Odium is a fan character created by Heroic412229. He is a mythological, anthropomorphic grey wolf who is the central antagonist of The Rise of Odium created by Heroic412229. He is also the first antagonist to think that the Mane Six are evil and is out for justice after seeing all of the major screw-ups they made without any repercussions at all.

He was once a young, well-educated pup with a burning hatred for injustice of any kind due to living in a disreputable town with his honorable and caring, yet flawed family. After being old enough to live on his own and leaving his honorable family and disreputable town behind, he stumbled into a mysterious seer who trained and planned with him to take down the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord after showing him all of their misdeeds throughout the series. He then journeyed alone in his mission to put them in their place before realizing how wrong he was.

Concept and Creation

One of the goals for Odium is making a character that the fans and critics want to see get redeemed. Another goal is to make him a consequence of the Mane Six's own reckless and/or immoral actions in the past that the fans and critics have hated throughout the series. This was used to show one of the fanfiction's main themes that action have consequences and that consequences are everything.

He was also used as a reflection and contrast to one of the series' main themes besides friendship: Forgiveness.

Personality

Unlike other villains in the series, who's goal are motivated by power, control, revenge, amusement, etc., Odium is driven by justice and a strict moral compass against the Mane Six for their previous misdeeds on others throughout the series. He personally thinks that he's the only one who can put them in their place and is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure they get the consequences they deserved.

However, he wasn't always this way. Originally, Odium was just a very young, well-educated, honorable and curious, yet very introverted and naive at times child.

Overtime, though, due to his family's flawed, yet morally understandable moral code and the fact of being born in a place full of injustice and hardship, Odium grew very hateful and bitter of injustice of any kind as well as towards those who violate said moral code, whether hero, villain, or otherwise.

Odium has become so single-minded, narrow, and limited in his own moral compass and view of justice and consequentialism to the point of being downright obsessive, arrogant, judgemental, and self-righteous at times. He is so determined and devoted to his own moral philosophy and wants others to follow it that he may even use aggression towards those who violate it.

He's also very educated, observant, intellectual, and perceptive. He somehow learned about the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord's misdeeds, strengths, weaknesses, and pet peeves throughout the series and knows a lot about philosophy.

Despite his educated and single-mindedness, he can be very indecisive in if placed in a situation where his code doesn't apply. He can also be very gullible, curious and naive at times, as shown when he listened to the mysterious seer that tricked him into going after the Mane Six and the others before her death out of old age, which greatly traumatized him before he found out that he was tricked.

Despite his arrogant and self-righteous attitude, he can be very prudent and knows not to take too much undue risk on others out of pragmatism. He also doesn't want to hurt or kill anyone or anything that he's not going after as he thinks that that's going too far and that it would trigger his target's pet peeve(s). This is evident when he refused to hurt Spike or Twilight's books when they were in the way and either waited until they were out of the way or decided to go around them.

In spite of Odium's flaws, He does have his good qualities as well. He does genuinely care about and is compassionate towards those who are either close to him or aren't his target's. He's also capable of self-reflection and a lot of remorse for his own injustices and actions deep down, especially when realizing them. He can also be very self-conscious about his actions and doesn't like excuses from either himself or others for said actions. Despite his hatred towards his targets' for their injustices, he's willing to be more careful and considerate when it comes to the things that they personally care about and hold value to. Despite his arrogance, he can be very selfless and willing to put himself in danger and sacrifice himself for the sake of others.

His main motivation for his actions is because he wants to make life better for others and doesn't like to see them suffer or let others who've caused their suffering get away with it. However, due to his single-minded, self-righteous, arrogant, and distrustful flaws towards his target(s), as well as his usual gullibility and naivete, he can sometimes forget his own injustices and, when he realizes them, becomes so distraught and full of self-loathing that he feels like he's unworthy of forgiveness from those he's hurt and must either work hard to truly earn it or be punished for his horrible actions.

After learning about how flawed and wrong his moral absolutism is, as well as the fact that he's been tricked, Odium slowly starts to have a moral dilemma and begins to personally doubt and question his moral views and his actions towards the Mane Six and others who he thought have violated his own code.

