Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
love and hate are two sides of the same coin. So someone that hates everything can also love everything.
That's not how it works. You can't actually love something you hate, because then you wouldn't be truly hating it. You can be mad at yourself for liking it, because you maybe know it's bad for you, but no actual hate. Rivalry, different ideologies, bickering - those aren't hate. And of course, a strong obsession with one person whom you hate can turn into liking or even love at some point, but it's simply not making any sense to say it's possible at the same time. If you hate everything, you can't love any of the things you hate, that's it.
(Although, honestly, Estinien doesn't have that kind of deep feelings for anything early on. He just considers himself so high up that everything else is weak, disgusting and not worth his notice for quite a while, except for his hometown which he seems to deeply care about)

But if you read my comment on the last page, you know that I already succumbed to that couple That only happened though, because Estinien changed a lot after he found out the truth about the Dragonsong war.
He is still true to his somewhat sarcastic and prideful character, but he stops looking down on EVERYTHING like he did beforehand, and that was the point where I could first see him in any kind of relationship like actual friendship or even love, in Ysayle's case.