs than him and he’s quite understanding of that notion
• He doesn’t impose his view and tries to compromise and work towards a grey area of mutual understanding—however he would state plain and simple that if you don’t value the same things as him you clearly don’t belong in his household
• Ace might know a thing or two about that
• So, people who don’t have a solid morality or follow any sort of code are those who really sent him seething with rage—he understand survival, if someone would explain the reasons to him, but he would never comprehend pure cruelty for the taste of hurting someone
• Because, even if mafia, there are limits you should never cross

Ace Trappola / Cherry Boy —

• Addiction caused by desperation
• Ace, is well-known at this point, had a past as a croupier and he had seen plenty of people gambling away even their mothers for a small chance of winning big
• He talked himself out of trying to stop people to play “just one more round” as it was his job giving players cards and not be their little guardian angel on their shoulders
• He was paid to make them play not being their therapist
• Was he happy that people who lost everything and were neck deep in debt would come crawling back again at his table with money taken from God knows where and from who? 
• No. He was not
• Ace can be awfully frank for his own good, and most of the time he can’t keep his disdain to himself—cutting to him harshly telling off someone who just robbed their elderly mother of her flimsy savings to gamble for the nth time only that week

Deuce Spade / Troublemaker —

• Entitled/rich people, especially those who flaunts their wealth
• Life is hard for everyone, Deuce knows this very well, and he also knows money doesn’t grow on trees
• He learned to appreciate those who put hard work, blood, sweat and soul to climb out of the bottom of the barrel and be where they are now. He has mad respect for them and admire those kind of people
• Types of people that pisses him off greatly are those who were born into wealth, served and revered, pampered with 100% cashmere blankets and fed with golden spoons—people who never had to worry of having clean clothes or enough hot water for a shower
• Don’t get me wrong, he knows rich people are rich for a reason. There’s a good chance of them having earned all those money and they have the right to enjoy it
• However! 
• What he does not appreciate are those rich assholes, with their noses up in the skies it could be mistaken for a airstrip, making fun of and diminish those people who work hard manual labor to earn their living cash
• His instinct to punch someone across the face are very hard to suppress in cases like this 

Cater Diamond / Cherub —

• Any form of disrespect towards women
• Listen, we all know Cater is one of the chillest guys you can find, with his hashtag talk and all his usual jazz, but he grew up surrounded by ladies (his sisters) so he can very easily distinguish a man worth marrying from a shitty boyfriend
• You can say he’s the number one hater of toxic masculinity
• Jokes aside, he knows very well the world has always been unfair for women so if he can prevent possible traumas and make their lives a little bit easier he surely won’t back down
• He won’t tolerate even a single sexist comment, doesn’t matter to who is directed to—mothers, sisters, girlfriends, wives or daughters—he’ll quip back and makes sure the fucker learns his lesson 
• If a slap flies or a slur is thrown? 
• Well, you better take cover in that case, ‘cause he’s Mr.Nice Guy no more

Trey Clover / Pudding —

• Recklessness and recidivism
• Pretty standard of a concept, but very fair
• Trey, along with Riddle, is the mom of the group, always checking not far away that nobody gets hurt for doing something stupid
• If said stupid happens—like a member of the household getting injured because they were manhandling a gun and they get sent straight to the infirmary—he’s reasonably mad
• Mad because said member got injured for acting like a moron for no good reason and mad with himself because he wasn’t paying enough attention to prevent the incident
• Casualties are a thing he can’t control and if they happen because of stupidity he feels responsible for it
• That being said, if he finds the same rookie doing the same stupid thing they got injured for, like nothing had previously sent them to almost meet their creator, he’s more than a little bit mad
• Don’t test his patience

Leona Kingscholar / The King —

• Stupid or overly naive behavior in general
• Look, Leona is no stranger to the horrible things happening in the world, he himself has enough brains to understand he might be a part of those. Stupidity is also part of his daily life—I mean, take a look what kind of morons he has to lead
• Someone who’s got a more positive view of life, one could say, might be refreshing, especially if you take into account that he doesn’t need to be stoic or serious when talking if the other person has no real understanding on what’s really happening
• Try imagine it like a dumb little bunny/amused bigger lion type of situation—it kinda strokes his ego in a way
• However even he has limits regarding naivety.
• To put it simply: it’s cute until it attracts trouble
• It’s a dangerous world out there, whether you’re woman or man, hence you should be more careful what kind of info you give to whom or always look behind your shoulder when walking alone at night
• If you ask him “why?” and ask to explain it he might be not so happy 

