Viressa
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Remember that scene where Gretta falls into the river and the MC saves her? He would have preferred it if she had drowned. That speaks to a level of hatred far deeper than simply resenting her as the "old ball and chain."I don't think he "wants" to divorce her. If he can marry Holly, yeah, sure, but if not...
Waldo strikes me as the old fashioned man-of-the-house. You know, the provider who can't even find his pants without his wife and couldn't cook a meal if his life depended on it. The type who takes his wife for granted by calling her "the old ball and chain" and won't appreciate her until she's gone.
Now, do I think there's a good backstory behind this that'll be revealed? No, Waldo is a 2-dimensional antagonist who's an asshole for no reason except to be an asshole. (And I'm not really complaining about that: It's honestly refreshing to have this kind of unambiguous villain in a story since the trend nowadays is to write "He only does genocide because he's traumatized uwu" antagonists instead.) But as I've said before, a big part of the appeal of netori arcs is hurting a rival that you hate by taking his waifu away, and that's only as effective as he actually cares about and desires her. We're not so much cucking him as we are dealing with a problem (from his POV, anyway) for him.