Had this thought today while I was finishing up the Sentai dub of Ushio & Tora. One of the themes of the series is "the power of hate", and it's shown just how nasty and powerful hate is to the point it creates monsters. Hate changes people and comes in all forms, but some people hate because they don't want to change themselves to become like someone else. They don't make that effort to change even if someone's trying to help because they feel they can't do it or they feel entitled to have that something that other people have.
Vic, that we can tell, has no hate-filled bone in his body over what's happened, even though most other people would feel some kind of anger or spite toward those who've hurt them in such a way. Hell, we can say he totally is allowed/deserving to hate these people who he called friends and inflict the same pain back tenfold. He's had all this time to let himself become angry and let it fester into hate, but he hasn't, and that's probably what's saving him. Yet on the flip-side, he's been hated by people who are jealous of him because they wanted what he's got. The thing is that they could've gotten the same things he has (a loyal fanbase, for instance) had they put in that effort to change whatever it was that was preventing them from having that, and it could've just been something simple, something that doesn't make you have to change your life around overnight. However, they instead converted that energy into hate, and it's turned them into monsters (if they haven't always been monsters).
It's a sad, pitiful waste of an existence to harbor hate for someone who's shown nothing but kindness to you. If there's one thing to take away from this, it's to not hate, because hate changes you and becomes destructive. Righteous anger leads to justice, but hate just leads to death and decay and breeds more monsters that'll continue the cycle of hate.