Ruggie Bucchie / Hitman —

• Him and Deuce might have the same kind of personal grudge against entitled/rich people but Ruggie is more specific in his hatred
• Entitled/spoiled brats
• He doesn’t like the adult and evolved version of this category either, but realized there’s very little he can do about it except flip the script on them and shut them up for a little while with a quip of his own
• Kids, on the other hand…
• For someone who had to sacrifice a lot—as a child—to keep himself and other little ones in his same situation fed and warm and healthy, this type of behavior pisses him off immensely
• But, while he can’t really do much against adults, kids are whole other story
• Don’t give him free reign over punishments of brats or it’s gonna be vile
• If they’re boys he’ll make sure they’ll piss their pants and learn the hard way jerks don’t live long or be remembered for their bullshit
• If they’re girls he’s gonna go full mean girl mode
• In both cases you’re going to see a room of entitled kids full blown crying
• And I mean it!

Jack Howl / Lone Wolf —

• The hardest one to guess, considering he walks around with a perennial scowl on his very handsome face, but if you’d paid enough attention the answer will come easily
• Those who takes it on the weak
• Jack is strong and knows strength is a virtue, a gift not to be flaunted to make himself stand out from the crowd but to help those in need
• Being strong, to him, means protecting those people who aren’t capable of defending themselves from harm
• That’s why he finds utterly abhorrent those people who have strength but decides to prey on the weak for the fun of it. He despises the sole thought!
• He finds this type of people to be spineless cowards that don’t have the guts to take it on someone their own size. If he’s witnessing this sort of behavior—worse if the act is happening in group—Jack would be very glad to give them a practical demonstration of what real strength is. 
• He doesn’t condone unnecessary violence…but will kindly deliver a knuckle sandwich with all his might if the occasion presents

Azul Ashrengotto / Mr.Big —

• Gold diggers
• Easily the one thing that infuriates him the most
• Azul worked hard to get where he is now and have all the money he wants to live leisurely, hence he’s not very fond of those people who only wear the label of “close friend” or “family” when he’s the one paying for all their bullshit
• He’s no goddamn ETM!
• “There’s a name for this kind of people — he always says — and that’s useless bums. They’re trash and they need to stay where they belong: in a dumpster!”
• He honestly doesn’t really comprehend why they don’t go looking for a job, insead of pretend money that isn’t theirs to buy expensive items
• You want something? You work for it—that’s Azul’s motto.
• Can you tell he’s still salty? 

Jade Leech / The Butler —

• Another one that’s hard to guess as Jade is notorious to respond to any external stimuli with a calculated smile
• There are plenty of little things that ticks him off but he’s mature enough to let it slide—being angry requires effort and he can’t afford to spend it on trivial matters 
• But if he really must pick one…
• People who play dumb just to spite others
• Listen, Jade knows how to hold grudges—you can ask Floyd, he’s testimony of it—but he’s smart enough to plan his revenge with calculated spite and makes sure there’s no repercussion on a third party (in the limits of possibility)
• He likes to place himself above petty squabbles and truly finds it annoying, at best, when someone plays dumb just to spite a person, independently whether they are just a simple employee or a manager—an example being not give notices on projects or leaves and expect others to cater around that
• When someone plays dumb, in Jade’s head they’re not only being embarrassingly childish but also contributing to slow down an otherwise simple process and makes it everyone else’s problem
• If he could throw said person out the window, trust me he would gladly do so

