This game is on a terrible state right now.

[Absimiliard]

Guy was a psychopath, and made no apologies for it. He had nobody who could challenge him at his level - until he met you. All he wanted was to experience that 'feeling', the thrill again. The enjoyment of the hunt. No real tragic backstory, or being a villain who was the hero in their own story. It was a breath of fresh air.

I dunno. I would call his childhood pretty bloody tragic. Being the Garlean-equivalent of a designer baby whose parents couldn't even be arsed to glance in his general direction, whose caretakers (not to mention everyone else around) were absolutely horrified of him, and whose supposed swordsmanship teacher kept trying to kill him... well, with that in mind, the man he grew up to be makes perfect sense. The Garleans wanted to create a monster -- and they did, but they mishandled everything that came afterward so badly that any hope of keeping him under control went out the window before he was even an adult.

It's basically just a retelling of Sephiroth's backstory, which makes sense considering Zenos himself was a rather blatant expy. At any rate, I find it curious how people will regard Sephiroth's upbringing as a terrible tragedy and ample explanation for what he became, whereas Zenos, whose backstory is the largely same, is apparently widely considered wholly unjustified in becoming a monster.