Even if most people disliked him, why would it hurt? If anything, it'd probably hurt the author that readers don't like her character, but me? I don't care about people disliking characters, I just don't like it when they make biased claims about an entire fictional work that an author obviously put a lot of work into, just due their dislike of one particular character or due to having allowed that dislike make them misinterpret the entire storyline. My issue with that is when they disrespect the work that the author's put into their story by stating a personal and obviously mistaken opinion of it like it was an indisputable fact. But otherwise, I don't lose sleep over it, I just think it's unfortunate, because their misinterpretation of one of an important character, such as one of the mains, means those people are unfortunately going to have a hard time being able to enjoy a great part of the story, where that one main character will be featured... since, unless the author changes their mind, that's where it's headed... But now that you can finally admit you just don't like the character, you can argue your opinions from that standpoint, instead of making misleading allegations about an important part of the plot.
I just think it's a pity because you don't know exactly how genius this author and her story are, how the author took a real life myth and changed details to turn the original story into such a complex and addictive tale. I speak the way I do because I was familiar with this myth and fascinated with it since way before this story was published, and that's why I see very clearly how clever this author was, knowing when it was only needed to add a few new stuff here and change a few details there, without removing the most characteristic points of the myth, in order to turn the original myth into a completely refreshing, more complete and breathtaking retelling. Horus and Seth were obviously the main characters in The Contendings of Horus and Seth, so the author *knew* not to change that. Anubis was made into Osiris' illegitimate son because, in one of the mmyth's version, that's exactly how it was. In this story, Seth tries to rape Horus, and Horus succeeds in getting his "semen" inside Seth, because that's how it went in the original... This story even took care to soften the cruelty inherent in a mutual rape quite a bit, by making Seth act like that due to being a jaded rape victim, and Horus act like that due to being under someone else's control. The author even took care to give an explanation for the eternal mystery that's always baffled many experts who studied this myth, about why the ancient myth had Seth unsatisfied with just killing his brother, being excessive and overkilling it by also cutting his brother's dead body into several pieces...
If you dismiss one of the main characters' role in this, you dismiss the effort and pains the author put into adapting this myth into the current storyline.
I have so many complicated feeling about all of these characters, like Set, Isis, and Horus because they arn't exactly faultless but you are able to understand the situations they stand in and their actions. Not to say that understanding and accepting is the same thing. Like Set murdering humans, including childrens and grinding up their souls, because he can't vent it out on the facker who caused him so much trauma and pain, along with abusing his son, Anubis. And Horus assaulting Set, even though Set was also trying to assault him, which is also repulsive. Or the fact that Isis is lashing out on Set for not going to her for help, practically victim blaming, when literally Set was panicked af cause all the crap Osiris was doing at that moment and revealing. Anubis I just feel straight up sad for, because he's so mentally facked up from his mother practically abandoning him, his father abusing him, and Osiris manipulating his fragile mind, that he doesn't know who to trust. Osiris can just fack himself though. My feeling for Osiris is straight up disgust. I don't even want to explain it ugh.