Floyd Leech / The Butcher —

• Boy, oh boy…
• Are you sure you want to dive in this one?
• Okay, it’s your problem now!
• For someone who’s emotional stability swings so much from an end to another like Floyd’s, finding something that gets under his skin is no easy matter
• Like Jade there are plenty of little things that upsets him, but unlike his twin, who is mature enough to let it go, he wipes off the problem in his own way
• You have no idea of how many headaches he caused Azul
• To be honest though, most of the things he loathes are related to some rookies’ way of dealing with a very simple thing—debt collection
• Hear me out, Floyd has many flaws—one of them being awfully short tempered—but even he knows his beef is with the one person who contracted the debt and not with any possible family the bastard might have. He will not even dare raise a finger against the wife/girlfriend/fianceé or children—they’re innocent spectators (unless they’re prepared for the consequences that will follow if they decide to defend his target) 
• I cannot even begin to describe, for the sake of not being too graphic, the massacre he made of his own men when he discovered they were about to beat senseless the victim’s pregnant wife and little daughter
• Those guys’ hospital bills skyrocketed that night, let me tell you… 

Kalim Al-ashim / Sun Bringer —

• I know what you’re thinking: “Boss this man is the literal definition of a cinnamon roll, what is he doing here?”
• And you’re right
• Kalim is a ray of sunshine, always happy, always positive. But you’re all forgetting one thing—he’s human and as such there are times when even he gets mad
• You know them, you loathe them, they always call and send emails and knock on your door thinking they’re giving you the biggest deal of your life. You know who I’m talking about…
•  Scammers
• At first he didn’t even know such people existed, but he did heard his partner complain about this lady that kept sending emails that were so obviously fishy and the word scam slipped out so, of course, he asked about it
• When he heard the explanation his face was akin to a child learning Santa Claus isn’t real
• “What do you mean there’s people out there that deceive others just to have more money for themselves?! Do these people not have a paying job?” he exclaimed so pitch high he sounded like a cartoon
• Oh, this innocent boy…
• Believe me when I say: once he learned that the favourite target of these vermines are, more often than not, weak, desperate people and elders, you can bet he’s already banging on Jamil’s door with a sensitization campaign project ready to be sent out 
• From then on whenever he sees an unknown phone number from a different country he has no business deals with or a weird looking email his face goes sour

Jamil Viper / Taipan —

• Listen to me, okay? 
• Jamil has the patience of a saint—they should make him one for being at Kalim’s back and call every single moment of his life and still be somewhat unbothered by the latter next flamboyant circus act
• But if there’s one thing that Kalim has that makes him tolerable compared to this category of people is common sense
• Jamil loathes to an alarming degree people who lacks basic common sense
• It’s that sort of stupidity that makes him wonder how the fuck did this people survive this long and not have their legacy end by a pole to their faces
• He once was making some controls in the back of one of the Al Asim family’s many establishments when he heard this lady demanding to have back the money she spent on a hand cream—remember these words—because she got chewed by her vet for applying said cream on her pet’s wound. And she was threatening to sue because it wasn’t specified it wasn’t meant for animal use
• Jamil had to do a double take for a moment to make sure he heard correctly 
• Cut to him appearing out of thin air and starting a fight with the same customer because he can’t and won’t stand for that kind of stupidity

Vil Shoneheit / Nightshade —

• Vil is relatively easy to guess
• The so-called “Pick-me girls”
• One might say that he hates this type of people because he is one—and I stand with you on that, he is, but this is not the topic of discussion
• Vil finds this category of people extremely annoying
• He understands there are some women who dream of the picket fence house with the garden and the perfect husband that caters around the child carer housewife—it’s a very outdated dream but it’s still their dream so, who is he to judge?
• He also understands competitiveness. The modeling industry is a jungle and you’re bound to step on someone’s toes to get where you want, however…
• If one of his models—or even office employee, he surely doesn’t discriminate—behaves like this just to catch the male eye and attention and basically putting out of order any other of his good models describing him as pissed would be…awfully reductive
• “You think you’re hot shit because you’re acting like you have a dick between your legs? — he would definitely say channeling his inner mean girl — Honey, you’re a nobody. Men buzz around you because you’re a moron and a way too easy target, not because you’re special. I’ll put it down simply for you: I don’t give a single fuck how much of a whore you act like when you’re outside, but in here we’re all working adults and there’s a ton of work to do without you thinkin’ you’re in a shitty speed dating bar. So, do me a favor: shut your trap, put a fucking chastity belt on, and do the job I pay you to do or else I have an acquaintance looking for a hooker for his next R-rated movie. Was I clear?”
• He is merciless, let me tell you…

