Dalia : The Marius hate is understandable but it seems like people are overlooking his trauma. Maruis grew up fighting his siblings and other relatives for his throne. He grew up distrusting people. Then Rebecca shows up, puts him under a spell and makes him believe he is truly in love with her. He does vile things in pursuit of his love for her, which wasn't real. Then when news breaks out that they were under a spell and the love they thought they had was false, it was extremely damaging, considering Leopold's reaction to the guilt and shame from his actions was suicide. Marius who is the king couldn't follow the same footsteps if he wanted too. He instead had to make peace with his actions and the death of Leopold. Then Edgar who tries to save lillian (who is doing the correct thing), makes Marius come face to face with his actions can only be seen as a threat to the current worldview he created to protect himself. Obviously that pain he felt wouldn't go away even when he went back in time. Even if it was childish and immature of him to hold Edgar at a distance because of what he could become. It was Marius way of protecting himself, no matter how flawed his coping skills were. That is to say I dont disagree with the hate he has going for him right now. He hasn't done anything really to make us root for him or demonstrated how he has changed from his past self, but I'm not fond of seeing people dismiss his past traumas as insignificant