I actually would love to hear why you hate Nero tbh, what bothers you about her character?
...what doesn't bother me about her character would be an easier list.
Essentially, I despise Nero because she takes no accountability for her actions, and the narrative around her does backflips so she doesn't have to. Mostly by minimizing the things that the historic Nero did.
For instance
The historic Nero was married to Claudia Octavia. He hated her because she was, frankly, more popular than him. When his mistress got pregnant, he banished her. When the Romans complained, he murdered her. Then he went on to murder the pregnant mistress during an argument, and castrate and marry a random slave boy who looked like said mistress.
Fate brings up this incident in Extra's manga, only to be sure to make it clear that Octavia killed HERSELF. It was absolutely not Nero's fault, and Nero got to be tragic about it. And if there was something bad, it blamed Agrippina, Nero's mother, who historically might have been the only reason the early reign went well.
This continues and only gets more obnoxious in FGO. To the point that we have the particularly egregious scene in the summer race where Nero has the audacity to say this to Boudicca.
"Yeah, Boudicca, let's just have fun. Why are you taking this so darn seriously? It's not my fault that your daughters (plural) were raped on Rome's orders!"
This is honestly where my feelings for Nero turned to loathing.
Draco is just continuing the trend of finding ways to justify her, pretend that we should feel sorry for her, and cater to her pity party, but now we get to pretend she was justified in ordering the suicide of Seneca.
If FGO had the guts to actually make Nero take accountability without blaming someone else for her actions, I might enjoy her. But honestly, at this point, in the hole they've dug, there's nothing they could do to salvage her for me.
At least I can enjoy Setanta and the little scraps of lore I get for ProtoMerlin.



