Rook Hunt / The Hunter —

• God, he is the dictionary definition of unreadable
• Even if there is something that pisses him off there’s no way he’s letting others know, his face is that stoic
• Much like Jade, his composure is flawless and he is mentally grown up enough to let go of little things that he defines as mere annoyances
• However…there is something that even Rook loathes with every fiber of his being
• Defacers of works of art
• Oddly specific, but very much of a sin for the likes of him
• Weather is by ignorance, hatred or to stupidly prove a point it doesn’t matter in the slightest to Rook—you defiled with your actions and hands something that took hours, if not days or months or years to be completed, in which its creator poured love, care, tears and blood…
• In his eyes you’re no better than a terrorist, and as such there’s no place for the likes of you on the same earth he walks on
• You better be very sorry for what you’ve done ‘cause if you aren’t, well… let’s just say posterity will have to consider themselves terribly lucky if even a single bone of yours is found after Rook is done with you

Epfel Felmier / Poison Apple —

• Catcallers
• No if’s no but’s
• Let’s be honest here: Epfel looks more feminine than he likes to admit, so I believe it’s kind of a given that he’d received his fair share of unwanted advances, both as a teen and as an adult
• The first time he got catcalled he made this incredibly disgusted face and made it very clear he was guy—I’ll leave it to your imagination if it was with words or with fists
• From that moment on whenever he hears someone doing catcalling his skins crawls in disgust, independently if directed to him or another woman—he finds it repulsive and to be fair no one blames him
• He has two reactions, depending weather the unwanted advance was directed at him or not
• If it is directed at him he will go straight to the guy’s face and with his most cordial smile and thickest accent he starts bombarding the guy with the same type of, quote-unquote, compliments until the catcaller gets weirded out and leaves
• If the the subject of such tasteless approaches is a female he’ll link his arm with hers and starts acting exactly like Vil, basically doing fashion police on the guy (or guys) outfit—you can imagine him doing a perfect imitation of Vil’s tone and gestures if that makes the image more hilarious to you
• “My God! Have you seen the way he wears those pants? Calling it horrible would be too nice. Before going after a girl like a horn-dog for the way she dresses you should take a good look in the mirror first. You look like you took a dive into your dirty laundry basket, slapped the first thing on and called it a day. And then they say girls are the ones who should dress more modestly.”

Idia Shroud / Hades —

• It would be stupidly easy to say normies or people so backward that they don’t even want to know how their toaster works—but ultimately, no. That’s not what pisses Idia off the most
• Gossipers
• I cannot even begin to tell you just how much he despises those gossip tabloids 
• He can’t even exchange two words with one of his female employees or researchers or suppliers—anyone that looks female basically—without the next day newspaper having his face in front and the title “President of the Shroud Tech Industries and his secret lover?” or “Cupid encounter spotted. When President Shroud’s wedding will be?”
• “Can’t I have a fucking life without people askin’ me when I’m gonna get hitched or pop out some spawns?” he complained harshly when interviewed on the matter. “Like, for real, why do they even want to know this kind of stuff? This is called media terrorism! Give me a big, fat fuckin’ kit-kat break!”
• Both him and Ortho agree that the most tiring part of all this is organizing press conference after press conference just to explain briefly that it’s all baseless rumors and fanfare and to just leave alone that poor person who got snapshotted with him—delusional e-mails and comments on his social post are one thing, death threats to another person who’s nothing to do with this are not okay

Malleus Draconia / Draco —

• Seeing his loved ones hurt
• There’s a logic reason for this, just follow my lead
• Malleus has learned on his skin that a ruler’s people are his greatest strength and also his deadly Achilles heel—after all, there’s no kingdom without subjects
• Under the Draconia family there were, once, many subjects, devoted body and mind to his parents, but after their brutal extermination only a few survived. The current Draconia family has a much smaller number of members than the other families, by Malleus’s wish (this ties a bit with his trust issues and abandonment issues but this is a story for another time)
• Malleus is convinced that he has no need for a battalion if he has those few loyal and capable members serving him to win a war—don’t try to dissuade him, he won’t back down from his ideal
• But no matter how well-prepared and experts in their field his subjects are, wounds, sometime fatal, are always bound to happen and Malleus hates that
• He hates to be reminded that he’s human and not omnipotent. Hates to be reminded that he’s still weak and incapable of not sending his subjects to die
• He has issues…many issues