Unfortunately, after realizing that they were going to use the reform spell on him, his trust issues towards them began to take over and cause him to have a panic attack since he thinks that they're going to do something else horrible to him, like break him mentally, if he does something else they don't like. This causes him to relapse and try to kill them in a fit of pure rage and hatred, though he still keeps his pragmatism and honorable traits in tact.

Luckily, after realizing how far he's fallen, how monstrous he's been acting, and how he's ironically broke his moral code by trying to attack the Mane Six and others when their actions and intentions weren't nearly as bad as he thought, he tearfully hates himself for his actions and decides to be sent to Tartarus of his own volition as a self-imposed penance for said actions.

He's also mature enough to know that forgiveness and redemption doesn't come easy, at least for him, and that he needs to either work hard to earn it or be punished for violating it.

History

Past

Many years before the series started, Odium was a young, well-educated, and analytical creature who was born into an honorable family. They taught him 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 he and his family lived in a very disreputable town where injustice and hardships usually happens on a daily basis due to overpopulation, poverty, and competition for years. This made Odium's family, who are one 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 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. 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 family before heading through a barren forest that leads outside of the town. Suddenly, he hears a strange sound nearby, as if someone was calling his name. Out of curiosity, he decided to follow the sound until he spots a large, deep cave that housed a mysterious seer.

After asking why the seer called him over to her, she said that she's been watching him for years and wanted to tell him about the future. She then showed him the Mane Six's future misdeeds and screw-ups throughout the series leading up to the penultimate episode of the series, along with Starlight and Discord's misdeeds as well. She also said that they didn't receive any punishments for their actions and are still won't for a long time.

This angered Odium so much that he volunteered to be the one to put them in their place. However, the seer said that they are too powerful to defeat without some training and a well-thought-out, long-term plan. Odium asked her if she could train and help him as well as show him their strengths, weaknesses, and pet peeves, so that he doesn't set them off during his journey against them. She accepted and they both began training, though what Odium didn't know was that the seer had other motives besides just helping him.

The Rise Of Odium

After years of training, planning, and studying the Mane Six, Starlight, and Discord, the seer finally said that Odium is ready and gave him one of her ancient weapons before dying of old age and turning to dust. This traumatized Odium greatly before he headed out on his journey against the Mane Six and the others.

Powers and 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 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 Durability: Odium has exceptional durability and resilience. He's able to take a throw to the tree and get back up with very little injuries.

• Enhanced Staff Proficiency: Due to his years of training from the seer, as well as having the magic-proof staff given to him, Odium is able to wield it with great proficiency and skill for close quarter combat.

• Heightened Senses: Due to the nature of his family's species, he's able to use his senses, such as his hearing, smell, sight, etc., to track down others and find his way through different areas.

• Intelligence and Perception: Due to learning a lot about certain subjects like philosophy and learning about the Mane Six's strengths, weaknesses, and pet peeves, Odium is able to anticipate his opponents' moves and how they think in order to defeat them, even though it can sometimes be limited and blocked due to a lack of focus or overthinking.

• Martial Arts: Due to the amount of training he's received from the seer, Odium has the ability of hand-to-hand combat, allowing him to hold his own in a fight. Though he can be defeated very easily by extremely powerful magic users like Discord.

• Enhanced Jump: Odium is able to

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• Enhanced Speed:

• Enhanced Agility:

• Enhanced Reflexes:

Weaknesses

• Even though he has great durability, he's not invincible and can still be knocked out with enough force, nor is he immortal and can still die from old age.

• 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.

• Despite being intelligent and tactical, he can't anticipate everything and can let his single-mindedness, overthinking, and arrogance cause him to be caught off-guard by a sudden miscalculation.

• Due to his high sense of pragmatism, 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 has a few fears, such as fire, losing a loved one, and being a bad person.

• Whenever he realizes his own injustices, he goes through a lot of self-loathing and remorse and is willing to be punished in any way by others for said injustices, even becoming in great shock, confusion, and upsets when forgiven. Even if the punishment is either staying in Tartarus for eternity or even death, he'll accept it for his actions.

• Despite being well-educated, he doesn't know everything.

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

  • Lack of training can cause Odium's abilities to fluctuate.

  Sorry if this is too long, though. It's also still not finished yet. What do you think?