Thank you for putting it into words so well! I agree and I really like his character, they do not have to be "good" to be likeable.
Thank you I really want him to find some kind of happiness or peace, I like him even more than the male lead, cassis is cool but I like Dion the most.
He has an obsession with her because when he sees the female lead cry, he feels emotion. That is why.
Also, I think empathize is a bit too big of a word. I don’t identify or understand his feelings like that. Maybe sympathy or pity, but that’s about it. Either way, I don’t wish Dion any sort of happiness, regardless of his sad childhood or whatever. That fucker doesn’t get a pass, from me. Plenty villains have tragic backstories, doesn’t make me hate them any less. He’s too much a of a piece of shit for me.
So we all know Dion is a psycho asshole and deserves to die but part of me can empathize with him...
For one the FL isn’t a good person, she’s not evil or even bad but she’s not good. She doesn’t stop people from being killed and even kills herself and hurts people, and the only reason she helped the ML is because she knew what was going to happen if she didn’t, and I do think she cares for him but in the beginning it was about self preservation. Which We can understand and that’s why we are routing for her.
But if we were to put the story in Dions perspective would we think the same? I mean the FL had to watch her brother die and then had to kill him in a hallucination, and had to go through years of mental and physical? Abuse... so can you imagine what Dion had to go through as well? He was ordered to kill his own half brother and if he had to go through the same hallucination/ training as the FL and Jeremy (another brother) he too had to kill someone he loved. And can we assume that the person he might have had to kill was the FL? Maybe that’s why he has such an unhealthy obsession with her.
He’s a bad guy yes, but after having to endure that type of childhood no one would be completely sane. So I do have some empathy for him, I’m hoping they will show some more of his background to get a better understanding of his character.