Lilia Vanrouge / The General — 

• It is to be said that Lilia, from the height of his venerable age—please don’t ask how old he really is—has grew accustomed to all sorts of behaviors and issues and there isn’t much that phase him by now
• He has seen plenty of things and rolled with many more for the sake of survival—it’s a doggie-dog world out there, okay?  
• But there is one thing that even after so long still bugs him greatly, and that’s cowardice
• He hates cowards
• Listen, he understands fear—he’s felt it too, he’s no bronze statue—and he doesn’t entirely blame those who flee to survive another day. But if for survival you deliberately chose to leave behind the people you care about and abandon your ideals out of fear, you are not a survivor, you are a coward
• For Lilia, a real man dies as he lived—true to his own thinking, never taking a step back or regretting his decisions
• Abandoning a brother in battle, letting a squad die without trying everything to bring its members back, sacrificing the lives of others in place of one’s own are the worst kinds of betrayal—because, as Michael Corleone said, “The worst type of betrayal never comes from a foe.”
• For Lilia, who’s willing to give his own life to serve until the very end his household—much to Malleus’ chagrin—, is the lowest of low a man could ever reach

Silver / Sleeping Beauty —

• Silver is an awfully calm person, some would say he’s rather indolent to anything unless it disturb his sleep—but that would be, yet again, an incorrect statement
• Silver has a very soft spot for the kind and quiet type—who can blame him, his partner is the closest thing to the stereotypical nerdy librarian who’s always in their own little world, but I’m digressing! 
• He considers this type of people worthy of respect due to the fact that they decided to stay kind in a world that only knows selfishness and greed—that takes a soul strong as a whole iron building!
• This preamble is to tell you that he really despise people who take advantage of said kindness, thinking it’s weakness deserving rudeness 
• It upsets him in no small amount
• Those kind people gives everything within their power and more and ask for nothing in return, only to be taken from, trampled and treated like they are stupid—he once witness a client at his partner’s shop boorishly snatching their purchase from his partner’s hands and just scoffed and harshly complained about nonsense 
• “I wanted to just tell them what his problem was. — he declared when reminded of this accident — There was literally no reason to be so openly hostile: the service was quick and professional, they spoke calmly with no hint of aggression and neither the customer nor their boss recognized that. Sensitive, the boss called them, overly dramatic. I would have loved to set things straight but I know they would tell me it isn’t worth getting so worked up over the smallest hiccups. Kindness and patience gives you ripe fruits and lush plants, they always say, while hatred and malice only give you rotten fruit and weeds.”
• I don’t personally know Silver’s partner but they sound close to a Martyr 

Sebek Zigvolt / Thunder Knight —

• For someone with the aplomb of a military and who understands only a very simple and straightforward type of humor, Sebek is embarrassingly easy to determine
• Those who make dark humor jokes
• He just fails to understand what’s so funny about wars, famine and natural disasters—people died and keep dying to that kind of tragedies so it’s not something you should laugh about so lightly
• He honestly can’t tell why it disturbs him this much. He really doesn’t know how to put it into words, and believe me he can go on for hours explaining an argument in details—Malleus is living proof of that
• He finds it to be a very poor-taste comedy attempt
• There are some things you should not joke about—thus said from a mafia member—like murder or sexual assault or even abuse
• And, look, he doesn’t really understand that much satire either but he still finds it more enjoyable and less grotesque than joking about the ashes of some poor girl’s dead grandma
• Sebek loathes that kind of humor and the people who thinks it’s the most hilarious thing—he really can’t help the face he makes if he hears one nor what comes out of his mouth in disgust on what he just heard
• “You thought that was funny? Your sense of humor is as bad as, if not worse than, a troglodyte’s! Hundreds of innocents have died and mocking such an event makes you as guilty as those executioners! I would tell you to beg your mother’s forgiveness, who raised such an idiot, but I doubt she would grant you such mercy considering your stupidity!”